The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-09-20

We give the following extracts from TEL
ter published in the Boston Trssscript and
written from this city under date Of the 2lth
ult.:--
Eight days from Boston, having stopped
over three days and half at different roints,
and wi,hoa, travelling nights except on the
lakes, L igd myself on the western side OF
the Father OF Waters"
We hear much said at the East OF the
immense natural resources OF the great
Wet: and think il is far from being an
original remark, that this is great conn-
try; vet spprehend that few OF our people
cet any adequate conception OF the meaning
Of these true and stale expressions, unless
they come ives, and see with their own eyes.
Describe TO the Boston trader the growth
and business of Chicago; tell him there
we're sixty arrivals of sail vessels ct the
port, and steamboats, without number, dur
ing the first day spent in the city; tell the
Boston architect that the granite warehou-
ses OF her Ounces at the head of City wharf,
and the iron front edifse OF her Grays on
Court street, are very we'll in their way; but
thst, il he will extend the former the wheie
length OF Commercial street, put story or
two on the latter, continue il TO fremont
street and from thence to Kings Chapel
aurying ground, and make the streets twice
| o. three times as wide as they sre now, ne
will begin to make the business streets OF
| Boston look like the business streets OF Chi
| eago,-and both OF these worthy individuals,
unless they have visited the Garden City,
1 would either point saggestively with their
right thumb to their left shoulder, or would
set you down as a nos, unscrupulous liar,
your statement all the while being strict
ly true.
have been struck in travelling in the
West to see the prepondering infaesce Q;
| New England men and New England ehsl-
sctes. Although on the western side of the
Mississippi, have not We, met with sin
gle individual who embodied the popu!ai
idea OF the Western character. While ths
Natural scenery 10 totally diverse, | see
aolhlng in hotels or in railroad cars to re-
mind me that am fifteen hundred miles
from Boston,
Take for instance the town or city o
Davenport, from which | am writing. II
1854 there was not white resident there
II was owned and Inhabited by the Indians
l, has now population OF l2.0oo and i
, doubling itself once in every seven years
The LIE Claire House where am stopping
Is conducted on precisely the same plan
and with as liberal and elegant app,int
E ments in respect TO its table, rooms and at
tendance, as any hotel in Boston, with som
three OF four exceptions. The church toe
| where attended worship yesterday-and
knew nothing Of the UNCONVENTIONAL pecuha
a rites of the audience until opened thei
|, HYMN books-was so much like what Sc
/. aud listen to every Sunday, that could ard
ls imagine myself more than hve miles froI
Boston. The church was as elegantly I'm
+ ished, furnished with carpets, cushi oSs N
d gas fixtures, a. any of our suburba
churches, and If that was not New Eng
land audience, then / know nothing c
: New England physiognomy The cierg,
man in his discourse gave US quite Ion
: Latin quotation, and having thus presume
upon our supposed erudiuun, he did not, q
. have sometimes known preachers to d.
insult Us BY apPending 10 j, an Englis
n translation.