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For the National Era.
TIFF HILL-Sl0 R U N.
BY RUTH HARPER.

BY RUTH HARPER.
Hesrken il is The passing bell!
Nav Christs pure mercy shield US we'll
LIS 10 me tale have TO tell
Heavens blue dome bendeth over all
yon slender brookleis broken fall
Makes silver chimings musical.
Hut where il nrars the old thorn tree,
Quick cease,h all It's gentle slee
SnlIen il grows, aud dark OF biee
Mark yonder ruin, blackenng where
The blasted elm- stand high and bare
Once IL arose, a castle fair.
Within its walls dwelt maidens three;
Twain were swart and i'll to seei
.T,r third was fair as angels be.
Two night-h hawks and a dove, IN sooih,
Far t,yain were false, and void of ruth
TIE Ihird all geRlleBess and ruth.
AMI hill and valley. far and near,
Hrosd.aowing stream, and lovely mere,
And herds OF kline and anilered deer,
Were thal one maidens birlhrigbt fair;
And sac was lowered past compare
IA womanhood and beauty rare.
And Ike the angels she was pure.
Gods angel was The TO the poor,
Seeming herself but His bestower.
The other twain were Envy's thrall.
Where Envy reigns, she spreads pail
Oi Ia. dc0us blackness over all.
Mis-shapen thoughts grew in their brain,
Like beasts OF prey in noisome den,
OT knoted snakes in caves unseen.
Tnmeei 1t were 10 tell each wife
They pracuced, wearing hollow smile,
turrng soil. feigning words the while.
There came day OF festive glee,
Nnh guests of high and low degree,
clad all IN raiment fair 10 see.
Aud many an eye wore sofiened light,
To see that lovely lady bright,
Her vesture like her spirit, white;
4 golden zone around her waist,
And wTeaihs Of pearl upon it traced;
bat iovelier WAS the form il graced
Aud in tie dark folds of her hair,
White Provence roses dropping rare;
Her meek and brow were far moro fair.
She greeted all with gentle grace,
Aud moved among them in her place.
The light Of beauty on her face.
Aud gathered round the fesial board,
The raby wine IA chalice poured,
she pledged them fair with courteous word
Then drank. Aud never more she spoke;
swift as the summer lightning stroke,
Deaths pasms DER her white face broke
Then sad uprose the funeral wall.
Those other twain, all guilty pale,
Sought thus their CHASTITY JOY TO veil.
Their thought was all of stores OF gold,
Aud brO1i domain, and castle bold,
Which save themselves were none TO hold.
1Od sleeFeih not. Ere winters snow
Whitehead the wales that lay below,
tie loo.ed an arrow from His bow.
Lake coming doom. a fiery pail
Wrapped tower and baiiIemented wall,
Then rose ~ spirals wild ana tail.
And now those shapeless heaps of stone,
al hunder-.caihed, remain alone,
hurSlers Of the guilt foregone.
sui sometimes, still, at dead Of night,
lowering about the runs height.
Two forms are seen, OF lurid light
hnd Then The stars grow shadowy pale,
fhe leaves all shudder through the vale,
And sounds go by, OF fearful wall
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CINCINNATI. October 4. 1856.

OINCINNATI, OCtOUeT =, 1000.
To the Editor Of the National Era:
l cut from the Daily Cincinnati Gazette of
this date an exceedingly well-conceived and
well-written response to the proceedings put
forth by the antediluvian Wings, at their recent
Convention at Baltimore, and enclose it to you.
You may find it useful to republish. should
like to see it in your paper. 1t seems to me to
be such notice of those proceedings as they
deserve. Yours, truly,
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The Chicago Times states that three thousand
seven hundred and fifty buildings have been
erected in that city since the first of the year.
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01
The Political harvest In Illinois

A correspondent writing from Jacksonville,
in this State, to the New York Tribune, on the
crops, after telling about wheat, corn oats, &C.,
adds the following regarding the political crops
The political harvest rapidly ripens. Six
weeks ago our fields were wearing rather mot
ley look. A rank vegetation had sprung up
somewhat suddenly-yery shaky in the stalk,
but INCLINED to FILLMORE rapidly than could
have been anticipated, considering the ques.io-
nahlc origin OF the seed. The Rocky Mountain
or Mustang wheat tmy favorite Variety was long
in routing, which led us to fear that it might be
choked by the superior rankncss of this earlier
sown sort. Within a month past most graft
lying change has taken place. 4 thrifty shoot
and II green blade every where covers our fields,
and the earlier vegetation above named is being
universally crushed out" a few stalks alone
stand, which all lean Wheatiand-wise, although
heaven knows they can never become wheat.
The fault of this earlier kind is, that the seed
was OF Southern origin, and the product would
only have served u Southern market, if it had
matured
Just after our State Fair, which takes place
ii, about n month, we shall submit this whole
question of Wheat to popular suffrage. Mark
my words: Rocky Mountain whest will be adop-
ted by Illinois farmers by 10000 majority at
least. Yours, .t AGRICoLA.
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01

Chicago. Burlington ana Quincy

The american Railroad Journal, of the Goth
inst, contains notice of the above road, and
after giving its very large earnings for the last
eight mouths, as they have heretofore appeared
in the Pass, remarks: "Thcsc are remarkable
figures for the earnings of road SO miles long
and eighteen ort twenty months old, and indicate
an earning for the'curre six months of pro-
baby, Sl,0oo,0Uo, a result only attainable in
the West, and upon well located lines OF road.
The country along the line of this road is the
garden OF the West, and is rapidly being placed
under cultivation, and although the great mass
OF this large business is the local traffic of the
road, yet the resources of the country along the
line are not beginning to develop themselves,
while the roads from Burlington west through
Iowa, and from Hannibal through Northern
Missouri must add very largely to its through
business. Chicago Press. -..asis & t.s.e5.e. :,
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01
Interesting News from California, Nj.
| carA0nR. &C.

Interesting News from California, Nj.
/ caragua, &c.
New York, Sept. u.
The Illinois arrived at 3 o'clock-left Aspin-
wall on the evening of the 10Th. She brings
California dates OF the 9th of September, and
nearly $4,000 in specie ; connected with the
Golden Age, which brought down to Panama
$2,35o,0aO in specie.
The Vigilance Committee quietly disbanded
on the alst of August and threw open their
rooms to the public. .-....-r.s -s
At the democratic primary election at San
Francisco, all the successful candidates were
known opponents to the Vigilance Committee
Judge Terry took his seat on the bench of the
Supreme Court on the 26th of August. 8'i5
The Republican state convention has nomina-
ted Ira P. Rankin,
fire occurred at Martinez. Loss $25,Ooo.-
Insured zE.ssizs s.ss-sR r. ~ ssg sfE> s,s
John l.. Durkec and Chas. Rand who took the
State arms from vessel by order of the Vigil
ance Committee, have been indicted in the Cui-
ted States Court Tor piracy. Ball refused.
The American State Convention has nominal
ted B. c. Whitman and A. B. Dibbe for con-
gross.
The Indians are still committing depredations
in various parts of the state. =
Panama dates to the 18TH Some excitement
existed in Panama 5ssI
The legislature was disorganized Touching
the governorship there was fear there of gen.
eral conflict, and the citizens fed, houses were
barricaded, and the U. S. ships Independence
and St. Marys held in readiness to protect Amer
can citizens. .s.H 80
. Health on the Isthnus was good
The sloop OF war Saratoga was at Aspnwall.
= Walker remains quiet .e
Leon had been abandoned to the invading ar
my, which numbered 1900 troops. -.
DR.. Livingston had been released and sent to
San Salvador. iss 2. ~ ID nNaEi
The people of Somoto had risen against the
Leon fac ion aad assassinated several prominent
citizens including Joaquin Chamorn and Angus
tin Fernandez.
Col. schlessinger has presented letter to the
army, denouncng Walker, as a traitor, accusing
him OF dishonesty and offering protection to ali
Walkers troops who will join him. Schlessin-
ger was at Nagagalpa in the interior. In de-
cree dated 26th August, Walker, in consdera
ton OF S4O0,o00, transfers all the property and
rights OF the Accessory Transit Co. to Charles
Morgan and Cornelius Gonson. . -... = .
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01
BURNING, OF THE COLLINGWOOD
1853 STEAMER NIAGARA. tses
ono Hundred Lives Lost,

I Our Chicago exchanges OF Yesterday bring
the painful intelligence of the burning Of the
Niagara with the loss Of one hundred lives, on
Wednesday afternoon last in the vicinity of
Sheboygan, Lake Michigan. sa'z
& Two hundred persons are supposed to have
been on board-eight of whom were cabin pas
sengers, forty officers and crew and the balance
stecrage. The steamer Traveller was about ten
miles off and made all the Roadway that was
possible to reach the scene of disaster But the
water was cold and many persons were drowned
from nunll'ness who could otherwise have stis-
taiued themselves until she arrived The Mag.
ara was bound for Chicago Full particulars to-
morr1Ml !lsIEEs = asszs ~ 2 10 ~ KS -.
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01

sB A fair haired, bright, beautiful girl, be
tween the age of four and f,e years, daughter
OF Mr.. Winchester, who resides at Powelrs
Mil, on the Kinnckinnc, { says the Hudson
\ orth Star, J wandered from her home one dav
last week, and, happening to be missed, search
was made for her, and when found she was on
the edge OF the mill pond, drowned. She had
gathered beautiful boquet OF the wild flower
winch grow SO luxuriantly here on the bar,ks
and they were grasped tightly in her rich,
hand when her little body was lifted ont life
haa ned, but the flowers were not removed from
yer grasp and when she was laid in her las,
stesuns place, her hands were crossed over her
bians VII" .n tue mowers resting there-i, en-.
the ien"me, a pure spirit which had fed from
Ing -...E -. - - WIRE mOnrn-
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01
Political items.

| Hon. James Buchanan arrived in Philadel-
! phia on Thursday last, and had an interview
with Hon. Howell Cobb, of Georgia, Geofpe
Sanders, John W. Forney and Others, at the
office OF James G. Vandyke, United States Dis.
! triet Attorney. The weather is saually in
Pennsylvania, and great efforts are being made
| to keep the pro-slayery craft from laundering.
We learn from the Lockport On. W Journal
of Thursday last, that Bernard Hughes. Es,,
| OF Buffalo, addressed the Buchanan Club of that
city the evening before, and during his re-
marks stated very emphatically that the Denim.
Gratis had done everything for the Irish. , sYes ,
replied an honest sou OF Erin, "and killed K.a-
ting, too! Before the speaker finished. nearly
every lrishman left the room. sg5G
The Carolina Times, in its account of the
Maine Election, speaks in the following com.
ELEMENTARY terms of the Northern Democrats.
whom the shareholders are glad enough to use
JUST as they are to use their nesroes-at The
same time feeling and expressing about an
equal contempt Tor both. +
The contest was chiefly between the Rlack
Republicans aud what little there may be Of 70.
gard tor the Constitution and the rights of The
South in the dubious. slippery, triuminp
'squatter Sovereignty Kansas Nebraska b.,
moeracy Of the North."
Northern Doughiace Democrats will please In
take OF their hats, make low bow, Lift nm ono
foot, and say sThank'ee, massa.'
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01
IanA Deuarkment

nES H0yNEe Naysgasien Csuse.
Ihs - = 4is Company are nov rrsXv ~,
q Nine Ne9rs QoGt, from the mouth Of ne 80 ~s
9nship - sanne ., Boon county. The exsm,ns.h
~ vauafsa o. " lands 10 being rapidly eensne.
The river. "usa v
fhesc lands ssusted In The valley Of The p..us
river In the vicinity Of thriving villages and r.
hoyorGhfAres In the State and include ali The
timber And Prairie lands suited to every branch Of
rof farther particulars apply - IL
w3ui 6EC n prpwp~
~ Dss1eine.. seps. %, Isss Land c omn.,.sss
UALUA BILE FARM fer SALE.
~ Des Moines county, 10 miles north Of Buri,ns Ia
one mile east Of yellow sprBg College, 3 rr Nd
~ acres prairie, s. ofwhich In good STATE a. Us
vaticn Woodland adtacent the north SIDE ha,.
comfortable good well OF ling water M
house agood orchard nov bearing abundance ., The
Terms made easy. Any psrsen wishing !ocatin, :,
community where intsmperance Is unknown Ana rns .
ny seldom heard, Win do weilby epquiring Of m.
signed at Yellow Spring Mills Rossu,h, Iowa A"'ef
oo.lWom X. J. HARpyp
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01

II beu.1 s.er G. ~ ny coasidsratsoa
s1hr ssjd = or ~ * 1S<m; Or was theFs
II consjd1 = vhs . The draxing ~ The
epsing . e hin or ~ OF either Of them,
S3ker .ks "a Z ~ the laid forces
Or the Government or the United States : A.
Iprither knovrsOrr iseiieve sthate the defeUdune
himseii individually, or for his own private use
or benefit, ever received any consideration for
raid bills or any Of them, and 60 not believe
ah6re was any consideration whatever for draw
ing or accepting of the same bills, or any Of
them, other than to procure supplies for the
forces under his command in California
Q-Is there, within your knowledge, any 9TH
err matter or thing touching or concerning the
matters in issue in this cause, or the parties
thereto material or necessary 10 be known and
aidnced in evidence on the trial hereof II
YES, state freely the particulars hereof A.
To the best of my knowledge, the original Of the
bills and copies OF which are now produced and
shown to ME, and are hereunfo annexed, marked
Nos. I, 9, 3 and 4, were presented at the State
Department, in the city of Washington. Tor ac-
eeptance and payment. But do not recoiiect
the individual or individuals by whom presented.
Ishould have accepted and paid these bills
from my general knowledge of things in Cali
torliia, had Congress appropriated any money
aud placed it at my disposal, which could be
applied to their payment, thought would have
been more correct to have drawn these bills on
the Secretary of War. should have accepted
aud paid these bills and had them charged IN
account against Col. Fremont, to be settled for
ut the general settlement OF his accounts as
Commander OF the California Battalion, bad any
such appropriation been made. know OF no
other matter or thing touching or concerning
the matters at issue in this cause, or the parties
thereto material or necessary to be known and
adduced in evidence on thereof S y
Lastty-I have gone through my answers to
the interrogatories put TO me on behalf OF the
defendant, John Chas. Fremont, and state that
| have answered the first, second, third, fourth
sixth, seventh tenth, eleventh, twelfth, twenty.
fourth and. Mirty-sir;h, from, my DION knoactedgt
and observation, ] have answered the eighth,
ninth, thirteenth. fourteenth, fifteenth, twenty.
third and twenty fifth, not from my own person
al knowledge. but from my close observation OF
the events of the Mexican war as they occurred,
and from information derived from official doc
| uments, as member OF the Cabinet OF President
Polk, who was President of the United States
during the whole Mexican War. My knowledge
! OF the matters to which have deposcd is moi
derived from hearsay, and i'll no other manner
than have herrinbefore stated. l have stated
that have no knowledge of the matters inquired
of in the other interrogatories. sstess
JAMES BUCHANAN.
N
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01
JAMES BUCHANAN.
The NIother,. First Gigt,


She 81 beside the cradle, 3gf asr
as, And her tears are streaming fast, ... poi
For she sees she present only, s--.s .....
While she thinks of all the past:
OF the days so full Of gladness
When her trst-born's answering kiss st
Filled her soul with such rapture 7.a.
That it knew no other bliss.
U those happy, happy moments! aso
They but deepen her despair, .s-a te
For she bends above the cradle, .g.. O..
And her baby is not there!
There are words Of comfort spoken,
And the leaden clouds Of grief -....
Wear the smiling bow of promise,
And she feels sad relief:
But her wavering thoughts will wander e
Till they settle on the scene 81 ep11s
OF the dark and silent chamber, ..
And of all that might have been!
For a little vacant garment, ..' 7+.-
Or Il shining tress oil hair, .t.s HH
Tells her heart, in tones of anguish, .-.....
That her baby is not there! .,...
She sits beside the cradle, rl' IS ...- ". Oh
But her tears no longer flow,
For she sees tlcssed vision
And forgets all earthly woe; ,-s's1 's st 5-~
SANITY eyes look down upon her, - e E1
And the Voice that hushed the sea rs,ezs
Stills her spirit with the whisper, ...,...
"Sufer them to come to Me-" .'"'
And while her soul is lifted a'i re- ,ss.-'''.
On the soaring wings Of prayer,
b Heavens crystal gates swing inward, ~@soss
And she sees her baby there :! 4<7} a|E+
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01
Buffalo Sent

Buiialo, Sept II.
A fire broke out about o'clock this morn
ing in the extensive Piano factory of A. & ]
keough, Washington street, and owing to the
combustble nature of the contents of the build
ing, was soon one mass of flames The build.
ing was new and owned by the occupants. Loss
about $4,000. The building and material insu-
red in several companies for $4,000. The fall.
ing walls crushed an adjoining wooden building,
killing an elderly lady, nurse to the family &C.
cupying it, and setting the building on fire
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01

YOU are hereby notified that on the 10Th day Of Aptn
A. d. 1896, there was filed In the Office OF the Cies
OF tie District Court in said D.s Moues county Iowa
petition Of G. ". Bodemann, claiming Of you the cor
recton OF certain deeds therein set forth as nv
you October 12h A. D. 1896 for the conveyance of m,
west halt OF the southwest quarter of section twenty
eight (2s) township number sxtynine, range thre. in
sara county and state to Elizabeth Whed and the heirs
of James Whited deceased and TO quiet the e 10 ,s
real estate In sad petitioner therein forth and that
the original notice in said cause received by The Sheriff
OF MD county, April 18TH 1886 by him return into
said Court at the last April term thereof endorsed "he
within named Andrew shuck and Mary shuck not found
in my bailiwick, and that order OF notice by pubi-
cation was made by said Court Mt said April term and
that unless you appear and thereto on or before
the morning OF the second day Of the November term
d. 1885, OF said District Court judgment will be rendered
against you thereon. CROKER 4 BRO
A. J. MESSENGER, Solicitors for Pettioner
CLERK Des MOnes Co, Dist Court. nu9nd1t vi,
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01

The New York American Celt has long arti-
Gle to prove that there is regular bargain and
sale between the supporters OF Mr.. Buchanan
ana Mr.. Fillmore, by which the American vote
OF the state ls to be thrown for the bachelor
The Know Nohings of this State to cast their
vote Tor the Buchanan electoral ticket thus Sc
curing New York for Buchanan, while the Dem.
ocrats, as far as practicable, are to transfer
their votes to the Know Nothing State ticket,
with FL astus Brooks for our next Governor"
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01

ANOTHER SUFFERER.-We Glanced Yesterday
to meet Mr.. w. Halter, formerly of Portsmouth,
Ohio, late of Leavenworth City, from which
place he was expelled, because he was from
Ohio, and in favor of making Kansas Free
State. He had a stock of jewelry in Leaven.
worth, all OF which the Rutfians ''confscated,"
Tor the adornment of their precious persons !;
and he had house and lot which were taken
possession Of by the mob, and used as a lodging
place, all his furniture and household goods ru-
ined. This is one Of a thousand such inatanccs
(,nn,
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01
Farmers of Iowa and Illino;.

" u l3NE NUW REIUY
ITO purchase Flax Seed and We again cali vo,r ,,,
ton to our promise to pay the highest Market nr,
for good seed. '"e' price
we nave the best class steam heating machinrrx ,ro
oho we are prepared TO manufacture The hs., r
oil and thin oblong cake which will exchange for
to those who wish IL. Please give US a chance IN ~
your seed and " We meet with the v.
pect you shall always find and good market ,,,L
US. ljyJgwtfl RITRSu.u A 49,. vim
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01

Washington, Sept. 90.
The Republicans, of Wheeling, Va, and neigh.
borhood having in contemplation mass meet.
ing in that city had written to the Republican
association of Washington, to supply them with
speakess from slave holding states.
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01

a MkppIsG.-A wedding came off at the
courthouse en one day last week in which The
otiae was fourteen and the bridegroom sevsnty.
o Ca years OF age. They were both children.
aht one IN her first, the other in his second
cnadhood. There was present at the nup,ial
ceremony daughter Of the ''old gentleman
q oia as the brides mother.-[ Havana nn
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01
Farm for Sale,

THE undersigned offers sell his farm consisting Of
Is acres Of land, 9 of which Is enclosed and under
cultivation The balance Is timber land, the whole Of
which is admirably calculated Tor farming raising fru.
or for vineyard.
With new Frame House, n good well Of water and a
frame hen house 80 it. long put up last summer with the
intention OF keeping 1000 hens Situated on the Avery
road, miles from Burlington and six from Augusta.
For particulars call and the owner who is living
upon the premises. fiy22w9m1 JACOB l. DECKER.
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01
Boston, Sept. 26

49, - ~ Boston, Sept. 2B
The steamship Canada arrived at her dock at
Z o'clock this morning, our English files are
quite barren Of news, additional to that embra-
ced in the Halifax report. The Baptist church
at Jamaica Plains, was burned last night by an
incendiary. Loss $4,000, insured for $4,000.
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01

1t is SO far fortunate that the gentleman's
iathions do not keep pace with the ladies' or
else, by this time, their hats would have dwin-
died down to the size ola charity -boy 3 muffin
cap, and their trousers would have swollen
out to about double the size of those of a Turk
and Dutchman stitched together Punch -
Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01
\ Washington Sent as

.---a'7~71 Washington Sept. &c.
Recent orders have emanated from the Navy
Dept. TO the commander of the Pacific Forces,
with reference to the protection Of our cit.
zens on the Isthmus of Panama. Senator Doug
las, will, it is reported in private circles, shortly
he married to a lady of this city.