The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-25
RRECAUxION1.

II RA6CAUxlONUs
4 The legislatures Of some Of our States have al
ready recommended our farmers to plant this
year extraordinary quantities. Of grain and grass
and is being done. Nothing should be neglected
which will help to make the staple articles offood
abundant during the next two years. Our farm
ers should not only plant larger crops of wheat
and corn, but they would do well for themselves
and for the country to cultivate, to greater than
ordinary extent, certain other crops the products
Of which are largely consumed by soldiers and
| sailors.
Beans and peas dried, form an important por-
ton Of the army and navy rations They are
only second in importance to bread and meat,
and as helps to healthy variation of food, are
of equal necessity. Large quantities of these ar
ticles will be needed for army provisions, and It
is yet time for our farmers to prepare themselves
| to supply this demand.
Also. the farmers throughout the country will
do we'll to reserve their calves from the butchers
knife. This il q point Of great Importance. With
large army to support we cannet too carefully
look after the supply Of beef. We suggest to
our agricultural societies to take some immedi.
ate and general action in this matter. Many
| thousand calves are sold and killed every month
| in this country. Our farmers will find 1t profit
able to raise all the increase ofther herds during
the present year at least; and thisis matter Of
prudence, by which patriotic stock raisers and
cattle owners can do very much to help the cause
of the Union, for which our brave soldiers have
/ gone to battle.
Hay, also, should be saved as much a possible
! Il is an article much needed in all campaigns
| and there is little doubt that the operations of
| the rebels have been embarrassed by the lack of
| it. The South has always drawn its supply of
hay from the Northern and Eastern States.
Three months ago there were not FIVE hundred
bales of hay in the States held by the mutineers
Great armies cannot be moved without numerous
teams, and probably the lack of hay was one not
unimportant reason for certain slowness of
movement on the part Of the rebel army, which
has surprised our people and now alarms the
traitors in Virginia.
Rebellion will not triumph for lack ofpatriots
to dispute its progress and put it to fight from
the land. But an army can do nothing without
| supplies; and it must be the care of those who
| remain at home to spare no pains to provide the
| necessary supplies for our brethren who are do
ing battle for the Union. Every bushel of corn,
every barrel Of flour, every bag of beans and
peas, every tierce of beef or pork, every bail of
hay, that can be added to our crop this year
should be raised.
Waterloo tho Day after the Battle
| On the surface of two square miles, it was as.
certained that fifty thousand men and horses
were lying! The luxurious crop of ripe grain
| which had covered the field of battle was reduced
to litter, and beaten into the earth, and the sur
face trodden down by the cavalry and furrowed
deeply by the cannon wheels, strewed with
many relic Of the fight. Helmets and cuiras-
SEES, shattered fire arms and broken swords; all
| the variety of military ornaments, lancer caps
and Highland bonnets; uniforms of every color,
plumes and pennOn musical instruments, the
apparatus of artillery, drums, bugles; but, good
GOD why dwell on the narrowing picture of
foughten field ?-each and every ruinous display
bore mute testimony to the misery of such bat
tie. Could the melancholy appearance of this
scene of death be heightened, it would be by
witnessing the researches of the living amid its
desolation, for the objects of their love Moth
ers and wives and children for days were occupi-
ed in that mournful duty; and the confusion of |
the corpses-friend and foe intermlngled as |
they were-often rendering the attempt at re-
cognizing individuals difficult, ana sometimes
impossible. In many places the dead lay |
four deep upon each other, marking the spot |
some B ritish square had occupied, exposed for
hours to the murderous fire Of French battery.
Outside lancer and cuirasscr were scattered
thickly OIL the earth.
Madly attempting to force the serried bayo.
nets of the British, they had fallen in bootless
essay by the musketry Of the inner files. Fur. I
Their on, you trace the spot where the cavalry of I
France and England had encountered; chasseur
and hussar were intermingled and the heavy
Norman horses Of the Imperial Guard were in.
serspersed with the gay chargers which had car
ried AIbion's chivalry. Here the Highlander
and tralleur lay side by side, together; and /
the heavy dragon, with green Erin's badge
upon his helmet, was graphing in death with the
Polish lancer. On the summit of the ridge,
where the ground was numbered with the dead,
and trodden fetlock deep in the mud and gore
by the frequent rush of rival cavalry, the thick
strewn corpses of the Imperial Guard pointed
out the spot where Napoleon had been defeated.
Here in column, the favored corps, on whom his
last chances rested, had been annihilated; and !
the advance and repulse of the guard was trace
able to mass of fallen Frenchmen. In the hol-
log below, the last struggle of France had been
vainly made; for there the Old Guard attempted
to meet the British and afford time to their dis
organized companies to rally,
TRUST AND BE PArIENr-We presume that
among other ideas controlling the plans of the
government is the determination to move strong
ly and strike irresistibly, when the time comes;
20 avoid as far possible all needless shedding |
of blood in rash and doubtful diminishing, and
to spare the unfortunate people living in the
midst of the rebellion, as far as it is possible,
from the terrible suffering usually connected with
civil war. While strong enough to be just and
terrible in the punishment of treason, the gov
eminent will also show itself strong enough to
be magnanmous and merciful.
The southern troops in Virginia are also said
to be impatient for action. They clamor to be
led against W ashngton. They growl and swear
about the slowness of Davis, whom they expect
ed fortnight ago to lead to the sack and plumber
of northern cities. they find the supplies short |
even in Virginia, and know they are still shorter
in the far South, and they literally hunger and
thirst for the abundant arders and cellers of the
North. The rebel government cannot afford to
wait they have not the resources for long
campaign, and their troops will be demoralzed
by every days delay. Besides they are rsyag
ing Virginia like swaTm of iocusts, and the
burden of them is disgusting the Virginians with
secession and the South. The government I'M
derstands all this, and knows that it can afford
to wait infinitely better than the rebels, while it
knows also that it is ready to meet them when
ever and wherever they may strike. We; hope
the government will not wait too long-we be-
lieve 1t will not fit does, and we lose by it,
we shall fight all the harder afterwards, and
drive the conspiracy back again with a grand
rush, and smother it in its own den, in the most
summary way. There can be no doubt of that.
Meanwhile, let US trust the government and he |
patient Having done all, stand."-I Spring
field Republican.
EFFECT OF STOPPING SuppIIEs-Presideut
Lincoln is now free to act, and it may be worth |
our while to examine the means by which he |
proposes to coerce the seeded States back into |
the Union. Judging by his declaration to the |
Virginia Commissioners, and his proclamation |
Of war against the South, we are led to conclude
that coercion will in sense be invasion. The |
President designs merely to occupy and possess
the property which belongs to the federal gov
eminent, and few will dispute his right to do SO,
even though such occupations should entail; civil
war. This avowal gives US the clue to Mr. Lin |
coins policy, when taken in connection with the |
fact that every Southern port is to be blockaded
and the mails stopped to seeded States. It is
not proposed to enter the States composing the
Southern Confederation, bat merely 20 regain the
property which belongs, and always has belong.
ed to the Federal Government. This is precisely
what the South most desires to aviod, for if Mr. |
Lincoln can retake and hold the Balise forts at
the mouth Of the Mississippi and the defences of
Pensacola, Savannah and Charleston, Southern
| independence will become impossible and the