The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-12-05


IcArloS AND THE MARKErs-NEw Demo-
| CRATIC PAPER.
Saint Pant, Nov. IS.
DEAR Doc.-Thc Democrats of this county
nominated their ticket for county officers last
night. The meeting was we'll attended and har-
mony prevailed.
The weather for the past few days has felt
much like rain. This morning, however, the
air is COOL and every appearance of 4 hoary
snow storm, which Will be welcome This, you
know, is great country for slcighing-lcvcl
roads-best bloodcd() horses. AS to the length
OF ride, you can drive as far as you please in
any dirccton-to find hotel to waru1 at and
am inclined to think much longer drive than
many would fancy-bcforc they would succeed
in their search. large hotel will soon be COM
plcted at the Falls of St. Anthony. This will
make the only place Of resort out of town; and
being but nine miles, will be complete drive
The navigation for this season, is nearly at a
close. We expect but one boat more. There
arc no signs of ice, otherwise than the lateness
of the season.
stocks of merchandise, particularly provision,
WHICH are pound 'o-h" high during the winter
hope they won't slip up in their calculations of
rousng profits; say two or three hundred per
cent, that some arc talking of making A few
Will find it much to their advantage to sell at rca-
sonable rates. Fresh beef will be found a scarce
commodity about the first of February, as it is
now almost impossible to get cattle at forty dol
lars a head There is some live pork about town.
which will serve to some purposc-unlcss Jew
sh customs should prevail
fear this will be a dull place, this winter, to
scare up news. There are none at this time,
even, except rumor Of the proposed establish
mcnt of 4 democratic Press at Saltwater, on the
st. CrolX. | think there is confidence to be
placed in the report: having received a letter
from prominent wing containing names Of the
persons Interested in the enterprise.
Yours, w,
T. S. AS | close this the snow is falling very
last, and bids fair to continue through the day.
Dtu EuGuc and E<coku1s Rail Road.
Mr.. EDIroR: find the following very in
tcrcsting squib in late number of the Musca-
tine enquirer: , & =
INTEREST vs.. COMMON SrNsE-Thcrc are
none to be found save those who live on the pro-
posed route, and seek for personal advantage, at
every cost to the rest of the State, who will now
urge so Utopian project, as the g Du Buquc and
heokuI rail rOad.' The improvement Of the
rapids; Of the Mississippi obviatcs all necessity
for such road, and if built there would not be
transportation sufficient on it to keep the grass
from growing on the tracks. All The influence
which the State can WELD in Congress should
be brought 10 bear in favor of the Improvement
OF the Raplds, and for a donation to the {" Central
Cross Rail Road
Mr. La Cossitt is young man whom esteem
as an editor, and regret very much that he has
fallen into the wake of such spitfirc elves as Old
Hawk and the Davenport Wizard He is, too,
comparatively stranger in Iowa, and it is very
probable that he knows nothing more Of our in
terror counties than he would have acquired by
glance at the map of our State, in the city of
New Y DIRK. He publishes his dictum as if it
were the voice of the people, when in TRUTH the
village III which his sanctum is located forms
the whole area of his acquaintance with public
opinion How does he know that the people
ltiC PlcpoSCu dlO1lc III UfGlDD tl1lS
projects? and even if this were true they would
constitute nearly one half of the people of the
whole State. BY what authority does he, who
has never trod a foot of this route, say that the
project is Utopian?'' Is a rail road desirned
TO run two hundred miles through lands as fertile
as any in the world, Utopian project' 1 do
not believe that he thinks SO, but l do believe
that he is Influenced in his opposition to this
scheme, by worse than "pcrsonal," by contract
ed, base, and vindictive motives. Does this
young man possess a particle of consistency,
when he follows his selfish prompters in Davcn-
port and Burlington in support of Pacific Rail
Road project, and denies the utility of rail road
from Du Buque to Keokuk2 Which is the most
Utopian, that which traverses barren and unn-
habited wilderness, distance of two thousand
miles or more, or that which runs two hundred
miles through ten or twelve rich and populous
counties? Can man be sane who is so incon-
sstent2 or, are not his tiny soulcd motives too
apparenti .-ar .sEr se-s.. -z,
His second sentence is falsehood coupled
with an absurdity; for the improvement
of the Rapids in the Mississippi does
not obviate the necessity of such road,
but it absolutely promotes that necessity by IA
cilitating trade and emigration into the northern
and western counties of this State, and of the re-
gion still further north and vest whereby trans
portatlon on this road would be equal to that Of
any inland route in the United States Take, for
instance, our midland counties, Keokuk, Powe-
shiek, Tama, Marshall, &C., and enquire what
interest have they in the improvement of the
Rapids, compared with the proposed rail road /.
They are at an average Of one hundred miles, or
more, from these Rapids, and it is virtually i'm
material to them whether they are improved o.