The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-11-26

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l lhs AZ hala sentsI gives vsry isAsl
go 60 i q y Mn y pit - 100
soa abds No nilsG 80 U ~ Ohio In
r. 1eshs y Crawl u county
~. The nti16I sayps
Nllsn hin 10. - u roo1lill
pla0ows bxkin t6hoAI the roar d the wing
r the millions Of birds there congregated
vhir1 literally equalled the roar Of Niagara
'Botths sights and sounds that greeted % q
w nsafed No swamp, b3ggAfs description
There we're probably . hundred hunters -
sembled ard 1t work. These were divides
into parties Of net more thsn TIVE Or three
some in 10 TaMeracke, and come in thi
sAldesa ~ . ahss 10 the~ bushes shs bird
rose in mas and settled on the trees and
when 6red upon there, they 6ew to the bush
e. This changing continued III night =
: single shot, the dock always rose and 6ev
= short distance 10 settle or 10 b fred upoI
again. This scene lasted al night the %.
ualmode ofhanting the pigeons j. for two fner
y 60 togsther--one with . gun, the othsl
with bag aud lantern and matches Al
soon % the shot ID fred, the bag man striker
. light and "bags" the game; and thil
must be done speedily, Or the wouned onel
heavy load for any man., We "gin eout''
under Ave dozen, very soon. We we're told
to FIRE with one barrel ct the bushes, and viii
the ether st the "bile up" The term bile NJ
j. very natural one; Tor at every shot, TIL
flock viii raise straight upward, and after
circling few moments, make swoopinl
course, and then light within few yard
Of where thcy rose. The number killed seems
almost incredible One man killed four
dozen ct . single shot, and nine hundred il
the night. u aa4
Like everything else known 10 man, ii,
Almighty dollar is connected with this
Pigeon buyers are stationed on an lslaud il
the swamp, who purchase them Is fast q
killed, ct 30 cents dozen. Women are EN-.
ployed to pick them, who receive s cents poi
dozen, which 10 about what the feathers are
supposed TO- be worth. these buyers keep q
full supply Of ammunition, candles, &c, The
latter item probably embracing those 'ssinewe
Of war" usually bought il New York, in
original packages The pigeons are i'm
mediately shipped for New \ OK, where they
bring good price, and whore the courtesy
OF the buyer extends the term "fresh," to an
article decidedly appreciable to the ollactor-
les. A
Amongst other conveniences, the buyers
have employed . man to blow horn all
night to direct the hunters to the camp
He makes . Gabriel Of himself for one dollar
each night, and troops Of ugly looking sim
ners follow up the sound Of his trumpet, to
unbag the pigeons and pocket the dimes
The habits Of those birds are an interesting
study, and that alone would repay visit to
their haunts. They appear to have no indi-
ard all their actions are in aocks
the d0ck seeming to be the individual At
night they come in in flocks, and in the morn
ing they make uD in aocks to leave, uniting
smaller into larger ones, when the appear
Rnce is like swarm Of bees. At the sight
Of a flash they instantly change their course
Or scatter. We noticed an smmence flock
like . cloud, when large meteor shot
athwart the sky, ut the scintilations of which
the feathered host ecpttered in oil directions.
In the morning . little after sunrise, they
begin to leave, and in fifteen minutes they
are all gone, spreading in all directions over
he country to feed. From this roost they
1iverge daily in all directions over district
whose diameter is probably two hundred
miles, to return again every night, and be
hunted from bush to bush, and kept in mo
ion BY the rapacity of man, instead of the
rest nature directed them to seek in this Sc
luestered spot.
CRME AND DEATH IN tue OITIEa-WhcYe
nee aggregates, a. it does in populous CITY.
ts destructive power becomes intensified. -
From personal evil it becomes a fostering
'ocial malady, poisoning the very sources Of
ife and injecting all who come within reach
# its poisoning atmosphere. Some impor.
ant social statistics Of New York have 70.
'ently been collected and published, from
which the most startling conclusions are
lrawn. They show that social vi,e has
greatly increased in that city, within the last
lalf century, and more especially within the
ast twenty five years.
The saddest exhibition made by the melan
holy array of figures 10 that which shows the
Increased mortality among the young which
IN be directly traced TO the RIGHTEOUSNESS
I the parents Of the 4l6,796 deaths in
Few York in So years, IS9, 2s4 died under
wo years Of age, besides $4,000 still born
he deaths under the age of one year have in.
reased from the proportion of | in 332 in
$40 to in 80 in 1856, while from twenty
ears and upward the rate Of mortality has
OF varied materially in fifty years. This
lcreased rate Of infant mortality is easily |
for by other columns Of the stats. |
cs, from which j: appears that deaths from |
Isease originating IN personal vice have in
'eaaed in thirty years tenfold. Deaths from |
seases OF the generative system were | in |
y, $50 Of the population in 1880, but in 1855
icy were ] in 4,345 of the population Ia
EDITION to this mortality rs direct conse-
,ence OF social vice, the hospitals are crowd
with those who are born to disease, de-
rmlty and palnin consequence Of the crimes
their parents. Of4l4l admitted to the
,spital in 1858, there were 2736 who had
rents that were Incorporate and otherwise
cious, and Of tho patients themselves 2539
ere Incorporate and 9I2 of the balance
oderate drinkers. The records Of the
iminal courts tell the same story. OfIlO.-
! arrests made in II months, ending with
lly last. 81, III were for ofenses against
9 public peace, and only 1898 against
operty, showing that want was not in gen
al the cause Of crime, while the offences
nld IN most cases be traced to intoxication
~ us AsSOClAte VtceS
The christian and social re formers Of New
ork have evidently field Of exertion in
Dir own midst, sufficient to absorb all their
arities and requiring their most generous
self sacrificing exertions The vices out
which grow these fearful results Of crime |
death are difficult to deal with. Coerciye
assures have heretofore proved nearly If
altogether in vain, and moral influences {
m to &c thrown away upon the great mass
those who have been educated in vice i J
Q only effort that promises much is that ,
ected to the salvation Of the children Of |
'erty and shame from following in the
tsteps OF their parents. I4aborious and
denying men and women are engaged in !,
, work, and with wonderful success. con !
sring the means they have ard the obsta-
10 their way, and yet there are no be-
'oient enterprises in New York 50 meager.
and grudaingly sustained. Churches that '
tow thousands Of dollars at once on some .
IT to reclaim vicious and degraded races +
the other side Of the globe, give cold .
ponse to the appeal of those who are la t
ing to save the thousands Of poor children n
he streets Of New York from life worse u
almost any form Of heathenism on the
De-. This il not well. 1t il far from il
city missionaries Of New York ought to
multiplied and amply maintained a. the =
duty, and when ali that is done that Z