The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-04-26

Her face, like her figure, was broad and round
but pleasant aud good hum0Ted, and indicativ,
rather Of intelligence than Of genius. Of th'
art Of dress she knew nothing. On her way u
m evening party at the lecturers house, sh'
purchased most unbecoming yellow turban
which caused her to be for some time an otjec
Of merriment, owing to the fact Of the shop
keeper from whom she had bought is havinl
forgotten to remove from behind Il large tick
Ct bearing the printed inscription, Very
chaste-only IS 3d."
The Washington Star says that the appoint
ment Of Nr. D. Richard Ryan a. Minister Il
Bogota, IL . hoax. got up BY some young mer
who were in want Of . supper. A. any rate
We have got the speech, and know what Eter-
nifty is going to do about Mr.. Buchanan. i
will be a shabby thing il Mr.. Ryan does no.
nOW receive the appointment, especially as the
Union copies, and Mr.. Buchanan therefore ac-
cepts, the fattering unctioa which the othei
offers.
The Philadelphia American proposes to cure
the evils Of extra sessions and hurried legi-la-
ton by the perpetual session Of legislative
bodies, both State and National, paying the
members an annual salarv, and enforcing the
presence, at all times, Of . quorum.
HENRY WARD BEECHERs New CHURCH-The
Trustees Of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, ad
verfise for plans and estimAtes-w premiums
OF $500, $3.50 and $lO0-for their new mann
moth church. The church 10 TO have capacity
to seat 5000 people.
A clerk in the Ro,hschild's house at Paris
has been arrested on charge Of having en-
bezzied the sum Of 100000 francs. While
being examined in the Office Of the Commissary
OF Police, he contrived 10 stab himself with a
knife in two places, and now lies in hopeless
condition.
Miss Almira NJ. Bartlett, Of Charlestown,
Mass, sued one Sewall Packard, Of Boston, for
. breach Of promise, placing her damages at
$4,000. The jury, after trial Of five days,
but the indignant Packard will endeavor 10 get
. new trial.
A German woman, named SAal, has been ar
rested, in Chicago, for attempting to kill her
husband, by first stupefying him with opium,
and then suffering the gas to escape from all
the burners in the room in which he lay. The
odor Of the gas attracted the neighbors to the
premises, fortunately in time to save the seepers
life.
The whole family Of Dr. Junkin, President Of
Washington College, Va, including the Doctor
we're all poisoned By q slave, q few
days since, with arsenic. They all recovered,
however, as the dose was go large as to act as
an emetic.
Pixies Peak team, from Wisconsin, stopped
here yesterday The proprietors being disgust.
ed with emigrating, and particularly in the di-
rtction OF +. r, they determined to sell OUT
Jordan put up their outfit at auction. Three
yokes OF cattle brought Sl70; the wagon SS3, so,
and the provisions some $25 more They did
better than they would il they had gone on.-
Dubuque Herald.
A slave, David. was tried few days since,
in Norfolk, for an attempt to kill his overseer,
and sentenced to banshment beyond the limits
OF tn United States. Wherabout has Virginia
. penal colonyp
A correspondent Of the Hartford Times,
writing from San Ricardo, Cuba, February 2Sth,
says:
:" A gentleman named Buchanan was in Car
denas few days since, and the Spaniards, on
learning his name, crowded around, staring at
hlm as il he were some wild animal, and some
asked If he had really come to buy the Island
A bookselling firm in New York recently re-
ceived an order from a country customer for q
certain number OF copies OF H'ebster on a-6ridqe
Ot course the great Unabridged supplied the
want.
SALE OF Gas WoRKs-The Dubuque Gas
Works were sold by the Sheriff on the Iltk inst.
for the sum of $9l, 800
CHESS vs.. CARDs-A Southern gentleman
who has been pilot upon the western waters
tor twenty-five years, recently said that this
country owed great debt of gratitude to Paul
Morphy, for that within the last year. card
PLAYING among steamboat travellers in the West
had diminished fully one half, and chess had
taken its place, thus supplying an intellectual
and improving pastime in place of one tha. re-
suits in evil, and evil only.
The Council Bluffs Bugle, of the 9Th instant,
comes to us without single letter from Pixies
Peak, or single article, either editorial or Sc
lected, in favor Of the new gold discoveries
This is a fearful and omihous silence, consider.
ing that that paper has heretofore represented
Pixies Peak as golden paradise, and Council
Bluffs as the gate to it.
STEAMER BLACK HAwK.-This new boat for
the keOknk and Rock Island line is expected to
be ready By the 25th. She will not draw over
thirty inches Of water is built for speed lighted
with gass, and said 10 be beautiful craft
Gate City.
SIGNIFICANr.-Ne are informed that there
are applications now in the hands of the r.
ceiver, for all the "bt Q2ae) lands" in the
southern part Of this State. 1t will be remem
bered that ne one person can enter more than
three hundred and twenty acres. These lands
are very rapidly becoming settled upon and
improved by free Shite men.-[ Missouri Demo
crat.
We have heard Of a great many trials o
reapers and mowers, but we never before hearG
Of anything like the trial Of Sickles that is nov
going on-Louisville Journal.
Two agents Of the Haytien Government arc
in st. Louis to promote the emigration Of free
negroes to that country.
A REAL HARD SHELL.-There is an old darke,
in Champaign County, OHIO, liz wears old
having been born N rch lst, l7l7. He is now
living with his third wife, is the father Of q
hildren, and has been member of the Baptist
Church for eigh,y-eight years. He must be
"hard she'll"
The St. Louis Republican tells story Of d
young man Of that city who recently fell in love
with handsome young woman in Cincincinnati
married her, brought her to st. Louis, tool
lodgings in hotel, &c. The bridegroom mex
morning, LETT the room when The bride rlhed
his pockets OF 5000 in coin double cased golC
watch, and Other property, and Vamosea tn,
ranehe. The Republican says she is young
woman nineteen or twenty years Of age, anc
that in her fight she left behind some paperi
which showed her to have been divorced from
a former husband, ut CanaJAigua, N. Y, il
1850! She mus. have been very young, when
she married the Canadaigua man.
The Marquis Of Waterford appears equally e
nous as last man and = mighty hunter, wa
killed on the goth ult., by TALL from his hors,
while hunting in Ireland. During q visit to th
country about twenty years nee, he was ar
rested III New York for disord-rly conduct, con
fined in the watch house all night, and mex
morning reprimanded and invited to dinner b.
the Mayor.
Russian merchant Of Berdiansk announces
the sale in his warehouses at Odessa, Ncolaiefl
and SebsstopoL Of 45l, 1000 pounds. or 1885
tons of iron and cast iron, coming from pro
ject,les picked up in the Crimea after the war
This will give an idea OF the prodigious con.
sumption OF shot and shell IN the s,ege OF Sc
bastopoi.
A SATISFACTORY REAsoN.-A short time az
schoolmasier was wanted for Western vii
aee. A pompous little fellow, one OF the ap
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