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The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

THE JEALOUSY OF RIvALs.--There
are beyond doubt many honorable excep-
tions, and should be more, to the rule here
laid down by writer in late number of
Blactuooel's Magazine:
SIN order to beget hatred it only seems
necessary that two men should start in the
same path. They may be friends at first,
but in very short time afterwards we are
sure to find them foes, the success ofthe one
being gall and wormwood to the other
Do YOU doubt this! Then look around you
Who are the most unmerciful critics of
works Of art. Who tomahawk incipent po-
cts. Poetasters. Moot but a point on theol-
ogy, and you straightway have reverend doc
tors abusing each other with heartiness
that would do credit to Billngsgate, and in
dicating in no disguised language the future
destination of their compeers. Let medi
cal practitioner start a new theory, and his
brethren are quickly down upon him. He
is quack-a rogue-an ass--an impostor
Even though the life ola patient be at stake
they scorn to hold consultation with one
who is disgrace to his order. Better that
Mrs. Jones should die unaded than that
the noble faculty should be profaned. Fur
nish couple of rival tragedans with real
Andres Ferara-let them fight it out in the
last act of Macbeth, and to a moral certain
ty one of them will be pinked or hideousy
slashed. Did you ever know reiguing
beauty who looked kindly on a young debit
tant? If such spectacle was ever seen, you
NAV. '.be sure that there was mortal ve-
nom beneath the smile. Men said that law
yers, as being constantly pitted against each
other are the least Jealous of all the profess
sionals; but we have heard of such things as
systematic snubbing from the seniors. An
early chapter in the Book of Genesis is
suggestive of the reason. The first murder
arose from hatred engendered by jealousy
and jealousy at the present day is as active
and vigorous as ever"
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

WnrG xrRavAGAScE.-It appears (says
the Richmond Who that there will be
some heenh-three millions surplus on the lst
of July. This is the prosperous condition
a Wing administration leaves the country
in; yet we everlastingly hear Democracy
prating over Wing extravaganza about cleo
tion times, and telling the dear people that
the Wings are not fit to be entrusted with
the public money. When did ever Demo
cratic administration leave a surplus IN the
treasury! On the other hand, they have al
ways left exhausted Golfers and an accumu-
lated debt. Already the organs OF the par
ty are setting to work to devise some plan
to spend the surplus left by the Wings. As
the ostensibte means OF making way with it,
some of them propose to plunge the country
headlong into another war. The people
need give themselves no concern about the
disposition of the surplus. A Democratic
Administration can spend it.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18
Delirium Tremer 8.

A good story is told about chap who
was made to believe he had the delirium
tremens. He had periodical drinking frolics,
when he made himself beastly drunk, and
remained SO for weeks together, when he
would come out sober, and keep straight as
a plumb for long time. His friends deter
mined to break this up il possible. Ihey
told him he was in eminent danger OF dellri-
UNI tremens He did not believe them, but
he promised to reform.
One night they found him in bed very
drunk They caught huge rat and fasten-
ed themselves up with it in his room, let il
run as soon as he began to be sober enough
to know what he was about They then
reused him, and persuaded him to get up and
dress. Scarcely had he commenced before
his ratship scampered over the floor. lie
hated rats intensely. Sober in moment,
and intent upon killing the creature, he was
instantly in hot pursuit with boot-]ack
breathing ont threatenings and slaughter
While this chase was at It's height, his friends
used every argument to persuade him that
the rat was a mere phantom of the brain
an illusion of the invisible spirit of wine
in short one of the terrible hallucinations of
delirum tremens. But he paid little heed
to all this, until he suddenly missed the rat,
one of his friends having dexterously let it
escape from the door. Then turning slow
Iy towards them with ghastly laugh SWELL
ing from his throat, he jumped into bed, say
ing to his companions as he covered his
head with the bed clothes-"Fello don't
say anything about this-I only nade yoM.
beiiers thought it ras a rat hne'c better all
the time
He never had another spree.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

VALUE OF HoNEsTY.-A old trader a.
mong the Northern Indians, who had some
wears ago established himself on the Wis
seva, tells good story, with moral worth
recollecting, about his first trials of trading
with his red customers. The Indians, who
evidently wanted goods, and had both money
and furs, focked about his store, and exam
ined his goods, but for some time they
bought nothing Finally, their chief, with
large body ofhis followers visited him, and
accosted him with ''How do Thomas; show
me goods: take four yard calico, three
coonskins for yard; pay you by'mby--to-
morrow received his goods and left
Next day he returned with his whole band,
his blankets stuffed with coon skins
"American man, pay now," with this he
began counting out the skins, until he had
handed him over twelve. Then, after mo-
ment's pause, he offered the trader one
more, remarking as he did it: "That's it,"
II handed it back" said the trader, "telling
him he owed me but twelve, and would not
cheat him. We continued to pass it back
and FORTH each one asserted that it belong
ed to the other. At last he appeared to be
satisfied; gave me scrntinizlng look placed
the skin within the folds of his blanket,
stepped to the door and gave a yell, and
cried with a loud voice: Come, come, and
trade with the pale face, he n, cheat In
dian; his heart big He then turned to me
and said: You take that skin, tell Indian
no trade with you-driye You off like deg
but now you Indians friend, and we yours.
Before sundown | was waist deep in turs,
and louded down with cash. So lost moth
ing by my honesty"
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18
Victoria Rsgia in Flower.

Mr.. Aliens splendid South American wat
er lily, the queen of aquatic plants and glory
of the Amazon river, has produced its first
flower, which opened partially on Thursday
afternoon and completely expanded yesterday
afternoon It s beautiful and wonderful
flower, the perfect consummation Of the sin
gular and extraordinary plant which bears
it.
When the bud, which was very large, first
burst, the outer petals expanded to the great
diameter of twelve inches from tip to tip!
This was about five o'clock on Thursday af-
ternoon, for it is one Of the many peculiari..
ties Of this plant that it has always unfolded
its buds at that hour Of the day. In color
the petals were Of pure white, the general
form and appearance of the flower partaking
of that Of the pond-lly and the magnolia
The inner petals remained closed until yes
terday concealing host of smaller petals
of delicate pink color During yesterday
the flower was undergoing a change which
results in an entire alteration of color of the
petals from white to pink. The flower con-
tinues for about forty EIGHT hours. and is i'm
mediately succeeded by others. A second
bud has appeared on Mr.. Aliens plant. and
has reached the surface of the water, while
a third is part way up. These flowers will
be constantly appearing for an indefinite
time, at the rate of about one aweek; and
it is probable their size will increase as that
of the leaves has done. Indeed, the second
bud is obviously larger than the first one was
at the same stage.
But perhaps to most people the leaves will
present more curious study than even the
flowers. They are truly monstrous. There
are four of them now in the tank, which has
been enlarged to accommodate their ample
and exquisite forms. Twenty-eight leaves
have appeared thus far, and have been sue
cessfully cut off and removed to make room
for the new ones. The largest one now
measures sixty-six inches. Only think of
it--ive feet and half Some these i'm
mense leaves have been sent to Boston on
exhibition. Every new leaf that appears
henceforth will be accompanied by flow
er.
This rare and curious exotic has been vis-
tied during the past few days by hundreds of
persons, whom Mr.. Allen has generously al
lowed to enter the conservatory free of
charge e.-Salem Observer.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18
The Alligator.

Mr.. Morgan, the man whose big Water
Snaik, the Alegater,' died at Joliet last June,
it appears is one Of the Barnum breed who
are not scared at trfles. as he Immediately
put off for the Southern swamps to catch am
other. BIT we will let him tell his own
story, even though he says nothing about
catching the varmints:--
sHaving lost my first Alligator in Joliet,
proceeded to Louisiana to catch another.
Accordingly. on the 4th of July, prevailed
upon two of the natives to join in the hunt.
The first man went ahead with big club to
kill the snakes-the second with rifle, and
myself in the rear, with two or three ropes
to catch Alligators. During the day we
surrounded Bird Nest Lake. sometimes in
the water to our middle, and sometimes on
dry land. The ridges are covered up with
palmetto about as high as a mans head,
and SO thick it is most Impossible to get
through them, while under their broad fam
shaped leaves, the rattlesnake, the moccasin,
and cotton-mouth snakes are found-iust
when you don't want to find them-but our
shaker was an old hand at the business, and
in the course of the day killed .forty-seuen.
thought it was a pretty good days work,
but he said 1T was a badday for snakes
We killed eight or ten Alligaiors, and de-
stroyed some twenty nests, getting from
forty to fifty eggs out of each, and returned
to the house about sun down, wet to our
decks and hungry as b. ars.''
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

A NICE "PIEcE" OF CoPPER.--We learn
from correspondent at the North American
Copper Mine, Lake Superior country, a
pitcc of mass copper has been found 'lying
round" that region, detached from the rock
and ready for cutting the weight OF which is
estimated at one hundred and .ftty tons. AT
the present market value of copper, this one
mass is worth over one hundred thousand dol
lars. When the gold diggers can turn out a
lump of gold worth as much, we shall be
willing to admit that the Pacific is worth
more than the Lake Superior sCalitornia,'
and not tllthen. The mass referred tots III
shaft No. !. North American Mine, and it Is
worth visit to the upper peninsula to see it
D.troit Tribune.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

PoLLANDRY.-Bayard Taylor, who has
lately been travelling among the Himalayah
mountains, gives us the following scrap of in
formation.
Sowing to the difficulty of procuring sub
sistence, and the necessity of restricting the
increase of population, Pogdndry has existed
among them from time immemorial The
woman and her husbands live together har-
moniously and the latter contribute each an
equal share to the support of the children.
Among these people the saying will partic-
uarly apply-"It's wise child that knows
it's own father.' Another of their customs
is still more singular. Their ideas of hos
pitality compel them to share not only their
food, but their connubialrights with the stran-
ger, and no insult is SO great as refusal to
acceptit.
Il saw several of them to-day, walking
bare legged through the snow, which troub-
led them as little as it would horse. They
were handsome, muscular fellows, with
black eyes, ivory teeth, and ruddy COM
plexion.'
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

Capt. Montgomery left this vicinity few
days ago to take charge of a steamboat
built at Pittsburgh expressly for Cedar river,
which he intends to run between Cincinnati
and that city during the present season, and
on the opening of navigation in the spring
bring her into this trade. Mr.. Patterson,
owner of the Daniel Hillman, has COM
menced boat at st. Louis also for the Ce-
dar. She is to be run by the Hillman's ma
chinery, and will be ready for the Spring
trade. Shippers on the Cedar may rely up
on those two boats being in the trade as
soon as navigation opens in the Spring. In
this connection we would say for the nfor-
nation of those who are always harping
that Cedar is only navigable for few
weeks in the spring, that at this present
writing, Cedar is navigable for any boat
that can cross the lower rapids, and been sc
all the season. Cedar Co. Ne,rs- Litter.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

A LITTLE INcIDEST.-A bachelor friend
of ours was riding day or two ago through
Athol, in this State when he overlook lit
girl and boy apparently on their way to
school. The little girl appeared to be FIVE
or six years old, and was as beautiful as a
fairy Her eyes were lit up with a CLEAN
of intense happiness, and her cheeks glowed
with the hues of health. Our bachelor
friend looked at her for moment admiring-
ly. She met his glance with smile, and
with an eager voice saluted him with,
"Have you got babyn' He was struck
aback by the question, and something
like regret stole over his mind as he
looked upon the animate and beautiful little
face before him. "No,'' he answered.
"Well,'' she replied, drawing her tiny form
proudly up, ",ce have" and passed on, still
smiling, to tell the joyous news to the next
one she might meet. What world of hap.
piness to her was concentrated in that one
idea-the baby! And in her JOY she felt as
if all must have the same delight as herself:
and it was matter of affectionate pride to
her that lifted her little heart above the
reach of ordinary envy, for in the baby was
her world, and what else had she to crave.
Such was the reflection of our friend, and he
remembered it long enough to tell it to US
yesterday in State street.-Boston Post
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

The Chatauquc Democrat tells pretty
good story concerning circumstance which
lately occurred at the Post Office in West.
field A letter was put in the box, the ap-
pearance of which denoted that the write,
was unaccustomed to the use of 2. o.
stamps, and in this instance had failed a,
first to make one stick at all, evidently from
bestowing too hearty a licf on its back
He had tried, and vainly tried, to elicit adhe-
sive properties: but the inveterate portrait
of Benjamin Franklin would curl up Al
last in despair, he piand it to the Envelope
and wrote just under it-''PAIp, If the d "a
thing stictsr' He maniestly entended te
relieve the Department of all responsibility
in the case.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

THE RAILROAD TO RuIN.-Survayed by
avarice, chartered by county courts, freighted
with drunkards, and grog-shops for depots,
rumsellers for engineers, bar-tenders for
conductors, and landlords for stockholders.
Fired up with alcohol and boiling with de-
lirium tremens. The groans of the dying
are the thunders of the trains, and the
shreks Of the women and children, are the
whistles of the engines. By the help Of
God, we will reverse the steam, put ou1
the fire, annul the charter. and save the
freight.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

BooTs FOR THE MILHoN.-Says the
Chicago Press on Monday last, the proye-
Ter Queen of the Lakes landed at the dock
of w. =. SWIFT & Co., with four thousand
packages o. boots and shoes, nearly all OF
which were consigned to JAS. PEcR g. Co.,
and were forwarded by the Rock Island
Railroad to St Louis Nearly the whole
shipment was for single house. There
were in all one hundred and twenty-three
tuns. What "a power of pegging there
must have been done in old Massachusetts,
TO make these eighty thousand understands
ines"
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

What broad difference there is between
nature and art! Not long since, we heard,
while crossing field, laughter wild and mu-
steal; ond saw a handsome Miss bounding
like fawn, and clearing fences with the
most charming abandon. When she found
she was discovered, her gait assumed the
precision of machine, and her mouth u
pucker that utterly precluded the idea that
she ever swallowed platter of cold victu-
ais. The woman of art was most wretch
ed counterfeit. - Cayuga Chit.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18
MY DEPARTED ROY
DY REV. }. PIERPoST.

ny REV. ). plERrosr.
cannot make him dead.
His fair sunshny head
Is sever bounding round my study chair,
Yet when my eyes, grow dim
With tears turn to him,
The vision vanishes-HE Is NOT THERE!
] walk my paror floor,
And through the open door,
hear d football on the chamber stair;
Pm stepping towards the hall
To give the boy call,
And then lciink me,--nE Is NOT THERE!
tread the crowded street;
And satchel'd children meet,
With the same beaming eyes and co .ored hair;
And he's running by,
Following with my eye,
Scarcely believing.-HE is NOT THERE!
know his face is hid
Under the coffin lid;
Closed are his eyes; cold his forehead fair;
MY a I'd that marble felt;
Ger in prayer knet
Yet my heart whispered that,-nE Is NOT THERE!
cannot make him dead;
When passing by his bed,
So long watched over with parental care,
My spirit and my eye
See II inquiringly,
Before the thought comes that,-H Is NOT RE!
VIII at the cool, gay break
or day from sleep wake,
When my first breathing of the morning air,
My soul goes up with joy
To him who gave my boy,
Then comes the sad thot that,--HE IS NOT THERE.
When at the days calm close,
Is efore We Sc * r.pose
I'm with his mother, Offering up prayer,
Nhat'er may be saying,
am in spirit praying
For our boys spirit, th0ugiI,-HE NOT THERE.
Not thcref WHERE, THEN, Is HEg
The form | used to
Was but the RAIMEsT thai he used to wear,
The grave that now doth press
Upon the cas,-of dress,
Is but the wardrobe locked--HE Is NOT THERE,
He lives. In all the past
He lives! nor, to the last
OF seeing him again will despair;
In DREAM, see him now.
And on his angel brow
see il wrttcn.-,TIoU SHALT SEE HIM THERE.
MAY all live to God.
Father th! cha stening rod
So help thine afflicted one, TO bear.
That in the spirit land,
Meeting al thy right hand.
Twill be our heaven, TO lind that,-HE Is THERE.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

A Celestial" VlsIraNr.-The Illinois
which arrived here on Friday, had on board
Hong Kong sow which, if she lives until
the next county cattle show, will carry away
all the medals and diplomas offered in the
pork section She is not large animal,
but monstrously fat. Her legs are very
short and she measures about four feet in
length, FIVE feet round, is seventeen months
old, and weighs nearly three hundred pounds
Her daily allowance on board has been two
ships biscuit per diem except IN crossing the
line when her ladyship suffered from the
heat and was put upon low diet She
will be placed upon the farm Of Mr.. Will
lard Nue, one otthe owners of the Illinois.
--heic Bgdtord Mercury.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

THE PKEss.-In the course of discuss
ion in the Massachusetts, Convention,
good deal was said about the Iicentiousness
of the press, where upon Col. Schouler, of
Boston, made very fair report:
A eteat deal has been said about the IL
centiousness of the public press. Now,
sir, happen to have had a great deal to do
with the public press, and | must say that
the most lieentious part of my experience
with the public press has been in the de-
fence of men in public stations. (Great
laughter.) | trust, Mr. President, that l
an not out of order. (Great laughter.-)
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

THE Scientific American states, on relia-
BILE authority, that ''if at two feet above
the throat OF your chimney you enlarge the
opening to double the size, for the space OF
two feet, then carry up the rest as at first
your chimney will never smoke"
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18
SINGULAR PHENOMENON.

A correspondent of the Tribune, writing
from Dundee, c. W., makes mention ofa sin
gular obstacle to the progress of the work
on the Great Western Railroad. The fol-
lowing is his account:
"At Capetown, five miles from here, as
they were digging througl a swamp, they
came across a stream Of quicksand, and an
other substance SO fine that you cannot feel
the least grit to it, and on putting your
hands in it, they become, as it were, CREASED.
The stream is of a pale lilac, and 50 fine i
this substance, which colors the water, that
it will not settle to the bottom of the stream,
as it flows along toward the lake. The re-
suit of all this is yet to be seen. As this
substance runs out from below, the top of
the ground falls. The track they had laid for
drawing in the dirt cars on, has in many
places fallen in, leaving the ends Of the
rails sticking out in some places, while in
others they have been swallowed in toto.
1t is curiosity to behold the springs at the
source of this singular fluid. 1t boils up
like pot over a fire, depositing the heavier
particles around the mouth OF the crater,
until it assumes the shape of a mound. the
TOP VI WHICH 10 lIdI, dtIu III poihile5 H1otipH.
In the center of these mounds or springs you
can feel for the bottom in vain with sticks
of 10 or IL feet, and am not prepared to
say that it is not the bottomless pit In
many places are to be observed sands of
various colors boiling up in the center and
returning by an exterior way to where they
came from, to be again brought to the sur
ace through the center. The sand being of
different colors, makes the cone seem con-
tinualy striped, and ever changing those
stripes, which makes a most beautiful ap-
pearance. Some seven miles east of this,
where the road runs along the side Of the
mountain some annoying slides or avalanches
have occurred this spring Visited one GOO
feet in extent, and to a stranger it would ap-
pear as though it had been in its present stu
alton for centuries. 1t bore with it a growth
of large forest trees, which stand as erect
as formerly. The plank road has already
.caved in' and the citizens of CapetoWn are
in danger of caving in also. for they have al
ready been obliged to move a blacksmith shop
and carriage house, and one ofthe citizens
has sold his dwelling on account of its dan
gerous position, the ground already giving
way under it.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

A SINGULAR FAor.--A marriage solem-
nized in South Carolina is indissoluble, eth
er by consent OF the parties, or by the
Judgment of any foreign tribunal or statute
OF any foreign legislature. No judicial tri-
tunai in South Carolina has any authority
to declare divorce and no divorce has ever
been g.anted by the Legislature Of South
Carohna.- GhlcGqa Jour.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

A late English writer says that the only
day an American devotes to "relaxatlon' is
the day he takes medicine.
The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-08-18

II was the editor of The sElmira GszeI
who III the last number Of his paper nid00|l
the following severe but sublime and truthful
announeement:--"Wh YOU ste man in
business, who will not advertise or take a
news spaper, look out for mean penurious
skin-hnt too tight to enjoy good health, and
who holds a penny SO near his eyes that he
cant see dollar.