Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-04-16

transpireO.
Senator Douglas left here this P. NJ. for
Chicago via Pittsburgh.
CoLuMBUs, s. c., April Is.
A letter to the Charleston Courier by the
Isabel states that another American citizen
Charles A. Peak, dentist at Trinidad De
Cuba, was arrested on the 9Th, brought t.
Havana and placed in the barrack.
He Is totally ignorant of the nature of the
offence charged against him.
His wife and mother live in New York.
WASHINGTON, April l3.
The Union of this morning says that Sena-
tor Dodge is daily expected in Washington,
previous to his departure for Spain.
HARRISBURG, April l3.
Gov. Pollock has signed the new liquor law
of this State.
BosroN, April II.
In the Circuit Court this morning Judge
Curtiss delivered an opinion in the case
against Theodore Parker and others to the
eff Ct that the indictments were VOID on the
ground that the process was not suthclrntly
set forth in the same. md that, it was not
all ged that the commissioner in the Burns
case had legal cngnizance. All the accused
were therefore ordered to be discharged. lhe
result was received with shouts of applause
| by the spectators.
| All the hotels, public buildings, &c., hung
the1fags out to day in homer Of the birth
day Of Henry Clay.
Rev. Dr.. Scuddcr, Mi sionary of the Amer
lean Board in India, died in Cape Town AZ
rica. on tn, 18th of January OF .apoplexy.
He had eft Madras nd taken res dence near
Cape Town for his health.
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lava wesleyan Umiversity-Hon. James Hnr
A correspondent Of the Cincinnati Western
Christian Advocate, writing from Nit. Pleas
| ant under date Of March 18Th, has the fol-
lowing in reference to the University at that
place, aud our Senator elect, who is at its
| head:
The chief attraction to emigrants is our
educlt onal facilities. These are not sur
passed. presume, by any other place in the
State. We have here, first, what was, TIL
within few weeks past the ''Mount Pleas
ant Collegiate Institutes" but what now is the
sslowa W slevan University" This nstitu-
ton has been in successful operation several
years, and its progress is still onward. A
large and very we'll arranged and tasty
building was commenced last summer, and is
being pushel forward to completion Us rap
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when entirely completed, cost not far from
eight cen thousand dollars. A part Of it is
now temporarily occupied for recitation
rooms, and the whole will be ready for use
early in the summer. This institution has
an able and desrrvedy popular faculty, at
the head of which is Professor Harlan, a
gra uate Of Indi AsLury University, and
United States Senator elect from the State of
Iowa. Tn election of Professor Harlan to
the United States Senate was u thing I'M
sought by h IN f, and regretted only by old
polltic ans and the friends of our young in
stitu ion. Since his connection W tn the coll
Iege he has won old n opinions for himself,
and Civ n it boost which no reaction, it
is believ, d. will ever be able to overcome
OF course University will, in the course
Of the present year, be without head, and
the qursilon is already anxiously asked,
Where can we find a man to fill his place P
Tn will be hard to do; but we have this
consolation, that while his ele~ Lion to the
Sena is our loss, ii is the counSr US gain.
The chair of Mathematics is filled by Pro-
fes~or q. q. VIA lock, late Of Genes Col
lege, Lima, New York. Professor Whitlock
came among US last sumner, and has al
ready e>Aab shed hims II in the cOn6d nee
Of the community a ripe scholar, and an
apt acher. Professor Gray fills tn chair
Of Languages with credit to him -elf and hon.
or TO thc institution.
About one hundred and fifty students have
be n in att nIanca the Iast win er. number
nearly as large as could be accommoda ed
in the old building. Next winner however,
twice that number can find room.
An IMPORTANT ARREST 1t is fresh in the
m mory Of many Of our readers, that an
atr0clous murd r was committed in the neigh
borhood Of West Point, fourteen years ago, by
one John j. Jones, upon the person OF il.
McCardie. We understand thtt the difficulty
oriyina' ed between them, in cons quence of
a dispute about claim; the land IL that Vi
entity at tn" time being unentered. 1t ap-
pears that McCardle was gathering corn, in
company with his son, upon the land in dis
pute, wien Jones made mis- appearance near
them, gun in hand, and without giving them
scarcely any notice, shot the father. lmme-
diately after this bloody transaction, great
efforts were made to arrest Jones, but he
eluded all pursuit, until now, that fourteen
years have past, intelligence is conveyed to
this county, that this man, who has succeed
ed in escaping justice for so long period,
is living N a small town in Ohio, whereupon
a requisition was placed in the hands of the
deputy sheriff OF this county, VIM. Ii. Leech,
who, in company with james Mcdonald of
West Point, started n quest of him, and in
less than ten DAYS from the time they left,
arrived here with the prisoner in Charge
Great CT dit is due these gentlemen for the
vigilance and ingenuity displayed by them in
making this Al rest.
The District Court is now in session in this
place, and the Grand Jury have found IN IN
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Dyed eminent counsel in his behalf, the
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