The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-03-03

WHOLESALE INrANTlcIpE.-The London Fl
nancials Reformer publishes a communication
from "a gentleman of station and high eharae.
ter" in relation to the treatment of infant pau
pcrs in one of the London warehouses;, the state
ments Of which are too horrible for belief. The
writer says
81 state as fact, which am prepared to
proye by credible witnesses before q Committee
of the House of Commons, that in the united
parishes of St. George, Bloomsbury, and ST.
Giles, for which am rated, there is not one in
stance in living memory of an infant surviving
the treatment in this workhouse. There ere now
in this worlhouse between so and 80 infants ;
and, according 10 all experience, not one OF these
will be living by this time next year. Is this to
be wondered at? Certainly not, by those who
know the treatment to which these poor inno-
cents are doomed. One wretched pauper woman
has the charge of all the poor victims OF this
brutal system Their food is the coarsest work
house bread, soaked in boiling water, tinged with
what is called milk With this, as they W IN
rows, they are stuffed till they die, as Of course
they very soon do; or very soon there would b.
no rooms to lay them out in. They are coming
in every hour of the day and night, and as the,
come SO they go. Nobody knows--nobedy cares
We are small body in our parish, who have
been trying long time to be allowed 20 provide
paid and proper nurseefor this swim duty
We have asked to provide only one paid nurse
but even this the Board of Guardians have re
fused, and still refuse. Can any one doubt tina
these infants are so treated to be made ava.
| with! It is notorious fact, to be proved b.
| undoubted evidence, that it is common practice
| to give these infants the dregs OF workhous
porter and the scraps of workhouse saite'
| ~. Ia Co., iv,f IN has
their departure! And what is this but MIR
| der ?"
Coon SENSE FROM AN UNEXPECTED SOURCE
1t is sign of the entire failure of the disunio
| outcry, when such paper as the Boston Courier
only few weeks since one Of the most dolef'
of the Boohoos talks in the following sensibl
style: @
"Any complaint from any slaveholding stat
founded upoi, the events of the last seven year
seems TO us--whose position, we submit, entitls
ourtestiniony to some weight--singalarsy GROUND
less. Looking at the abrogatioa OF the Misseu
compromise line, at the election OF Mr. buehal
an, at the bred Scott decisiQA it appears to ,
that upon every contested point the South 81
substantially prevailed, and had everything ~
own way The South has no moro right to Mai
y II
against the aggregate North, than the Mort
Il have to rcproaeh the aggregate South for Il
J fact that cargo of slaves from Africa has bee
landed in o eouthern port, and nobody punisht
for il. We want to see among the southel
states themselves on indigenous public opiIls
: created. which shall put down all this mischie
, ous and treasonable talk about disnnion-uhi,
: shall punish the utterance of any disunion sem
ment bv 4 sentence Of political banishmeht,
not Of political execution. We want TO live
see the time when no ambitions young POLITICS
at the South ehaIl dare give expression to fippa
ri threats Of disunion, or speak of disnnicn as an
thing bat the most serious of evils and the nc
formidable Of calapsities."s ~
80 -
|, SrNauLAR DxArH or WonAM ny TIlG UsR
Il WHlsxY.--The wife of julius NJ. Smith, ESQ.,,
:. Concord. Mass, came to her death on the 2l
~ under somewhat singular circumstances. Wis
: ing to have number G. teeth extracted, she I
81 sired the surgeon to administer tod or whisky,
order to render her insensible during the opel
ton. After some objection, which was oy,
ruled. q tunbler and half was administered
. her during an hour. The teeth we're then c
r tracted, and for ten or tFcise hours the WON
III presented 'epl1 the ordinary symptoms Of into,
catieu, cxertM chat. Ter = few minutes, she q
peared like = person IN an apoplexy, hut 5000
1 covered. About IN hour .affer drinking
whisky she vomited freely, without pain Or y
f9pual difficulty: Her pqlsc and breathing. y
! the Boston Traveller we're natural, and 4
family and friends whocalicd IN IL course of u
day and evening, < No spprehepsi0n IN
o'clock that night, when TIE doctor, who, ieclil
some anxiety, in consequence Of the svmptos
q 0f apopleYy manifested, had. remained with
during ths greater part II heeYeninE, reqgct
81 that ANOTHER physician l1e called (QR de phrp0