The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-09-28

-are now ready 70. sea, at Washington, -ano
will sail very soon for the rendezvous - burnos
A,rcs. Both vessels will carry guns OF very
heavy calibre, including pivot shell guns Of
nine and eleyen-inch bore, besides howitzers
and the most effective descriptions OF small
arms.
THREE COMETS IN THE FIELp.--W. o. Bond,
Of tie Harvard University, notices II as Tact
OF unusual occurrence, that there are now yisi-
bic In the heavens three comets, the brightest
OF which fDonatl's) can be distinctly seen with
che naked eye, about ten degrees above the
horizon, in the northwest, about half-past seven
p.n. II shows a tail of two degrees in length,
and is rapidly Increasing in brightness and
rising higher above the horizon az that hour
FAraL AccIDKNr.-A Young man, named Au-
gus,us G.. Leigh. living at Jerseyvlle, ILL.,, acct
dentaly shot himselfon Monday last. He took
his gun careessly by the :nazzle, the hammer
caught, and he received the fatal charge in his
left breast.
A convict in the Ohio Penitentiary at
tempted TO commit suicide the other day by
cutting his throat. The knife, some four inches
in length, slipped from his fingers into the in
cision, and = surgeon called in, who made
an orifce by the removal Of the seventh rib
and took the knife out of the cavity, where it
was resting on the diaphragm near the heart.
A Douglas paper in Illinois announces that
two young orators, the sons of distinguished
men, and each chip of the old block, have
taken the stump for Douglas" So Douglass
cause has to be taken up by two chips.-Louis-
vile Journal.
Tie reason of Lieut.. Mathis sending the
captain of the SLAYER Echo back to Charleston
was that he supposed the law required his trial
there. lie should have left him at Key West,
as the law requires his trial at the port where
the Dolphin first touched after his capture.
William Ii. Monaghan, Of Charleston, S. G.,
was killed on Thursday night, by falling from
the window OF his room at the New York Ho-
tel while in state OF intoxcation.
SUIcIDE.-Martin Combs a lawyer of Mil
waukee, committed suicide at Bangor Me-, the
other day.
The coored people of Philadelphia are very
much pleased at the result OF the Slavery dis
cussion between Parsons Brownow and Pryne,
and have passed resolutions highly compliment
tary to the latter, but by no means flattering to
the former.
An attempt is about to be made by the High
Church wing OF the Episcopal Church, in New
York, to procure the restoration OF Bishop On
derdonk to the active duties OF his Office.
L
of Sciences has again advertised its prize,
amounting to about $50, 900, Tor the discovery
of the cause and the effectual cure Of cholera.
The "croppy style of cutting the hair has
just broken out among the young ladies of Mil
woukee, and is raging fercely. The Wisconsin
states that one barber alone has cropped no
less than $50 young ladies' heads within the
short space of three weeks"
MURDER,-The dead body of Young lady
named Harris, was found near Fulton, Missouri,
several days since, bearing marks of violence.
She had evidently been murdered by some fiend
who attempted to violate her person. The
murderer is unknown.
sB- The last accounts from Frazer River rep.
resent provisions very scarce and dear. Dog
meat was the deiicacy of the season, and that
was selling at fifty cents pound.
The Washington correspondent of the n T.
Tribune says:
The bowie knife OF the captain of the SLAYER
Echo has been sent hlther. Inscribed upon it
are these words:
America, the land OF the Free and home of he brave
AN UNFORTUNATE MIsrAKE-Mr. Murdoch,
OF Madison, Ind, a few nights since, thinking
he heard burglars about, stepped out OF doors
and fired gun at dark looking object before
him. He found that he had killed one of his
neighbors COWS, worth 800
SPLENDID OPESING-There are, says the
Horizon (Wi>) Argus, one hundred and eleven
manageable girls in the little town OF Horizon.
The Washington Union speaks of Douglass
friends in Illinois "Kihderhook philosophers
ana Buffalo here,ies'
Miss Eleanor Henry, announced in the tele,
graphic reports as beng shot by Thomas Smith
son, of Pittsburgh. is still! alive, though in very
critical condition.
"lf every stump in Kansas were negro,
every tree upon her soil s4se-driver, and
every twig upon the tree lash to scouree a
negro to his daily toll, would vote for the al.
mission of Kansas under the LecomDton Con-
stitation"
Tins infamous sentiment was uttered upon the
stump few days ago by the Hon. James
Hughes, the Indiana member OF Congress, who
challenged man for the ayowed purpose of
avoiding tight Lou. Journal.
Mr.. Halfner, of Delaware county, Iowa, has
raised this season, eight tons of Hungarian
grass from oae acre Of ground
DANCE, WITH QUINISE VARIATIoSs.--The
young folks had a dance at Eagle, on Friday
night, 'tall in a bowrv"-no less than four OF
them were taken with chills cholic fever, &c,
in the course Of the evening Lansing mich J
Republican.
Benjamin Mason, of Newport, caught, last
Friday. 1926 pounds OF bass with hook and
line. The fish averaged % pounds. They sold
at cents pound for New York.
man named McGnuis, Of Stelonville, Ga,
recently hung himself to scare bis wife. She
let him hang long enough to get scared himself
A chimney $50 feet in height is construct
Ing at the Charlesto9n navy yard-said to be
the tailest chimney in the United States.
The Savannah Republican says that Thomas
hanneily, who was shot few days since, lived
four days and nineteen hours with pistol ball
lodged in the left ventricle OF the heart.
One of the McGregor robbers, named James
Call, was arrested on Wednesday last, and or
dered TO be committed by a magistrate On
the way to iiil be made his escape and was re-
arrested. After being taken to jail he knocked
the Jaior down SId again made his escape, and
is stiil at large lie ID a desperate fellow.
The Fayette Pioneer says that farmer in
that county turned his hogs into a field of
wheat and that owing to the poisoned grains,
which some persons say are found among the
wheat of this years growth, the hogs died of
its effects
The banking firm Of Chubb, Brother, Barrow
n Co., at Davenport, has suspended. The Ga
zette says the suspension is but temporary. 1t
was caused by the failure OF Chubb Brothers, at
Washington, d. C.
little girl in Louisville had her nose bitten
Oft by horse, one day last week, while passing
under his head in a stable.
The drought is so great in the province of
Arragon, Spain, that the fields have to be water
cd, and the peasantry fight with each other to
obtain water from the Ebro.
There are only two cities in Germany or in
the world which contain more Germans than
New York and its environs
DR.. B. F. Harvey, the Oldest surgeon in the
U. ). Army, died at Baton Rouge, La, on the
29th, aged so years.
Col. CURTIS AT Communicable Appa.
moose Republican says that the speech OF Col
Curtis, at Centreve, the other day, called to-
gether larger assembly than was ever before
convened at political meeting in that town
boy named lothian Francis Morse, residing
| in Bath, Me-, fell from tree which he was
climbing, on Friday last, and was killed.