The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-10-19


MAKE reasonable allowance, and which will add
materially to his comfort and efficiency.
N. B. BAKER, Adj. Gen. of Iowa.
EUROPE CRYING FOR BREAD.-The demand for
breadstuffs to 90 to Europe is one Of the main
| props of our war for the Union. II keeps
the exchanges in our favor, bringing US over
steady stream of specie, and enabling our banks
both to accommodate their ordinary customers
and to aid the Government. While the non
expectation of cotton deprives the South Of her
usual supply of gold, the VESTS richer than
ever in hard money, from the enormous sale of
her breadstutfs So the free States are in the
| best and the slave States in the worst trim for
| fighting that they ever were-god being the
chief basis of warlike as well as peaceful opera.
tions. 1t is of much Importance, therefore, that
the foreign demand for our surplus grain should
secure us a good or at least tolerable market
| abroad. Last year our harvest was the greatest
ever known, and owing to bad crops abroad, we
supplied Europe with many million dollars worth
of our surplus grain. This year Providence has
again favored us. Our fields have produced
| abundantly, and our crop returns will be less
only than last years. We shall again be pre-
pared to export and it becomes critical ques.
| ton how great will be the demand abroad In
England we know that the wheat crop is not
equal to the average; SO much, the best reports
acknowledge. In some places the amount pro-
duced per acre was below what was expected;
and where it was more abundant in quantity it
| proved deficient in weight---weight being nutri-
ment Light wheat is said to furnish more
bran than bread" The French harvest is one
of the very worst that country has suffered from
| in many years. 1t is even inferior to that of
! 1886, over which the farmers have groaned
ever since. The wheat is inferior in quantity
and deplorsbly bad in quality, the ear being
small, light, withered and dry. In many places
where it was winter-kiled, and the wheat re-
sown in March, the unnatural heats of June
burnt it all up. Barley is in the same state as
wheat, and oats, which promised the best of
the three, were parched up just as they were
about to be reaped. The yield of Indian corn
was also very small. This general short crop Of
grain in France will necessitate large importa-
tions; and no market is 80 cheap and SO prompt
| in shipments as that of the United States. Such
is the demand for shipment to France at present
! that the sales of grain on the New York corn
| exchange last Friday reached 100000. French
buyers have almost controlled prices in that
market for some time past their orders having
been given on a very extensive scale.-lSpring
field (Mass.) Republican.
TwENrY-SIx THOUSAND DOLLAR RosBERY-
On Saturday last, room in the Sherman House
was entered, q travelling trunk broken open and
robbed Of twenty-six Thousand dollars. The
matter has been kept quiet so far to facilitate
the detection of the robbers, but has at length
been made public. The facts are as follows: -
Some time during the early part of last week an
elderly gentleman, named Charles Il. Stewart, u
collecting lawyer, residing in New York, but for
merly resident of Detroit, arrived in this city
from St. Louis and took rooms at the Sherman
House. Shortly after his arrival, large sum of
money which he had collected in Sc. Louis for q
New York business house, was received BY the
American Express Company, marked to his sd-
dress. This money, which was in two packages,
one containing SIS 900 in current Eastern Ohio,
Indiana and Canada funds, and the other $2l, :
600 in deprecated Illinois currency, the whole
amounting to SIC, 600 in real value, was left at
the Express Office until Saturday.
About half-past one o'clock on the afternoon
Of that day, Mr.. Stewart went to the Express
!. Office, took the packages Of money and conveyed
, them rnder his arm. through Clark street to the
Sherman House. He went Immediately to his
, room accompanied by two other gentlemen,
: with whom he said he was to negotiate the
'stnmp tail" Weare ignorant Of what trans.
T pred in the room, and only know that he placed
the funds in his trnnk, which was then locked,
and went to dinner, after locking his door. he
) was absent about forty minutes, and on bis re-
. | turn found the room door open, the trunk open
5 and the money missing Immediate search was
D instituted IN the house, but it soon apparent
i, that the robbery was not perpetrated by any
one connected with the House, and Mr.. Stewart
/. promptly absolved them from any blame, attr
buting the result to outside agencics and bis pvr
=. careessness The police have been diligently al
e work endeayoring to ferret out the thieves, but
\ thus far without success. It is supposed tha
r the fact Of his possession Of the money wal
J. known 10 expert thieves at st. Louis, and thu
= the victim was followed to this city and closely
e shadowed by them until the vished for opportu
l. nifty offered itself. Chicago Journal
!. THIEVES At WBEArLAKp-'sOLp Buck" RoB
d BEn--We clip the following advertisement from
J.. the Lancaster pa. Inte!igeocer;
IS $50 REWARD.-Was stolen from the car
riage house Of the subscriber, At Whestland, sol
{. the night of Saturday, September 20, set o
/. Silver Plated Double Carriage Harness, as goot
9 as new, with the letter B marked upon severa
d Of the pieces. e2b reward will be paid for th'
n return Of the harness, and an additional SIS 10
the arrest of the thief, on conviction.
i e itaKsf aas.saa JANIS BUCHANAN.
Ia Mr.. Buchanan is an unfortunate man. He ha,
reason to hope that, in escaping from his Cab
a net and in getting out of the White House, b
- had escaped from den of thieves who wOul
pursue him and torture him no more. But VII
IL this thief who has found his way to Wheal
= land? Can it be that the rebel rohber Floy
st has escaped from Western Virginia, over Ii
3 mountains into Pennsylvania, and has bee
lc prowling around Lancaster, watching his oppol
y tunity to steal this silver plated harness9 Di
re hs think II was solid silveri segs l,2g 3
n Il ~ ASH -O-
d. ALAS JOIN BEIlH-Joh1 Bell 10 nov resi-
4 ling at Nashville, Tennessee, with his sonin Law
h. one of the numerous Waterman family. He
ID not only politically, but also financially, ruiz
4. Led. and his love Of liquor = aaid 20 hala Il