Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-01-02


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The Southern portion Of Iowss IN the early
age Of the Territory, Was, fosornc extcuts over.
| looked BIZ emig-ants, and all the psfinE and
Dragging about Iowa has heretofore been bes.
i towed on the other side Of the Des Noines, for
the very good reason that until Within the .ast
| two years therc was no flewspapcr printed soash
Of the Des Aoines River. One might readily
suppose that the northern portion Of the State
was every way superior 10 the South, but glance
| at the auditors reportw show that southern
| tier of counties, contains greater population,
more acres of improved land, more capital in.
vested in manufactures, more real wealth, and
actually pays more tax into the State Treasury
than any other tier Of counties in the State, and
nearly double that Of the same extent or terri.
tory north Of the second tier Of countiess aaa 2
| The Increase of population and wealth In the
counties of Davis, Appsnoose and Wayne have
more than quadrupled in the last FIVE years, while
Decatur county has, within less time, grown al
most into republic of ITSELF Two years ago
| the country now embracing the counties of
Wayne, Decatur, Ringgold and Taylor was al
most barren waste, destitute OS any kind Of
inlets or outlets in the way Of roads, and no
mail facilities, offering no induccment TO the set.
tiers except the unsurpassed fertility bf the soil
and the understandable beautyi Of it's natural
scenery. Yet at this time these counties are
farther advanced in improvement, population and
everything that pertains to civilization than many
counties embraced in the old purchase, Moravia,
Iconiun, Bethlehem, Corrydon, Peoria, Garden
Grove, Paris, Leon, Decatur City, Mount Air and
Bedford are all growing and well located and
growing towns, with fair prospects ahead besides
other villages that have sprung up as if by magic,
Of these towns Leon seems to be decidedly the
superior il was laid out in 1853 by Judge Thomp-
son, upon 80 acres of land entered by him for
the use of the county, and the county seat 10.
Gated IN the same year. It's improvement has
been more rapid and substantial than any other
inland town in the State 1t contains popula-
ton Of over 500, with q good brick court house
two tayerns and numerous stores and mechanics
shops with three good steam saw mills, and tim
ber enough around them to keep them in busi-
ness for half d century. Quite an excitement
existed at the last election In reference to the To-
cation Of thecounty seat at that point, Decatur
City being the rival, but the friends Of Leon.
gained such q decided victory as to ouell, doubts
upon the subject hereafter. Our object, howev.
err, is not to gives description Of the towns alone
We wish to call attention to the fact that this
tier Of counties, with its rapidly increasing and
enterprising population, has been shamefully,
and disgracefully neglected BY the Post Office
Department, at Washington. Notwithstanding
our people have sent up petition after petition
and entreaty after entreaty, .here a little and
and there great deal" praying long and loud for
additional mail facilities, setting forth in language
too plain to be misunderstood 80 We
Yet q corrupt and pusilanimous sycophant
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and inefficient administration answers us that
"Iowa can have no MORE NAIL FACILITIES and for
shadow ofreason says that tthe expense of car.
rying the mails is now greater than the income
in Iowa. So it is all over the Union Did this
sage and sapient Statesman in that very lucid
opinion forget that the government pays $780,
900 per annum to the Mississippi river steamers
for carrying the mails from Cairo, Ills, to New
Orleans? Did he forget that the sum received
as postage along that line was vastly less by hun.
dreds and thousands of dollars than the amount
paid this steamer? Did he forget that millions
of the peoples money are annually squandered
at the great capital of the nation by multiplying
the number of offices and increasing the salaries
to reward, political catspaw and despicable tools
who praise and fatter the vanity of u whining
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But this is not all, after repeated petitioning
and threatening, this far-feeng and long.eyed
Statesman, was induced to advertise letting of
mail route from Centreville to the Mo. river, !.
through the southern tier of counties of this !
State, to be carried tri-weekly, a distance of
about l80 miles, and the same was bid off at
81 200, by responsible frm,J due notice was
given them that theirs was the lowest bid, yet
the government as this gentleman styles him
self, concluded not to have the route let at all, at
such an enormous price. Is there man living
in the East or West with as much brains as could
be contained on the point Of a cambric needle
that would call this an enormous price, who
will investigate or estimate the cost of transpor-
tation of mail matter on this route but must ad.,
NIT that it is unreasonably low Such an ex-
cuse on the part OF government officer is on
ly mere pretence without reason or shadow. of
foundation The only reason why, as we be.
eye, that this route was refused is that the; pop
ulation along the line was looked upon as insig-
nifcant when compared with some of the yEas-
tern and Atlantic States, and the object was to
econon1ize with us, so as to enable the govern
ment to lavish its funds upon Older States more
densely populated and thus secure to the friends
OF the administration where they might have
greater field in which to operate for the political
objects and purposes of corrupt party -
We urge upon the people in this tier Of conn-
ties to continue petitoning and make the ques-
ton one of policy during the coming campaign
and thus secure, in some slight degree, one Of
the long neglected rights of which we have ,un-
justly deprived Bloomfield True Flag.
1t will be seen by the following from the New
York Mirror, that a new and very pleasant kind
Of PARTY spirit" is now epidemic in Boston:
j PARTY SpIRIr.-We have never known such O.
rage for social parties in this city as during the
last thirty days; and SO on prospectively to the
dOEt to -gf
bought or hired new mansion, in the upper
part Of the city, seems in hurry to give it a,
warming" Every body who has daughter
emerging from panteletts seems to be in a hurry