The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-01-19

SIS 1T any one believes that all the stories Of
the glorious old times Of jackson and Clay
campaigns have been used up, he will find
it easy to be mistaken. Witness the fol-
lowing, which comes to US from Old Ken
lucky, by the way of Louisiana. Our
entertaining friend begins e'
You must know (but we did not know
that around and about the beautiful city Of
Lexington, in the State Of Kentucky, for q
distance Of twelve or fifteen miles, there live
-or did live, twenty years ago-a great num-
Der Of small farmers, who ind in that fair
city a ready market for tho surplus produce
of their farms, and there they carry it to sell
aud buy fnery and nick-nacks for their fam
lilies. One Of these farmers, poor but in
dustrious and fearless man, had porker, q
few bushels Of meal, potatoes, beans, ETC.,
which he wished t. dispose Of; and, borrow
ing horse and wagon, he packed up his
things, and, just ut dusk set of for town.
Arrived at one or two o'clock in the morning
he entered the market-house, and selecting
STALL he split the dressed pig into halves,
and hung them on the stout hooks, and with
q bag Of meal for pillow lay down to sleep
till morning He slept soundly and late,
and when he awoke the market people were
crowdins in; and. 10 one half Of his pig
had been unlocked, and hooked II was clean
gone! He made known his loss, and, raw
ing and swearing, he drew the whole
crowd about him. As he grew warm with
his wrath he said:
Il know the sort Of a man that stole that
pork dor
"Well, why not let it out If you know, and
we viii help find him for your they cried
out in reply.
..Ycs l know what sort Of man he was
he was Clay man
As old Harry Clay lived within mile Of
the market, and every man here was ready
to go to the death fo- him, this was bold
speech, to accuse Clay man Of stealing
half pig in Lexington, and they closed on
him to give him sound thrashinS when
one demanded of him what made him think
SO $r @
sWhy, nobody but Clay man would have
done it; Of lie had been jackson man he
would have gone the whole hog r
This turned the tables. The humor Of
the robbed farmer was irresistible. The
Lexingtonians carried him off to Coffee
house to u hot breaki;is and morning spree
and after drinking to the health Of Henry
Clay, they made up his loss, and sent him
home rejoicing.
When was down to the fair, good
many years ago, there was prize offered to
the one who would come the nearest to ma
king perpetual motion. Well, all sorts Of
machines, of all shapes and materials, were
fetched there and shown, and the makers of
them told how long they would run. As I
was walking wbout them seen sign over
tent: All scto scaas to see perpetual mo-
tion, and no mistake, meet here So paid
the admission fee, and went in. Very soon
queer little man got up on box that sAry-
ed for a platform, and addressed the audi
ence: Ladies and gentlemen, I'm agoing to
exhibit the most wonderful invention you
ever seen. 1t has been rnnnin' for full three
year, and ifnobody stops it, it'll run on for
ever And here he unrolied a long strip
Of paper. "This is taiior's LiHt' And,
MS he held it up to tile gaze of the people,
they admitted that, whether the bill was ev--
er paid OF, not. they had all been sold
Export OF Ksrcadstuffx. 4A 4.f
: 1t has become customary Of late years 10 ex-
port nearly 3D,1OUUOO bushels OF wheat from
the United States to foreign countries, even in
years when harvests are comparatively good
abroad, because in such years the harsests being
also good here, the price sinks in proportion, a.
also freights. The exports OF brea6stuffs Of oil
kinds in 1857, as compared with 1856, from the