Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-02-13
LAwREscE CRY. X. T.
,Jdnuarg 22ni, 1856.


tho Post 0ffiae aavcrftsing by fraud.
Our readers will rccoIlect the effort we made
in December last, to secure the Post Ofiee ad-
ver,ising and the positive assertion we then made
that our paper had larger circulation than the
Gazette. We asserted it as matter we KNEW.
Bat about the first of January we mada affidavit
to our circulation and handed it TO the iost
Master, and the very same day that functionary
very modestly handed it over to the Gazette, his
own paper, and the next morning it wasparaded
before this community with great flourish OF
trimpets along side of Col. Thompsons, who
made oath to list for the Gazette Just ta'eafy
| iarGer, This astonished us greatly. We had
supposed Col T. an honorable man, who at least
would not periure himself Tor a consideration so
utterly contemplate as that of the Post Office
printing We do not now assert that he has
perjured himself. But if not guilty OF perjury,
| he has been guilty of one Of the most contempt
| ible small ro;atoe subtcrfuges ever resorted TO
| by a man having any pretensons to common
honesty or self respect. And when we look at
| the nsirnifcanee of the object attained and the
moral turpitudc Of the act, it is disgrace to the
honorable fraternity of publishers, among whom,
however, Mr.. Thompson is only an interoper
The facts are these. The Gazette has had a
very sudden increase in its circulation This in
crease has been made since the first day of De-
cenber or thercabouts. BY keeping little LOOK
out we have asccrtaincd just how it was brought
about Some seven or eight persons in this city
! 1 I'D IN 1,ro m
customary for men 10 take newspapers Mr..
Coolbaugh has taken Is copies, Mr.. Schramm 8,
Mr.. Ray IL, Mr.. Corsc 10, Mr.. Carpenter 10, Mr.
Hinson IL and Mr.. Hrsper 10. This number,
a. has been left by the carrier for few weeks
past, at the doors of the above seven persons
That there are other eases where papers are de-
posted at wholesale upon gentlemens doors we
have no doubt. But the above are all we have
discovered About the leaving of these papers
there is not a shadow of doubt We ccnn estah-
lsl. it any where by testimony that will not 'e
disputed 1t is equally clear that this dissemna-
ton of that valuable paper By tens and hlteens
is recent thing, and has only been done since
the agitation of the question of Post othce al
vcrtisnr and the relative circulation OF the Ga
zettc and the IIawk-Eye. Have the above nam
ed gentlemen, in concert, wi;hina very few days
become so enamored OF the Gazette as to expent
twenty or thirty dollars piece for ten or tittccr
copies each to be laid aside for the benefit {
pos!crity? And was it no. very singular tha
these gentlemen should come forward aud sub
scribe for so unusual number, just mt the op
| portunc moment when that paper so much nccd
ed an accession TO its list in order 10 retain TIN
wopcnny job of advertising the dead lette
| lstg Does any body believe this "a bona .ha
} transaction?
| Andif Messrs. Coobaugh, Carpenter and 9th
! ers, to help that paper to this little u-5't, ar
/ willing to bcstow the gratuity upon 1t, and pl'c
the namber taken by them among their vast
0 paper, does this constitute such Il circulation
/ was contemplated by the law Can Col. ThomI
= son swear to a list thus constituted, withoat pc
t turing himself? The transaction looks like
: fraudulent one. There is not man in this con
o inunity who can be made to believe there W;
g any thing else intended No one can be mad
$ to believe the above gentlemen take and pay it
! scventy-tour Gazettes.
l. Do our readers rccoect that in December "
d said we would have the Post Office advertlsln
G or make the proprie.orS of til, Gezette do SON
@ hard swearing. We claim now that we have accor
5. pshedit.r If any body can beat this, they mn
=, be old hands at swearing and have about as cle
y ideas of the obligations of IN oath as horse
q 80 Hr D. & B.