The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-04-19
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, promises Of what the future will bring forth, i
;. will prove itself mortal It 10 yet too early 4
y see what the exact course Of the national gath
ering Of the democracy at Charleston will be
The horizon in that direction looks threatening
and IL is certain that storm will follow the con
tact Of the positive and negative poles which
9 will there be brought together. The partisanl
9 OF Douglas profess that they will be content
with mastery inactivity; that they will PERM,
oil differences to remain AZ they are, and make
the candidate, whomsoever be may be, the plat
9 form. Their creed, assumed Tor occasion,
has already secured the election OF their leader
, and though for pure shsme they would not 90
soon torswear it, they will consent to see it qui
etiy and decently put out Of sight, while they
J 20 in for the spOils. They will promise that no
more shall be said of "unfriendly legislation =
that when the south assumes that estate Equal
ity" must be maintained they will keep DIS
creetly mum toy the meaning Of the term the
Democracy" without definitions or limitations,
shall be the watchwOrd. But the other fac
tion will insist upon emphatic declarations. ST.
ience will not satisfy their demands. They
want speech They want positive action. They
want agitation. The latte. is the life Of Demo-
Gratis, wherever personal and pecuniary interests
can be alarmed by their frantic howls. They
will appear at Charleston as the progressive
party-making haste back wards, but progress
| sive nevertheless. They will demand recogni-
ton OF slavery a national institution and in
sist upon Congress. onal Code for its maintain
ance in all the Territories of the United States
"a code above and beyond the remonstrances
OF the people who are to be effected thereby
Nothing else can be accepted as q pledge Of
peace.
Now will Mr.. Douglas and his friends be con-
tent with the degration which concession to
Southern demands would fasten apon them p
We have no exalted idea Of the value Of their
tree-soil professions, but unbounded confidence
IN the correctness Of their instinct of self pres
ervation hence we believe that they will not
dare yield. They will have no alternative; they
must resist Compliance will be equivalent not
only to defeat but to destruction. Resistance
is defeat also, but not surrender of al honesty
and sefrespect. On the other hand, we do
not see the South can recede. Her Democratic
leaeers maintain their power only by the con-
tinuance Of the alarm which they have excited in
mlads of holders Of slave property. If they
back down from the position assumed they are
lost How, then, can the conflicting interests
be harmouized! How will the Democracy be
saved from the destruction with which they are
threateneds These is probabably no egress
from the pit into which they have fallen-no
escape from the tolls in which their own deceit
and treason have ensared them. Mr.. Gddngs
was right. The last Pro-Slavery Congress
which will ever assemble at the National Capitol,
adjourned ON the 4th of March last. The OPP
position will take possession o. the Government.
The sham Democracy, shorn of power in all
the free States and kicked ignominiously out
of Congress, the Executive Mansion and the De-
pariments, will prove by its rapid dissolution
that justice still Furnishes parties as well as
men !-lChicago Press Tribune.
Exrn.o,~,~.nx D,,,,.c.,
letter from New Orleans to the ST. Louis Repub-
lican says:-
:" A singular affair occurred in Pensacola
few days ago, the particulars OF which learned
from private letter, addressed to gentleman
OF this city. Miss Susan -, daughter Of
one of the most distinguished jursts and poll
tcians Of Florida, entertained a most violent
passion for Mr.. G., Mayor of Pensacola, who
had paid her some attentions previous to his
marriage with another lady. She took no great
pains to conceal from Mr.. G. the nature OF her
feelings, and had on several occasions conduct
ed herself in rather extravagant and start
ling manner, but he probably supposed nothing
serious would come of it. One day, recently,
however, she went to his house and called for
Mrs. G.. and when that lady came to the door,
drew pistol, ready cooked, from the folds OF
her dress. and fred at her rival. The bullet
missed, and Mrs G. bravely rushed upon the
desperate girl and wrenched the pistol from
her; but prepared and determined to shed
blood, Susan drew knife, and before she
could be disarmed by others who interfered,
succeeded in ntctng a slight wound upon Mrs.
g. The letter states that her father, in order
to shield her from criminal prosecution was
about to send her to an insane asylum"
A MARRYING WIDow.-Last summer we men
toned the circumstance of German widow in
the Third District marrying her fifth husband
A month or two afterward we published that the
lady was again made widow by the death of
her fifth by yellow fever We have now to
record that she is again wife, having taken
her sixth lawful husband, in due form, few
days ago. We forbear repeating the jokes to
which this wedding has given rise. The people
around look upon the sixth husband dead
man sure, before the summer is over, and say
that the marriage should have been prevented
by the police. Some of the lady's German
friends say she buried two husbands before
leaving the old country. If this be true, the
present husband is her eighth-lNew Orleans
Crescent, LIST.
SHAVED HIS HEAD.-A scamp, by the name
of Hall, insinuated himself into the confidence
of ''lone woman" stopping at the Edwards
House in this city, waiting to take passage on a
steamboat. and succeeded in getting possession
OF all her money. about $25. which he spent,
and then sloped Officer Ben Thompson pursued
aud overhauled him between this place and
Nemaha City. He was brought back, and the
clothing which he had worn was taken from
him and sold at auction tor the benefit of the
woman.
Horse whipping, tarring and ducking in Big
Muddy were talked of, but he was finally let off
by having his head shaved la 'bg injun," and
being put across the river.
The better plan would have been to have
chained him to n shelter, and there made
to work until be had earned enough money to
refund what he had flcbed from the woman.
Our citizens made up sufficient money to send
the woman on to her friends in Illinois. She
has learned by experience that some "fellers"
are slippery" and he has learned that some
BARRIERS shave without waiting ''for the water to
get varm."-Nemaha (Nebraska) Advertiser.
ANOTHER SrEAM PLow PRENIux.-The Exec
utve Committee of the Illinois Central Rail
road, at a meeting held the soth of March, 1859,
passed the following resolution, which explains
itself. II will be seen that the aggregate pre-
MUM now at the disposal of the State Society
for the best steam plow is $4,000! Here is the
resolution:
Resolved, That the Illinois Central Railroad
Company offer fifteen hundred dollars as pre-
MUM for the best steam engine for plowing and
other farm work; the simplicity and economy Of
its construction, and its practcabili.y of appli-
cation to farm uses shall be such that il can
successfully compete with animal power for
farm purposes; the award to be made BY the
Executive Committee of the State Agricultural
Society, in connection with three scientific ma
chnists to be selected by that body. Before
any party shall claim the payment OF said
award be shall exhibit the practical working Of
said engine at three points on the line Of the
Illinois Central Railroad, to be designated by
the Vice President Of the Company, the said
Company agreeing to transport said engine to
or from such points free OF expense to said
party.
The Randolph. Ind, Journal reports the death
by suicide Of Emily Deboy of that county, by
ban ging, on Thursday of last week. She was
working Is o housemaid with Mr.. Heaston, and
on the day Of the suicide appeared to be in no
marked degree different from her usual demean-
or. She washed in the morning and cut out