The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-09-08
GAZETTE CORRESPONDENCE.
CoLr Msus, o, Aug. ~

Dear sir,--S.acc my last \
have cJursed in railroad cars over many
hundred miles, and less than an hour since,
stepped out upon the Depot not in very
rood health and travel stained, in tins 5aanti-
ful, clean and growing capital OF the young
viant State, Ohio. Here is an inland city
surprising any other inland place that
have seen in the United States, for number
ai inhabitants, health and beauty. Column
bus new numbers $4,000 inhabitants. /
shall not stop to tell yen of her magnificent
State House. her penitentiary, Court House
ana hundred churches, saf,ica il TO say. her
tnture destiny is beauty ard greatness. IN
the Immediate vicinity where, s'many the
time and oita have trailed on through the
dense forests tia; then surrounded her On
every side. in the lazy coach, and nausht
vas heard bu, the sound 81 the pioneers
axe, or the crack oil the Auntsman's rifle,
now glitter in unrivaled beauty, tie princely
mansions Of hundreds al her wealthy and re-
tired capitalists.
What is said OF Columbus could be said
Of hundreds of towns in this mighty West.
Look ct Springfield. Ills, Peru, Chicago,
Tcledo. Cleveland And what is the cause
81 all this mighty move and rapid strides to
greatness: Steamboats, and railroads, alt
s viii answer. One cannot now we'll exist
probably without the other. They must
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and viii g hand in hand.
Just think of dining in Peru, supping in
Chicago, b.eakfasting in Toledo and snpping
at eve Of the same day in this lovely young
city! You are whirled along with the fear
/. i'll speed at times Of 40, 20 and CD miles 10
the hour. Ne stopping to change clothes
here. The shirt you put on at Blooming
ton, Ills, must do you to the end OF your
Journey. No respect is paid here among
passengers 10 fellow passengers Nor to
ladies' fine dresses in passing from cars to
depots. Elbowing, pushing, jumping head
long to the table to snatch and swallow a
half masticated and seanty neal, fork over
your 30 or IS cts, plunge again at tap Of
bell or squeak Of steam into the first seat
you tiad, and again you whirl onward Ger
hill and dale through forest and Ger plans;
now plunge into the bowels of the earth,
out again and whz over high suspended
bridge, and now under fearful hanging
elf Of frowning rocks, along a deep side
cut, with trembling fear that on one side
YOU will be Instantly plunged into river or
canal and drowned without remedy, or
crushed into atoms by the rugged rocks
that seem to hang over your devoted head.
The world in these days OF steam and light
ming is on the g. These Buckeyes Hoo
siers and Suckers are mighty people
Shall We not soon say the same Of the
Hawkeyes!
an asked thousand questions in regard
70 our lovely State. Depend upon il, Iowa
is gaining name for beauty and health
e.ergwh here, that elder States may we'll envy.
Davenport too, the fag-renowned, beautiful
city OF Davenport, is daily sounded in your
ears among the chatting multitude that are
rolling onward
4 thaussnd and one times have been
asked il the man who voted against the city
taking stock in the II. & NJ Railroad had
vet revealed his name. trust that On the
18th Of next month, every voter will man
iuly come forward to our polls and cast his
vote IT the county taking 100000 for
railroad purposes as designated in your adj
yertisemeH..
No one am sure who has ever travelled
on or in railroad car will refuse to lay hi
shoulder to the wheel. Only think ofstart-
ing at in the morning at Davenport and
brcakfasting At ia Iowa City. Or supping
at Davenport and breaklasting at Council
Bluffs next morning. But contemplation
sinks into nothing when compared to what
will be the fact iii 20 years.
The west, the mighty west. The bril-
liant, sparkling star of empire is seen loom
ing up from the mighty west and hangs
reckoning 10 the mellow sky. Her ocean
like lakes, her immense streams, her hills
Of mineral, her vast spread prairie lands, ex-
ceeding in productiveness the highest antic-
ipations Of the agriculturist, are all proofs
Of her grand destiay. We harangue about
progress, but this side the eghanies IL
the living progress itself, not talked about,
but seen. and felt, and handled, like bodily
presence.
am at the Mansion House, sick, SLEEPY
and tired, so good night. E.
Mrs. MacauliG's Academy opened yester-
day, the .GTi, instead Of the .Gftesnth inst, as
we had it last week.
THE Columbians came up on the Mckee
last evening and will sing tonight in Rock
Island. by the way, matrimony has made
an inroad upon them and they now numb r
bat three.
CH0LEEA.-Fourteen deaths occurred
from this disease in Cumberland, Nd, be-
tween the 18th and 10Th ults.
THE WEATHER has been "ail sorts du-
ring the past ten days. In that time the
thermometer has ranged from 96 to 100 and
4J degrees. A range Of more than fifty de-
grees m ten days, win DO. even fJr the chang
able climate Of .--Huscqtiae Eng