The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-04-01

lilo Now AOIh m0ICuAutS 6uU UuueLWTl-
ters are distributing 325, 900 to the officers
and crew of the Kearsarge. Commodore
Winslow gets 10000, and the sums given
range down to $l5 for second class boys.
jay Cooke has box of seven.thirty cir
culars and advertisements at Fortress
Monroe diYectedto Richmond. Jay means
to give the Richmond people q chance to
subscribe as soon as Grant opens commune
cation with that isolated place. =
JUSTICE OF THE ALMIGHTY.-The Chi.
cago Tribune Of u recent date, contains an
article under the above caption. in which
it speaks very highly of that portion Of the
Presidents inaugural which acknowledges
the guiding hand of just Providence in
the affairs of the nation; then coolly goes
on to state that the same idea was discuss
ed in the Tribune two years ago. This re-
minds Us of young man who comph-
mented a lady very highly on her personal
appearance, then quietly informed her that
she looked just like a sister Of h,s.-Caaries
City Intel.
Mr.. Weeds friends are indignant at the
change In the Albany EUening Journal,
and propose 10 force Mr.. Dawson out Of the
Albany postofacs. That's Albany talk
only. You can't always tell when Mr..
Weed is not pleased.
A letter was found in the State house at
Columbia, s. c., from Clark Mills, the ar.
fist, to Gov. 0ist OF South Carolina, dated
December Z, 1851, expressing his sympa-
thy in the rebellion and Offering his seq
vices to cast bronze cannon for the South. 4
Bennett has frequently lampooned the
President about his "coarse jokes, but
the last and best that we have ever heard
was the one recently perpetratei by nomt-
mating Mr.. Bennett minister 70 France,
4. -. No
firm him! That was not 80 "coafse. -
Warrington Republican.
The Cleveland PloindeaIer, the only Cop
perhead organ in Northern Ohio, has been
suspended. ~
Frenchmen are going to bore for oil In
Russia; and Americans In Mexico. The
prospects in Mexico are very promisine.-
The Oil is very clear, and Q New York com.
pany is going to operate on an extensive
scale. ss54
Ex.Governor Aiken, of South Carolina,
has reported the names Of all his slaves,
$50 in number, t0the commandment OF South
Carolina, and given each family farm on
one Of the most fertile and productive is.
lands ON the coast, placed them ON 1t, and
all are well started in life.
The loss by the late flood in Now York
state is estimated ct over u 1000, O0O. A
wooden mill, valued with its contents at
over 500, COO, was observed floating down
the Mohawk river on Saturday, with other
flood wood.
Frederick Crane, formerly of the Boston
Journal, has succeeded Isaac w. England,
for thirteen years the news editor OF the
New York Tribune; and J. Henry Hagar,
Of Albany, succeeds MI. Ottarson, I0f nj
teen years the night editor Of the. same
paper.
The New York farmers who went With
out butter all last winter 90 - TO have 2
nice lot 70 sell this spring ct y . pound.
overrseched themselves.
streeter, Faxen q Potter, dry goods mer-
chants at New York who made S22A go or
have failed. The fall in prices fixed them.
The pork and butter Spectators in Ohio
are hard up now on account Of the decline
in prices. The local banks, both State ana
National, have loaned SO much money TO
them that they have had to stop their dis.
counts.
A correspondent ofthe New York World
says that the captured steamer Lady Ster-
ING ie beine fitted up as . yacht, in the
most sumptuous manner, for President
Lincoln.
The last carnival" at Havana must have
been jolly one, as seventy-five murders
are reported. oe
The American Reporter is a new month
~ paper intended for circulation among
the working people Of Great Britain. 1t
is designed to elucidate American affairs,
and encourage emigration to this country.
!. A sword tournament at Gen. Grants
headquarters to decide who IL the best
swordsman in our armies is talked off,
There will be one competitor from each
military department, and the victor will
have 81 ,0CO.
There is counter revolution at st. Do
mingo. Abortion Of tho Dominican revo-
lutionists under planter named Martinez
attacked. defeated and captured the Do
minican forces at Santiago, liberated the