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

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burned on "Wednesday Of Last week. Insured
i for $500 in the Etna-
4 a seduction csse has been On trial It Daven
! port The Ladys name Is Townslcy and . II. Miner
Vas arrested and tried for the olIenee, but die
charged, witnesses having testiaed 70 criminal
connection On her part With other parties.
A man named Joseph Roman, confined in the
Dubuque Jail, threw himself from the railing of
his cell and fell distance oftwenty feet On 4
stone door Sunday evening last, but broke no
bones and may recover from his injuries which
| are internal.
The Nuscatine Journal Of the 9Th, mentions
that one of its subscribers named Milton Rey-
nolds, residing in Louisa County, lost his sight
recently In . rather singular manner Some
time last summer he was driving nail, when It
broke, and portion Of It Jew into one Of his
| eyes, xholly destroying the sight Last October
he was clSoppiug wood, when small stick dew
mp and put out the other eye. The unfortunate
u .e~SssS AsoW WSsA 0uvAuCCu al years, can never
hope again to look upon the beauties Of nature.
The Anamosa Eureka Of the 10th states that
the Touring and WOODEN mills at Canton, were
destroyed BY fire. It was the work Of m in
cendiary. The building was owned BY J. ].
Tomiinson, whose loss is from O., 900 to &c, 900.
The WOODEN mill was occupied by Mr.. Reyner.
whose loss must be quite heavy.
The Ottumwa Statesman has been revived
and now appears under new name, called the
Union. II is published by Messrs Caldwell
4 NusselmaD, and edited by Colonel joseph
u. u. Street, who was the old editor OF the
| Statesman.
A Congregation of the n. S. Presbyterian
Church was organized at Washington on Sum
day, the 9Th instant So says the Press Of that
place.
A Mrs. James Birney, living near Marion, re-
Gently presented her husband with three children
at one birth
A DExOcRATic CITIZEN or DAVIS CorSry Iowa
LfNcHEp IN DALLAS CorNrr, TExAs.-HE RE-
TrRSs AND SHOWS HIS WOUNDS TO MS FRENns-
WHAT CAME OF rT.-Some time since we pub
iished an account of the lynehipg Of Elder Nc
Kinney in Texas, not knowing that he was an
Iowan. From the following proceedings Of
| public meeting, which we cut from the Demo-
cratic Clarion, held at Bloomfield last week,
our readers can see how his political and person.
| al friends regarded his scourging. As they told
us in So, when free State men were murdered
and plundercd in Kansas, we now say he had no
business there. No man should remove to
slave State unless he calculates to own niger:
WHEREAS, Our esteemed friend Elder Solomon
Mckinney, who removed from our midst to Dali
las County Texas last April, has returned with
| marks and bruises on his person, given while
there without any legal authority or excuse by a
dastardly set OF craveDs headed BY the Sheriff of
that cOunty-whose cowardce, only eaualled
their meanness and cruelty to an old an inoffen-
sive man who had gone to settle in their country
and who had violated no law divine or human
And whereas, we conceive it to be duty a.
neighbors Of Elder Mckinney to give public ex-
p'essions of our opinions and feelings in regard
to the treatment he received in Texas; There
fore Resolved, That Elder Mckinney who has
lived in our community for the past six years has
conducted himself as a good citizen, kind
naigh5or, and exemplary Christian and one who
did not interfere with the rights Of others
Resolved, That We recognize the right in
State to mold her own domestic affairs in any
manner warranted by the laws of the United
States, and that we deny the right Of the United
States, State or individuals to interfere with
the domestic concerns of State.
Resolved, That we acknowledge the right OF
citizens of the slaveholding States of this Tn.
ion, to hold in bondage according to their seye-
raj laws, slaves they own or legally acquire and
unqualitiediy condemn in any person or persons
any interference with that right
Resolved, That we condemn the bastard and
cowardiy abuse heaped on our neighbor Elder
Mckinney, by portion of the citizens Of Dallas
county, Texas, headed by the Sheriff of that
county, in August last, and call upon the resp eta
BILE portion OF the citizens Of that county 70 take
such steps as may be necessary to bring the
scoundrels to justice.
Resolved, That without distinction Of party or
sect, We condemn the acts Of the unprncipled
mob in Dallas County, Texas, who in mean
and cowardly manner abused our fellow citizen
Elder Mckinney, under pretence Of his being an
Abolitionist. Thrusting him in jail, and at the
hour of midnight, when cowardly thieves and |
robbers stalk abroad, brought him out, robbed
him and his friend of their property and money,
tied him as criminal, stripped his clothes from
his body and gave him seventy stripes on his |
back with cowhide.
Resolved, That we know Elder Mckinney's |
antecedents, to be of the strictest Democratic |
school, and that the same had not been changed |
up to the time OF his departure from here 10 The
sunny CLINE Of Texas" and that be never aayo- |
Gated insubordination of the slave to the master.
either as politician ash minister of the Cos
pei, or advocated or countenanced an interfar-
ence with the relations existing between mas
ter and slave.
Resolved, That the mob that abused and mis-.
used Elder N Kinney done So under the guise Of
protecting slavery when attack was or had
been made BIZ him on this Institution OF Texas
ana OF the truth of this We have the most IN |
questionable testimony from certificates OF re-
spectacle citizens of Dall,s county
resolved, That the pententiary is the only in
stilnton that the aforesaid mob have morals sui
helent to entitle them to membership in
Resolved, That while we acknowledge aleri
ance to all laws Of our own state. and the Tnited
States, We also allow to the citizens of each
and every State Of this Union the same priyi-
iese, together with the right to exact from Us
whie sJournng amongst them respect for
th>ir laws, and obedience thereto; That while
we recognize such rights we hold ourselves ready
az all times TO protect the citizens Of other
states while travelling through or soourning in
our State, IN the tfe dom If spe9ch, AMI the
liberty - do and perform all lawful and nronar
acts; and that VIC hold all men who interfere
with such rights, or who countenance such inter-
erence as enemies to their country and to man
kind.
Resolved, That We cordially welcome our fell 4.
ow citizen, Elder Mckinney, as a neigl,bor and
elbow citizen of Bloomfield, and that we feel :
mar we owe 1t to him, and to the good citizens Of
Oaiiss county, Texas, to thus publicly endorse !;
md extend our sympathy to him I,
On motion of Hon. $. G. McAchran. the fall
owing resolutions were also unanimously ADOPT !;
ID, to-wit:
Resolved, That the proceedings Of this meet
u be published in the Democratic Clarion. and
ne papers OF this State and Texas be requested :
o copy the same
Resolved, That copy of the resolutions sign !,
by the officers Of this meeting, and certified !
!! sie Clerk OF the District Court OF this county
''tn ms seal OF office, be sent to his kacel,ency
ne Governor of Texas
on motion, the meeting adjourned.
JAMES b. WEAVER, Chairman !:
HOSEA B. hoRs. ! see,v. i
6ESJAAIx ADAMS, Neeys
PROTEST AeAINsr EARLY RIslxG.-Dr. Han l.
Tie February number of his Journal Of Health.
avs: Zone of the very worst economic. ~