The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-22
ri. is reported that Mcclellan advised

Burnside to 'accept Of no designations II any
we're offered" giving as reason for their nom
acceptance shat men will do in hot blood what
they will be sorry for week after" We don't
know that this report is true. lie, it proves
that Mcclellan is still anxious that his friends
should remain in the army, and that he ina
gined that some of them would display spirit
Of insubordiuation. The right advice was ex
actly the opposite of wha. is said to have been
given. If any one wished to resign because ne
vas superseded, he should have been dismissed
in disgrace and drummed out of the lines. That
would have been sound military advice Such
policy would teach subordinate officers their
position and duty. Judging BY al the evidence
Ne have, Mcclellan Was terribly disappointed.
No one offered to resign. No one was guilty Of
the folly of clinging to the skirts Of bis imbe-
cility. But it is quite evident that be was re.
moved not . day too soon.
CONVICTED Crittenden, late Post
Master at Fontanelle, Adair county, at the re-
cent Term Of the o. S. District Court, at Des
Noines, was convicted of robbing letters of
money while holding that Iofdce, and sentenced
to ten years imprisonment. This 10 the mildest
penalty the law imposes.
TIE 4O7R-The 4Oth Regiment, at Iowa
City, was mustered into service by Captain Hen.
dershott last Saturday, paying the members their
bounty and premium.
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a. The Republican press, and Republicans
collectively and individually, have praised every
General who has proved himself in earnest, and
has accomplished any success. and this without
regard to bis politics or private opinions. The
opposition press and politicians have uniformly
DETAINED and denounced all such Generals, and
have bestowed their praises exclusively upon
those who either could not sor would not ever
make . reasonable attempt to secure tangible
success.
The Republicans are in earnest in the prose-
cution of the war. They understand it to afford
the only possible mode Of saving the Union and
secure an enduring peace to the country. The
opposition are faithful only to their party policy.
n Clsgett has found out again that the
Republicans are responsible for the war which
is now raging! They would not, he says, accept
the "Crittenden compromise" and the cause Of
the war was this refusal! Perhaps the wiseacre
will tell us when any portion Of the Southern
rebels proposed accepting it! We don't mean
to admit that the Republicans should have &C.
cepted or adopted Crittenden's proposition. We
think they were quite as insulting and inadmis-
sible as secession itself. We only mean to
assert that its adoption would not have averted
the war single moment.
We ask the Burlington Hawk-Eye and the
Dubuque Times one question. Whether the
Iowa State Prisoners, having been discharged
honorably, were, or were not arrested Illegally.
democratic Herald.
Granting that they were honorably discharged,
Of which there is no evidence, we are unable to
see what ground that fact furnishes for assum-
ing that their arrest was Illegal The legality Of
an arrest, does not depend, in any way that we
are acquainted with, upon the guilt or innocence
of the person arrested. The Herald certainly
don't want any new light as to our opinion of
such men a. Mahony!
CAPTURIs BY ONE VEssEL.-The bark Restless,
commanded by Lieutenant Edward Conroy, has
captured seventeen prizes since the l4th Of Feb.
ruary last, in the vicinity Of Charleston, s. c.
Her latest feAts we're the capture of the British