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The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-07-11

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The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-07-11

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The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-07-11

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The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-07-11

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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13

Thus all night had he been attracting the
attention of the waking ones in the cars
But his kindness and rough politeness would
soon have been forgotten by the mass of the
passengers, had he not stamped it upon oul
memories with his gold.
~ wonder who he is; and where did he
get in? What an interesting character"
"Education would spoil him." "What
rich fursw "Did you notice what splen.
did watch he carries?" "He's some great
man incog"
Such were few of the queries that pass,
ed from lip to lip. But there came no an.
swer; for he who alone could have answered,
sat couched in his fur coat, seemingly un.
conscious of all but his own deep thoughts.
"Chicago" shouted the brakeman, and
in an instant all was confusion, and our hero
was lost in the crowd. The next we saw Of
him was at the baggage stand, looking up a
bandbox for sweet looking country girl,
who was going to learn the milliner's trade
in the city. AS we passed to our carriage,
we discovered him again, holding an old
man by the hand, while he grasped the
shoulder of the conductor of another train
with the other, getting for the deaf, gray
haired sire the right information as to the
route he should take to get to "his darter,
who lived near Muscatine, Iowa."
"God bless him for his good deeds J" was
our earnest aspiration, as we whirled around
the corner. May his shadow never grow less,
or the gold in his pocket diminish, for in his
unnumbered charities and mercies dropped
so unostentatiously here and there, be is per-
haps doing more good in this day and gen,
Grafton, than he who donates his thousands
to build charitable institutions, to give hon.
er to his name.
Oh how much the world needs great hearts
that are able to comprehend little things
and yet how often it happens that tbs learn.
ed, the wise, and the rich, outgrow the every.
day wants Of humanity, and feeling within
themselves the power to move nightly
pass by the humble duties that would make
thousand hearts leap for joy-aud push on,
looking for some wrong to right, some great
sorrow to be soothed, some great work to be
accomplished and failing to find the great
acorh, live and die, incarcerated in their
selfshness, and doing nothing at all.
This rough mans nature seemed the ma
ture of the little child. His quick eye saw
at glance his great heart warmed, and his
great hand executed his little works of char
ity-so small that one would have expected
to see them slip between his giant fingers
unaccomplished-yet were they done. The
CANCEL over the right shoulder" will have a
longer column to set down to his account Of
deeds well done, than all the rest of the pas.
sengers of that crowded car, on that long,
tedious, stormy night, in January, 1856.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13
ELEGANT EXTRACT.

"Every encroachment, great or small, is
important enough to awaken the attention of
those who are entrusted with the preservation
of constitutional Government. We arc
not to wait till great public mischiefs come,
till the Government is overthrown, or liberty
itself put in extreme jeopardy We should
not be worthy sons of our fathers were we so
to regard great questions affecting the gen.
eral freedom. Those fathers accomplished
the revolution on strict question of prin-
ciple. The Parliament of Great Britain as
serted right to tax the colonies in all cases
whatsoever, and it was precisely on this ques-
tion that they made the Revolution turn
The amount of taxation was trifing but the
claim itself was inconsistent with liberty !;
and that was in their eyes enough. 1t was
against the recital of an act of Parliament,
rather than against any suffering under its
enactment, that they took up arms. They
went to war againsta preamble. They fought
seven years against a declaration. They
poured out their treasure and their blood like
water in contest in opposition to an asser-
ton, which those less sagacous and not so
we'll schooled in the principles of civil liber-
ty would have regarded as barren phraseolo-
gy or mere parade of words.
"They saw in the claim of the British
Parliament seminal principal of mischief,
the germ of unjust power, they detected it,
dragged it forth from underneath its plausi-
Bile disguises, struck at it, nor did it either
elude their steady eye or their we'll directed
blow till they had extirpated and destroyed
it to the smallest fibre. On this question Of
principle, while actual suffering was yet afar
off, they raised their flag against Power to
which, for purpose of foreign conquest and
subjugation, Rome, in the height of her
glory, is not to be compared; Power which
has dotted over the surface of the whole
globe with her possessions and military posts ;
whose morning drum-beat, following the sun
and keeping company with the hours, cir
cles the earth daily with one continuous and
unbroken strain of the martial airs of Eng
land" ."-Danid We6ster.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13

SOUTHERN WoMEN.-A letter in the
Boston Chronotype contains the following
merited compliment to the fair daughters Of
the sunny South. We seldom see the truth
so promptly expressed relative to anything
appertaining to the South, by persons in that
quarter; hence we copy it in compliment to
all concerned:
oThe first thing that struck me in regard
to the women of the South was their beauty
of form, and their symmetrical and harmo,
nious figures. In this and in the ease and
grace of their motions they excel the North
ern women. Many of them dress with ex-
quisite taste-often very richly, but seldom
gaudily, or with any display of tinsel The
proverbial affability and urbanity of the
Southern character finds the fullest develop
ment in the women. The Southern lady is
naturally and necessarily easy, unembarrass-
ed and polite. You may go into the country
where you please; you may 60 as far as you
please from town, village andpost Office; you
may call at the poorest house you can find,
and whether you accost maid or matron, you
will be answered with the same politeness
and treated with the same spontaneous cour-
tesy."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13

could hear them, Bryan stopped. Moses,
be said, do you remember the words you
spoke to me year ago?'
Il do Daniel
will you now take them back?' Unsay
them now and forever
yes with all my heart?'
Then am in part repaid
'And what must be the remainder of the
payment?' asked Moses.
i must die an honest, unperjured man
The oath that has bound me thus far was
made for life.
That evening Mary Bryan was among the
happiest of the happy. No allusion was
made in words to that strange scene of one
year before; but Moses could read in both
the countenances of his sister and her hus-
band the deep gratitude they did not speak.
And Daniel Bryan yet lives, one of the
most honored men of Vermont. Five times
has he sat in the State Legislature thrice
in the Senate, and once in the National Con.
gress; and he is yet an ornament to society,
declining all offers of public Office, from the
fact that his profession is more lucrative
while plenty of others want the Offices which
he cares not for.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13
A SUDDEN CONVERSION.

In one of the northern towns of Vermont,
lived young man, Daniel Bryan, lawyer
by profession. No one possessed the conf.
dence of his friends more than he did, and
no one was better calculated to secure the
good will and friendship of all with whom
he came in contact. Business poured in up.
on him, and he failed not to give the utmost
satisfaction.
AT the age of twenty-seven Bryan took to
himself a wife from amongst the most favor
ed ones of the country Mary FELTON, expe-
rienced strange pride when she gave her
hand to the young lawyer, and if none en-
We'd her, many at least prayed that they
might be equally fortunate.
But ere long cloud came over the scene.
Conyiviality ran high among the members
of the bar, and Byran possessed one of those
peculiar temperaments which at length gave
the whole body and soul up to the demon.
For three years he followed the social GUS
tom of the times without neglecting much
of his business but finally he sunk into the
lowest pit of degradation. When at the age
of five and thirty, he had became confirm
drunkard. He now neglected his clients
altogether, for he could not remain sober
long enough at any one time to carry any
cases through court. The only business he
now had on his hands was the collection Of
some debts
On the evening of his thirty. fifth birth
day he joined the Washingtonians, and once
more his bright genius shown out upon the
world But it could not last long amid the
examples of those who were his constant CON-
panions, he sank as rapidly as he had risen.
In one short year from that time he was a
miserable, degraded thing. People who had
left notes and accounts with him to collect
called at his house, and upon enquiring of
his wife where he would be found she would
tell them he was away. Poor woman, they
could not bare to dispute her, and they
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13
STAR sPANGLED BANNER.

Oh say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twight's last
cleaning?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the
perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts We watch'd were so gallantly
streaming;
And rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in mir,
Gave proof through the night, that our flag was
still there,
Oh say, does that star. spangled banner yet wave,
Ger the land Of the free and the home Of the
brave.
On the shore dimly seen, through the mists of the
deep,
Where the foes naughty host, in dread silence
reposes:
What is that which the breeze Ger the low'ring
steep,
As sitftfully blows, half conceals half dscloses
Now it catches the CLEAN Of the mornings first
beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream,
'Tis the star spangled banner, oh ! long may it
Ger the land of the free, and the home Of the
brave.
And where is that band, who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war; and the battles confu-
sion,
4 home and country shall leave us no more!
Their blood hath washed out their foul footsteps
pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terror of fight, the gloom of the grave.
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth
wave
Ger the land Of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh Tins be il ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the wars DESC
lation;
Best with vict'ry and peace, may the heaven-res-
cued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd
US a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall
wave
Ger the land of the free and the home Of the
brave.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13

GROW BEAur1FuL.-Age dims the lus.
tire Of the eye, and pales the roses on beauty's
cheek; while crowsfeet and burrows, and
wrinkles, and lost teeth, and gray hairs, and
bald head, and tottering limbs, and limping
feet most sadly mar the humane form.divine.
But dim as the eye is, pallid and sunken as
may be the face of beauty, and frail and
feeble that once strong, erect and manly
body, the immortal soul, just Aedging its
wings for its home in heaven, may look out
through these faded windows, as beautiful
as the dew-drops of summers morning, as
the tear that glisteus in affections eye, by
growing kindly, by cultivating sympathy
with all human kind, by cherishing forbear-
ance toward the foibles and follies of our
race, and feeding day by day on that love to
God and man which lifts US from the brute
and makes us akin to angels.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13
THE AMERICAN FLAG.

The Boston Herald complies some inter
esting facts as regards the history of the
Stars and Stripes. A resolution was intro
duced in the American Congress, June 18th,
1777, "That the flag of the thirteen United
States be thirteen stripes, alternately red and
white that the Union be thirteen stars,
white in blue field, representing new con.
stellation." There is striking coincidence
between the design of our flag and the arms
of General Washington, which consisted Of
three stars in the upper portion, and three
bars running across the escutcheon. 1t is
thought by some that the flag was derived
from this heraldic design. History informs
us that several flags were used by the Yam.
KEGS before the present rational one was
adopted In March, ITS, minor flag with
red field was hoisted in New York, bearing
the inscription on one side of "George Rex
and the liberties of America" and upon the
reverse, "No Popery." General Israel Put,
nam raised, on Prospect Hill, July 18th,
ITS, flag bearing on one side the motto OF
our Commonwealth, Qui transtulit sustinct''
on the other "Anappeal to Heaven" ,"-an
appeal we'll taken and amply. sustained. In
October, ITS, the floating batteries of Bos-
ton bore flag with the latter motto, and a
pine tree upon white field, bearing the Mas
sachusetts emblem. Some of the colonies
used in Its, flag with rattlesnake coiled
as if about to strike, and the motto, "Don't
tread on me-" On January II, 1776, the
Union flag of the stars and stripes was raised
on the heights near Boston, and it is said
that some of the regulars made the grand
mistake of supposing it was token of SUBJ
mission to the King, whosespeech had just
been sent to the Americans. The British
Register of l776, says:
"They (the rebels) burnt the Kings speech
and changed their colors from plain red
ground to flag with thirteen stripes, as
symbol of the number and union of the
colonies" A letter from Boston, published
in the Pennsylvania Gazette, in 1776 says
"The union flag was raised on the I'd, in
compliment to the United Colonies" These
various flags, the Pine Tree, Rattlesnake and
the Stripes, were used, according to the
tastes of the patriots, until July 1777, when
the stars and stripes were established by law.
At first stripe was added for each new State
but the flag became too large, and Congress
reduced the stripes to the original thirteen,
and now the stars are made to correspond in
number with the States. There is no one,
who lives under the protection of the Stars
and Stripes, but will agree with the Herald,
that "the American flag is one of the most
beautiful that floats upon any land or sea-
Its proportions are perfect when it is proper.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13

The JosEpHINE.-The Josephine is the
newest article of female attire, and is some
what like Shanghe coat. It makes the
wearer resemble the new comet-little body
and tremendous tail. The upper story of
the Josephine squeezes the lady into nothing,
and the lower tier expands her into the size
of haystack. The wearer of this garment
spread over an indefinite area of hoops, is
little more as compared With the expanse of
dimity she drags along than the cork is to
the bottle. She seems to be stuck into the
dress for the purpose of holding its differ
ent and incongruous parts together, and en-
abling the whole apparatus to move along.
There is good deal of benevolence at the
bottom of the present fashions, The ladies,
aware of their powers of attraction, know
that if they did not make themselves ride.
ulous by outlandish and shapeless garments,
their charms would be too powerful, and
might lead mankind into all sorts of eccen.
tricities.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13

IT'S WRoNa.-We have no objections to
seeing young ladies dress neat and tasty when
they 60 to church, but we do think it is en-
tirely wrong for them to dress SO uncommon.
ly fine that they attract our attention so that
we find it impossible to give that christian
hearing to the preaching of the Gospel, we
ought to- It's wrong-for a lady who is
dressed fine enough to absorb our attention,
is fine enough to keep other young men from
hearing single word the preacher says
We hope the young ladies will take this
matter into consideration.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13

A NOVEL SpEcULATIoN.-Among the
latest items of news from Havana is the fol-
lowing: ...,.. .ss. ,..
"One of the most curious speculative
movements in which, since the day of joint
stock companies, our neighbors have enga.
ged, is the organization of company for the
purpose of encouraging the growth of cotton.
The capital of the company is put down at
eight millions, divided into four thousand
shares of $4,000 each. They propose to buy
up all the cotton-growing lands of the island,
especially such as are unfit by nature or
otherwise for the growing of sugar, and put
them at once under cultivation. The COM
pany also proposes to engage in cotton manu-,
features. The movers speak With confidence
of their enterprise, which they assure US has
the approval and encouragement of the Gov.
ernment." .. a.- .. ..i.:...
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13

BEAUTIFUL ILLUsTRAr1oN.-The wid.
owls mite was beautifully illustrated at 8
meeting of the Bible society recently held in
Manchester, New Hampshire. A poor wo-
man on her death bed, had given cage,
with two beautiful birds, tho only available
thing she owned, to the Bible Society. The
birds had been kept by the clergyman, and
at the anniversary meeting at Manchester,
they were brought forward and the interest.
ing circumstances of the gift stated. They
were then uncovered, and the sudden gush
Of light reused them up, and the little war.
blers burst into the most rapturous song
The effect upon the audience was magical,
and under its influence they we're sold at
auction. Over one hundred dollars, includ.
ing some voluntary additions, were thus Sc.
cured for the Society by this poor dying wo.
mans bequest.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13

CEsAR's WEALTH.-Julius Caesar, like
Wilkins Micawber, Esq, was "continually
incurriug pecuniary liabilities that he found
it difficult to discharge" He set ahigh val.
ue upon friendship, having purchased that Of
Lucius Paulus for 81, 100000, and that Of
Curio for s2,5OO,OOO. He was a terrible
spendthrift. Before he succeeded in obtain
ing any Office, he had amassed debts to the
amount of sl4,975,OOO. But Office holders
had good pickings in those days, as well as
in our own; and as soon as Julius got his
hand into the public treasury, his debts be-
gan to diminish. He soon became rich
He gave Servilla, the mother of Brutus, a
pearl of the value of 100000. He would,
doubtless, have been guilty of many other
extravagances had not "the beloved Brutus'
given him that cruel stab under the fifth hrib.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13

ly made-one half as broad as it is long
The first stripe at the top is red;- the next
white, and these colors alternate, making the
last stripe red. The blue field for the stars
is the width and square of the first seven
stripes, viz : four red and three white The
colors of the American flag are in beautiful re.
lief, and it is altogether beautiful national
emblem. Long may it wave untarnisbed.-
He who would erase one stripe, or dim one
star upon it, "acts traitors part, and de,
serves traitors doom "-Daiy Pennsyl.
ranian.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13

EVERY INCH A YANKEE.-Bayard Tay.
lor says that Yankee, in walking in St. Pc.
tersburg, one muddy day, met the Grand
Duke Constantine. The sidewalk was not
wide enough for two persons to pass, and
the streets were deep in flth--whereupon
the American took a silver rouble from his
pocket, shock it in his closed hand, and
cried out, "Crown or taiI?" "Crown" guess.
ed the Grand Duke. "Your highness has
won," said the American, looking at the
rouble and stepping in the mud. The next
day the American was invited by the Grand
Duke to dinner.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-13
2M(tstellaneous 8eabire


FACE.
We owe the world cheerful face,
Wbate'er our secret griefs may be,
This earth is surely not the place
To indulge in selfish misery.
Why should we throw dark ming cloud,
Around the path of those we love?
Our sorrows,-why proclaim aloud,
As through Times changeful scenes we move
When comes dark and silent hour,
And sadness round the heart is thrown,
Thy Master thank, who gave thee power
To drain like Him, the cup alone.
And yet, when heaviest grief is prest
On throbbing pulse and aching brain,
Faint soul, thou art not all unblest,
Despite of wearing woe and PAIN
For life hath many sunny spot,
And many high and holy joy,
That grief's dark waters cannot blot,
That human woes can neer destroy.
Methinks they err, who sadly call
This lower sphere "yale Of tears
Fen though the heart should suffer all
The woes that dim these mortal years.
Nay, be it unto Christian eye,
Th' Ascension Mount" by Jesus trod,
Whose summit, piercing through the skies,
Leads to the dwelling of our God