The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-02-25


Hook SwINGINa.-The Rev. Mr. Kins-
lowtln writing from Madras, states, that
the attendance on the principal heather
temples is usdiminished, and that The
swinging feast had been celebrated this
year as usual. s'In sight of our house,
(he says nearly twenty poor creatures
were suspended on hooks thrust through
their backs, sixty or seventy feet in the
air, while thousands urged on their self.
torture"
GREAT DIsAPPoINTMENT.-I conse-
quence of the threat in the Canada papers,
that for every hair on McLeod's head
that is injured, an American life shall be
taken, some editors have gone into a
calculation to see how many would be
slaughtered in case it comes TO the worst.
sIhe Baltimore Republican says, we can
save them deal Of trouble by assuring
them hem that Mcleod is perfectly bald
PERSONAL VIoLENcB.-We cut from
the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette, the fol-
loving paragraph in reference to late
rencontre i'll Tennessee:
"Ihis is another instance of the viola
ton of the law, consequent upon the
gross violation of all proprie,y in public
press. Abusive personal paragraphs, us
ed to give point to insult, and to lift the
author into some temporary consequence,
has again resulted, as it must frequently
result, III open, personal rencontre. Let
such course of the press be frowned on
by decent people, as we'll when they or
theirs are moi, as when they are, the OBJ
jects of attack and abuse, and all thi.
would be prevented
O'laon Of the Canadas.-The New
York Herald states that Governor Gene
raj Thompson will issue his proclamation
on the 7th instant, declaring the nnion of
the two Provinces, and for the assembling
OF the new Parliament a: Kingston in
May next Kingston, the new capital of
the United Provinces, is situated on the
lower end of Lake Ontario, nearly oppo
site Sackett's Harbor.
MAGNETIC ATTRAcTloN.-A manufac-
turer of mariners compasses, in recent
communication, says that any iron bolt
that is driven perpendicularly with top
maui or hammer, becomes magnet, and
will inevitably attract the compass, ifI
placed near it.. Nothing but copper
should be used in fastening about the
and the covering of the head of
a Dol! with putty can never intercept, the
flow Of magnetism. The lack of atten-
ion to this important fact has caused the
of many compass, and per-
laps the loss of many vessal.
SOLEMN VoTE-The Destructives in
he House of Delegates, of Pennsylvania
IN Thursday night endeayored to embar-
ass the resolution instructing our Sena.
ors on the subject of the public lands
~ amendments innumerable, one of
which was proposed by Mr.. Wright of
Iuzerne, that the House had full conf
lence in the talents and abilities of our
Senator's in Congress, and approved Of
he course heretofore pursued by them,
which was nega,ived by vote of g. to
-!
The severity of this rebuke will be bet
er understood, when we state that the
senator's have 40 political friends in the
House out Of 100. Harrisburg Tile
graph.
The celebrated ]. B. GLENTwoRTn,
he ''last card" man, has been at length
indicted. The Wings greatly rejoice a,
his, that they may now have a legal in
'estigation of the canses and corruption
which led to the development of the ''last
card"
Another WING senator.
The Legislature of Michigan has elected
1ov. WOODBRIDGE member Of the
Senate of the United States in place of
Ohm NoRvELL, whose term of service
expires on the Sd of March next.
A bill to repeal the law prohibiting the
of whites, Indians and mu-
atloes, was rejected on Thursday last in
he House of Representatives of Massa-
husens, safer warm and animated de-
ate." Yeas, 40, Nays, 204.
Madisonian.
The Rev. Bishop Waugh, on his return
rom Texas, where he had been to pre-
ide at the first annual conference held in
hat Republic preached on the 18th inst.
I New Orleans
The phrase "don't halloa till you're
ut Of the woods" is. in the refined lam
uage of the day, rendered, sit is unadvis-
BILE for reasonable bipeds to exert their
ocal powers in boundless con,guisy of
hade.'
"Solitude Sweetened." To shut
hid up in cellar, and let him have
rec access to the molassess cask.
Show dreadful short the days are," .
$ the woman said when she had let her
reakfast dishes stand till she had read
ovel.
1t is fact, which should operate as a
heck to human pride, that the ugliest
nd most awkward Of the brute creation .
,ra Tho cro.toet roSo,,, I1,nco "a 49,, !