Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-03-26

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4 The city will continue to prosecute the in
provements begun and projected last year
Quite a number Of streets are to be grade
and macadamized during the spring and sun
mer, which will be great addition to lis appea
ance and great convenience to every body.
1 A good substantial and commodious Marke
House is to be erected on Valley street, betwee
4th and 5sh streets. This will be erected dul
ing the summer.
4 great accession has already, at this earl
day, been made to our population, and ever
house that is vacated is at once filed at enhan
ced rents. We before supposed the highes
| point had been attained. But We were mista
ken Almost any price that the landlord ha
the face to ask is paid. We heard Of one hous
rented last year for $3.50, that this season wa
let at $500. This is an extreme case. But Their
is considerable advance, and greater deman'
| for dwelling and business houses than ever be
fore known. But all this is having the usua
effect. Every body is building. We heard o
one man, who, two, weeks ago purchased 10
and is now living snugly in a house since cree
ted. All the brick that can be made and all tht
stone that can be quarried in Burlington be
tween this time and the FIRST day of November
next will be put into new structures Parts o.
the city that last year were sparsely settled, now
exhibit new structures in course of erection and
preparations going forward, that must entirely
change the appearance, and render all solid and
compact. The city is spreading in every direc
tion-pushing along the hills both north and
south and out towards the prairies upon the
west '#
Since the first day of January last, real estate
to large amount has changed hands and at pri-
ces considerably above last year. 4 large num-
Der of building lots have been sold, and for the
most part, we rejoice to say, to persons who will
Immediately improve them. Fss
Some time since, on the authority Of master
mechanics, we asserted that contracts had alrea-
dy been made to the amount of half a million of
dollars. We made the assertion on what we
considered very good authority. We are now
satisfied the estimate was not cxtravagant.-
There will be but one limit to the amount of
work here. All the houses will be erected for
which materials can be got, or to erect which'
mechanics can be hired.
There seems to be very general, and we think
reasonable expectation that we shall have very
large increase in trade and commerce, even
over last year, at this point. Southern Iowa, the
tra-e of which has heretofore been divided be.
tween Keokuk and Burlington, is now looking to
us as the best market for her products. Andall
we have to do to secure the entire Dry Goods,
Grocery, Hardware and Lumber trade of the
entire country clear through to the Missouri
river, is to show to western merchants good
assortments and heavy stocks, and fill all orders
at fair prices. This our merchants are de termi-
ned to do. Preparations for Spring trade are
being made on a large scale. A new Wholesale
Dry Goods establishment will be opened ina few
days. Others will continue to do jobbing bu-
siness in this line as heretofore. in all other de-
partments, not omitting the book trade, ample
stocks will in a few weeks be ready for inspec-
ton. A -..., ...... ...
~ Jones county votes at the coming April
election on the question of removing the county
seat from Anamosa to Edinburg.
Did the Nominees of the Republican
party pledge themselves to vote for
Fillmore 'f -- 'T.'
After the meeting of the Know Nothing Con.
vention on the 5th Of March it was rumored that
the nominees of the Republican Convention had
pledged themselves to vote for Fillmore and
Donelsan electors and had thus procured the en-
dorsement of the K. N. Convention. In remark
ing upon this matter the Fairfield Ledger, in an
article repubshed by US some days since, de-
clared its wish, should the rumor prove well
founded, to join in call for another convention,
and put truer men upon the track. The 0ska-
loosa Herald repubGshes part of the Ledger's
article and says: --
The rumor, to which the Ledger alludes, was
no doubt gotten up by the enemies of the Re-
publican cause, and was circulated for the pur-
pose of creating divisions and troubles in our
ranks. We heard the same, or similar rumors,
but we are glad to know that they are not true
No such pledges, we are assured, were given. So
far as the candidate for Attorney General is con-
cerned, we know he has not given nor intimated
any such pledge, neither will he do so. With
the Republicans he will "sink or swinl," and we
have no doubt the other candidates will take a
similar course Zone alone perhaps excepted, but
of this we are not certainly '"F
Mr.. Fillmore, is emphatically the candidate Of
a factious pro-slavery Convention-was repudi-
ated by majority of the Northern delegates of
the party whose candidate he is said to be, and
as such, cannot get the support of true Repub-
licans. We hope the fears of the Ledger man,
have been unnecessarily aroused.
The Republicans of Clinton county. held a