The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-07-03
From the Boston Transcript
THE PALACE OF GLASS.

the productive skill, ingenuity and activity
Of any section Of cur unrivalled country,
than they do the condition OF the arts in
the moon. Why has no, Lowell. Law
renee, Springfield, Worcester, piitsfeld,
Northampton, and some forty more towns,
distinguished for labor-saving machines,
for various useful manufactures, far hey ond
what any one Of them have deposited here,
been sent on? Powers Greek Slave is all
that saves Us thus far from severe censure,
tor no one at all familiar with the artistica
and commercial character of the people OF
the United States, believe this is a fair
sample of their attanments in civilization
All the cloths, shswIs, cotton goods, &C.,
are admirable--but there are not speci
mems enough. Carbonized pigs Of metal,
bars Of assorted cast steel, from the ldiron-
die Company, New York; the unmatched
harness and saddlery, from Lacy e. Phil
lips, Philadelphia, a,-exceedingly admired !;
Chickering &, Hews's pianos, from Boston.
unrivalled in tone or exterior workmanship.
are redeemng points,-but they cannot
save US wholly from severe remarks, for
no one questions onr ability to accomplish
more. Now and then in the course of a
promenade up and down the lofty sisles, an
American blunders upon something TO en-
large the sphere of his modification. For
example, broad side Of sole leather is
conspicuously suspended just where j,
should not be, on which are painted 10
large sign letters, 'sSole leather tanned
with hemlock bart', contributed By Hon.
Zadock Pratt, A. M, PranrHle, ". "
Fearing, however, we should not appear
sufficiently ridiculous by adding Hon. and
A. nj. TO the name Of, doubt not, very
worthy tanner, ten by twenty li,hograph-
ic view Of that astonishing region on terra
firma, where the Hon. dealer 10 hides has .
local residence, is hung up, bearing this in
scription-"Residence of The Hon. T..
Pratt, A. NJ, Prattrille PrahrilIe tan
merry buih in 1926, since phich. one million
sides of sole leather HAS been tanned ,rith
hemlock bark."
A gentleman Of the bar, from New York,
was so horribly disturbed with the bad
grammar, that with bis wet fingers he con-
triyed to oblterate has, but hare could not
be inserted in its place, so the line looks as
though it had been used for target. Sam
pie bottles Of s. P. Townsend's Sarsaparl-
la are spread upon table, with label
staring you in the face, Ia Conway. whom
the old residents Of Boston well remember.
"None genuine nithoM DR.. James r. Chill
toms certificate on the Outside ,Crapper."
God save the Queen, if this is the way the
intelligence and constructiveness of our
enterprising country is to be expressed be-
fore the eyes Of all the powers in aud Out
Of Christendom, for il is quite certain there
will be nothing left OF US. II was whis-
pered that Swaim's Panacea was also in q
right honorable position, some ewhere in the
apartment. Immediately went in search
Of it, fully determined to drink the whole
at once, for the sake Of putting the vile
stuff out of sight, having no fear Of the con
sequences, since without faith in its inlal
libility, it would be harmless as SchuyIkil
water, and besides, it has no business uu-
der the roof, nor has the Compound Sarsa-
parilla. A Doctor Lewis Feuchtwhanger.
OF rat extermlnatiug notoriety, is lettered
as large as life, "l4l, Maiden Lane, Nem
York, y. S. A." over what is denomina
ted, "a rare and valuable collection Of
minerals, fresh water shells, fossils, &c.
exclusively American productions" Shame
on puffs Of empty air. How very misera-
bly, mean these bits and fragments must ap
pear to the learned geologss who are
coursing through the avenues every hour Of
the day, and who neither recognize in this
shabby collection either clue to the min
eralogy of the country, or name associa
ted with the onward march of science in
America.
Maryland has pretty case of her pro-
duct!ons, embracing grains, specimens Of
wood, and manufactures, but there should
have been more. New York has plenty
Of hats, equal to any that John Bull can
produce. ID. Simmons & Co, of Cohoes.
New York, have a case Of tools that might
excite the envy of Sheffield cutters. Brown
g. Wells Of Philadelphia, have done them
selves and Philadelphia credit. A patent
coffin from Broadway is rather cooler,
Visitors look at it as though they were liz
fear Of being caught Unexpectedly. They
don't understood the utility Of the inven-
tion. There is no lack Of instruments of
death--for Colts revovers, in endless pro
fusion, show that the iden of human exter-
mination is prominent idea on the ives
tern side Of the Atlantic, notwithstanding
the annual demonstrations Of the Peace
Society. Goodyear's unique contrivances
IN India Rubber, and the infinite uses to
which his fertile powers have adapted it in
domestic economy, give him decided
claim as public benefactor. There is
some better dentistry from America, than
from other sources, bu, woful neglect to
show of what we have and what we have
accomplished, is manifest to all who have
any tolerably correct historical acquaint-
ance with our national history.
Boston, without any assistance, might
forward enough seasonably the hardest
unbelevers, that we have enough and to
spare. Some of Drury & Fairbanks To-
comotives; Chsmberlain's admirable phi
losophcal apparatus; Daniel Chamberlain's
engines and la,hes, massive as well as ele
CANT; Wightman and Davis's highly finish
ed electrical and galvanic machinery; and
,ka ,,r;,taro hoog h;nlar, bnot c,.tars