Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-06-19
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.4rriral and departure Of Ocean Stsamers-Horaos
Greeley aud the English Press-Seisntife appli-
cation Of Chloroform-.4 Girl logged to death
a fe,c words to the Ladies' Discovery Of Trea-
sures at the Fire Points-Ingenious Thierss-.7
mother and child burnt to cinders, &c. &c.
New York, June s, 1851.
EDITORS OF THE HAwK-EYE:
The usual number of Ocean Steamships have
arrived and departed this week; bringing gold dust
and shattered constitutions from California, and
emigrants from Europe; and taking away again,
| as many or more passengers, bound for the
Worlds Fair, San Francisco, and other places,
and carrying Off some of our gold, too. Well, We
must give and take.
There was no political news of importance,
when the .4sia left Liverpool. 1t appears that
Greeley was treated very scurvily by the Times,
and Daily Neus, both which papers did not men,
| ton his name or his speech, at the dinner given
! BY the ROYAL Commissioners to foreign Jurors
| Greeley's speech, which has since appeared in
some Of the New YORK papers, was certainly
quite to the point, and had the unusual merit of
brevity; and there is no doubt that the English
papers, Intentionally and deliberately insulted the
specially invited representative of American In
dustry. Greeley was personally requested BY
Lord Ashburton to be present, and to propose the
health Of Joseph Paxton, Esq, the architect of
| the Crystal Palace. am no wholesale admirer
of Greeley. am indignant at the cool contempt
exhibited towards regularly appointed Ameri
can speaker at public dinner-the particular
man don't care fl about. The English pa
pers continue to sneer at the pauclty and quality
e rfr.l~, t. Il
columns, mention is made of an invention, by
which quite poor man, named Hoyle, is rapidly
acquiring fortune 1t is called "Hoyle's ROYAL
Patent Swansdown Sewing Cotton, and it is said
to be supplanting everything else in that line
The London Times says: Snow, that Her Ma
iesty has set her lady subjects the example of
sewing according to Hoyle, there is no doubt
that that celebrated name will be referred to, by
the fair sex, with the same Difference that has
long been paid to it. by gentlemen at the card-ta-
ble." The .7sia brought out large shipment of
this article for L. O. Wilson & Co., the great dry
goods firm of this city, who are the only agents
for the sale of it, in the United States.
The demons of crime, ever on the look out for
discoveries or inventions which may contribute
to the successful practice Of their nquities, in
stantly seize upon every new agency of probable
utility, unfolded by science for the benft Of
kind and, therefore, the new agent, Chloroform,
is now extensively employed, in the commission
of murders, rapes, and robberies of every de-
scrption In Europe, the stiletto, the pistol, and
! the knife, are now, almost entirely superseded
by this terrible yet secret power; and, in this
country, our own criminals have become perfect
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The Captain of packet schooner, lying in the
North River, told me, yesterday afternoon, that
skillful application of Chloroform had recently
been successfully performed on board his own
vessel During last Saturday night, some daring
rascal entered the after-cabin of the schooner,
where the first mate was asleep, and, applying
vial of Chloroform to the sleeper's nostris, rem
dered him completely inseusible. The fellow
then stole $50 note, six new shirts, and several
other valuable articles of dress and, after break
ing open and rifiing three desks, he finally de-
camped in triumph, taking with him trunk con-
tanning quantity of wearing apparel, worth over
two hundred dollars. The unfortunate sufferer,
on recovering his senses. the next morning, had
great difficulty in opening his eyes, and going
about his usual work. He has been in great pain
ever since.
Your fair readers have, of course, heard much
of those novel garments, recently introduced, for
the purpose of covering those interesting parts OF
the female frame, which the ballet-girls, so irre-
sistby and voluptuously turn, twist stretch, spin,
and fling about, to the total destruction OF the
peace of mind, alike, of innocent youths and
grey headed old men.
lie
tricts,' however, may, perhaps, be profoundly
ignorant of the precise nature of this Oriental
STYLE of dress. advise them to get book Of fam
cy costumes, and notice how graceful, beautiful,
modest. appropriate, health productive, and alto
cether attractive are the habiliments of the Tur-
kish ladies' Then let them view, in contrast, the
mud-scrapng, awkward, sluttish, and cumbrous
collections of cotton, nen and flannel articles, in
which they, at present, ensconce themselves; and,
/ think may safely aver, that before you receive
INV next letter. the whole of the fair sex, in your
neighborhood will long for the time TO come,
when they, also, will be able to abbreviate their
flowing robes, and to cover their ''exposed re-
mainders,' by unequivocal Trousers, la
Turgue.
An old miser died. in the vicinity Of the Five
| Points, yesterday morning, from sheer starvation.
It is thought, that he had not tasted food for FIVE
days. He always lived in great apparent power
ty; but. since his death, it has been discovered
that he possessed property, of various descrip-
tons, and in different parts Of the country, to the
amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars u!
An ingenious method of ''enlightening the peo-
ple," as practised by the most accomplished cher
alters d. industrie of this city, was exposed last
Saturday morning. by Officer WallnS of our City
Police. A lady, having lost purse containing
upwards of twelve dollars, in Washington market,
communicated the circumstance to the above eff
cient officer, who, after closely watching well
dressed but suspicious-lookins man, accompanied
by ladylke and very pretty girl, of some fifteen
years, succeeded in 'spoting" them in the act OF
abstractng sundry valuables from the pockets OF
those around them.
The modus operandi of these artisies is so re-
markable, novel and ingenious, as to merit detail
The young lady carried basket, ostensibly fol-
marketing purposes, but actually for the purpose
of enabling her to approach and crowd between
bona fde purchasers, without exciting their sus-
picion. She then applied herself with skill and
enthusiasm to the practice of her profession, pas
sinr over to her father each successive 4hanl y