The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-03-23

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basrs!-Assds bssken a, bct,les csusAsd, y.
~. ~ oF vhieh proceedings - ean hardly -
lievs were caicalstsd - give stsAngasa Alel
idss Of sAs ssssnp p.Iahnssss = Akrse lsdss
sr the nosaiity q ~ town. q lhsly = pro
mote temperance.
a. We learn that arrangements have ben
made 80 % to insure the completion, within u
ssason, ofshs gap between Peoria and Logans
port shus giving u the shortest and best Rai
Road coanectioa With the East When this linl
b suppl,ed We shall b upon the best passenger
route N Tho entire country, and large amoun
Of the bsdnsss and travel, nov sssking the Mi
sisippi Valley By other routss, will como ovsl
the Peoria. LogAnsport, and Fort Wayne route
which, from New York. through Philadelphia
Pittsbsrgh, Mansfield, II. Wayas, etc., vii
make an almost cir line TO Burlington. Thil
link will also supply - with better sonnscsioa
with Cincinnati than any city north Of 81. Loul
nov enjoys. When compaeted, passengers can
breakfast in Burlington and sap at Cincinnati.
The Council BluiIs Bugle Of the ID inst. says:
1.-THE land olics iu this city was opened for psi-
vats entry on the Esd ult, and It the closing d
the Office on Saturday evening over eighty y-ioul
thousand acres had been entered, being an ave.
rage Of near seventeen thousand acres per day.
The entries are mostly made with land war.
rants, and mostly ON speculation"
- The SAndusky Register states that xr.
Hector Jennings, Of that city, will succeed n
establishing his claims to the great ~Jsnninga
esta:e," the income from which 10 tS0, 600 POI
annum.
MAyoR's 4 RUsssL's UfAH SUPPLIEs.-A late
St. Joseph paper states that on Thursday, the
4th, n. Majors Of the firm of Majors I Russell,
passed through that city, and informed the citi
sens that be had selected Nebraska City, N. T.,
a the point from which he has determined tc
start his train for the transportation Of Govern
ment freight to Utah.
he says that his 6rm will start from thai
point from eight hundred to one thousand Va
gons. They viii require from six to eight thou
sand yoke Of oxen, and will engage the services
Of about twelve hundred men, for which they
will pay $25 per month, out and back.
The price which hs proposes to give for oxeu
10 ssvensy-6ve dollars per yoke, which in view
Of the recent state Of the money market, 10 Ger
tAinly fair remuneration. They will require
| the stock TO DO delivered ct Nebraska City, O.
| the time of which due notice will be givez
through agents or the press. 1t 10 probable
that Nessrs. Majors Russell will ask sixty
ninety, and one hundred and twenty days oa
their purchase ofstock.
The trains will commence moving at the ear
liest practicable moment, certainly not lAteI
than the lst of April.
KAxsAs.-The story sent 70 The St. Louis Re
publican and telegraphed all over the country
that Isaac Nundie, one Of the Kansas election
judges, had been shot, to prevent his testifyine
before Gov. Denver, - contradictsd. A lettel
70 merchant from Wessport, No. now in New
York, says that Mandie accidentally shot him
self.
Mr.. Green. one Of the Kansas legislative com
missioners, who brought the testimony concern
ing the election frauds 10 Washington, inform'
the correspondent Of the New York Evening
Post, that the work Of organizing the militia O
the Territory j. going on rapidly. Mem are EN-
ployed at IS per day to organize the variou'
counties. Large volunteer companies are or
ganized, and are nightly drilling. in the citie
Of Lawrence, Leavenworth, Topeka, Ossawotto
mis-, Prairie City, and other large towns. lti
estimated that At the present time there ar
regularly organized In Kansas territory l6,oo
men. This entire force will repel ill attempt
to snforcsshe Lecompton Constitllion. ahoul
the federal government attempt to enforce tha
instrument upon the people Of that territory
1 Major Gen. James H. Lane ID the commander
in-chief Of this force. Abc1t 1900 Of thsa
men own horses, and can organize - cavalr
oros as abort notice: 1000 are drilled - sue
already. : s'szrs si3
! TIE particulars Of the burning Of the steaml
Eliza Battles, in the Tombigbee river. - give
in the Mobile papers. show it TO have been
horrible AFFAIR. The Gre took among the frsigi
ofcoston, and severe gale spread il irresissibl
and rapidly over the boat. The passsngsrs vel
obliged 70 ay in their night clothes. and mo-
Of them escaped from the Grs only 70 perish b
freezing in the swamp, which owing % doc
in The river, extended long distance on eas
bank. The boat vas run ashore smeag q
tres aad undsfbrush, end many of nor passs1