The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-07-13

| Dokho"ED CAPlTAL.-Ueneral jackson once
said that those who "do business on borrowe,
capital ought to break" The Boston Atlas {
Bee wonders wha, the old hero, were he alive
would say OF the present Federal Administra-
tion, which is doing business on borrowed
capital to the tune of forty millions year.
The New Orleans Delta proposes, IN case the
| people of Kansas vote down the Lecompton
| Constitution, that Louisiana and other cotton
growing States shall send q special Commits
son to Washington to demand that Congress
shall enforce " "Lecompton in spite of the
people, and if Congress refuses, that the cot
ton States aforesaid shall declare the Union
dissolved.
return to Parliament, on the subject Of
the National Debt of Great Britain, shows that
on the 3lst of March, 1853. the total was
f779, ,225, ,493, on which the total annual inter-
est was f23, ,3s3,76s.
PERsoNAL.-Hon. Schuyler Colfax has been
nominated BY the Republicans OF the Ninth In
diana District, for reelection to Congress. The
vote was unanimous.
The Southern Commercial Convention having
died out, the Charleston Mercury has an entire,
ly new plan for ventilatng Southern patriotism
and indignation. 1t is "that the Southern
States establish a Congress, with limited pow
ers, to meet AT stated times until her grievances
are redressed that it shall be the business OF
this Congress to discuss the rights aud wrongs
Of the South, and recommend TO the Southern
States measures OF redress" The movement
gestion ill be tried.
Mrs. Elizabeth Parker, the Oldest person in
the State Of Maine, we presume, died in Dur
ham, Cumberland, Co i, on the 22d. The Maine
papers say her age was nearly lis years. She
was born in l743 thirty-three years before the
Declaration of Independence. Till she was
about lilo she possessed bodily vigor sufficient
to enable her to work in the garden, an en-
ployment she took great delight in.
SUICIDES IN ST. LoUIs.-Robert McAllister, a
well known pork dealer OF st. Louis, committed
suicide on Wednesday morning, in fit of de-
lrium tremens. He was found lying upon the
floor, bathed in blood, with his neck nearly dis
severed, and razor still in his hand. On Tues
day morning, Mrs. Catherine Shaeffer killed
herself in the same manner. She had been
partially insane for some time previous.
son of Minister Forsyth at the ty Of Mex.
leo lately distinguished himself by street brawl
and fight with an Englishman named Buchanan.
Our Representatives abroad should leave their
rowdy sons at home.
The Alton Courier says the case of Mrs. Mac
ready, the distinguished reader of Shakespeare
aud other poets, against the city Of Alton, for
injuries received by her in the spring of 1857,
by falling off sidewalk, and for which she
claimed $4,000 damages was brought to Ia
close in the Circuit Court of the United States
at Springfield. after occupying the attention Of
the Court for two days. She obtained verdict
in her favor for $500.
Joseph Stift's Jewelry shop, in Indianapolis.
was robbed of $1,000 in watches and jewelry,
while he was absent at dinner on Wednesday
last. The entrance was effected Though the
rear.
Henry Brooks, 6rst Lieutenant in Dr.. Kane's
last Arctic expedition, died at Brooklyn, on
Tuesday, in an apopletic fit.