The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-17

tue bcuOoI, 1uu aCquAluteu Win Ill its ifienus
and patrons. So, in view of all these considera-
tons, Mr.. johnson was, in preference to all
others, unanimously elected by the Board Of
Trustees President of the University
In conclusion, permit US to ~ that, should
Mr. johnson consent to accepted the position so
warmly pressed upon him by hitkiends and the
friends of the educational interest of Burling-
ton, We hope that he will receive from onr
citizens that cooperation and sympathy which
this noble enterprise demands and the best in
terests Of our city require.
Yours respectfully,
SEVERAL oF,rHE TsUsTEEs.
FIRE.-A FIRE broke out, at 6 o'clock last
evening, in small frame dwelling owned by
Mr.. Raney, situated on Columbia street, between
Fourth aud Fifth, and in a few moments the
tenement was consumed. The fire rs supposed
to have originated from the contact of stove
| pipe with the roof. Owing to the extreme dry
ness of the fabric, the flames spread with great
rapidly, and rendered the salvage of the house
impossible. TIE furniture was almost entirely
lost, only a few articles of small value being
saved. There was no insurance. E
This is sad blow to Mr.. Raney, who pos
sesses nothing whatever beyond this little ten
ement, which he had just finished, with his own
hands, and had occupied but few days. He
is an honest and industrious man, and is wor-
thy object of the sympathies of the community.
Is An intelligent young lady wishes
place in the country, in good family, without
wages. Address this office.
PLAIN SPEAKING ON THE SrUMP.-That un-
tsworthy son-in-law of Colonel Benton, William
Carey Jones, having gone out to St. Louis to
assist in the defeat of Frank Blair, and attacked
him with personal vlrulence, Mr.. Blair thus al
luded to his assailant in his closing campaign
speech =
"Not content with letting loose their West
ern pack after those FIVE Richmonds had BEEN
driven from the field, here comes another man,
Mr.. Carey Jones, who halls from Washington
who has had a rowing commission to visit
Central America and other distant countries,
because he had UNANIMOUSLY slandered his bro
Their in.law, Fremont, during the last campaign,
and who now, in order to enttle himself to
another OHuCe, al Tue piuQlUp OI the IFcSlueHt,
makes an attack on me, which is paraded in the
Republican and circulated in pamphlets through
out the city. | don't conceive it to be my
province to take this man by the throat for,
although might benefit the public by acting
| as executioner of all the vermin the Admins
traton keeps, yet THIS mdn-,cho atfernotes be-
tweea mania pot" and the kitchen Of the
| White House, ieare for his own yices to
| destroy"
The Lecompton Constitution, as our readers
have probably seen by Geographic dispatches,
| has been rejected by the people of Kansas.
Some people think this settles the political ques-
tions in Kansas; we do not. They will never
| be settled till Kansas becomes State of the
Union, and it is somewhat doubtful if they will
stay settled then. Freedom and slavery will
| never harmonize in the United States, and there
| will be trouble while slavery lasts as political
institution. We speak not as a partizan either
| way, but give our opinion as a matter of fact.
Dubuque Express g. Herald.
That is just exactly what Douglas and his
friends are abusing Lincoln for saying in bis
Springfield speech.
FLooD IN THE CEDAR RIvER-EIGHT HUNDRED
recent food in the Cedar River has done con-
siderable damage. The greatest damage, how.
ever, is to the Iowa City and Davenport Rail-
raid, upon which heavy embankment has been
washed away, which will require considerable
time to repair. The following is cut from the
Iowa City Republican Of Wednesday:
This was the state of affairs when we visited
the scene. The flood was at its height, being
fourteen feet above the common level of the
river. Stretching about mile and three quar-.
tiers west of the bridge, and Tar away north and
south until all view of it was lost in the half
submerged timber, past whose solitary looking
trunks the waters rushed and foaned as if i'm
patient of obstruction. The Cedar looked more
like the Father of Waters himself than one of
| his humbest tributaries. Heaps of grain tied
| in sheaves, which few days before had been
piled together by some anxious hnsbandman,
| were coursing, in company with his uprooted
| fences, down the stream. Cord wood, fallen
timber, anything which the power OF water
could undermine and raise and carry oil, fol-
lowed 10 close pursuit. In the midst of oil stood
| the bridge, the viaduct, and the embankmens
| the first unhaimed; the second entire; ali
damage having been repaired; the latter, which
is a mass of loan and sand, rapidly passing
away at the rate of five feet per hour. Rails
| and sleepers were beng torn up to save them
| from disappearing also. The embankment stood
out q narrow slip of dry land, dividing the flood
| for three quarters of a mile; while round it
swept the current, with its greatest force, raging
and rolling like torrent. Its rate Of travel
| must have been at least twelve miles an hour
There was some danger of the embankment be-
ing undermined, as the whirlng eddes we're
working with a screw like action underneath.
Here and there, to prevent this, boughs Of
trees, in some places overaid with earth, were
placed along the waters edge. This contrivance
/ was attended to with some success, but it only
| deferred the day of evil. That same night one
hundred feet more diappeared, and the follow
1 ing day friday the water bored its way thro'
| in several places, carving with it large guam
titles of earth. Turf was pushed into the holes,
branches of trees laid over them, and then
another layer of turf put on, but so small was
the supply of material (all the turf being bro't
| across narrow sheet of water, two pieces al q
ime, by one man) and SO rapid the deyouring
| force of the water, that all was to no purpose;
the turf which was put in on one side soon re-
| appeared on the other, and by Saturday morn
| ing another breach was burst open, two hundred
| feet in width. The water had subsidized only
about two feet since the previous Thursday, and
there was every prospect Of the whole embank-
ment being carried away. On the east side of
| the bridge no harm had been done, the bank
being high, combining the water on that side to
| 1T accustomed channel.
Cars continue to run regularly to both sides
| Of the break for the conveyance Of passengers,
who are taken across the food, with their bag
| gage in two boats six persons at time in EACH
1t is impossible, however, to get freight across;
no teamster will venture, though as much as
ten dollars load has been offered any one viii.
| ling to undertake the transit.
| It is impossible to estimate what damage has
been done BY this food to the crops in the
| neighborhood Of the river; but we presume it
does not amount to much, as the Cedar is well
| timbered for some distance on each side
throughout the greater part Of it's course. The
| food Is said By some persons TO be as high as
| that of 1851: Others think-it Is foot or eigh-
| teen inches lower II ia all however mere