Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-04-18


MoRE GIRLS CoMINo.-Gov. Slade, on the
3lst Of March, departed from Hartford with
four hundred ladies for the West, who design
becoming teachers. This is the way in which
our Western friends manage to have their
young idens taught to shoot. The East edu-
Gates, the West employs.
In the city of New York, the free school
system 10 more liberal than that Of other cit
les. During twenty ye rs, the practice has
obtained Of furnis ing all q glossary text
books to pHpils; thus enabling the poorest
child to obtain an educat on, literally free OF
cost. A bill ha. passed . third reaiing, in
the House OF Representatives, by VIII Oh books
are provided to all free schools throughout the
State.
Gov. 10. nson, Of Tennessee, has extended
his executive clemency in behalf Of Thomas
Greig, a convict who signally distinguish. d
himself at the fire which d stroyed portion
of he prnitentiary few days ago. Greig,
tbs SAID, worked most h"roically, and bat;lcd
with the fam"s in manner that Won The al
mira,ion e all present,
The street sweeping machines of New York
city, with Ia machines and 23 tenders, have
during the past week removed upwards OF four
thousand loads of street DIRT from four Of the
wards.
Mr.. Stratton, father Of the we'll known
dwarf Tom Thumb, rendered famous by
& .rnum, has become insase, and il now an
inmate Of the Hartford Conn. Lunatic Asy-
lum.
The Courier says the whole number of
teachers employed in the public schools OF
Buff .lu is log, and their salaries amount to
500, ISL per annum.
The President of the q. S., on Saturday
last, accepted and ratified treaty concluded
with the Rogue River tribe of Indians on the
18th day of November, 1854 i: also treaty
concluded with the Cherokee tribe Of Indians
on the I'D Of Feb, 1855.
Several miliners in New York have made
fortunes by their business. One Of these ar
lists resides in superb house near WASH
ington Square, and has sent her daughters to
Paris to be educated.
Three of the persons injured in the Gin
cinnatl riots have died. Henry Monroe who
was shot in the riot Tuesday night, Patrick
Dory, an Irishman also shot, and a young
German, who was stabbed, by the name Of
Keiser.
An iron bridge at Bristol, England. having
an arch of $50 feet, was struck by "a plopel-
lcr having an engine Of only six horse pow
er, and the entire bridge fell into the river
Avon.
The Central Illinois Railroad has adysr-
tisea for fourteen first class steamboats,
with the purpose of establishing, next sum
m r, daily line between Cairo and New
Orleans.
In Baltimore, Friday night, John Londen
was called up by man dressed like NV stch-
man, and requ sted to 60 10 the relief of a
neighb,r arrested AMI confined by the police.
He promptly dressed and hastened out, and
was attacked. gagged and robbed of his mo-
ney and VII ch only q short distance from his
own do II, where the robb rs tied him TO =
gate and left him calling for help.
A society has been formed in De Soto,
Iowa, by persons DESTROYS of '.maiatainins
a character of >obriety in that town." for
the pu pose Of tearing down and demo. hing
the premises of such is sell LIQUOR contrary
to law. Several females belong 80 it and
sign the aiming W th the men.
TIL Halifax papers announce the arrival
of 60 American recruits for the foreign le-
gion and stale that more than 5000 have been
enlisted in the q. s.. and that 81 Irshm n
entrapped in Boston aS railroad laDOrers
have BEEN sent there for tho foreign legion.
The recent teavy rains in Georgia have
eau ed great rejoicings among the editors Of
that State.
The steamship United States made the pas
sage from Havana TO New York in three days
and twenty-lhree hours.
Every person writing to an officer, editor,
clergyman, or other party not interested, ma
king il quries and calling for Z reply, should
not only pay the postage, but enclose stamp
for the return letter, which cannot be mailed
uni IS prepaid.
Brazil is represented to be playing the
same role in the South as If imputed to the
United States in the Nor h-that is, pursuing
a policy of conquest and annexation.
The New Jersey papers state that the pas
sage of the Maine Law by the Legislature Of
n " York will drive the liquor traffic over to
the Jersey side Of the Hudson. Tom Hyer
and other noted characters have rented rooms
in Jersey City.
A negro slave in Texas was sent out to
chop in the woods, and the next day his axe
and one leg was found lying on the ground,
with three dead wolves near them.
To exhibit the contrast discoverable in a
city, it is mentioned that on the corner of
9Th Avenue and Thirty third street, New York,
one roof covers an omnibus stable, church
and dancing school!
E. J. Ray, formerly colored barber Of
Terre Haute, Indiana, but now Of Liberia,