The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-09-07

telegraph wires. There il enc most significant
statement in the dispatch. Il 10, that the aLimu-
milton Of the r,abels gave out sitter firing twenty
rounds There 10 NO doubt but the Southern
fort6cations are all greatly deficient in the arti-
Gle Of gunpowder. Gen. Bragg has not the pow.
Pickens lombard him and make him burn what
powder be has on hand, at any rates
It 10 no longer matter Of uncertainty that
the 90 called Confederate Congress il In trouble.
Its proceedings are opposed BY some Of its own
ceedings are conducted with closed doors, facts
have leaked out which are causing distress to
the anxious supporters of the wicked rebellion.
1t is a divided house.
HoRRIBLH Ay1AIR.-One day last week NJ.
Oliver Commo, Of 81 MMy's Bay, N. 8, having
been informed by one Of his children that
hawk was killing young robins in Willow tree
near his house, vent beneath the tree and fred
ny in order to shoot the hawk On climbing to
the nest he was horri6ed to find that he had
shot his own SON through the heart Il
General NcClernand 10 now in command at
Cairo.
The Hartford Courant suggests that If Ben
HcCulloch is not dead his proclamation shows
that he 10 lying sin.
inc ~OtieV VI ISOiOSuVS 0t0D ucE SC8 I8bus
er "costive just now. Common green sells for
q pound in Fredericksburg, Va
Tie rebel force In the vicinity Of Memphis, il
estimated At twenty thousand under Pillow, eight
thousand under Thompson, and eight hundred
under Hunter-all kept together by the hope and
promise Of movement against st. Lous.-
Sonr grapes.
As illustrative Of the modesty Of politicians,
it may be observed that the committee Of eight
raised by the Democratic caucus Saturday eve.
ming, to nominate delegates to the County Coo
vention, returned all Of their osn names in the
list Up Peoria Transcript
One Of the boys at Camp Noble, lad, was put
on guard last week. and reported 70 his Captain
In the morning that che was abused by fellow
because he would not allow him to pass" We'll
| said the Captain, "what did YOU do ?" .'Do
| Why demonstrated with him" sand to what
effect ?" "Well, don't know to what e6ect, but
the barrel Of my gun is bent"
| The FIRST election in the new Territory of Ne.
| vsda was held on Saturday last, August 81, in
| accordance with the proclamation Of Governor
james ". Nye. -.a
A man named Loveridge, formerly Of Texas
burt recently newspaper adventurer in the
North, Is delivering lectures in Canada TO small
.ndi ences in favor Of the Southern rebellion.
The following are said to be some of the prin.
cipsl productions of the Dry Tortugas Liz.
| ards, snakes. scorpions. jiggers, sand6ies, and
larged sized mosquitoes.
The BATTLE FIELD.-A correspond
emit of the Cincinnati Gazette, who ac-
companied the party that visited Spring
field to obtain the body of the lamented
Gen. Lyon, gives the following descript-
ion of the battlefield fortnight after the
battle -
sThere still remain about seventy
or one hundred unburied bodies upon the
field of battle, besides large number of
horses. The bodies are in every instance
those Of Federal soldiers. aud are generally
lying on hard gravelly ridges. Those who
fell in the hollows, or where the ground
was soft, have been hid from view. The
stencil arising form the field is not as over
powering az might be supposed. With .
single excep ton. every face was turned as
black as an Ethiopian's, and that one,
strange to say, persists in retaining its Cir
cassian characte r,stic. In several instances
the visitor can distinctly see where wound
ed men have drag ged themselves from the
places where they fell to the shade Afford
ed by the few scrub BY oak bushes in the
field, and there, with the crimson tide Of
life ebbing away, and ne kind hand to ad-
minister 50 triAing thing. as cup of wa
ter, for the want Of which they were fam,
ishing. they laid them down 70 die Some
of our wounded men, who had thus sought
the shade, were not found fer three or
four days after the battle. What . sue
cession of eternities those days must have
been to them Corporal Conant, Of the
First Missouri Regiment, waited upon the
field for four days, and is now doing we'll.
Brave fellow After he.had fallen, al
though unable to get of his back, he fir
cd twenty five shots at the enemy"
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