Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1854-11-07
TWO AGENTS WANTED
70 ace collectors and canvassers for this Statc-
aprly q this oGSce.

TWO AGENTS WANTED
70 ace - collectors and canvassers for this State,
spsly II this once.
PEORIA AND OQUAWKN RAILROAD.
The cars are running from the opposite
eide Of the river, on the line of the Peoria
end Oquawke railroad, twenty miles, where
stages take passengers over the gap "a miles,
forming connection with the Central Mill
tsry tract road, by which passengers from
Burlington perform the distance between
,cEeke and Burlington in less than twenty
hours. This gap, which lies between the
swo compl@ted parts of the Peoria and Oquaw-
h, and the Central Military Tract Railroads.
grows daily less, and in tn. course of thirty
days it will be completed entirely. The iron !
j. on the way from Rock Island, and the gra.
diag is nearly all done, SO that even if cold
westher should set in, tho rail can be laid
down, thereby giving US a communication to
Chicago any time We wish to go. This road
= calculated to do no little good to our city
IL the way Of opening direct communica-
ten With the East, affording ready transit
70 oil kinds of merchandise and travel,
which, II We had no railroad, would be COM
PEELED to lie in our ware houses till the opfn n
ing Of navigation. These facilities have al
ready given an impulse to trade and business
In and around our city, which is clearly per-
srptible to every one-has lifted up, the an
dispositions of our business men to that point
long desired and but little anticipated few
ysars since; but now it is Eureka, clear to
all syes, tangible certainty, without doubt.
Burlington is now trimmed and equipped for
ths race Of competition with any of her an
Gent enemies, who strove many years to
mako her run the gauntlet for her life, and
can now with all confidence, dare them all to
he contest. And it is but due to her enter
prising citizens to say, that their hands, their
city pride, have sustained her in her Hottest
efforts in the scale of progress, and she has
never faltered while they held the rudder of
her progress. Such men are the pillared
pride, the statued greatness of any city or
country, and we say, may she long have the
counsel and the vigilance of such men to
guard her interests. She is now s'loosed
from all her bands" that hindcred her on
ward march, and with the capital she has
now ,svestsd, and the spirit of enterprise of
her citizens, she may we'll be said to be on
the highway Of greatness, and to be the me-
tropolis Of the fertile land Of the Sac and
Fox-the youthful and Republican State, To-
~.
To-day is the great day sof dread decis-
ion" to some and s'despair" to Others. New
York, New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois,
hold their elections to day. What will come
out Of 20 much confusion, is in the future,
and can only be determined by time. The
mixture in New York augurs anything but
sgrcesblenes, and We should not be surpris-
Cd If any one ticket in that Bahle house of
coGeesioa would be elected; rather think it
wililAeSfsAll shapes, colors and varieties Of
tiskef, dissntisfactory tot all concerned. Still
thS1 hare none to blame but themselves. If
they had c'nng to old parties, no difficulty
~ppld have been experienced, but all would
hsse bess satisfactory; as it is, there is moth
iug,stsbie, but everything uncertain.
enc e. PORK TRADE.
Hy an article 10 the St. Louis Republican, it
appears that the great Liverpool packers,
Messrs. James McIIsnry & Go. and Nlessrs.
Allen 4 Anderson, of London, have failed;
and his supposed that the occurrence may,
to some extent, influence the trade in Amcri-
ca. Their trade in this country was very ex-
tsnsivc, and II b thought that there will be
none to take the places of those houses, SO
that there will be but little foreign cncour-
ascmeas 70 the trade from Europe. Lot
this be a. il may, it will not deter our own
sntcrpTising capitalists, who have been con-
nected heretofore with The trade. We sees
at siSSy POINTS along the Ohio river, they
are bidding 81 so per 100 lbs. This, we pre-
sumo, viii be the opening price; and It may
tend upward little, bat we shall not be
disappointed it, that should he the highest
mark. There aro more hogs IN the country
than there were last season, but whether they
viii be 90 we'll fatted, is the question. But
ho6s are far from being scarce.
Tn. FORr MADISON PLAINDEALER comes to
~ in bran new dress, looking as neat and
trig - though it had never been soiled in
political Wrangling. W. are glad to see
friend Taft giving evidence Of being appreci-
atsd at.hone. The Plaindealcr is now great