The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-12-07
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SCRAPS or NEWS.
Friday last Ottision Cunningham vas hung 4
Quincy, H., for the murder Of Ratcliff Harrison
The execution was in the jail yard, high boart
renee having becn erected which shut of d
view from the outside. This is the first execu
tion in Quincy for twenty-five years
Eastern Railroads. BY schedules recently pub
lished, have reduced the time between Washing
ton and Boston to let hours. This 10 remarks
BILE time.
Yancey and Clement G. Clay ara elected rebel
Senators from Alabama.
SoLD OUr.-Gov Wise recently sold his old
homestead. probably in anticipation Of the oc
cupation Of his district by our troops
The Personal Liberty Law Of Vermont has
been repealed BY the Legislature just adjourn.
ed.
CoTroN AND CANADA NHoRoHs.--An adver
tisement appears in the Hamilton Co. W. } Times
cslling for one hundred 'healthy negroes" 70
enter the service of the Australian Cotton Az.
sociation in New South Wales and Queensland.
Passage paid and fel per annum with raticna
are the inducements, and it is promised that the
negroes win be ''treated by the Australian Cot
ton Association precisely in the same manner
that white servants are, all being alike FREQ sub.
jects Of our enlightened government"
DEATH OF GEN. DRAYroS.-A letter from Port
Royal announces the death of Gen. Drayton,
who had command Of the rebel forces at Port
Royal. 1t is said he was wounded in the Fort
and died on the retreat Hewas = man Of great
wealth and large military experience His bro
ther, Capt. Drayton, had command of one Of the
Federal ships during the bombardment.
Mejor Israel vodges, who was taken
prisoner by tho rebels on the occasion Of
the attack on Colonel Billy Wilson's regi.
ment at Santa Rosa Island, is grand nephew
Of Mad Anthony Wayne, of the Revolution.--
| Col Hayman, of the New York 37th, cousin
Of Major vodges, is also grand nephew Of the
Revolutionary General. d
negro died recently in Detroit, upon whose
body an inquest was held, and verdict returned
of death from apple dumplings The gourmand
actually killed himself from stufing.
The Legislature of Alabama has appropriated
Sl5O,000 for the construction of 4 steam ram
for the defence of Mobile. Hollins should also
| be sent for. 5eds
Breach OF PROMISE CAsE-The jury in the
breach Of promise case at Hartford, of Mrs.
| Cynthia P. Clapp vs.. J. W. Prosser, have re-
| turned verdict for the plaintiff, awarding
| 81 900 damages and costs. The defendant was
| wealthy farmer Of Bloomfield, Conn, twice .
widower and over sixty years Of age. He pre-
tended the closest possible intimacy with the
plaintiff, a fascinating widow Of Hartford, but
denied giving her any promise Of matrimony.-
She sued for $4,000 damages, but has gained
about enough to pay her lawyers, and has her
reputation left.
few days since, two little sons Of John E.
| Schobey, OF Kankakee county, respectively aged
and 10 years, being carried away by militia.
ry furor, started on foot to offer their services
to Gen. Hunter. They made the town of Lex
ington, in Mclean county, where their anxious
parient overhauled them, and recalled his stray
| infantry. Ton years hence those youngsters
will pay to be looked UP.
There have been six deaths from drowning in
the lake, off Racine, within two or three dayr.
| One of these, man named Mr.. Conner; the
| others are five members of Capt. Grifith's Bat
terry No. 2, of Col. Anneke's Artillery Regiment,
| in camp at Racine These last we're out in a
party Of six was taken of, clinging to the keel
in an exhausted condition.
MONARCHY FOR THE REBELs-Recent in
tercepted letters indicate that there is much ap-
prehcnsion of the establishment of q monarchy
in the rebel States. The passage in Governor
Pickens' message, calling for stronger Gov
ernment," the action of the Richmond Conven-
ton in restricting the right of suffrage, and sim-
liar movements in Alabama and Louisiana, seem
to thoughtful Soutberners to be regal precursors
| of the future
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Hawk-Eye.l
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S, 1861.
Many Of your readers, disinterested Iowa pat
riots, anxious to lend their aid to our suffering
country for comfortable remuneration, or to
shape of riAed cannon, machines projecting q
countless number of balls In no time at all, shells
opening at the discharge into thousand bowie
knives, or some similar instruments Of annihils-
ton many such are daily focking into Wash
ington. More will follow. The War and Navy
Departments give the inventors polite smile,
receive their designs with expressions Of thanks,
and quietly store them away never to be seen by
mortal eye again. And every Department re.
ceives the patriot seeking Office, with the same
politeness, files his application in all the blazon-
ry Of red tape, and likewise never brings it to
mortal view again.
But intended to ask these visitors if they
have ever endured what the military men call q
Heniesc. II not, let me advise them when they
come to Washington, to shun one as they would
smallpox hospital These reviews are semi
occasional pastimes of Gen. McClellcn, usually
taking place in a muddy field. the day after ee-
we're rain storm, and at considerable distances
from the city The larger the number reviewed,
the more intolerable is It for the spectator. If
you go on foot, to say nothing of the long walk,
you find sll the available positions occupied by
military men. If by pressing ard squeesIng, you.
secure for momentA partial view, some Lieu.
tenent on borrowed Government horae, soon
forces you to give it up, or be ridden down. If
you ride, you are in . still worse condition, and
may consider yourself extremely lucky, If you
arrive on the review ground at all. At best, you
only see long line of soldiers, Gen. Mcclellan
and staff rapidly galloping before them, and then
the whole force, regiment BY regiment, march.
ing before him. This is all, aud Gen. NcClel-
Ian, hurries to something Of, I hope, greater i'm.
portance. 1t is hardly spectacle worth shiv.
ering three hours in cold November wind to
witness.
The session of Congress, to commence on Non.
day promises rot to be harmonious. Il will be
almost unanimously for the var and the Union.
but with vastly different views az to the mode
OF pushing the war forward. You need not bs
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