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

Saturday Deccssbes. :.

? AAAA 49, - ~ - - - -
Saturday Deccnsbss. =.
Asary ward Desens. On ne Censrasa.1
Henry Ward Beecher. in his Thanksgiving
sermon, IN extract from which will be found il
our columns. took ground against any enamel
patton Of slaves by Congress- This surprises q
Il IL somewhat. novel state Of affairs when
We zee one who has been regarded - the most
talented and most ultra among the leaders o.
the anti-slavery party, whose name has been Z
! by.word in Dixie and among Democratic politi
ticians for ycars-itis remarkable that he should
declare himself opposed TO the emancipation o.
the slaves by Congress, while good sound pro-
slavery. Democrats-ev Breckenridge Demo
crats--and great many other people Of mod
crate views. have been and are yet clamoroua
that liberty shall be proclaimed throughout the
land 70 all the slaves, even by the Generals who
command our armies.
Cor. SIauR.--Col. Segur, the member Of Con
gress from the Fortress Monroe district Of Vir.
sst holding the position that il the Government
attack the Institution of slavery he will not sup
port war measures.
The BoNBARDNENr OF PKxsACoLA.-The fact
that neither Col. Brown or Flag Officer Mexican
In their dispatches of she 18th, allude to or say
a word abou. bombarding Pensacola, make some
we'll informed persons doubt whether any bonn
bardment has taken place; while others, with
ply to an attack by the rebels. The Norfolk
Day Book Of Tuesday. contains dispatch from
Pensacols stating that the only damage thus far
suffered BY the Unionists was in two Of their
boats, which were so much injured that they
we're obliged to retire.
sB The Wapello stage, which left here Tues
day morning last, was overturned just beyond
Mr.. Wares tavern. There we're seven passen-
jured. One lady had shoulder dislocated.-
The Wa,cIlo paper says the passengers clear
the driver of blame.
e De Bows Southern Review for Nevem-
Ter has curious article on "the perils Of peace
chief Of which the writer thinks is the danger
cf an immense Yankee immigration into the
border slave States, which shall abolitionize
them at the ballot box, and so more than coun
tract all that has been gained by secession
And the writer fears quite as much in this res.
Iect from foreign emigrants as from the Yam
Sees. He proposes to obviate this great peril by
placing such restrictions upon suffrage as will
prevent new cmigrants into secessa after this
time, and their descendants, from ever having
vote. He sees that this would keep emigrants
away, and prevent the rapid population Of the
South, and thus give the free States a great nu-
Dlerical advantage, but he thinks this much
less evil than, the peril that must inevitably
come from allowing the border States to be &C.
cupied by northern and foreign emigrants, who
would eventually get the political control and
bring those States back into the Union, and
continue this process of reconstruction south
revolutonized aud annexed to Yankeedom.
GEN. HUNTER IN KAysAs. The Leavcnworth
papers note the arrival of Major General Hunter
cad Staff in that place. The following gentle
plen comprise Gen. Hunters staff;
Mai. Marcus J. Parrott, Capt D. W Turner.
Maj. Jas G. Barnes, Capt j. w Shafler.
Maj. A. B. Campbell, Capt f. W. Smith.
Maj. L. D. Hubbard, Capt S. W. Stockton.
The parties engaged in the slave trade are not
30 be enved just now. One s. P. Skinner of
New Bedford, Mass, has been sentenced to pay
fire of 81 900, and 10 be imprisoned in the
1iunton Jail for FIVE years. In New York, the
e'se Of the SLAYER Augusta is unfolding itself
successfully, disclosing state of corruption
{ ,ite unlocked for. One Of the crew has given
evidence which fully duplicates several parties,
among them the owner, a very wealthy man,
sho is said to have just entered upon the bust
ness which has resulted so disastrously.
REBEL ATTACK BELOW CAIRO Three rebel
san-boats sauoily came up from Columbus on
Sunday and opened fire on Fort Holt, opposite
Cairo, on the Kentacky shore The firing was
returned, and the boats Withdrew. They were
pursued, but not overtaken The forces at Cairo
sere placed under arms, and transports made
ready to move down the Mississippi at a mo.
oent's notice.
az The Second Iowa Cavalry Regiment are
uader orders for St. Louis, and will leave Dayen-
p ort this week.
tN~ Intelligence has cached Washington that
tile Rebels at Richmond and in the Potomac ar
ny have at last come to the sad conviction that
they are doomed to be beaten, and that their
cause is hopeless. What they propose to them.
selves TO do under these depressing circumstan-
;cs, we are not Informed
In the Kentucky Legislature on the first days |
J. ssion, on the 2Sth, in the House bill was in
i oduced appropriating the sum oe cot less than |
tty thousand dollars,
For the relief Of the destitute men, women
'nd children OF Kentucky, who have been driy.
NJ from their homes or whose homes have been
svaged by the armies Invading the State. or by
ayless bands of kentuckians in armed. rebellion |
'Eainst the authority of the State.
WHAT Mn. CAMERON Dip SAY.-The Phila.
L phla Ledger gives the following version of |
De speech Of Secretary Cameron, which has |
lovoked SO much severe comment:
He was speaking of the power and resources
the government to overcome the rebellj on. |
sciaring that it would be put down beyond ali |
= faoVehture-that the great white race of the |
ofth would re-establist this Government in ev. |
~ state OF the Union, and in the effort were |
oaho 70 aVail Themselves of every means in |
AIR power The end was not yet aud when
- last care in this game was played. it might |