Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-11-27
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A Tia nksp iving Picture.
We clip the fOllo wing beautiful eX-
tract from an article which appeared III
| the Worth Ioro J0urnat.
Mayhap some who read these well
mcaut iues remember Thanksgiving
years ago, in homes that are far ava. :
! Iou remember the old homestead,
whittier every year came children aud
grand children; brothers and sisters
| You remember the kindly greetings -
the happiness Of Old aud youne at being
"ali together again'-thc happy light
from eyes that had grown dim III watch
inc the footsteps ct travellers who had
gone ont on the winding path Of life
rom tie cradle they watched. And
| Tie dinner-vou haven't forgotten that .
| There were the white-heads and cheer
| ul, iurrewed faces at one end of the
table, and down, through manhood and
womanhood-you men and maidens
girls and boys-to white hair again
at the other end but THIS hung about
round, rudy faces, and belonged to
dear little bodies III " hien chars -
| The turkeys, nicely Drowned, were in
the center, and the table filled in every
available space with some, hing fl Tor
Thanksgiving. The golden pumpkin
pies were there cf course, and the
nncc, which bad been chopped almost
iiue enough 20 poison. All . that was q
nappy, noisy meal. which began at CT a
short, still season, when c:eu the little
voices were hushed to hear the bless
lngs Of Him who had brought them all
ogcther, asked upon the iood. Then
! began the tide ci talk. from the thin,
| aroken voices al Que ETH, down through
| lass, tenor, sweet treble and childish
voices, to the thin. unbrokcn. merry
voices at the other. I've decidedly
di>approye OF making tho chlliien wait,
AMI they shall not in our piclurc) Al
last The tables were deserted for the
" front room," and how happily sped
the hours TIL evening Then the old
| people sat by the cheerful place, in
comfortable red back chairs, looking on
at the fo.ies OF youth. The httle white.
! heads were packed Oh to bed, to drean
| they were turkeys and had been stuff Il
! Ine table in the corner WAS covered
with apples and nuts and cider. pitchers
trotAihg at the mouth. Possibly the
young people +" tread q measure" or
two, or three, or sach : matter a. least
they played "blind mans buff" and
other games. An evenings enjoyment
properly closed the day.
And how IS it with those WHO were
present at the Thanksgiving you rcmen-
Der. The noisy otes who occupied
the high chairs" haTc got down, have
they not, aud are "ofhiur, by virtue Of
advancing years, toward the lead Of the
table Tie venerable crcs who pre-
sided At this festive occasion may have
received q crown Of glory. Some Of
The Others may have sank down a weary,
aud now give thanks before the Throne.
some ct the little forms may have had
the grassy, violet spotted coyer.id placed
over thcn; bat rs one after another Of
the older ones who giaddcned tie feast
pass away, those lett 90 on toward the
head and bve-and.byc Won viii follow
the rest, and the round faces You re-
member, then Older grown, viii 90 up
one seat.
TIE New York Epenirg Post thus
announces the result of The election in
Illinois
The result of the election in Illinois.
with only four small counties t, hear
from, is democratic maj Gritty Of lG. SCI.
The Congressional delegation Wi stand
nine democrats to Il &c republicans. The
republican majority in 1860 was little
over 1900. A reu. arkable fact in this
election Is that while Egypt the old
democratic stronghold, does better than
usual Ter the repmbicans, tie central
counties have given way and cast large
democratic majorties"
1t is in The central counties where
Mr.. Lincoln has had his home all his
days. The result Of the election is the
voice Of bis lite long nelghbors. His
own city and county pronounced against
him by large msioritos, and his most
trusted personal and political friend was
beaten IN the central Cong ssional DIS
trict Mr. Llncoll'e district by a mai
is OF Thirteen hundred, where, Two years
ago, Mr.. Lincoln had majority OF
eighteen hundred.
AZ ExEcuTIvs ESGIIsHMAN.- Hero
is little lit Of English ecccntriciv in
sufficiently bad taste even Tor John Ball.
Mr.. Qaecnsly, the Cambridge soran, a
great admirer OF the Greek poets, has
gwen orders in his will, that after h 5
death bis shall be dissected and his skin
be taken eff and tanned, in such a man.
ner as to convert it into parchment, on
which the Iiad OF Homer shall then be
cop ed. thes Singular MS. to b. deposited
in the British Museum.
MtCH damage has been done in Cass
county By prairie f'es. The persons
who suffered most are Byrd. Alexander
and Everey.
FIVE hundred head Of beef cattle
have been driven from Chickasaw coun-
~ this iall, bringing into the county
j$l2,500 as return.