Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-05-09
NEWS ITEMS.

The Fredericksburg News has been shown |
a bar Of gold valued at 81 100, the product
Of fifteen days labor in the Vanclusa (Vir-
ginia) gold mine.
The negro man John Scott. who was COM
mitted for rape on white girl some time
since, was tried in the Evansville Circuit
Court on Wednesday found guilty and SEN
fenced to twenty one years Imprisonment in
the penitentiary. "A motion was made for q
newtrial. s
The clipper ship Nonpareil, of Philadel-
phia, Captain Dunn, lately made the passage
from Capes Of the Delaware to Liverpool
Docks in thirteen days, equal to twelve days
from New York or eleven from Boston
being about the fastest passage on record.
member of Parliament testified before
Roebuck's committee that he found only two
persons, in some weeks stay at the Crimea,
who seemed possessed of common sense, and
those were Miss Nightingale, and Omar
Pacha.
The Buffalo ID mocracy says Mr.. Rocbling
the Engineer of the Suspension Bridge, late
| ly attempted to sound the Niagara river IN
der the Suspension Bridge, with a wire to
which WAS attached a forty two pound weight
| the attempt was fruitess. The current was
so powerful as to throw the weight to the
top of the water.
The College Of Cardinals Relcs-s.I do
| Likewise believe that the Saints reigning to-
gether with Christ are to be worshped and
prayed unto, and that they do offer up pray
ers for us, and that their relics are to be
worshipped." Greed Plus ".
+ In the last number received of the Coun-
ell Bluffs Bugle the editor says:
"After seats were filled, we took notes Of
the contents of the coach which resulted as
follows: One Governor, two editors, one
Judge and one private secretary, and one at
tornoy general"
A negotiation is said to be on foot between
the British and Argentine governments for
the tract Of country known rs Grauchaco.
The British are looking to it as recourse
| for the supply of cotton in case of any diff
Guilty with the United States.
Thirty coaches drawn by four horses each.
belonging 10 the Ohio Stage Company, left
Columbus on Saturday last, under charge of
Mr.. Hooker destined for Iowa, where extern
sive lines of stages are to be established by
the company.
! The Baltimore and Ohio railroad Compa-
ny has just put into operation a new time ta-
BILE, by which the trip is made from the Mon
umantal City to Cincinnati in twenty-six
hours! This is probably the best time table
ever attempted between two so distant points
in this country-being little over twenty four
miles an hour, including stops
By the late Ac. Of the Nebraska Legisla-
ture, the prop erty of marri woman, ac-
| -. -. NC, e.
empt from execution for the deb:s Of her hus-
band, neither is it liable for debts incurred
by her as security for her husband.-It is
liable, however, for the necessary articles for
the use of the family.
How TO SETTLE THE Four PoISrs.-It is
proposed that Rev. Mr.. Pease, who has sue
ceeded SO admirably in managing the FIVE
points in New York, be sent to Vienna to
take in hand tie four points which just now
give the European diplomatists so much
| trouble.
A. J. Davis, the seer, is about to be mar
red to Miss Robinson, formerly the wife
of Mr.. Love, and the mother Of two chill
dren. The Albion Spirit says that she be-
came enamored of Davis at a Woman's Rights
convention, and that nee then he and his
friends have been laboring to obtain d.
vorce for her, in which they have finally sue
ceeded.
By an arrival at Boston we have some in
| tercsting news from Liberia. One of the
acts of the Legislature at It's last session
vas the adoption Of stringent prohibitory
liquor law. Laws were also enacted for the
encouragement Of agriculture, for the en-
ployment and relief Of the poor, and for es-
tablishing uniform currency. Pretty well
for race incapable Of self government.
The Presbytory of Pennsylvania, in Ken
lucky, has decided that the public lecturing
and speaking on tho subject Of temperance
| BY women, it cannot but regard as unscrp-
tural and contrary to Presbyterian usage,
and therefore advise both its ministers and
members not to give any countenance to its
practice.
| An election for the office Of Chief Magis-
tracy Of the Fifth District, took piece in
Memphis on Saturday (2lst) last, and after
hard fighting, resulted n q complete Water
loo defeat to the .'Sag Nichts'' candidate.
the KnowNo hing candidate beating his op-
ponent by the snug majority Of 247 in a poll
of 705 votes.
Two physicians of Paris have published a
very important memoir, the object of which
is to make known the immense resources
W ich the healing art may draw from the
seed Of of parsley. This common Indigenous
plant possesses incontestible febrifuge prop
critics; the decoction of its seed may be sub
stitutcd for that Of cnchona, and the active
principle which has been drawn from it, and
which they designate under the name Of aplol
is equivaic.ct to qunine in the treatment of
the local intermittent levers.
A correspondent of the New York Evening
Post, writing from Boston says: The Know
Nothings, are beginning to hold their meet