The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-11-30

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- telegFapajo deN1seh iron Springfield -
len x6o6S n Nssrir preventative II Congress
from the SIKH District 10 this State. lie died |
81 HE rseiisnes 10 F1sarkburg at o'clock yes- |
tsrday mpsning. T6s announcement il mot IN
expeossi. Ter some years he has been subject
- aasApks Of hsnmosags Of the lungs, which |
1naliy sestlod dewn into ceafrmed consump-
ton. A. ~ Lass session, dsring the struggle
over the Leeompton Bill Ia the House, Mr.. Has.
ris was stricken down by an attack Of hem-
morsge, and for some time his recovery was
considered extremely doubtful. After his re-
turn home be was again prostrated from the ct
fects Of poisonous drug which 10 toek through
mistake, but he rallied from the effects Of this
mishap, and entertained hopes Of being sbls
again 10 take bis seat In Congress. But shortly
before the eloction bis disease assumed more
ALARMING character, since when he has gradually
sunk under its ravages until death closed the
scene.
Mr.. Harris has represented the Springfield
District in Congress for the last six years, and
II the recent election was again returned for
two years more. He achieved national repu-
tation during the last session by his firm and
resolute resistance Of the Lecompton iniquity.
Until stricken down by disease, he was the re-
cognised leader in that body of the Anti Lee
compton forces. When the vote was taken, he
was in his seat at the peril Of his life. or all
the Anti-Lecompton Democratic Rspr esenta-
tives from Illinois, he was considered to be
the most sincere in bis opposition TO that mea-
sure.
Mr.. Harris was native of Connecticut. but
has been resident of Illinois for many years.
He served in the Mexican war with consider-,
able distinction, and soon after its close was
elected to Congress. As q citizen and neigh
Dor he commanded general respect, and his So
cial qualities endeared him to large circle OF
friends. His death, in the prime OF lie, will
be lamented by men Of all parties.-C Chicago
Tribune.
CoMxERcE OF THE UNITED SrArEs-The i'm
ports for the year ending on the 30th Of June
last, amounted to $3.50, 6l2, 100, and the ex-
ports for the same period to 1924, ga, AL. OF
the exports az, 407 ,246 was in domestic specie
and bullion, and $40, 225, o0l foreign do. The
| excess OF exports over imports il just about
| equal to the exports of domestic specie.
The total imports are 1910, 1871 less than
for the previous year but in dutiabls merchan.
disc the total is less than any previous year
since 1852. The falling of in round numbers,
in dutiabls goods, is 500, OOO, 900, and there 10
gain in both free goods and specie. The
increase in free goods is made up entirely Of
articles added to tho free list by the tariff Of
1857.
The falling off in the exports is much less
than the decrease in imports, for while the lat
ter have declined SIS, 276, /, the exports have
decreased only S37 ,Sl6, 26l. OF this decrease,
only $27 ,555, $50 is in the domestic produce,
while the specie exports have fallen off $l6,-
503,77 and the re shipments of foreign pro-
auce have increased.
| HORRIBLE ACCIDENT-A LITTLE BoY's HEAD
INSTANTLY SEVERED FROM HIS BoDY.-Last Sat-
| urday, says the Oshkosh Wis Democrat, while
the steamer Morgan L. Martin was lying at the
dock in that city, little son Of the owner OF
the steamer, about six years old, had his head
instantly severed from his body, by being ac-
| cidently struck on the back OF the neck with
| crank connected with the engine, just as il
| started. The father started and caught up the
| headless body, aud the cry of " 0 God!" which
escaped the fathers lips chilled the hearts
blood of every one that saw that awful sight
and heard that heart-rendering Invocation
He started immediately for Depere, where he
| resides, with the remains, and the anguish Of
| that mother, when she beheld the mutilated re.
mains of her beloved son, may be better ina
| gined than described.
| DEATH OF THE OLDEST PERSON IN ILLINOIS
a negro woman known as "Black Cook" q
native OF Africa, who was freed from slavery
some years since, aud has been living for some
| years past in small log cabin near Dixon, in
| this State, was burned to death on Friday last.
While she was in spasm her hut took fire,
and she persisted in the flames. She was one
hundred and twenty years OF age-;he Oldest
! person in our State, and probably as old per
| son as can be found in the United States
SWINE ON THEIR MuscLEs-They had pig
fight in Cincinnati, last week, which was Wit
nessed by two or three hundred persons, and
was conducted in SO spirited II manner as to ex.
| cite universal admiration. They fought like
two brave pigs, long and well, and had evident
y been trained in the school OF porcne pugi-
lists, Tor they had mind, skill, pluck and bottom
One was ~christened Morrissey and the other
Heenan, and after fighting more than Al hour.
Morrissey bowed his tail, thus acknowledging
himself vanquished.
THE AMAZING FECUNDIrY OF RATs-Ohserya.
ton proves that one pair of rats with their pro-
eeny, will produce III three years no less mum.
Der than CAT, SOS, aud that this number will
consume, day by day, as much food as "a. $50
men, allowing, las it has been proved by actual
experiment. that ten rats will eat AS much as
one man. lt is not improbable that the rats ia
nearly every large city consume almost as much
food as the Inhabitants. But rats are fortu-
nately great garbage eaters, and thus destroy
thousands OF noxions poisons. II it was all
good and wholesome food tor man that tie rats
made out to get hold of, their existence would
be serious tax upon any community; bu; gar
bage beng their food in a great measure, they
are not wholly useless institutions in our large
cities.
Mr. FaIcony has composed n powder and
fuid for the preservation of corpses; the most
decomposed body can be prevented from fur
Their decay, and all odor removed by the APP
plication Of the powder. The fluid is equally
eiiicacious. The process has been tried with
great success at the Grosvenor School OF Medl.
cine, London.
The Emperor of China, it is said, keeps an
executoner who can strike off thirty heads
minute. Whereupon the Louisville Journal ex.
claims, how President Buchanan must envy the
Emperor of China.
Observation-Disclosures Watson, a Scotch
school teacher, finding his health injured by the
confined air OF the school-room, has invented
an OI VeDllidtlOn. { entire,
ly simple, and based On the fact that if TWO
tubes OF unequal length be admitted into a room,
the cool air will enter the shortest aud the
warm air be expelled through the longest Mr. |
Watson's application avoids the unpleasant and |
dangerous draughts Great q by most modes Of |
ventilation.
MEN MORN POLITE THAN WoMEN-Our |
Brown, whose vocation requires him to travel |
all over this great country, nas been amusing |
himself by gathering stsljsucs OF poteness and
boorishness among men and women travelling |
by cars and steamboats,. OF twenty-three men |
whom he helped to q cigar-light, or loaned |
newspaper, twenty said, Thank you, SIR" OF
nineteen women to whom lie paid courtesy
such as giving up his seat-pcking up drop
ped veil, shawl, or the like, only seven said |
+" Thank you," and two of those were "fur-
rners. Boston Post
GooD REAsoN.-A friend of ours in this
city called on Belgian woman yesterday to
get her to 60 to his house and wash for his
family. She replied that she could not go;