The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-05-21
NAMES &c.

NAMES &c.
The country is full of Harrison songs,
and Tippecanoe Clubs, and Tippecanoe
flags, and Tippecanoe cabins, and shouts
TOR Harrison. There is music in the very
name of Harrison--it flows naturally
into song, and meets cordial response
in every bosom. We have been puz-
cling ourselves to imagine the absurdity
|of Van Buren, Song! or a Van Buren,
Cabin! We have read that spirited and
perseverlng young man once made an at
tempt to incorporate the name Of Martin
Van Buren, into patriotic song! but be-
fore he had completed tie first verse. he
discovered how sEpremely ludicrous it
appeared: and finding it impossible by
the utmost stretch of imagination to make
more than four lines, give up the project
as altogether hopeless and visionary.
The name don't fit-there's no soul in it
--no meaning--no glory. ..Huzzah for
Van Buren, reads odd. There's some
thing wanting--and it has to be attach
ed to "Hickory;" and somehow or anolh-
er, it always.comes out "hurraA for Jack
SON." because a shout for Van Buren,
would be so tame and impotent an affair,
that his most staunch friend, would not
venture to raise it.-Straight-out.
Gen. Carroll has backed off from the
b. ELECTORAL ticket of Tennessee in
the hottest of the campaign. Isn't he the
individual who, has been in the habit of
urging against Gen. Harrison the charge
Of having resigned in the middle of the
last war Lou. Journal.
CoNGREss.-The House of Represen-
tatives met on the 4th, and adjourned
until the It'll. In the Senate the Cen
eral Appropriation Bill was reported
from the committee on Finance, with
amendments, which were adopted the
principal one being to strike out forty
five thousand dollars. FOR the second and
third volumes of the Documentary Histo-
ny Of the Revolution, which was agreed
to, ayes 20, noes 8. The bill was then
read "a third time, and passed--ayes 81,
noes, none. eila q #@t.a
The following extracts from the Con-
gressional proceedings of the H. Il. Of
3O'h ult., may be interesting to some OF
our readers :-''Mr Jones, of Virginia
moved an amendment latter line 36l)
approprating $1,000 for defraying the
expenses of an extra session of the Lee
glslature of the Territory of Iowa.
In answer to Mr. L. Williams, Nj
Jones explained that the session was call.
ed to take steps preparatory to admission
into the Union.
The amendment was agreed to.
Mr. Chapman moved an amendment
appropriating $l4, 900 to supply the def
cheney in the appropriation for the year
1889 for the Legislative Department OF
the Territory of Iowa.
Debate followed, in which Messrs
Jones, of Virginia, Chapman, Of Iowa
(who introduced number of documents
going to show the justice Of the appropri
alton, Bond, Petrikin, Leadbet,er, and
Gushing, participated.
/ Mr. Petrikin proposed substitute fol-
the amendment, appropriating $4,000
for the payment Of the printing Of laws
and other contingent expenses OF the LIE.
gislature of Iowa, to supply the defcien
cy of the appropriation for the year 1899
but providing that no part of the said ap
preparation should be applied to payment
of members or for stationery, &c.
] After few further remarks from
Messrs Gushing, Bond, and Chapman,
and from Mr. Monroe who urged that the
debate be closed)-
/ MIR Chapman accepted the proposition
of Mr. Petrikin as substitute for hi
amendment-and it was agreed to.
New York. The upper branch of the
New York Legislature, on the 2sth ult.
adopted, without debate and without
division, the joint resolution proposin!
certain important amendments to the Con
stitution of the United States: the resolu
tons protesting against the New Jersey
outrage, and the resolutions requiring
partition Of the public domain.
The arrival of the Great Western,
/ seems by the New York papers, has no
created much if any sensation in the mar
kets. j Flour, Grain and Sugar held abou
: the same quotations as we put down il
! our last notice Of the New York markets
A fortunate circumstance for this city i
that for several months past, we have no
been visited by storms or very high gale
!! of wind. During that time the surface o
the Mississippi river has been nearly o.
a level with the tops Of the levee. If
: tempest should drive upon us at the pre-
sent high stage of water, from all easterl.
direction, the damage our city would sus
, tain might be immense. The effect Q
: the wind blowing directly across the rive
would be to heap up the water on thi
!, side several feet above the ordinary tide
r An inundation might follow, the mischief
: Of which are too great for calculation
We trust however that through a kin