Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-05-07
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Home.
rhe folio wing hAautifsal n,

the pen Of DR.. Guthrie:
Home! 10 b. home is the wish of the
seaman on stormy seas aud lonely watch
Home is the wish Of the soldier, and tender
visions ningls With the troubled drsa,ns Of
trench and Geld Whsrs the palm tree
waves lie graceful plumes. aud birds of jew.
ellsd lustre fash and flicker from among
gorgeous flowers, the exile site staring upon
vacancy . far away home lies upon his
hcsrt. aud torne Sy the wings Of fancy over
the intervening seas and lands, he has
swept away 10 home, and hears the lark
sing above his fathers field. and sees his
fair haired bov brother with light foot and
childhood's glec, chasing the butterfly BY
his native stream.
And in his best hours, home, his own
sinless home "A home with Father above
that starry sky-wilI be the wish of every
Christian man lie looks around him-the
world is full OF suffering; he is distressed by
its sorrows and vexed with its sins. He
looks within him-he finds much in his
own corruption to grieve for. In the lan>
guagc Of heart repealed, grievsd, vexed,
he often turns his eyes upwards, saying:
II would not live always" No; not for all
the gold Of the worlds mincs-not for all
the pearls Of her seas not for eli the pleas.
ures of the frothy cup-not for all the
crowns Of her kingdoas, would live al
ways. Like . bird about to migrate to
those sunny lasds where no winter sheds
the SHOWS, or strips the erovee, Or binds
the streans he will often, u spisit, b plum
ing HE wing for The hour Of his Eight to
glory.
nAigrasasn ana CaRaeal Ce0lng.
The London eesssspsndent 4 The New
York Hsrald. writes under rsssat daas:
II am inclined 70 thisk Il - ~ things
settled In America, aad arrange eur differ :
snces With Esglssd before the end Of THE
yeas. thaa ~ next Europsaa mania for
0pssuAtjoo 0oy tusu esvasds - Unitel
States, very likely 20 the purchase Of South.
err laads aad grand plans Of emigration.
10 another year something must b. done
With the vast soounalaliea Of meoey now
lying idle here ~ On ne continse'. The
United Statse 10 In high favor. II ~ have
no serious mishap this will increase. The
lavish expenditure u Assssicans in Paris
and elsewhere, backed = il 10 In most cases
BY uoquestisnsd and rapidly sequiyed
wealth, y making sssieue impssseisn upen
Eueopoons.
Wensx II sns FisLDa-Ths New York
Exprsss, qusass ltea ths zsuses he ssats>
ment that many wsmsn ~ q work 10 the
Southern csrn fields. says: "Yea vhits
womss-aet blask-sAs laaass ssfusise .
to work there. - heretofore, though a.
poor, hangry aud needy - the whites. We
saw scores Of white women last week in the
fields Of Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia.
This is enc feature Of new Reconstruc ton.
and not at oil to the liking Of decent white
people,
The Aississippian says that at the munie.
ipsl election in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on the
first of April, Major Sloss, formerly Of the
confederate army, received four Gfths Of the
colorsd vote for Mayor. His competitor
who was IN outand out radical and an agent
=. ''e ifeedmen's bureau. was badly beaten.
nc fsnaacols, Florida, slsetios. in which
the negroes disc participated. rssult,d n the
eaeciss q ne csasssvstivs sandsdsle bv
enc 49, eod sesven maiosjty.
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Tns proposed amsad.ept 10 ~. n.;.
Constitution strikes The ~ard "vh,t." an,
Of the ffasehiss cl1uDs .sf Tic oon,ti,,s;s,
but leaves Il ID Ne niilsh clause, II sdop..
I'd, Il wilL thsssfssA saehls ~ negroes 10
vote but net compel them 10 nsstse. This
will Be makiae ne desaiss sspssiss 10 The
whites, inasmuch ~ they will have share
= ~ Oeseeo0ent wiahest bsing rsqoirsd
to defend il.
ANNEXATION 70 now quite popular in
America. and our people ere thinking cf an.
nexins Mexico. British Columbia, Canada
and various other countries. As . sisniG>
saat TACT il j. nstissd that : newspaper was
started il Montreal lat week a advocate
we annexation Of Canada to the United
A. grand hall given By LAY Cooke. Il il
ssid ''eas company commenced to arrive at
o:So e.n ss began u .7:8O supper vas