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

a postscript IN the Rochester Dem
ocrat Q! August 1st gives us informa-
ton that an extraordinary freshet oc-
Cured in the Genesee river near Cen
|esee, Livingston Co. on Monday night
last. The principal bridge across the
river was swept off, and several small
bridges in the neighborhood, as we'll
as houses, fences, lumber, &c. were
injured to a great extent.
Edgecombe, in North Carolina.
which gave the Van Buren, candidate
Tor Congress a majority of 1900, has
gene almost unanimously against the
Common School system.
Of all crimes that ever disgraced
society, that Of profane swearing ad-
mlts OF the least palliation. Nothing
can be offered to justify an impious
oath, and yet it is the most common
thing.
The Foreign Monthly Review SAYS
that Mr.. Colson, type founder, of
Clermont, England, has obtained a
patent for making types from new
composition, much harder than that
In common use. Types made fromit
will last ten years, even under steam
printing.
Much excitement exists at Buffalo,
from an alleged outrage committed by
a Capt. Appleby, Of the steamer Con-
stltution, on the person of young girl,
a passenger. The Captain, threaten
ed by the mob, fled to the jail for pro-
lection.
The accuracy and finish of the en-
CINE Of the British Queen, is abun-
dainty testified by the fact stated by
Capt. Roberts, that the engine was
never stopped an instant from the mo-
ment Of getting under weigh, to that
OF arriving. This, on first voyage,
and that not a smooth one, is, we pre-
sumo, unparalleled.
A woman at Pontiac, on the prem
ises of whose husband an Injunction
was laid for debt, beat him soundly
for contracting it, and then attacked
the s'posse commitatus," five in num-
Der, gave them sound drubbing, and
beat them entirely of.
Thomas White, an Irishman, died
recently at Widworthy, (England.)
-Four years since he convened all his
near relatives, thirty in number, to
dinner, when as dessert he distribute
ed among them nearly $4,000, tell
ing them that except his brothers
they were not to expect any more
from him.
An important experiment is soon
to be tried at Bordentown, N. j., by
the U. IS. Engineer Department, to
ascertain the effect Of corrosive subli-
mate on timber, by which, it is said
in England, it can be preserved from
dry rot. The experiment is to be
conducted by Henry Berlin, of the
engineer corps.
Ciceri, the celebrated decorative
painter, in France, has discovered
means of fixing colors in stone; he
can initiate marble or paint subjects
in the natural stone. The colors be-
come SO engrafted in the pores Of the
stone, that it may be ground or pol
ished without injuring them. i
A deplorable case of hydrophobia
occurred at Milford, in Otsego coun-
ty, N. Y. on the 2Oth-the deceased
Gannett Hungerford, having been bit
ten in the hand in Nav last. by
small strange dog, which no one sup
posed mad. Several hogs and cattle
have been bitten by mad dogs.
COPPER MINE.-The Salem, Massa-
chusetts, Observer says, s'There has
been opened within few weeks, a
Copper mine, in the neighboring town
| of Topsfield, In this county. 1t is in
the southwest side of the town, near
the Danvers and Middleton lines. II
promises thus far, we understand, to
yield good quantity and quality of
this metal"
A WHAppER.-The Claremont, N.
H. Eagle, has opened the ball with a
big pumpkin and already chronicles
one of that excellent species Of fruit,
measuring forty three inches in cir
conference, and weighing nineteen
pounds and half!-Pretty well for
the first of August.
At Greensborough in Georgia, there
was celebration Of the Fourth Of
July, where a thousand citizens sat
down to table furnished with the
beverage of pure spring water alone.
At Ellicott's Mills in Maryland here
was a festival on the same anriversa-
ry, without any intoxicating fluid.
In some parts of the country there
has been great mortality among the
fish, caused byleeches which are found
adhering to their gills. Il
Love is tender plant, it must be
kept alive by great delicacy; it must
be fenced from all inclement blasts,
or it will soon droop its head and die.
A German undertook To swim tho