The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-09-05

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excited, armed and sufficiently disciplin-
ca; and their numbers, independent Of
their bravery, continues the Captain,
would overwhelm three or four times the
numberl have mentioned. The Yankees
never did, nor ever will, wait SO long to
be roused.I 1t is not in their nature
Boston transcript.
CURE FOR sTAMMERING.
Mr.. G. III. CHApMAN.--This gentle.
man, (the original discoverer of an infali-
Die cure for stammering or impeachment in
speaking,) has spent several days in
Springfield. He has astonished the ma
tives by his remarkable performances.
A number of our citizens, to test the
strength of his ability, sent for widows
son living on Lick Creek, who was re-
garded as being afflicted with an impedi-
ment to an extreme degree. IT was pain
full to us to see and hear this young man
in his agonizing efforts to speak, about /
o'clock one day this week. but about two
hours afterwards we had the pleasure of
hearing this same young man speak dis
tlnctly without the least impediment. We
have given this statement for the benefit
of the afflicted, and in justice to Mr..
Chapnan..-Hti1ois Register.
DEATH OF A PATR1ARcH.-The news
papers have recently informed us, says
the Peoria Register, that Mr. Kendall,
postmaster general, had been suddenly
called upon to leave Washington, to attend
upon the alarming illness of his venerable
father. He arrived just in time to wit.
ness his death and receive his blessing.
We have seen letter from one of the
ministers who was present, written to his
friend in Peoria, from which we are per-
mittedt to make the following extract. The
letter is dated Dunstable, Mass. August
18th:
This morning | have been engaged in
dressing for the grave venerable man,
who for about half century has officiated
as an officer in the orthodox church in
this town. At the age of 81 he has been
gathered to his fathers and we doubt not
has entered into that rest which remaineth
for the people of God. Dea. Zebidee
Kendall was the father of the present post.
master general of the United States. Yes
terday he conversed with the children
present, so far as he was able-particu-
larly with the postmaster general: urging
on him the duty Of attending church on
the Sabbath, and of preparing for another
world. He wished him to pray with
him, and if he could not, to call in another
son, that he might hear one more prayer
before engaging in the praises of the bies-
sed. The good man has lived long and
lived well. His works will follow him.
Yesterday the council for Otis Allen,
who has been for some weeks past conf
ned In the county Jail under an indict-
ment for forging canal checks, moved his
discharge before his Honor, Judge Smith,
of the Supreme Court on the writ of Ha-
beas Corpus. The motion was resisted
by A. Huntington, Esq, States Attorney,
and overruled by the Judge. A motion
was then made by the prisoners council
to reduce the bail (ssoOO) on the ground
of its being Excessive and therefore
against the letter and spirit of the state
constitution. But the Judge decided that
the order of the Circuit Court fixing the
bail must be taken as proper and conclu-
sive until the council prove ahirmatiyely
by the facts and circumstances of the case,
which did not appear of record, that the
bail was excessive that if such eyi-
dence was gone into, the States attorney
would OF course have right of present.
ing his proofs-and then the prisoner must
run the risk of having the bail increased
instead of diminished. The council on
consultation concluded NOT to go into the
circumstances of the case. Ralph Wood.
ruff and Mr.. Armstrong of Ottawa, La
sale co., in this state, were offered as
bail, who fully justified and were Of course
accepted for $4,000 each. F. Bennett
was subsequently added to the bail, and
the prisoner discharged on his recogni-
.zance to appear at the November term of
the Cook Co. Circuit court.
Chicago american.
a Scotch YANKEE. We received let
ter, the other day, says the Journal Of
Commerce, from a farmer in Western
New York, in which he had occasion to
speak Of himself and his history. AS it
shows what industry and enterprise can
accomplish, even under unfavorable cir
cumstances apparently, we copy part of
it, emitting names and places;
I am a Scotchman by birth; came here
in 1921; had a wife and two small chill
dren. | was then 80 years of age, l
bought | IL acres of what was called very
poor land; it was hard oak land; paid
SO II per acre. I worked some for hire
the first and second year, until got more
cleared on my own. / have now the
same farm, and 900 acres added to it. I
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