Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-03-25

In the annals Of lova for January, the
editor (Hon. I. 8. Parvin) thus discourses
on this topic:
Hawkeyc State" in the explanatory
and pronouncing vocabulary, appended to
Webs,er's Dictionary, new illustrated edi.
ton, page l, $50, is thus explained:
"The State of Iowa, said to be so named
after an Indian chief, who was once ter.
ror to voyaguers, to its borders"
The famous Black Hawk is the chief
referred to By M. Wheeler, the compiler
Of the vocabulary and his residence be-
fore and at the breaking out of the Black
Hawk war of 1912, was on Rock river,
above the town Of Rock Island, Ill.,, and
We never heard before that he was terror
to the voyagers, m uch less to the royayuers
TO its borders after that date. After bis
defeat at Bad Axe, Wisconsin, and bis re.
lease by the President, Jackson he took
up bis residence in the Des Moines Valley,
where he died in 1887.
The coguomen "Hawkeye' originated
thus: Que evening in the winter OF 1888
several gentlemen assembled in the room
Of Governor Lucas, at the Burlington
House, ia Burlington, were discussing the
name Of Badger as applied to the Terri.
tory Of Wisconsin, from which Iowa had
been but recently separated, when the
question was sprung, what name should
the Iowans take?
We recollect that in that company were
Governor Lucas, Secretary Conway, Gen.
Van Antwerp, the Receiver of Public
Moneys,) Jesse Williams, subsequently,
Secretary Of the Territory Hon. Joseph
Williams, J. G. Edwards, editor of the
Burlington Patriot, and afterwards famil
iarly known as old Hawke" and the edi.
tor Of the annals, (the,. private Secretary
Of the Governor
Some one, we do not remember whom,
proposed (after various names had been
mentioned, tha, Of Hawkeye," when all
at once agreed, and Edwards soon after
changed the name of his paper to that of
Haukeye and Bmlingto" Patriot
Ex-vice-Pr esident Hnmlin goes
Home Disgusted.
Elk Vice President IIumlin departed for
his home in Maine This morning, thorough.
ly Disguised with everything in public life,
excepting the President. lie complains
tina. almost every one with whom he has
had anything to do has played him false.
With the Secretary Of the Navy, whom he
was Influential in having appointed to bis
present position he has scarcely exchanged
. word during the last two years; while
Mr. Fesseaden, whom he assisted to en-,
gineer into the Treasury, some months
since. with the uniers anding that be
should remain in the Cabinet, and leave
HsmIin a clear track for his place in the
Senate, bad no sooner reached that posi-.
ton than he turned the whole patronage,
power and machinery Of his department
into the effort to secure bis own return to
the Senate and the defeat Of Hamlin. In
this work, i. is averred tina, be found .
willing tool in his Collector Of Internal
Revenue a, Portland, Israel Washburne,
jr., who is looking with co,etous eyes upon
tho seat in the Senate now occupied by
Senator Morrill,. This is very pretty
quarrel as it stands, and bids fair to work
political revolution ia Maine Mr. Ham
lin goes home armed with all the points Of
bis adversary, even 10 his aspiration -
the Presidency in 1853, and il he does
not succeed in pulling the astu,e ex Sec.
retary's air castle down abut his head
during the next four years, he is not the
sagacious wirepulIer he has been taken
Tor Washington Letter.
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