Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-06-27
Knox College at Galesburg HIS.

Knox College at Galesburg HIS.
There were four graduates at the commencement
Of this Institution on June 2sth, making the whole
number Of its alumni twenty-five. Five of these
are now ministers, twelve are teachers Of acade
mics, one is under appointment ofthe Home Mis-
sionary Society, to so to California, one Of the
American Board of Foreign Missions, to 60 among
the heather, and one is an editor. The whole num-
Der of students connected with all departments of
the Institution the past year is ISL. Twenty OF
these have been from Iowa. '-,.
The property Of the College is valued at $50 1891,
-, the building being estimated at $4,000. A
bright career of honorable usefulness is evidently
before the Institution, which we cannot but think
will even surpass the anticipations of its pious
founders. So many students from our own state
resort thther that an interest in Its welfare is
avoidable on part. We hope to see its advan-
tages increased, more attention given to the phys
ical sciences, and the course Of study elevated to
IN equal rank with the best colleges in the land.
! Hon. Sidney Dreese addressed the Literary Soci-
cites upon the early history OF Illinois. The adj
dress, which occupied two hours and half, was
rich in the fruits ofahorious research. The style
was neat and classical. The period embraced in
the sketch Of Mr. Breess was from the discovery
of Illinois in 1878 by Marquette to its cession to
England by the treaty Of Paris in 1763 containing
ninety years. For examining the records OF this
history Mr. B. enjoyed peculiar advantages in his
early life having then been resident Of
He paid high tribute to the e.rly Jesuit mis- STEM
aries-especialyt to Marquette. Spoke ofhis land
Ing in Iowa at the foot Of the lower rapids where
for the first time the Mississippi he saw tracks
" NOR and IF l.Shp, IF or -
Peoria lake in the fall of 1878. The crucitix and
the fire water the first emblems OF civilization
in Illinois. Mr. B. represented the current story
that the French government established Gordon
Of posts from Canada to Louisiana to maintain
power against the English the Atlantic as false,
and that those establishments were made by the
Jesuits and the traders, solely from motives con-
nected with the counting room and the conversion
OF the natives. He claims that this view is con-
hrmed by the grant made to Crozet in l7le.
The first name in the register of baptisms Of the
Church at Kaskaskia is Peter Accho, Who as bap-
TIED by James Gravier, tIdarch goth 1885, The
earliest recorded grants in Illinois date back to
722. The first official act of France in relation to
this country was the grant to Crozet. His follow
ers were the first that worked the mines Of Mis-
souri,. There we're about 1900 colonists in all
Louisiana in 1920.
Mr. b. gave an interesting sketch o: the French
villages thinks that Kaskaskia in its pamest days
contained no more than 1000 inhabitants, and that
there were only eight or nine thousand Indians in
the state. The French dwelt entirely in villages
and had no separate but common fields, which were
not fenced until l727, when they were enclosed
only for the purpose of keeping offthe cattle. The
French had no manufactures, and used no looms,
churns or bricks. They had no coo3ers. but pack
ed their flour for the N. Orleans market in elk
skins. The eoatmen we're the most important per-
sonases among them. Their manners were con-
vivial. When the English took posse ssion in 1865,
the better portion ofthe French removed to Nat
chez, Baton Rouge, n. Orleans and other places.