Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-11-16
.dhe DAILY @as;stss~
ALrlsED sAN4Ens. Editor.
FRIDAY 1onHIH xov.le, 1855.


q EE GifRALssY d
Oor namSs1e in Cincinnati gives the
following erudla essay % theetymologice'
history ri IT. word fsssetk W. havs
many pleasant associations and remembran-
ces connected with Cincinnati and the Cin-
cinnati Gazette We remember, when unit
~sssr the direction u Charles Hammond, i
-gss acknow ledged to be one Of the ables.
Snswspapers in the country. and it isa cause
for reasonable pride 70 those who have
since conSsesed Y, dat il has retained the
r.puta,i6n which Il acquired when it was
nanseed ~ Mr. Hammond. With this
preface il gives % pleas ure TO copy the
i following genealogy Of our name. 1t is
pleasant occasionally, 70 turn from the
,horuy. paths Of politics, and indulge in re-
- miniscences whiclstend TO crafty literary
taste. and give no occasion for harsh feel
I. ings:-
@We had the curiosity, few days since,
10 examine the history Of our name. and
trace out our genealogy. We find that We
have royal blood in our veins, tn ugh, like
= much OF that precious material. it Las flow
ed through some very mental channels
We ind ourselves related-not as remote
" Is might be--to CAMBysEs, the famous
Kingof Persia, and 10 that terror of the
philistines, SAMSON We Ind, moreover,
that We are verify the progeniior Of the
whole family Of periodicals, quarterly,
monthly. weekly and daily, now grown SO
numerous. The very thought makes US
feel venerable. Blu: to our history, in the
course of which all We have said will APP
pear. Our name is derived, by Legitimate
descent, from CASA, which, in Persian, sig
ni6ed the royal treasury The name was
thence transferred to city of Palestine
because shither CAMBysEs, the King, car.
rod his vast treasures This was the same
Cana whose gates Samson carried of. al
midnight TO the top Of the hill Hebron.
BY degrees the term came TO signify in
Latin, reolA in general, and thence mone5
ANY kind of money. Thence the diminu-
tive easefta appears in Italian, and is the
name ola small Venetian coin worth scarce
~ farthing.
s.whai mensirous and painful circumstances
Is here, 10 get some three or four ga-e;s;
Some fhreepeBce i the whole for hat twill come to :
b, Jehxser. The For-.aet .. SeeHse.
alt i. too little; yet
Since vcu have said The Word, am content:
But viii not go gaiet less
IMss.iaage. TAe Maid Of Honor-.sef ,, SesHe1.
Thence the name was given to little
biH Of nsns, or a short relation of the gene
raj occurrences Of the time, forged most
commonly at Venice, and thence dispersed
monthly into most parts of Christende NJ
TWAS so called. because it was sold for a
Gszet.-See Richardson's Dictionary in loco.
The original idea of the term was also
continued as this was treasury Of ne,us.
This is the very first newspaper of which
re have any account. II was produced in
1868, during the war of the yenetiaHs with
SvLYMAs Ii. II was rriaea and issued
monihly-under the authority Of the Gov
eminent, and was probably about as reia-
bic as partizan governmental productions
are in our day. A fie OF these Venetian
papers in manuscript for sixty years is pre-
served in the Maglabecrhi Library in Flor
ence. "a jealous government" says CHAL-
nERs in his life of RupDrMAx, "did not al
low printed paper, and the Venetian Ga
setta continued ilong after the invention Of
printipg-to the close of the sixteenth cen
fury, and even TO our own days to be dis.
stsibuted in manuscript" Ii should be re.
marked that D'IsRAELr has a somewhat
different conjectur.l derivation of the term
sGasfta. He says: "The title Of their Ga.
zettas was perhaps derived from Gazstia, a
magpie, chatterer." This is msnifestly
a groundless conjecture. The derivation
we have given is unquestionably the true
one. From this Gdsetta the term, by only
= change Of the last letter, came to be a
common one for newspaper.
We sill only add that the writers Of these
earliest newspapers were called smenaati,' 2
because GREGORY XIII. is ued bull call
ed "menantes." (from mipause, Latin,
threatening) prohibiting the circulation Of
lhem in Italy, because they were defama-
tory papers. We may have something
more to say of some of our numerous fami-
lyshortly."