The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-07-24
THEDAlLY GAZETTE.
Correspondents q Tho lua.prnaen, Esamlasr,l

| tcorrrsf audience % tho Ind~pendent Esan,sncrl
DAVENPORT, Iowa, June, 1857.
FRirSp 6rILp;-This Is the great magnet
Of the West. II has attracted 10 itself
more Pcughkeepsians even than Chicago
Indeed hardly felt myself a stranger, 81
familiar had the name become; ani when
the signs of Morris, IIa,iand. Tallman,
Powers, M'Lean, Campbell, Van Eek and
Denton, all once swinging along our streets,
were discovered, il appeared as II we had
only been setting oif \ colony IL help build
up this thriving city. After leaving home,
letter was forwarded me from our mutual
friend c. A. llaviland assuring me that his
latch-string" was always out 10 old ac-
quaintanccs, and urging me to make home
with him during my stay in the garden
city of the West" Such invitations of
course never need repeating To insure ia
vorable reception hence | proceeded di-
rectly to his residence, and am partaking
Of the Inequalities IL his home. lie is very
pleasantly situated, l. doing we'll regards Il
~ permanent location until competency
shall have been realized upon which 20 " re
tire when Mrs. H., imagine will desire
again to turn toward her Eastern home.
You know ever b.i, expects Ia make
money here.
Immediately oppo,it. Is the Iowa College
youthful but huurishing institution under
the control q the Prcsby terrain and Congre
gational determinations. Thegrounds, build
ings, Ac., arc unsurpassed the enclosure
probably contains ten acres, and u entirely
covered with tine young grove, IN the cen
ter 81 which stands massive stone building,
three stories high, with an observatory,
commanding view III the country Tor TWEEN
~ miles around. In the beautiful play
grounds the students are enjoying game at
ball how would like hand in that tel
low who has ms has all the iun there.
how lac raised the ball--away il goes, clear
10 the bottom ii the hill was grand
.lick"-but the bell IL ringing for recitations,
and that little chap who Is catching" has
to chase the bali all the way he'll be late,
and shouldn't be surprised il he got catch
ings" in another way when he comes i'm tar
dy. Poor fellows. how reluctant some IL
them appear % exchange their celebrating
sport for the dry routine Of siGiy-to throw
down the club, pocket the TALL. and puzzle
their brains over problem IN Euclid But
then this i tie way mind |. educed, lei
out, developed. The Style Of buildings be-
ing erected here Is not equal to that OF Du-
buque, nor is the price oi property as enor
nous, yet in situation their place /, superior
and think must be the greater OF the two.
Building lots in the business part Of the city
arr worth about two hundred dollars foot;
ia Dubuque three hundred and ifty. In
the latter place ,i.cy want a thousand dol.
lars for lot three miles out of the city one
Il the same size could here b. bought, at the
,ame distance from town, FOR less than halt
that amount People viii not long be VILE
my to pay TIN, difference, when this place
i n c,-,d Tor all kinds II business. ard i.
just A. good n market E,cn here, though,
| think they have put too high a valuation
upon property A farm two miles and
hall cut 1T the city was recently sold ipr
tw" hundred and :orty seven dollars per
acre, and this i but one of many like eases.
he city Is being constantly improved
,'me hundred, IL laborer' arr now employ
I'd upon tue ,treets---ps.ing, curbing aud
grading, which work when complete, will
odd greatly Ia the appearance ~ the place
ior now, as with all other Western cities,
I his Is one Of its uniiyorable features y had
condition at the str efs.
A very handsome church c,i.iice has Just
t'ccn completed by the Second Baptist So
,lcty, and another Is now in progress and
nearly done BY the First Church. An Epis-
copal Churcu, ior Kev II. y Powers, ior-
nerly II Armenia Seminary, la, ala been
commenced In addition I" these there are
several ether Protestant ehurrhc. and three
or four Catholic tpon the high grounds,
ylst out 81 the business 1t tbs city, i. the
.csidence If Antoine L. Claire, who boasts
e being the first white man Who .ycr cross
I'd the Mississippi at thi, point. Having
acted a Indian interpreter ior man, YEAR,,
.ic received tract of land mile square,
which has made him the wealthiest man in
Davenport. lie j. very eccentric, and deem
ID one IL the sights Of the city There
i. much opposition n'raii->ted along the riv-
tr against the railroad bridge connecting
this side with Rock Island, and many are
the thrats IL obstruction uttered II was
burnt year or two ago, and ] shnuld not be-
al all surprised Ia hear that II had again
shared the same fate. Ran -men say that il
INJURIES their Heats; boatmen say that IL dc
lains and annoys them hut the Davenport
eoplc are determined 10 keep il there, and
=, they should, 90 put anothef ~ it, place
| shall turn my face almost r-gretiully
toward Eastern New York, fpr this section
:. much more inviting than that along the
Hudson. We're | a farmer, ! would not
larry ior week in Dutehess county, but
would pull up stakes and Journey thi- way
Indiana and Illinois have man, tine open
ing, but the little have seen 81 Iowa lead.
me u regard IL n the garden If our cosn
Try. do not wonder that thousands are
leaving the stony, barren, worn out lands IL
the East for n home ON tho prairie or IN the
wilderness. never Wa troubled with the
= Western fever, and came cut rather prej
idieed against the country, but NV think
that the stories circulated AZ homc concern
,ng II are M, greatly exaggerated Not that
I think everybody will get rich here, lar
from il but do believe that tie same ~
ertion will secure greater results here than
in New York Even here man must work.
but work pays Pledged, however to ~
main East for the present, leave the many
pleasant acquaintance | have formed, and
IN forty-elgLt hours shall b. homcw ard
bound, by way vi Cincinnati. had thought
u boating il down a. far a. ST Louis, but a
trip VI one day la satisfied ne
Ever Yours.