Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-12-13
Per Telegraph, from ST Louis Republican,.
II New YoRK, Dec. b. r. NJ.

The Crescent City arrived this morning,
With dates. to Nov. 2. She has on board
n .OO0. 900 in gold dust on freights and
xloO, 600 among the hands and passen-
.er,. There is no news Of importance.
fhe accounts from California continue en-
,our,eihg. The health Of the miners Is
ssnerslly good, with the exception Of some
sIieht attacks Of dysentery. There had
h.en larfe arrivals from Europe and the
United States. One hundred British ves-
All, were at San Francisco. It is said
~ there are SO, O0Opersons at the mines.
Thirteen hundred passengers passed
through Chagres on the 18th and Goth
October. One hundred persons were
awaiting passage for California.
A naval execution had taken place on
board the frigate Savannah, for an attempt
10 murder some Of the officers.
The Constitution for the State ofC alifor-
MA had been adopted and published.
The Crescent City brings l60 passen-
eers, including minister from the King
q the Sandwich Islands.
CrNc,rNArI, Dec. 7-5r. NJ.
A tremendous FIRE is raging. Lot,
Pugh & Co.'s extensive pork house, on
Sycamore street, is destroyed. Stage &
Shay's pork house is now in flames.
. WASHINGTON, Dec. Z r. M.
On motion Of Mr. Bayly the House pro-
ceeded to vote for Speaker. First ballot
Cobb, 63; Winthrop, lO2; Richardson,
q; Potter, Is; Wilmo,, 8; Gentry, 5;
Scattering, 8.
Second ballot-Cobb 81, Winthrop lO2,
Richardson %, Potter Is, Wilmot 7, Gen.
try s., Scattering g.,
Third ballot-Cobb 66, Winthrop lO2,
Potter 10, Richardson %, Gentry 5, Will
mot Z, Scattering 8.
Fourth ballot-Cobb So, Winthrop lO4, :
Richardson %, Potter Is, Wilmot Z.
Gentry 5, Scattering 5. No choice. Ad-
iourned until tomorrow.
Second Dispatch.
CINCINNATI, Dec. Z, 7r. n.
The FIRE originated in the smoke-house
attached to Lot, Pugh s. Co.'S pork-house.
It was discovered at half past two o'clock;
in few minutes the whole premises were
in lames. The extensive house Of Stage
& Shay, adjoining, soon caught, and in an
hour the two largest houses in the city
were : heap Of ruins. For time, the
buildings opposite on Court and Sycamore
streets were threatened, having been sew
eral times on fire. The flames are now
subdued. Pugh's house was full Of pro-
visions and three thousand dressed hogs;
al were lost. There was some insurance.
In Stage s. Shay's there was large
quantity Of hams, all destroyed. Stock
and house insured.
Hogs have advanced. Sales at So so
to So 80. Considerable sales Of pork on
private terms. Whisky 2l4c. Other ar
tieles unchanged.
PovEarr, in the eyes Of the locofccos,
l. . terrible crime for any one to have 10
answer for, and especially il it happens to
be found in man who is, from any polit-
ical cause, inimical to them. Thus, on a
late occasion, shouts Of joy were express
ed whenit was discovered that Col. WAR
aEH, The Second Assistant Postmaster
General, had been arrested in Massachu-
sets, for debt contracted many years
since, by the mercantile house of which he
was a member. That it was prompted by
feelings Of political hatred cannot be doubt
ed:'that the whole tribe Of Locofoco edi-
tors, from the central organ at Washing
ton to every extremity Of The Union, ex-
ulted over the annoyance is equally noto-
rious. That was q case in which polit-
ical opponent was the object Of condemna-
ton !; and they little thought, perhaps, that
one Of their own distinguished friends
would soon become the victim Of like pro-
ceedings. is, however, and its publ
cation now may have the effect Of re-
straining their spleen hereafter, when
such legal proceedings are instituted
against political enemy.
The case to which we allude is that Of
RossRr J. WALKER late Secretary of the
Treasury, and Mr. Folks confidential
counsellor in every act Of his administra-
ton. Mr. WALKER has been suffering for
years under the pressure of large pecu-
mary debt, some hundreds oil thousands Of
dollars, we think. Very recently he was
on ! visit to Pennsylvania, and what fol-
lowed is told in the following extract from
letter dated at Washington, Nov. ~, and
published in the New York Commercial
Advertiser:
The passage through the little State Of
Maryland, on the great route between the
North and the South, has become more
perilous to certain elias. Of travellers
than the terrors Of Scylla and Charybdis.
Delaware still retains in her civil code
that most unpopular and unamiable fea-
fure, Imprisonment for debt. A few days
since Mr. Walker, late Secretary Of the
Treasury, was returning from a visiting
tour at the North. He had last been on
visit to the famous Pottsyille coal region.
lie was accompanied by his family. On
me arrival at Wilmington he was arrested
for a debt of ST, 900, and was threatened
with actual imprisonment in Castleton Jail.
His friends, Captain Smith, President Of
the Ohio and Baltimore Railroad Compa-
ny, and the President Of the leading Rail
road Company, who had accompanied. him
upon his visit to the mines, were informed
by telegraph Of his situation, and prompt
" had an engine for special train got in
readiness, with which they proceeded to
Wilmington from Philadelphia, and had
him rele,sed nv Oivino hail have he,rd