The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-07-23

wherein the battle of the Emperors is now being
waged, have been the theatre Of fierce rayages
and bloody wars long before Marengo, Lodi,
Arcola, or Mon.ebello had added to the glory
of the first Napoleon-these fertile plains at
tracted the attention of the savage Teutons.-
From the time that Albain descended rom the
Alps with the entire nation OF the Lombards,
five centuries after the Christian era, to the
present, when they trembe beneath the tramp
OF contending battalions, and are canopied with
the dun smoke of battle. they have been the
arena OF the most savage and bloody conflicts.
Nearly eight hundred years ago, Frederick Bar
barossa descended upon them from the Alps, at
the request Of the prosecuted citizens OF Lodi,
and opened with great ceremony, in the neigh
borhood of Piacenzn, on the plains Of Roneag-
liza, near the river Pc, the feudal assembly Of
the Lombard States. to hear their grievances
Having heard them be dissolved their diet, and
swept with fire and sword the surrounding
country, laid siege to Milan, and having taken
1t, RACED IT % its foundations, so that scarcely
one stone was LETT upon another, then made his
triumphal entry into Pavia, aud there received
the crown Of Lombardy. Then came the do
nestle striies of the Middle Ages, when every
house was fortress, and every village fort.i
lied town, the wars of the League, the wars OF
Bonapar,e, bloody and severe, and then the
struggles of l84S, between Austria and Sardin.
la. And now again the red flag of slaughter is
waving, and the familiar names Of Como, Pavia,
Verceili, Novara, and Milan, are in mems
mouths as the actual or expected scenes OF fear.
fully bloody struggles. Vino can say, but what,
like another Barbarossa, but without his cruelty
and injustice, the Emperor Napoleon may yet
assemble. on the plains OF Roncagld, the Lom-
bard towns, 70 hear their grievances and redress
their wrongs!
Washington letter in the New York Herald,
written as that journal alleges, by "careiul
correspondent" states, on the authority of
Democratic Senator, that the number of cargoes
of African slaves landed on the coast OF the
United States, and struggled into thu interior
since May lS4S, amounts to sixty or seventy
and according 10 the same authority, twelve
vessels more are expected within ninety days
Such statements are, no doubt, to be received
with good many grams of allowance but
where there is so much smoke we NAV reason
ably expect certain amount of fire. The case
OF the yatch Wanderer abundantly proves how
easy it is to land slaves on the coast, and trans
fer them into the interior without il being
known to the public what is going on. II, with
all the efforts made or pretended to be made by
the Government TO trace the negroes imported
attracted to that case, it was possible to land
the cargo OF the Wauderer, and TO carry the
negroes into the ;ntel.or, without scarcely
trace OF them being found, the same thing may
evidently be done over and over again by
vessels which have attracted no attention 10
themselves, There are number OF unlrc-
qGented ports on the Gulf Of Mexico which,
according to all accounts, are used for these
operations. 1t having been demonstrated in
the case. of the Wanderer how little is to be
apprehended in the way OF the enforcement of
the laws, there seems no serious obstacle to the
rapid growth OF this contraband traffic But
how long will it remain centraband There
can be little doubt that at the next session of
Congress strong demonstration will be made
TO obtain the repeal OF the prohibitory laws
Several politicians who committed themselves
little too early as Cpl Onens OF the revival O. the
traffic, will endeayor to make their peace With
It's advocates by going for the repeal Of the
Federal laws against it, leaving each State to set
tor itself the policy Of revival. Jefferson Davis
OF Mississippi is said to have such bill in pre-
DarAtiOn.