Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-11-14
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4t=a OUR RETURN.
Afser m absence or nearly two months We are
.r.in At our post. Our friends will b sladto hear
IN s,y-and we desire to be thankful in having 1t
IN our power 10 say-that we have returned in good
health and spirits. We feel good natured with eve
~ body and desire TO remain so. To us. there -
10 place like Burlington and it was very gratifying
both On our way home and during our aosence' 70
Ne,r many words in its praise from those who had
seen il. Ns appearance-it enterprise and as peo-
nile, were oil ap?lauded. But this praise was not
lavished alone on Burlington. Other places as well
% the whole Of our young and thrifty state shared
largely in these encomiums. We are pleased, after
having been taken from sick couch, to bc again
able 10 ingle in the domestic and social circles Of
our adopted city and state. The Improvements
made all around US during the past three months,
Aespiss the rayages OF the Choera. cannot be 9th
srwise than gratifying to al who take an interest
In the growth of city, and they surely are to u.s.
Already capitalists are looking to lowaas state
wherein they may soon make profitable invest
uenss; and, in connection with those who wish to
secure ito trade, they are already talking about the
copstructinx Of an iron track that will attain these
objects. The rail roads now in the course Of con-
struction will soon connect, and in 1852, person
may 70 from Calens TO the jumping Oft place in
Nsiae, BY rail road. But we need road to con-
.ect with these nearer than Galena. This we shall
have certainly at Rock Island, il not directly op-
posits this city. In this way our farmers will soon
have choice OF markets, and travellers can have q
speedy transit to and from the east, without being,
% we were, longer in coming from Chicago to Dur
s:.-xou shcn frnrr Maine IN Chicaro.
During our absence we visited Philadelphia, BAL
tinore, Washington, New York, Middletown, Bos'
ton, Portsmouth, Portland, and several other prom.
inent places. While in Boston we attended the
grest anti-fugitive slave law meeting in Faneui
Nall. Frank Adams presided and made long
speech. Immediately over his head was the por.
trait Of his father John Quincy and Immediately
over that the bust OF his grand father John Adams
We looked upon this representation Of three gen
erations % singular coincidence. We thought
however, that the living could hardly compare with
shs dead. De great attraction, after all, was 4
hear the colored Fred. Douglass. His speech show
"a more tact than talent. He is shrewd speake
ana he made many popular hits that pleased tn,
nass Of his audience. We left after the lions ha'
reared, and were tired enough even then. The gal
lsries were mostly filled with co1ored lsdies an
eenuemen, and % the only seats are to be found il
the galleries, we had to stand all the evening" wit
the thousands congregated on the lower floor
The meeting was very exciting one.
OF oil the cities we visited we iot down Middle
town, Connecticut, as the pleasantest. The ma,
nihcent edifces, with taeir beautiful garden
showed il to be place where wealth has been a
peopriated to good advantage. We spent two
three days in NJ. most agreeab!y.
Boston has improved vastly since our last Wis
20 that place. Is every year encroaching on q
harbor, 90 that for half mile beyond where, wi
other boys, we went
s ssTo dive and swim and angle too,''
streets are laid out, stately edces, granite churc
Is and rail road depots, have been erected.
NAV be called city made for the occasion to q
commodate its Inhabitants. But it hardly does thi
THOUSANDS, on account Of high rents, and
breathe the country air, reside in the contiguo
towns Of Cambridge, Dorchester, Roxbury, Drist
on, &C. &c. This can be done by persons dol
business in the city to advantage, in omnibuss
and rail road cars, which arc constantly going
and from the city. The Irish, who are quite n
nsrous, begin already to LOOK upon the busine
men Who reside in the country, as Foreigners!
We should occupy too much space, and
might be tedious to many Of our readers, were
70 astenpt to give detailed account of what
cav during our absence. Several Of the plat
thus visited were new 10 US. Among them v
Washington. The President and the Patent Oh
sssre the most attractive objects there. Portla
Maine, 10 beautiful city. We had not seen il
twenty-five years.
Going and returning We travelled on the E
Rail Road. This 10 one of the best roads in
country, and 10 the only one, We believe, with
wide gauge, the rails being six feet apart. Go
y0u leave the Buffalo and Albany cars At Gen
and then take steamer up Seneca Lake to JET
son. You there enter the Erie rail road cars
after ride Il the rate Of - miles an hour for
miles, through magnificent and romantic coun
you reach Picrmont, - miles from New 70
where north River steamer takes you to the ci
Ill in less than 20 hours travel from Buffalo,
- eS cents, the whole distance Of 4si miles.
Although we shall not attempt to give an acco
" our journeyings in detail, We may from time
tims give such detached sketches of what ca
under our observation, As may he called up to
memory, and may interest our readers.
MuaDIR l. bRr MAplsoN.-A murder
eommitted in Fort Madison last week. Two =
BY the name Of Martin and Foster came into sc
In wagon in . state OF intoxication. On arri,
usss his house, Foster left the wagon for no
when IN alteration took place. Martin jun
out Of the wagon and struck Foster . severe b
which felled him To the earth, and afterwards