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

"Severai Of the towns are building railroads to
with arteries Of the principal eastern
Ines, and i, 10 with no small degree OF pride
cen look forward to the day when Lions share
of the products ofthe western gsanaries Will ial
to the city Of Monuments, via the Ohio railroad
.rhe city whose enssrprize commenced ths
frs, railroad should reap some fruits OF her Owl
,udicious foresight, and not et The cup Be dashss
from her lips on the very eve Of the realization
OF all her hopes. With the Paskersburg roa'
finished, WIN, brilliant commercial destiny a
waits The pride Of Old Maryland
Glorious old Wing State. We hope sh
may be benefited by Iowa and in return
send 10 some of her stalwart sons and beau
tiiul daughters 10 assist TO settle our prai
fies.
Here comes correspondent Of the Bos
ton Post. He has been making trip IN
land and has "secn sights" that The maj
on The Mississippi never dreamed OF. Let
near him talk, particularly az no write
| from Davenport, the beautiful:
81 have lately been somewhat in the inserio
of this state, seeing the sights and studying th
features Of one OF the most magnificent farmin
countries in the world. Some thirty or FORT
miles from here along the Cedar river bottom
and their vicinity, nature seems to have bee
bent on soutio;ng herself in all that constitute
The farmers paradise, and he must be CONSIDERS
truly awake to his own best Interests, who for
.akes the hard-worked and censely peoples
acres Of the old states, 10 caress the bosom o
such west"
This chap is politician and as he is o
the Locofoco schoo! soon forgets the beauty
af the country and even its prosperity, L
let out little of his surplosage. Before
coming to this, howover-the balance o
his letter being mainly dissertation OF
mosquitoes, the Locofoco nominees and
ether "small fry"-he thus sliudes 10 the
.hnimen,s for the Railroad bridge that Old
Nature bss erected out at the crossing
place on Cedar:
s'At this poin; on each side of the Cedar river
are ,wo natar4l abn.men,s Of limestone, almost
as regular and probably ten times as firm al
though reared By human hands, and these are fol
the railroad bridge. But the ekief object OF oul
attention, as we Were Of theirs, wsIe the mosgui
tees,
10 spite OF US he has touched little upon
The mosquitoes, but we will let him of with
that and give the graphic language ct q
Of that oyergrown paper the
No. Republican, and conclude for the
nnDce:
.sForeignsrs say iha. CUR country has no ruins.
Bat Fort Armstrong is growing graz, and If the
ghost Of Black Hawk only stood little iarsher
back in the perspective, what a mesh of romance
might be woven around its Businesses. And
should usi:itarianism allow the walls Of these old
Forts TO crnnhle at their leisure, and permit III,
remaining front of the temple al Nauvoo, will
is hisroglyphie., half moous and crescents 4
LOOK down from lis fine position, in the centre o
the bold curve which the Father Of Wa srs Their,
forms seine great unknown may soon gathe
from the lips oil rafsnen and pilots, borie
mnstreisr tina, shall be surprisingly unique
TIE veil OF the antique is very becoming 10 lie
gends OF heroes and batilefelds, bat we have Ia
enough of mossy sbbeys and falling turre.s, i
foreign literature: our own writers mus, learn I
unfold the romance Il the new, or rather In
newly old. We have ruins upon which the MOI
tar is ye. hardly dry; where the bustercups an
wild roses have grown over them, they will hav
an interest of their own, as well as the ivy
crowned decay of the pastn