The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-02-15
The Murder of tho Cashier mt Jack-
SON. Tennessee.
Correspondence Of the st. Louis Republican,

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Cairo Feb. s, 1859.
have just learned some of the particulars OF
most atrocious murder that was perpetrated
at jackson Tenn, on last Thursday night. On
that evening about o'clock, Mr.. George Miller.
| Cashier or Teller,) of the Union Bank of Ten
nessee. at Jackson, called at the Gate House
and epquired if Mr. Mcknight, President of the
Bank, had returned on the evening train from
Memphis. On being answered in the negative
he lett the hotel and went in the direction OF his
room which adjoined the Bank
The next morning be did not appear at break.
fast. nor was the Bank opened at the usual hour.
His unusual absence alarmed his friends, who
made dilgent search for him. Failing to gain
intelligence of him, it was determined after
dinner to force the door Of his room. On en-.
tering they found his coat aud hat. They then
passed through door which led into the Bank
where they found him murdered in the most
shocking manner. He was seated in a chair.
resting on his left side on = table with the
check book before him, and the pen still grasped
in has hand. He had been struck twice with
the cancelling hammer-one blow having been
given on the back of the head, and the other
on the right eide OF the head. Two or three
leaves had been torn from the cieck-book and
either destroyed or carried away. The Bank
was robbed OF some SIC, 900 in con and very
considerable quantity Of small coin left scatter
ed over the floor. The murderers unbarred the
front door and passed out aud pulled the door
to after them. As yet no arrests have been
made, nor has any one been even Suspected
Mr. Miller was "a very worthy and exemplary
young man. and was always exceedingly careful
not to admit any one into the Bank mt improper
hours, From the fact of the check book being
on the table it is probable some one gained
admittance under the pretext OF getting check.
TUE ATTEMPTED Rock ISLAND SwISDLr.-
Much Indignation exists in the community at
large, since 1t has been ascertained that Gen.
Jones has succeeded in prevailing upon the Con.
gressional Committee on Public Lands, to report
bill in Congress in favor of giving the Island
to the preemptors. No well-informed man
about here has ever supposed for moment that
the squatters would get possession of il by pay.
ing one dollar and twenty five cents per acre.
The very idea has been SO absurd, that it has
really received but little consideration. No one
at all conversant with the history of the Island
doubts its being . military reservation, subject
TO the same conditions that other property be-
longing to the government 10 subject to. Gen.
Jones may succeed in getting favorable report
from the committee, but there is certainly JUS
tice and honor enough remaining in the House
to reject SO unjust.6able recOmmend ation. All
that is desired by the people At large, is to have
the island laid Off in lots numbering several
acres each, and disposition made of the pro-
perry to the highest bidders. This is the only
mode Of procedure that will render general sat-
isiaction.-Rock Island Argus.
A very peculiar elopsment case is just now
current topic Of conversation In Maine. On
the 8Oth ult., an artist named Delavan, who for
. long time has been supposed to be deaf
mute, eloped with young woman Of Pressure
Isle, Aroostook county. They hired sleigh,
and taking. - they supposed, . convenient OPP
portunity, drove away in search Of . Minister,
but the road WA long, and the parents Of the
young woman knew the tendencies Of the
couple, and the result was that the "angry
father overlook tho runsways, and when on
the road. TO his astonishment the dumb man
spoke, declaring that the girl was his, and he
weuld have her. How the matter was decided
attsr this revelation the Maine papers have not
yet found out.