The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-12-27
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is, 1862.

WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is, 1862. !,
OuR DEAR HAwK-EYR:-Long ere this the
'moke Of another battle has been waited to you.
Southern sympathizers may represent 1t as .
1efeat, but what does repu!se amount to in the
great work We have undertaken? Is it not ten
thousand times better than NcClellan's "ou qsiet
On tie Potomacs"
During the few weeks of Blrnside's command
be has not lost 90 many men, including all the
killed at Fredericksburg, as Mcclellan did in the
same length Of time, without fighting single
battle. 1t is we'll the swamps Of the Chicks
hominy is . silent city. L. it not thousand
times better to be struck down nobly doing your
duty, than to be eaten alive with vermin, to be
consumed with slow. creeping insidious disease.
put into pine coffin, hurried OF in Az ambu-
lance, have your name printed in the New York
Tribune, "died in Hospisal!' 10 it not signi-
fcapt fact, that out Of Ave men who die in the
army, only one has the battle field for bis pillow!
I never talked with soldier who did not say,
.slet us 8ghtn The South 10 unit and We shall
meet with reverses ard repulses until We get IN
earnest, aud let me tell the people at home that
our struggle will be prolonged until Abe Lincoln
sweeps bis Administration clear and clean Of
traitors. Every Breckinridge democrat here in
Office, il covert traitor. will not except one,
although admit some,of them have lost their
fangs, they are rattle snakes still. They infcst
every Department Speaking with . public
man, said I, "tell me Why Lincoln keeps these
men in power!" $50 as to level oil party dis
tinctions." But replied, "is that the way to
level traitors! Why not send down to East
Tennessee, ard bring up some good loyal demo-
Gratis, it is necessary to have democrats in Of.
fce!" He rejoined that 'I didn't know anything
about politics" True enough replied, "but one
thing know, the rebels know quite as much about
our business, as We do, and how do they find out
except through the officers and employees Of the
government" a,,a
During the bombardmsnt of Fort Sumter, I
was stopping at Hotel on the Avenue. A wo-
man and her husband came there and stopped
about week. The husband was employed in
the Coast Survey, one Of Bschanan's protege's.
The wife in the public parlor, in the presence of
her husband and the company, remarked, "that
JEFF Davis was friend of hers, that she was
proud to own him as an acquaintance, that his
portrait hung in her parlor, that he was the only
man fit to be President of the United States,
&c." Her husband sat by her side and never
demonstrated or contradicted her, and he still
holds q Clerkship, at . salary of twenty.three
hundred, lives in fine style in Washington, and
it is impossible to supplant him with loyal map
His name is J. E. Hilgarde, and he processes to
come from Illinois, but thank Heaven, the
Prairie State never gave birth to such trait
or. he came from some petty German Nom
arcby, got his naturalization papers, married
q rattlesnske wife and turLed out full fedg.
ed traitor. Why isn't he made to follow his
superior, the rebel Maury, whose pupil he
is! He can serve the rebel Cause better in
the coast survey. And if you, Nj. Editor, will
take the pains to write to any good Republican
here, they will tell you this is only common
case. There was traitor so bold and denuncia.
tory in the Treasury department., that he was re.
moved. He shut his mouth two months, and
then obtained an Office in the War Department
ct salary of fourteen hundred dollars. His
eldest daughter is Superintendent in the Dead
Letter Office, and another daughter in the Treas
ury, and they boast, with pride, of their two
brothers in the rebel army. When q certain
Judge, Of Illinois, who is now member, was
Spoken to about the part be took in retaining
them, he said; II know ought to be ashamed
Would that be could blush until his face ia az
crimson as the battle field Of Fredericksburg.
Mr.. Fales, of Iowa, now employed in the Pat
ent Office, tells me there is very little to do
'here; yet my next door neighbor, who is
traitor, has been fastened on the Patent Office
or years, sucking the life-bood of the nation
IN the shape of one hundred and twenty. five dol.
ars per mouth. Oh! brothers and sisters is it
! wonder that the way is weary aud the night is
lark: Willingly would lay down my life, if I
night have strength to cleanse the augean sta
'lee, and let the pure air, freighted With Union
md Liberty, sweep over Washington. VIA.
IAN one little, frail woman do. I clasp nv
lands helplessly; l pray, but God has no. re-
moved one single traitor. Now sm going to
ieep my ammunition dry. Who knows what
night be able to do? Wasn't uoliah killed by a
title white pebble? Wasn't Sampson shorn of
lis locks: Didn't Mrs. Lincoln say Mcclellan
vac failure" three weeks before he was re-
moved? Loyal people, let I'd all work! Let
very man, woman and child write to their mem.
'er of Congress, exhorting them to do their duty
Let the letters pour in on them as fast as they
lid at the White Heuse" after their Crane party.
We are engaged on the Soldiers Christmas
Dinner. Your humble correspondent is assigned
% the "Convalescent Camp" How we are to
accomplish our great undertaking, am unable
% say. A little handful of women to serve H.
700 men their dinners! That Is only one hospi.
tai, and it is Ia Alexandra. We concluded II
would take eight hundred turkeys, to give each
a aIiNo 7 kold kha