Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-10-31
The Plank Roads.

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The Plank Roads.
The Burlington and Mt PleGsan. Plank Road is
making rapid progress. About six miles are al
ready completed, and the hands are employed in
laying down the plank with all possible rapidiy.-
From the quantity of lumber landed at our wharf
few days ago, intended for the road, we suppose II
will be completed in short time to Middietown,
and if the winter does not set in too suddenly and
severely, to Messengers.
The Burlinofon and Peterborough Plank Road COM
paay has been organized by the subscription OF the
amount of stock required by the articles Of incor-
poration, and the election Of officers. An agent
has been appontedt to procure the services Of a
competent engineer to survey and locate the best
route for the road. The farmers on the line in
earnest the subject, and determined that the
road shall be commenced and completed in the
shortest possible time. The subscriptions to the
stock have been liberal, though the exact amount
we have not learned.
The Burlington and Louisa County Plank Road
Company have adopted articles Of Incorporation,
and appointed commissioners TO receive subscrip-
tons of stock at Burlington, Casey Prairie, Dodge
vile, Kossuth, and Spring Point in Dos Moines
county, and at Wappello and Virginia Grove in
Louisa county.
The two roads last mentioned are bound to be
built. The people living on the several lines will
be very well able to do this, with the assistance
they will receive from our city. We well
pleased to witness their energy 4 diligence in the
matter, and are sure they will meet suitable re-
ward. The public sentiment is decidedly in favor
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adapted to the wants and means of our state. We
hope that our citizens will come forward and sub
scribe literally to the stock in these roads. We
witnessing already the beneficial effects Of the
Mt Pleasant road upon our city; and these effects
are increasing every day. To say nothing of the
rise Of property in the city, land upon the line of
the road has risen in value in the past year, ten par
cent at least and the rise will be still greater the
road progresses to completion. The last mention
ed fact is that addresses itself directly to the
farmers the line of the other two projected
called upon to see the stock in these roads taken
up without delay. Burlington will do her share.
The Kcokak Dispatch quotes part of our article
on the subject Of banks, prove that we have been
guilty OF apiece of assurance in maintaining
that the stockholders of an Incorporated bank do
not constitute ssprivileged class" The editor
does not make any answer to our article, however,
and he makes no attempt to reply to our query as
to what s.pecular p,irilege is attached to holding
bank stock that does not belong to the ownership
Of any other kind ofproperty.
'sIt is seldom, he says ssthat the advocates of
banks ever have the boldness to deny that bankers
privileged Glass; The fact is generally ad-
mitted.,'
The editor had better be little more careful of
it admitted, or asserted that the stockhold-
ers in bank are ssprivileged Glass;" except by a
red-mouthed locofoco, who had mounted the bank
hobby with the hope Of riding on it into Officer
by some locofoco editor, like himself, bent on Gre
ating or keeping up in the minds Of the people, a
prejudice against banks, which he knows to be I'M
just9
One who makes so round an assertion ought TO
be ready to give the time AMI place. He says sit is
generally admitted'' that the stockholders in some
bank are ssprivieged CLASP We should like for
not attempt to put in the mouths Of the adj
unon which, he says they justify the granting OF
certain privileges to the stockholders or q bank,
and attempt TO prove from it tina, the stockholders
become, on that account, aprivileged ciass.n If
the editor had known what he was writing about.
he would have known that there is wide differ
ence between ssprivilege'' and ssprivileged
class" His labor to prove that the stockholders
possess certain especial privileges is all lost He
does not attempt TO show that they are set apart by
law to any political other rights which the body
Of the community cannot enjoy. He does not at
tempt to answer our question: What peculiar
privilege is attached to holding bank stock, that
does not belong to the ownership Of any other kind
Of property?
The editor of the Dispatch, if we mistake not, is
the same person who shortly before the late spe-
cial election in the first district. undertook Jour
ney into Van Buren, county, to drill the democrac,
| andtcach the people of that county how to vote
He made speech at public meeting in Birming-
nam IN reply to D. F. Miller, where he got laughed
al Tor his pains, and for assertion he made in
the course of it he was pretty unanimously voted
liar by the meeting. He is now engaged in en-.
deavoring to enlighten the people of the state On
the subject Of the banks and the currency, IF the
articles in his last paper are to serve as specmens
OF the lucubratons with which they are to be treat
ca, we think the people will quite as unanimousy
vote him blockhead.
me Juvenile Concert on Tuesday evening, at the
presbyterian Church, was in every respect delight
iul and entertaining. Mr. Tracys labors in teach.
ing the children to sing have been eminently suc.
cesSful, and are deserving of nafroy ,ro ava .n.