Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-03-22
From the Messenger and Cleaner
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And must roll on till Time shall be no more!
Great type are We of Lies uEceasing flight:
What millions tempt thy foaming, restless main!
Thou swallow'st up their castles in thy might,
They sink unknelled-are never seen again!
No mark is left upon thy hungry wave, .-
OF mans presuming strength no pathway shows
The weeping m0urner to a watry grave
Thy tide sweeps on-thy storm unheeding blows!
Thus, greedy Time with unrelentiDg power,
Mows down the countless nations Of the earth
Some pass with struggles; some in peaceful hour,
And leave no trace, in their children's birth
How have longed to stand upon thy shorei
To hear the music of thy dashing wave!
To feel as once felt in days of yore!
To kiss the beach thy briny waters lave!
Roll on ye restless billowsl Once again
/ feel my boyhoOd's careless mood return!-
Youths vague ambition, boundless as thy main;
Youths proud desires, that still untiring burn.
Alas! The world has chilpd th' aspiring flame
Has taught the vanity of mans renown-
The idle sound, the emptiness of fame
And robbed me of that hope, deemed mine own!
But in this hour-oh, let me now forget,
That heartless world its selishness and pain!
Dash on, We waves! Ye have the power yet
To give back youth and hope and happiness!
IMPORTANT Casa case been insti-
tuted in the United States Court in Gal
weston, of great int crest and public i'm
portance. A citizen of Louisiana has sued
citizen Of the county Of Santa Fe, as
citizen of the State of Texas. Defendent
has pleaded, in abatement of the suit, that
Santa Fe forms no part of the State of Tex
as-that up to the late treaty of peace be-
tween the United States and Mexico, San
ia Fe was part Of the Republic Of Mex
leo, and that by said treaty it was ceded
to the United States, and now constitutes
a part of lis territory, and is therefore out
of the jurisdiction of the State of Texas.
To this plea the plaintiff has demurred,
and assigned for reason that since she
revolution of Texas, and the act of 1886,
defining its limits the joint resolutions of
annexation. and the proceedings, in exc
cution thereof, and the late treaty of peace,
fixing the limits beyond the boundary Of
Texas, that the government Of the United
States and the world are estopped from
denying the right Of Texas TO the county
Of Santa Fe. Thus is this great question
presented to national tribunals for decision.
Winter on the Atlantic.
The recent passage Of the steamer Can
ada from Liverpool to New York, if any
opinion is 20 be formed from graphic de-
scription of the voyage furnished to the
N. Y. Journal of Commerce by Sias E.
Burroughs, Esq, gave her passengers a
full sample Of a tempestrous winter pas
sage across the Atlantic. From the 18th
ult., the day the Canada left Liverpool,
there was almost constant succession OF
storms until the Goth, when the wind blew
a perfect hurricane from the West. The
writer adds -
'.During SOME Of the sevarest squalls i,
appearedthat our steamer would be over
come. The bowling Of the wind, the in
dignant arms of the wheels beating down
the giant seas, and the apparent agony OF
sounds which our struggling engines made,
created intense interest. The engines
were brought TO six revolutions and the
Canada to about two and half miles per
hour, but nob!y she kept her course, and
always had ''more grape" for the Buena
Vista war of elements by which we were
surrounded. During the severity of the
gale, there was one Of the widest seas we
have ever witnessed that came with giant
strides from the west. It's crest was a
breaking sea, its base mighty mountain,
bearing down directly upon our steamer,
who showed no disposition to coquette, no
hesitation to grapple with this monster of
the deep. As we approached we settled
into the deepest vortex of the Ocean, the
engines increased their revolutions, and
the Canada passed under the furious brea-
kers separating it from its parent on whose
summit it had been borne, then rising with
grace and beauty threw the foaning wa
tiers from her deck, as the sea-diver rising
from the depths below I; and the mountain
which had just approached us with such
magnitude, was by the Canada''s iron wings
beaten down, and converted into subdu-
ed snowy track astern OF the conquering
steamer. But the collision was fearful
one, the jib-boom was thrown in upon
deck, the larboard bowsprit sbroud was
carried away, and the Lowsprit broken in
the knightheads, but the Canada remained
tight, strong and stauncl,, and her engines
as perfect perpetual motions, as the inge-
nuity Of man has ever invented" a
lisa Steamboat Explosion and Loss Of Life.
Mr. Granville Young, who was an eye
witness 10 the melancholy casualty, has
politely furnished us with the news 'ofthe
explosion OF tie steamboat Woodsman, last
evening,at Bayoa Sara landing,conlirlnihg
our dispatch published above. The acci-
dent occurred as the boat was pushing out
from the shore, about four o'clock. The
Wooasman was bound for Red river. She
collapsed both Of the nues of the larboard
boiler, killing and scalding several per-
sons. Uur informant state. that three
were killed outright, and that several
others were missing, amongst the latter
one of the engineers of The boat. Twenty
five others were dreadtully scalded, some
of whom must die from their injuries
four or FIVE OF them certainly.
The scene is described as most heart
rending. Husbands and wives, parents
and children, brothers and sisters, and
other relations, were crying piteously, and
calling to one another in the most agoniz-
ing shricks. In many instances, when
these unfortunate victims were brought to-
gether, so scalded and mutilated were they
It was impossible to recognise each other.
The steamboat Hecia, Capt. Peter