Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-10-25
Correspondence Of the Burlington Hawk.Eys.
Letters from Minnesota.-Ns. 6.

Correspondence Of the Burlington Hawk-Eys.
Letters from Minnesola.-Ns.6 8.
ST. PAUL, Oct. II, l64s.
Fnrrxp EDwARDs:-several weeks have elapsed
since wrote you, though in the mean time the
.sHawk- Eye'' has been regularly received, and Pc
rused with interest. This place, which repre-
sented to you three months ago as growing so rap
idly, has for this season, become quiet, and now
assumes the appearance Of town Of treble its age.
Another season will show US how fast an Ell Dorado
can fill up-as the U. s. Commissioners have pur-
chased the Half-hreed Tract, on and about Lake Pc
pin, comprising 900 acres Of land. This tract is
represented as being rich in mineral, and we'll adapt
ed to agricultural pursuits. The Commissioners
have been unable, as yet, to treat with the Sioux
Indians they will never make treaty until the
sum Of sixty thousand dollars, now due from Gov
eminent, is paid to them. The Half-breed tract is
the land which was we'd for the Halfbreeds OF
the Sioux nation, by the treaty of 1880. The sum
to he paid by the commissioners is 100000.
The Legislature is yet in session, and has above
three weeks longer to sit there is no danger OF It's
adiourning for want Of business: But as it is al
lowed only sixty days for its first session, an ad-
journment will find considerable unfinished BUSH
ness.
The weather is comfortably cool, but by no means
so cold as anticipated finding at this season. We
have had two heavy frosts, and the leaves have
commenced falling. Begging indulgence for my
long silence, remain, Yours, TRIsTEE.
One Of our contemporaries in Keokuk, has at
tempted to show that the anecdote we cited few
days since by way Of illustration, highly derog-
atory to certain class OF its citizens. To show
that s.wreckers" may be first rate set Of fellows,
and having charity to hope that the Keokukians OF
this class are OF the "same sort,'' we publish the
following
A NoBLE-HEARrED WREckER.-The
Salem IN. J.) Standard relates the fol-
lowing Of Capt. Joseph Gaskill, Jersey
shore nan, Of whom the Newark Daily
adds that che has assisted on various &C.
casions in rescuing six hundred persons
and millions Of property from shipwreck
without having ever received one cent
by way of remuneration"
captain q. is as unassuming as he is
brave, and it is with the greatest difficulty
he can be induced to e: ter UPON recital
Of his adventures, which have been suffi-
ciently numerous, on our wild and desc
late shore, to fill a most entertaining vol
ume. Last April brig drove ashore
near Great Egg Harbor; the night was
dark, and the storm ragged furiously. As
usual, the fishermen crossed the sound to
the beach, but their boats were all too
heavy to be carried over, and it was i'm
possible 10 pass them out the inlet. In
the extremity Of despair, and while the
vessel was momentarily expected to 60
to pieces, Capt. G. arrived with dimin-
utive cunning skiff, decked over except
small space, scarcely large enough to seat
the rover. The skiff was soon carried
across the beach, launched into the surf.
and Capt. g., seizing the oars, started d.
reclly throug h the breakers for the brig.
Every wave Of course submerged the tiny
craft, bit drenched and half frozen, he f.
uaIiy arrived along side.
1.-THE captain and crew were struck
with establishment at the te,nerity of the
bold sailor, and forgetting their own peril,
hailed her, "skiif ahoy {! where are you
bound ?" Capt. G.. received one Of the
crew from the bowsprn, who, sitting with
his back 70 the stern, formed break a.
ter, and by this means was safely landed.
wi,hstandihg the GOODNESS ofthe cath
er, Capt. &. continued his trips until eve
ry man on board was saved and sunrise
found him struggling Tor full hour, on
his last trip, with the captain and his dog.
The entire crew would undoubtedly have
persisted had it not been for the intrepid
ty Of Capt. q. venturing om in mere egg
shell skif. No offer Of money would
have induced him 10 perform this noble
act, but the knowledge that fellow crea-
lures demanded his assistance appealed to
the heart and commanded the aid of the
generous sailor"