The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1862-05-10

nOwN THE MIselss1PPl.
Kyyxcr Or rHE sArrLs On snloH.
Ths refugees corrobosate the statement that
the battle Of Shiloh, though claimed - tsi-
umpb. is REGARDED throaghout the South -
great calamity BY the leaders and abettors OF
the rebellion; and that the people, though Dc.
ceived at first by the press, have, from inter-
views With the wounded soldiers, learned what
was 90 carefully sought to be concealed. There
10 no doubt that Shiloh has been terrible blow
TO the ensmy, and one from which they can
hardly recover. Ee1H wg
ss$ssss LIDEATY on DEATH.
Within the past three months large number
Of slaves have been sent further South and sold
to new masters; and the scenes In the auction
marts have been often narrowing to witness
families being separated without the least re-
gard for humanity, or that kind 6f external de-
cency which the slaveowners frequently affect TO
observe.
A week or two since, large and rather in
telligent mulatto Was taken from his wife and
children and sold TO Texas planter at James's
mart. He, poor fellow, was greatly depressed,
and seemed for q time unconscious Of every
thing passing around him. At last he aroused
himself from his introspectiou, and asked IT he
had been sold, and to whomS The name of the
planter was given, and the location of his plan
tation. ~
An expression of agony, succeeded by cloud
of despair, passed over the mans face but with.
out speaking, he walked quietly into the middle
Of the street, and before any one could divine
his motive, or anticipate his intention, he drew
u pistol, which he had concealed upon his per-
son, and placing the muzzle to his forehead,
pulled the trigger.
The upper part of the muatto's head was
fairly blown off and he fell msngled corpse
in the midst of the crowded thoroughfare.
The bondsman was free. Suicide had saved
him from Slavery.
The crowd, ever curious, but rarely sympa-
thetic especially when negro is the sufferer or
| the victim, gathered for Q moment about the
body; but no one piticd, no one bestowed more
thought upon the heart-broken, selfslain hus.
band and father than II he had been butcher.
ed OK
A few asked, "Whlt the devil was the matter
with the niger ?" Others observed: ''The id
nigger must have been crazy !" and the Texas
planter swore roundly-saying. "D-n the
cursed darkey. 1 could have sold him for two
thousand dollars. I'm just so much out Of pock-
ct. If he'd come to life again, I'd give him
forty lashes." ,..
But the crowd went hurryng on, and the ne.
gro, and the great tragedy, deeper and grander
| and the heroic martyr was hauled away like =
poisoned dog.
Home Appreciation of John d. Floyd.
Considerable amusement has been furnished
us on the fotilla by an old copy of the Rich
mond (Va.) Examiner, containing an editorial
on John b. Floyd, in which he is mentioned as
| ''the hero of thirty battles" never knew q
Richmond paper to be Willingly guilty Of a
joke of any sort; but that appellation applied
to the notorious fugacious thief must certainly
have been intended asa jest. Floyd-who not
only never had any martial success, but ran
away from fight whenever he had an oppor-
! tunity--the 'hero of thirty battlesp' Is not
this exceedingly drolls
Speaking of Floyd reminds me Of what o
getlemen from Memphis, now on his way there,
told me of the unprincipled ex Secretary's rep
utation in the vicinity where he lived for a
number of years. My informant was travelling
to Lynchburg, Va, and discovered that Floyd
was on the cars. After arriving at the hotel,
he found that the distinguished son of the
South" as the Rebel journals have dubbed
him, was also stopping there, and he noticed
during the day, that all the persons who called
on or conversed with him were of the most
| unprepossessing appearance, and disgustingly
| coarse and profane in speech. The gentlemen
| remarked to the proprietor Of the hotel, the
| singularity of Floyd associations, and wonder
ed that so important parsonage should not
| attract better class. aa-
'The reason is Sir" replied the landlord
''that Floyd is known here. He lived in Lynch.
burg number of years, and a greater scound-
rel never escaped the penitentiary, where he
| ought to have been long ago. There are hum
| dreds Of men in the Richmond prison who are
| honest compared with Floyd. Everybody de-
| spises him in this city and county. He never
had transaction with any one, whom he did
| cheat or attempt to cheat.
| sHe is an infamous liar and william, and nev-
er was anything else. He could not obtain
credit for five dollars unless he would leave his
| watch as pledge; and if he did that, would
| believe the watch stolen. He has swindled hun
dreds of people in this town, and he will do
more injury to our cause-I am strong advo-
| cate of Southern Rights-than q dozen of our
| best men will do it good. COnfound him,
hope the Yankees will catch him and hang
| him; for he deserves it."
On further inquiry, the Memphis merchant
| learned that the opinion the hotel-proprietor
| had expressed Of Floyd was general, and that
| he was as much despised as pickpocket or
| thimble-rigger. Floyd himself looked quite
| venerable, bat looked care worn and premature
| ly old, with stoop in his shoulders (as if he
had been trying to carry small portion of
| what he had stolen on his back) and very
unprepossessing manner. He was generally
! quiet in manner and reticent; corroborating the
| idea that great scoundrels are usually silent,
| for fear of exposing their principles or mis-
deeds.
The Louisville Democrat is well acquainted
with democracy in all its phases 1t has been
the aim of its whole life to take whatever of
good it found in Democracy and urge it upon
the people for its adoption and practice; and
whatever of bad it found in the same party, it
always set it'On hill 80 that all might see it
and avoid it. As an exemplifcation Of this it
| supported the administration of jackson and
Folk so far as they stuck to the old issues, and
refused to support Buchanan and Breckinridge
| when they tried to make Democracy synony-
nous with wrong, disorder aud treason. Now,
when discussion has been entered upon tho
propriety Of recognizing the democratic party,
the editor naturally enough wants to know what
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