The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-01-18

congress for th1g puypooe, 10 claimed by IL Z;
ysptof 10 be one Of tie most destsuctive ).
,incs Of war ever construcsed, and . sssi.Ssss
: be Of It's efficiency, that b wosid not ~
ate 70 captafs any city thst can b approaessS
py il. The battery consists Of very se,o.s
hull, on which Is The tssrsk the important sss.
ma Of the structure, which h . round e,li.xs.
q entv fee. In Interior dlaneter, and nina ~.
hieh. Il il built entirely Of iron pIstes' -
Inch IN tiickpess, eight Of then securely 49,
on. one over the oe6er, with the Joint 49,
ping each other. Within this there q : No.;
Of iron ons. inch shiel, thus giving nine iebss y
solid iron. Il rests on bed plate. or rssi,s !.
ring. made Of eomposition, which Il s.c...,s
fastened 70 the deck. 70 help supoo,t ~
weight which Il about hundred tons. ! go;
cal shaft ten inches in diameter Is sttscL.S 80
fastened to the buIkhesd. The top 10 COW !.
with forged iron beams and perforated iron. ~,
proof The top 10 perforated to allow the spoIs
Of the guns, and even more, the concuas;on = 4
che air, 70 pass OF The turret hes two 49,.
lar portfolios three feet above the deck a.
just large enough for the mouth of the eup Il
be run out, and the battery will carry two y.,.
heavy rifed guns. The carrirges Of vrou.k,
iron will run back on iron slides, which -
made TO it very accurately. The whole tu,,es
by an arrangement worked by special ensio.
hv
rod connected with the engine, Is ensbiAd,a
turn it at pleasure. II can be nsds TO MOI.
at the rate of sixty revelations miuu,s..
speed which Dit would DO uncomfortable 70 A.
dure. Ii Is so accurately made that ID can 4.
regulated to within half degree. The batter,
so far as can nov be judged, seems to have =.
vulnerable part, save the port holes, which q.
exposed only for about half minute /, a.
Its eharp and massive iron prov will enabl.s
to sink any ordinary vessel with perfect e,ss :.
In case il is boarded no harm 10 done. The o.l,
entrance is at the top of the turret, which 80.
not easily be scaled, and even then but oue M,
at time can descend. There are no place. =
the deck where an entrance can be forced =
the boarding party may stay until the sea v.ab.,
them off, or the sharp-shooters assist their 4.
parturs The mechanics who have it 10 cha,r
are all very sanguine Of its success.
DoNEsTIC SKETcH.-Ope market d,v :. 3
saw q wagon loaded with wheat coming i,ta q
town--nothing strange In that, certainly. And
q man driving the team, and a woman perchsa
on the load beside, and a child ,broped IN a.
woman's lap-notning strange in that, either
And it required no particular shrewdness To Al.
termine that tho woman was the property-u,.
sonal, of course-of the man, and that the bIaet
eyed, round-faced child was the property of both
OF them. SO much We saw-so much we sanposs
everybody saw, who looked. IL is a fair infer.
ence to suppose that the wife came 10 to helm
her husband trade out" portion of the pro
ceeds Of the wheat, the produc. of 30 much Ia.
Dor, and so many sunshines and rains The nair
were somewhere this side-a fine point Of obser
vation isn't il s-ahis side of forty, and it ia ur,.
sumptive, if blessed like their neighbors, ther
left two or three children at home "to ksn
house," while they came to town-perhaps to
girls and boy or, as 1t Is MINISTERIAL to us, t.o
boys and one girl.
Well, we followed the pair, in and through,
until the wheat wes sold, the money paid, and
then for the trade. The baby was shifted from
shoulder to shoulder, or sat down upon the foor,
to run off into mischief, like sparkling globue
of quicksilver ON marble table, while eseosy
were priced, sugar and tea tested, ard plate.
"rung." The good wife looks askance at alUes
mirror that would be just the thing for the best
room, and the roll Of carpeting OF mos. becom.
ing pattern--but it won't do. they must wait till
next year. All! there is music in those nex.
years, that orchestras cannot make. And %
they look, and price aud purchase the sumner
supplies, the husband the while cycling the little
roll Of bank notes growing small by degrees aud
beautifully less. Then comes an "asiden confer.
ence, particularly confidential. She takes him
face-she has fine eyes by the bye-wish an ex-
preston eloquent Of lido now-it will please
them so?" And what do you suppose they talk
Of! Toys for the children; John wants drum
and Jane deli, and Jenny book, all pictures,
"jist like Susan So-and-so's." The father looks
nonsense" but feels in his pocket for the re-
quired silver; and the mother having gained the
point, hastens away, baby and all, for the toya
There acts the mother-she had half promised
not all-that she would bring them something,
and she is happy all the way home-not for the
bargains she made, but for the pleasant surprise
in those three brown parcels. And you ought
to have been there when she got home, when
the drum and the doll and book were pre- iuced
and thumbed and Graded and thumped-
wasn't it great house Happiness is SO cheap
world !-[Ledger.
The REBELS MAKING WOODEN SBoEs-Ths
Raleigh, North Caroliua) Standard says
We visited a day or two since the wooden
shoe mauufactory of Messrs Thuim i Traps, Of
this city. We had frequently heard of this es.
Enlistment, but We had no idea, until our visit
to it, that it was go thorough and interesting in
its operations as we heard it to be. The enter.
prising manufacturers have in their employment
some thirty hands, and are turning ont about
one hundred pairs Of shoes per day. The shape
and size of the shoe are first marked and sawed
out, and then it is bored and scooped out aud
fashioned at the bottom, and sand papered, and
lined, and painted, and topped with leather,
and thus finished in various rooms in the same
building Most Of this work is done by ma
The wood is onu, .rd ,,. uh;o, :, rou
steamed before the shoe l. mad W. u,dsr.
stand that these shnes ars a.,nsIIv ,;oh,sr ,h.n
the leather broc,n of ,hs sau,s ,n 80 IA :.
for durability sbe hottons n;li " ias, r,,ii a.
next war, We learn thu. Wess,s Thn;r, = -, ~
who are finishing one hundred na;r ne- SsS
have more orders than ,bev can s,i ''
Wooden shoes are worn in the nor,bern mart
of Europe. and in some localities In this conn.
try but we sunnose this "a the f;rs, manns,c,orv
Of the sort, by machinery and steam which h,s
been established. -
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Mrs Rose o H. Greenhow, according to the
W ashington correspondent of the Philadelphia
inquirer, was found to be in possession of polit.
Dent James RucSsn.n I'M ~ e e:.,s.a
Joe Lane Yaneer and other f,uor. ;ud;nisnY.
Mrs Gresnho. !. ~, NV ;ae famous lnulv'ousiA
handsome person. pleas;uu sJdrss. opod adno..