The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-03
The Liquor Question.
SAD c.suA1rY-on the I7th inst. Mr.. John

Al hc NucbhaOns
o, The Journal having .fanted oM on tho Al
!. darkey Sunday school issue, is deyotDg i
- tremendous energies to saddle the rfsponsib
70 ~ OF the prohibitory law upon the Repnblica
rs party. 1t assumes that all the advocates
>. temperance are Republicans, and that the Re
u publican party IN the Legislature enacted th
- Prohibitory liquor law.
., Those who remember the history Of the mat
1, ter will recoect that the prohibiory Law wa
Il passed by the Legislature in the winter of 1854
before the Republican party had an existence
: The Senate had Locoioco majority and tn
= House had an opposition majority The Loco 0
d focos being in the majority IN the Senate ar
equally responsible with the opposition who ha
a majority in the House. Either House coul
have prevented its passage, but both voted 70
y IT, and thus took away all party responsibility
!, or rather shared the responsibility between th,
: parties.
In the House Judge Boyles, then Locofoct
3 member from this county, was earnest ant
. prominent advocate Of tne law, and in The Sen.
ate Judge Love voted in favor Of it.
The law was submitted to vote OF the peo-
pie and obtained majority. at the polls in near
y every county in the State. In this strong
Democratic comfy, il we remember, the major.
ity was about one thousand including most OF
the prominent Democrats.
In speaking of the meeting of the liquor deal
ers the other night the Journal says:
"A number Of gentleman made speeches, all
expressing the belief that the Law is uncons.i;u.
tional and should not be enforced
Judge Clagott was present ard spoke JUST
that sentiment and denounced the Supreme
Court for its decision in favor Of the constitu.
tionaty Of the law, and yet many Of our ci,i-
zens may remember that Clagett made
speech in Concert Hall in advocacy of the law,
IN which he boasted that he introduced into the
Maryland Legislature the very first stringent
| temperance law ever enacted in the United
| States
Why then, after advocating this law and vo-
ting for It, do these leading Locofocos now
seek to make political capital by charging it up
on the Republican party which had not come
INTO existence at the period of its passage
And Why defame the Supreme Court for sus-
| tanning the constitutionaHty of a law approved
| by the votes OF the leading Locofocos of the
| State, an ! in the Legislature, and endorsed by
a majority Of thousand citizens of Lee County
and more than ten thousand citizens of the
State:
ltis a vile and contemplate trick sustained
by hypocrisy, falsehood and fraud in desper-
ate effort to deceive Liquor sellers and their
friends and obtain their united support for the
locofoco ticket
The Journal attempts shameless iteration OF
its previous charge that the recent movement
Tor the enforcement of the law originated at
this office. All our citizens know BETTER and |
having previously stated that the editorial no.
tice was published by US en- a reque, of Dem
ocratc lawyer, we will now settle that matter |
efiectualy, We trust by saying thar H. Scott |
Howell, Esq, employed for the prosecution, |
vast he gentleman referred to by us. |
When we deem it essential to the interests of |
the community to take position on the sub |
ject, the public will have difficulty in learn |
ing where we stand; in the meantime we intend |
to squash" every rsscally attempt to make |
political capital out of this natter.-TGate
City.
THE SEVEN E's.-It is common TO say that
man should mind his P's and Q's but we see a
case IN the New York Times in which man got
caught because he did mind his E's II was the
case OF an Englishman named Elliott, who was
military storekeeper near London, and who,
pocketing some SlO, ,000, deserted wife and
family, and came over to this country with an
actress-Miss Sinclair. Elliott is in the shade
OF 90, and Miss Sinclair is Just 81.
The English government pursued Elliott, and
putting the matter into the hands of New
York detective, tie rogue was traced and
caught. Elliott passed his baggage through
the Boston Custom House under the name o.
Brooks Elliott had peculiar ''hand write"
and these peculiarities We're next found at the
DelaHan, Albany, where the name was Everett
and wife; next Al the American, at Buffalo, |
where it was Mr.. and Mrs. Edwards; next a.
the International, Niagara, where it was Mr..
and Mrs. Evans; next on the steamer Isaac |
Newton, as Mr.. and Mrs. Ewin; next at Jones',
Philadelphia, as Mr.. Emerson and wife, next
at the Eutaw, Baltimore, as Mr.. Enesley and
wife; next at Old Point Comfort, as Mr. and
Mrs. Elmslie; next at Newport as Elnlse; next
at the st. Nicholas, New Y Icrk; and all the way
round that fatal Z, which seems he stuck to as
IT no other name save one beginning with an
Z, would suit his purposes. The detective very
snmmar!y called Messrs Brooks, Everett, Ed
wards, Evans, Esin, Emerson, Emsley and
Elliott, out OF the bed Miss Sinclair occupied,
early Monday morning, and put him in the
Street Jail.
RiIN.-ls has reined ever since the 1st of
April, and it is raining now. The Des Moines
River has been nearly bank iu most of the
time, aud is now, for the third time, spread over
the bottoms Threatening destructien along
the whole valley. 1t is at this time within aboat
A. feet Of the main rise this season, which was
some 2l feet above low wsser The great rise
of 81 n feet s inches above low water ct
this place. The river only came up 8 or 4
inches last night, but it rained all night, and
the prospects is that it will rain all day. Our |
City lis still safe, but if it keeps on raining
above on the river as it is here, we must come
under day two-the bottoms above and
below US on this side are under water, and so
IS the bottom across from on the other side.
Teams still crossing on the Bridge; they are
taken by ferry boat at the far end of the
Bridge and carried to Bridgeport, half mile
dstaut A drove of Mexican cattle crossed
the Bridge yesterday. They were driven across
the bottom through the water to the Bridge
They took it and came over with a rush. No
harm done EddyTills Commercial, July 90.
TERRIBLE DEATH OF CHILD BY HYDRoPHo-
BIA.-The Peoria Transcript gives account
Of tho death, by hydrophobia, of very inter-
esting child, the daughter of Mr.. Henry S.
Wooder, OF Mount Hawley, six miles from that
city between eight and nine years of age, on
Friday morning last. The following are the
particulars
On Tuesday Of last week, Sarah Ellen return
ed from school, and complained OF feeling un
well, so much SO, that she did not attend on the
following day, although still able to be about
the house. Thursday she was no better, and
her parents thinking she was threatened with
the typhoid fever, sent for DR.. Murphy, ol this
city. The Doctor arrived there about two
oelocs in the afternoon, and found her sitting
upon the sofa at the side Of her mother, to all
appearances in perfect health; her pulse, how
ever, was very irregular, with occasional
widness in the eyes, and it was not long before
she gave sudden start, and placing her hand
upon her throat, exclaimed, "lt troubles me to
breathe, mother Minute inquiries we're now
when the fact elected which had
not been previously thought Of, that some five
weeks since she had been bitten by domesti
Gated cat on the outside OF her foot. A glass
Of water was ordered to be brought her, when
the sight Of it at once threw her into terrible
commissions. This was at two o'clock in the
and was the first intimation had by
her distracted parents, Of the terrible disease
with which their daughter was afflicted. Her
agony and struggles in the spasms were awful
to behold, and in one of them she bit her mo-
ther severely in the shoulder, and at another
time scratched the father badly in the hand
In her spasmodic efforts, the saliva from her
mouth was at times elected across the room,
and he only relief experienced was by the use
Of chieroform, which. in the end, seemed 70 lose
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