Weekly Hawk Eye And Telegraph (Newspaper) - November 21, 1855, Burlington, Iowa OR 8 hull hereM i linn Wn vn nni t if Kit H i fie Ift OM D'S from a W rt N in of i Hn h liw f tif flint u tin l t I he t in r tin M Air i fc nf I-M iMid f i It i I i f ii in M X I III til I Hi ii I I If fll I C It f i i A in vi IK f ORE D Building r i I u r f can I ivre U JISSI v in H just H 1 have H 9 1C 10 U U -t K R K nl call low tut ion r Ka ton 8 s A JOURNAL OP POLITICS NEWS LITERATURE AGRICULTURE MARKETS SEVENTEENTH YEAR BURLINGON IOWA WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 2l 1855 VOL 2 u II not wore TO Curbs will over t Hull LAHK IB DR PAINE but ID on tbf ul Law AT Prompt to North f Main fir HAWK-EYE TELEGRAPH THOMAS HEDGE Co in soil 3 H HEINSHEIMER Co W nf side Main and large of north IOWA have fall Winter JOSEPH JONES in nry M turfr of Urd-011 fourth In tlie may a tn of Dry mid all of duce M AI cut be found July WM BROS In and Fancy Dry and Window Sails receipt of a full of Kali ter will at reduced at their oo OEO ROBERTSON A AT Iowa Office tun be- Third find Fourth ly v N AT to yH to In to lhc 1 to haul room on of Dr doors DE W W NASSAU 8 CO ttK In F HENDRICKS V In I J C ABERCROMBIE Dentist tK two from over r In llK pain All bti In i B LOCKWOOD Notary Public lWt IOWA will In ihe of Tuxes und con- In In Uic Q CHARLES BEN DARWIN A up In new la L D STOCKTON MMt AT V Wj corner of Third uta Iowa fail on lilies lo In Ihc Hinl ot on tonin A vl Die roil In und for or w bu at nit lo of ihr rily and of ond of of ki pi on hand without nnd on Bulling in Imy or of any flint IMo mil itl HIP N A I ly Laud Agency V B A III I limn have a l lo i anil re in count tU Hy in anil If toil ul to of Mil di nu luy in iim tint in iv m DRS GARNER BAILEY si If n vor f HIM I own anb rift I PEASLEY ft MICHAELS mill si Iowa Hi K I Mall A Co II t Co on A Co 1 A Jolm J Law A A Co Ml West Louis Mu lo do Chicago Iowa do Washington do Fort do O J 0 LAUMAN BROTHER xi of and A In Dry Shoes Jtc Ac 1 S FE AH lo Voot A HiUM und 4 Street The un- Inform he public thai hu occupied Foote A of n Mini by giving it his en- a the public IIT paid to selling MM S T j MIT s i COPP CO omen Union Hurl Iowa and III i l N Co Water A Cook Co A New York Swift A Co U A Co A Co S M A Co St Louis A Chicago lnd of Periodicals bound l f ound l lo wive for nil of i lvn at the well P I Receipts Ac Ac stitched or bmi T wlu y Iowa nv l lo ihe above location or iho mosi In the West the the attention of his old rt uo w ft I very low IU on hand 1 Bi ft Klo Sulphur 1 do tlo t da Camphor oil do 10 do do 6 do lard do 1 do Ued do Madder W do 5 do 1 do yellow Indigo 1 do Spanish Window Glass assorted sizes various Uwp chimneys AH i Com- of vicinity C BROWN honor and of kinds or by Urge number of ts WX KID P JOHN B CARSON CO MISSION No W mid W5 JOHN of Wlf in store and lo K largu and well of which they for ul Si Louis adding freights only moy MESSES CLARK to A In II Dry Groceries Shoes and Mode They the public o call and their They are determined to uell bargains for July J On nnd Icr the 20111 Inst we be In receipt dally of In can and Also Fresh In for by the can und barrel at Chicago adding freight 0 M Oo In A- No W lowu successors to 2 II A Vun lit A- of between and Third NKW CHINA STORE McKITTERICK MILLER imN anil lit A Third nt nearly the Iowa arc now opening a large and beautiful assortment f French China Tea Sou Dinner Vases and Fancy Also a fine assortment of warf Window and bottles vials about keeping and all In want of of a at prices to with the times would do well to call and ne our suick before purchasing elsewhere H E HUNT received per from New York Ihc lol of FANI Y thai ever came to K II Banking House Exchange Office und Land Agency THOMAS Co of K W Clark A Co n tor Hit of a general unit are lu n lliu modi mil Hint solti made nnd promptly allowed ou fur from w ill prompt funds nt und its order W W COOK t Co it A its on till points and money and hold Intercut paid on Time KENDALL BOOK V of and town HI.ANK of all wild of made to order Music with mill and warranted lo give entire tf A W W lold Silverware Warr oral Aorte Hair Ac Ar nnd nnd paid fur i iold and Silver New Furniture Upholstery and Looking Glass f A A MO ro I sportfully Inform and the public that a utore ou Washington street between Muin ami Third and are receiving a and well slock of of every description which they low for Gash Their clock will comprise Sofas Ing and other ami Marble and Tup Ac fee They also keep on hand and make to order of and lined Window and Bed Curtains and hung after the newest designs Old repaired and All of Upholstering promptly attended to on able terms 01 vc a eall New Threshing Machine Manufactory 1 It IJ U 1.1 TON 1 O W A O ifl 10 10 J T U K n A I A ft i I at n heavy of very extensive for In the n large supply of superior Machines for tlie ensuing and It A ol my Is the Int at the World's In London at the Crystal Fair N Y at State nf nnd all other places where ll lias linn lolled and now Mauds the head of all known for Threshing and Cleaning all of train doing a large amount of work with less waste of In ihu delivering the In cleaner state than any machine lu UM- I shall make two sizes of the one for capable of doing mew work than any other chine of Us Kiuall Machines for two nnd four IK intruded for the own And will and the Grain and deliver 11 In bags ready for tho mill Which 1 make for these MACHINES aro tho most furnished to order nt the prices or communications from a distance ly Attended to July Mly New New at the Iowa Music Store II 1 S I A ft r o p r I t o r At and warranted can ways obtained at the luwu Music Stare No charges for freight expenses It Ibe best quality can be obtained at the Iowa Music Store A lol of new just received and teen more v ill be hero tn September H LANK iM lo of mMv pieces just received New received every week or two at the Iowa Music store rt It LANK TI IIK I but about S only aru left Is the It LANK I w Music Store fresh at the R LANK sale nl Iowa Music Store 11 the Store and J a one Plenty of them K lot of did received from at Music A large supply at the Store which wo will sell at enst as we are about our of Stationery Come ono and all If you jO your dimes at Thelowa Music you want a good selection of any of from down to good This is place to buy Singing for Singing Glee Clubs Stools Ac Violins Guitars nnd other things too numerous to be procured al all at Oils the only Music Store tn this U LANK R 8 his Oun Wa street between Front and Main near the Ferry where he will bo happy to ou hU old friends June IS KW received snri opposite tho roll House a large stock of of and Wilts fine pold fob and pens silver wnre Ac Ac l would Uial 1 A fuil of all of jewelry and other kept In jewelry my jewelry is a II o f the suid for and tu none a cull n I sell my si only n over the Third street nearly opposite tht all of on short TO now and ft fidt supply of for country are at prices which wdl favorably with those of other market easi or west iVt for of the in England and experience In the we are assured that our of and our prices cannot to who have been in the of in r-r Southern 4 North OUR PAPER We arc now engaged in resulting our la new and beautiful und confidently ex- lo present it to our numerous patrons in a few days somewhat enlarged nml as handsomely printed us any of our in or of the State We shall have a good more room and present a good deal more ter diligence will be uwd in every department The current news and daily market reports will be found in our well as monetary and political As heretofore the and Telegraph will contain later intelligence than can reach our in any other paper cull attention of turn in Southern and Western Iowa to our Daily Unlike others we are confined by the of our office and no time in subscriptions relying upon the merits of our paper rather than to secure to UH an circulation confident that if we do not soon realize our tions in that our business will be more healthy und reliable when it does come Orn WEEKLY is of Mammoth all the reading mutter of the daily lation 11 us more than quadrupled in the year and the edition hud so large as to heavily upon hand presses shall next week receive an improved printing machine which will enable us to work edition promptly even should it greatly increase in size as we confidently expect it will Our weekly will contain full market reports up to the hour of going to press as well as the current news und general intelligence of the week Subscription price No name ed upon our books unless accompanied by the money OMt OFFICE During the last five months we have by favor of in this city and in parts of the State executed a comparatively large amount of Book und Pamphlet printing to the entire faction we believe of those who have employed us In addition to the facilities procured in the early part of the Rummer we have lately added u large amount of type from the best foundries both for our paper and for Hook and Job ing of every description We are prepared to publish Periodicals and Books or print Blanks Circulars Cards Posters plain or in colors on short notice nnd at fair prices We have a of the best kind We buy our cards in boards nt wholesale prices and can compete quality of work and material considered with Eastern ters We have on way which we shall soon receive A For newspaper Printing which will enable us to orders of any likely to be received with reasonable despatch and in a style entirely satisfactory we confidently believe Comparisons are odious and we do not in- tend to make any But this much we may be allowed to that we have such an office as we are really proud of and which we invite our friends to cull and examine after we shall have hud time to it We solicit business in our lino DUNHAM BROWN Chicago on Saturday there was a large supply of dressed hogs on the Market weather warm and prices dull None however were sold for less than hundred nett The Cincinnati Gazette of Friday says hogs aro held with grout at from to above the views of buyers Holders of heavy hogs con- tended for and there were no sales below for this month WISH Wise of Virginia in n recent letter got the following lutin about I stand on the shores of my Ocean and meet Alabama coming greeting with arms and bosom open with expanded chest and ting nostrils To this Prentice of the Louisville Journal re- sponds as We don't believe a word of all this Wo are sure Alabama ia slandered We regard her as decent and modest But if she did rush towards Gov Wise in the manner he mentions with arms open and bosom bare and expanding chest and dilating nostrils the old gentleman should have enough kind consideration for her character to say nothing about it The Governor elect does not tell us how he received this very forward male but he evidently intends that we shall in- fer that he received her in a corresponding mood The naughty OK TIIK PROHIBITORY LAW call particular attention of the reader to the able opinion of Judge LOWE on the of tho Iowa Law It will be concluded in our next AT A the of the lute Mr Ireson nt Lynn Mass on Monday the entry floor fell through precipitating some twelve ladies into the cellar No one was injured The house was built one dred and thirty years ago and Mr Ireson had resided in the same house years A woman in Pottsvillc a few days ago was safely delivered of three children at a single birth Considering that her husband has been absent in California for the last two years having returned but a day or two the re- sult is a physiological phenomenon Is Cincinnati paper contains an of bonnets and petticoats for young men's wear to correspond with now so universally worn It is rumored in political circles in ton that iov Wise and the President arc at loggerheads has been in Liboria what is supposed to be the most valuable bed of iron ore in the world The composition is said to be 9 40 pure iron Burlington Commercial College Our renders will notice hat new have been made in this Institution Mr holf having made arrangements with Mr cnn the best penman in the West to take charge of the writing department while Mr takes charge of the book keeping department His long experience a practical book keeper and as a teacher over a thousand pupils having graduated under his instruction in the Mercantile College of Pennsylvania is a sure guarantee of his ability to impart to his proficiency iu the art as will enable to step Immediately from Class Room to the Counting House It is now in every respect a first class institution nnd in choosing a school for the last and highest brunch of Commercial education we would say emphatically go to the fort Go to preceptors of experience Never expect reliable instruction from any er source Result cf from all the towns in the Nahant Gardner Beach Rockwell 30.777 Gardner's over Rockwell Majority against Gardner The Senate will probably ings 129 Republicans Democrats 2 and the House nearly as Republicans KO Whigs and Liberals 67 30 K havL carried nearly ali the counties in the State The n few of the counties whose is in good part American of Lord Baltimore's pioneers Of the six Members of Congress just elected five are nnd one Nothing Whig The Legislature wisl be at least three to one Know-Nothing Milwaukee Sentinel of puts Bashford ahead with some half dozen counties yet to bo hoard from which have probably given majorities for The friends of Gov Barstow confidently claim his election and it will require some days to determine who is Governor As near as can bo ascertained the Senate will stand licans 14 Democrats 11 The probabilities are that the Democrats will have u small majority in the Assembly IMPORTANT National gencer of Wednesday says that the Government has received dispatches from Col Wheeler re- lating to the recent events in Nicaragua and it is rumored that they are of such a nature as to require prompt and decisive attention It is so reported that Commodore Paulding is lo ceed to Nicaragua in a ship of war with tions to inquire into the circumstances attending the outrages work of putting down the Gas pipes in progress on Columbia and other The company hope to light up the town about Christinas tide of travel from Kust and West still continues to pass through our city with but little abatement The wagons of the immigrant to grow scarcer as cold weather es Tho Waukegan Gazette that it would be an improvement if the government would ply a boy and o yoke of oxen for the tion of the the Lake Same here A now hotel Is to erected in Philadelphia on Kahili ex- truding to President Making The Galena Advertiser seconds the tion of Hon Bates of Missouri for the Presidency This Mr i- a man of whom we know but little and therefore say hut little We are not prepared to canvass his claims or qualifications for the important cilice But one thing is entirely conclusive to our mind The Missouri Republican the only paper even in Missouri having any claim to or standing which has justified Stringfellow Co in their conquest of Kansas svas the to propose tho name of Mr Bates for the Presidency If he is to the organ of the Missouri cut throats he cannot be to us If there is that about with the sentiments and feelings of the is not the man for us was lecturing last week at Cincinnati AN OLD Times contains an obituary notice of Mr JOHN who died at his residence West Point on the inst lie had been resident of Lee County since 1833 It is expected that the Dixon Air Line Road will be completed to Fulton on the Mississippi in the course of the present week A colored man waiter on board the steamer Emma Harmon which lately plied on the sas river having been and thrust in jail on the pretended suspicion that he was a slave and nobody calling for him he has been to be sold by the sheriff for his jail fees According to a statement in the New York Times the number of candidates for office in that city was a little over eight equal in number to the entire army with which Gen Scott made his descent into the valley of Mexico A Paris correspondent of the New York Tri- bune of a young lady who received from the Crimea of the death of her er her father her brother and uncle all hy the post Such is war Miss Sarah A Coe of New York city obtained a verdict on the 5th inst against Samuel E Plume for seduction and breach of promise of and costs A Wedding Party was held at the Tremont in Boston on Monday in honor of the nuptials of Captain G V Fox late of the lr S and Miss Virginia L daughter of the Hon of Portsmouth N II r at which place the marriage was performed on the morning of the same day Louisville Courier snys the hog market is dull both there nnd elsewhere and buyers arc very in their offers and prices are unsettled Hogs are offered for six cents December delivery S Foote as will be seen by notice in column has opened a new ticket office at the foot of son street in building where he is pre- pared to ticket through to almost any place to which the traveler may be desirous of going by rail All information obtained from him may be relied on OFFICE is the place Burlington cial College presents unusually fine inducements for persons wishing to improve their hand ting Messrs Duncan Dalhoff are penmen of the first order they teach altogether with the use blackboard illustrating the different characters and classes of letters which seems to he a great modern improvement in teaching the rt We think there plenty of material in our city for a large who by taking lessons of them would make their writing legible and we would not have so much trouble in ing their in e them a call IOWA COAL Dubuque Herald has received from Col Mix of the D P R R Co a collection of specimens gathered by him in his recent trip to Sergeants Bluffs consisting of coal from river coal from the Iowa river coal from the Moines river limestone from city two specimens of rock Sioux city marble from Iowa river gypsum from Foit Dodge potter's clay from Fort Dodge and various other specimens Government and Expenditures During the quarter ending the 80th of ber last tho receipts of customs amounted to from public lands and from miscellaneous sources total The expenditures during the same time amounted to of which 202 was on account of the Navy for the War Department for evil and foreign intercourse and for redemption of public debt including for premium redeemed Pol Lipman who was showman for thirty and at times connected with most of the Circus Companies of the Union died lately at Cincinnati Of VS loll 11 Indictment for Murder For the State Miller of Ft Madison of Keokuk and C Ben Darwin of Burlington For the defence Rorer nnd Hall is an important Murder case from Leu County A jury has been ing of the following named John D Cameron J B Wilson Peter Hoffman J L Isaac Martin Walker Frederick Funck William Parker John Jones Tate Wright Daniel Purcell James Chirk The murder was committed West Point in October 1840 Cincinnati Gazette that the lady of Gov Wright of Indiana has him with a This is going two better than we had supposed and rather more of a blcftiing than any other governor over did have Twins would have done very well for the first FANNY new story by this distinguished authoress called Rosa will lie published by Mason Bro's on the 1st of December GOING EAST A drove of very fine hogs ed down Jefferson street yesterday on their way to the cars We have received the address of Mr delivered before the Agricultural ciety at Just as we expected it con- tains not one word of ism or Agriculture is the subject of his address and no remarks arc in- but which are pertinent to the subject and interesting and important to every tiller of the soil We shall republish it and bespeak for it a general perusal The new dome is being put on the capital at Washington It is thought the appropriation made hy Congress of will be cicut MISSOURI Dubuque pross the leading Democratic paper in the State very truthfully remarks that it is singular enough that some papers culling themselves democratic and devoting themselves to the in- of the democracy should deem it sary either to remain silent on the subject of tho of certain men of Missouri or should attempt to palliate it Saturday ti new counter- feit five on the Bank of Providence R L made its appearance in Detroit The nette is a Locomotive and cars and there are five stripes of lathe work on the It is very cunningly executed and has deceived many who are well qualified to detect spurious notes The Duty of Property Holders If n general for business properly for uses is one of the surest indices of a prosperity ii may with equal propriety c added that high rents and extravagant are indubitable evidences of premature decline and decay Burlington represents cither or tho other of phases to-day We hear on every side complaints of high rents holders are not satisfied with the fair nnd re- prices at which their business rooms lave been renting neither are they with healthy advance of say ten or twenty per cent want from fifty to one hundred per cent advance at a single jump We are told that this state of things actually exists and people aro anxiously enquiring what they shall do to ward off tho fatal results of such a suicidal policy If this is true of our property holders it ia lo be deeply regretted and we cannot but believe that who have taken this step will find plenty of opportunity lo regret it too before they are ready for another advance The fact of it is thia unhealthy stale of things has been forced upon the community by tin ural progress of events Burlington in a t tion state From tho modest airs of a quiet sub- urban town it ig stately of ft well regulated in a horn with all the ual paraphernalia of gas lights hotel runners night police fights fires fast horses fast boys and such other little etceteras as go to make up the show of a great city in the nation We do not wish to disparage the efforts of any of those who are laboring for the benefit of our growing young city Not by uny But the difficulty is like some of our boyss we arc growing faster than We must not for- get that we have a town of a little over ten while places dignified with the name of cities number their population by tens and dreds thousands The time has not yet come Burlington by interdicting any further increase of its inhabitants and building a barrier around it in the shape of intolerable taxes and rents This method of finishing towns has been quite effectual in many instances but we hope for the honor of our citizens that this experiment will not be tried just ut this ical time when an enlightened liberality should invite strangers to settle in our midst Let perty holders then pursue n liberal policy in ing their rents and they will never have reason to regret it came on the way last night from Omaha City handed us by the Mr Wilson of the election of B B Chapman to Congress from that Territory G Hunt who acted his part so honorably and manfully in at- tempting to thwart the infamous Nebraska scheme of Atchison Pierce and Douglas has been triumphantly re-elected to tho House from the New Orleans district TIIK the New York Court of Special Sessions the proprietors of the Astor House New York city being ar- for selling liquor contrary to tho law the Recorder has decided the tute unconstitutional and discharged the de- fendants The following are the principal grounds taken by the Court in reference to the Its entire provisions arc in the oppression they are calculated to produce if ried into effect It holds out to the party whose property has been seized the temptation to com- mit perjury that he may be heard in defence of his property It construes silence into a sion of guilt and acts upon that silence as upon affirmative proof It authorizes the destruction of property without that due process of law cured by lie Constitution to the citizen It re- verses the rule of evidence by throwing the don of proof upon the accused party It violates the compact entered into between Government and the citizen by impairing the obligation of contracts Lord in a recent speech in Parliament upon he war took occasion to re- mark that the United States arc the most like nation in the world As an evidence of this he cited the ease with which armies were raised in the Mexican war An inhuman brute named Joseph gerald has been arrested in New Orleans for beating his sister to death The act was on the of last month Ex-President Van Buren is represented as yielding to the weight of yenrs and it is stated that his recent European tour did not result so satisfactorily for his health as his friends could have desired The National Committee who arc to fix the time for the National Convention of the Slave Democracy at Cincinnati to nominate for President and Vice-President are no- to meet in Washington on the 8th of ary next to fix upon that time The telegraph was slightly mistaken in its announcement that the Nominating Convention would be on that da v receipts of flour to Buffalo from the opening of tion to November 1 were At wego The lust number of the News contains an account of the origin successes troubles and i triumphs nf the hitter day saints The writer computes the number of Mormons in the old and new at Hince their settlement by the Great Salt Lakes they have prospered and have recieved from all parts of ehris One thousand Danish are ex peeled to arrive in Utah next seasons On the loth of September they had an ex- of fruit at Social under the super vision of the Horticultural Society of Great Salt Lake city We the On Thursday last a few thousand million hoppers in the settlements in the north of Utah county destroying every green thing in their way Ihc last prospect for bread in that re- gion is suddenly snapped asunder Bishop Evans on Sunday informed us that they were continuing their ravages when he left Lehi ihc evening previous The Hon T Benson informs us that the county by a similar plague cutting off the nf hope for the mers as about forty grasshoppers were at work on stalk they destroy the silk first which prevents ear from filling and entirely destroys the crop even if they remain on fi patch but a short time Tux DISPOSAL OF THK of Louisville Journal gives the geography of burial and A South Carolina editor inquires whether burning or burying is the better If we were to die in Kentucky we prefer to have our remains mingle with her glorious soil but if we PO unfortunate as to draw our breath in South Carolina we should burning bv all means is a motion before Court to limit the legal gentlemen to one hour each in speaking on all save criminal This motion should it prevail would pave much time facilitate the despatch of Whether it would be a curtailment of the rights of gentlemen of the committed suicide ou the 15th inst at Gardner liar or not we are not prepared to But it 155 that it would XMV YORK Nov 12 Tim Co given lothe Co al Oic end of month they will terminate their recently completed amicable arrangement It Midi I that several shocks of earthquake were felt al Island between nine and ton o'clock on morning last CHICAGO Nov 12 better feeling in Spring owing to decline in freights but transactions and at comparative inside rates h sales in low at Si on board nnd bu in one lot do nt 47 at which latter more Hellers than buyers Winter dull and inactive as last quoted 50 for red in store and AIM for While heavy nnd lower of broken lots iu store at M Limited demand for city trade and distillery at perhaps a shade better and quiet At NKW VORK Nov 13 The steamer Umpire City from Ted this P M with California dates to Ihc 20th October She brought lit ond in specie The news from the is The new tonnage law which was to have been put ia force Nov 1st is a dead letter Valparaiso dates to the September Oct I Political news from Chili un- important Business by the Revolutionary movements have broken out in Bolivia most cases pardoned dates to Aug 18th Flour had fallen -10 pound per ton Kor in borne 441 10s NEW 12 By the steamer we have dates from Mexico lo NOA 8 Alvarez still the Presidency Senor resigned tho of Foreign Relations through disagreement with Large number of troops pouring F 0 Brooks opened a new watch and jewelry store in the Barret House as will bo scon by his an- in another column He has a fine assortment of new and fashionable watches chains jewelry nnd silver ware which he will be pleased to exhibit Call and soo Hunt Co have just received a heavy invoice of groceries We shall insert their announcement to-morrow or the day after It would appear in our piper but for a small on the part of the type founder in filling our tirder hundred Polish emigrants from Upper Silesia men women and children all in their natural costume lately passed Breslau on their wav to Galveston A lad named John Gilday nine years old Mass by drowning himself in the pond of the Judge Kane is the who drew out the celebrated Kane from President Polk The Detroit Free Press advocates the re- of both the claimants for a seal in con- gress from Kansas nnd the ordering of a new election CiF The Va Advocate states that a conspiracy was recently discovered a- mong the negroes at in Albemarle County OST An asylum for inebriates has been in New York of which the Hev Dr lows is Secretary Tlie cost of the Kussian war England is estimated nt from to 000 per annum Lucy Stone Blackwell is lecturing at waukee The Emperor of Austria has conferred tlie Golden Medal of Science and Arts upon Prof Morse Jgg It is said that a single Greek house in Manchester has shipped o thia country for the purchase of grain Hon Joseph R Chandler of Philadelphia is to deliver a series of lectures the lio Institute of St Louis Resolutions condemning the course of Judge Kane in the Williamson case have been introduced into tho Legislature of P v Abel Stevens now in Europe writes to the Christian Advocate and Journal mending the establishment of a Methodist Book Concern in Paris It is estimated that the total sum ed on literature including newspapers in Great Britain is five million intoxicating drinks fifty-four million The Pilgrim's has been trans- lated into Chinese by Rev W C Burns of the English Presbyterian Church at Amoy 1 The people of Oregon decided against a State government at tlie recent election bf a majority of 420 It is suid that all tho tobacco seized in England for a violation of the revenue laws is scut lo the soldiers in the Crimea for tion Eight new locomotives have recently been put upon tlie Michigan Central Railroad Counterfeit fives on the Westminster Bank of Providence R I arc making their way westward Look out for them Mr Ellington of Charleston Coles county who was shot by his son-in-law Monroe on the iVth ult has since died of his wounds The shipments of gold from Australia for tho first six months of the year 1855 were en tons twelve cwt equal in round numbers to while California during the first nine months of the same year only shipped about The Post Master General has decided that a pen mark made over or opposite to an article in a newspaper with the solo object of attracting attention to the article will not subject the per to letter postage The Buffalo Post snys the wife of Mr M presented him on Saturday night last with a couple of fine bouncing boys one weighing eleven and the other twelve pounds Judge Perkins of Indiana has decided that the liquor law of State is unconstitutional and void This opinion does not from the Supreme Bench but from an individual It occupies nearly five columns in the State tinel of Monday JOHN G Green Mountain Poet to deliver one of his poems at in February next Prof on geology in St Louis He would be worth a score of the lecturers before our Young Men's ation The vote for in the recent Kansas tion was Whitfield received Peoria gave over 600 majority in fa vor of a loan by the county of its credit to the amount of to the and Oquawka Railroad The N Y Evening Post says that the tary advices from Europe by tlie Arago were calculated to ease the market in Wall street LATEST THE NORTH Boots says he thinks the aea near the pole is kept from freezing by the heat generated by the friction of the journals that the world turns on when the whales omit to oil it The same heat causes the Aurora and hatches the eggs of the wild fowl thus bred in such vast numbers in those A few days father of an Irish family residing in North Boston sent lor half a pint of gin which in some way got in the hands of his son a fine boy of four old who to his parents drank a able portion of it soon after with spasms nnd in a time A physician who was called in gave it as opinion that the I- t 1 4 rl A Mexico nnd expected The steamer Bird arrived with Havana dates to the 8th Tho steamer signalled before and was allowed to enter the harbor ing the night as also other vessels Sugar quite dull and lower WASHINGTON Nov 13 Commodore Paulding has been selected being regarded by the Secretary of the Navy as a pru dent officer to San Juan with the ship Potomac He was closeted with the Secretary tiny P M relative to tlie ho pursued by him in that quarter Nohvilluflnnd ing the avowed innocent objects of the British fleet just to the West Indies the movement is regarded with indignation if not as an incipient step towards u hostile action and hence additional orders have sent to the stations by the Department in refer ence to S C Nov The steamer Isabella arrived here with na dates to the 10th inst continued dull owing to the high prices Quotations were un- changed Nov Several new cases of yellow fever und two deaths have occurred at Portsmouth Va NKW Nov 12 It is accredited that H C crat is chosen of Louisiana Whole Democratic ticket elected Congressional dole will be i Democrats nnd I American New York Nov 14 The Washington correspondent of the daily Times says the Administration has not the est evidence that the British intend to ace the U S on uny ground and all ments in regard to the harsh correspondence re- garding the Central question is no demand having been made for acquiesce nee in our construction of the Clayton treaty The sloop of war which sailed from this port yesterday ia bound for Port au Prince to bring barque Amelia re- cently seized there by the LJ S Consul to New York for trial for infraction of tho revenue laws The Washington correspondent of the Tribune says the Secretary of tho Navy has ordered a ship of tho Pacific squadron to proceed at once to the newly discovered Islands to protect nn American shipmaster who ia the discoverer ol the Islands which arc said to contain immense quantities of Guano The Collins steamer Baltic sailed at noon day for Liverpool with 52 passengers no specie Sandy Hook Nov 14 1 P M No signs of the Pacific now due New Orleans Nov 13 Latest election returns indicate a Dem mnj for State ticket about 2000 We are in receipt of ater dates from Texas Gov Peace had sent his Message to the ture lie justifies the proceedings of Capt Cal lahan but appears unauthorized to send tions in Mexico for tho purpose of chastising the Indians TWENTY TEARS f 10 he village Tom tho troo tho ground which tered you and me Jut lo me and few to know hut with upon tho green Rome twenty years ago lie grass is just MS green Tom Mt play Verc just an we did then with just as cay hit muster sleeps the hill which coated o'er us sliding place yean ago i The old hns altered benches are replaced Jy new ones very like the same our had defaced Hut the old bricks are in the swings to and fro ts just the same dear Tout as twenty go The boys were some old game that old tree Uo forget the name tlie same with me On thai same twas played with kniven throwing so ami The leader hsui a task to do twenty VCUM ago The river's i uniting just as the willows on its side Are larger than Tom tho pears loss wide Rut the swing is ruined now where once we the beau And swung our pretty twenty Tho spring that bubbled neath the hill close I the spreading beech Is very once so high that I could i most reach And kneeling down to get n drink dear Tom I started so To sec how much that I have changed since twenty years American BOSTON Nov 14 Council assembled at Near by the spring upon nn elm you know I cut your name Your just beneath it Tom and you did mine the same Some heart less wretch peeled the dying sure but slow Just as the one whose name you cut died ty yearn Their lids have long been dry Tom but leant came in my eyes As I thought of her I loved so well nnd thoso early broken ties I visited the old churchyard and ers to strew Upon the graves of those we loved some twenty Chair Manufacturing Company child died from the effects of the gin his i system Worcester yesterday V P Jause Farewell pre- siding 185 members present The resignation of Mr Foster President of the State Council read and unanimously accepted The tion of Lieut Gov Brown was also The question of electing delegates to the A merican Convention at Cincinnati on the inst opened the subject of slavery opposed sending delegates arguing that the proposed convention was another at tempt to entrap the party into the fusion move ment Governor Gardner made a speech in fa vor of sending delegates The call ho was in accordance with the action of the northern portion of the Philadelphia Convention It was merely for consultation Many were in favor of Rending delegates A motion to that el feet was adopted Henry J Gardner and Henri W wore chosen delegates at large with one delegate to each Congressional District with substitutes A motion was adopted declaring cant the seats of all those holding in ican Councils and those who have gone over to fusion NKW YORK Wednesday Nov 14 The percussion cap and powder factory in street belonging to D exploded yesterday and one of the workmen injured Luier Maury remarks that the Gulf Stream in a river in the ocean whose banks and bottom are of cold water and whose current is warm with its fountain in tho Gulf of Mexico and its mouth ii tne Arctic seas with a speed more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon with waters as far out from the Gulf the coast of South lina of an indigo blue and the track so ly marked that its line of junction with the com- mon sea water can be discerned by the eye Jt is like a stream of oil in the ocean preserving a distinctive character for more than three sand miles Some are in the churchyard laid some sleep be- neath the KCU But few are left of our old excepting you and me And when our time shall come Tom we arc called to go I hope they'll lay us where we played just ty years ago aad Father Turned up after Thirty Year's We heard the particulars yesterday of one of those strange episodes in life in which the old ad- age of truth is stranger than was fully illustrated About six years since a lady named Mrs Martha Wood accompanied by her son his wife and a couple of arrived in thw city from New Bedford Muss She stated that she was a widow of twenty-four yearn standing her husband having been mate of whaler which hud been lost at sea The family ru sided fhe greater part of She time in Liberty street Mr Wood the son working at his trade which is that of a cooper Yesterday morning a and worn man called at the residence of the family and seeing Mr Wood inquired for the widow who being called into the room while gazing in- at the stranger whose eyes were fixed mournfully upon her requested to know hia ness Do you not know me said he and an the sound of his voice like the sound of an olden memory met her ear she gave vent to an ical cry and fainted in the arms that were ed to receive her The talc is soon told the ship in which he had made his last voyage from New Bedford was curt away in the South Sea Islands and he was one of the few who escaped a watery grave After en- during almost unheard of privations he ed after thirty year's absence in reaching his tive city From a brother of his wife he learned their present location and here to find her whom he left a young and blooming bride far advanced in tho evening of life while the in- fant when last he him ho bed imprinted on his lips a father's and who hen could scarcely lisp his name was now a stalwart man and the head of a family How many hopes and fears must have agitated the old mariner aa he again net foot after his long pilgrimage hix native land Cincinnati Enquirer Epitaph for a little boy who fell a victim to a prevailing dis- The little hero who lien hero Was by the AN agriculturalist enters a first class book store when the following colloquy you got on the Shop Boy with u doubtful guess not find a over there at the livery stable guess don't want n horse I ack you if you Munn on the Shop we don't keep men on a hoss here cnn got gingerbread onca for the dren down to the baker's side of the a Well have you on the Shop Boy in a but I'll make free to say your hat's on an ats and if you come here to we'll send for an officer who's on domed The agricultural vamosed the ranche John Randolph once said of a man who refused to fight a duel on the plea that he be- longed to church though no one before ted him of being a Christian I revere a true and consistent Christian but man who turns Christian merely to hide himself under a communion Of the commitments TO the flUte prisons of New York It appears that at least one-half have never learned a regular trade Out of 603 ad- mitted to Auburn and Sing-Sing 177 could not write their own names Out of con- victs the very largo proportion of 84 could not write their names All these facts are full of in- struction showing that employment und tion arc essential as helps toward preserving the community from the effects of crime TIIK RULING A young lady writon ingeniously and anonymously in the of a For my own part I confess that the denire of my own heart and my constant prayer is that I may be blessed with o good nnd affectionate h un- hand and that I mav be a good and wife and mother I be denied this I hope for grace to resign for me It will be a hard trial The Administration view of Election Our readers have doubtless curiosity concerning the course which the administration at Washington will take in regard to the late election of a delegate in The ton Union has given a sufficiently clear tion of what it will be There arc two claiming the at of delegate from bitfield candidate of those who are for establishing slavery in the territory and the candidate of thorns who desire to make Kansas a free has on his side the forms of an election the substance WAS appointed by the at an election held under an ordinance of the mock legislature at the Shawnee Mission Boeder was chosen by the people of nt an election instituted by themselves Is a pet of Shannon sent out by Mr Pierce to govern Kaunas Shan- non recognised legislature and all its ordinances attended the election held undei them voted for Whitfield and to crown the farce gave him a formal certificate thai he had been duly chosen as delegate to represent the ry The administration of is prepared to second the doings of creature Shannon and accordingly its organ the an Union presents an argument in favor of the of Whitfield and the of Y Eve Pout A Bloomington IH Flag notices the following incident which red at the destructive fire in that A woman who occupied a room on the second floor of Dr building on the corner of the square was prevented from ping by the when she seized an axe and cut her way through two doors to a plank tion knocking a hole through thai to a front window with a child in her broke the saali dropped the child into the of eome men below and WM from to the ground without receiving aby bodily injury whatever and without befne in the frightened That is what we call a good specimen of female wicker Barney where hare yoa To widow ball and ao time we bad of it four fights in fifteen and downs with the watchmen thm left but whole nose in the that belonged to the tea kettle the like WAS never to since ire waked A good joke ia told at the of a number of our whose we are under bomb to withhold During the last week they took advantage of the beautiful Indian summer weather to pay a to a try cousin living a- short distance from Mill The party some some eiz were out by the roadside enjoying the when 0 man drove up with of hay upon which they and obtained to ride After considerable difficulty they nil got on top of the load and the man drove off with his doubly precious cargo of hay mid The hay trembled with pure and nil went merry until they the pond covers he for about AAr square feet the top of the hill this side of Mill when the wagon upset wid landed the and hay together in the mud and water The hay fell fora a piece of calico hut im a short they scrambled out half drowned and smothered from water ail dripping with mud and water and that could not told them apart Their were ruffled by the accident titan their and after a hearty at their they retired tbf houne lite a wild band of tattooed and ring the into by IV
