The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-18

being removed back to the depot for shipment,
whence they were taken, some five or six
weeks since. .a.x
The city is being strongly surrounded by
Notifications, built by some 2, 500 contrabands.
The negroes furnish all the manual labor, un-
der Government regulation, and thus, practi-
cally, have recruited our forces here by whole
battalions, releasing well soldiers from the
care of the sick, to attend to the more appro-
pirate work Of the soldier, battalion drill, and
camp or field duties. SAMUEL DAY.
~. Chaplain 9Th Illinois Infantry.
ton Of the VesseI.. state Of the Nine New
Monitors.
The fourth of the new Monitor fleet, the
Montauk, was successfully launched yesterday
at Greenpoint, from the wharf at the foot of
the Continental Iron Works. Extensive noti-
fication of the event having been given, o mum.
erous assemblage was present. We noticed
among others Admiral Paulding. Commandant
of the Brooklyn Navy-Yard; Commander Gre
CORY, Superintendent of Iron Clads in this vi
cinity; Chief Engineer sinners, Mr.. Frank
Hall of The Commercial Advertiser, and select
congregation of New York and Brooklyn peo-
pie Miss Gregory christened the ship amid
deafening cheers.
The Montauk is one Of the nine one.turret
Monitors which were contracted for in April and
May last. Four of them are now afoat; their
names are: No. l, Passaic, launched at Green
point April, 81, 1852; No. 2. Patapsco, launch
ed at Wilmington, Del, Oct. l, 1862; No. 8,
Nahant, launched at Boston, Oct. 6, 1862; No.
4, Montauk, launched at Greenpoint, Oct. 8,
1862. The others are No. 5, Nantucket,
building at Boston, nearly ready; No. 6, Lee
oh OF Do DIV
No. 8, Sangamon, building at Chester, nearly
ready; No. s, Kaatskill, building at Green-
point and nearly ready; No. 9, Weebawken,
building at Jersey City, AID nearly ready.
| Thus it will be seen, thata IN short time all
the second batch of Monitors will be available
| for service.
The dimensions of the Montauk are: Length
200 feet; width, As feet depth II feet inches
draught of water in fighting trim, II feet ; tun>
mage, about 800 tuns; dimensions of turret.
feet 81 inside, i inches thick, 9 feet high and
pierced for two 15.inch guns. The ship car
ries her anchor is ''well'' forward so as to
obviate going on deck to work it. She is bulk
headed and framed, probably, in a stronger
manner than any other vessel ever built.
| Her deck-beams are exceedingly heavy,
making her deck, which is nineteen inches
thch very solid. Over this there is still an
iron covering consisting of plates an inch tnich.
The side armor is five inches thick, or half an
inch thicher than the Warrior, and has eight
times thicker wooden wall than that monster.
| The rudder and propeller are protected by the
inside of the armor and under water. The en-
gines are two in number, and have been built
at the Delamater Iron works, They have al
ready arrived at the Continental works yard.
The cylinders are 40 inches in diameter aud
about feet stroke. She has two of Martin 8
patent boilers and surface condenser, not
Sewall's The screw is II feet in diameter and
20 feet pitch. The material of the screw is cast
iron. The ventilators and other health pre-
serving paraphernalia of the .Montauk ere as
perfect as they could be made. The Montauk
cost $500, O00 as did all the others. Mr. Eric
son has the imme late supervision of all the
vessels of this rate, but not Of the Ononaga,
another iron-clad now on the stocks at Green
point and contracted for by Mr.. Quintard.-
IN. Y. Tribune, 10th. IN s. .s,.r -c-ss. 4.
DEALING IN CoNTRABvND GooDs.-R. D. W.
Ward and w. C. McClelland, Of the firm Of
Ward & McClelland, druggists at Memphis,
have been found guilty of smuggling drugs in
to the lines of the enemy, for which they have
been sentenced by military authority to be
confined in the military prison at Alton during
!
business by anegent. Mr.. Samuel Mansfield
and DR.. Jennings, of the firm Of Mansfield
Co., druggists of the same city we're convicted
of the same ohense. The Bulletin says this
house had taken the oath of allegiance to the
United States Government, and there is infor-
nation that they had done contraband bust.
ness with the South to the amount Of owe,
sixty thousand dollars. Their whole stock
which is q very large one, worth probably
hundred thousand dollars was confscated, anG
they were sentenced also to confinement in the
Alton prison during the war. DR.. Plummer
another Memphis druggist, for contrabano
dealing, was sentenced to be treated as spy
SHARP-SHooTERs.-The War Department has
authorized Henry Marksall, Esq, of Dubuque,
to raise one or more companies of Sharp-Shoot.
ers, to be known as the Hawk Eye Rifemen.-
The companies will be organized separately,
and will, if necessary, be assigned to different
regiments to act as skirmishers. To the ex-
perienced marksman, this offers chance to
enter a branch Of the service for which their
former practice fits them. 1t is the most ex-
citing branch of the service. The companies
must be filled soon Places of rendezvous for
each company will be designated hereafter
| TMuscatine Journal.
Hon. Thomas J. Townsend, Surveyor Gen.
eral of the Land Office at Dubuque, died in that
oity on Wednesday evening, at the age OF 40
He was a native of Lowville, N. T., and emf
grated to Wisconsin years ago, and was one of
tbe founders of Oshkosh. He represented the
Fon dn lac District in the Wisconsin Legisla-
turo in 1949. and was afterwards Commission
or Of Emigration. The President appointed
him Surveyor of the Land Office at Dubuque,
Iowa in 1861, and he has resided there up to
the time of his death. He leaves wife and
four children He was man of generous i'm
pulses, and universally esteemed.