The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-17

will sell for from twenty-five hundred
to three thousand dollars. Mr.. Cherry
receives one half Of the proceeds and
the negroes the other half. The darkeys a
year ago were slaves in Virginia. No
wonder that while they work they sing,
1.-THE year OF Jubilo am comin'.''
AN IMPRESSIVE VERDICT.-A newly
elected justice in one of our suburban pre-
cincts, visited the city lately for the pur-
pose of observing the manner Of conduct
ing business in order that he might dis
pense justice with becoming dignity and
lmpressiveness. A capital trial was in
progress, and ourSolon was deeply affect
ed by the closing sentence passed upon the
prisoner. He started home resolved that
he would give those who attended his court
an idea OF the awful majesty of the law
when properly administered.
The first case submitted to his adjudica-
ton was matter of account in which a
balance Of three shillings was found due
the plaintiff.
"tet the defendant stand up said the
Justice in tone of great solemnity, land
isten.'' i.a -.o
''The sentence of the Court is that the
defendant pay the plaintiff the sum Of
three shillings and costs of this suit, and
mag God almighty haze mercy on your
sout"-Weste1n Railroad Gazette.
How it goes in Maryland: At Baltimore,
loyal master-rarG dUis!-reached the
wharf in steamer from the. eastern shore
at five O'clock. Guess his establishment at
finding that all his able bodied slaves had
reached the wharf in another boat, bound
for the army. He is satisfied, for he will
get $500 piece for them. -
From private letter from the Army of
the Cumberland, we learn that the Tennes
seeans are joining Rosecrans' army in
great numbers. They look for a speedy
swinging back of their State to it's ancient
moorings, and they 60 with their State
Regiments of Union cavalry make pic
turesque appearance, uniformed half in
blue and half in butternut. Deserters from
the rebel army come SO fast that it is i'm
possible to equip them in Uncle Sans uni
form at once.-Chicago Jonrnal.
The father of Spencer Kellogg Brown,
the young man who was hung at Rich
mond on the 25th of September, went into
the Fulton street meeting, New York, last
week, and requested prayers that the death
of his son who was "murdered'' in Rich
mond might be Sanctified to him and his
: surviving family. The request produced
)en ts'''' anu Ss"s'''0n through the audi
A letter from J. B. Lamar of South Caro-
lima to Fernando Wood of New York has
been intercepted and published, in which
the distinguished rebel offers the distin-
guished Copperhead a chance to 60 in with
him and make money by running the
blockade with vessels and cargoes from
New York, promising from 800 to 500 per
cent. profit. Woods reply has not been
Intercepted.
Brooklyn, which Beecher calls the bed
room of New York, is growing now very
rapidly-new churches, new stores and new
houses are very numerous.
A workman in coal oil refinery at Cleye.
land, Ohio, got drunk the other day, got
angry at his wife, and threw her into one
of the watts filed with coal tar.
The Wheeling coal diggers have come to
terms, and have agreed to work for S. per
day. Poor fellows! it is pity they have
to work so cheap.
The trial of Mr.. Yocum, formerly Super-
intendentl Of Contrabands at Cairo for
selling negroes into slavery, is set for
the goth of October. A Cairo dispatch
says that rich developments are prom
ised, that will implicate others equally
guilty, among them Chaplain Rodgers,
now lecturing in the North, depicting the
sorrows of the poor Africans and soliciting
aims for their relief.
The New Workers think that their Rus
sian visitors are the jolliest fellows in the
world, and the apple women have con-
cluded that they never saw any real gen.
tlemen before. The sailors have their pock-
cts full OF silver coins of unknown values,
and they disburse them with perfect free
dom. They look little blank when post
age currency is offered them for change.
but always take it, out of regard to the
country they are visiting, we suppose.
1t is now expected that the first batch of
the circulating notes for the National Banks
will be ready by the 10th of November
Preparations for the printing of the inter-
est-bearing legal tender notes are in a con-
siderably less forward condition.
New York is fearfully full-hotels and
boarding houses running over; and houses
impossible at any price. Same in Philadel.
phia. The thousands of refugees from
Dixie are one cause of the throng. How
they all got over the border it is impos-
parts Of the South, and still coming, in
countless hosts. The fact illustrates the
homely old adage of the rats deserving the
sinking ship.
The fact that nearly two millions of naval
prize money has been. ordered to be dis
tributedv does not prove that it has been.
What the sailors complain of is that the
money does not reach them.
1t is estimated that the receipts from the
internal revenue for the current year will
be $50, O00, 600. .,r.' SO, -, i.,.35 4.
Frank Blair says the trouble in Missouri
and Kansas is the United States Senator
ships of the two States. Could not he throw
in the seat in Congress from st. Louis, too?
A newspaper says that 1.-THE difference
between n copperhead and rebel ram is, |
that one goes for the Union with an IT, the |
other goes against the Union with a but"
Canada seems to be afraid of annexation
TO the United States. 4 poor and ugly ,
girl might as well be afraid Of being mar
ried to rich, handsome, and worthy gem
man. ,SI5agafg T67E9 sra
Mrs. Wanamaker died at New Pros
pect,, Bergen county, N. j., last week.
weighing, previous to her death. seven hun
dred pounds. At her last dinner, twenty.
four ears OF corn made up light portion
OF her repast.