Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-01-17

may be necessary to determine upon the appropri
ate locations for such structures.
Amusements and Gambling an San
Francisco. Mr. J. A. Rowe commenced
operations last night with circus compa-
ny Of very fair materials, and took in the
very snug little sum of $4,000 pretty
good beginning. There are two or three
sets Of Ethiopian serenaders in the city,
who nightly lament the absence of Miss
Neal, mourn over the fate of Rosa Lee,
inform the public that they have just arri-
we'd from Alabama, or request, in the most
earnest manner, to be carried back to old
Virginny. There are more new gambling
establishments than there are catfish in The
Mississippi, and all have their peculiar
attractions, or ''baits.' In one is very
handsome Chilauo girl, bejewelIed like a
dowager, who cIsps down her ounces as
if they were SO many brass buttons. At
another there are three comely looking
American girls who tend bar, and are
deep in the mystery of making rum punch
es, brandy smashers and gin cocktails. s.
In one is a band playing "Hail Columbia;',
in another the Scotch baqpipes are Wheel
ing away "Roy's Wife" in another is a
man blowing his brains ont through key
bugle; in another an Italian, who beats
the base drum, plays the cymbals, blows
the Pandean pipes, rings set of musical
bells on his head, and plays on several
other instruments all a. the same time !;
then there is the banjo, and the violin, the
harps, the hurdy gurdies, and the grinding
organs and monkies. Add to all this sweet
compound of sounds the rattling and ing
ling of money and dice on the tables, the
clinklng of glasses, the roaring of some
lnebriate, the rnmbling of carts, The knock
ing and banging of carpenters, and you
have very faint idea of life in California.
Day and night it is tout la meme chose. If
Pnnch's fast man" were here, think he
would be perfectly salts there is
nothing "slow' in California. IF YOU
could only send ns out a few doube-head-
ed pigs, and some calves with half dozen
legs or so, think we should be able to get
along very comfortably. We need some
little intellectual amusements of that sort,
and think it would pay.-TCorrespon
dence OF tue New Orleans Pcayune.
Central AMERIcA.--The outraces
upon Honduras by Mr. Chatlield, the Bril-
fish Governments man ol-all-work, in
Central America, and particularly the seiz-
ure Of Tigre Island, were ostensibly TO
secure debts due TO British subjects 10 the |
enormous amount Of $50, 900! The claim |
Tor this amount, Honduras resists as I'M |
lust, and offers TO submit the whole affair
o impartial Commissioners. Il is said to |
be owing to the fact that Mr. Chatf:eld |
.epresents the British spectators and ira
lers in Central America, rather than the
British Government, that he has pursued
hese high handed and insulting measures.
These men regard the construction and
control Of ship canal through Central
America by Americans, with undiss embed
version, and active enmity.
1t was in consequence of this and nu-
nerons other ontrages that the three States
+ Nicaragua, Honduras and San Saliva
or, appointed Commissioners TO negotiate
reunion Of their political strength. Those
commissioners, at last accounts, had near
' concluded their labors, and the re-estab-
shment Of the Central American Repub-
c is now no longer doubtful Boston
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