The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-03-05

- AAA1oA POi otSA wv HS anu ClIlQA
entitled to become cities of the seco ~
class, in accordance with the proyis;nsaa
OF sections 1918 and 1919, Laws of lou
Rev. of 1860:
Burlington, Des MOines county:
Cedar Falls, Black Hawk county:
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie county.
Dubuque, Dubuque county;
Des Moines, Polk county;
Davenport, Scott county;
Iowa City, johnson county,
keokuk, Lee county;
Lyons City, Clinton county;
Mt. Pleasant, Henry county;
Madison, Lee county;
Marion. Linn county;
Muscatine, Muscatine county:
McGregor, Clayton county;
Oskaloosa, Mahaska county;
Washington, Washington county.
Given under our hands, at Des Moin..
this I'D day OF February, A. ID, 1854
w. NJ. STONE, Governor.
POWER OF THE QUEEN.-The CONNIE,
opinion that the Queen of England r. q ~
pher in the Government is denied ~ X.
London correspondent of the New VOL
Times. He says:
:" The Queen it has been stated on hion
authority, has had a powerful intluenc n
the action OF the Government on Amor;
can affairs. 1t is she who has sustained
Russell against Paimerston. 1t is her in.
fluence that has made Mr.. Gibson tha
President OF the Board of Trade, 50 decids
cd in his Northern sympathies. Several
OF her personal friends belong to the Enc.
llsh Emancipation party, which does not
60 with Lord Brougham. Now, in manv
respects the Queen Of England, as in ths
case OF other Constitutional Government.
has no power, as she is held to no r..
ihilifsy p,,f oh Los
and does not hesitate to use it.
There is a report, for the truth Of which
cannot vouch, that it is her veto which
has prevented any aid being given to Den.
mark. The leader Of the German move
ment is her brother-in-law; the Duke
of Augustenburgh is her nephew. Tia
Crown Prince of Prussia is her son -in-lav.
and it is said that she promised him, Ia
last time he was in England, that there
side of Denmark. The Queen is German
king Christian must be resigned Chris
tan if he can, and the Princess Of Wales
must comfort herself with her baby, who
will be one day King of England, if all
goes happily.
Passing events, and the utter inaction.
and seeming paralysis Of the English gov.
eminent, give an air of probability to these
rumors. Ii it be true that the Queen has
SuCu q Will VI ucT OWL anu SUCH power
over her government, and also true that
she is, as it is believed, the very decided
friend of the Federal cause in America,
there is little to apprehend from British in
reference"
RENTS IN NEW YoRK.-The Commercial
Advertiser, OF the end, says:
With the great rise in all the necessaries
and comforts Of the table, we notice an in
ia in TIM NJ IN. oil
of the city fully equal to an advance of
from twenty-five to thirty per cent. on the
demands OF last year. And even at these
heavy rates, the demand for houses is
much greater than the supply. Old ten
ants, unable to pay the current rates, are
to break up housekeeping or to
take refuge in some neighboring village
The boarding houses and hotels are over.
and strangers coming to the city
are often turned from one hotel to another
in the search for accommodations till COM
PEELED to accept of miserable and marrow
quarters at any price that may be de-
Houses, like all other commodities, are
as to their value by the demand.
The demand at present in this city is be-
yond all precedent, and the supply is en-
tirely inadequate to the wants of the teem-
ing thousands who are thronging hither.
that not less than six thousand
thirty thousand persons, from
Southern and Southwestern States have
taken refuge in this city till the war is
over. Numerous other families, who have
been enriched by the war, are also gather
en- here, drawn by the attractions of the
great metropolis, and as their money
was made easily and quickly, they are
lavish in its expenditure for snowy dwell
iY,fyr nd nt1,o IF
TEN THOUSAND PERSONS ACCIDENTAL
LIZ" BURNT ALIVE IN JAPAN.-In August
last, in Japan, not building with 1900 be-
ings in it, but whole city Of a 10000 souls
was suddenly burnt to ashes in a few short
hours-a city of bamboo and paper, cover
ing many square miles, filled with its wO-
men and children, the sick, and the infifm,
the blind, and halt and manned. 1t burned
like straw on many sides at once, REDEEM
ing the ocean for leagues with its flames.
1t was fired without warning by bomb
shells and redhot shot rained necessarily
during two days in its midst. In that vast
it is morally certain that not
two thousand only but at least five times,
perhaps ten or twenty times two thousand
helpless creatures must have persisted. No
brilliant pen has painted for us the hideous
incidents of their last agonies, and the hor-
rors Of an Internal fire, before which that
Of Chilli burned but pale and feebly. That
death was dealt out TO those innocent be-
lngs in Japan by English sailors-purpose-
ly, unsparingly and boastfully-not in war,
not in necessity, not in selt-preservation,
but in order to strike terror into harm
less people whom we were bent upon
forcing into trade.-Lcttey IN London Daily
NeuS.
A TEACHER AT THE WFsT.-At a late
meeting of n Teachers Association at
Springfield, Illinois, a Mr.. CatherwOod, of
} Jacksonville, defined his position in the
following humorous speech: He defied
one of his scholars to break any rules, for
he had none. He was never punished in
school, for he never went to school day in
his life. He got his education in the wilds
of Texas, on the coast Of Labrador, in the
old world, on the sea, on the rivers, in
the forests. All man wants to do to learn
is to open his eyes and look around him.
Never fiatter nor scold in the school-rOom;
if you do either, do it in private. Being
asked how he taught grammar, he said he
didn't teach 1t, he knew nothing about
grammer, never studied it an hour in his
life. We teach grammar by reading the
English classics. To teach it from the
textbook is like jumping off into space;
YOU never know where you will land