Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1844-01-11
Mr. Barnard after some remarks about

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the importance of improving the Hud-
son, claimed that the old Internal I'm
provement works belonged to the Com
mittee of Ways and Means.
| Mr. B. was twice accused of being
hostile TO the West, first, by the men,
Der from Indiana, and secondly by Mr.
Brinkerhoff of Ohio. He was charged
with opposing western interests-with
being hostile to the west. He said he
had breathed no such thought. He
had said no such thing. He denied the
accusation.
Mr. Brinkerhoff made the amende
honorable and received the disclaimer,
but the other accuser was silent.
Mr. Winthrop (of the Committee on
Commerce) said he could not see why
so much importance should be attached
to the Committee who were to have
charge of the subject. He was willing
that the Committee on roads and Canals
should have charge of the subject or
any other Committee. Mr. w. rose to
repel the charge or intimation that the
west had received no favor from other
sections Of the country. 1t was not so,
and the roll Of proceedings would show
truth he had heard some years since
from Massachusetts Senator, now no
longer member of that body, that there
was net western measure that had ev-
er passed Congress which had not Ell
Their originated with or been sustained
by eastern votes. He had the authori-
ty of western man of the Senate, for
saying that there was not western
measure which could have been passed
but by northern votes. When, he
would ask, for he had been driven to
the question, had western interests been
sustained by southern men! And yet
southern men said Mr. Holmes for ex-
ample,) that the mothers Of the States,
the old Colonial States had been
poisoning the west. Mr. Holmes when
making this remark alluded to the tariff.
| Mr. Wrthrop's reply to this position
was happy, and Of character to show
that il such question the interests Of
the country were the same. And SO
thew 2ere in reference to works of in
ternal improvement. The lakes and
rivers Of the west were all American.
They belonged to the north as well as
10 the west, and to all in common.
Mr. Douglass of illinois rebuked Mr.
Kennedy of Indiana, for the manner in
which he had thrown off all dependence
or interest upon other sections Of the
country. From the remarks which
had been made to-day by gentlemen
from the north and south, there was no
reason for doubling the friendship of
these sections Of the country for the
west. He did not lightly esteem such
regard. The west asked only what was
right and would give in the spirit she
asked.
Mr. Wise thought there had been
some bidding and rendering in behalf
Of western interests during the debate,
and he thought too, that injustice had
been done to the Old Dominion by
some of the Representatives of the west.
She had given of her substance to the
west. Her own dominion made up the
west, and yet she was accused of be-
ing indifferent to western interests.
The Committee here rose in the
midst Of spirited debate, and the
House, at half past three o'clock, ad-
journed.
Steamer Burnt. A slip from the
office of the Charleston Courier, dated
Dec. II, Q P. NJ, says, the steamer
Kershaw, Capt. Chase, from Columbia
for this port, with 966 bales cotton,
was totally destroyed by fire on the
nigh. of the l4th inst. whilst lying
at the plantation of J. G. SINGLETON,
about thirty miles below Columbia,
with the entire cargo, at which place
she had commenced loading. A por-
ton Of the cargo was taken in at night,
and it is supposed some of the bales
may have taken fire from the lights
used on the occasion previous to their
having been taken on board, as no
steam had been.raised for some hours
nreyious to the accident.
The RIaHTs OF WoMEN.-The Sen.
ate of Tennessee has passed a bill, by
very large majority, 10 secure to mar
ried women the use and enjoyment of
their own property.
The Cincinnati Atlas notices in very
favorable terms new patent apparatus
now in use in that city for rendering
lard by steam. The lard, in leaf and
strip, is thrown into a large wooden
vat some ten feet in diameter, where II
is thoroughly melted by volume Of
steam being poured upon it. 1t is then
conveyed to another vat underneath,
the water thoroughly evaporated, and
the melted lard drawn off into kegs and
barrels. Two men, with this appara-
tus, can render one hundred and fifty
barrels. per day.