Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-05-06
s...vesea.s ~. e ~ ssase.


i AaSsglistal assa - she ssase. f
/ According 70 the following note from the Hon.
B. HEM, Of Fairfield, which We are permitted TO
Icopy, i seems that the area Of our State, in
square miles, is, By several thousands, greater
than before supposed
Fairfield, Iowa, April IS, 1857. I
I HIS ErcELLxxcY, JAxEs W. GRlxrs,
/ Governor Of IowA
| DEAa SIR-While at Washington City, IN
making the selections Of lands for the Railroad
| Companies, Iesrned an important fact, which
desire TO make public through you.
II appeas, on investigation, that the area of
the ssa,e Of Iowa Is larger to the extent Of 1es
square miles or 1906, ,24o square acres (more
than the size Of the State of Connecticut than
has been heretofore computed.
Previous computations Carried INTO all the
public documents) have placed the area Of Iowa
at 5o,sl4 square miles, or 80, ,5s4, 800 acres.
Mr.. A. r. Parker, drafssman Of the House Of
Representatives, and very accurate computer,
has just finished an estimate made from the Off
cal surveys las far as computed) and from Off
cial data Of that portion not surveyed; from
which il appears that the actual area Of our
State is 56,Oso square miles or 35,ssl POO
acres-exceeding the previous computations
5,l76 square miles, or s,3o6, $40 acres.
Yours, respectfully,
BERsHARr HEM.
CoxErs.-Lieut. Maury informs the National
Intelligencer that another telescope comet, dis
covered by DR.. Bruins, at Berlin, March 18th,
is now visible in the northwestern part of the
heavens. 1t is supposed to be Identical with
the third comet of 1916, discovered by Brorsen
--an elliptic orbit for which has been computed
by DR.. Won Galen, by which it returns to its
perihelion June 25th Of the present year. The
first comet is increasing its distance from the
earth; the second is approaching, and will be
visible during the whole of May.
The SUPREME CouRr or ONO VS.. THE SUPREME
CoURr OF THE UNITED SrArEs.--A correspon-
dent of the Pittsburgh Gazette Of Monday, the
2Oth inst, writing from Mansfield, Ohio, says:
"Apropos of the Dred Scott decision, learn
from confidential sources that there is now pend
ing in the Supreme Court of Ohio case from
Clermont County, involving all the princi-
pal points of Judge Taney's decision. The
case will be decided in a short time; in
what way you can guess-four OF the five
judges being radical Republicans. All can
say now upon this point, is, look out for thunder
Several of the Virginia journals resent Mr..
Thayer's attempt to colonize the worn out lands
of that State, and now 60 SO far as to deny Mr..
Thayer's statements respecting the price and
quality of such lands. Tho Baltimore Clipper of
the 18th, says:
A high-toned gentleman is apt to be over
sensitive. Hence our Virginia exchanges spurn
with indignity the attempt of Eli Thayer to colo
nze any portion of that vast domain with
brood of live Yankees. They need not hoot at
sell at So an acre. A real estate agent in this
city has 5000 acres of said lands on hand which
he would like very much to dispose Of; another
IL 900; and still another 14,000-making the
aggregate, "a, 900 acres, some of which may be
bought, by the section, at two drinks an acre
l24 cents and on time at that. Facts are stub
born things, and the truth not always palatable.
For the Hawk Eye.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, April 2lst, 1857
l have before me statistical table in former
number of the Hawk-Eye, showing among other
things, the comparative wealth and popula-
ton of some of the "chief" Counties in this
State, from which learn that Dubuque County
is the wealthiest among the number, and that its
wealth bears heavier proportion to its popu-
lation than any other County given in that ta-
BILE. But even Dubuque County falls thirty per
cent behind Pottowattomie, in the proportion
which its wealth bears to itspopulation. When
the census of Pottowattemie County was taken
in May and June last, its population fell lit
tie short of 1000, while the assessed valuation
of its property at the same time was S2,72s,
652, or about 500 to each inhabitant. In
Dubuque it was but 1914 to each person. This
year the assessed valuation in Pottomsttomie
will probably exceed IS, ,oOo, 900, to popula.
ton of about 5000. This County undoubtedly
stands number one with its sister Counties in
Iowa, in the proportion of wealth to its popuIa'
ton. The rapid rise in the value of property
in Pottowattomie during the last four years, is
l presume without q parallel in any other
County in the State. In 1853 the assessed val
ue was $15O,OO0; in 1854, $450,0OO; in 1855,
Sl,05O,o0O, and in 1857, S2,72s,652 Showing
an average increase of considerably over one
hundred per cent for each year. And yet the
County has but just taken start. Last year
about half the population of the County was
found in Council Bluffs aud it still retains about
the same proportion. The great advance in the
value Of property is owing mainly to the rapid
strides which Council Bluffs has taken in the
last two years. o@ d. t.5 r-
But will reserve Council Bluffs for more
particular notice at some future time, should
time and opportunity occur. F.s.
ALTERED BILLs.-One's, Bank Of Florence, al
A...d - u,oro dofactod at Chicavo few