The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-03-11


artillery! This does not include the guns
captured or destroyed on their vessels.
During the same period good authorities
state that we have not lost thirty 1--we can
non. This exceeds the captures made by
Napoleon during all his Russian and Aus
trian campaigns.
AN IrCIDENT.-We are informed by q
citizen of Peoria that at q meeting held IN
that place last week for the purpose OF con-
sidering whether there should be any cele.
bration on the 4th Of March, a motion was
made to let the day pass annoticed. when 9
soldier With one arm and wooden leg
arose in the audience and declared that II
s.no other celebration could be had over the
late victories that have attended our giofi-
GUS armies and the re-inauguration OF our
noble Chief Magistrate, the manned SOL
diers Of Peoria and vicinity would bring
together their wooden legs and with them
build bonfireW Such are the feelings Of
patriotism that inspire the hearts OF our no
BILE soldiery. -
- A short time since i've hundred
rebel prisoners were sent from Chicago to
Dixie to be exchanged, but upon reaching
rebel territory and getting a peep ut Lees
raea1nuf6n's, two hundred Of the number
hacked out and were returned to Camp
Douglas. SO we'll satisfied arc Thousands
Of the rebel prisoners in our hands tina.
the Confederacy 10 about played out, they
will have nothing 70 do with it, and refuse
to 10 exchanged. Nakedness, starvation
and death await those Of an opposite mind
as they will discover speedily enough.
- The Davenpor: Gazette says tina,
Garrett Myers, who Was pilot on the 6zs;
steamboat that ever ploughed American
waters, is still alive and resident Of Scot,
county. Es,piloted the Robert Fulton on
the route between New York and Albany
for twelve months, it requiring twenty
four hours to, run from city TO city, altho'
tho trip was after while accomplished in
eiehteeni. Mr.. Myers was born in Rock
land county, New York, and is now eighty
five PEARS of age. 9sf s.
pENMARK AcApExy-We have had
placed before ;usihe Catalogue and Circular
foft Denmark Academy for the Nineteenth
.Aeademical year, ending March, 1886, BY
which we are pleased 10 learn that this
favorite institution Of learning is ID pros.
porous aud fiourishing condition. The
worthy and capable Principal, Mr.. Henry
r. Edison, is ably aasisted by q corps o
teachers that bring TO their work approved
skill and experience, a thorough acqaaint,
ance with the best methods Of study, ant
the most approved system Of education
both in the 1olid and ornamental branch
es." During the past yearthe sggregat.
attendance has been 236-of which Il
were males and ia females. The schoo
is one Of the best in the country.
@Oor exchanges throughout the Stat,
como TO as emitting an unmistakable odo
Of Petroleum, and to the touch feel Is Oil,
IS the unctuous bowels of Polk county, O
the "hind-quarters" Of a spermaceti whale
Wherever coal is found, IL is thought tn,
oleaginous fluid may EXIT, and for tn,
past few weeks the peoplSsh such local.
ties have been all agog, prospecting, ex
amining wells, springs and streams, j,
search Of the flowing fat Of the coal beds
and II perchancs traces Of Its presence re
warded their Investigations, visions Of i'm
aginary wealth,-of immense estatee,-e
palaces more glorious and nagnifcen
than, Aladdin with its dome and four
and-twenty windows, crowd upon thei
imaginationsby day, and make gorgeou
their dreams BY night. The people Of Ii,
Des Moinss valley, like . barrel Of new
cider, are worked mp to bursting pitch
land our citizens in the Northern part o
the State have caught the injection. tn,
Marsngo Revieso says something like pe
troleum has been found in the wells there
abouts and It appears the water in tina
lpartof the. Iowa valley il 90 unctuois !,
to turnthe stomachsof steam boilers. anf
nausests the insides OF buckets. pots .nt
tea-kettles generally. Where the matte,
will end 1t u hard to tell, but should III,
groovesofI lows q futnre be really oiled wiz
i petroleum the climax viii be capped. i !,
such Gee the riches Of Ophir YIN cease /.
b spoken of by way Of comparison. ian ana
l the golden bowels Of all known and nroe
pective FL DoSados shall give, M ths;
front sests in the Temple Of Mammon !,
the slippery queen Of our coal beds. Gem
[tlemen, strike oil II yon can. s,sfetf,
Wa rnAirT kre rAoT3a.. - -, 60 ..4-s.