St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-02-25
Communications
For the St. Charles City Intelligence
A View from the Pivot.

nication over the ominous signature of
Webber 81 feel constrained to make
few remarks thereon" Il say omin-
Gus" signature, because Webber i'm
plies web-weaving, or weaving webs
on the Cedars, to catch and entanglc
victims on the Shell Rock-as the SEN
ior against the Juniors ominous" of
desperation. So much for the" sig
nature, land now in regard to the ar
ticle.'
Weber declares my statements
$50 glaringly incorrect as to be al
most inexcusable in voluntary con-
tributor to public Journal" From
this innucndo | infer that he is hire
| ling-a paid contributor-and entirely
excusable for whatever assertions his
mhamed imagination may prompt him
! to make | have not forgotten that,
last summer, the Editors of this paper
solicited correspondence from the va
rious townships of the county, and !
until that invitation is revoked | shall
consider myself an occasional cores
pondent.
Wcbbcr denies that " the senior
builds costly buildings near his own
at the expense and against the pro-
test Of the rest The truth of this |
allegation will prove by Scriptural
analogy-vide Matt ch. v. verse IS
Whoever looketh on the county |
buildings, &c to lust after" them hath |
built them in ST. Charles already"
Webber says, :" to build a town
without the least natural advantage,
is too much like trying to make two
blades of grass grow where but one
grew before" Isuppose he would re-
verse this theory, and make one grow
where tuo grew before. That is the
way some do progress--by an oblique
or backward movement. Does Web
Der, when writing to his Eastern
friends, tell them that the only part of
Floyd county, suitable for settlement,
is along the streams-that between
- these streams are broad belts of prai-
rie, raked by winds and pelted by
storms, which will etcrnally forbid
, their settlement Are there no "natu-
raj advantages at the geographical
: centre of Floyd county. Is 1t not
upon a commanding eminencc of as
rich and beautiful prairie as can be
found between sunrise and sunset!
Is it necessary that the public busi-
ness of this county be driven by WA
= ter wheel! or that all our profession
al men should hover around our court
> house? No! they want exercise to
make them vigorous-and, in going
l. to, and returning from, the geograph-
: ical centre, an impression would be
: made upon their minds, (if not upon
their toes, } of what we Shell Rockers
endure in going to and returning from
st. Charles. Prairies much larger
Of Of than ours do "settle up" in Other
States, then why not ours?
That Il beautiful and thriving vii
y lagc would spring up around our geo
$, graphical centre, no sane man can
doubt. "As an example at this mo
ment occurring to my mind, | vii
mention" Marion, the pride of Linz
, county in this State. Situated on the
prairie, Marion is one of the larges
eli and most prosperous interior towns IL
nd Iowa Remember, too, that Marlol
81. has, within five miles, Cedar Rapids
pt for a rival and Cedar Rapids has at
the natural advantages that -
Charles has or ever had 1t is an IL
suit to the fair fame of our county an
State, to say that our broad prairie
will remain forever unsettled. Wh
but hermit would stay here anothe
wear if he knew that settlement
- would not, ere long, stretch from on
stream to another? | know OF on
$, who would leave instanter /; and
should expect Webber to follow m
trail the week after,--as he is i'll tt
habit Of doing.
Webber asks, Shouldn't Ne
wa York be generous enough to contri
ute towards building up St Charles
| answer, She should, whenever the
interests and destinies are intcrwov'
;o with each other, as the interests al
own destnies of st. Charles and the &c
raw graphical centre are interviewer. Nc
York is cousin of st. Charles t
ma ma Geographical centre twin sist'
wing They are children Of the same paren
olns Strike one and you bring tears il
stf the ewes of the other Please one a
- the other laughs.
~ According to Webber's theory
rent should make difference with
uses children, and give his all to the c
o., 90 for whom mature" has done
- most. The child the most rugged
the best able to encounter and end
nos the adversities with which nature
to struggle, should have showered
Foods on it all the favors, while those
nv whom nature has not done quite
on. much, are neglected, and kept in