The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-06-14

, TUESDAY. JUNE IA. 1
Arrnrr 70 BUsH THE BRIDsE--The Daven-
port News containing the following accoan
2 Of the attempt to burn the Bridge on Sunday
a The News j. strong advocate of the Bridge
n and this account Of the Bridge accident i the
9 most that can be made out Of L. lis - fol-
= , lows:
II Yesterday marning (sunday.) q the hour ol
: o'clock. watchman on the East end Of the
4 railroad Bridge Was passing over the Bridge 70
! make his hourly report to the Watchman Of the
: center pier, when be discovered combustble
+ materials placed on the Bridge ready for firing
4 Not daring to leave the spot for fear the VII
lians might 6re il, he cried out Justify for the
Bridge Master, who closed the dras and came
to his assistance, when the following incendiary
) articles were found upon the Bridge:
: ! small hemp clothes line rope:
.. l three-fourths mech rope about Is fee: long:
I'll piece of plank Al feet long BY inches
Fl vide, with an auger hole through il and :
rope attached.
piece Of oak plank . feet long with rope at-
, tached.
halfinch rope. is feet long. with crap
ri pling hooks attached.
!
pounds Of coarse blasting powder, In an
indigo boz, done up in separate papers
! tw0-inch auger.
! wooden pail (rope baD two thirds full
Of tar.
market-basket contrasting one dozen bot
ties Of varnish, each bottle carefully wrap
ped in cotton and intermxed with salt
petre.
A quantity Of tarred rope-wool, placed with
hrpNl nfH H~Hh - L. C.L~
third arch from the Iowa shore, about 35
feet East from the second stone pier from
the Iowa shore, on . level with the foot
way, but between the timbers Of the foot.
way each side Of the Bridge.
A quantity Of roll sulphur, partly pulverized.
When the watchmaD gave the alarm be heard
skif leaving from under the bridge, but it wa
to dark too distinguish anything. The williams |
were nearly ready for the work Of destruction, |
and all that remained to be done was to bore |
holes and put in the powder. If the attempt |
had been successful one or more lives must
| inevitably have been sacrificed. This bold and |
infamous attempt will surely be ferreted out,
and suspicion already iastens upon the prime |
mover with unerrng certainty.
We have no wish to screen any man who is
guilty in intent or 10 deed Of the crime of arson.
We would have him punished to the full extent
OF the law. Many persons on this side Of the
|
account is gotten up for effect. It is very
strange that such an immense mass Of conbusti-
Die materials should have been conveyed to the
Bridge without earlier detection. We are as
sured TOO, that all the combustbles found were
more than cart load. Some, indeed, do not
hesitate TO say that the whole affair s a ruse in
tended TO create sympathy for the Bridge. They
say that hand car crossed the bridge about
midnight, for the reasons and uses best known
raj Offi 4nw RI - |
not Such attempts as these, whether real or
feigned, have nothing TO do with the real merits
OF the bridge question. The Bridge has been .
declared 70 be an obstruction aud public nui
sance BY high disinterested and most competent
authority. II must come down sooner or later. /
Al the same time, We would as sternly condemn /
and regret all attempts to remove it BY illegal !
means, as We would Efforts 10 create fictitious
sympathy in its favor, by sham attempts at in I
Observation-Disclosures 4 Argus, June q. ,
Austrian Buic In Lombardy.-The
Forced Loan.
DR.. Franklin's anecdo.e, told at the COM {
mencement Of the Revolutionary war, in illus =
tration OF the proposition Of England to tax the
colonies for the expenses growing out Of the
attempt to execute upon them oppressive and
unconstitutional enactments-the anecdote Of !
the Frenchman who rushed into the street q
orandlshing bot poker, and demanding the cost 9
OF heating it from the pacific gentleman who Q
refused to have it inserted be .ween his ribs
might be repeated to illustrate the treatment Of
Lombardy BY Austria. There is this difference,
however, in the two cases. Austria has for Q
years had the hot iron seething in the vitals
that doomed province; and she nov demands
forced loan OF seventy five millions Of forms,
~ guaranty that she will never take the poker i
out. The loan is 10 be divided among the prln-
c'Pai cities and the penalties which are threat
ened 10 the event OF non compliance with the Q
imperial exActi0ns, so hOrrbls, that the y
money will doubtless be forthcoming, unless By 6
some provideDtial int -rference, the French and e
Sardinians should come to their relief before Q
the iniquity is complete &
The London Daily News, in discussing the '
matter, gives the following almost incredible
account Of the oppression to which the Lom-
bards are subjected: q
The condition of the people on whom it is =
laid. as we'll as the object Of this forced loan,
make 1t q measure Of peculiar aud even refined n
cruelty. During the last ten wears the inbabi. e
ants Of Lombardy have been subjected to q
series OF lines, taxes, and forced loans OF the e
most oppressive and iniquitous kind. In this
respect they have in fact, been treated as slaves
having no right whatever to the produce of the G
soil that they titled, but only at most TO q bare
just enough to perpetuate the round
OF hopeless labor to which they we're condemn II
ed. Inc land tax, for example, in this province, G
being more than double the amount LEVIED in !
other parts Of the empire, absorbs all the profits
arising from the cultivation Of the SOIL la one G
year alone, in addition to the existing land tax
OF 5O per cent an extraordinary tax Of X7O,- q
OOO,OOO and forced loan Of l2OOOO,OOU OF d
Austrian lvres we're laid on the people Of Lom- p
bardy. What has been the natural result-a Il
result not only known, but notorious now
throughout Europe? The land is gradually grow =
ing out Of cultivation. Aultitudes, both in !
town and country, have not only been impoyer- l
lshed. but absolutely ruined, as the annual nun
Der Of forced or distress" sales absolutely
proves. ManJ citizens, once well TO do, have 8
died miserable and lingering death, while u
many others lengthen out = wretched existence &
by the sale Of family jewels and heir-looms !
dearer than life ITSELF The real character OF v
Austrian oppression in Lombardy may be gath
cred iron the significant fact that the taxes, a
rarely less than forty per cent, sometimes rise
u the enormous sum OF seventy-6ve per cent.
let this is the province on which the Austrian I
Government, IN its paternal mldness, proposes
to lay the heavy burden Of the present war 9
TINS is piece Of wanton tyranny which will tax !
the friends Vt Austrian rule n this country TO
soften and extenuate so as not to revolt their y
readers, and shock the national sense OF justice
among the English people. !,
Is any wonder that we should be told !,
among the items Of news brought oy the City !,
OF Washington, that revolutionary movements !,
IN Lombardy are reporteds" \
THE CRoPs.-We have the very gratifying in- +
tellgence from nearly every part Of this county,
that the coming crops are now all promis- e
ing, and are growing rapidly. There has been :
but very little complaint Of bad seed. A few =
fields Of corn may have been in part replanted, =
but in nearly all cases it came up well and now
stands evenly, and looks vigorous and healthy.
We may be mistaken, but from pretty general 2
inquiry We are Of the opinion that there are =
now more acres Of corn growing in Mahaska
county, than there have been in any previous y
year siLce its settlement Wheat ID also look u
ing we'll. Occasionally We hear of bad seed and q
= poor prospect, but such cases are rare ex-
cep.ions to the general statement that the
heat crop never looked better ct this season | q