Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-07-11
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BURLINGTON IOWA; WEDNESDAY. JULY r. 1856 -.
Trip 70 saiezgo.

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Don bs alarmed, reader. We do DO,
propose toborc YOU with column Of puffs
j We paid our dinner bills, hotel bills, and
al other hills, and do not propose to in
dulge in any amount large or small o.
sass, b. way Of payment for anything had
or to be had. SIS, Z.
i Along the line Of Railway the growing
crops look pretty well. Farmers have no,
yet commenced cutting, their grain. Com
for the most part looks well That is corn
that was planted on good land at the prope,
time, properly titled, is now from two tc
four feet high and looking thrifty. But
there is some that's not six inches high
and a good deal more that is yellow, small
and choked up with weeds. Such can
hardly with the best of tiliing, produce
very largely. Oats are looking very well,
both the early and the late. So is the
crop Of grass, All along we noticed good
Egardens, giving promise of abundant and
I4okeap vegetables. Potatoes are largely
planted and never gave greater promise OF
abundance. gs5
The lineof road between Chicago and
Burlington has been seen BY. a goodly
number of our readers, and BY all admired.
1t has been so often described that anything
from us would be superanous. Isl
Chicago isa srest city-great in the
magnitude Of her trade. Let her popula-
tion be what itmay, she is and will be, the
great centre Of trade for the products of
the Northwest. In looking over her pub
lie and private buildings, her Immense
piles of brick and stone, one finds many
models ofarchitectural beauty. And in
looking at these exhibition of good taste,
and wealth, and upon city OF such won
derful growth, unprecedented business,
and with such unbounded prospects for
the future, the beholder cannot but regret
that. itsits like ducks foot in the mud,
without one single object for the eye to
rest upon, above the dead level of the
"plain.' The eye seeks in every direc-
ton but there is nothing but bricks tower
Ing five or six stories high, steeples, tow
ers and a wilderness of masts, but never
mountain, a hill or even hillock, to give
beauty and diversity to the scenery.
The city looks busy, although it is un-
doubtedly the dullest time in the whole sea-
son. The wharyes and shipping and
places contiguous are thronged con-
stantly. Allkinds of vessels are loading
and unloading arriving and departing. 1t
seemed to us as though the pivot bridges
were opened and shut every five minutes.
And when opened to allow the passage of
vessels a single moment, it was really as
tonishing to see, at the Clark st. bridge,
the immense throng of carriages, drays,
wagons and pedestrians that would be stop
ped in mid career in their rrapid movements.
Five minutes or even three, would make
an accumulation equal in numbers to an
old fashioned regimental training. t5
Equally lively is it about the railroads.
The great tide of emigration flows through
Chicago. Her trains bring myriads of
people from the east, from the old world,
in search of homes amid Western Prairies.
1t is really astonishing to see the tide
that sets daily through the Garden City,
and throngs all her hotels, streets and by
ways '+.
Having but little time we did not exam
inc the shops and factories as we could
have wished. We looked far enough howey
er to convince us that good deal of manu-
facturingis done there, and much more than
could have been expected, considerinl the
recent growth Of the city
Illinois has not adopted the Maine Law.
Chicago we saw on the eve of the National
Anniversary, and according to the best we
could find out, she was preparing to. have
a good time, and did have good time.
There was a very large burning of Chinese
crackers, and bad cigars in anticipation.
So we thought on Tuesday evening in Chi
cago-and SO we thougl.tall the way home
that night. eEs er''