Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-10-24
Telegraphie Items.

WAsH1NcroN, Oct. 8.
Butler King was appointed Collector
at San Francisco to-day. No appoint
ment whatever has yet been made for the
Judgeship in California in place Of Ben.
iamin. Graham still hopes to get II, but
il is doubtful.
WASHINGTON, Oct. y.
Collier declines the California Judge
shin. The President offers him the choice
of the Bureaus, which he will except.
Graham's prospects for the Judsesh'p
tolerable.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. Is.
Five men have been arrested charged
with robbing the mail Saturday night
One of the party turned States evidence.
None of the property has been recovered.
MAyoRALirY Observation-Disclosures,
lOth.-The vote yesterday for Mayor
stood: Jerome, Wing, $50; Turner,
Democrat, 1873 Jerome's majority, 757.
PIrrsBuRG, Oct. 10TH May or Barker
has been arrested and held to bail on vari-
Gus charges of assault and battery, false
IMPRISONMENT, and misdemeanor. Nightly
riots occur between the citizens and his
police, who are composed Of the worst Of
rowdies.
DETROIT, Oct. lOth.-Our first physi-
clans have examined the bodies Of the II
or IS persons who died so suddenly at
Kalamazoo, and finding no poison in the
stomachs, have arrived at the conclusion
that their disease was cholera.
-.
cred an address before the Agricultural
Society this day.
THOMAS W. Dom, the revoluiionist
.Governor" of Rhode Island is now in
very i'll health a, his fathers residence,
and it is doubtful whether he long sur
wives.
Col. JAS. WATSON WEBB was among
the passengers on the steamship atlantic,
which arrived at New York, from Liver
pool, on the 9Th instant.
Goop.-The Wing majority on the leg
islative ticket in Lancaster county, Pa. at
the late election was about 1900, while
Thaddeus Stephens, the great Free Soil,
Anil Slavery and Disunion Congressman,
only obtained 1900.
The Springfield Journal confirms the
report of the appointment of SIMEON
FRANcIs, Esq, editor of that paper, TO be
Indian Agen. in Oregon, in place of DR. A.
G. Henry, declined. Mr. Francis, it is
understood, accepts the appointment.
Hart Fellows, Esq, of Rushville, now
in California, has been appointed survey
or for the port Of San Francisco.
N. n - -,
Gently rendered the place of Collector Of
the Port of San Francisco, California
He is the brother of the late Collector, APP
pointed by General Taylor, and rejected
! by vote of the Senate. Ina letter to the
President, he declines the prot!ered office.
Hugh White, Geo. r. Andrews and
David Rum.ey, members of the present
Congress from New York, decline a re-
election. Three fourlhs Of the next Con-
gre>s will be new members.
L1NDIANA.-The net receipts Of the
| Charity Concert, last evening, were about
! $4,000. This sum is to be placed in the
hands Of committee, of which the Hon.
| Edward Everett is the chairman, to con-
fer with Miss Lind, and to decide on the
| preci>e oDJects WI WHICH t'e eo"h'y siial'
be 5es:owed.- Boston Transcript.
Gen. Winfield Scott has had the de-
grees of l.. l.. D. conferred upon him at
Columbia College, New York.
Deacon Weed Of the Albany Ersnins
Journal is in a torrent of grief at the pre-.
servation of the Union by the settlement
of the Territorial question. He says
ooh, that some avenging angel would blot
out the disgraceful record that our pos
terity might be spared the modification o.
blushing at the degeneracy Of their faith
ers."
"Our army groaned terribly in Flanders
quoth uncle Toby "but nothing like unto
that"