The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-09-29

TRE iowa f4NI11NzIARY.-One day thls week,
while hunting pure air In tie rural districts. We
paid flying visit to the Iowa Penitentiary-
&rst. There are 100 convicts there at this time
twenty or thirty less than during the summer.
Ninety are employed by the contractors, Hessra
Jones + Winterbotham, in various branches Of
manufacture. Ths Others, Who are not able
bodied men, are employed in menial oHices-ip
de kitchen, wash-room, &C.. Even ut this time
the Warden, Mr.. Leighton, informs us, accom-
modations are insufficient In some instances
two have TO be put in one CELL Were the num-
Der Of convicts proportioued TO our population,
q they would be did not 20 many rogucs slip
through the meshes of the law, We should have
$50 ct Madison. What should or could be done
with themf The Governor would be compelled
to pardon out the best of them We do not re-
collect that our State has population Of $780,
O0O-our legislators in erecting public buildings,
forget that they are legislating for State. They
are still making appropriations for the Territory
Of Iowa with seventy five or hundred thousand
people, We have class Of men perfectly in
fatuated upon the subject of State expenditure.
They can see nothing wrong in one-horse towns
owing three, four, Eve or sir: hundred thousand
dollars, even million-shey think it all right Cor
. county with ten or fifteen thousand population
to 20 IN debt 81, 900 for Court House but for
the State Of Iowa to provide safe and secure
penitentiary for her malefactors-- Ito make suita,
BILE provision for the insane and the blind is a.
wrong-they never can make sufficient noise
about it To the pother of this class Of dirty
dogs, whose minds never were crossed by an
honest idea or manly emotion, do we owe the
fact that the Iowa Penitentiary is nov full, and
may be crowded to overlooking before another
Legislature shall convene. 7as --a
We cannot Close this article without bearing
testimony to tho excellent management and dis
cipline Of Mr.. Leighton 1t 10 exempli6ed in the
good order and discipline among the convicts-
In the cleanlinesso Of the cells and the good health
Of Ill confined and employed there. E
MAHuvAcrun. OF SoRoHux MoLAssEs.-Only
those Who travel over the country have any idea
Of the quantity Of molaases now being made in
this State. In travelling over considerable por.
ton Of Lee and Des Moinss counties this week,
We have hardly passed farm where . patch Of
cane Was mot seen. and scarcely mile without
seeing mill i'm operation grinding it. We saw
one steam mill at work at Denmark, where they
make large quantity Of excellent syrup, clear
and Of good favor This i dene without using
any chsnicals, simply BY heat The juice ia sub
jscsed to high tempefas1ss = econ = Il passes
from The min 70 Tie pans, which cooks the vege.
tahls natter and drives il TO The surface, when
h i skimnsd q Asthia min % observed on
the sides Of " coolers end vessels used in dip.
ping The molaaaea, that II mad grained 70 some
extent We have NO doubt that in less than 1--WE
years good sugar, inqsantitias supply the home
market YIN BE- made II IowA as@e $50
$3.50. s.----- .
SAD AocDE-AE p. Dessy' On 'a's e,sy
vas Dangerously injured yesterday morning. oy
- - !. assa. -. II, :. ..ss e ~ &c ',',
q aeposv hsa. aarss stick struck him IN the fore