The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-07-20

.ssaasssss oeDvs ma Daapesaee. y.
When seur tseeps were about - take posses.
stee Of AarpeFs Ferry, Just a}trf the timely ~.
treat Of General johnston, they saw surmountiae
he crssts Of The hills on the Maryland eide :
most formidable loeking battery. Three OF four
~ inch .oolanbiads u lrifsd cannon seemed -
frowA down npen them, fron the distance, .
grim and terrible defiance. They approached
the monsters carefully IF well served said
an oiRcer. applying his lorgnstts 70 his eye,
"they can scarcely b. tahsa By thousand
them by descent from behind" When the
deeceht was made, Il was discovered that the
defences consisted Of some heaps Of brush
slightly covered with earth, and that the awe
inspiring guns were 20 many large pieces Of
stove pipe carefully laid in position.
what need there was for this deception We
cannot say, seeing that the rebels are said to
have secured thousands oil. real guns BY the eel.
xure Of the Goeport Navy Yard. With ordinary
industry they might have transported any 70.
quired number Of them TO any point they might
wish to defend against the Federal advances
II their white soldiers were unwilling to under
take the manual labor Of dragging the pieces up
the hills, they could have sec q multitude Of
~~esSSe - sAiS sAeAst VNcvcTSucieU1 lucy preIeT.
red making false show Of strength to an actual
demonstration, and We cannot but think that In
this We see the effect Of an old habit overcoming
the dictates Of reason and prudence. From the
outset the rebels have been disposed to place
great confidence in such stove pipe batteries
When We were told, for instance, by Mr..
Ioomos. that be meant to call the roll Of bis
slaves yet in Faneuil Hall, Mr. Toombs was only
putting forth big stove pipe; when the Con.
federate Secretary Of War, Mr. Walker, amour
ced in speech that the pirate Gag would soon
ny from the Capitol at Washington, his great
gun was great stove pipe; when the Charleston
and Richmond papers said that the Southern
volunteers would speedily revel in the bank
vaults OF wall street, their batteries were con-
structed OF stove pipes Alexander Stephens
used these sheet iron cannon largely in his varis
GUS speeches declaring the fervor, the unanim.
ity, the determination and the prowess of the
countless hosts OF volunteers that were rushing
FORWARD 70 Richmond. Gen. Bragg's threatened
assault upon Pickens has for nearly six months
now proved q solemn array of stove pipes. Gen.
fiiiows overwhelming advance upon Cairo has
1een an enormous thrust Of stove pipes up the
out OF Unionism in Missouri has been thus far
only noisy blinking of stove pipes Nor should
We be surprised if the tremendous preparations
nassas Junction should in the end turn out to be
a battery like that discovered on the Harper,s
Ferry hills.
The truth is that the whole movement of seces-
sion has been prodEious exhibition Of bravo
do. Its leaders thought they could easily in
the North by their loud threats and
cries OF war. They gained the greater part of
their Southern converts by insisting that they
were the strong party of the nation. You must
Join us, they said to the timid and conservative
classes, If you would be on the victorious side
We are gong to whip "the abolitonists" so
completely that not a vestige of them will be
left; more than half the North is with us al.
ready; thirty thousand pledged men in New
York city alone are ready to do battle for us;
We shall seize w Washington, install our own gov
ernnsnt and command the future fortunes OF
the great republic" Alas! these were but stove
pipes; yet the credulous masses of the South
mistook them for real guns, and joined the re
bellion. few of them have already found out
The cheat; others will do so in time; and then
The manufacturers of stove pipe batteries will
be universally heaped with the ignominy which
they SO richly deserve.-N. T. Post.
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The GIRL-SoLDHR-BoUND TO GO TO THE
ARs.-The young girl who has recently figured
before the public SO much in boys clothes, and
Who seems determined to make sensation, was
Up again on Saturday Her name is Caroline |
)lessen. She is about sixteen years old, and |
makes fine looking boy, but a very ordinary
:!rl She has within three weeks cut IN more
iidOs than, usually falls to the lot of lifetime
Ter hair. close TO her head mt ON bovs' clothes
,avorted around in nromiscuons stvle for n |
While, enlisted in the army. hired out as an of. |
ice boy, and finally tried to drown herself. She
vas then taken home where she remained lint
. brief time On FRIDAY night she was found |
n the ranks of the Zouave Regiment with her |
rows suit on AGAIN. and mnsSet on her shonl. |
Ter. Being disrovered abe denie, her sex and
aid her mama was Jobn Sbo sunnortaa Mi. |
character nv nrodnc;no a Letter vh,ch she sa;d !
-. frnr, hsr mo,ho. h;ad;n. On .pFao,;on.t.,
arewell and eYhort;nv the hold aoIdier.hov 10 |
70 and do his dutv To bis country Il turned
nut that tine letter vas oenuine hnt that IL ha. |
onoed tn a bono 6ds Jo6n from vhom She had
borrowed Il She vas declared contrshand
md nut into tho hands If tho noI;ce Tho march,
ID her To the iocL.nn where she s,s;d al, n;oht
On SATURDAY. morn;no .he c.me before tho Po.
il. Count ard 30. SaI;.a,aS 49, Tho h.nds ~
,er father Who !, an aoad and ronur.hla man
ia seenaa 20 ,h;nt .hae ha oau,a ~ son,.th;nn
with her but the air with which she received
he admonitions of the Court showed verv Main.
' that abe VAS bevond control Her anne,ranc,
vas that Of a how r. seventeen or e;ohteen
arge for the age. She evidently believes that |
Ter destiny is not yet fulfilled, and more will |
'e heard OF her peccadilloes-lC Chicago Tri- |
'une.
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:. =" nue. stsrk maoness OF missouri secession
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