The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-25
The Volunteer N1oven.ere.


Among the facts Of future hiatory, wearing
tue aspect Of romance and stimulating the no
best passions Of the soul, will stand the history
OF our volunteers. Powerful as are the remi-
niscences Of Revolutionary times, We hesitate not
to say that, the present surpasses it in all the
attributes Of moral greatness. Nothing We ever
read. nothing we ever saw has moved M a. this
solemn and universal devotion to national inter-
ests has done. It has again and again occupied
imagination, heart, and all-at times annerving
by its very grandeur, and at Others lifting to .
sphere of thought and purpose far above our or
dinary mood. We long to have the story writ
ten by some master.pen, assisted in his delinea-
tions by purpose as elevated, and . spirit 40
patriotic, as have been exhibited by the actors
in this drama 1t is not every century which
witnesses the simultaneous uprising Of tens Of
thousands on behalf Of interests unconnected
with selfish ends; not every question that can
call from the factory, the desk and the plough,
silent, modes tmen, and at once clothe them with
heroic attributes, and make them worthy Of un-
dying fame.
Al tsltS vVluuVcSC CluOVcW1SuS Sc u1tp uSvSsOPSu
al the tenderness, and oil the selfdevotion Of
women, and all the generous abandon of man,
when engaged in lofty and sacred employ. In
the drill, what forgetfulness Of pride and sta.
,ion!-on the march, what fertility Of resourcel
under attack, what sublime forbearance =
among the timid, what power to reassure and
conciliate land in all things, what rcverential
acknowledgment of Him who controls ths desti-
nies of nations by his nod
Such an army has never been marshalled for
war in all the history of the past 1t preserves
the quiet and orderly habits of citizens, though
exposed to the usual license of the camp. 1t
bring. into cooperation with war all the employ
ments of peace. repairs bridges, builds rail-
roads, drives engines, conducts trains mans and
pilots ships, and proves itself more than match
for every obstacle that malice and GINNING can
place in its way. II embraces all professions
from the pastor to the plodding husba ndman,
and senators and mechanics march shoulder to
shoulder in the ranks. 1t is composed of the
muscle and vigor of the nation in peace, and
will doubtless prove itself invincible in war; for
it is prepared for all extremities, and will only
retire from the field with the complete accom-.
plishment of salvation for the sacred but i'm. |
periled ark of liberty.
CB-The Peoria Transcript gives an account
Of two men who we're saved from drowning on |
Sunday last, by the prompt efforts of woman.
The mean fellows refused to pay for an oar bro
ken in their rescue, and actually left without |
giving her thanks.
BLOCKADE or PENsAooLA-On the night of !
The 7th inst. the steamers Henry Lewis and Dick |
Keys, from Mobile, were brought to and detain-
I'd by the United States fleet as they were about
entering the harbor of Pensacola. They were
held over night and the next morning were got |
and forced to return toward Mobile.
They we're convoSed beyond the mouth of the
Perdido river on their homeward voyage, by
United States steam.frgate, which then return
ID to her anchorage with the feet. Their pa
pers we're endorsed with warning" that if
they attempted again to enter the harbor they
would be captured and sent North as prisoners
and the boats sold as prizes. contemporary
rays of this blockade:- -
at settles the question of the capture of Fort
Pickens, completely. Hitherto the Confederate
army under Captain Bragg has received all its
provisions and supplies, and indeed all its re n
from New Orleans and Mobile by |
sea but, with the entrance to Pensacola Bay |
effsctually biockaded all vessels from Mobile
and New Orleans would be intercepted, and Cap
Bragg's army completely cut off from its source !
of supplies. The region around Pensacola is a |
sandy waste, incapable of furnishing food or
anything else that an army needs and there
will be no means of rapid communication with /
the country above until the railroad from Mont |
gomery to Pensacola shall be completed. It
seems probable, therefore, that Capt Bragg will |
have to strike his camp or run the risk OF being |
starved out"