The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-06-28
What The Rebel P0pers sav.
Prom We Richmond Despatch.

From Ne Richmond DespatcA.
SECOND DALGIrfY.
The Wing, Of yesterday, SAYS that after tn,
battle Of Rich Mountain, both Mcclellan AND
kosecrans declared to Confederate officers
who were prisoners of war, that they ha,
much rather beleading an army against Mass
achusstts than Virginia. This. the Wing saw.
can be proved by hninpeacnable authority i
denied. We have nothing to say about Rose
Grams. He is not worth the ink it takes t.
write his name But what shall be said O.
Mcclellan, the would be gentleman soldier
who is now leading 100000 rufians to plum.
der and devastate the country he once offered t.
serve in consideration Of higher pay, and, az
he supposes, more certain emolunepts? What
but that he is genuine hirehng of the Dugard
Dalgetty pattern-a man that will serve any
cause which pays well, and always that cause
which pays best-a man that puts his homo,
and his conscience alike in his pocket, and Of.
fers himself to the highest bidder
Mercenary wretches of this description were
common enough in the middle ages, in all the
countries Of Italy. Condottieri, who hired
out their swords like bravoes and charged a
Ger tain sum for each drop of blood that they
shed, are but too we'll known to the history Of
that chronically distracted country. Blood
hounds who lived upon siaug hter-long scented
vultures who stuffed carnage from afar
abounded in the thirty years. war. Dalgetty
was one Of these and in drawing his character,
Sir Walter Scott has given US lively ideal of
the whole crew. We had hoped the race was
extinct, with the wars and corruptions that
had produced them. We had good reason to
hope SO, for in all the wars of the last century
and OF the present, not one Of them figured
upon the stage.
But the character is revived in the person of
Lincoln's Commander in Chef He was Pres
ident Of railroad in Illinois, and received sal.
airy of SIS, 900. He wrote and offered his SER.
vices to the confederate States when the war
broke out. He was bribed by Lincoln with
Major Generalship, with its pay and emolu-
ments. He accepted on condition that he was
to receive still his salary as President of tho
railroad. He afterwards said that he would
rather lead an army against Massachusetts
than Virginia. He is now leading mercena-
~ force of marauding scoundrels against the
capital of Virginia, encouraging the negroes to
revolt, and doing all he can to arm them against
the lives oftheir masters. Is it possible to
conceive Of character more thorough MERGE
nary? The Hessians who were sent here to
cut our Threats in the Revolutionary war were
compared to him. They were
bought at the shambles, ito use the strong ex-
preston of Lord Chatham, } and had no choice
in the matter. They were sold by an absolute
prince. But this man sells blood for money of
his own accord. There is no complusion in the
case. He comes voluntarily forward makes
his offer. "Give me 60 much money, y says he
to Lincoln, "and you shall have the value in
blood" We have never read of any Character
or any. transaction which more richly deserves
the execration of mankind.
THE EVACUATION OF coRlNTH.
A correspondent ofthe Edgefeld Is. CO. Adj
yer tiser, writing from Okolona, Miss, on the
we find it copied into the Charleston Mercury
says:
II went to Corinth on Tuesday, to get with
my regiment, the Forty.frst Mississippi but
when l arrived there l found everything in
confusion and bustle-the streets filled to over
flowing with SICK and disabled soldiers,
as we'll as thousands well and hearty, all
crowding, rushing like mighty avalanche to-
wards the cars. 1t was some little time before
We could learn the meaning of the strange scene
enacted before us, and when We did we were sui
prised to learn that orders had been given for
the evacuation Of the place. We were forbid
leaving the cars and it is well we were, for il
We had got off we would have had the pleasure
Of walking back down the road. The tents
had all been struck, and the main part of the
army was reported to be sleeping on their arms
in the intrenchments and it would have been
as easy to find "a needle in hay-stack' as to
have found any particular regiment in this vast
army, while in line Of battle. Large quantities
Of te nts and ordnance stores that could not be
removed from Corinth. were ordered burned,
which order was put in execution on Friday.
All the houses in the business part of the town
as well as the railroad depots and hotels, were
fred, and at the last accounts Corinth was
heap of smouldering ruins. Our army has fall. |
en- back to Boonville, twenty-five miles this
side of Corinth, on the Mobile road, where it |
will probably make stand till Halleck ad-
canoes.
cit is not for me to say whether the move
Is, that it has q terribly demor0lizing effect upon
'ur army, and many declare they wiU gut tie ser
vice and 90 home. Indeed the Tennesseeans are
aoao deserting every day. The move has taken
ZONE Of Bearegards laurels a,0ay from him, and
not ew Of those arho heretofore sOere foremost in
lis praise are noac tile most bterin denouncing him.
sour army has suffered immensely from sickness
1t C0rinM and the Uhole country from there to
Columbus, Mss, as one cast hospital. We have
'ome two thousand sick here alone. 1t is
,eart-rending to witness the suffering our
DOOR soldiers endure
REBEL DISSATISFACTION WITH JEFF DAVIS.
(Frsm the Montgomery, Ala, Advertiser, June 7th.)
Every now and then We see an inkling of
disposition for dictator, which can only be ex-
'lained upon the hypothesis Of q natural desire
o cure the evils of weak administ, alton by the
ldoption Of strong measures. But We feel con-
ident that the proposition is as i'll advised as it
viii be unpopular wherever the source of our
roubles ls understood. 1t is only necessary to
eview the brief history of the management of
,ur new government to come to the conclusion
hat the fault does not lie in the system itself,
,ut in those at the head Of it. The country was
Unfortunate enough to repose blind confidence
n a man, who, whatever might have been bis
lbility to conduct a government in time of
,eace, has failed to exert the powers requi-
lite for time of war. During the reign of
,arty tactics, Mr.. Davis was considered an &C.
:ompshed diplomatist, standing cautiously be-
ween the breakwaters of Southern secession and
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