The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-09-02

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90 this Office. We trust no one will b.
found unwilling to settle up end to com
mence the new volume without arrearsges
THE wEST-THE GROWING WEST.
"Westward the star Of empire takes its way"
aLet hot the poor
Be ioresd 10 grind the bones out # their arms
For bread, but have some space 10 think and feel
Like moral and immortal creatures.
The West, the grea, nnd glorious Wes,
it, beauty and expansiveness have long
bssn the poets theme. Its usefulness and
importance IRE now becoming the topics
for the prose-writer's correspondence
Beauty and immensely viii please The
minds eye, but they will no, administer y
mans wants. He requires something
moro substantial. something upon which
bis body, Us well as his Imagination, can
feed, fasten and grow.
The rapidly with which The great Yves,
10 settling, with which the broad prairies
are yielding their coarse grass 10 cereal
grain, is becoming subject Of interest to
that numerous class oil men vino see beau.
" only in round plates of silver, or oblong
bits Of paper. The man of money is at
iracted here in the hope to increase his
''pile," by trading in the rirh products Of
tho West. After oil. if he have an eve 10
nature. be best can appreciate beauty.-
What is a lovely landscape to the money
less man whose note is at maturity? We
zee nature through the mind, and il thai
be jaundiced with distress aud sorrow, il
imparts the same siekly hue 10 the fairesi
landscape. Poetry and sen,imen,ali;y viii
do to while away the evening after the
days labor is over. but for The day seine
thing more substantial mus; be given, or
our wives and children will become cam-
crous for food.
We we're wont to speak Of the beauty Of
Davenport; to boas, that Nature had made
u the choicest spot Of the glorious West
And 10 truth did she. |, is MS an emerald
spot upon parched plain, the fascination
OF the eye Ia the loathsoine serpent, com
pared with other places. Yet, though We
doat upon Nature, the isndicrafi ri God
and sre one of her ardueus students
oa' aus"o' = ae ~ '''s' :
NE rejoice 10 see Inc Tau balla'ng rise iph
ake garden site, the grassy street cai ii
into dust. md ,hs yertlant hillside d.,
down into the plain. We love Nature ani
can crafty The taste By arollinc beyons
the city precincts: VIC love progress ane
wish TO see il around us.
But oil this H. a mere prelude to = few
extracts that we wish 10 introduce from
several Western correspondents, who's,
letters, addressed to various Eastern pa
pers, have come under our cocnizauc,
within the last tweniy-four hours. The!
tp6hk III RcBtIai t-fsfis "a INC 'SsL ab'
not particularly OF this locality. Il ID tra'
here is one. writing 10 the Baltimore Gin
. mr. vho IA somewhs, ner.onal il s.vs.
3. 1870 'o"S' = ~ SCUM
eS5 n1e u's gnu
s.''se1 A' a''u'''e' .i.s oloua ans
Ees p'epafatof. y ne va y ios~9a' 4h'
county !" hamea a..e' uene'si 0eo'', ho' 50 inaei
IN nonos o. nis military achissenenis az hls lore
s'gh' ana s'a'ssnah'iAe sogael1y W procuring $
favorable 'feA'y TON lne s-sagss al Inc CLOS
q he val
This, however, is one of the mionev-rner
he has an eve 10 progress and ia there
fore content merely 10 say "ao.risi,iu.
town" We presume him 10 be coIiecto
for some eastern house whose bills has.
been promptly me, here and conseaaenil,
the remark bs. been elected. And re-
the man has ga soul above money :, bea,
how he diets off, when firs, be strikes ID,
Upper Mississippi, as he appears 10 hay.
done between this and Galena:
sFer the first time. am asoat on the .Fathe
Of waisrs,' bound FOR ST, LOUIS Hslftbe beau