The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-06-27

dasion o. magnificent State, that might in
few years rival N. Y. However the
East may suffer BY this extraordinary deple-
ton and it will suffer severely, the West
seems to Be pretty well insured against the
bankruptcy predicted BY the Eastern as well
y by some Of our own journals.
Another Attack ef-werms.
The editor Of the Courier is getting no
better, very fast. No sooner did he hear Of
The result Of the vote on the Railroad loan
in this county, than he had severe attack
When they violently dart from
extremity to extremity, and come up and
look over the tongue, and dart back to the
sweet bowels depths, and squirm most hor.
ribly for their regular food, the editor
swells with uncomfortable fear, and can
lace the cannons mouth, and the devil him
self, and even gives him the energy to make
the most transparent misrepresentation, as
vide the following:
ABOUT 500 votes from Omaha were secured to aid in
carrying the vote in the loan II is
confidently stated that Council Bluffs Instead Of gain
ing IN the number Of her the Presidential
election last fall has fallen off, and yet the railroad
loan they polled almost double the number
This looks like very respectable increase ten
year old settlement 10 make in eight MONTHS particu-
larry after one Of the bitterly contested elections
ever held in the country
Who makes that sscon6dent statement %
We venture to say, no one but the editor of
the Courier. Why did he make it? For
the sole purpose of misrepresenting this
city, and indulging his propensity for falsi-
fcation. We call upon him to prove that
5000 votes from Omaha (or even one)
were secured to aid in carrying the vote in
Pottawattamie, for the loan," or give his
authority for the assertion, or else stand
branded as wilful and deliberate perjurer
We can apply no milder terms to the perpe-
traitor of so malicious and spiteful falls
hood.
The increase of the vote in this city, also
affords an object for the worms to peck at.
The editor says it "looks like very respect
able increase for ten year old settlement
to make in eight months, particularly after
one of the most bitterly contested elections
ever held in the country" All! are you
there? Well, now do tell us, what has been
the increase of the population of your city,
during the eight months succeeding the first
of November last? Yes, what has been the
increase of your elepen years settlcnaent.-
Your much boosted CT city was settled pre-
uious to the commencement of settlement
at this point. Yet, where are you? Can
you in any essential point, compare with
Council Bluffs? Ycpr business, in compar-
ison with ours, is no more than the light of
a farthing ''soap-fat tallow-dip," to the
efulgence of the MONDAY sun. The only
notoriety that you have ever gained, was
acquired by your ncver-ceasing and torsuous
propensity for misrepresenting others. If
Council Bluffs is what You say it is-if it
has no advantages-if its population is con-
stantly diminishing, as you say it is-if it
does not stand in the way of the growth of
your pet town-why do you trouble yourself
about it? If it is s'dead and damned,o as
you would have people believe, why do yon
waste so much ink and paper, in portraying
its downfall. Why waste so much amuni-
ton on an inanimate object? We cannot
tell, unless it be that you imagine you have
been firing at ''mark," to get your hand
in, that you may be better able to cope with
an animate subject, should necessity ever
require it.
The fact of the matter is here. The ed
tor OF the Courier perceives the rapid
strides that Council Bluffs is making in
population, wealth and improvements, and
ais malignant and selfish ire is aroused, and
Re vents his spleen upon our devoted heads
With an energy and perverseness worthier a
better cause. Ii the building up Of his
Town depends upon the razeei1g of Council
Bluffs, it will never attain to any great prom
nence. 1t is no easy matter to DESTROY
city like Council Bluffs, and build another
ipsn its ruins. The editor may snarl and
bite, and raise Beelzebub, like an infant that .
las premature teeth to snarl and bite at its
belch lava and birthstone
rom his mouth, till he is as old as the hills
hat surround us-and yet not effect much
n the great scufle he has undertaken, but
20 down to his grave with ''NIiss Nancy,
Inscribed at the head and tail Of his grassy
mound. We do not object to his blowing
lis own trumpet-hs may plot and scheme
nsessantly to sell his "eligible lots ,''-but
We object to his resorting to such transpa-
ent misrepresentation to maintain his po~
itioa.
Worms, doubtless are the source Of i'm
'slse. Worms produce the evil in the his
DRY of all men, yet they are prolific Of in
mite good. They are the source of the rise
nd fall of Empires, and of all the evil and
;ood tkat exist. Impuls;ve persons, like
he editor of the Courier, have an unusual
uantity of worms, and they are apt to be
cry troublesome, if the old crop is kept
90 long. They must come and 60 with the
casons, or they will produce cratic con-
their victim deal in untruths of
be most palpable character, as ride the ex-
nple Of the editor of tho Courier. Should
e haze another attack of the cold crop,,
'e shall not fail to post our readers Of the
rogress of the scritters.' In the mean
me, we would recommend that he keep
is system well suffused with sharp vinegar
nd acquafortis. ,
Insurance.
II is one thing to acquire money, another !