Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-05-14
NEWS ITEMS.

| Died, at Southington, Conn, on the 2stl
ult., Clauncey Lewis, aged s. years, sol
der OF the revolution, and for short periot
member of Washington's Life Guard.
The Ohio State Agricultural fair is to b,
held at Columbus on the 18th to 2lst of Sep
TENDER.
Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmit will visi
Paris next Month.
Clark, the murderer of Wight, at New
Haven, had the andacity to plead not guilty
Heaven will not hold him so, nor the law w
imagine.
Ex-President Fillmore leaves New York
for Europe by the Atlantic, on the 10th inst.
The Woods known as Anthony's Nose, on
the Hudson river, were On fire and have been
burning since Sunday.
At Cincinnati weather turned very cold
Tuesday. Early vegetables were killed, and
fruit is supposed to be greatly injured.
A New York paper says that Col. Walker
and one hundred others sailed from San
Francisco on the 2lst of March, in the bark
sSuccess," for Central America to Join the
Kinney Expedition.
Shanghai dates are to March 9th. Persia
openly avows her adhesion to Russia. The
Chinese insurgents had evacuated Shanghai.
The ratification of the American treaty was
concluded at Simoda on the 2ls of Feb.
The Boston Post says: owe believe the
voice Of the nation will sustain Gov. Reeder
in his resistance to the unlawful acts of the
Missourians, and that tho great democratic
principle of the peoples sovereignty will be
vindicatcd upon the very soil where it has
been outraged"
The hot weather which has been experience
ed by the Australians lately, has been un-
paralleled since the establishment of the
colony: the thermometer ranged in the shade
from so to 100 degrees, according to situa-
ton, and from. 1870 to $50 degrees in the sun.
Apples were exhibited as having been roast
ed on the trees from the fierce rays Of the
sun, as perfectly as though hey had been in
a furnace.
The Buffalo Courier says that the liquor
dealers on the other (Canada) side of the
present season, and rents have greatly ad-
valGed.
The city Council of Chillecothe O 10, have
made arrangements to issue city bonds to the
amount of $4,000, for the purpose of cree
ting water works in that city.
The Jonesville lndepcnd mt loosely re-
marks:
Gin banking Office late established not
far from here, there are three partners. One
it is said furnishes the capital, the second
the character and the third "the face.''
The body of man, supposed by papers
upon his person to be Jno l.. Green Of Free
mont Ohio, was taken from the water at
Cleveland, on Monday last. The head and
face are bruised, and suspicious Of foul play
are entertained
Edwardk Cunningham, an Irshman, hung
himself at Pittsburg on Saturday. No cause
assigned for his folly.
A correspondent Of the N. Y. Courier and
Inquirer, sets down the position of the Cabi-
net on the Reeder question as follows:
"For Reeder, Messrs. Marcy, Cambell,
McClelland, Guthrie and Gushing. Against
Recder, in other words, for War, Piracy aud
Murder, Davis ard Dobb:n. The President |
IS neutral.
Mr.. Wise having called the American par
ty"iousy, - in q certain speech before the SOW.
ercigns Of Virginia, the Louisville journal
says:
We rather think Mr.. Wise mus. have
made his very tasteful remark after scratch
ing his head for an idea.
The Detroit Advertiser says that small
steel colored bug is busy eating into the buds
of the grape vines in that vicinity.
The Louisville Courier gathers from the
Indiana papers that the wheat crop through
out that State generally promises to be this
year unusually heavy.
Shaler who was recently shot in Buffalo
by Forbes, the returned Californian, is said
to be gradually recovering, and is thought
to be out of danger.
Whitfield the fradulently elected Dele
gate from Kansas to the last Congress and !
the abettor of the recent illegal participation !
eff Nj ssOurians in the Territorial election,
has been rewarded by the President with the
Office of Indian Agent.
TIE prospects of the planters of Louisian-
were never more gloomy than at present.
The lands are so dry that the cane has NOT
yet sprouted, and it is estimated under
the most favorable circumstances the next
sugar crop will fall off twenty FIVE per cent.
The Missouri papers complain, that few
of the steamboats, engaged in the Missouri
River trade, have engaged all the pilots ac-
quainted with the difficult navigation of that
river. part of whom they employ, and the
rest they pay higl wages to remain idle, and
thereby aperfcct monopoly of the trade IS Sc
cured.