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

4 70 the place Of landing. near Sylvania
penc'i marks on the cards were 60 water-aoal
, That the writing could not be made out.
lney found, however, in . memoranda bo,
: letter directed to Nj. Thurston. from . Arm
I0iiadeiphia, which was in reply TO enouir
, about Balloon silk. "s1'
: iney also found Mr.. Thurston's watch a
} KNIFE, both OF which are fully identified
many OF our citizens Is his property. T
watch Is unhurt, but stopped At twenty miuut
70 WE'VE o'clock, which shows the time he IL
All that remains of the unfor tunate Thur
ton' ABOUT whose fate there has been 90 mu
sonclt1ae, Is now enclosed in . small boz.
TINS once, where We have 90 often greeted
honest face, and answered his pleasant ssln,
ton in days past. 94'
SENTENCE OF NAIL RoBBRR-In the Un;ts
T'a.es district Court at Chicago, ON Sa.urds
james n. bellville, formerly q clerk in the Pos
once OF that city, was convicted of the larcen
OF letters containing money and other articl.
OF value, and sentenced to confinement in N
state prison At Alton, for the term Of ten wear
ms 10 the lowest penalty of the law for crime
OF TINS character committed by the seryants :
the Government.
| me Albany Journal says, rather querulousl,
our Minister to France speaks only brok .
| french; our Minister to Spain ia ipnerant :
spanish; our Ministers to Germany. As a GENE,
u thing, cannot tell High Dutch from Hebre '
ana one Of our Ministers to Italy knows eousll
l'ttie OF Italian; our Minister to Russia sneak
no Russian; our Minister to s.antinople can
not talk Turkey our Minister to Chins' doesn'
know the first word Of Chinese" As the rul,
Is invariable there must be good reason for i,
r!oosoiy rs intended that they shall do n,
mischief. Did not Mr.. Soule know SPANISH
ana what muss ne made of it! Let vel
enough alone,
=. >. THRAsHER, Of Cuban notoriety. was &C.
iected by Mr.. BUCHANAN as Secretary of Leea-
tion at Mexico. He was objected 10 by Mr.
McLAxE, latter he was telegrspbed to come on
snd take the appointmentD on account of his
An'eceoents. Ihe request was accordingly
countermanded.
A number, of the friends of the Rev, s. d.
onsner, candidate for Mayor in Toledo, offer to
bet $500 that be can whip any man in that citv
in fair stand.up fight Where's Parson Brown.
low?
bLooMERs IN SOUTHERN ILLINoIs.-The Olnev
Times sa vs. that Boomer made its appearance
IN that town few days since. The disastrous
results are thus described: "Young ladies
pushed old maids giggled, babies squalled,
dogs parked, cats scampered, horses neiehed
and COWS beloved"
TERRIBLE LEAP-While Rev. Thomas P.
Calhoun, Presbyterian minister, and his wife
we're crossing bridge at St. Cloud, Minnesota.
n sleigh, on the Goth ult., the horse became
and jumped from the bridge to
ne hard frozen bottom below, Q distance of
ome so feet. killing Mr.. Calhoun and severely
nJuring his wife. The horse was also killed,
md the sleigh broken into fragments. Mr..
;alhoun was native of Tennessee.
The CASE OF BoorH, OF MILwAuKzE-In the
celebrated "slave abduction" case, in which Mr..
sooth, OF the Milwaukee Free Democrat, is the
rincipal, we learn that the United States SUI
RENE Court at Washington decided that the &C.
ION of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin is il.
sgal and unconstitutional. 1t asserts the con-
nationality Of the Fugitive Slave Law, and
hat the United States Marshal has a night to
orcibly resist the process of the Wisconsin
curt.
A LADY BLOWN AwAY.-During the preva-
nee OF the extremely high wind on a recent
aturday afternoon, strong gust fairly lifted a
10y from her feet while passing along FEEDER
Il street, Edinburgh, Scotland, aud precipita-
ID her te the bottom of an area, where she Law
y some minutes ha.t-stunned We have been
eme fashion, Scottish Guardian.
DR.. DoY.-The Platte City Atlas of the 9Th
IS no aiiusion to the report, nor 10 the trial of
r. boy, which was expected to be had at the
,urt, which commenced its sttings there on
e 2sth ult A Platte City correspondent of
e Weston Argus. writing under date of the
!, has the following reference to it:
The notorious boy and Son were produced in
a ovf lad 10 al |
objecting to the jury. No objection being
ered on their part, the Grand Jury was forth.
III empanneled.
The case of boy and Son is still before the
and Jury, and as nearly as we can learn, their
al will probably take place about the middle
next week.
Washington, March 4.
In the early part of the session, TO-DAY. Mr.
1dlngs went round among his Republican as
'iates and bade them farwelI, shaking each
mber by the hand. The scene was a sad
e, and no man Of those in the Hall really re.
ced over the departure of the Ohio veteran
ny democrats, and some Southern Represen-
ives, came over to the Republican side and :
,ok hands with him warmly. At about two
lock the old man left the Hall from side /.
or, giving to it possibly and probably his last
The Detroit Advertiser says there is general :
'gious awakening throughout Michigan. The ;
ors OF the Presbyterian Church in Ypsanti l.
re resulted in the conversion of one hundred
] twenty souls.
The murderer of Miller, the bank clerk. at
;kson, Ienn., has not yet been discovered.
'withstanding the offered reward OF $4,000.
Dr.. Philip A. Schuyler, grandson Of Gener. i
schuyler OF the Revolution, died in Green
e, Miss, few days since.
WIFE MURDER.-The Ssndusky (O.) Register 4
rms that an Iris man at Marblehead, named
nnagan, murdered his wife day or two ago,
lie under the influence of liquor. He struck q
down, stabbed her fatally, dragged his vic.
into the yard and set FIRE TO her clothing. n
The New York Tribune's sensation dis patch i
the 7th, says: a
There is report that the anonymous letters Q
Messrs. Key and Sckles, warning one and il
'rmins the other, were written by female 4
nd OF the former. belonging to Baltimore,
D was jealou OF bis attentions to Mrs. Sickles.
he Des Moines River is quite high at this v
e. Regular navigation has been resumed. n
steamboats, arrive from below or above
nut every day. Only one we believe from =
Ow the dams. The Clara Hine succeeded in
tlng through the lock at BentonspOrt, and
we'd on her way up Monday night. From
wejudge that the locks have been repaired
ONE extent. The boats have generally been d
GIFTED down with pork. James Hawley L. f
i, of this city, furnished two cargoes.-[Ot-
IVA Courier, 10th March.
me of the editors o: the Oquawka Spectator
ounces his intention to start next week for
els Peak, and promises to communicate to n
paper 90 accurate aud truthful report Ii
he mines as personal observation will at h
l."
a Jackson county, Illinois, the peach trees :,
now in full blossom. The reported killing
be peach crop does not extend that far south, G
buds being all as thoroughly alive as peach Il
$ generally get to be. Al Memphis, we un.
stand, the peach trees have been in blossom :.
1 week or two.
II. Sickles said to friend, day or two since, :,
eported by a correspondent Of a Pniladel- ,
~ has fhn s,ea |