The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-09-21

LEGAL DECISION, AND EXCEPTION TAErS.-
On the morning OF adjournment, in some remark:
10 selt.defence, made before leaving his seat
Judge Ciagett said ''he took it that there we're
not many Buchanan Democrats in this district;
and what there were not OF much account Mr,
Todd mediately replied, with spirit, sYoar
Honor, | take exception to that ruling So,
the decision Of this Court declares the insigDi.i
canoe, in numbers and influence, of the Admin.
istration Democracy of tho district TIE ex.
ception goes up-whether to the Grand sanhe-
dFim of the Democracy; or the Supreme Court,
We are not informed; but, meantime, the adhe-
rents OF MIR. Buchanan don't feel very much
BATTERED, nor stimulated to auy remarkable zeal
in the Judges behalf.-Gate City.
sAGAcITY OF Dozen Monday morning
last, Mr.. John Snow, the stage driver bet. cen
Montpelier and Chelsea, left Chelsea fwhere he
resides) for Montpelier, 10 return to Washington
to stay for the night. A child of his being very
i'll when he left home, he requested his Vile to
attach note to the collar of his dog, informing
him OF the child's state, and to dispatca the
dog at 10 o'clock in the evening, in search of
his master. At about IL o'clock. Mr. Snow
heard the dog at the door Of his room in Y ash.
ington, and upon his collar was the note, in
forming him that the child was much better
The dog had travelled about ten miles, and with
remarkable precision went directly to the room
IN which his master slept. # 'Tasso" isn't
carrier dove" he is surely entitled TO cfeit as
carrier dos-an expeditions telegraph, With
ont batteries or wires.-Mont oelier (yt.) " atch.
NAH.
Bishop Scott Of the Methodist Church. wr;-
ting from the vicinity of the Fraser River gold
mines, says:--"l am not, you know, d II ner,
ana my opinion is not worth much, but at any
Il
rate nave no motive to be partial; ana my
opinion Is that this Fraser river excitement will
prove to be the greatest humbug of tie age,
and that many people will suffer even to I'll last
extremity. THIS was my opinion before | LEFT
California, and have seen no reason to Change
it since came here, but much to streng chen il.
fear that some parties will have an awful &C
count to settle in regard to this matter in com.
ing day.
LEFT FORTUNE TO HIS BETRoruEp.
Tuesday night last, Jnnius W. Craig OF Helena,
Arkansas, died at Louisville. He left will
bequeathing to Miss Wright of Louisville
daughter of Capt. 7. 7. Wright. to whom he
was be,rothed, halt Of the annual income If his
an annuity OF 100000. lie de-
sres in his will that the remaining half Of h;s
income shall be devoted to the Improvement of
his estate, and after her death the whole pro.
perry is to go TO the endowment of COLLEGE at
Helena. The will is contested by his relatives.
There is to be an immense sale OF nronertr
by the Sheriff OF Burlington county, n j., on
the 18th OF September. All the extensive n.ills.
factories, print-works, and the whole village Of
some two miles from Mount Holly.
are to be sold under foreclosure.
The SEA VIEW HoUsE MuRDER-CoRKfc-
ZION OF A MALICIOUS HoAx.-The New York
Daily News says:
Some Of our country contemporaries have been
Iady and wickedly hoaxed By a telegraph ope
ator, who had the bad taste to send a message
hat Mr.. Smith, formerly proprietor OF the Sea
View House, had confessed on his death bed
hat he murdered Moses, the barkeeper, for
those death Donnelly was executed We deem
our duty to say that the whole story is a |
abrlcation, as stupid a. malicious. Mr.. Smith |
alive and well, and n his place OF business in
his city.
1t Is said that the emperor OF China will nav |
ne .n'r,y million OF francs damages 10 the al |
es IN English and French coins, of which he |
az got quantity, to which he attaches no val. |
e. they not being current in those parts. and
ague. '~i'
The fredericksburg (va.) News tells a story
y. r. Il. James going into bank in "Upion =
nd drawing check, which the teller declined
Ashine, because he didn't know him. "Don,l
look Ike gentleman 2" said NJ. James. ooh
e. said the teller, "bus that Is not enough
Am =. T. + James. the novelist" s.Nsver
Dard Of yeal" ssplisd De teller.