Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-12-12
Mr.. Wiss's last Letter.

~. WHO'S AoSt A0tS0E.
The Lynchburg virginian, abiding to the late
afectionate letter of Mr.. Wise to the Boston Mer.
camille Library Association, INDUCES in the fol-
lowing reflections:
'.Mr. Wise has written another letter, and our
apprehensions are relieved True, he does not say
Why we have not heard from him the last four or
five days, but we are sure he has been properly
occupied, "dilating," nursing" or studying the
natural history Of CLUSTERS" and ''peelers." The
letter before us is addressed to committee Of
the Mercantile Library Association of Boston,
and is Of very different tone from the sulphur
Gus one written short time ago to another COM
mittec to that city. In this he tells the Boston
ians that he sincerely regrets This inability to ac-
cent their invitation, the more because he has
''ncver set foot on the beioeed soil ofthat portion
of the country called New England" -"Belored?"
Think Of that! He apologetically assures them
that this has not been owing to any "antagonism"
on his part No antagonisms Think of that a.
gain! He has been taught, he says, to venerate
Massachusetts,, and when he contemplates the ex-
listing state of things he gushes forth in anguish"
Heaven bless us-what pity! Will nobody ap-
ply spiggot to the bunghole of his sensbilities
to keep him from running away? Oh, Mr.. Wise!
Mr. Wise!! Of verify, you have hard time
of it. Sometimes she keeps yon standing on the
shore Of your "ocean home" in the cold wind,
with your shirt Blossom xpanded"-waitins for
Alabama. Again she 'scourges" you with the
lines one water of the Valley Another time,
she requires yon to draw the huge Sword of
Virginia" Anon, you are compelled to be with
the New York Softs with your ''whoe head and
whole heart And now without any fault OF
your own, you are found gushing forth in an
ruish." Most miserable OF men!"
Ak AFFECTING SroRY-A CHILD Losr-The
Norgantown Union gives the following interest
ing account Of the loss OF child ofFranklin Gray,
in Preston county, Va:
1.-THE child (of two years Of age) attempted to
follow its father to a neghbor's, mile Distant
The mother, missing the child, became alarmed,
and at once Instituted search. She followed her
husband, but heard no tdings Of the lost one
Father and mother, spreading the alarm joined
by sympathizing neighbors, set out on search,
and all that day aud night continued the search,
but morning camc, and ssil the little wanderer
was not found. Court was in session at King
wood, (the county seat and on Saturday morn.
ing adjourned to allow all in attendance 10 aid in
restoring the child to its anxious parents. The
party, now numbering about two hundred per-
sons searched the woods ali day, but not till the
hunt had been web nigh abandoned, as evening
was coming on apace, could any information be
had fthe childs condition or vhercabogts Mr..
B. Hawley, a. be was returning home, and within
half . mile Of Mr.. Gray's house, found the child
but il was dead II had persisted from exposure,
having been without food, wandering in the cold
dreary woods from Friday morning
SxARr Nl0GkR-Nr. Erwin's slave boy Pack
enham, about thirteen years old, made bis escape
from the temporary calaboosc in the Recorders
Office building. on Lafayette street, on Saturday
afternoon. by crawling up the chimney, there be-
ing fireplace in the cell. The nuc is . snsl
one, vet Packenham squeezed himself throughit it,
climbing height Of four storica HedesceRded