Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-01-04

iRrave-from thA sepulchres OF Nineveh and
Tyre. and Egypt and Edom, rise shadows for
the plumes Of thv wing, if thine eye look not
full on the Great Sun Of Righteousness!
i "We are met in times, never so solemn,
never so momentous with magnificent and
awful issues! If there BE- truth in the signs
of the times, then is the Seventh Trumpet
already on the angels lip-and the last Of
Gods walls lifted up over the nations-and
already are there lightnings and tbunderings,
and great voices, and sound as Of the great
hail falling from heaven and as Of the rush
OF every island and mountain fleeing from
the face of an angry God"
ssThe year we are now ending has been a
year full of the power Of the right arm of
Omnipotence. Under other nations is alleady
awake and amoye the great earthquake: and
upon us. amid all our amazing merccs, there
have fallen the seemings of frown from the
face of the Great Father. Ours have been q
parched and blighted soil; the wide desola-
ton of pestlence; the awful calamites of q
devouring ocean; the dark judgments conse-
qucnt upon gigantic frauds and dishonesty,
deranging and paralyzing our whole CONNER
cial machinery the grinding of our Golden
God into powder, aud the strewing 1t upon
the water, till the whole land to-day is sick
as Old Israel in the compelled drinking Of its
bitterness.
Sand what mean all these things, l say,
but the shivering plume of the Seventh Angel,
as he lifts the last trump and pours forth the
last vial ?''
UNITED STATES SENAToR.-But little is
said about the election OF Senator from
this State, to fill the vacancy that will be oc-
casioned on the Ali day Of March next, by
the expiration of the term of Hon. ID. K.
Atcaison. The parties we think have settled
down upon Their men. Mr.. Atchison's friends
will. without exception, adhere to him, which
Benton's friends. They will Lave to choose
between Gen. \; W. Doniphan and Gen. At
Gibson, or take the responsibility of defeating
the election altogether. The Wings will
stand or fall by Doniphan, the hero Of Sac
ramento, true Wing, and powerful debater.
We are not among those who court aid from
opposing parties; but we are in the very
IN DIST of those, who prefer to see Missouri
unrepresented in the United States Senate,
TO seeing her miSfepresented. Mr.. Atchison
does on few al .stions represent the true
wishes of the State; bit on most questions
of ordinary legislation, he is the Representa-
tive OF DOT more than one-third of his con-
which the State is divided, has something in
common with both Of the others.
The Benton party is the weakest party in
ciples, IL is supposed that it will coalesce,
sometimes with one, ana sometimes with The
other party. Bat Notwthstan ling 1t is the
weakest. it yet ha, enough streng b to hold
in its h ,nds, the balance of power-to loo,
the wheels of legislation, and to control ey-
cry election that my take place dur NJ the
session. In the election, If u m ,iority Of
that party coalrsce with the Wings. who ar,
the strongest party, the election Of Gen.
Doniphan is pretty certa n. Ii on the 9th +
hand tn y unite with the antics, it will have
10 be upon some W man; so that there can
scare Nv happen any contingency that will re-
suit ia Atchson's favor; and no W thstand-
ing Doniphan's strong adherance to Win g
principles, we think it much more likely that
ne Will receive the Benton vote, than that it
Will be bestowed unon any d Democrat Of the
opposing party Licking on Express.
RAILROAD Acc.rENr.-Last evening about
clock, a dreadful accident oc urrca two
miles cast of Mechanicsbargh, on the Grea'
Western Railroad, BY the explosion Of
boiler. Tn, engineer, Henry Bitterman, was
instantly killed, and the frsman SO badly
SC aided that be is not expected TO live.
Several persons We're also slightly injured
The engine was thrown eighty feet from the
track-nine cars are torn 10 atoms. The
track, for cons id.rable distance, was torn
up. The ceased and wounded were taken
to Springfield. The engineer leaves a wife
and three children. 4 Decatur Qll.) Gazette,
Dec. @.
Sentence of Arisen.
The motion for new trial in the case of
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