The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-12-14


an offer Of the rebels that clothing sent to our
"Billy Wilson" prisoners would be given them,
dozen suits we're dispatched, and the next day
dozen rebel officers each came out in a new
suit. - s,''tt" ss''..i.o it.s stb#e9s 5a
H II is said that John Sherman will come into
the Senate with certain radical propositions for
economy in the public expenditures. One of
the items is a proposition for the reduction Of
the salaries of all Government employees. =,
Various opinions are held respecting the
length of the present session of Congress-
Judge Collamer, Of Vermont, who is one of the
shrewdest men in Congress, advises an early ad-
journment. He says: ''War is not business
Congress can engineer 1t is properly executive
business, and the moment Congress passes beyond
the line Of providing for the wants of the Gov
ernment and deciding the purposes Of the war,
to say hon it shall be conducted, the whole thing
will prove failure" ).sg .aJ,9f ss3 a
Gen. Butler is rapidly getting his second ex-
petition ready, to sail from Boston for the South.
The steamship Illinois has been chartered to
take the next load Of troops, and will sail in q
few days. ..,...s., oa' ....t
Camel coal has been discovered at Crab Orch
ard, Kentucky, by the troops there, and the in
hab;tants are quite astonished at it. One man
said that several:years ago he had dug well on
an adjoining farm, through the 'saIne sort Of
stud, but it had pever occurred to him that it
The amount contributed at New York for the
relief Of the Union refugees at Hatteras Inlet is
$s,l2s, and money still coming in. President
Lincoln has given his approval Of the object in q
letter to George Bancroft. The schooner Elijah
Shedden is nearly loaded with supplies.
Old Buck is fast losing his hold upon history.
The citizens Of Buchanan, Lacrosse countyi
Wisconsin, have by vote moved to change that
name to the better one of Washington. -
A third stone feet Of twenty vessels, carrying
upwards of six thousand tons of stone, will b
ready to sail from New Bedford in few days,
70 be sunk in, the outer channel Of Charleston
hasbor and Stony Inlet. The first feet was sunk
in thef'rat holes" Of the North Carolina coast
the second feet at the entrance of Savannah;
and now the third viii seal up Charleston.
The Federal Government has sent Q 900 suit.
| Of clothes to our prisoners at Richmond Mas
sachusstts has also sent $50 suits to those cap
tured at Balls Bluff. bsa 81 bed ,si s9
The recent sale Of the securities of forty-fys
"stumptaip banks of Illinois, BY the audtor
realizes TO the bill.holders from so 70 se cent,
on the dollar. The reat has been swindled out
Of the people through loose legislation and ..
the indi,ect results of the Southern rebellion.--
Thirty-two more banks are now being wound up
and when . division Of their assets is made, q
IN aggregate loss to the bill-holders Of at leas
q, 900, the people lof Illinois can rejoic,
that the day Of ''stump.tail" has departed for
svss. There are fifteen banks whose circulation
il deemed - be amply secured ~
Parsiss are now At washingtoD, representing
large American aad European interests, VII.
urge upon Tie Federal Govesnmspt the impos
lance Of constructing . ship canal between th
Mississippi river and the CREST lakes. The
win 70 sstablishs such facilities Of navigstio,
| thst vessels may bs laden nins months cf th
year on the Mississippi and discharged on th
Hudson, ., si Z
The Boston Commercial Bulletin'S list of busi
Insw changes In the Unitsd States, for the las
wssk, givss Ave failures end 'suspsnsions IN Boz
"a. eight IN New York, four II Philadelphia
Eve - sRaltinors, and sshistssn n other plaee
"a total Of thirty two for the wssksgH.s