The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-10-17

WINS rendered against seven OF tHe persons
who tarred and feathered Dr.. Wilgons at
New Berlin. last spring.
NAMEs.--According to the New York
Gazette, the whole number of the Smiths
in that city is 574-of John Smiths 81
a pretty considerable number. There are
also 276 Browns, 1872 Clarks, 155 Will
liams, I54 Taylors, besides lots of john
sons, Millers, Moores, Jones, Thomp.
sons, Whites, Woods, &c. &c.
TAKING PORTRAIT Qu1cK.-A cor
respondent Of the New York Star. speak.
ingof M. Daguerre's wonderful discovery
Of Photography, or Sun-painting, says,
..In few weeks NJ. Daguerre will pub
lish an account Of the art, and its delicate
processes. He is positive that portraits
can be takenby this mode. / cannot per-
ceiye why not, seeing that statues can be
copied, and a man has only to sit as still
as an image, and his portrait is taken ''be.
fore you can say Jack Robinson!
BEAuT1ruL.--Mr Longfellow, in his
new romance Of Hyperion, speaks Of the
rlazier of the Rhone, frozen cataract,
more than two thousand feet in height
and many miles broad at its base. He
says .sIts shape is that of a glove. lying
with the palm downward, and the fingers
crooked, and close together. 1t is a gaunt-
let Office, which centuries ago, Winter the
King of these mountains, threw down in
defiance to the Sun: and year by year the
Sun strives in vain to lift it from the
ground on the point Of his glittering spear.
The Great Western sailed from New
York Sept. "a, with only 45 passengers
--an unusually small number. She car
ricd out half million Of dollars in specie.
The Caspian Sea, which is generally
so tranquil, has been violently agitated
by storms. Eighteen Russian and Per-
sian vessels, valued with their cargoes III
three millions Of rubles, were wrecked,
and IS lives were lost.
Upwards of 100000 Morus Multicau-
lis trees were sold at Germantown, Pa,
on Tuesday, at from 80 to 81 cents, on
an average. There was very large com
pany from various parts Of the Union.
The entire stock was raised by DR.. Phys
ic. The sales amounted to $4,000.
The Xenia (Ohio) Torch Light speaks
of row among the laborers on the Little
Miami Railroad, near that place, by which
one man lost his life, and another was Sc
verely injured. Four of the principal RI
oters have been held to bail.
An abundant mine of Bituminous Coal
has been discovered on the Yazoo river.
Howes Co., Mi. Upwards Of million Of
dollars have been annually sent out OF the
State, for what may now be obtained at
home.
The Spanish Government by form.
al decree, has prohibited the Methodist
missionaries from exercising their func-
tons in any part of the kingdom.
The aborigines of Hayti believed the
soul to be immortal, and that after death
il resided in caves and hollows in the
mountains and woods. The echoing vol.
ces heard from those places, they suppos-
Ell to proceed from the departed spirits
wandering through them.
Maj. Gen. Gains claims, it is said, thro'
his present wife, whom he lately married,
an estate of ten millions Of dollars at New
Orleans. She is the daughter of Daniel
Clark, deceased. The estate is in litiga.
ton.
A German, named Huffnagle, lately
arrived at Baltimore, from Bremen, has
been brought up for stealing 40 guilders
Of a fellow passenger. He confessed he
was a convict from Bavaria, and had been
shipped off on condition of going to Amer
lea!
Il is related in the Journal Of Com
merce, that Jno. C. Green, at Augusta,
was cured Of yellow fever by taking thro'
mistake, two hundred grains Of calomel at
one dose.
President Wayland, of Brown Univer.
sity, accompanied by his lady is about to
embark for Europe, where he will pass
year in travelling, and in visiting the prin-
cipal literary institutions. He was to have
departed early in this month.
Mr. Mather, one of the N. Y. State
geologlsts, estimates that the people of
Greene, Sullivan, Ulster and ALBANY
counties, will realize this year from two
to three millions of dollars from their
quarries of lime and tagging stone. .
A young woman Of Incorporate habits,
named Margaret Goherty, committed sui
eide in New York recently by swallow
ing a dose of gin and arsenic.
It is stated that there are three hundred
professional gamblers in Richmond, Va,
and that very many of the most promising
young men Of that city have been ruined
by them.
In London, thirty thousand persons
are annually fined as 'sdrunk and disor,
derly, and of these, more than one third
are females.
A prudent woman is in the same class
OF honor, says Steele, as wise man;
maxim to be remembered.
Its certain, says the inimitable shaks-
peare that either wise bearing or ignorant
carriage is caught, as men take disease
one Of another; therefore lie, men take
heed of their company.
( DR.. Chowne mentions ia the currentI
number Of the Lancet, the very singular !
case Of Swiss, who had nndercona +ha