The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-08-23
Ootfeepohoehce EddyVlIt Etaf.
HELENA. ARK. July 30.

q $1,000 =
to-day, expect to do come writing have been
expecting to do for some time. e suppose yot,
have long since read an account Of our trip
from Batesville, to this place. / saw On aoe
count oft in the St. Louis Democrat which
was in the main correct. At the battle of Cot.
ton Plant wekined and buried 1853 rebels, and
1haye no doubt there were good many more
in the brush We did not find. Almost every
house in the country was fled with their
wounded. The rebels get badly used up every
time they attack ms end still viii not give Il
up, but hang around us and watch for little
squads who msybe out from camp on special
duty, fire on them and break for the swsmps,
where man that 10 not acquainted is sadly
out Of place. Gen Curtisis very esergetic and
gives them 10! ofest. The past week he has
shelled then cot Of thsswamps every dsy.-a
Day before yesterday Ne came near catching
'Jef. Thompson, on the opposite aide of the
river. They ran him d. close ths4 he had; 70
leave his arms and saddle horse yesterdsy.-
We csptured I sstesh mail sfvipe q Ill their
plans and ipstyuctions to The different cons
nsnders in this State and in Missouri, Also
$4,000 in money. and qnite 8 number Of pris-
onsfs. Gen. Curtis sent arsginant 1 miles
down the river to camp last night The rob.
sttasksd them, when they found they he'd rot
INTO the wrong pew, and had it not been Tor
the darkness Of the night they would havs Ill
bssn killed or captured. The same Kind Of .
serApe came of on the opposite Eds Of the riv-
%, in which several rebels were killed
think they win b little cautious amer
Price is trying TO- get yseJss the
xivef. with large force, but Curtis q closely
kshing him. Thu crops look splsadid-
III part Of the State is very rish; here are
~ hEgs cotton paaatatisns.1 Some Of them
sentaining two OF thrse heassad sersk The
whole country i eithsr . PlAntatien Of swamp.
Some Of the planters have q high . three Or
four hundred negroes. The planters are oil
bitter ssessh and every one that i abls ne
sighting %. They lsavs their families aadnig-
gers asAoms 70 raise . crop, while they are Of
to the war. MsnevsR can whip them, until We
take away their niggsrs. The planters win not
work and II their slaves were taken sway, they
would have to submit or starve. The slaves to
. man are very anxious TO 60 With Aus. The
only rshsoie in1ofmauon ws receive in regard
to the rebels, is from the negroes. They help
us in every way they can, and are the only Low.
ii men in this part Of the country. The armv
would have suffered terribly on tie maroh here
had it not been fer their assistance. Thev A..
formed us where their masters had hid tbe;r
meat, corn, 60. 4 Gen. Curtis rave freedem "a
from three = four hundred Of them. Who hsd
been employed BY the rebels to blockade IN
road. He did right. The rebels have rot "a
feel the effects Of war. They make tie ma
groes do al the work, transport all the proyis.
ions, repair the rosds and block them Up, build
forts, throw up intrenchmeilss, tend the sick
bury the dead and even, in. some oases, carr,
their arms while on the march; in that way
We have to eight not only the secesh, but abov
. hundred thousand nigger,. A few days sine
was sent out in conmantl Of foraging part
Of four wagons and few men, and surrounde
by ahundred Texan RI ngers. We scattere
and got out the best way We could. got los
in the woods and sho,ild have famished 70
want OF water had it mot been for negro
found, Who went abort mile and brought m
. drink, when hs pilene me to camp in safety
II. W. CuRrIss,