The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-01-14

The Montgomery Mail proposes thai Southern
booksellers who find that, without kpowipo /.
they have bought books containing Aboltior
sentiments, should destroy such books and refuse
70 pay for them on the ground that the law can.
NOT compel them to pay for books the circula ton
OF which is against the law. There is sense IN
TINS suggestion; but the rigid censorship which
the southern aristocracy are now, estabblishino
must reduce very considerably the STANDARD
| DOCKS which Southern youth will b. allowed tn
read in any language. II 1t goes on much fur.
t'ier IN tins Wa, well educated man in the
south viii become an impossibility, and the best
BOOKS VIII only circulate clan!estneiv, as negroes
run away. Very good; let the partisans of hon
uaSe anu uarkhess create reaction against the;.
Their own excuses can lead to nothing bu, the
| advancement OF hberty.-[N. Y. Tribune.
Edward Everett recently wrote to p,r n,
uie, Oh baltimore asking a. to the effect OF Tie
aht-saverY agitation at the North anon IN.
condition OF the slaves. DR.. Fuller =, pjes say.
ing that before this agitation had proIuced r.
efects he violated with imp,,nity the laws nra
hiblfing the teaching Of slaves to read and wr;,o
or to assemble without the presence az 3 co,ta;,
number OF white persons now he is oblie.a "a
conform to the laws. He mer tons 9th r re specis
IN which the slaves suffer in consequence of abol.
, 'ion enorss-.precisey in the same was as the
"a Ely pS euHefeQ BY the altOi-
ton preaching o Moses and Aaron.
WISCONSIN AND ILLIXOIs.-The Secretary ne
mate Oh wisconsin has published a table giving /!
.he 'oia vote Tor Governor Mt the recent election
III That state, with estimate based sherean ne
the population of the State He estimates one
vote 70 every seven inhabitants. The total vote
Tor Governor was l23,299, which acc ,r,iine 70
tle estimate, gives . population S63. t93. The
population OF Wisconsin in 1850 was af6 aal
showing an lncre. se of 557 TOE or an Increase ~
about ls2 per cert. Estimated upen tn. same
.aGo, the vote at the last election in Illinois VOID
', = u that IN November 1883 the population
% Ina, state was nearly 100000, which is not t,
~. iar iron, tue actual dgases. Illinois now
three-total twelve. 1.-THE ratio be fixed ~ 1os
ooO Tor member Of Congress, il will o;va W.
consn eight and Illinois seventeen n,s,ni,a,., e |
yer 1901 Both states now have sixteen vote
Tor. President; after 1860 their combined yo.a
WI ne twents-nine-nearly one-tent.l of tho |;
shce.-Chicago Times. ~
4 FATAL DOC FiGHr A Butcher ~ Cha.
an den Winckel, residing at Mn 81 Bell !,
ium, went three days ago to Brussels, n conse.
uence OF stupid bet, to fight with large dog :
that city. Winekel had before engaged in :
sverai combats OF this kind in which he had /,
pune on conqueror; but in this case different !,
'te awaited him. At the very first Commence. \
ent OF the light, the dog, rendered furious by
e niows 1t received from his antagonist, made S
spring, and seising the man by the throat. laid Q
M dead 1t his feet. dl
lie. ~ New Workers are having grand times on :,
sn1ss rask, where there y skating for the mil. !.
- l.ast Saturday afternoon there werc n,ore y
- !, 800 persons on the ~. r
f1ofaD v1on BAII.--A Young connie " br
49, Anous and nollie gnfler. arcepss,l ~ Al
- 49,. walnut street ball TO s3o,De. Ser, pc
~. 49, ney tripped on the lirht f.nt.ssic O.
n. ~ ~ nosr and vhen thar pasernai cn..s
-. ~ .o0sea 81 illavcr gu the psososed ].
e;vr 49, ~ sar gard I'D TIE ~ "a 3.
~ are s'bCne Of On hooes no~ - - :
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