The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-12-19

ne following was published in an
.,,ra form on Thursday evening last:
H4wK-EYE OrFlcE, Burlington,l
Thursday Eve. Dec. 70, lS39.}
yany rumors have of late been
AIT here in regard to the attitude
u;,sonri has assumed, concerning the
,.,stion Of boundary between that
l Gate and this Territory. Deprived.
!, we have been Of the ordinary means
i communication with our friends in
rs south through the post office, on
,ccount Of their having detained the
nail in its transit hither, we have
hen unable hitherto to give our rea.
II, that information which they
/ might expect. We are happy now
,ohaye it in our power to present
tic very full and satisfactory Report
i Mr. Whicher, whose services have
bna at the command Of the Marshal
| 4 tie United States for this Terrific
Il ior some days past. We are also
,nsbled to state on the authority of
MI Whicher, that the whole military
force Of the Territory of Iowa has
been required by the Marshal to keep
ihe peace on our Southern Border,
and that orders to this effect have
been issued to Gen'ls LEWIS, FLErcn-
"a and BRowNE.
To George A. Hendry, Esq. act
ing Marshal U. S. for the Dis
trict Of Iowa,
Sir-In obedience to your request,
i'll Burlington, l. T. on Friday, the 9th
INST and proceeded to Waterloo, in Clark
punty, in the State of Missouri, for the
yafpose of asce raining the condition and
niended movement of a militia y force
sid 70 be set on foot there against the
Tsnitory and citizens of Iowa. I eros
ed the Des MONIES RIVER at Pennington
I'D arrived in Waterloo on Monday, the
"a inst. and made my quarters at Laps
kys tavern. The town seemed mill
NY camp and the streets place for milf
ary parade; l mingled freely with the
citizens, and learned f,om them their i'm
pressions in regard to the purposes of their
government; which was in substance:
That the Sheriff of Clark county had
attempted to collect taxes in that part
Of his county which the citizens of the
United States residing in Iowa, claim to
ktheirs-that in this attempt he had been
arsted and was held in custody by the
Sleriff Of Van Buren, county-that the de-
Puty Sheriff of Clark county had raised a
psase con.itat1s of about fifty men to en-
torce the payment of taxes in the same
district Of territory and proceeded so far
= tolearn that ten thousand men would
y required to effect their object-that the
county court of Clark had informed Gov.
Boggs ofthe above facts and had requested
him to order military force Of that num-
Der Of men to aid in the collection of taxes
from the citizens residing in that part of
Van Buren, county, I. T. which they claim
y being within their OVERWHELMING
Tract OF country equal to about five and
lall townships, population of about one
hundred families and from whom they
claim as due to the revenue of Missouri
about one hundred and seventy dollars
That Governor Boggs, in answer to this
request, had ordered ten thousand men to
Oe raised from sixteen counties lying north
q the Missouri river to be mustered at
Waterloo, of whom Gen. Wilcox, Of
Marion county, is Major General, and
ySeneral Allen, of Lewis county, is one
the Brigadier Generals-that the troops
snen in Waterloo were those only of
clark county, and numbered three hum
ored and twenty-three, who were then
nnstering to hear addresses from their
omcers-that five hundred and twenty
even men, with fifteen baggage wagons,
kefe on their way from Lewis county,
and that the remainder of the ten thous.
md would be mustered by Friday next,
ana IN readiness to invade the disputed
stntory. Such is the substance of what
learned from the citizens. l called at
ne Clerks Office of Clark county, and
'safned that taxes could by law of Mis-
GUN De collected at any time the collector
though he is required to settlewith
&c county court on the second Monday
= December annually, that some of the
axes claimed BY Clark county to be due
rom the citizens residing on the disputed
|erritory had been collec.od -