The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-04-05
THEHAWK-EYE

a. JAMES DYKR WHICH, OF Company 4
l4th Regiment, died on the 25th Of March 4
Savannah, Tenn, Of inflammation of the brair
aged l9 years and months. The deceased
was con Of Mr.. John D. WEIGH Of this couu
~, was in the battle of Fort Donelson an,
there a. elsewhere, exhibited true courage an,
devotion. He has given his life to his country
GoNE UNDER-The track of the G. B. l. o
R. r. on the bottom opposite this city, is agair
overfowed and the Ferry Boats commenced fer
rying to Oquawka to-day. The railroad man
sgement intend, we believe, to receive and sent
forward freights by way Of Quincy, and will do
it with as little delay as practicable. Stock will
be sent to Oquawka and driven TO the junction
Eve miles. But it is about time the few miles o.
road on the bottom was raised above high-water
mark. We should think the Company would
get as tired of the interruption as the people OF
Burlington are, and would raise the track per-
manently above the spring foods
A GREAT TKLEscoPE-Mr. Alvan Clark. of
Cambridge, Massachusetts,, has constructed an
achromatic telescope, said to be the largest in
the world. The glass has focal distance of %
feet, and diameter Of lS inches. The glass
revolves the sextuple star Theta, one Orionis
which is regarded as a severe test Mr. futile
of the Boston Society of Natural History, tells
what further has been disclosed BY ii:
"The telescope was then directed to the bright
star Sirius, the most brilliant star in the whole
heavens, and popularity known as the "Dog
Star" All eyes eagerly sought for the minute
companion star which Mr.. Clark had discovered
on the previous Friday evening" on the occasion
Of his first directing the telescope to that star
1t required but little time for those accustomed
to look at minute telescope objects to discern
the little stranger lowering close within the daz-
zling rays Of the brilliant Sirius, and almost ex-
actly following it in right ascension. It's min-
ute, tremulous light, when once caught BY the
eye, was easily kept in view, and as the star az
cended in altitude, became still better seen. In
point of brilliancy, it does not differ greatly from
the well known sixth star in the trapezum' Of
Orion"
This telescope has removed both difficulties of
spherical and chromatic alteration, and shows
the images Of the s.ars as round uniform discs
without any wings or wisps of light dstorting
their aspect.
Since the discovery Of the companion of Sir
ius by Mr.. Clark, Prof Bond of the Harvard
Observatory has seen it with his refractory tel
escope. He says:
1.-THE low altitude of Sirius in this latitude
even when on the Meridian, makes it very diff
cult to catch sight of the companion, on account
of atmospheric disturbances; when the images
are tranquil, however, it is readily seen. 1t
must be regarded as the best possible evidence
Of the superior quality of the object glass that it
has served to discover this minute star so close
to the Overpowering brillancy of Sirius de-
feet in the material of workmanship would be
very sure to cause dispersion of light, which
would be fatal to its visibility.
1t remains to be seen whether this will prove
to be the hitherto invisible body long disturbing
the motions of Sirius, the existence of which
has long been surmsed from the Investigations
Of Bessel and Peters upon the irregularities of
its proper motion in right ascension"
CorroN AND ITS WoRsHIppERs.-The Rich
mond Congress is puzzled what to do about cot.
ton. Mr.. Brown, of Mississippi, proposes to
make it criminal offence for a planter to grow
more than three bales for his family and one bale
for each of his field hands. He thought that
without some strict prohibitions "a large class
Of grasping Shylocks" (Southern planters and
gentlemen called ShylocksD would certainly go
on planting cotton in the hope to make great
profit
1t is curious comment on the loud profess
sons in favor of free trade and State rights that
Mr. Browns resolution, levying tax of forty
dollars per bale on all cotton grown beyond
certain amount-a fragrant interference with the
course of trade, and, as Mr.. Hunter remarked,
an unconstitutional interference with the States
received in the Confederate Senate nine votes
out Of twenty, counting the mover, who did not
vote
Mr.. Semmes, OF Louisiana, said, in the course
Of the debate, that he chad long since abandon
ed the idea that cotton is king We have test
ed the powers of King Cotton and found him
wanting" Mr.. Barnwell, of South Carolina,
seemed OF similar opinion He said: ave
must have monopoly OF the market. We be-
gin to find out that we have not monopoly; that
cotton can be produced elsewhere" The plan
tiers are evidently awakening to the fact that they
are not yet masters Of the civilized world
National Intelligencer
JEFFEasoN's Reconsideration Jeffersons
instincts were known to be against human sla.
very. From Edmond Bacon's new work on JEFF
ferson appears the following prophesy:
''No servants ever had kinder master than
Jeffersons. He did not like slavery | have
heard him talk great deal about it. He al
ways thought it bad system hare heard
hn" propaesy tia ace should hare just such trou.
Ole nth Il as ,ce are barring non"
Similar prediction have been made by nearly
all the founders of the Republic.
A DECIDED MIsTAKE.-The ire-eating sece-
ders believed without doubt that the General
Government was powerless to put down the
rebellion. Through Cobb, Floyd, Thompson
and Toucey, they had done all they could to
make it impotent and they fancied they had sue
ceeded. 1t was under this mistake that the con-
federates undertook more than they had power
to acheve--the Federal Government was power
less.
Had Mr.. Lincoln been less resolute than he
was their chances would have been better
Had their revolutionary plot succeeded in the
assassination Of Mr. Lincoln on his way to the
capital, and the seizure of the treasury and ar.
chves Of the Government, their cherished en-
terprise would have been half achieved on the
4th Of March, 1861. If those in the North who
had pledged their aid, had been as atle as they
were wiNsag, to redeem those pledges, the re
belon night have attained at least temporary
triumph.
How they regarded the ability of the Federal
Government. may be seen in the following pas
sage from the Charleston Mercury, little more
than year ago.
"The coercive power of the Federal Govern
ment, SO long Wanted as adequate to suppress
the secession of State, is rapidly proving itself
to be-what it has long been supposed and said
to be-o scretclted hmnabag-a scdrecrow-a dirty
bundle Of red rags aud old clothes list. Louis
Democrat
HORACE MAYNARD MAKES PROPHECY AND
KEEPS PRoMIsE.--Mr. Maynard spoke but
few minutes and made reference to a prophecy
made by him in the dark days when he and
johnson worked together at Washington for the
redemption of the State. He said that once he
attempted to cheer the Governor in an hour of
dependency, by promising to be with him IN tie
spring at NastviRe-to ,oalk aciM him to Tie Capi.
toto sit Gy his side, and listen to him tell the peo-
pie Of Tennessee there assembled, Mat right and jus
ice should be maintained aud traitors punished
He said he had sat there-had listened to that
speech, and had applauded i, as well consider
ed effort The promise had been kept, the
prophecy fulfilled, and be, Mr.. Aaynard) return
ed to duties at Washington, from which he had
been called away-lNashvile Cor. Cincinnati
Gazette.
CAPT. VILLAIN BRowN EsKvIRE, in the New
iork Mercury, thus brings deliberations artful
AID" to the immortality Of Floyd in verse
lelonous Floyd, far-famed and felsifying,