The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1867-08-03

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mosl beaatifulIY located, IL IL. Uaited
States. The population iknow Aboa1 kwsnty-
FIVE thousand, Il ought to be Hfs hundred
|thoussnd, situated rs 1t lin the pidst Of .
|great agricultural country, Who shipall their
produce east instead Of bfiusine tks1nechan-
|tcsfof the east hare, sudg let them 0joy the
blessings that are here 70 b found - album
Cheap -food and health,
neither of which they get In our eastern
cities but as men get more enliehtsned these
things will right themselves.
Davenport b NJ ahead Of Rock T|and ia
q business point 81 view. havidg soriif very
6ne storess and al kinds of manufactnrina
industry Is carried on here both in iron and
9Iher things; their hotels, too, viii canpare
f3vorably with other cities. An the steam
boats, 0F which there are great many, call
here goingup and down the river, 70 take
passengers and freight. Labor reforh does
not seem as yet V have. taken much hold Of
ne people out 20 far west as this il Ia
snink 70 be ace4h5ted for IN this way. Ca.
Pital has not AZ yet got any grs,t 6ontrol
over labor, and tue employer IA SCARCELY re.
moved from the eppleye. theref re they dc
not ieel the oppression, and now il the. time
that they should take steps to prevenkthe
inequalities from growing in the west like
they have done In the east il can now b
done with ease what few years hence will
be difficult to remove.
must now leave Davenport with its beau.
tiful scenery, and take the steamboat 3fos
Quincy, some 100 miles down the Nver. On
gong on board a Mississippi steatns,oat one
naturally asks himself II his life is iffssrej
as they are not very particular about Aend
ing one into eternity at short notice. The
boats find are al fat-bottomed, there ibeirss
no great depth Of water IT certain points in
TIE river ali the machinery has to be on
dehk, the lowIf deck 70 entirely set apart for
freight, whilst the upper one 10 for passen-
gers, Which runs right through the vessel
from stem to stern--Rot giving IS in the
Hudson river boats . promenade deck
which confines the passengers very much in
their state-rooms, or walking up and down
in front Of their rooms. The bras are not
Rtted up in anything hike the costly manner
of eastern boats, and seem to be constructed
more to carry freight than passengers II
seems 70 me ti-as il they were TO run swift
boasa' carrying nothing but passengers, il
would- ray well, but+hcw people deoliss OF
account Of time; We were twenty-tSo hour
doing the 100 miles, which is much to SLOW
TO travelin these days Of lightning expresses,
The labor that the men have to perform OF
these boats is exceedingly heavy IL has nj
to be carried on and of by band tho wages
paid them ! was told was $35 per month and
board, and they are engaged all the twenty
four hours during the time that the boat il
on its passage, as they make frequent stop
pages and freight has to be put on and off d
almost every one Of them thus we find that
even on steamboats, those wh, do oil The
work get the least paw. had been led r.
suppose tnst the banks Of the Mississippi
weIe low and fiat, such find Ii by NO means
the case Up in this part Of it ON the con.
traTy, is has fine bluffs and sloping banks
down to The waters edge, fol ming beauti
sul panorama, and at short distances there
re beautiful islands standing in the middle
\ the river, dividing the stream into two
i 7anaels and forming q picture Of rare
n ,auty, while along its banks are to be found
,hsrlving towns thar are increasing in wealth
4 ID population daily. lis grand sight a
might wien the boat ncarsAA city, one hal
Il = people tass 5os to see. the seass land her
passengers huge FIRE is III V ofppe woo'
in sort of iron pot, that navin. lons han
die pointed is stuck into the ,.sck to gsss.
Il 3ht to. the passengers to land, and lighting
OBJ the faces of the people it looks like the
witch scene 10 Macbeth every nov and then
an tho Are gets 10. some compound, sithel
OF saltpstre or something else, . put OF and
we have another grand blaze but the boat
fas landed her passengers aud taken on hei
frSght, aad shall retire for the night. In
,ths worniag 4 loupd myself in Quincy !! Dc
vi iptiou of which viii be found 10 the ne
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