Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-06-05

Burlington must cave in. The Keokuk Tri-
Weekly Dispatch Of last Monday comes to US 50
fixed up with capitals, full-face and other en-
phatic lines, by the flash editor Of that sheet as
to make it very doubtful whether any thing can
ever be done in the internal improvement line ex-
cept in Keokuk. The bare heading Of the arti-
Gle which announces what we are noticing, is Of
itself astounding. 1t takes up six lines in the type
used by the editor land runs in this wise:-"Three
Cheers for the Metropolis! Sound it abroad! Sub
scription of $l50,OOO to the Dubuque and keo-
kuk Railroad, and of 100000 to the Peoria and
Warsaw Railroad" Reader what do you think
of that? Shouldn't Burlington hide its head, af-
ter such an announcement? But the editor goes
on to explain. He says GA resolution passed the
common council at its last meeting, duly authoriz-
ing the Mayor to subscribe, in the name Of the CT
ty, the amounts specified" Somebody has hoax
ed the editor or the editor is trying to hoax
body. We reckon that bonds issued under such
authority would hardly be marketable under the
laws Of this State; and if the authority was I'M
questionable, fnanciers would be very apt to ques-
ton their worth, pledging, as they would, pro-
perty, the title to which is in dispute, and about
burned and others are threatened. We fancy that
such stock would not be very marketable among
money and stock dealers
If in the above we have embodied any un-
pleasant facts let the blame rest on the trumpeter
who melted them. Keokuk is jealous Of the two
projects which are to leave her equi-distant to
the termini of two important roads, the one at
Burlington, the other at Quincy. Such gascon-
ade and flash articles as compose the chief read
ing matter of the Dispatch, may crafty the
tastes of the thoughtless and superficial, but so
much Of it must be disgusting to thinking men,
even in keoKuK. They are intended to mislead
the people, and, with all their attempts at with
cisms aud peasantries, to injure other places be-
sides their own. Burlington is neither annoyed
nor in any wise affected by them. The loans
sanctioned by our city were authorized by the
people. The property of the city thus pledged is
adequate to redeem tenfold more than is already
pledged. The title to this property is and ever
has been undisputed. The private subscriptions
to the various improvements contemplated among
us are bona ide, and the payment of the first in
stalment of five per cent in the stock of the Bur-
lington and Peoria Railroad on Saturday next,
will show that they are sincere. We make
these statements simply in self defence. The
common council of KeoKuK may authorize the
Mayor to subscribe as much as they please to
projects the most Utopian.
Burlington will not complain. Her citizens
would not hurt single plank in Muddy Lane, af-
ter it is laid. They would rather see KeoKuK
prosper, and if it does so honestly, Burlington will
''aid and comfort" her, if necessary. If KeoKuK
attempts to prosper any other way-if she holds
out false inducements to the people Of the INTERIOR
as we think she has done,- all that is said in the
Dispatch is sanctioned, she will only turn those
against her whose favor she is now counting.