The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-08-13

COMMITTEES appointed ey yoer Beard.
% the best ten acres Of Winter Wheat. $500
On The I'd best ten acres Of Winter Wheat, 5000
o. the best ten acres Of Spring Wheat, 5000
On the I'd best ten acres Of Spring Wheat, &c, 90
OF the growth Of 1860.
In making the award, the Qualify Of the
wheat, the yield per acre. and weight per bushel
ell TO be taken into accosns.
The above premiums will b paid ~ ~ on
the presentation Of the certificate Of The com
@tsee, after the awards are made.
/ Very respectfully,
PurMAx, OLxsrED 1 NcEwEH.
We call the attention Of the Farmers to this
very liberal offer, and hops there win be lib
eral competition. The Annual Fair for 1859
will be held on 18th, l4sh and 18th October.
Gro. H. LANE,
Secretary Of Des Moines Co. Az. Society.
Burligmtem Commercial College.
| Az one Of our permanent aud most useful In.
ssitusions We feel it our duty to notice the Bur-
iington Commercial College. Young men can
here obtain practical and theoretical know
ledge Of busiaess, which will place them upoa
an equal footing with any Of their competitors,
aud in many instances give them great advan.
tage. Mr.. Dalhof does not confne himreIf to
manuscripts cards and oral instruction alone. but
combines the oral with copious printed ins.rue-
lions, thus rendering the task to the student
one more easily and speedily accomplished, and
the instruction thorough and complete. Mr..
Dalhof gives his whole time and personal at
tention to his classes-he 10 Q fne penman and
most thorough accountant, and bis students
have the privilege Of reviewing their studies a.
pleasure in Pittsburg and Philadelphia, Pa,
Wheeling, Va, Columbus, Ohio, and a. this
place, thus giving his students advantages that
NO other Institution OF the kind in the West can
give. while the terms are remarkably low. To
substantiate this statement We need only refer
to those who have gone through complete and
thorough course under his supervision.
00S-
The Aarengo iowa county, Visitor Of the
9Th inst, says that ON the Saturday evening
previous . terrible storm swept over Millers-
burg, in that county, unsurpassed in violence by
anything Of its character that has ever visited
that locality since it's settlement. The store
house Of VIM. Peppers was moved some eight
or ten feet from its foundation, and the roof
blown OF his dwelling house, scattering it for
miles in every direction. One half the roof of
Mr.. Prinxt's house, and portion of the roof of
the saw mill of Sweet l. Henans, was also
blown of. Several other buildings were Nm.
rooted, aud otherwise injured.
Nor AT ALL COMPLIMENTARY TO TIE NEW
YORK kIREMkN.-Mr Raymond, writing from
Lombardy, pays the following complement to |
some of his countrymen:
do not believe that any FIRE company, or
body OF New York Volunteers, ever went out
tor single day on target excursion, without
exhibiting more 'rowdyisnl' than the whole
Feeuch army has shown during the whole Of the
Italian campaign.
STRUCK BY LlGHrNING.-The storm which
visited our place on Saturday evening last,
passed over the neighboring town Of Lancaster.
At that place, the brick Church of the Christian
Association, Or Complexities, was struck BY
lightning, and sustained considerable damage.
The top of the beliry was knocked of, the fluid
then running down to the body of the building,
wrenchng of two doors, aud throwing the
casing across the room-(Sigourney Democrat
Washington Correspondent of the N. 7. Herald
Reopening Of the African Slave Trade,
WASHINGTON, Aug, ., 1859.
The consequences Of the reopening Of the
African slave traffic are already beginning to
be sensibly felt in the Southern States. Diff.
cult rs it is to get at the truth in q matter
where all concerned are directly interested
in maintaining inviolable secresy, do not
hesitate to reiterate my conviction that every
syllable l wrote to you u few weeks ago, in
relation to the landing of large cargoes of i'm
ported "savages' on the coast of Florida, was
strictly correct
In conversation, within the last thirty-six
hours, with the very United States Senator
who gave me large portion of the facts which
enumerated under the date Of July 10, re
marked that they had been universally dis
credited, and seemed to be borne out by but
scanty evidence in the Southern papers. lie
replied, Nevertheless, every word told You
was substantially true, and all doubt about
it will have passed away from every mind
before the 18th of December next" He nd.
ded that the silence of the Southern press
was signal proof that the accusation he
had made were well founded and they did
not dare to sultify themselves by denying
what every intelligent Southerner knew to
be the truth that if the Herald's remarks
had no foundation, there would have been an
outcry made by every journal from Mary
land to Galveston. He continued to say that
the silence OF tee conservative papers south
OF the Potomac would probably not be Of long
duration. as q feeling of indignation was
spreading among the planters and large slave
holders at the disturbance Of the order of
things, which must soon lead to an out
break.
An account which appeared On the 23d
ult in the st Augustine (Fla) Examiner
admirably illustrates the manner in which
slaves are treated, even when notice Of them
is given to the proper federal authorities 1t
seems that the Deputy United States Marshal
upon being informed that such vessel was
Oft the coast, made inquiries which resulted
in his "hearing of no SLAYER, and only ru-
NOR that negroes had been landed to the
southwark Proceeding in that direction,
he found that "about six weeks previous four
sailors had reported that they were part of
the crew Of the Schooner Experiment, had
landed . cargo if Africans near Jupiter, and
preached the vessel" The Deputy Marshal
did not, of course, find at that late hour in
the day, any sign Of niggers or ship and the
editor of the Examiner closes his account by
saying: "At any rate the birds had flown
before he got there We understand that
more are expected shortly" So light watch
is in fact kept along the coast between Key
West and Pensacola, that "rumors' Of the
landing of slave cargoes may be considered
to travel pretty swiftly ifthey reach the ears
Of government officials even six weeks after
"the birds have flown, and no rule of caution
is thought to be violated by the newspapers
in Boosting that "more are expected shortly"
neither is the traffic commented on with the
slightest sign of surprise or disapprobation.
l have no doubt that time will develop
some startling facts in the history ofslavery
since May, 1858. There are said to exist
depots Of "savages" in oyer twenty large cit
les or towns at the South, in some Of which
thu initia ted NAV find them at timea to the |