The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-10-03
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Effect ON THE MARKET.--The NJ.
7. Journal of Commerce of yester-
DAY afternoon says ssthe news BY the
Great Western has not benefited any
any thing. Cotton stops for consid-
Grafton. Flour can be had o,1ite' az
low as before, but there have been
few sales. Stocks generally are low
er, bat u. S Bank is higher. Money
is less in demand.
The shareholders of the London and
Brighton Railway in England, have
voted t1OO year towards the sup
port Of three clergymen, who are to
lgo among the laborers employed on
their line, and impart to them reli-
glous instruction. A similar measure
has been adopted by several other
railroad companies in England.
The Journal of Commerce saws that
twenty-three vessels, under the Amer
lean flag, have sailed from Havana for
the coast Of Africa, to engage in the
slave trade. Three or four gun briggs
or schooners should be constant on
that coast, and intercept and send in
every vessel engaged in that. shame
full traffic. '7- 2sa ssE
The train Of cars between Will
mlngton and the Susquehannah river
ran over COW RECENTLY, whiclrthre WI
the cars off the track. and imbeddedl
the locomotive SO deeply in the en-
bankment that it could not be got out
without great deal of labor.
Blows should by no means be given
on the head, either by the hand, as in
boxing the ears, or by sticks ferules,g
and the like relics of the old and OBJ
solete mode of school government
The entire character and destiny ola
child may be altered by rap on the,
half formed skull. 7 e
The shortest parliament on record
was that of 1899, which had but one
session of a single day, and during
that short space they contrived to,
upset one king and set up another.
A Mr. Dickinson, of Grange Co. N,
7. lately presented the editor of the
Newburg Journal with solid head of
cabbage fifteen feet nine inches in cir
cumference! 71f t4s
The Army and Navy Chronicle
states that Lieuts. Eustis, III. S. Tur-
ner, and ?. Kearney, have been or
dered to France, to study and exam
Inc into the French and other Euro
pean systems Of cavalry tactics.
Thomas Carlisle, author of Sartor
Resartus, a work on the French Re-
volution, and numerous reviews, and
philosophical tracts for the times, pro-
poses to visit this country. D'Israeli,
it is also said, is about to come over
to see Niagara Falls.
A gun has been cast at Ayers
Foundry at South Boston which is
supposed to be the largest ever cast
in America. 1t will carry a ball
weighing one hundred and sixty
pounds. Fourteen tons of melted
iron were used to cast it, and it is
supposed that the gun when ready for
use will weigh ten tons. 'tAaa
James w. Webb, Editor of the N.
York Courier and Enquirer, has left
New York for Otsego, to answer the
action brought against him by Mr..
Cooper, the novelist, for handling him
rather too severely, in notice Of his
works, published in the New Y. Cou-
rier.
Matthew Carey, with two other
gentlemen, were upset in carriage
in Philadelphia, by which the former
received a severe wound in the tenn
|ple. 49,
On the afternoon Of Saturday, slst
|ult. while Joseph Sanks was grinding
a chisel in tool factory, at Baltimore
the grindstone burst into several pie
ces, some Of which struck him, wound
+ ing him in the head, neck and legs
His wounds, however, are not dan
gerous. -, $,
It is said the almshouse Of N. York
city contains t,po thousand and four
hundred inmates at this time, sixteen
hundred Of whom were reduced to
poverty by intemperance. ,sss
There are some falsehoods so self
evidently preposterous, and. motives
50 clearly invidous and malignant that
| it were the height of folly to repel
them. They are generally the Wea-
pons Of sinking and desperateiInen. L
The Captain of "a slave schooner
owned in Matanzas by an American
and an Italian, put into Porto Rico a.
short time since, sold his load and
|SWartWouted with the money, about
SIC, 900. The owners have no re.
dress. sSss '.ssa'0 z
The dog population Of the United
States is estimated iatsabout two mill
ions, and the costsof keepingsthemsat
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