The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-05
LEGATION, U. S. A., Boeor,

UNITED STATES of N. G, Aug LIST, 1861
Hon. j. e, Horse, ". o., La
My DEAR FR1EKD:-Yours of the 18th o.
March did not reach me until the ssh of las,
month, and would have been replied to inmedi
ateIy, and your request relative to the Bocadlas
complied with if l. or Gording, who has been on
the lookout for them, could have purchased apv.
The continuance Of the revolution has kept
those articles from being brought to the city.
expect my successor, Allen A. Burton, Of
KY, every day, and will leave the next day at.
ter his arrival, being exceedingly anxious to re-
turn home to my family-ny sons having left
them to come down South to fight for the MAIN
tenanee OF the Constitution, the laws, and the
rights OF the people of the South, as intend to
90 IT required to fight at all, and it be possible
ior me to leave my family and nv private af
lars now almost in ruined State in consequence
OF the crisis. Great God, wha. calamity civil
war will be to my country! None of you there
VINO have not been eye-witnesses to such an evil
can tell. have seen nothing ell l6r the last
year, and dread the horrible consequences tn INV
hitherto prosperous, peaceful and happy coun.
try Il
II you friend Douglas had died one day be-
fore the meeting of the Charleston Convention.
or If such Southerners as yourself, Stephens.
johnson, ct al, had not stood by him in that
Convention, all now would have been peace and
prosperity, unity and happiness. I wondered
often that such men as YOU, Dodge, "a. c. &C.,
could not see into Douglass unprincip!ed and
ambitious schemes and drop him before you did
ss did.
just such war upon the rights of the States
is being waged here as that which fear NAV be
in existence in the dis United States, and made
BY the Central Government here under the rule
Of Mariana Ospino. A great battle, and think {
final one, was fought in this city on the 18th
nlsimo, in which the forces Of the South, under
General Mosquera, made glorious triumph. I 4
the whole from the balcony of nv
Legation, and saw the soldiers under their
'rave leaders Kosquera, Lopez, ex.Prest. Santa
3utierres, &c., charge upon the troops of the il
General Government who were well entrenched
'ehind the strong and high stone wallis in the y
icinity of St. Domingo and the Cemetery, and t,
rive them therefrom with their twenty odd is
ood cannons, whilst the Liberals had nome
he battle lasted some six hours-some 500 be. =
ng killed and 700 wounded on both sides. Els. !,
ina Bartoiomi Calvo, Attorney General and r,
Acting President, with some thirty or forty 9th
RS leaving the battle ground then at San Vic. q
prime, at 10 A. r., two hours before the battle al
'ss over, and rushing into Mr.. Grifith's Lega. te
ion for protection. None came into my Lega. CT
on, though had invited all my countrymen to p
0 30 it they believed themselves in danger. r,
hough assured them they leed apprebend D.
one. removed my Legation into GenI Her ht
ms fine large house on the l6th-three DAYS
efore sne oattle-at the Instance of himself y,
nd family, and Of Gent Nosque,a also, for the "
rejection Of Ara Aosquera, her daughter Mrs. as
en1 Herran, who had been repeatedly threat. M
ned with death if Gent N. should attempt to %
,ter the city, and her children, three of whom y,
ere born in the United States. lco
Your friend Internuncio Ledochovsk: and the to-
esuits, have been expelled the country and ia
guilar Qntendente) Placido Morales - and Pc
emanoerz shot all for gross outrages, and all
sserVea. Ex'Prests. Orpins and Calvo, with or
any o'ne's' are now IN the same prisons where liv
icy Kept some four or FIVE hundred for eleven M
onths. ma
Yours Truly, Oh
c.;e.. GEO. W. JONES. ~,
eniish' Gooding, Gen1 Herran, Chsmbs,. IN IN
I'd Others send regards to you. h hn
Write me to Dubuque, Iowa, and tell me- n. Ut,
of
.ue oI, IS man IN the Troy poor house LOG ""
etiesIy W sn1en some one ezclams symps thi
,rch.y a., "ns la, horrible fate to live to pa oh
IS. IA. ase' ano De mewed up for the rest Of bis