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ever he obtains a laurel, he shall be, as far as we are concerned, as welcome to it as the Delegate to his.

 

 We alluded in our last number to the abominabIe condition of our streets and to the very conmeadable philosophy which teaches our town officers to look so stoical- ly on the filth and the countless obstruc- tions through which they have to wade, and over which they must chamber as they go about in the faithful performance of their municipal duties. Let any man take a stand in the centre of our town, fwe would call il city, If it were cleaner and look up Main street-that is the name of the principal street, running north and south, we believe. Why, if the town of Babel had been demo- lished in that street, and if every brick and all the rubbish of that edidce had been left there from that day to this, the street could scarcely have looked worse than # does now. The eye wanders over a continuous succession of piles of brick, shavings, and other rubbish, and gullies half wide enough to be the bed of the Arkansas. The other streets are hut little behind it--and for the little advantage they have over 1t in appear arce and condition, we owe no thanks to 1 the town officers.

 For the last five or six months, money has been coming into the town Treasury, and having once got there, 1t will require a ha6eas corpss to remove or appropriate 1t. We have been told that the funds in the Treasury amount 10 nearly or quite eight hundred dollars. A small sum, we'll applied, would work wonders, and if the industry dis 1 played in securing fines and forfeitures was half equaled ny public spirit and a sense of duty in applying them as we have right to demand Ihat they should be.applied, we should no longer bear the opprobum of having the filthiest and worst looking town in the whole western country. "A word to the auise" would be sufficient, but if We are obliged to speak more than once on thls matter, it will not be strange. One thing we are resolved on. The town shall be improved. or they shall not soon hear the last of if. We should like to know what we have town officers for, if they are to be of no service to the town.