The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-02-18
Capital Correspondence.

lies WOiNEs, FeD. l0tn, ISbV.
Mr. DrNHAM The Hart family has beer
taking the Capital 1t consists of five ladie:
educated to the touch of the piano and the ten
derest strains of the human voice. They have
given two Concerts to crowded houses and ex
rect to give another. Charles Foster forme,
member of the Senate, lawyer, and the father
of the Agricultural College, is the agent
Whether Charles has improved his vocation OF
not, is for the sensitive sovercgns to determine
There is nothing Of Importance transpiring in
the Legislature. Committees have been APP.
pointed to examine closely into al matters con.
nected with the Lunatic Asylum and Peniten.
tiary. Democrats are in the majorities on the
Committees. Wilson, Of Dubuque, didn't seem
to relish the idea, doubtless fearing reports ia.
vorable to the proper management of both in.
stitutions, so as to be deprived of Democratic
thunder during the coming national canvass
Saunders, of Henry, desired tn. closest inves.
tigation and the exposure of every wrong. The
anxiety of Republicans to have all Democratic
charges examined has taken the wind out of the
Democratic sails. Neal, in a kind of belligerent
way, called on the Secretary of State, by reso-
luton, to say whether. certain Auditors book
left in his charge had been removed from his
office, if SO, by whom, whence, &c. 1t seems
that, without authority, some stump orator Dem
ocrats, during the late canvass, had called for
the book and reported that they did not find
it, but that if they had found it, curious devel-
opments would have been made The Secrcta-
ry replied that the book was received by him on
certain day and had never been taken from his
Office until sent to the House of Representatives
on call from that body. Neal cayed.
The vote on the exciting Railroad question of
the session will be taken on Tuesday in the
House. 1t will be favorable to the majority re-
port, to-wit: that the State resume the grant
of lands to the Iowa Central Air Line Road
The next question will be as 10 the disposition of
it. 1t will go either to the Cedar Rapids or the
Dubuque interest, but to neither without im
tations or instructions that viii prevent the
swindlings and frauds common to rich munifi-
cent donations. Either during this session or
the next, all the grants to Iowa railroads will be
investigated, and, according to Madam Rumor,
batch of frauds will be developed at once aston
ishing and startling.
Our Democratic friends here are Just now in
the enjoyment of the brains Of their new Demo
cratic editor. Stilson Hutchins was the former
editor of the North Iowa Times, paper Pub
lished under the patronage and influence of a
Land Office. When Leffingwell became a can
didate for Congress in the upper district, Hutch
ms refused to support him en- the ground of his
Douglas Popular Sovereignty IDEAS He took
high ground in favor of Buchanan, the Lecomp-
ton Constitution and would have embraced the
Devil had the Buchanan faction so susgested-
As VIII Porter was eery Douglas in his feelings,
Hutchins was brought here to root him ont, and
il is said that he came here under the especial
favor Of G. c. Cole Esq. Some two years since
at Iowa CITY, when the Democrats refused to
endorse Buchanan's Administration, a call for a
Boilers Convention was made, and Hutchns was
put forward by Van Antwerp and Knapp to ac-
'omp!ish their wishes as principal boilers. What !
he viii do here it is difficult to say. While he |
s man Of talent, he seems inclined to argue |
hat negro has no soul and that the niger in
tituticn down South is Of divine origin.
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