Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-08-19
Local & Territorial.

of Bellevue, published IN Frank DeslleS
Illustrated News, has stirred up a young
hornets nest, and brought down on our
head, anathemas, from the Crescent City
Oracle, Florence Courier, and Council
Bluffs Nonpareil, while the Council Bluffs
Bugle has arraigned US for an apparent
inconsistency. If the editor of the Bugle
will refer to our issue of January %, he
will discover that we were not the author
of that puff" of Col. Huyett, which ap-
peared in the Gazette Of that date. 1t
was written by an individual who is pos
sessed of more hlfalutin than common
sense. But read what the Oracle man
ssys:-
"USGENTLEMANLY.-Our neighbor of
the BelIevIeu Gazette, in a recent issue,
makes a very unjust and ungenerous at.
tack upon Col. d. II. Huyett on account
of the sketch of Believed as published
in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly.
As an Artist, no one who has seen his
sketches, has a doubt of his eminent gen.
ius, and as a gentleman, he stands high
in any community where he has sojourn-
ed or made his residence His sketches
are correct and decidedly life like, and
do both credit and honor to the genus
who created them. If our neighbors wish
a weH appearing picture of their city, we
would suggest giving II a different loca-
ton or employing all artist who will take
more pains to .fdter. This endeavoring
to injure the reputation Of an artist and a
gentleman for the purpose of giving a
place undue noteriety or importance, or
in the hope of making people abroad be-
lieve that Belleviru possesses a more
pleasant and better appearance tina 1t re-
ally does, is an outrage upon civlllty and
Justice. Come ~neighbor don't try 10 build
your city up by injuring your betters, or
equals at least.
Don't say that the artist has represent
ed Bellevieu as being located on the
West bank of the Mississippi river when
it is no such thing, but only 9 typograph-
ical error in the title, but fully and accu-
rately delineated in the letter p~ress-dou't
say there are " blunders' when you can't
point them out-don't be calling your
young and growing city a Hottentot Will
age and other bad names, and don't for
your own sake pretend to know more
about the history Of Nebraska than you
can make apparent, for we know men who
have fought wolves and Musketoes IN the
origin soil of Nebraska, years before
YOU thought of making that a home.
Come, Slrs, if you would deserve the
appella,ion of gentlemen make the amend
honorable and DO justice to those who
have been and sill wish to be your friends
We saw the pencil sketch of Be!leyiel
before it went into the hands OF the en-
graver and were satisfied it was uneXcep'
tionable. If the artist did not do his duty
it is no fault of Col. Huyett's."
If telling a few plain truths, in a plai'
way, make us ungentlemanly," we &C
knowledge the corn. We know nothin!
of Col. Huyett, personally, nor did we Sc,
" the pencil sketch of Bellevue, befor,
it went into the hands of the engraver,
but IRE hare seen the sketch after it cam
from the hands of the engraver, and W
confess our inability to discover in it III
least resemblance to Bellevue. If tn
artist. or his gas-bloUers, can, w wi
, present each of them with a leather cenI
bearing an appropriate inscription.
8 ID. II. Huyett, may be one of tn
best artists that the world affords, but hi
sketch of Bellevue has not had the effec
Oh those that have seen it, who are fami
lar with the original, to highten their ad
miration of him, as an artist. If he ha
represented Bellevue as Il is, we shout
= have had no fault to find, and would chez
fully have given him all the credit he de
served, but we are mol disposed to pu
humbugs. There is not a single thing
the sketch, that is correct, and we Wi
defy the artist, or any one else, to poll
ont one. The sketch, is just as much
representation of Jerusalem, as it is
Bellevue. We have never endeavored
build up our own city, by trying 10 injul
others. 1t is a practice that we do n
believe in besides, Bellevue is not
need of any such help,-il stands on
firm basis, and will continue TO iouri:
:, while some other towns, not a thouSal
:, miles distant, will exist only "in nan
and story"
No, sir! we have no anlende hOnoraI
g to make but on the contrary, we sh'
% continue to puncture the ColOneTs gas-b'