Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - January 6, 1848, Burlington, Iowa JANUARY every of WARDS is BROAD TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION DOLLARS SIX one dollar ant centt with the above will sub delinquent to in extra charge of twentyfive three months Tkit rule mill lie TERMS OF ADVERTISING i M lines or less one additional one three i under 6 per annum Merchants advertising by the year will be cn hajf a for An extra charge will be made for all over 1 00 60 9 so 4 00 600 2o 00 wiU the price of subscription to e included in the above half one vear 30 00 one is the seat of justice for DCS Moines contains about 3000 It is situated on the west bank of the about IH above St Silas COPPER and SHEET IRON WARE and Retail Dealer in Dye Fatty Window D John CALEB in Tin Stoves and Jewells Patent Ploughs Jefferson JOHN Prugh JEFFERSON between Vain and and Retail Dealers in of Copper and Sheet Daniel WP Ea IS 9 between Washington Colombia Sis MAKES and repairs same cheap Dr Office Jefferson St between Main and Reid A AT FORT George AND COUNSELLOR AT Van Cr een ATTORNEY COUNSELLOR AT LAW AKD AT Fort Wm COUNSELLOR AT Weft Lee Dr John his professional services to the citizens I of Burlington and its in the Basement his new building on Oner of Uk tnd the Public Residence On same Physic offers his Professional services to the citizens of Burlington ner of Washington and Third For the Burlington Improvement of the DEAR the above a communication appeared in the last issue of your if allowed to pass without reply and refutation is calculated to produce much mischief to the cause it professes to by leading the com munity tp doubt the practicability of the proposed improvements in and con sequently to relax in their efforts to ob tain at the hands of Congress the Ways and Tis probably as the writer he is no engineer still the station he oc and his supposed tend to give weight to his arguments which I purpose showing they arc not entitled that true to his instinct as a he has labored hard to prove the worse to be the better side of the He says all the difficulties of the sub ject lie in the solution of this by what means shall the work be done Whether by widening and deepening the present natural or by the construction of an artificial channel in the river on the Iowa I think he further the formation of a safe and commodious as suggested in the first plan referred almost if not wholly Now read the opinion of a practical every way capable of forming a correct and who carefully and fully sur every part of the I refer to in his report to Con gress says I shall refer only to the im provement of its natural bed as being not only mere in my opinion preferable to any Judge Williams again the rapid ity of the current will be dangerously in that the depth of water on the sand bars and shoal places above the Ra will be and navigation thereby rendered more Lee the present length of the chan nel being but little by straightening it the descent will not be much though rendered more the velocity of the current not sensibly The increased area of the channel will be so small in comparison with the width of the that the supply of water will not be per by obstruct ing some of the minor channels with the stone excavated from that to be its passage may be so far retarded as to leave no room for apprehension on this When Doctors whos to decide I have taken the trouble to make a sec tional view of the present grade of the bed of the Rapids from the head to the foot as s W AND RETAIL Dealer in Dye Window Jefferson kEALER in Produce and assorted Corner of and Third KNO JEFFERSON WHOLESALE and Retail Dealer in Dry Boots and Hats and Forwarding nnd Commission Merchants Main and Jefferson SEALERS IS Dry Ewin in Staple and Fancy Gro loath side Jefferson fc near thc corner of Jefferson Wesley anv Retail Jefferson DEALER IN Dry JOSHUA Forwarding and Commission Front and DEALERS IN Boots and Drugs and JOEL Barrett Wholesale Retail Cmer Mail and MiLERS Dry Ready Made Albert nl Henry AND Main o aorta of Burling fe BOOT AND SHOE j Vow a few North of Jef ON AND COMMISSION Jtf of Vinegar tad Family Gro oTy Having as I shown the practicability of improving the present I cheerfully accord to the learned Judge that his plan of an artificial channel is also was the Thames were the they as the Judges pet monuments of the folly of their I will now endeavor to show the rela tive feasibility of thc two as re spects the expense of Lee in his report to that to excavate and improve the natural bed of the so as to com plete a channel 200 feet wide and 5 feet deep at low would require the re moval of clinic yards of at a cost of A part of but how much I have not the means of has already been That to construct a canal of the same dimen would require the excavation and removal of more than cubic at an in the same ratio of to add and we shall have an aggregate of not less than Let us take the Louisville canal as a The object of the two undertakings is the and the natural impediments to be overcome are That canal is two miles long and eost more than The proposed canal would be 11 miles and in the same would cost Look on this on We may approach Congress with some like a reasonable expectation of ob for a work of such great an appropriation of Judge in the plenitude of his wisdom can devise some plan whereby we may obtain the larger Having already made this tion longer than I I shall reserve for another opportunity what further I have to FORT WONDERFUL ex has in this vicinity during the past week relative to a Mammoth Cave which has been discovered about 12 miles west of this Many of our citizens have made a visit to thc and Thus it will be seen that from the head of the Rapids immediately below Montrose to a distance of 38 miles the fall is 096 feet per B to 318 feet per C to D 08 237 feet per Dto E 125 2 feet per from E to 2 29 feet per beins an average of about 22 feet per the whole length of the But thc Judge says that there is a de in the bed of the river from the summit head of the Rapids tip the stream for some is more than Whether this conjecture is right or erro I have not at present the means of Presuming it to be right so much less will be the incline of the improved which would com mence at the lowest level above the sum so much less the rapidity of the Now the length of the Rapids on the Ohio is three and the fall is 21 or 7 feet per mile yet the rapidity of the current does not prevent the ascent or de scent of steamboats when there is a suffi cient depth of water where then is any probable cause to fear that the Des Moines with a channel 200 feet wide and 5 feet deep at low a declination of only 22 feet per mile will be perilous for boats The twaddle I desig nate it respecting the formation of sand I consider too farcical to notice suffice it to experience teaches us that where the current is that it the exact spot where ssnd bars will not BY Mr Philip a man of moderate lived in a neat little house which he in a thriving country vil He was keeping a which yielded him a very comfortable As Mr family the dwelling which he occupied became too small for making a removal or an ad dition to house Being a and a man well thought of in the his landlord was very ready to build a couple of additional for an increase of rent equal to ten per on the Mr the was employed to make the required and he forthwith went to It was not long before a suitable frame was erected and in and the plasterer commenced on the On the morn ing that the plasterer was to go to Mr who was an early walked out into thc yard to look around and see how the new building was pro The first thing that met his eye was a load of lime that had been thrown close to the where the plaster er had arranged his mortar It was in fine large lumps fresh from the Just the said Mr stooping down and turning over several large pieces with his This will save me from buying Mr Elliotson then looked around about and seeing no one was near him stoop ed down and selecting two of the largest took them up and carried them remarking in a low tone of to himself as he did They will never be Thc lime was placed in an and an old piece of board thrown over In a day or two afterwards it was slacked and used in whitewashing the Now the taking of a couple of pieces of lime by Mr was a little comparatively but from small causes important results often And came in this It happened Mr Gage saw him take thc pieces of an act that surprised him very He could not have believed Mr Elliotson guilty of such a petty act of not o s report it as one of the most wonderful Not wiln to of the The entrance is and especially a the foot of a large and is man h w in such M h by ed as so small as to cause Qne as Mf to crawl upon their hands and knees lor sure thU lhe had for about a hundred feet when they find private the carpenter themselves in a large and J on wort that after Mr passing onward many rooms are found varying in height from three to thirty Many have been into the distance of from one half mile to a without finding any limit to the dimensions of the It is represented as being divided into dif ferent rooms by partition walls and the had gone to his searched about to see if he could find the This search found it concealed beneath an old where it had placed I wouldnt have believed if I hadnt seen it with my own eyes said Gage terent rooms by partition wans ana inc Ly stone hanging from thc and mi hf this hon ing upon the represent various forms j Why of rf t What right hal It is undoubtedly a great and will continue to excite the attention of our until it shall have been thor explored and thc dimensions of the mammoth cavern We under stand arrangements are being made for this and that a general explora he to take this lime without the plasterers consent If he had asked for he could have had double the quantity he has in 1 dont like It doesnt look I almost wish I hadnt seen I shall never feel just right to wards him The carpenter was strictly an honest tion will be made in a few when the i result of the interesting will an act Hc thc Of every in little doubtless be to the world until no particular description can be fine ripe and pare and core Cut them into weigh and to each pound of the cut allow half a pound of the best brown Put thc cores and parings into a kettle with water enough to cover and keep them boiled to pieces and quite strain the well as great and could not tolerate in others any departure from rec What he had seen troubled Gage had a brother who owned a large farm in the fertile valley of the river whose waters passed through the village in which Elliotson kept The vil lage was a depot for the receipt of nearly the entire product of this It con three was the water over the and when it is eni and he as factor at least tirely put it over the fire and two thirds of thc produce that came down boil it to a thick skimming it the The selling of this was his chief For several he had When no more scum put on the cover and boil them all day by a slow fire stiring and mashing them down with a till they are a thick smooth Then take it out and put it into buttered tin or deep dish Let it sit to get It will then turn out so firm that you may cut it like It is intended for thc tea Ohio Jl Joke for gentleman entered a bookbinders shop in the other day with a valuable he was to be bound in And how will you have it done said the In Russia Certainly not was the re In thc shop No neither in Russia nor rejoined the patriot if you cant do it Ill take it to the bookbinder over the Turns and of Aaron Burrs clients save him a retaining fee but the case being compromised before trial Burr was asked to said there are many crooks and turns in the but no Thc State of Maine will hereafter elect her Senators and Representa by a plurality The amend ments for the purpose of making this change in the prevailed by a majority of 200 to in a vote of Pillows Official Despatch con tains the little words my and one hundred and forty times only You have played the deuce with my remarked a young gentleman to a young lady who was partner in a game of Because you played the replied the as taken internally in is said to be a positive cure for The being an is neutralized by an city of Venice is about to send a present totte consisting of eight of sold for Mr the the produce of his principally of Wheat Rye and making him returns according to the ruling market Shortly after the occurrence of the little circumstance just thc farmer was in the village and stayed as his While the brother asked him this question How does Elliotson manage your sales for you Very Are you always satisfied with the price he gets Why not But then I suppose it isnt his The markets are not al ways as high is we farmers could I suppose But does he re turn you the highest market rates Not for every But quo tations of prices and actual sales do not Sometimes we send down a lot of grain and get more for it than we and sometimes It is just as it Why do you ask the ques tion Isnt Mr Elliotson the fair thing Not exactly I am sorry to What the brother expressed strong The fact said thc carpen I have lost my good opinion of him and I will tell you the Hc then related the story about the That was a little remarked the after he had heard the I could not have believed that a man of his standing would be guilty of such con Nor It really confounded I have thought about yon ever and how easy it would be for in render ing accounts of the sale of your the prices down a cent or two a bushel less than what he actually It would be a little matter in each lar quite an item Indeed it But can hardly be lieve that Mr Elliotson would do such a Nor can And yet there is the fact of the lime staring us in the That shows us what if and what is in is pretty sure to come out some time or It only needs the When he took the lime it was early in the and no one about as he He first turned and then raised himself up and looked all around himself After that he took two large pieces and carried them It looks doesnt it It certainly I dont like the ap at I dont know how you feel about it said the but if I were in your place I would be loth to trust as much in his hands as you I must think about remarked the I should be sorry to break with for our intercourse has been very pleas lie has always made me prompt re I believe I never had to write to him for money in my So far so good but if the returns were actually short why Thats another Indeed it although the suspicions of the yet they wronged He had always made the most accurate re turns for the produce and retained not a farthing beyond the regular commis sion agreed In all matters of reg ular business he was clear and his prac tice He considered honesty to be thc best and was always honest in his The matter of the lime was an out of the way a kind of accidental for which no rule of ac involving had been laid The temptation came suddenly in his way he But the fall was so light that he scarcely felt the He was but indistinctly conscious of hav ing done a wrong It was such a tri fling But trifling as it seemed to be it was destined to produce a serious ef fect upon his business the first effect was the loss of Mr Gages The fact stated to the farmer by his brother rested upon his mind and troubled He continued to send his grain for several months to Mr Elliotson but his suspicions being began to imagine that the account of sales he received showed a low range of One of his neighbors who sent his produce to another store in the asked him one day what his last load of wheat had A dollar and replied the I did rather better than said the Ah how much did you get A dollar and Did you Herbert docs your business Yes Does he make prompt returns Oh he is very A dollar and Hac you just heard of the sale I received the account Thats My wheat was in eve ry way as good as outfit to have brought as good a price as Mr Gage was now decided in his mind about changing his He felt satis fied that something was The grain of his neighbor had been received three days before his own came to and in that time the price had fallen two His next lot of produce was sent to Mr Herbert from this be came his By this the business of Mr Elliotson suffered con Gage was his largest custom and usually made heavy purchases from him during thc thus giving him double From this period thc business of Elliot son One after another of his old customers in the neighborhood of Gage fell without assigning any and went over to whose operations within a The cause lay in hints from farmer in reply to ques tions as to why he changed his He said nothing that touched the integri ty of but hesitated not to allege that Herbert obtained better prices for his This of enough to induce others to follow the At the end of the year the business of El was so much reduced that he found it difficult to keep his head above He was no longer so prompt in making returns of sales to the farmers as and this caused others to leave Whats the matter with Elliotson now began to be asked among his neigh He seems to be going down But no one could answer the question He was known as an active and energetic man of and it was believed he in time acquire a That a different result was created general When a man begins to go down there is but little hope for He rarely fails to reach the Thus it was with Mr In three years from the day he was guilty of the trifling act of taking a few pieces of lime that did not belong to he was sold by the Of the cause of thc that had fallen upon his fortune he had not the least It never enter ed his imagination that a suspicion of his integrity existed or that he hac ever given cause for such In the calamity with which he was stricken he retained thc consciousness of being an honest With a family of four the sit of Mr Elliotson was painful in the The right of the law had left him a poor remnant of household furni and with this he was about remov ing into a small cottage at half the rent he he was paying for the comfortable home in which he had lived for the last ten Just at this intelligence was re that the Legislature of the State had approved an application that had been made to charter a banking to be located in the Books for a subscription to the capital stock were im mediately and the amount requir ed for the charter obtained in a lew days As soon as known that the bank would fro into the friends of Mr Elliotson made a move to get him ap pointed He was looked upon a the very and some wont so far as t ay that it was fortunate for thc liat he happened to be out of Twelve Directors where chosen in due ourse and then there came an election of and to conduct the regular There were many applicants or these Prominent for thc of Cashier stood the name of Elliot On the day that the directors liis unfortunate individual had but live lollars beyond the ap no apparent resources in the It is no matter of wonder that lis mind was in a state of great anxiety and His friends had assured lim he would certainly get the ap ointment but the necessities of his cir were too pressing to allow hem to give full confidence in the result of the by any mishap he he knew not which way to turn to keep his family from Among the Directors chosen to repre sent the interests of the was the who was a man of some and had subscribed quite liberally to the When Elliotson was proposed to the meeting as age became He is the very said We cant possibly do said an There isnt a name on the list of ap comparable to remarked a And every man spoke in his favor ex cept Gage who remained Just as they were about the carpenter said that he was sorry to be compelled to object to Mr but duty compelled him to do And then he related the little circumstance already known to the He ended by saying This may seem to be a trifling gentlemen but it is in trifles that we see most clearly a mans It shows that there is a lack of integrity in his I feel pained in making this rela but duty compels me to do I would not be true to the trust that has been reposed in were I to withhold from this board a fact that may deeply af fect the interest they are bound to Surprise kept all silent for some mo Is it not possible that you may have been mistaken was at last asked by a member of the I saw the thing done as clear ly as I ever saw anything done in my To make I examined and found thc lime in an concealed under an old In a day or two af terwards it was slacked and applied to thc It a little thing I gen tlemen perhaps I lay too much stress up on But I cannot have rational confi dence in a man who will steal even a I have made this communication through a of duty thc board can how act as it thinks But I cannot vote to place Mr Elliotson in a place where so much is at After an hours in which three or four members of the board spoke strongly in favor of and to go security in double the amount re quired for the it was voted to let thc choice of that officer lie over fora that there might be room for Mr Elliotson sat at his his eyes fixed on the building where the Di rectors were in his heart beating with an uneasy He had been seated thus for nearly two and was beginning to grow restless with impa when he saw the door and the gentlemen who seemed to hold his fate in their slowly and in little lingeringly down the Of two who were amongst his warmest his Now his heart became almost and he experienced a choking A few minutes would decide his What was to be that fate He scarcely dared hope for the and shrunk from contempla ting the worst The two friends paused a short distance from the and stood for some min utes in earnest This was looked upon as a bad omen the bearers of good news should not pause and The poor mans suspense became At length the men and one of them came towards his house with a grave and deliberate From the window could see his It wore a There Do you remember thc fact that a Iff of lime was thrown late one at your back t Mr Elliotson thought for a then I remember it very Do you likewise remember or three pieces of that lime for your oy and concealing them in an I The Tlood mounted cheek of You were seen to do this and it now brought against and urged af reason why you should not be given tj appointment of Mr Elliotson seemed stunned for at fy leaned his head upon a and sat almost for nearly a while his friend ed on with When he at length raj cd his his face was but I of charged with dishonest he said in a firm voice That is the inference drawn from tj J Mr Elliotson and going to took therefrom two One of these he opened and tu ing to an laid k before the Jj saying as he did The plasterer who t tion made by my landlord to this h was named He dealt at my t and settled his account ifft The addition was made in On the 10th of in the MM J you see there is a credit to mount of fifteen Now I will sh fl the daybook i Thc and try stood James Eldred by lime whitewashing at the time ing my I took the said he had examined the ti It was not my and right to do About Butt did not reflect at a month afterwards thought of what I had done flashed icT my mind and startled I saw had been guilty of taking anothers for my own and made this In I out the matter to and he sail was of no consequence was welcome to the and much He did not wish to deduction made from his insisted on its being If you see he will show you the the I then May I have these books at the of the Directors tomorrow eagerly ed the was trembling It is but just that this should be Then you may set your heart at about the You will I get the But for this you would have received every on the first When the Directors met on the and the books of Mr Elliotson were upon the table open at the entry just Mr Gage was I have not a word to Elliotson has my It grief me to think I have wronged so The vote was at once and was elected to the office of a twelve hundred dollars a About a year after this happy chan external the who had nearly all of his country cumulated quite a handsome little and his widow means of a carry on the busing But in the course of a few months friends advised her to sell and bee tent with the property left her called upon the and said mentioning the fact that Mrs Herbert cd to sell if There is a good chance for you if iu ought to embrace You the business and can make it more double what yon are now But Elliotson shook his Depend upon you ought this opportunity I know you V have all my brothers consignments sober His heart i for he told me that he was sorry ceased to beat for a few and then had ever taken them out of your fluttered on At length thc mans And I have no doubt but that you cai knock was heard at thc Elliotson tain every one of Herbert s regular There has been no election of Cashier leaned against thc door for j i None Why not He was allo to j I will tell into the Elliotson had the be j ik his head YaiK inio inu uuu u ana now presence of mind to and he money you will you take the but my salary t How much required Sib At least four or five thousand besides a credit in purchasing the and ood will of the Both of Elliotson shook If 1 will get you the and pcd back while the Director When alone the latter I regret to say that an unexpected ob jection was made by a member of the which would have defeated your Certainly I was the Ami it was Mr Elliotson 3 the store and went on with the 1 unite as successfully as it had been i w 1 election hid a ballot taken I ducted by its former But fore moved to have the election postponed i two things which he cannot until tomorrow and I have come to talk and which puzzles him every to you about this links of One the What is it asked Elliotson in a verse of his fortune that visited 1 ky i and thc other is the unex It touches your it in offer of Mr put him in bu a chame against your character as a I as much capital and Philip Elliotson drew himself up calm credit as he He while his eye became bright and stea and ponders upon these two i i ij j f and his lips arched and I am ready to meet all but they still remain Mr Goge is satisfied wit hi am re o he said with much dignity of ing in his own and y i Iho in Tl I know not a single act of my life that I would fear to have What is the allegation Some five or six years ago there an addition made to this house nut the part he took in the Hc never alluded to his and td Board of it imperative on them to keep the wli profound
