The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-09-19

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black or colored man. who had forfeit
ca e !, his liberty By taking the life Of a
fellow being; but in these same prii-
sons, he found several white men who
were guilty Of this crime, and among
the number, Spanish noble. The
negro portion of the inmates were
mostly imprisoned for petty larceny
and assault and battery among them
selves, but not a single African did he
ind who was guilty of raising his hand
against a white man! nor had such an
instance occurred, as he was able to
learn, since the first Of August, 1893,
when the ''chattels PERSONAL Of Her
Majesty's West Indian colonies were
made as free and independent as the
Proudest white man who treads on
British soil!-Boston, Transcript.
PETTY GOOD. - The Philadelphia
Spirit Of the Times heads political
article thus:
sLet as haze tried men for candi-
dates.''
If you could only get back those who
are defaulters, and try them before a
jury Of their country, you would have
+" tried men for candidates. they
would be almost sure of their election,
for they seem to run very we'll as it
is. So says the New Orleans Times.
L1BERAL.-Senator Preston, of s..
Carolina; lately subscribed 1000 dol
lars to the fund for the relief of the
families of deceased clergymen of the
Methodist Episcopal persuasion.
NATIVE SlLK.--The Lancaster, Pa.
Intelligence, says, Mr.. S. G. Humes,
the intelligent proprietor Of the Rock
hill Cocoonery, has laid upon our
table a pair of raw silk gloves, very
heavy, and well made, the silk having
been raised and the gloves manufac-
tured at his establishment. This is the
first article of the kind made this sea-
son.
"A HIT!--A MOST PALPABLE HIT Elk
tract of letter from Mobile, Ala
bama:-sPolitics are getting pretty
warm. Each party has brought its
first ponies, and is striving hard to
get the vantage ground in the coming
contest. One of the best witticisms,
known as Wellerism, that has been
perpetrated for long time, was elicit
ed not long since in the clash Of poll
tics. Imagine furious loco-foco on
a table, ranting with a forty humbug
power, the praises Of General Jackson,
and leg-treasurers, sub-treasury, and
Martin Van Buren,. He raised his
arms in mid-air, Who is the MANI he
roars in a voice of thunder, and then.
with a stentorian mellowness and
triumphant selfcomplacency, worthy
of the prince of humbugs himself, he
answershis own question--'An northern
man with southern principlesr!-s AS
the vite bear said ven he swallowed
the niger squeaks some one from
the crowd. Let the genius of chaos
describe the confusion and ire of the
humbugger.' Alec. Gazette.
PUMPKIN SUGAR.-It is said that an
important revolution is about occur
ring in France respecting the manu-
facture of sugar-and those who are
about to engage in the manufacture
of sugar from beet-root in this coun-
try, had better look about them. A
large capitalist in France intends to
erect an extensive establishment for
the manufacture Of sugar from pump
kins, experiments having shown con
cIusively that it may be obtained from
this vegetable in abundance, and Of a
superior quality.
At a Temperance meeting held re-
Gently in Hartford, Connecticut,j the
following appalling statement was
made:
CDR. Halves remarked, that in add
dition to the numerous premature
deaths occasioned indirectly by the
traffic in intoxicating drinks, the, citi-
zens of Hartford, had been called,
within thelast ten years, to follow to
the grave no less than one hundred
and forty-siD persons, who died of de-
cases; nearly fifteen annually
Novel LAW PROCEEDINGS Enos
Dean, Cd, was brought before the JUS
tees Court, at Taunton Mass. re-