St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-18
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VI. road, and wagon loads Of grain 90
every day from northern Benton to In
, dependence and Jcssup on the Du-
, buque and Sioux City road. Not only
50, but efforts are now being made by
the d. & S c. road to secure the bnsi-
ness Of this region in western frcghts,
and better terms are offered our bus
mess men for carrying their fall and
winter purchases than they have ever
had on the Cedar Rapids road These
are facts Cedar Rapids business men
have ascertained already. The rail-
read Company will find them out after
a while.
The NJ. & NJ. road will in few
days be to Marengo, more than twen-
ty miles west of Cedar Rapids. The
d. Il 5. c. road is now at Jessup, an
equal distance west on the north. and
will be completed to Cedar Falls be-
fore the land grabbers are done sur
veying "on or near the 42d parallel"
BY next Spring the ID. NJ. Il w. road
will be completed to Marion Where
under these circumstances does the
c. |. Il Y. road expect to find busi-
ness From Cedar Rapids alone
Let the quiet streets and gloomy
visagCs of our Cedar Rapids) busi-
ness men answer Each of the COM
peting roads will stand an equal
chance for business ten miles outside
those "quiet Streets" as folks down
there will live to know.
The Times, in divorcing itself from
the Company and going for the inter-
ests of Cedar Rapids and the people
outside it, has got on the right track.
By boldly following it, even to the
extreme loss of pass on the road, it
will we'll deserve the thanks and sup
port Of its people at home. But in so
saying, we do not endorse the re-
marks Of that paper in regard to the
Superintendent, Milo Smith, Esq. The
responsibility for faults complained
Of, in our opinion rests on the Direc.
tOry-not on the Superintendent.
1t is we'll for the people of Iowa to
get their eyes open in regard to rail-
road duplicity thus early-and get
ting them open, let them by all means
keep them open. The hoaor of this
Chicago, Iowa 4 Nebraska Railroad
Company does not amount to much.
The owners and managers of the
= Road are mostly men who live out Of
the State and seem to act on the idea
that they must make money out Of our
people, though they obtain it by q
= process no better than swindling. 1t
/ is within the recollection of all the
settlers Of the upper Cedar Valley,
and it will long be remembered by
them, how the c. |. & y. Railroad
Company sent an accredited agent into
their midst with the prctcnce that he
would build them a railroad. This
: agent, who called himself John B.
Peat, and was understood to have
. been formerly Methodist minister,
spent much time in travelling up and
down the valley, holding public meet
ings, soliciting subscriptions for run
ming lines, taking stock, &c, contract
ing various bills, and then suddenly
took himself ont Of the way, after
h having flchcd large sums of money
u from the people, and mourning many
u debts and obligations.
a For while the people rested Sc
curely in the belief that the Chicago
i Iowa and Nebraska Railroad Compa
0 ny would make all right but al
II II length they were told that the Com
n pany had nothing to do with Mr.. Peat
V that he was acting for a separate en-
h terprise from theirs, and therefore the
u creditors must look to Mr.. Pect, OIL
some other source than the c. /. & N
i Company, for satisfaction. There il
a more than one person in this rcgio,
o who would rejoice to nave this Rev
's ercnd Peat show himself to then
-, again just once The greeting woul'
is bctray an attachment that might b
" lasting.
a Now railroad company possessing
-, 20 more regard for its reputation thai
is the above operation shows, and cor
&c Quoted upon the principle of Cypress
ing aud grossly swindling the peopl
G who have to deal with it, is not
he company entitled to the good will {
i - tnat pcoplc, nor VIII II long rccc'r
IN their favor and support. 1t will b
at strange, indeed if the cntcrprisine
ey though too confding, people of low
o. do not, sooner on later, find remed
he for their grievances. Other railroad
- will be built and new avenues {
80 trade Will be opened up TO us, as
%c a.. already shadowcd forth in the r,
ne marks of the Times and Eagle, an
~ ~ then what will become Of the prof
en- Of this foreign and soullcss Railroa
& Company's speculation ? We sa
vel let the bull be taken by the horns.
"" 'on he never SO determined to tramplc Il
AN State of Iowa beneath him.
will
"e An independent man is said to
one who can live without whiske
and tobacco, and shave himself Wi
Try brown soap and cold water without
,.a mirror.
lds An Eastern paper says "A CO
va L. I,,l l.,rl,t,,i,,. and
Sc ly killed, belonging to the villas
all physician, who had beautiful ca
the four days ola.'
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