The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-02-25

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why not, this present Session,
Omittiag all absurd prctence,
i Give Judgment by Confession
so shall you be my lawful wife;
And I-yOur faithful lover s
b Tenant of your heart for Life,
I With no Remainder over
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A singular death occurred down A Cairo =
"Wednesday, which is without parallel A cer
ueman who was CABIN passenger on the steaI,e
Platte Valley, fell overheard. The life boat wa
immediately sent after him, md he was pickle
up after floating some distance, but was foun
to be dead. He may possibly have been stricke
with apoplexy causing him to fall overheard
but the prevailing opinion is that he browne,
without sinking. or at least without sinking YER
far, as he went under one or two times, hut onl
for few seconds.
A Free Negro Bill passed the Kentucky Sen
ate on Friday by large msjority. On Saturday
it was taken up in the House and amended b.
striking out the 18th section, which prohibits mar
riages between slaves and free negroes: also
amended SO as to allow citizens of the State Il
take free negroes out Of the State for temporar,
purposes without the negroes forfeiting theil
citizenship. provided they get an order Of Coun
ty Court allowing it. The bill then passed. Tho
indications are that it win become a law.
NAIL BAG RoBBER ARpEsrEp d. Kun
Ele, lad fifteen years of age, a telegraph onera
tor on the Sandusky, Mansfield, & Norwalk Rail
road, at Monroeville, has been arrested for rob.
bling the mail on the Cleveland and Toledo Rail.
road, He has confessed the crime. The San.
dasxy Register states that the mails were chang.
ed at Monroeville, from the C. & T. road to the
;. III. N. R. r.. and rice ,vrso. and the mail
bags irequcntly lay in the telegraph Office where
1t was customary to leave them for twenty-four
hours. Kunkle said he used to shake the letters
down the mouth of the bag, and get possession
OF them by inserting thumb and finger between
the staples through which the strap passes, by
which the bag is fastened. He acknowledged
that he had got about so out of the mails, but
it is estimated that the sum of about $500 is
missing. Two bushels of letters were found in
privy. To show how expeditions lie vas, a
draft for $3.50 was mailed at Oberin for Mans.
field, on Saturday, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, and at 10
A. NJ. the following day, the letter was found
among the other letters in the priry
The mother OF the boy il q respectable widow
lady at Monroeville and she is nearly distracted
about her son, who is her main support.
The Mayor of Douai, France in letter to. the
communal schoolmasters, expresses his detcrmi
nation to put down the preeocious habit of smo-
king, which he learns by the reports of the po-
lice, prevails to a deplorable extent among the
boys of that city. He therefore desires the
schoolmasters, not only to mark down for pun
ishment all children whom they may see smoking
i'll the streets, but to search the pockets and
portfolios of the scholars from time to time, and
take away all cigars, cigarettes, pipes and tobac-
co which may be found. He authorizes the most
severe punishments aud will sanction any meas
ure which the schoolmasters may devise to check
the growing evil.
In THE RIGHT DIRECTION bill has been in
troduced into the New York Legislature, to en-
courage and promote the mechanical and scien-
ttic arts, and proposes to give one hundred and
fifty dollars out Of the State Treasury to each
young man over the age of 81 years, who has
served a five years apprenticeship at some me-
chanical trade, and who can produce to the Gov
ernor certificate of his qualification from three
master werkmen, and certificate from Probate
Judge Of his character. This amount is to ena-
bic him to purchase necessary tools, and those
are to be forever exempted from levy and sale
under execution
Senator Green of Missouri has a practical
scheme to bring the Mormon rebels to terms
which he will offer in the Senate. It ia to es-
tablsh new territorial government for Carson
Valley (west side Of Utahl aud to create judi
cia district Of said territory in Utah. and SO or
ganized to bring all Mormon capital offenders of
the laws before Carson territory or Gentle jury.
An arrangement of this sort, reduced to practice
in two or three Mormon cases to the extent of
hanging, viii, it is thought, effect Mormon ex-
odus that viii astonish all mankind.
The Committee of Democratic Senators to fix
up some suitable resolutions on the question of
Slavery in the Territories, has been composed by
Mr.. Bright of Indiana. Chairman of the Caucus,
as follows Green of Missouri, Gwin Of Cali
fornia, Chestnut of South Carolina, Bigler of
PENNSYLVANIA, and Fitch OF Indiana Douglas
hasn't five worse enemies in the Senate, and the
whole thing is intended to embarrass him at
Charleston.
The Chillcothe Bank of Missouri, having put
out large amount of its bills, is determined
that they shall stay out Twice last fall the
agents of other banks who came to exchange the
bills, were mobbed out of town; and now the
agent of several St. Louis bankers, going up
with $4,000, has been driven off in the same
way.
A man by the name of Npckcls, living near
Pedlar Mills, Amherst county, Va, was taken to
pond on last Thursday by party of citizens
and ducked, in consequence Of his having used
seditious language. He afterwar procured a
warrant for the arrest of the parties who infct-
ed this summary punishment on him, but instead
of the warrant being executed, the magistrate
who issued il narrowly escaped ducking him
self. There is neither liberty nor law where
there is slavery Virginia means to make that
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The Grand Duchess Stepaanie Of Baden died
at Nice on the 29th ult She was cousin to Ma
pOlepn Ill Her maiden name WAS Stephanie de
iseaaharnais, and she was niece OF the Empress
Josephine, aud the adopted daughter Of Napo-
leon l. Born in 1889, she WAS married In 1906
to Prince Louis Frederick of Baden. The Grand
Duchess, at the time of her DEATH was in her 7lst
George II. Chapman Of Indianapolis, has been
appointed to an 81 800 clerkship at w ashington,
under forncy. His father, now an active Re-
publican, gained wide nosoriety as the editor Of
the Indiana Sentinel, established by him, and then,
rs moss the Democratic organ of the State. lie
was the original 'scsow Chapman! crow. &c ?
A leak in the gas pipe running through one of
the streets Of TORONTO, G. W., 80 filed the house
of George Henderson with the fatal fluid, on the
night of the afsth, that the whole family were
nearly senocated. The failure of a cabman call
ing for n. Henderson,, in the morning, to arouse
the family ycreated alarm, aud the state OF the
case was discovered. IL took several hours to
restore them to consciousness, and even now the
lie Of one 3 considered doubtful. 4
Circulars have l,sen issued by the Department
OF the Interior ~ the Unitcd States Mhfshals
relative to the waxing Of the censas They are
Instructed 70 proceed Immediately in the prelina-
inaries Each State ii q be divided into dis
tricts, 80 that SIX weeks labor I'm each can ac-
complish the enumeration. The ccnsus-takerg
are to commence On the let Of June; thus they
win fnish the enhAeration by the middle Of
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