St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-18
County Seat Question Settled.


County Seat Question Settled.
"Sticking stakes" for county seats
seems to be the order of the day. AZ
ter attending toChickasaw, Cerro Cor
do and Mitchell counties, Floyd coun-
ty has taken her turn, and on Monday
last the county seat stake was once
more "stuck" at St. Charles. When
Floyd county was first organized this
place was designated as the seat of
justice for the county, and the county
business has ever since been transact.
ed here. Owing to the natural advan-
tages of the place and the enterprise
of its inhabitants, st. Charles has
outstripped all other towns in the coun-
ty in the amount of its business and
increase of population. This very
prosperity, which should be gratifying
to every citizen of the county, has ex-
cited the envy of other towns, who
have fondly imagined that any detrac-
ton or pulling down of St. Charles
would elevate them; especially have
they supposed that the removal Of the
county seat would be a fatal stab at
our vitals, and its acquisition bright
feather with which to plume them
selves in the sale Of city lots. Conse-
quently, time and again have efforts
been made to locate the county seat
elsewhere, but all in vain.
1t would be work of supereroga
ton to describe the various movements
for the accomplishment of this object
Suffice it to say, that "by hook or by
crook our neighbors succeededin get
ting the Legislature to repeal its own
actlegalizing the location ofthe county
seat at St. Charles, and to appoint
commissioners, certainly not of our
selecting, to relocate the county scat.
After no little backing and filling"
and one or two adjournments, the
commissioners unanimously decided
that St. Charles should be the place.
This board consisted of D. w. Poin-
dexter, Esq, of Mitchell; Hon. l..
Bailey, of Chickasaw Co.; and James
Mckinney, Esq, of Fort Atkinson.
We trust that this exciting topic
may now be permitted to rest a while,
though it may not We can assure
our neighbors, for whom we entertain
the kindest feelings, and in whose wei
fare we take the liyeliest interest
that St Charles has prospered through
& ~. 81 - it, il
Tie enterprise and tHdNsfry Of<zs 80
habitants, and not because Of the
county seat. A great hullaballoo has
been made about taxing the county t.
the amount of thirty or forty thousand
dollars to build a magnificent cour
house for the benefit of St. Charles
But this smoke all vanishes when i
is found that the court house is tocos
only twelve or fourteen thousand dol
lars-that the county has five thou
sand dollars on hand, and that the PEG
pie of St. Charles gre more than sever
thousand dollars. What other town is
prepared to do as much +? What Other
place has the facilities and means fol
building so good house at so cheal
a rate?
The work of building the cour
house is now going forward briskly
and by fall it is expected that its beau
tiful marble walls will be completed
and the roof on. We have purposely
forborne to dwell upon this subject
heretofore, as we did not wish to in
fluence the action of the commissioners
nor excite the ire Of our neighbors.
We do not know, nor do we believe,
that any action has been taken on the
part of st. Charles people to forestall
the commissioners opinions, and now
that they have driven the stake in the
very centre of the ground on which
the court house is building, and our
indefatigable friend Conger struck the
final blow, we trust that the whole af-
fair will remain finality. Mr.. Conger,
who was in the interest of Floyd, has
shown great tact and energy in this
county seat contest, while ours has
been
-" the pride which warriors feel,
In foemen worthy Of their steel.
We suppose he worked for pay, as
most lawyers do, and well has he
earned his wages. We commend him
for his zeal and spirit, and welcome
him to st. Charles and the county
seat, wheneverit shall suit his pleasure
to visit us.
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