Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-06-24

In aur recent trip We ascer,ained that we o
4 the sTreat Vest have more friends, by q goe'
many, than We bad supposed, and friends OF tina
| nervous kind .aat express great deal OF coz
Germ for our safety and well-being and appre-
hens;on about our fatsrs. They think We are
running the machine little too fast, especiaii!
/ in the sresent condition of the track, and they
rrentiy fear that we are going to the d--Is
4 After being much obliged for the timely waFa''
inp as well as the deep interest felt for the safe
" of our Western communities, We cannot heip
liking this fast travelling which so mach aiaf'as
our friends After scanning their SLOW and mea-
sured pace, and looking at their ansuid cohai-
ton, we felt rather reconcied to any fate Trey
might be disposed to fix for Us, II VIC must
| decide on extremes we should tie down the
safety valve aud let every thing futter! Our sage
| friends may shake their knowing heads, but IL
this be going to the d-i we rather like 1t.
little tact enabled US to discover that all
their concern was not for u.s. They feels deep
concern for us, but this is not SO overwhelming
| but that they feel also for themselves. They
complain that many good citizens have taken
their money and removed to Iowa, MISSOURI,
Kansas and Nebraska! This is undoubtedly
true. But we do not believe for moment that
we shall become bankrupt or "go to the oe'h
from this cause. II our condition is SO "un-
sound it is not likely to be made any worse
from THIS class ef emigrants We shall continue
to welcome them to Iowa regardless OF conse'
quences! .......
But we are accused of specializing to an aw-
ful extent, This is untrue. We are no more
guilty than Others who live a good many miles
nearer sunrise. . .,....
But the great and overwhelming charge
gains. US is that We have got the price OF our
lands too high-that these prices will tumble
down, aud then will come wreck! we THINK
it would not be difficult to show our friends at
the East tnat when our lands tumble down IN
price their will be such fall in farm lands IN
Ohio, Pennsylvania and the older States as shail
make our calamity mere circumstance hardly
worthy OF no ice. In central Ohio rich farms
well improved are selling at from $50 to $50 per
acre! And people are making great fuss be-
cause lands in Iowa are selling at 81 t0 50 and
even $40 an acre! When we go to the ID
wonder if our eastern friends won't be aboard
OF rhe same train!
Here in the West we are bending all our en-
erges towards developing the resources of the
country Our ideas, instead of running upon
horses and carriages, iveried servants, palatial
residences and five dollar wines are busly and
actively employed in building roads, opening
mines, building, manufactures and cultivatinG
the soil We are hard upon the track OF the
Indian and the Buffalo with the plow, and the
locomotive. The evidences of our industry and
energy as people are palpable and seen every
where throughout our State. Our condition is
as sound as the rest of the world we maintain.
But even were it as representented we would go |
to the ID couple of times and after that get
rich while our Eastern friends were recovering !
from one smash,
A few months more and good crops of grain,
fruits and vegetables will have been secured, the
public mind relieved of its apprehension, the
expected crash and the looked for comet will |
then be forgotten, and the croakers silenced for
the next decade.