The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-01-03
nEwARE OF PETER FUNK.

-r,rroR HAWK .EYE-Sr :-On Monday NOR.
ming, the 18th inst. arrived at Eddyville ana
.,,licd at the Railroad Office for tickets to
ebicseo, and at the came time stated that l mad
husipe.s at Springfield. Illinois The agent, d.
u.,en. said bv taking the Keokuk route, u
.,n,d get to the latter place that evening, and
-on,d only have three miles Of staging to do,
and that in buss; and being most positively
...ured that there was do doubt about it by the
..;d Haxen and C. W. Boardman-another
I.e,ey for the Railroad company, I bought
.h,ee tckess for myself and family. I arrived
:, Kedkuk about half-past two O'Clock, and
found That We had to lay over until the next
A.v AID that instead Of three miles staging We
,.d sxteen. We then went to the Dening
House, found good accommodations and gen.
taemany proprietor. hf-
T then called on the Superintendent of the
Railroad, and stated the facts to him, This name
il George willisms.) Now let me describe the
man. and you and your readers will know the
result. Firs.-He knows everything and eau
learn no more Second.-He feels as conse-
.,ential as if he owned an AIRLINE road from
the great city of Keokuk to the village Of New
York, and no opposition. Third.-He is ss
coarse and upgentlemanly as he is conceited'
and have no doubt but that the company will
nrosper under his management.
On Tuesday morning at o'clock, We took
the buss for the Ferry boat, or something they
IA g nh1
the shaft Of which runs about three feet above
the deck; and to get to the cabin, Tor hog pen
II should be calleJ,) you have to get on all tours
Tn this filthy hole We had to stay about one hour
and half, waiting for steam, &C., to get UNDER
way. Did you ever ride up hill in a coach be-
hind four vino. broken old horses? If 90, you
can have some idea how the thing Wheeled
WHY cir, the thing would be disgrace to st.
Louis or Cincinnati, let alone the city OF Keo-
kuk! We got across the river and took the
buss for the cars at Hamilton, distant about one
mile; waited there about thirty minutes for the
train, got aboard and rode to Carthage, say IL
miles-the end of the road. There were some
twenty passengers, and after a delay OF an hour
or more, Mr.. Graham, the Stage proprietor, .
coarse, old, clustering Scotchman. brought up
two old TWO horse hacks, one two-seated old
buggy and road wagon. can only tell the
load that was in the one had the pleasure of
being put on. 1t had three seats, and was new
er intended for more than elk persons. In this
was crowded six ladies and five children and
on the seat With the driver. protested against
the treatment myself and family we're receiving,
which drew from Mr.. Graham a voliey of stable
slang and abuse. We got underway and spent
FIVE hours faithful travelling, about half of which
We had to walk got to the Illinois & Southern
Iowa Railroad, got on the cars and met gen
tlemanly conductor (the first one of the kind
on the route,); got to Clayton in time for the
cars again, and changed and rode about twenty
miles aud again changed, and arrived az Spring.
field about 10 o'clock Tuesday night. You will
see that from Keokuk to Springfield we made
eight changes, and only about one hundred
miles travel. This 10 the great through route
which N. D. Munson adversises as the most d.
rect route East, without changing. Why, sir,
tie entire crew should be indicted for obtaining
money under false pretences.
Let me cay to all wishing to come East take
the old and we'll established route by Burlington
and Chicago. Believe not word they say, for
their road can no way BE completed before
April or May. and will then be unsafe.
Yours, c. COOPER.
Mt. VERNON, Ohio, Dec. 2lst, 1852.