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Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-10-18

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par Tor meal andreirpsh'n,,,. .i'y'icv i'ten at
trest ,',a r.iresli.n'Ht rooms On The line ~
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all night trains. '''e 'a'ea' improvements On
al tickets e, via these favorite Ro,t,.
ca IN ail the Railroad s,ices V''ss can be obtain
= o.n,l v...,. A 1WALLiNGFORD. -
sssn Agent, VI Lake 81. Chicayo *
Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-10-18

t. TO tIsToacp ply 1q ff,',-
venaeina Eli Afr, Axe s,ld ~ aii en,er,t ,.'ns
Druggist, IN t.,e ci.lIc 81 world. Some urpia,illcl
dealers, however, Try "a cell WORTHLESS eompcu' 10
10 Place u te.s thcse Which they r.n parri.st n.
cheap pi =, AMI make Tgie n.,u+g IS all
!u{ than usN ean on the naiicLsg. AByai. s44A !!
yolr health, ase, ~ health of ynur f,far. ".
ss.tins, IL bat W deceived ~ speh r-pr ncii4"i
Di.sgis's. 4 f''t these .el',tres ati III, e.i.
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Qiesa 70 fntney IN 81 irii.g ant N M tud "a
70 yon ~ fsir''s euftiy tal.i ..ti n 40, f-.r
from obs rsa'nn.
Laaes or ienil"nen cor .l!r.sF ~ N rlf,t'
cesaienee stating. 'uily and pliaj lue'r Al atat
asi ailogs, We trast ali 4 ayti cAr -.ls
aa-r. il aale lnhia. pati'r'. n-ai ro' b, u
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treated pa.isf' -i"s"saf'tiiy IN n rngli9a5 ~ Tie
civilized gi'ie. ~ corr -lieatruce.
Patients adan sAnsr elil ri' as" stat plal D., ~
y symp. q iaslr complaints ard w'e =
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IN = pastafe st.laD III replg.
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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-16
How sal plssrae.a .he Eamll,.


A traveller in the State of Illinois some
years ago, came to lone log hut on the
prairie near Cairo, and there baulled. He
went into the house. 1t was a wretched
alfair-an empty packing box for table
while two or three chairs and disa greeable
stools graced the reception room, the dark
walls of which were further ornamented by
display of tin wear and broken shelf
article or two The woman was crying in
one corner, and the man, with tears in bis
eyes and a pipe in bis mouth, sat on a stool,
with his sorrowful looking head supported
by The palm of bis hands. Not word greet
ed the interloper. :
Well he said, You seem 10 be 10 awful
trouble here What's up
Alb, we are almost crazed, neighbor,
said the women and we amt got no pa
tiencc TO see folks now.s 81 I3
That's all right, said the stranger, not
much taken back by the polite rebuff but
can be of any service to you in all this
trouble? 3ssa ~ .o f9
Well, we've lost our gal, our SAILS gone
eff and left us, said the old man in tones
of deep dispair.
Alb, do you know what induced her tc
leave you2 remarked the new arrival
We'll. we cant say, neighbor, us how She
so far lost as to be induced, but then She
gone aud disgraced us, remarked the ofllict
ed father.
Yes, stranger, apd--not as | should sa..
it as her mother-but thar want pootie
gal 10 all the West than our Sal.
She's gone and brought ruin on her ow
head now, followed the stricken mother.
Who has she gone eff with? coqnired tb
visitor. M hsaesE
Well, there's the trouble. The gal couIt
have done well, and might have married
Martin Kehoe, capital shoemaker, who
although he has but one eye plays the hut'
in lively manner, and earns good living
Then look what q life she has deserted
she was here surrounded by all the luxury
in the country, said the father. Yes, wht
knows what poor Sal will have to eat, driul
and wear now? grosned the old woman.
Who is the fellow who has taken her il
to such misery? - sAi
Why, she's gone off and got married TO
cr,ttcr called an editor, as lives in the villag
and the lord only knows how be is to ar
a living. ,.f r.eF ese, 49,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-16
chiIaren,s sermons.

We we're much pleased with n sermon 10
children aud youth, lately preached by the
pastor, in the Spring Garden Presbyterian
Church, Philsdelphia Its peculiar valne
and bcan,y lay IN its being full of the Bible
The text, the outline, aud the main illnstra-
lions were Spiritual, aud were drawn
from hundred ontside sources, which
some seem so erroneooly to think are bet
ter adapted to attract and rivit tbe atten
tion Of the young. A judirious use OF out
side Illustrations in Sundoy.school address.
es is of course admissible But the Bible
pushed aside altogether, or but sparingly
used, is great aud growing fault 10 such
addresses. Many speakers actually seem
TO sympatbize with the young in their idea
that the Bible is an old familiar story.
shorne by its oft repetition of is freshness
and power to attract aud instead ofspeak.
ing out lis hidden truths and holding up
its bright gems in new light, that they
may spafkle with fresh aGd living beauty TO
the gaze OF childhood, they go huntin g Of.
ter subjects, Illustrations, and !ancies ia the
moral natural, and fairy world. aud thus
do find rare and wonderful and (almost
Incredible things to please the ear aud Sc
cure the wrapt attention of the youthful
bearer. But do not such takers "forsake
the fountain of living waters, and hugh out
cisterns, b. okeu ciSteris s. that can hold no
water" The s,quel proves too often that
they do.
The Bible, let It ever be remembered, is
the Sunday school speakers richest store.
house. There is divine efficacy accompa.
nying its themes and facts and illustrations,
when they are rightly nsed, that belong 10
no uninspired relations; ard he who would
be successful in The great aim he hes IN
view in talking 10 tie young, will not fool
shly and sinfnlly neglect to avail himself
Of this efficacy Sandap- School Times.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-16
southern Anti-sia.ery.


There was an immenae Uuion war meet
ing al Bryan Hall, Chicago, on Thursday
evening, the 17th inst, at which Gov.
Yates Of Illinois, was the principal speaker.
In the course Of his remarks he said:
am anti slavery, not because | was
born in New England, and have my pre-
judices against the Southern people, but
because was born in the South, there
center all the memories Of my youth, there
is the home of my Kindred, aud believe
that tie warm genial pulsations of humani
ty flow in as deep curreut through South.
ern veins as in any people beneath the sun
but slavery has been the canker of the
South to eat out both its substance and its
manhood, aud TO subject il to a boastful,
insulting, arrogant aristocracy, which from
The habit of tyrannizing over. the poor
slave, has become too pampered and
arrogant to submit to The rightsul authori-
ly of good government. and laws. Slavery
not only oppressed the African race, sun
| dered husband fom wife and father from
son, exacting service without remuneration
but degraded the poor white man, deprived
him of his rights reduced the wages of his
| iooOiB tuo iauu iutO &c
tions, SO that the white population was
sparse, and schools few aud remote. Ii
stood as perpetual living wall, black
and ghaslly specter to roll back the tide
of emigration which was pouring from
Europe and New Englaud aud which
sought the praries and woods of lbe North
west, and which under the geuius aud life
giving energy Of free labor and flee insiitu
tous, has marched forward with stalwart
!, giant tread to wealth and power, while the
South, with its fertile soil and genial sky
has dropped and wthered heneath the curse
Of slavery II is for the South as we'll a
for the welfare of the country, that wish t
see slavery extinguished. Small farms, fire
labor, free schools, free Press and ope
Bibles, free institutions will make the Sout
bloom aud blossom as the rose. Wheneve
J self poised and conscious of her moral sta
} he and power-when every man can lit
! up TO God unfettered limbs and soul, the
the South will start with bound; EN-
grafton, and genius, and art and enterpris
will seek her sunny hills and wales: an
these shall be the Lookout Mountain
upon her delyerance and race of unend
ing progress and wealth, power, and re
nOwn. Il, fsr ash
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-16
a prod uotivs Farm.
). G. Fulton. residing near Dsvenr

I Mr.. A. G. Fulton. residing near Dsyenr
port, Iowa. writes to the PrarH Farmer.
that hs,gross receipts from 81 acres Of land
last year amounted TO $10,1ll. The net
prof. was $7,905. after deducting So per
acre for interest or rent Of land--besiies
cost of seed, labor, and all othcr expenses
This gives the extraordinary sum Of q little
over $d27 per acae. The farm is on first
quality prairie land broken up in July, 1859,
at a cost of 50 so per ache. A large por-
tion of it was replowed before seeding .-~-
Twenty acres of it were put in wheat and
corn. the balance in onions. potatoes aud
sorghum The large portion was taken for
ouions, the seed being put in with hand
drill Itis hardly necessary to say that
the land was thoroughly worked. There
were also excellent facilities for markesing.
Portions of the crops were sold at Dayen-
port. and the balance sent by railroad to
Chicago. With all these advantages, the
story looks large-~noa because OF its impos.
sibiity, bnt from the fact that not many
farmers manage to bring out the full capa-
bilities of their land We do not quote
this as an example that may be generally
initiated, but 1t shows occasionally fortnnes
are madein other pursuits. probably often-
er while the chances OF failure Of securing
competency are greatly 10 favor of farming
pursuits. = American Agricuituriss.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-16
Ocean waves.

Great exaggeration has prevailed in re
spect to the altitude of ocean waves
Even learned writer's, until very recently,
continued to speak Of their rising forty or
City feet bighs In November, lS40, | en-
countered during a voyage from New York
to Barbados, iu q small barqne, one OF
the severest hurricanes of the present centu,
ry. 1t was one of those great cycioIdai
storms, reported by Colopel Reid. which
swept from the whole length Of the Car
ribean Sea, and turning with the Gulf
Stream, followed the coast of North Amer
ica to Newfoundland aud finally the Allan
tic 20 the shores of England. Owing to
the stupidity and ignorance o' the captain,
we received the whole of the storm for
four days, almost uuder bare poles, when
by changing the course OF the ship, ne
might have ran out of it in few hours. as
endeavcred in vain 10 convince him
When we reached The middle OF the Gulf
Stream, where the current was three knots
an hour, off the Capes of Carolina, we had
the wind at its greatest force north, almost
in au opposite direction TO the current, thu:
raising the waves TO what people deligh
to call, in poetic language. mountains
high" Being good sailor, | mounted th'
mast to get better view OF the terrible
desoation which surrounded our little bark
aud to measure ihe hight of The waves---
Il was quite surprised. when | mounted
about thirty feet, to find tha, was on q
level with the cres, of the waves when the
ship was at the bottom of The "troughs,
therefore arrive at The conclusion thai
they never rise above six cen or eighteen
feet above the oceans level when at rest.
The violence of the waves las we found
when we came into port) had torn nearly
one third of the copper frem the ships
sides and bottom Wilson's iSeienes Of Ship
building. W
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-16
rh, storr in ! Nu. sh.li.

Mr.. Morehead, the member OF Congress from
the Pittsburgh District, 10 speech made a
few days since 10 The House, gave very
suceiust history OF treason, as follows I;
The country was iu the midst of revo.
luton when Mr.. Buchanan retired, and has
been on the brink of revolution at differ
ent times for thirty years. ige a4a
jackson suppressed treason in 1882 =
JEFF. Davis aid mis- fellow coDspraiors made
some signs Of beginning revolution under
old Zach Taylor ~ 1850 when California
was admitted as free Stale, but the hero
Of Bueua Vista squelched it by announcing
that he would hang the tirst rebel who
dared to lift a hand against the Uuion,
and JEFF. Davis knew well be would do it,
They prepared for ii while Pierce lived 10
the White House and Davis governed the
country.
They persevered while Buchanan was
President aud Floyd controlled the Armr,
uutil--betwecn the 4,h Of November, 1860,
the day Lincoln was elected aud the h
Of Mach, 1861, the day he was maugura.
ted--eyery Southern Fort, except Pickehs
aud Sump,er, every armory and arsenal, all
the ordnance, arms, and ammunition, all
the custom houses, post Offices, aud mints
in q word, all the property Of the Federal
Government in, every seeded Safe was
seized by slavebodiug traitors, without q
dlow being struck or q shot being fired 10
their defense and thirty days before Bu
chauan's term expired eight slaveholding
States had openly rebelled against the Gov.
ernment, cast off allegiance to il, aud ex-
cluded its au hority, hauled down its g,
captured its troops, forts, ships, munitions
of war, assembled Congress at Montgome
ry, Alabama, adopted constitution. elect
ed President, prepared TO raise armies,
and organized coniederacy as foreign
and hostile government, all under hat Dem.
ocratic rule which my colleague is SO aux
ious TO restore, and all done by Democrat
ic leaders,! What did Mr. Buchanan do TO
pre- vent these great crimes? Nothing
What did the Democratic party do 10 pre-
vent them Z Nothing Onthe other hand,
they resisted everything that looked Ike
protecting the public property and preserv-
ing the nations honor. ea a
Sir, SO spread was treason, so faith
less the President, that all hope was ex-
hausted except the single one that his term
would expire before oil was lost. Thank
G cd Abraham Lincoln became r. esi;
dent before the cause Of the Uuion was
totally ruined, and then the work OF rescue
began. ...- t.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-16
WHOLE NUMBER 746.
Fs.hsensbls xysmsr.


Fashion kills more women than toll and
sorrow. Obedience TO fashion Is q greater
transgression to the laws Of uomsn's ns-
ture. greater injury to her physical and
mental constitotion, than the hards hips OF
poverty and neglect. The slave woman
at her task will live aud grow old, and see
two or three generations OF mistrcsses fade
and pass away. The washerwomen. with
scarce ray Of hope to cheer her in her
tolls, win live to see her fashiouable sisters
all die around her The kitchen maid is
hearty and stiong. when her lady has t.,
be nurscd like sick baby. ..,s a.
1t is a sad truth that fashion pampered
women are almost worthless for all the
good ends Of human life. They have but
little force OF character, they have still less
power of moral win, and little physical
energy They live for no great purpose in
life; they accomplish no worthy ones.--
They are only doll forms in the hands Of
milliners and sefvants, TO be dressed and
fedto order They dress nobody; they
feed nobody; they instruct nobody; they
bless nobody They write no hooks; they
set no rich example of virtue aud womanIy
HE. III they rear children, servants and
nurses do NIL, save to give them birth.
And when reared. what srs theyf What
do they ever amouut to, but weaker sciops
of the old stock Who ever heard Of .
fashionable woman's child exhibiting any
virtue aud power Of mind for which II b.
came eminent. Read the biographies Of
our great and good men aud women. Not
one of them had fashionable mother.
They nearly oil sprang from strong minded
women, who had as little TO do with.
fashion as with the changing clouds.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-16
Largs.. o,l.x ln ~. werla.

1.-THE following account is true, London
is no longer ibe metropolis of our planet
That distinction belongs to the Japaness
city Of Jeddo, which correspondent OF the
Boston Traveller thus describes:
| cannot give you an idea Of II Is SO ,nn
ique, SO unlike everything except itself, and
so impossible as yoc will think. l have
seen several places Of interest. and main
tanned cool head, but was bewildered
and confounded wheunI saw this. IL Il
situated on the western shore Of this charm
ing gulf, twenty miles vide by twenty fou
long, TO which the Lake Tiberiss Il nothing
excep { 10 the sacred feet which once tro'
| its shores It s,retcbes for twenty mile
aud more sloug . beach of : sslnicirel
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-16

form, with its horns turned outwards and
aloug WEIGH street ex ends. crowded with
blocks Of stores and houses, and teemine
with moving crowds, while shop keepers
artisans. women aud children seem equally
numerous within door, aud at the doors =
Indeed, dozen or fifteen miles might be
added 10 the length of lbe city in this di.
rectioo, since there is nothing but an un,
broken succession OF towns and villages for
this distance, which are as populcus and
well built as the city itself.
ln crossing the city from the shore to
the western outskirts, have walked two
miles aud hall, and then proceeded on
horseback for ten miles more, making
twelve miles aud half ih the whole, while
in other places IL may be wider still Ac
cold'Dg 10 the lowest estimate he city
covers an area equal to seven of the New
England farming towns, which were usual.
ly six miles square. Aud all is traversed
by streets, Usually wide, well constructed,
perfectly ueat, and cross each other at
right angles streets lined with houses and
stores as compactly as they can be built,
and crowded with moving and stationary
masses as thick as in our Washington
street or New Yook Broadway, at least for
considerable distances The population is
estimated generally at three millions, which
Mr. Harris, our minister, thinks is no ex.
aggeration. For my part, judging from
what | have seen when / have gone into
the heart OF the city, and crossed The city
from side TO side, l should be willing to
add as many millions more for the living,
moving masses seen from sunrise to sunset,
and every where the same, fairly SCENE d
beyond computation.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-16
rA.ng. that make Patriot maa.

To hear men who have never read the
Constitution, and never heard il read, rant
ing about its violation.
To hear men who never did days la
hor 10 their lives bowling about the influx
of negroes, and its injustice 10 The white
laborers.
To hear men rave about Presidents VIC
lation of the Constitution, who are so NJ
tery stupid or knayish that they have nev
err ascertained that the rebellion is in vic
lation Of the Constitution
20 hear meu who care not for law-lor
God nor man-and who live in daily viola
tion Of law, pratiug abont law. I.
To hear men who, were they South
would be treated as the poorest aud mean
est "white trash" taunIed as "mudsiIs,'
greasy mechanics &C.. upholding the vesl
men who SO degrade labor aud despse thos'
W no do not own negroes. ~ fa lh
To hear them jusiifying JEFF. Davis AM
The South, who have not the manhood an
decency 10 60 South and dseek ahome wbe
they liked SO we'll ,tfe} Sai
To bear man who loves slavery NOR
than his country Of freedom. -
To hear drunked. leprous. thickheaded
gaunt looking libel upon manhood, belcb'n
ont "abolitiou.' tse4f ssAasss sta
To hear man talking about peace an
compromise after he hss been kicksd an'
spit upon by the South. - ~
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-16
Extracts for Young Men.


Give young man taste for reading, and
in that single disposition you have inrn'
ished him with great safeguard. lie has
found at home that which others have to
seek abroad. namely, pleasureable excite
meut. He has learned to o'thilk even when
bis book is no longer in bis hand, and it is
for want of thinking that youth go to ruin
Some of those who have been most emf,
nent in learning anu sciences, made their
first attainments in snatches of time stolen
from manual employment. Hans Sachs,
TIE poet OF the Reformation and he Burns
Of Germany, began life as did Burns, a
poor boy be was tailor's son aud served
an apprenticeship first to shoemaker aud
afterwards a weaver, and continued TO
work at the loom as long as he lived, The
great dramatst, Ben. johnson, was q work
ing brick layer, and aflerward soldier
| Lnnieus the father of modern botany, was
once on the shoemake's bench. Our i'm
mortal Franklin, it need scarcely be said
was printer. Herschel whose name is in
scribed on The Heavens, was the sou OF
poor musician, and at the ege of fourteen
wears was placed ina band attached to th'
Hanoverian Guards. After going TO Eng
Ilaud, he undertook to teach music, ant
then BECAME an organist. But while ht
was supporting himself in this way he wa
Learning Italian, Latin and even Greek, =
Erom music he was naturally led to math
ematics, aud thence to optics aud astrono
nv. John Dolland, the inventor OF th
arbomatic telescope, spent his early year
- AL, loS,.,, q IA continuad in his Orip
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-04-16
Starting EARLY Potatoes .


A crop Of potatoes ready for tho table
early in Juue, may be secured without
great trouble. If seed potatoes are
brought into warm room about the FIRST
of March, the eyes will start rapidly. the
nourishment 10 the tubers will sastain them
for two or three weeks. by which time they
may usually be planted out in some favora-
ble spot. OF course, care must be taken
in planting ou. not to break the spronts.~-
Or'the tubers may be planted in hot-bed
| of moderate Temperature, about the middle
of the month. Cut them in halves, lay
them fat side down as thick as they eau be
placed, add cover with about two fnches Of
earth. They may be transplanted when
two or three inches high. They should be
removed carefully, separating the roots
with as. little injafy as possible. They will
not be likely TO yield a full crop under this
treatment, aud may therefore be planted
more closely, say in drills thirty inches
apart, and twelve inches apart in the drills.
Another method isse put pieces Of potato
in small squares of turf, set them close to-
gether 10 warm place where they can be
wa'ered readily. On cold nights protect
them with straw. When. large enough
they can be set out, turf aud all. without
disturbing the roofs. This might not pay
on large scale. bat enough may thus be
brought forward for family supply, until
the main crop i mature enough to draw
upon.