The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-12-07

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pated By the Departments, 50 that if the Admin
tstration should be endorsed in its past course b.
Congress, and its policy recommended for tn
future, the session will not be a long one. Bu
these are very doubtful conditions XOX.
IOWA lTEMS.
Miss Hannah Timberlake was drowned in Ce
dar River, west Of Nuscatinc, on the night 0
the 26th ult, while herself and brother wer,
being ferried across. The night was dark ant
the horses soaring at a fash Of lightning backed
the wagon off the boet, and both floated dowl
the river In the bed, which turning over ths
young woman was precipitated into the watel
and drowned.
The remains Of Lieut.. Ream, of Co. C, I'll
Regiment, who died Of wounds received in the
Battle of Belmont, arrived at Oskaloosa Wed
nesday last. Lieut.. Ream, who commanded Co
in that battle, acquitted himself With great
credit, exhibiting remarkable courage and intre
pidity.
FiRE.-A destructive fire occurred in Iowa
City on Saturday last, in the daguerrean rooms
Of A. B. Walker. which destroyed or gutted the
building known as Wheclers Block. The Office
Of the Governor and his private Secretary were
situated Immediately under the room where the
fire originated, but we learn from the Republi-
can that all the valuable State p,pers were
eaved. The building in which the Republican
Office is situated was threatened and great por
tion of the printing material removed, making
considerable pi. Several stocks Of goods in the
building were saved by timely removal, and
others, not in danger, turned topsy turvy. The
building Was not insured though the goods
were. - aF
At . social gathering in this place on the
eve of Thanksgiving, numbering some fifty
males and females, fifteen States at home
and abroad and one District were represented
-tbe place Of nativity being Representatives,
follows: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
New York, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecti-
cut, Vermont, Virginia, South Carolina, Iowa,
Scotland, England, Ireland and District of Col
umbia. Ohio had the. highest number and
Pennsylvania the next The former IL and tho
latter lo.-Keosauqua Repub.
Justice TO iowa Volunteers.
: We cut the following well deserved notices
of the 7th Regiment from State exchanges. =
That gallant Regiment has earned all the praise
that has yet been bestowed upon it, and more
THE Iowa SEVENTH The citizens Of Iowa,
whether at home OF abroad, point with pride to
the record of the Frst Iopa Regiment. The he
roic conduct of that gallant regiment won for
the soldiers Of our State a reputation for self
sacrificing devotion to country and noble daring,
which has no parallel outside our State, and
which is emuated byevery soldier in the grand
army Of the Union. But whilst we delight to
honor the immortal First, we must not fail to
render just need Of praise to the glorious Sc
zenith. The standard of the First which, had
been so exalted at Wilson's Greek, high ad-
vanced as it was, was lowered never an inch by
the Seventh, in the fearful conflict at Belmont
The citizens of Iowa have every reason to be
proud Of the high character for courage and pa
triotism won by our soldiers in that field Out
of less than 500 men who went into the fight at
Belmont, but 226 came out, showing Il loss of
quite one-half. This has seldom, if ever, been
equaled in military history. The Seventh bore
the brunt of the battle. 1t was the first to haul
down the rebel flag, the last to leave the field
Its Colonel was wounded, Lieutenant Colonel
killed, Adjutant missing, and Major wounded
The men fought like heroes, as every one OF them
are. 1t is said of Lieut-Col. Wcntz that when
he fell, mortaly wounded, the men sprung to
bear him away, when he forbade them, saying.
"Let me alone, boys, want to die on the battle
field" and those were bis last words. Are they
not an epitome of true heroism and genuine pa
triotism. Il Fl. Dodge Republican.
THE GALLANT SEvFNTH-Whstever may be
the result of this war, there will be one thing
prominent in its history to cheer the heart, ex
at the pride, and insure respect to the citizens of
Iowa-and that is the gallant conduct of her
sons upon tn, battle field The 1st at Wilson's
Creek-the Sd at Blue Mills-tle 7th at Bel
ment, have won an imperishable rsnown for our
State. In forced Notwithstanding up de
fences-in exposure or leading desperate
charge, they are always the same--ready, un.
yielding, determined and brave. They suffer
most because they are ever in the hottest OF the
fight, doing their whole duty. In the battle of
the 7th, under Col Lauman, entered
the fight with 5l2 men and came out with less
than 200. Their daring is the theme of unver-
sal praise. All honor to our brave boys who are
fighting SO heroicalIy for the cause of good
and the honor of their State
They who fall shall not be forgotten, and they
who return shall not live unrewarded.-[ Sioux
City Register. SO
SACRED AknosIrY TOWARDS South CARoLI-
are none so glad of the invasion
OF South Carolina as the Union men of the
border States. They hate'the aristocratic little
State for its selfshness in throwing upon them
the evils of the war which it has done most to
provoke. As a specimen of this feeling, take
the following passage from the Cumberland
MD Civilian and Telegraph
"The hearts of the people run over with
great JOY at the tact that the war has been i'm
planted ON the soil OF South Carolina. They
are ready, remarks the Wheeling Intelligencer,
10 say as captive Israel paid, Remember, o
Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jeru-
salem, who said raze it, rae it, even to the
I fJundation thereof 1t is the one State for
which the loyal people of the country have no
bowels of compassion. To make it wild
waste would better meet their wishes tan any
thing else. 1t has been hot-bed of pestila lance
to our Government; a garden of constant dis
ease and death; treacherous quagmire; a sell
fish, proud, arlstocratic, labor-hating, ever-com
planning and ever-exacting State. Now it will
have something to feel. Now it may raise the
nigger howl sure enough. The wolf has cone
this time, and South Carolina, that never yet
lost negro bv runaway or abduction, will find
herself coI6scated from border to border. She
will lose millions of dollars worth of cotton
snd contrabands. She will DO made as poor and
% desolate as Mexican rancho before this war
10 over. Whoever and whatever else may es-
cape, the people Of this country have made up
their minds that pestilent, overbesring, treason
fomenting South Carolina shall feel The keen
edge Of the sword clear to the very quick of her
marrow. Up to this time she has ielicitated
herself that she was having nice thing of it.
The borders were receiving the blow which she
had provoked, ana she was nicely and snugly
out Of harms way. But that dream is dispelled,
xnd verify the Philistines are upon her. Our
troops will work while the sun shines. The
winter is the season for them. When spring
comes it will behold South Carolina as she was,
and as she is even yet, no more. fearful
reckoning is in store for her"
PoRK PAcKiSa AT OrrrxwA-TLe business Of
Pork packing has been commenced here under
favorable auspices, sad with prospect of ex.
ceeding considerably the high figures of last
season. The weather is exceedingly favorable,
and the roads in prime order.
Aessrs. Geo. Gilaspy & Co. commenced cut
ting on Wednesday last, with a full complement
OF men, no small number, it will be admitted
when it is recollected that their building is 100
BY LOO feet, and furnished with all the modern
TO economize labor They can
easily kill and dispose Of from COO to 1000 a
day. t40yg ra4 h tia