Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1854-12-22

gives The hllovingfarts inreistion e tnss
city, as~we 6ndthsnAchrossclcain the St.
Louis Is,eaisencsr sfthe 10th inst.
DxcxNHxR 10. 1904.
DAyrspoRr i. II Is.-Wh;lst old hoar
Winter spreads HE broad mouth over the
valleys and mountains of our sister States,
eust or the Ohio and the lakes, he smiies-as
b~snivnly upon our State at this moment,
a. fila held the sswindsin its circuit in the
! hollow Of bis hand, and would spend his
forces upon the Blue Mountains and Cana
da Bluffs.
Nwou,i seem as if kind .ya.sre had infen-
tionally gwen the many thouand emigranss
TO this State the first most agreeable I'M
pressions of the salubrity OF climate, sota
Of summer and winter, and q happy iore-
taste Of the glorious future. &.
About one week since we supposed that
w.uter had set in firmly. the river com.
mencsd freezing and closing in above and
below the rapids, and, with difficulty. old
John Wilson" could mske his accustomed
voyages frem rock bound, now ice-oound.
shore 10 shore. Yet he did make them,
and still makes his regular trips.
la our former sketches we gave you gcn-
eralities, in the present propose to give
specili,iss, "facts and figures
This is now the 10th Of December. The
sun is gloriously resplendant, as on that
day when God said, sLst there be light"
sand there was iigltN-the skies blue and
clear ~ Italian skies Of poetic song he
atmosphere pure, genial, balmy and invigo..
ating, sending the life blood bounding to CIV.
sr Gbre Of the human frame.
But it is Of Davenport we wish to give you
a faint delineation. Dould you stand at
this moment, my dear Mitchell. upon any
one OF the many mound-like esainences that
| overlook the valley containing the Twin
| Cities" you would perceive the whole face
cf the country. the house-tofs and the
shrubbery, covered with a sigh mantle Of
snow-emblem Of puritv-and from the
tender branches pendant chrystals in num-
Der, myriacs.
Far to the eastward and westward stand,
in bold relief, the Illinois bluffs. stretching
away into boundless plains-the beautiful
river at the bass. fowinguaintar uptsd, ex-
cept BY the many beautiful Islands now
skirted with ice. and the clear Hus channel
giving color 20 landscape. 'TIs a panorama
that no artist caa pencil.
lTOYfESS XII DAStncsSO 80 SgFFfE-
ing the present year the population has in
creased nearly three Thousand, and ever
three millions of brick have been made and
put into dwellings. There are six saw
mills. making from fifteen to twenty-eight
thousand feet each per day, and cannot
supply the demand. Many RATS of lum-
Der from the upper Mississippi river, also
are sold from the yards. and, still lum Der
10 from SIS TO $40 per Thousand, with sup
ply deficient.
or crist mills you can stand on a point
las rbove) and couat ~ttssafy-foa- i'll Of
bu.fs, all doing ~weli-buying wheat at
| eighty cents, and selling -four at seven dol
lars per barrel. tits estimated that a sin
gle mill in this city is clearing from 1920
to $3.50 per day. What say you large msr.
chant mililers in St. Louis to this!
or machine shops and foundries, there are
two on q liberal scale, and many dozen
smi;hFhops, wagon and carriage Factories,
and a wholesale ploso factory, tn t turns out
| about one hundred p!ows per week.
0fstores and retail shops, over forty new
ones have been opened since last May
some on a scale that woud DO credit even
to your city.
One pork packing house, that OF Messrs.
Burrows & Prettyman, and also the large
house, Of Harper g. Buford, in Rock Island
furnish our farmers with a good market for
every pic they have for sale. Then, pack
ers pay cash, and are glad OF the oPportuni-
y.
or hotels, there are five; but one, the
lie Claire House." now presided over by
our old friend DR.. Burtis, OF Lexingtpn, Mo-.
is a good specimen of western hotels where
every man may feel comfortable and pleas
ant, in a gracious reception.
The cars from Chicago bring in, morning
and evening. their loaded trains of men and
! families, with their plumber Of merchandise,
seeking their homes in this State. Our
stre cts are filed daily with country wagons
brininging in their produce to market, and
take back their winters supply for their
families.
The onion and pota.oe crops alone will
make this State rich this season.
Every tradesman is busy, every mechan-
ic has double the work he can execute;
money is plenty; there is lit1ls debt, for
every man pays as he goes; and we scarcely
near a complaint, except when a man gets
the bill Of a broten Ban.
OF b ildings, ETC., the mississippi
Bridge" the great work, OF which | gave
you some account, Ia still in progress; and
the icy battallions Of the north expend their
forces against the impreguabie piers harm
lessly--'breaking right and left into Pla-
%toons," tnarshaliug their forces again away
down towards Keokuk.
Five large new churches, dedicated this
year, rear their turrets towards heaven; a
new college building, an extensive building
for a female school, rwo market houses, and
several stores of architectural proportions,
are among the ediices ofone years growth.
More anon.
WnonEaEp.