The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-04-26
BURLINGTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 2e, IS
WARRINGTON CORREsPOHDENCE.
WASHINGTON, April 10, 1869.

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i WARRINGTON CORREsPONDENCE.
WAsHIKGroN, April 10, 1869.
Was the battle at Pittsburgh victory, o
was it not victorys Did the Secretary of Wa
put bis foot in il. )" in making it the subject Q
devout thanksgiving, or did he nots These ar
about the commonest questions agitated her
just now. think the general Judgment is YER
clearly-certsinly it is mine-that it scas vic
tory, but not one to brag about, very much
and that Secretary Stanton was a little NOR
hasty and inconsiderate than the occasion JUST
fed, in the extent and character Of his thanks
Mrs. Harlan and Mrs. Fales from Iowa, lef
here few days ago for Pittsburgh, to assist il
the nursing of our wounded soldiers. Mrs. Har
Ian is the wife of our estimable Senator, ant
has all the season manifested practical inter
est in the welfare Of our seldiers OF Mrs
Fales desire to speak especially, for she ia de
serving of public notice. She is the wife o
Ar. Joseph 7. Fales, and was formcrlya resident
OF Burlington. Her husband is an Assistant
Examiner in the Patent Office. From the frs
| arrival of troops here, she has devoted her at
tention exclusively to alleviating the suneringc
| OF the sick and wounded. Day and night she
has been wherever her services were most need
ed, and have been greatly surprised that she
or any other woman was physically able to en-
dure such incessant and exbausting labor. New.
ertheless she goes about her business with q
daily renewed vigor, not with any desire for no.
teriety, but under sense of plain christian du.
ty. And she brings to the discharge of her du.
ties An unusual fund OF practical good sense and
efficiency. @
Our friend Samuel +. Miller, of Iowa, has just
left here. If new circuit is created west of
the Mississippi, he will be candidate for nom-
ination to the Supreme Bench of the United
States. think you will agree with me that
there are few men who, in all respects, are bet
ter fitted for the position, and certainly to men
of our ways of thinking few would be more sa.
tisfsctory. would be very glad to swap off for
him any member now sitting on that Bench.
The speech Of Senator Grimes on the connec.
ton of negroes with the army, yesterday, meets
with much applause from all those who have a
realizing sense of the condition and tendency of
things. 1t goes to the root of the matter, and
many Of those to whom his ideas are distasteful
think-"fear," they say-that ''to this complex.
ion must we come at last" The delay in travel.
ing towards the goal to which we are travelling
and must travel. is costing us an amount of deot
and blood that in the retrospect, will cause us
to shudder, and to ask why we should have been
SO blind, so reluc tant, and so cowardly.
The next encounter with the Merrimac is
awaited with the livelest interest here, and
tho Navy Department. notwithstanding the bold
face that is assumed. Several new kinds of shot
have been provided for the Monitor, among
them shells with a liquid that takes fire on ex.
plosion, similar to, or the same as, those that
have been experimeutally exploded here during
the winter. OF their frightfui nature have
been witness. Water has no effect in quench-
ing their flames.
The Com. Levy, of the Navy, who was buried
with such hOnors in New York, two or three
weeks ago, was a Jew, and the possessor of the
homestead of Thomas Jefferson, "Montcello.'
He was very rich. He has not, however, been
allowed to enjoy the estate OF Mr.. jefferson, as,
having married his own niece, the gentlemen of
the region notified him, on its purchase, that he
could not be allowed to live among them, on &C.
count OF this marital alliance, at which they ex.
pressed an exceeding disgust. They gave him
the privilege of residing on it one month in
the year, merely that he might be able to look
after its condition. A short time since it was
"confscated" by Virginia, though the Union
army are likely soon to bring it back for the
benefit of his heirs
1t would seem strange. that people, and a daily
paper, right here in this city should, as they do,
vehemently maintain, even yet, that there were
no wooden guns at Centreyille, and try to bring
those into contempt and ridicule who maintain
the fact. And strange, too, that such journal
as Harper's Weekly, that must know the facts,
should persistently lampoon and caricature, in
the most impudent and malignant manner peo
pie of character for asserting and insisting on
the veracity of the statement. There are hun.
dreds here who saw those guns Mr.. Julian, of
the War Committee. told me he saw them him
self, and should have counted them If he ever
supposed their existence would have been aues
toned. Mr.. Ebert, from Iowa, just appointed
Secretary OF Colorado, was there early with his
brother, who is an officer in the army, and tells
me the same thing; and that it was apparent
that they had long been therein fact no other
guns could stand upon their foundations without
breaking through. Surely the partizanship of
Mcclellan must be very blind and bitter to need
the denial Of such indsputablc facts. Still,
perhaps I am myself quite as unreasonable in
the other extreme, for it is my deliberate and
unimpassioned opinion that the war has not dis
closed and cannot disclose such another stupen.
dous humbug as Gen. Mcclellan. I greatly
fear an unfortunate result in the limited (though
immensely important) field to which his depart
ment has finally been reduced, though the ex-
tent and character of his force, together with
the completeness of its equipment, give me o
moderate degree of assurance that the campaign
cannot fail.