The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-12

disabled and sunk Inc Union steamer. Her
crew. consisting Of about 500 men, were
all drowned except thirty.
One thing only was wanting to make
this victory complete success. Inc noto,
rious Commodore Wilkeswas not on board
the Vanderbilt when she sunk, he having
been removed from the command some
time previous, and consequently was not
drowned. The Vanderbilt was the fastest
and most dangerous vessel of her descrip-
ton in the Union navy
IMPORTANT FROM JAPAN SAN FRAN
CISCO, Sept. Eve have dates from Japan
to the oath Of July.
On the 18th the English ship Medusa,
while on her way from Nongasadi, to Ka-
nagawa, by the inland passage, was at
tackled by some of the forts and vessels
that had previously fred on the American
ship Pembroke. The Medusa received "a
shots and was much injured. She had four
men killed and six wounded. She in re-
turn destroyed one fort, and then proceeded
to Kanagawa.
On the Goth, the American steamer Wyo-
ming arrived at kanagowa, whence she
had gone to punish the Damio, whose YES
sells and forts fired on the Pembroke about
the 18th Of July. She reported having done
csc steamer Lancefeld and silenced nearly
all the neighboring forts, leaving the Lance
field in q sinking condition. The Wyo-
ming received twenty shots, and had five
men killed and six wounded, when 1t was
deemed prudent to proceed on 70 kanaga-
wa. iassf bead cit &
Gu the oath. Admiral Jarez, in the Sc
miramis, returned to Kanagawa, and re-
ported having arrived with the Semiramis
on the previous Monday, by the Simioros-
ki Straits. "a Isl a.oB
The Eancrede had also been fred into,
receiving shots from masked batteries,
which, with the forts, were then lombard
ed for three hours Ct the end Of that time,
one hundred and fifty troops landed, and
the forts, batteries and town were destroy
ed. The guns were spiked and the maya
zine blown up. Little fight was shown by
the Japanese after being shelled out
principally from behind trees and jutting
points of rocks. Two thousand men were
reported to be descending towards the
range ofthe bombardment
Nothing was seen of the Lancefield, but
the t0pmast of snnken vessel was seen,
supposed to be her. 81. If ae
ROBBERY OF THE WIFE OF SENATOR
Wednesday evening says:
ION the 18th Of August last the wife OF
United States Senator Harlan, of Iowa, was
relieved OF her pocket-book, containing
$50 in bills and two through railway tick
cts (from New Yark to Saratoga, while
entering the Saratoga train at the Union
depot. AS she was entering the door of the
car some two or three men suddenly jOstled
against her, and on recovering herself she
found that her pocket book had been taken
She acquainted the conductor of her loss
and proceeded on her journey: The tickets
stolen were Of a peculiar design, and were
the only ones Of the kind that had ever been
issued.
"a few days after the robbery the identi-
cal tickets were presented to the same con-
ductor by two young men, who got on
board the train in the depot. The conduc-
tor accused the young men of the robbery,
but offered to settle .provided they would
give up the money and acknowledge the
theft, This they refused to do, when he
procured their arrest. Deputy Sheriff Lut-
zelberger took both into custody yesterday
on warrant issued by Justice Flagg, on the
complaint of Mrs. Harlan and the conduct
or. They gave their names as Michael
Murray and James Norris. They were ad-
mitted to bail by Justice Parmenter, to an
swer before the Grand Jury.
"Mrs. Harlan is now in New York, but
is to leave for New Orleans in few weeks.
She offers to remain over to appear as a
witness in the case. She passed through
this city on Friday last from Saratoga
The robbery was bold one, and shows
w
who resort about the depot"
A DUEL BETWEEN LADIEs-REMARKA-
BILE EsCAPE.-On Monday forenoon several
ladies, while on visit to friends house, q
short distance from Gray's Ferry, were
amusing themselves by singing and dan
cling, when one Of them, a resident of Balti-
more, sang verse of the "Bonny Blue
Flag" one of the other ladies jestingly
said, "You're REBEL" at which another
commenced the Southern Marsellaise;''
when it was finished, the lady who had
pistols, I'd fight duel with you, for call
ing me REBEL At this, a daughter of the
gentleman at whose house they were, said,
eve have pistols in the house, but they
are not loaded" They were brought, and,
in order to give it the form of duel, dis.
tances were measured in the room, the la
dies took their places, word was given, one,
two, three, when the lady who had called
the other ''rebel,'' said, II will sit in this
chair, as I wish to die easy.n Word was
again given, and the Baltimore lady. who
had self-cocking pistol, pulled the trigger
and bang went the pistol, a piercing scream
was heard, and in an instant the room was
filled with the members Of the family.
when it was discovered that two of the Ia
dies had swooned; the Baltimore lady was
standing motionless, and the one who
wished to Idle easy" sitting pale with ter
ror in her chair; one bail had passed thro
her dress on the left side, grazing the skin
while on the leaf Of a table on which she
had rested her arm were eight distinct sho
holes, and one bullet imbedded in thu
wood. The pistol had been loaded by a boy
on the 4th Of July, but the charge had no
been fired. The ladies were soon restored
to consciousness, and commenced to real
re the danger Of meddling with firearms
warning, it is needless to say, they viii
not disregard for the future.
The Trans Mississippi rebels have hi.
news. The Ouachita Conference Journal o
August 6, had information, by Confeder
ate officer, "from the east side of the Mis-
sissippi." He toldthem that the Yanke,
army undertook to follow Lee into Virgin
ia, and were cut to pieces, and Lee at one,