The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-31


! ern Confederacy. A
!, III could raise the money, wopIa
: IeaVe mere Tomorrow. wish to educa,a
my children elsewhere, for here, as Won
, may suppose, there is not much educa;;ouu
going on fit for them.
Mrs. Patterson Allen, of Cincinnati; 49,.
: was Miss Wilson, has inst been arrestaS
here, as spy. She has been writing boma
, tne most shocking letters, betrayinS ever
thing public and private. The stroke hoy
made her very ill, and she has neither eat,
| en-, or slept since. a.
II you have any influence with Soutber,
families abroad, use it to induce them nnt
, to return to this country. They have no
idea of the want and suffering here. In al
probability, their plantations are deyasta-
ted, negroes all gone, and themselves bey.
gars. The gentlemen will be Obliged to 90
into the army far better would il be or
them to earn their living abroad now. than
to suffer here. Many of the wealthiest Of
the land, are now working in the DEPART
ments for mere pittance.
i VERY STRANGE IF TRUE Two GHOSTS
IN WAPELLo COUNTY We learn. by a
gentleman Of unquestionable veracity, that
township, in this county, occasioned by the
nightly visitations of two seeming men. at
the residence of Mr.. VIM. Spaulding. who
lives five miles east of Blakesburg. These
visitors, be they who they may, and
whether in the flesh or spirits in human
shape, make their appearance about seven
o'clock in the evening. and remain until
about five in the morning, their first APP
pearance being on Friday night, q week
ago. They seem medium sized, heavy set
men, dressed IN black, On their first ap-
pearance, on Friday night, the family and
some of the neighbors, We're boiling mo-
lasses about forty rods from the house.
n NJ Il n, b.,
cobs, they had been Smelling corn during
the day. and small sticks, began to fly in a
shower, from a certain direction. OCCASION
ally hitting some one of the persons pre-
sent, but generally falling in one small
place. Once candlestick, held by Mrs.
Spaulding, was hit, nearly knocking it out
of her hand. No person was then visible.
but they heard something walking about
with heavy tread. About one O'Clock.
they quit boiling, and two of the men :,
| Harmon Wellman and j. NJ. Spaulding,
started out in the direction from whence
the missiles seemed to come, armed with
clubs and brickbats, to find and chastise
these strange and curious intrnders. No
sooner had the men started than the mis-
siles came, larger and thicker. The fire of
missiles was returned by the men, but with
out evidence of their hitting anybody. The
party about the kettles returned about this
| time Zone o clock to the house. After their
return, the missiles seemed to strike the
fence and the house with great Violence
| Spaulding and one of the men went out to
turn out the horses, taking their gunsiwith
them. No sooner weres they out of the
house, then large club fell near them,
| seemingly coming from behind. One of
the men wheeled, and saw man standing
near enough to be distinguished in a dark
night, at whom he instantly shot. The
man ran and disappeared. They turned
out the horses and returned to the house.
| Nothing more was seen of the men that
night, although they were heard walking
| near the house. The next night, and for
! the four succeeding nights, the same state
of things existed, two being seen on Tues
| day night. Missiles struck the fence and
| house, but left no dents and marks distin-
guishable by daylight. In the meantime,
Mr.. Spaulding and his neighbors became
alarmed by such strange phenomenon, and
from time to time, met atSpaulding' house
| to try and solve the mystery. On Monday
night, j. w. Wellman, VIM. Hayne, VIM.
Spaulding and his son, spent the night
| watching. Sometime in the night, one of
the men looked out of the window and dis
tinctly saw, by the light Of bright moon,
a man standing before the door. After sit
ting awhile, they looked out again, and saw
the man PROSTATE on plank, lighting q
dark lantern with a match. Getting their
revolvers and guns ready, the party pre-
pared to open the door, but strange to say,
They afterwards remained quietly in the
house until 5 o'clock in the morning. One
night, Mr.. e. b. Day took his dog, a very
sagacious animal, and tried to set her on,
but she trembled, ran between her masters
legs, and refused to make any demonstra-
tons against the ghosts.
The above are the leading facts as related
to us, of the most strange phenomenon
Mr.. Spaulding at first attributed the per-
secution to political ennity, but certain ev-
idence of the absence, in other places, of
those he only could suspect, at times when
the visitors were seen and engaged in their
operations, satisfied him that he must look
for some other solution of the mystery.
| We give the facts precisely as they are
related to us, merely expressing, by way
iof comment, our decided conviction that
no Union men, in or out of the flesh, have
resorted to that mode of converting Mr..
Spaulding and his political friends from
the error of their political ways. The story
is a strange one, and we await, with con-
siderable anxiety, further developments.
In the meantime, an opportunity is Afford
| ed to the curious to speculate on the SUBJ
ject of ghosts! We don't believe in ghosts,
and if we did, it is against all ghostly rules
to visit in couples, and they have generally
been clothed in white, invariably so as far
as our recollection serves us. 1t is barely
possible that some evil disposed persons
| have been playing rather fatiguing and
protracted trick upon Mr.. Spaulding and
his friends. Most of the phenomena can
be accounted for without resort to the su-
pernatural. To persons laboring under
apprehension of danger, every thing, par
| ticularv in the night, seems unnatural and
distorted. Ghosts can be manufactured
with the greatest ease. 1t is also extremely
difficult to aim accurately under such cir
cumstances, and a person would stand
many chances of escaping to one of being
hit. And SO we might speculate upon all
these occurrences, surprising them to be
real occurrences. AS to that we repeat, we
merely give what is related to us.-OttunaWa
Courier.
| A daughter of. DR.. Wright, who is under
sentence of death for the murder of Lieut..
Sanborn, has been, at his express desire,
! married in his cell to a young man to
whom she had long been engaged. The
doctor has had his coffin made after pecu-
liar pattern designed by himself-the top
end is raised so as to form a chamber over
the face 10 inches high, and on the inner
sides he fastened the photographs of all his