The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-03
A slight NIisappreheMsion.

The folly OF editors attempting to enlghten
the people upon subjects of which they them
selves are profoundly ignorant, 10 we'll illus
trAted BY our knowing friends of the Gazette
In their yesterday issue. Ever since the new
Council let out the Printing to the lowest bid
der and elected q City Engineer that could not
be used by contractors to fleece the City, the
Gazette has lost no opportunity Of fault finding,
and has on all occasions abused the new Coun.
Gil without stint. This Council was elected by
the people of this City Of all political parties,
with view to reformation and economy. 1t
10 not Republican Council and we do not
claim to speak for it, either by virtue of being
the Organ Of the Republican party or City Print
or, IS that appointment We obtained in the
Legitimate way of business, in having been in
the opinion Of the Council, the lowest bidder.
But, outside Of any other consideration, we
consider it but fair and proper that the truth
should be known, and that clamor and false
hood should not be SO largely INDUCED in with.
cut rebukc. Here 10 the article.
CAEALLING AND BANKING UP ON NORTH HILL
We understand remonstrance is in circula-
ton praying the City Council to take some
measures to prevent the further raising OF
North Hill. Citizens living on the top of the
Hill think they are high enough now without
having an additional three to four feet piled up
on the top of the highest point in order to
carry out the grade established some yeers
ago on certain streets in the city. They are
rsmonstratng, too, against the changes of
grade, made almost daily, and the canalling
and reflling done in tho neighborhood of the
Episcopal Church, which our present wise and
ryormitory black republican Council seem to
be engaged in.
II the grade is TO rise IL to IA inches in
every 100 feet from the head of Washington
street to the city limits on North Hil the peo-
pie in that region will have to place their |
houses on stills in order to be on level with |
she streets. Should this thing be successfully |
carried out, residents of North Hill will be be- |
yond the reach of high watsr. Canalling, tun- |
neillng, and banking up, has become quite
business under the patronage of the present |
City Council. And this, we presume, is the
economy aad reform promised us by the Hack
Rye. o, what a Council = what reform =
what economy !-"save the mark"
Now mark how plain story will put down
this grumbler, who, it seems, is ready to con-
denim every act Of the new Council, good, bad or
Indifferent. The grade complained Of was es
tablished, as we're all the grades complained Of
in North Burlington, BY the old City Govern
MELT, under the supervision Of the old City En-
gineer, the pet of the Gazette and of the Con-
tractors The canals were all surveyed by
NJ. johnson. If the grade is to rise twelve to
fourteen inches in every hundred feet from the
head Of Washington street to the City limits
and if the people Of that region are compelled
to put their houses on stills, the people OF
North Hill can thank the old Council aud the
old Engineer for it, and may, if they choose,
abuse the new Council for not correcting this,
10 they have already great many other of the
blunders Of the old Council.
When the foundation for the tower of the
Episcopal Church was laid, Mr. johnson was
called on for the grade and informed those con
,erned that the established grade was four feet
below the surface at the corner of the Episco.
pal Church. Who spoke for the Canal, Mr..
The facts are that the present Council has,
lnder the direction of the Engineer, taken
Earth from streets in North Burlington, cutting
hem to established grades, to obtain earth to
Ill Fourth street.