The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1861-08-02


Tae prairies are high, rolling and unsur-
passed in their adaptation to agriculture.
Limestone and sandstone are plenty,
aud weu adapted to buildingruposes.
Council Bluffs City, the county seat Of
Pottawultomie County, 20 miles north Of
Gicnwood, three miles cast SC the Mis-
souri, river, and opposite Omaha in Ne
brasko, contains about 1000 inhabitants.
II has United States Land office, sever
al ohu ohcs, school-houses, stores, two
newspaper Establishments, physicians
aud lawyers adequate in number, TO the
public necessities, and numerous mcchan-
les and artists. The city has an excel
lent hotel, the "Paeife House." remark
ably well kept The Mississippi and
Missouri Rail Road is located to termir-
ate here; and also another Rail Road,
now constructing from St Joseph No,
is to be extended up the left bank of the
rvor through Council Bluffs. The Nor
mons, in the fell oE 1916, halted In this
county, but soon afterwards emigrated to
Salt Lake valley Tho county was or
ganized in 1851, and has since rapidly
settled up and improved. II is well sup
piled with good water and stone, but is
rather deficient in timber.
Council Bluffs City, and POttawotamie
county have subscribed very large
amounts, and as would suppose, involy-
cd themselves in almost Uinous debts for
prospective rail road and other impsov-
ments. But less so than the river towns
along the west side Of the Mississippi H.
The inhabitants Of Kcokuk, Burlington,
IL Dubuque, Muscotnc, Davenport aud ccr-
tain other cities, have involved them
'' selves 10 immense debts for the cstansi-
bic purpose at least, Of building up their
Is several towns. Young America seems
TO have rioted in all the visions of NOR
,c bid imagination TO hts,cn their improve
ments. Old men Of experience and
property were thrust aside Cor dropped)
N and wholly uuoonsultcd in the local at
fairs and Instruments deeply affecting
their interests and to be ultimately paid
he for by them. Favoritsm, personal afini-
e. ties, iobbing and Iobbors reigned and
he ruled omnipitent, either jointly or several
4. ly as would best subseUe private and in
dividual interests at the public expense
Some directly aided, and others wiuket
" at the pcculnting devices, made use or
Is seeking different or higher positions
So long as the bills were chargcuble t
the city and their payment unfclt, al
OF went swimmingly. Inyidious compari
sons vindicoted the living element o
?. progress and IFS resusclotion by Youu.
in America, while all old fogies stood aghas
!. silently aud patiently awaiting retribu
tive justice. Behold the result and let III
m profit by It's admonitions,
The population Of Dubuque is lcs
On than it was in 1857, and now the debit
Of that city are enormous, and its scrip
" hawkcd about the streets as worthless
lp The taxes ure oncrous ALMOST beyond en-
a. durancc, and the progress of the city al
most entirely aTestcd-no sane man in
clining to invest, and many.of those VIII
H' didinvcst there under favora bic auspices
ek resorting to every reasonable cxpedien
to extricute themselves. A similar stat
Of affairs exists at the other cite
y. above mentioned. / was told at Maron
60 by gentleman who omigrated fror
Ohio, thotho had lost moro than ten thou
en- sand dollars by indiscreet investment
80 at Davenport, (and which he never woul
/ / have made, had he been cognizant of il
indebtedness,) and the consequent Dc
-. crease in value Of real estate ther,
which the city debts keep doion, like a
lex incubus, upon its energies and prosper
ON ty. This might all do very we'll, coul
the taxes now be collected from thos
ye and the abettors of those, who laid Ii
foundation for their assessment Bu
they have had their day Of Wanting sci
exaltation, II was no part Of their pre-
Inc gromme TO pay for the worse than nst
ad- less expenditures incurred by this impro'
ills idence and presumtuous folly. The lei
all, son, if appreciated, may be a salutar
rie one by restoring the people to their ser
les ses, IN so much, at least, as to Undue
ell them hereafter to adopt reasonable pr
be gress and to employ sensible and di
, is Greet men, and no Others, in the exec
ms tion Of official and public trusts. It
raj painful however to reconsider and col
Itly template the Influences which, then vii
ag- iresistablo intensity peryaded the publ
mind. The laxity Of morals, aud di
of regard Of the behests Of stern integri
un- in public, and even in private life we
- appalling and rollly appeared TO hu
on reached their elimination. Breaches
ade trust, bribery, swindllhg, embezzlemer
lro' defalcations and fraud, were not unusut
rth nor even domestic immornlities and Vi
God lations of private confidence and frien
rst ship uncommon or trivial, notwithstan
gho the influences on which public virtue d
and pends were active, such as religion
Ally moral and educational. But they we
It unfortunately palsicd in their legitimu
! is functions and operations, and defeated
20 their corrective effects by the madpess
ma the times, aud vitiated public sen
ong ment.