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Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-04-01
WASHINGTON Mar "a

- Washington, Mar. q.
Robert E. McHatten has. been appointed post
master at New Orleans vice Nevitt removed; the
departments are overwhelmed with applications,
personal and by mail growing out Of misappre-
hension, the principle of rotation which is the
general rule is intended to apply only to the
larger class Of officers.
Several applications have made for construct
ing the wagon roads to the Pacific, authorized
by act of late Congress, but the Secretary of the
Interior has taken no action in the premises
Forts Kearney and Laramie will not be aban-
doned till autumn. @ -7
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Nav YnrL March %

New York, March "a.
special dispatch from Washington states
that Augustus Schel has been appointed collec
tor of the port, Isaac Fowler re.appointed post
master, E. B. Hart, surveyor, and Capt. Ryn-
ders, marshall-others not stated. The Hards
are represented as regarding the result tri-
umph for them 81,
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s TaE RESULT IN NEW HAaPsHIgx.-The Con-
cord Democrat rings its loudest blast: "rrom
the seaboard TO upper Coos, from Maine to Yer
mont, the cohorts OF Black Democracy have been
swept like chaf before the whirlwind. With a
vsice as mighty as the thunders that shake her
thousand hills, has the Granite State proclaimed
anew her unalterable devotion 70 the principles
Of Republican Liberty" ~
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THE GREAT IRON SrEAMER-The following are
some of the main particulars of the enormous
iron steamship now in course of fconstruction on
the Thames Her whole length is 6S4 feet ::
breadth of beam, Sc feet; diameter of paddle
wheels, 12l feet; depth of hold, 70 #; depth of
paddle Wheel SO #; diameter Of screw, Al f..
There will be funuels and Z masts, two of the
latter being square rugged. The nominal horse
power will be $500, but it will work up from 6
to 1O, 900. Her measurement will be 23, GAO tons.
Itis expected that her crew viii number from
750 to 300 men, including II chief officers. She
will have accommodations for 10000 persons,
including 1900 first class passengers; or fused
as transport, she can carry $4,000 troops and
5000 horses She is expected to run at the rate
of l6 miles an hour. Surely this is one of the
wonders of mechanic power in the nineteenth
century.
RUSSIAN LosGEv1TY.-In late number of
the Independent Beige, death is mentioned
which shows the salubrity of the climate of
Russia. Some time last month there died, in
the Russian province of wilma, on an estate be-
longing to NJ. de Medem, q peasant named Mi
-chael Kiawckis, who had attained the age of a
hundred and thirty-seven years, six months and
eleven days. This man, born in village of the
same district, was married for the first time, at
G0e aye VI uluclecu, uuu WRS sHC iotASi, Wy sCS-
eral wives, of thirty-two children, one of whom,
daughter upwards of hundred years of age,
is still living. He had never been seriously i'll
but some years before his death complained of
being unable to read without spectacles. To the
very last day of his life he retained the use of
all his faculties, and had great fund of gaiety.
II believe" he was wont to say, shat death
has forgotten me"
Examples OF great longevity are not rare in
Russia. 1t appears, from an official report, that
there were in 1928, in the Muscovite Empire,
1873 persons, who were hundred years old and
| upwards OF those, 40 had completed 12o years;
Is, l3O years; 1876 years; 8, 1873 years. In
the province of Moscow there died, in 1850, a
man aged $50 years. He had been for thirty.
Ave years the contemporary of Louis the Four.
| teenth, and had lived in Russia under thirteen
rosns, viz: Theodore Alexieyitch, Peter the
! Great, Catharine L.. Alexina, Peter the Second,
Anne Ivanovna, John ", and the regency OF
Biren, the regency Of the Grand Duchess Anne
and Of the Prince of Brunswick, Elizabeth Pc.
trovna, Peter the Third, Catharine the Great
| Paul l., Alexander l., and Nicholas l.
The paragraphs which we have been transla'
| ting close with a statement that there died in
| 1874. in the Russian province of Kief, an old
soldier who had lived 15S years.
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LAND BUYERS IN SOUTHERN ILLlNoIs.-The Sa.
lem Register says, that quite large number of
gentlemen from the East are now visiting the
southern counties in this State, and are offering
high prices for farms.
/, Horace7H Day, the India-rubber man. and
Marshal O. Roberts, ofNew York city, are both
very sick-supposed to be the result of drinking
rat water at the National Hotel.
Luck IN LKlsuRE,-The ship Samuel Russell
recently arrived in New York from China, had
very long passage ofl9O days. The present
disturbances in China have enhanced the value
Of the s. RusselIs cargo, from $40, 600 to $780,
900.
The Post Office at Jacksonville, Illinois, was
burnt down a few nights since, and all the mails
in it totally destroyed.
| The Memphis and Charleston Railroad IS OK.
pectcd 10 be completed by the 10th Of April, and
preparations are making for grand opening
celebration.
! Mr.. Lyons, of Richmond, Va, brosher.in-law
OF Gov. Wise, it is said viii receive the appoint
E.ment Of Minister to Spain. The correspondent
Of the Courier and Enquirer, says the President
has very recently given notice Of the intended
recall Of AL ministers and charges.
4 A. Dover. New Jersey, on the 10th inst an at,
tempt was made to rccapture SONS fugitives. for
whom $s, coo reward had been offered. They
twere ledby night to the Jail BY woman who
had gained their confidence and the Sheriff show
ed then \ room, when they mistrusted : trick.
broke oat and escaped.
q SorrHxfSxxs rox KAxsAs-The steamer Sal-
lie West from Nashville, took up the Missouri
river one hundred and ten Southeruers for Kan
Iaa Though armed, they we're under no organ.
iisaticn, but said they were going 70 Kansns to
sestle shers, and not ike companies from the
same direcsion. which psecedsd them, to vote.
light, end leave. = ss'.t IS
John S. Sprague VA indicted at Portland,
Maine for polygamy, the Indictment charging
him wisk having two wives. His counsel proved
that IA had three, and thus quashed the indics.
lment NM ;s.s gsg
A n1somx xfsNs sCoeDa DaSr1xptx0s--The Wash
Iingeon Union rscommends John Il Savage, ol
! tTennessee for re%lecsion % the Houss Of Rsp
ressntativsag - "fsasaen and eascient" Thia
|h IL sans SAvase Who made TIE ferocioul
( ipsech in the House after the dsasA Of Preston
Is RreekA
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We understand Mayor Corse, Mr.. Evans,
and some other person whose name We have
forgotten, are about putting up fine four sto.
ries block of business houses, between. Third
and Fourth on the south side of Jefferson street.
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al Prediction Fulfilled. !.

JErrERsoN's fears are realized. The danger
trenched in irresponsibilitY to the People, arro-
gates to itself the powers of absolute govern
ment, and exercises them to extend the worst OF
despotism. Acknowledging no control either
by Congress, the Executive, or even the People,
it assumes to issue edicts to each, and to direct
or forbid the action of all. fits assumptions
are yielded to, this is no longer a Republic
Here is Mr.. Jederson's warning, written thirty
five years ago. Every line and word applies
with startling distinctness 20 the decision just
made in the bred Scott case:
We already see the power installed for life,
responsible to no authority Qor impeachment
is not even scsre-crow,) advancing with a
noiseless and steady pace to the great object OF
consolidation. The foundations are already
deeply laid by their decisions for the annihila-
ton Of Constitutional State Rights. This will
not be borne. You will have to choose between
reformation or revolution. If know the spirit
of this country, the one the other is inevita-
BILE.
Contrary to all correct example, they go out
| of the question before them to throw an anchor
ahead, and grapple further hold for further ad-
vances of power. They are then, in fact, the
| corps of sappers and miners, steadily working
to undermine the independent rights of the
| States.
! Nothing in the Constitution has given them a
4 right to decide for the Executive more than for
the Executive to decide for them.
The opinion which gives to the Judges the
right TO decide what laws are constitutional and
what not, not only for themselves in their own
sphere Of action, but for the Legislative and E1'
| ecutive also in their spheres, would make the
Judiciary . despotic branch.
If this opinion be sound, then indeed is oul
Constitution complete fsto de Sc. For intend
ing to establish three departments, coordinate
and independent, that they might check and
counterbalance one another, it has given, ac-
cording to this opinion, to one of them alone
the right "a. prescribe rules for the governmen
Of the others-and to that one too, which is un
elected by, and independent of the nation.
Such il the portrait Of Chief Justice Tame,
and his four slayeholding associates, drawn b.
the pen that wrote the Declaration Of Indepen.
dence.
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New CLorHINa-Mr. Elkus, wholesale and re-
tail dealer in clothing, Jefferson street, between
Main and Third, has just received large in
he is showing to his customers and the public
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E. Joy,
,dnRX %iIdsr .s :n ~ ~ R1HSo q

tff WGAINh/e-0OAAD<Nu a
Oh d N II u sn p ffxtu es.
WOULD say to those wishing 70 build that !
/ have on hand seven hundred Doors and other work
in The building line In proportion.
prepared to contract Cottage Buildings In town
or country As heretofore.
lhave b houses and lots, ranging from seven hum
dred two thousand dollars which will sell rent on
accommodating terms.
Also, II lots Northern Addition, ranging from two
TO six hundred dollars, which will sell partly on time.
Those wishing homes would do well to give call
fab IA nj bpy
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st. Sohns.

---.---- + I------- 81. 0OHTa, n. D., 70.
The Government of New Brunswick has found
itself unable to carry out its measures in legis-
lature, and the House has been prorogued pre-
paratory to its dissolution.
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Cincinnati Mar

: - ~ Cincinnati, Mar. 20
The steamer Sultana from New Orleans to St.
Louis was burnt to waters edge 3lmiles below
Hickman, KY, about 10 o'clock last night. Two
persons killed, others seen to jump overheard,
supposed to have been drowned. l,,
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Tribune correspondence.

The opinion of the majority of the Supreme
Court Judges have not yet even been filed in
the Clerks Office. Judge Taney's is now under
going second revision in manuscript. Judge
Catrons was printed expurgating the clause
reAecting on the majority for discussing the mer-
its of the case after denying the jurisdiction of
the Court. Judge Campbell refused to allow
his to be examined then by his colleagues, and
especially By Judge Grier. The probability is
that they will all be materially modified.
Five members of the Cabinet have signifed
to Mr.. McMullen, of Va, that he might have
Brigham Youngs place.
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BURLINGTON AND PEORIA RAILRoAD.-We are
glad to learn from the Agent in this city, Mr..
Kellogg, that the damages to this Road, by the
late food, have now been repaired, and that cars
are running between Burlington and Peoria. The
Road had just been completed and passenger
trains put on in February last, when the food
came and swept away some five bridges aud a.
large amount of embankment., These damages
have all been repaired, and cars are now run
ming between the Illinois and Mississippi. We
thus have another freight and passenger route to
Chicago and the East, and Railroad connec-
ton with S.. Louis and the South. One link
more, connecting Peoria and Logansport, and
we shall be- upon the shortest and best East and
West Railf6ad route in the Union, giving nssan
almost Air Line to Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and
New York. q. .ass,5
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Ice cream ON. ID pa,e.

The Hawk.Eye broadly insindates that our
distinguished fellow citizen, Thos W. Ciaggett.
independent candidate for Judge, is travelling
round the District chartering the saloons and
doggeries, for the Spring campaign.
We should be glad 10 learn that our cotempo.
rary had been nisinforned on this subject. For
although We remember that IL was the habit of
our t6wnsnan to "treat" with great berality
when he was Wing candidate, he usually did
up the matter very gerteelly. Instead of sneak.
ing round and ehartering doggeries to supply
voters with ''rot gut,p he was accustomed, by
general proclamation, to invite all citizens 20 as
semble at the saloons and partake of siee cream
which he ordered in unlimited quantities. That
mode of treating was not only genteel but
perfectly harmless, sandswe should very, much
regret to find, tina. with his political change. he
had also made change for the worse I'd other
respects. N 44ts4s 49, sssGs aS
In the days Of his 'ice cream. festivals.p he
was accustomed to make earnest temperance
speeches, and we often heard him boast that 10
him belonged the honor, while mn n,s,er Of tho
Maryland Legislature, Of introducing and advo.
eating the first stringent Law on the subject i,
the United States. In those days. too, our friends
ats Denmark say, that he made good free al!
speeches, and denounced the Fugitive slave Law
as Unconstitutional.
ms sentiments hare changed, and we suppose
is not to be wondered at il his practice ! bs ~
changed with then.--Gate City.
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i Dred,s Master Insane.
4 The Washington correspondent Of the New
York Courier and Enquirer says Of the Dret
| NJ Sandford never willingly consented to the
appeal Of the cause from the Missouri Courts
and that be did not wish TO contest ii. Il waf
his desire and intention to emancpate the whole
family az soon as he could make the proper ar
rangenefts to do SO, and remove them from
! the State Of Missouri. He believed they we're
BY one Of Mr. Sandford's relatives that he only
consented TO place himself in the attitude of a
defendant after enduring an amount Of importu-
nifty, badgering and worrying from persons hay-
ing no other than political interest in the case,
| which 1t was not in the strength of HE nature
to resist; and the result of the persecution to
which he has been subjected is, that he lost his
reason, and is now the inmate of mad-house.
So notorious was it nearly yeai ago that this
cause was prepared in order TO toiss q spurious
political issue upon the Court for the benefit Of
the party Of slavery extension, that high officer
in the law department Of the government, in du-
ty bound to concur in its whole policy, admitted
TO me that it had that appearance, and that he
expected the Court would throw it out upon that
ground. ~ t W.
1a+
/ In regard to the ultimate object of the deci-
sion the same correspondent says that Judge Ia
neys decision carries the political institution of
slavery in the free States, and is designed to do
SO. He adds |: .ss.
The majority Of the Supreme Court must be
perfectly aware Of the full scope of the principle
announced by them. They have said that slaves
are property by the Constitution, that as such
they 90 into the Territories in defiance OF the
laws Of Congress and of the Territorial Legisla-
tures They mea,, to say that in pursuance ofthe
same power the slave holder may carry his prop.
erty into the free States, and that the legislation
Of those States cannot deprive him of it, nor
weaken his title to it. Judge Kane has already
said it as to the State Of Pennsylvania and it
not be doubted that the Supreme Court had his
dictum in their mind in using the language which
they did, and meant to confirm it. believe,
therefore, that this opinion is deliberately enun
ciated for the purpose of being acted upon, and
that it is the beginning Of an agitation with OBJ
jects most hostile to the peace of our free COM
munities. The assertion and the exercise of
this power simply constitute the re-establishment
of Slavery in our States, not by Congress and
not by our own laws, but by partisan and Sec
tional Committee acting as a Court in Washing
ton city. For ifby force of the Constitution cit
izens of other States may hold slaves in New
York for one hour, they may for q life time if
they can hold them, they can sell them or hire
them they can set up baracoons and establish
regular depots for vast coastwise slave trade;
and all this, under tffe Constitution of the Uni
ted States, and in defiance and contempt Of the
sovereignty OF the State Of New York.
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.N Detroit, March %.
Boats reach Lake Huron without difficulty
Steamers daily hereafter to Cleveland, Toledo
and Port Huron. ..r -..se l4...
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~ New I UIN, MurCH 20.
The camphene works of Thos. Belts. at Wil-
'liamsburg, were burnt last eve together with a
large quantity of rosin, turpentine &c. Loss,
$50 900 H- .s=- -s-# .s.... y .- p. -
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LIGHTING oyER.-A gentleman and his wife
coming into the city by the way of Jefferson ST.,
with horse and buggy, yesterday, became so
''swamped" in the mud, that before he could
extricate his horse from the lower depths, had
to take his wife on his shoulder and place her
where there was less danger of loosing her, and
then by little assistance succeeded in rescuing
his horse-so says our informant, who is a man
of yeracity
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New GooDs.-We see that Mr.,H. H. Scott is
just opening new goods at his store on Main
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Harrisburg, March 26.
The Union State Convention to-day nominat-
ed David Wilmot for Governor and VIM. Mill
ward for Canal Commissioner.
Messrs James Veech and James L. Lewis have
been nominated as candidates for Judges OF the
Sunreme Court ltI ---ll.a =
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DEATH OF w. J. BRowS, OF IsprAyA.-WmR
j. Brown Of Indianapolis, died near that c;tv nn !
thn 18th INST, aged forty one years. M. r.
served four years in Congress, and was second
ASSISTANT Postmaster General under the Polk
administration, and at the time Of his death vas
Special Nail Agent for the West ~
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"a The recent partizan decision OF the Su
preme Court, promulged as it is at the yer,
Threshold OF Mr.. Buchanan's Administration
followed BY the sacrifice of Geary and Of Kan
aAs as seems apparent, to Border Rufiian rule
aud other signs Of the times, very apparent K
close observers, render II certain that Buchanan
has, as was always supposed he would do, faller
into the hands of the dsunion propagandsts and
fIlibusters. The entire people Of the North
with good many at the South will unite to a
man to overthrow his Administration. As an
evidence of which we present the following from
the last Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, the Fill.
more organ, and apaper supposed to be ''sound'
on 'National" topics:
President Buchanan's administration com
mcnces insuspiciously. Those who watched its
dawn declared that the sky was clear, and that
its ruddy glow betokened bland weather. But
it's sun is scarcely above the horizon, when dark
and heavy clouds gather around it. There may
be power enough in its beams to dissolve them
like the mist of the valley, but the present as
pect OF the heavens rather indicates that q pow.
erful storm is brewing, and that if Buchanan,
like Harrison, should sink under the burdens of
office; he would be taken away from the evil to
come. 2 7t's x t4'iifs t't1 as
The extra Judicial decision of the Supreme
Court, in which that high tribunal oyerstepped
the limits Of their duty, and made an excursion
into the domain Of party politics, has infused
determination into the decaying opposition, has
inspired it with new vigor, and reinforced it by
great numbers Of thoughtful men, who, though
they make no noisy demonstrations, have taken
their ground, and win maintain it to the end.
Close upon this inauspicious decision, the
country is startled by the intelligence that Gov.
Geary, Of Kansas, has resigned his Office. be-
cause he is not supported by the general gov
ernment in his efforts to maintain order. There
is bad state Of things in Kansas. Mr.. Buch-
anan must put at end to it. at once, or his ad-
ministration is doomed! The hour calls for a
strong will and bold hand. This is no time
for a tmid, haltng, vacillating policy. The
country has waited, and hoped, and disciplined
itself to patient endurance, in the expectation
that when it was relieved of the incubus Of the
Pierce administration, it would behold the reign
Of order and justice. Conservative men will
refuse to live any longer on expectation, and
will demand deeds,
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CAss VS.. TASEY.-Upon TIE delivery ofJudge
Taney's decision in the Dred Scott case, it is
said General Cass, who was invited to hear the
reading Of it, and who, occupied promiEent
ed with the result. He had listened with mani
fest impatienee to Judge Taneys elaborate refu-
tation of squatter sovereignty; but when the
venerable Chief Justice had uttered the decla-
ration that the constitutional provision, empow-
ering Congress to make all needfuI rules and
regulations for the territories, applied only to
territory in possession ofgoyernpent at the con-
stitution was adopted, he seized his hat and
marched out, in manner indicating his dissent
to every one who saw him. This was more than
ne could stand, and he did not care to hear the
remainder of the decision.
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SALE OF REAL EsTATE.-We understand the
lands laid out By Sunderland Bros. into q acre
lots, and sold yesterday at Auction, brought
from Sis to $3.50 per acre-distance from the
city two miles. DR.. Hendricks sold two lots a
little nearer and more eligibly located, one at
S4OO and the other at 1872. 80 per acre.
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Har:risbnrp Marc

II New York, March 26-s P. ".
No news Of the expected steamer here or at
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AN OvERELow-LEvEEs BRoKE-GREAr Loss
OF PRoPERTY.-We learn from q gentleman di-'
rect from Arkansas River, that it has oyerfown
its banks, carried away the levees, inundating
the whole lower country, and destroying stock
and property to the amount of from $4,000 to
800, 900. He states that the levees at the head
of Cyprus Bend, at Berryyille and above there,
and along Red Fork Bayou, are nearly all car
red away, and that whole plantations are COW
cred with water The river, he states, is higher
than the big rise of fs44~'H He thinks the dam
age would have been much less, had not the
levecs been built so near the bank of the river,
so that they would not have caved in so readily.
Il Memnhis RuIletin -tt3 aaiAEls~st 5Es faEa