Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1846-01-01


| 10 offer resolution to that effect, We
do nolsmean, of course, any Of the edi,o-
rial delegates, because feelings of delicacy
and their well known and acknowledged
modesty would have deferred them from
so doing; but il any Of those detached
from the press had made the motion,
we have no, much doub, that it would
have been unanimously supported by all
the edi,nrs then presen. a, the meeting.
To change the subject. From Salur-
day noon we saw none of our Iowa broth
er delegates, except Col. Reid of Fort
Madison and we supposed HI, Gen Dodge
and our friend Maj. Ewing had gone.
We learned subsequently, that General
Dodge did ge, off on Saturday and that
Mai Ewing. availing himself of home
ON The wharf boat, which is fitted up III
elegant style as hotel, was enabled to
take passage on boa, tina. came up on
Sunday night at IL o'clock. We there
fore con,en,ed ourself by attending church
on the Sabbath. We heard an excellent
sermon from the Rev. Mr. Gray IN she
forenoon and attended the Episcopal
chnrch in the afternoon. II was our IN
,en,ion TO have heard Mr. Coons in the
evening, but want Of health and tie rain
together prevented us from so doing
On Monday morning we were anx
ous to leave, but VIVA, was remarkable
1 tina, day passed and no boat came up from
below. We, too, with many others
made the wharf boat our hotel. Among
our fellow boarders was the late FANNY
WRIGHT. She is very tall, masculine
woman. apparently between fifty ant
sixty years ofage. lt.was not long before
she walked up discussion among those
present. The subjects introduced were
her late visit to Scotland, the state ant
probable destiny Of our country, and ,h'
damage TO be apprehendel from ,h'
immense immigration of foreigners, par
tcular!y the feudal Germans to this coun
try. She expressed her thoughts IL
strong and eloquent language and display
ed such depth of reasoning and such
thorough knowledge on The various poll
teal subjects of the day as asnnished al
who listened to her. Fanny, although
Scotchwoman and an original loco foco. il
nevertheless a strong advocate of Native
Americanism. She was on visit to he
plantation, few miles back Of Memphis
The story there was that she had pur
chased several families of negroes SOM
, years ago, for The purpose OF emancipa'ln!
them. On account of her motive, sh
; obtained them at cheap rate. She thei
purchased large tract of land. SOM
miles from where Memphis is nov
r located, a, from fifty cents to two dollar
per acre. To obtain remuneration 70
her expenditure she placed the negroe
she had purchased on this land and BY
their labor they soon enabled her TO carry
out her plan Of emancipation. and she sen
them to Africa. The land has increased
5 in value very much, in consequence o
being thu. cultivated ard from o,he
Causes, and it now affords her a larg
income; in addition to which she has Ian
off town, called Germantown, which i
settled by her own countrymen, an
: which has enabled her to realize larg
sum from the sale of lots.
On Tuesday morning. finding ,her'
was no assurance Of an arrival from New
Orleans number Of gentlemen, who llk
us were waiting for passage up, char
tered the little steamer Brownsville
:, which had been lying at Memphis eve
u since our arrival. to take US to the mout
S of the Ohio. We got off about noon.-
e During our short stay at Memphis W
e had heard of the loss Of four steamboats,
;. the Manhattan, Henry Bry. Reindeer an
another. all deeply loadedfor N. Orleans
The Brownsville was light and after
y pleasan, passage, with many of our edito
i rial brethren on board we arrived at til
d mouth.
e Alter waiting an hour or two, til
4 Claremont came down the OHIO w
found she was crowded with passengers
but crowded as she was, we took leave {
9 our editorial brethren. Bradbury Cts
!, Driaker and others, who were bound II
n the Ohio on The Brownsville. and too
IS our chance on the Claremon, Ate
Il various changes and accommodations, OF
patty finally obtained comfortable qua
a. tiers. Ii was we'll Tor us that we oblaine
'e sta,eroom. A raging fever kept {
- confined To i. all the way up. We a,
c. greatly indebted to Shadrach Penn, Esq
,e Of the St Louis Reporter for his auen'o
;, on the occasion. As there was no PHI
sician or medicine chest on board, /
'S prescribed for us and furnished II
ie necessary medicine, which greatly mini
re tered to our relief. If i. would be al
,e honor conferred on this veteran editor v
of would most cheerfu!y award him Il
tile of NJ. y. with the clear convic,lo
" from the judieious manner in which
~ treated our case, that he is as full
lie deserving of il as are the majority of tho