The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-18
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The customary oath to bear true allegiance with.
out mental reservation, etc., on the plea Of IN.
or some nonsense or other.
So the Judge abandoned the case, and Mahony,
I suppose, gave up. the idea of liberation. But
he enjoys himself, undoubtedly. He ought to,
at any rate, for he is in the midst Of friends.
We look here with some confidence for the
election Of all the Republican candidates for
Congress in Iowa. shall feel very much hu-
inflated if the ex.priest and broken down Rail
road Spectator crowds out Mr.. Wilson in my
own district, though of course entertain no
thought OF such calamity. Our people seem
to be aware of the honorable and influential po'
sition which Mr.. Wilson made for himself in
body so trying to the talents and character Of
new member, and disposed to give him scope for
the exercise of his faculties, for their own and
the public benefit.
Poor George Francis Train played himself out
in hurry. About week did the job for him
here. A great crowd of people tagged around
him, but it was made up chiefly Of boot-blacks,
b'hoys, and wonder-mongers, such as follow at
ter an organ.grinder with his monkey. Know
ing of him chiefly by his abuse of the English,
sensible people were Disguised with him for his
English snobbery in his dress, sir, walk, ETC..
in all those peculiarities, by which an English
man of the snobbish kind is 80 readily detected.
Train initiates them perfectly. L seems to suit
bis TASTE Apart from that he is queer look
ing specimen. A short, stout figure, big head,
covered with an enormous amount of busby hair
sticking straight out like the rays glory around
the head Of saint, he goes waddling about with
! kind Of an English 'setting. pole" gait, pulled
up like toad with its own importance. He
made "good thing" Of it at Philadelphia
About 5000 people went to hear him, apd he
charged fifty cents head to make gestures at
them with bis gloves on and tell people how
much he hated the English whom he initiated
and American patriots whom he disgraced. The
conceited, incoherent rattle-brain has found his
place.
have had before my eyes daily, for some two
weeks past, as went to my Office in the build
ing where they laid, two painful, shocking spec.
linens of rebel barbarity. Some three weeks
ago, among some prisoners liberated from Rich.
mond, we're three Federal soldiers captured by
the rebels at Port Republic. The total of their
daily rations at Richmond consisted of piece
of bread, made from corn ground up with cobs
and all, about half the size of your hand, and q
cup of water. It was insufficient to support life,
and they daily declined in flesh and health
When they arrived here they were mere shad
ows of men, nothing ailing them except starva.
ton. One died at once, before saw him the
two others have fingered on, from day to day,
friends and relatives hoping that nouriahment
would bring them up. But starvation had been
too long protracted, and they have just sunk to
their last repose, victims Of deliberate and con-
tinued barbarism. They were the most fright
full, ghost.like human beings that ever saw
They made no complaint. They said, and they
showed, that it was an inestimable privilege to
escape from their murderers and die.
Nothing has transpired in connec ton with
the army that has go sensbly affected the repu.
tation of Gen. Mcclellan here,-so cooled the
vehemence and closed the mouths of his 'blow.
ers and strikels"-as the rebel raid to his rear
and into Pennsylvania. And this morning, as
we hear of the completion of the circuit around
his army and the escape Of the rebels with all
their booty across the river below him, unob.
structed in all their long and leisurely journey
by a single loyal musket, you may be certain that
the belief in his qualities as an enterprisng and
efficient commander is much less firm, and the
defence Of him much less blatant and insolent,
than hitherto. Iowa.