The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-02-04
OF DUBUQUE,
Our Article OF NJ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. organ.
iZRtiGn,

Wehave just learned that our article of Mon
day on the subject of boat between this point
and Galena, has fallen like she'll in the midst
OF the good citizens of the Bay. We learn
that nothing short of absolute consternGtion has
seized upon the business community Of that re.
doubtable town, since the receipt of the intelli
gcnce that we are likely to place boat in the
Dubuque and Galena trade. This is not at al
TO be wondered at because if such boat Is in
trodnced, it will operate with fearful effect upon
the business contour ofour neighbors, and none
see it more plainly than they, hence their a.
larm
1t is all important suggested by our cores
pondent that this boat should be owned at Du-
buque, and the proposition of Capt. Estes
should at once be accepted by some of our bus
mess men. Its acceptance becomes matter OF
self protection, because so surely as the rising
and the setting of the sun, an attempt will be
made to forestall this enterprise for the very OBJ
vious reason thatits success Will sever one OF
the principal arteries of commercial vitality to
our Fever river friends If Capt. Estes is sus-
ments at Chicago, as will secure for his boat
the whole emigration ria the lakes, by which
he will with blow lop off an important
branch of trade to Galena. Emigrants instead
of stopping at Galcna, and crowding her
Hotels and providing for their wants, will have
no sooner touched the ground, than they will be
invited on board of our boat, there waiting
their arrival, and for mere nominal sum will
be landed on the West bank of the Missppi,
at the beautiful and fourshing City of Dubu-
que, the handsomcst in the North West. They
will be landed at our wharf in the evening,
whence they will repair to our Hotels and a
wait the determination Of their future course, or
take packets and move upward, down
ward as interest or inclination may direct
The amount of emigration next spring and sum
mer will be unparalleled IN the history of this
country; and mark the prediction, if such a
boat placed in the trade between this and
Gaena, our Hotel accommodations will be
found wholly inadequate to the demands tha,
will be made upon them
So fully impressed were we with the impor
tance of extending our steam boat facilities,
that we amongst the first to become stock
holders in the contemplated Steamboat orgau-
zation, and only regretted our inability to
double and treble our subscription. However
deeply interested we feel in the vigorous prose-
cution of line of steamers as contemplated d
by our citizens, we feel still more so, ifpossible,
in the introduction Of the fast steamer, Peytona,
, from the waters of the Winncbago, TO those of
the Mississippi and Houghton Bay Some OBJ
lection is made by our correspondent to the sys
tenn of season tickets, but with all Difference to
his superior experience, it is without any weight
as the subject presents itself to our minds, and
BESIDES if boat goes into the trade its line of
conduct must rest with those interested. Let
the boat be owned at Dubuque and all else viii
be right. But exclusive of the exception above
taken, we recommend bis communication to an
attentive and stu died pcrusal, coming as it does
from the able pen of one of our most cslimable
and energetic citizens.