The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-03-31

calamity Of flood, the city will be ruined
OF all matters 'ranspiring throughout th
country you will learn more fully from III
papers than from me. Such is the fault,
nature Of the postal arrangements in thi
State, that we in the mountains are almos
entirely cut off from all sources Of informa
,ion. ! have not received No. OF the Oh
server or Gazette since left Coon Hollow
simply because the Post Master at Sacra
mento will no, look out newspapers for ths
Express agents.
An ELOQUENT PASSAGE FROM Mr.
GOLDEN MIR. Golden whe in his own seas
carries more guns than any other man III
England, having received penegyric pro
nounced by some clergyman on the CHAR,
acter and services Of the Duke OF Yelling
ton, has written three very long and able
letters in denial of the business of the wars
Of England against france, and CONSEQUENCE
of therg ght of Wellington who led n those
wars,to be considered as good man or a
pu ,lic benebtlr. He maintains great
length that the war against France was
undertaken to pu, down the principles OF
freedom. In referring TO the immeasura-
bic superiority Of victories Of pence over
victories of war, he makes the following
startling ailustra ton to lee moral heTols::
al the English qlakers amid the Irish fam
ine:
"a famine fell upon nearly one half ofa
great cation. The whole world hasteued
TO contribute money and food Bat few
courageous men, left their homes in Mid
dIesex and Surry and penetrated to the re-
mo,est gleng aud hogs Of the west coast o.
the stricken island, to administer relic
with their own bands. They found them
selves, not merely in the valley of'he sha
dow OF death-that would be but an imper
fec, imsge-they ware in the charnel
house Of nation. Never since the llth
cen,uary did Pesiilenee, the geunt hanb-
maid of Famine, CLEAN 80 rich harvest
IN the mids, of scene, which no field oi
da,tle ever equaled in danger, in the num-
Der ofits slain, or the ply sicnl sufferings o.
The living, these brave men walked as
calmnly and unmoved as though they had
been in their own homes. The popula-
ton sunk so fast that the living could not
bury the dead; half inferred bodies pro-
truded from the gaping graves; often the
wife died in the mids. Of her starving
children, while the husband lay fostering
corpse by her siee. Into the midst of these
horrors did our heroes penetrate, dragging
the dead from the living with their own
hands, raising the heads Of the famishng
children, and pouring nourishment into
parched lips, from which shot fever flames
more deadly than volley of musketry.- -
Here was courage! Not music strung tbs
nerves; no smoke obscured the immnen
dangers; no thunder Of artillery deadnef
The senses. II was cool sclfpossession ano
resoIute will-calculated risk and heroic
resignation. And who were these brave
men? To what gallant corpse did they
belong? We're they of the horse, foot. OF
artillery force? They were Quakers, from
Cspham and Kingston! If you would know
what heroic actions they performed, you
must inquire from those who witnessed
them You will find them recorded in the
volume of Reports published by themselves
for Qnakers write no bulletins Of their
victories"