The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-07-16
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adler General Augustus Cesar Dodge, sorms
Senator Ia Congress, late MiniDeer Pienipoter
tiary 70 the Court Of Madrid. and now shas
Democratie candidate for 0e1Aor, has resolve
TO- VIII Dodge acceps1& question cha
cutAOsa0 - prophet could nos decide II W
may b allowed 70 address dignitary Who ha
achieved ~ my honors. - bashaw Of % man
tails- should ray, "Yes, Gensral, 60 in An
bee what will come Of i'll" Why not! Has b
~ military epatasion to aid him in the-6gh,
Has be DOT drawn his sword q many blood
oil the idle urchinS grouped about the peaceit
felds IL be mot . stateeman of the broades
mould that the Iowa Democracy ever user \
he not superior to Brigadier General Georg
Wailace Jcness Has be not sat for six, poss
bly, twelve. years in the Senate Of. the Unite
States. and did he ever say world in all tia
time. except "Aye," when it was necessary 70
the Democracy that Freedom should be betray
ed, or "No;" when Slavery Propaga ndism Of th
Democracy was assailed? Tell us that " here,
ical. scbisnafic. infdel Democratic, Who doub
his capacity! Is he not wises What owl coul,
look mosoFso. when Dodge tries. And is no. he
Dodge G1fss, the heir Of Dodge paser2 Are NO
| wisdom and dignity heir looms in that thric,
illustrious family-ofice holders by prescrip,iv.
right ls he not patriot Of purest ray serene.
Tell us, oh doubters, when he was not thought
worthy Of being fed at the public cribss Has be
not gone through oil the gradations from con-
stable in .'Shake rag Diggings" State Of Wiscon
0n. to Ambassador to her Most Catholic Ma
Jesty, who, after the American Democracy, il
the principal patron Of the slave trading, women
whipping civilization. that lie indigenous in
DaheNeys Did he ever cry enough Was his
dish ever seen bottom side up? Has he not been
| political Oliver Twist; ever opening bis mouth
for mora lazzaroni like follower Of the coach
In which modern Democracy rides, crying, give!
give! Who will deny the patriotism of such q
life-who the purity Of the principles taught in
the school in which Dodge-Brigadier General
Augustus Cesar Dodge-was breds But did he
not go to Spain? He did, Democratic friend;
aud did he not do there what he helped Jones
do IN his Senatorial career-nothingg
We never said, and we do not know that the
hercest of his Democratic opposers in the Hawk
eye State ever said, that be acquired Cuba as
the result OF his mission. That would be q
calamity for which We would not forgive him.
We have never said that he was a nonentity in
the Spanish Court. But what II he was the
laughing stock of the other resident Ministers?
What If he could not speak word OF the lam
guage Of the country to which he was ascredt.
ed, or even his mother tongue, without knocking
Lindley Murray and all ears polite into the
middle Of next week? What if terbaccer
chawing and Spanish etiquette did not jibe
together? What if that pesky sword-the
emblem at once Of the Generals marshal renown
and his Ambassadorial dgnity-would get be.
tween tie Generals Democratic legs? What
If his ordinary speech and written des-
patches were in the coicest prairie vernacu,ar-
a compound Of the niggerisms of Kentucky and
the nasal draws of Connecticut: What if it
was all . farce. burlesque, harlequin show
Are such things so rare in the history of our
that they should excite our
wonder, or deprive the members Of the diplo-
matte service of that inestimable American
privilege Of running for Office? Answer US that
We plead Dodge's cause! We want the Brig.
General Augustus Caesar-to
run. We are conservatives. We do not want
to see the established order of things broken up
Dodge has always had Office. He was born to
rule. Why trench upon the laws of nature and
the ordinations Of the united indivisibe, nsolu-
bic Democratic party? We want him to run,
not that he may be elected, and therby get re-
me wed claims upon Mr.. Buchanan. When he
was beaten for the Senate, he was sent abroad
hat he might find balm for his gaping wounds
Beat him for Governor and he would surely 20
abroad again. BY all means lie, Dodge run - |
chicago Press and Trbue.
CoRoNER's VERDIcf.-W. j. Hawkes., ESQ, |
If Charleston, Va, furnishes the Free Press |
With thrilling account of the late horrible &C |
dent on the Michigan Southern Railroad Mr.. |
hawkes., after stating that he was passenger, |
nd that he was swept forty yards down the
tream from where the train was precipitated
nto it, says
On reaching the shore stumbled over man |
turned ana found him alve-l asked him his
ame. He replied "Walworth." could not
aise him, AMI went to the cars for assistance,
,assing ten or twelve dead bodies on the beach. |
Arriving at the wreck l found some one had |
procured light-returned and found Walworth
leaG. He was large, fine r oking old gentle-
nan. | afterwards assisted his son in his last
The first thing that arrested my attention on
ntering the car that had left was that was
landing on pile Of dead bodies One man
hought alive and gazinginto my face. turned
he lamp around, aud the glazed eye Of death
old me that all vas over. lady had her arm
lasped around his neck, with frightful wound
u her head, ner feet caught and crushed in the
wheels of the ear. At their feet lay beautiful
10Y, with his head severed from his body as
lose as it could have been done BY the gull
otine. Some were just in the pangs of death.
)thers, caught and crushed by the falling tim
'ers, begged me to kill them and put them out
# their misery. There was lady going to
meet hes husband, With her daughter, six years
Id, and babe at her bseast The mother and
t,le girl we're killed. The mother had clasped
he babe in such manner that it was unhult.
The ground was strewed with heads, arms,
egs and dead bodies Lsaw several with their
acks broken and their lower limbs paralyzed,
'rthing in the sand. Some OF them would
lu.ch me as passed with a grasp from which
was almost impossible to Tree MYSELF Sever
beautiful boys and girls were taken from the
-ater and laid upon the bank. They were
rowned but looked beautiful indeath. Others
ere crushed between, the wheels, with their
ices and hands upturned in a supplicating mau-
err. passed woman who begged me to find
er children. She was crying, "Oh! my dear
,mily! oh, my six children!" Boh of her legs
ere crushed off below the knee Size lived ten
r fifteen minutes. l atterward assisted in ia
ing two of her children from the wreck dead.
wo more fine boys of hers were found-one
18th his leg cut off, the other had lost an arm,
nd both were living when left
of the Huntsville ARRAY.
Van Buren,, Ark, June 80.
JNo. CAaNALL, ESQ, Fort Smith-Sir: By let.
er received on yesterday from Huntsville, We
re in possession of a few facts relative to the
lte ARRAY. ~ Wouiu appear Su8t vi iast floay |
morning Foster Black and young Sans (son of
be person killed, had some difficulty, which
esulted in words only. At a subsequent part
+ the day War;, Sans Gather of the young
ams) met Foster Black, when he, Black, fred
wo shots at Sans; John Black, brother OF
Foster, being near, ran up and stabbed Sans in
he breast. James Smithson, one Of Blacks
riends, shot Sans with shot gun, firing both
'arrels at him, and. before be fell DR.. Cole
'mithson, a brother-in-law of Black, fred
,un, loaded vith slugs, into Sans and literally
iddled him. Young Sans, the son Of the party
Tiled, seeing the atiray, nov ran up with shot
.un, and lodged the contents Of two barrels in
he body of Foster Black, killing him instantly.
The two Smithsons and young Sans are wound
ID, though we do not learn whether seriously or
lot. John Black was arrested and is now in
ustosy, but the other parties made their es-
ape, and are yet at large. The constable Of
he town was slightly wounded, whilst endeav-
ring to do his duty. Sans. it would appear,
vas unarme6, and did not seek an ARRAY. As
re hear it, it was most foul and brutal out
age. Great excitement exists amongst the cit
Gens of Huntsville. which y greatly in favor Of
be Saus party. : 49, 81. 4