The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-03-15

licemen Twitchel and Beele. rBet0se leaving -
house, he admitted that the child had been alive
and that he purposely killed il, and be and bio
sister-in-law being the parents.
The inquest instituted BY the coroner sooA
resulted in corresponding verdict. The case
will come up in the Police Court.-Clevsland
Leader 4th.
The Rev. s. A. Corey alluded in sermon %
Sunday last-to the expected visit Of Mr. Spur
as to how the great preacher would trsat sho
question Of open communion, or whether be,
you'd NEEDLE With the subject Of slavery, il nos
allayed BY Mr. Corey's declaration that Wheu'
Mr. Spurgeon reaches America be will pseach
On any and all subjects shat may please hin-r
And when you can chain the f6sked lightning,
and control the current and the roar Of Niagara,
then, and not till then, can you put lock on
those youthful lips, or dictate what Spurgeon
shall say to those assembled TO hear him.
ST. Louis, March I. =
The Overland Nail Of the lllh ais, briDgs
two through passengers. sgHsHa4 ID
The steamer Uncle Sam left San Francisco
for Colorado on the llth, with 800 troops Of the
9th Infantry, to chastise the Mohave Indiana.
An additional section Of the California Cen
trail Railroad has been put under contract.
The next Panama steamer IL advertised ~
leave on Saturday, the och, instead Of Monday,
the 2lst.
The Indian war in the Northern part Of the
State is being vigorously prosecuted with . tAis
prospect of speedy termination.
Business brisk. Canoles, coffee, provisions,
and American liquors advancing
Overland passengers port heavy rains on the
Colorado and in Deseset--an unusual occur.
renee. Also that the company met with COM
plete success in sinking wells, finding water In
abundance at 80 feet. sAr
Severe snow storms prevailed in Pacheco and
TcjOa passes
A large amount of additional stock was beinR
distributed along the route.
Lieut.. Lazelle, previously reported % mortally
wounded in fight with the Apache Indians,
was rapidly improving.
An expedition was about leaving Fort Buch.
anan, under Captain Everette against the Apa-
ches, who killed three army sergeants in JAM
uary. tl
LOOK OUr FOR THEx.-We were shown yes
terday couple Of counterfeits Of kind which
are likely TO bs widely circulated, and Of which
we understand considerable number taken
yesterday and the day before by our merchants,
and BY bankers. They are altered bills Of bro
ken Tennessee Banks, which probably we're
good once. The plates are genuine, undoubted.
ly. They are changed TO Illinois Banks by eras.
ing Tennessee" and putting on ILLINOIS" and
changing the name Of the town. One Of those
We saw was Nashville bill changed to .Peorias
Ill, !" by the ingenious process Of erasing all Of
the Nashville but the ill" and putting "Peoha"
before it. The erasures are very evident, snd
the marking in Of the new names veryfplan.-
The mischief in them lies in the fact that the
plate is genuine. the "look" Of the bill good,
and careless men won't notice the erasures.-
The least care will detect them, but they are
very skilfully devised to pnt . man OF his
guard, and prevent his taking due care.-[In-
dianapolis Journal, 9th.
| PAYING FOR HIS PRovENDER ny PRAYiNG.-
We have no intention Of making fun Of serious
matters in telling the following story-we mere.
ly relate fact: .
There is rule at Oberlin College that NO
student shall board ut any house where prayers
are not regularly made each day. certain
man fitted up boarding house and filed it with
boarders but forgot, until the eleventh hour,
the prayer proviso. Not being a praying man
himself, he looked around for one who was-
At length he fornd one-a meek young man
from Trumbull County, who agreed to pay for
his board in praying. For a while all went
smoothly, but the boarding master furnished his
table so poorly that the boarders began to
grunble and to leave, and the other morning
the praying boarder actually "struck!" Some
thing like the following dialogue occurred ss
the table:
Landlord-will you pray, Mr.. Milds
Mild.-No Sir, l will not
Landlord.-Why not, Mr.. Mild?
Mild.-It don't pay, Sir. can't pray on such
victuals as these. And unless you bind your
self in writing to set better table than you
have for the last three weeks, nary another
prayer do you get out Of me! "tt
And that's the way the matter stood at latest
advices.-Plaindealer.
Law and Order in Kemtucky-ThO
MaWesviilc Slaughter.
The Louisville Journal publishes the report
of the Grand Jury of Hancock County, KY, on
the late assassination Of an unarmed wounded
man in the Hawesvie Jail. the report recites
that Thomas S. Lowe had made extensive pre-
parations in the way Of fire arms, knives, and q
coat of rlail upon his own person, 70 take the
lite OF Cicero Maxwell; that he had publicly
uttered the most violent threats against said
Maxwell, and "had uttered q most horrible
sander on his mother;" that Lowe, seeing
Maxwell coming up the street, walked . few
steps towards HIM and fred at him with pis-
tol that he further took double barreleC
shot gun from the hands Of Mr.. Aldridge VIII,
was assisting him and fred second time .
;. Maxwell and his friend; and that in the affra
> which epsued, Albridge was killed and Low
wounded. The jury justify the killing Q
! Aldridge and the wounding Of Lowe, as sct
b oi self preservation on the part Of the Maxwe
party.
! In reference to the assassination Of Lowe i
!, the Jail on the following day, they say:
# "A majority Of the jury believe that th
r lives of the two persons BY whom be was sal
n to have been slain we're threatened BY BIZ
It and would have been unsafe II be had bee
: permitted to live, and that the same principi
j Of seif-preserUation which justified the KILN
/. OF Adridge we're applicable TO the killing
Love-"
Il The jurors then 60 on to deplore the inefH
], cheney Of the law to remedy the existing evi
e and they pass . scathing comment on their os
Is doing by declaring that /" the law must prote
al men or they must protect themselves, and th
! Jury seriously fear that unless the Law is mac
G. to act more vigorously, force will assume Il
" sceptre and the rights Of the citizens be dete
mined by the string arm of violence"
The Louisville Journal says: N2
lg "The deed which the jury attempt to JUST
Of is, We think, revolving to tho moral sense. v
n cannot think Of it except IS one Of the mo
10 inhuman and shocking deeds ever done in
; civilized community. We regard its perE
ne traitors a. having been impelled by hate
vengeance ard not BY any thought Of eel
or protection. II we could really suppose that
to was from any actual fear for their own lives
il. limbs. that they made forcible entrance int
a. prison and slew . wounded aud helpless priso
H. er, we should certainly feel constrained to
w gard them as among the most arrant cowar
tic on earth. "#5s @8 @E aaE
he "Ths Grand Jury report that Love Y
.ss proved to have . coat Of mail on the day b
Of fore the ARRAY, but they say nothing - 70
leo having worn il in the tight Well known fa'
re- can scarcely leave > doubt that he did wear
upon the occasion Our informant, who va,
spectator Of the scene. says that st leass
e. tween seventy five and : hundred guns and :
m. tolls were fred At Lowe, and that there VI
-. thirty two bullet and buck shot holes thsou
~ all portions OF his coat, but that not solit.
~ bali or shot entered his body or even DIRE,
ant drop Of blood. Heavily loaded guns were d.
or ~ n'n - u'ssepov " uVs "Oso suan eiA u
- and be VAS repeatedly knocked down 4