Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-06
Lpttcr From Janssvi11o, Wiscoasin.
EVANSVILLE, LIST Month, End Day.

Lotter From 3anssvi1lo, Wisconsin.
EVANSVILLE, LIST Month, End Day.
EDITOR RuLLETIN.-This city, as
many of your readers are aware,
was founded. about so years ago,
and was supposed to contain about
$4,000 inhabitants, until "Uncle
SAM in imitation of the custom
as it prevailed, according to that
ancient historian, Moses, amongst
the Puritan Jews, ordered a num-
bering of the people during the A.
D., 1870, when, like many other of
the cities of our land, they found
their number slightly diminished.
What pity it is that our Lcgisla-
tors should be continually interfer-
ing in the private affairs Of their
constituents, such as regulating the
price of coffee, broadcloth and bit
tiers; for the avowed purpose Of rev.
enue, but mostly to support a horde
of tax gatherers. Strange that by
taking a census they should expose
to all the monarchies of the old
world our numerical weakness, by
actually putting in the papers the
real number Of our people, when
otherwise, by comparing ourselves
with ourselves" we might soon be
the most populous nation on the
globe; saying nothing of other
worlds, which without doubt, it will
be our duty and our destiny to con-
quer, in that good time coming
when ether will be alike navigated
and ventilated by the genius of
Yankee invention; when woman,
exalted to her proper sphere. hav-
ing purified this of the faint of orig
inal sin and the innate cussedness of
our sex, scars aloft to govern and
purify other spheres.
When I first visited Independ-
ence, about fifteen years ago, l
found a large representation of those
that came from this place, who
made it their ideal to make that
equal to this. Many causes have
transpired to prevent there, the rap
id growth that has taken place here.
In Janesville the capitalists early
felt that manufactures were the SUI
rest basis Of a city's prosperity, and
acted upon their belief. The result
is that various industrial enterprises
have been built up which employ
labor, increasing the population,
consequently giving an increased
value to real estate, life to mechani-
cal operations, and to a greater de-
gree a home market for the cereals
of the farmers of the county.
Last week I took a ten niles ex-
cursion into the country, and was
to see the evidences Of
prosperity manifested by the almost
princely mansions of the farmers
along the TO d. While not only the
dwelling houses, but the out build
in IS and fences gave unmistakable |
evidence of thrift, the soil itself
was apparently eff an inferior quail
ty to that in our county. l hardly
can realize that in fifteen or twenty
years our county, as the traveller
goes amongst the rural population,
will present the same aesthetic ap-
pearance as does this now; and in
fact very much depends in that re
spect upon the success of those en-
terprises that are initiated, tending
to increase the population Of our
city. First in Importance amongst
those are the increased and compel
tive facilities for transportation
aud travel that now seem within the
reach of the citizens of the county,
fla proper appreciation Of the stu
alton so prevails as to induce to a
liberal policy towards those who
are leading in these enterprises.
Let it be known that Independ
cnce is to have rot only Il compe'l-
tive route to the east, but q direct
one south, to connect at all times OF
the year with open river navigation,
and you would see at once that cap
ital would not only make our city
bud, but expand, and the whole
prairie blossom, and every wheat
field have u greatly increased value.
l pick up no news worthy of your
The frosts of the last |
week have laid too firm an embargo |
on the sloughs, for the exhumation
Of any "Cardiff Giants" and the
original is supposed to be laid up
(for repairs) in your city. There
is a piece Of gossip embracing no
new system in ethics however, float
ing about, in which some of my
newly married friends of the male
gender may be interested. A long
time bachelor, feeling the loneliness
of his situation and the attractive
charms of young maiden land
who, as the sequel will show, was
not of the wcak-mindcd class) made
overtures for Il life partnership;
partnership that supposes there is
to be community of interest and
of goods between the partners. Our
bachelor friend was reported to be