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The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-12-27

seeFe sary Chasess Financial Scheme.
WASHINGTON, Dec. A.-Secretary Chase has
sent to Representative Stevens his financial pro-
jects, recommending loan of $500, 0OO, 900 at
rates of interest Of not exceeding those now
authorized by law. The Secretary does not
The Committee on Ways and Means has not
vet considered the subject.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Confirmed.

WAsH1xaroN, Dec. 22.-The Senate Commit
tee has confirmed the nomination of Caleb B.
Smith for Judge of the District Court of Indiana.
No nomination has yet been made to supply the
vacancy in the Department Of the Interior.
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'INJuRED INNoCKNTs. There is great howl
on the part of a small faction of the Democrats
about arbitrary arrests" and the release Of those
arrested without a trial. s.-.a
When you hear one of these furious clamorers
who have been or should be in Fort Lafayette or
Fort Warren, complaining that the Government
refuses to grant them trial, just tell them that
If they insist upon it, the Government will, by
and by, when It gets some of the heavier work
in which it is now engaged off its hands, crafty
them. But these suspicious characters" will
not dare to push the matter. There is not one
of them but knows full we'll that the Govern
ment has evidence enough in it's possession
against them not only to have justified their ar
rest, but to convict them before any jury of Loyal
men in the United States. They have reason to
be thankful to escape as easily ss they do. The
Government is only too msrcifuL- Chicago
Journal.
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FIrz JOIN AND HIS CAsE.-The Fitz John
court martial has nearly closed. Gen. Mellow.
ell testi6es that on the morning OF the 29th OF
August, when Porter was in possession Of Gen
Pope's order to come forward with bis division
to his aid, that the redoubtsble Hotspur, after
endeavoring to induce him (McDowelO to take
command on the pretence that he (McDowelD
ranked him, fatty declared that he could not 90
forward any further without getting into 6g6t
Mcdowell cooly replied, "WeIl, that's what We
came for" and rode of to fight himself. But
Porter did not 60 forward, and Pope was conse.
quently defeated and betrayed. The testimony
OF Col. Smith, Of Pope's staff, further shows
that Gen. Kearney had stated to him (Smitb)
that Porter would fail Pope. Fitz John &as
Patterson's chief of staff at the time OF the BE-
trayal of the first Bull Run. He seems to have
operated just as fatally upon the fortunes Of the
second. At Autietam, also, be not only did not
fight, but refused any portion OF his idle troops
to the urgent plea Of Burnside. It looks a. if
Fitz Johns case would furnish work for cor
porsps guard, with muskets loaded With ball and
cartridges. Chicago Tribune.
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From Burnside's Army.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE PoroxAc,


December %, go.
A Gag of truce crossed the Rappahannock this
afternoon, with q communication for Gen. Lee,
the purport of which has not transpired.
The Richmond papers of yesterday and to-day
have found their way here. The Enquirer says
the loss in Gen. A. P. Hills division on the 18th,
was I'll killed; 1894 wounded and AT missing.
This division was confronted by Franklin's left,
and consisted Of six brigades with artillery
More than half the rebel loss occurred in this
division
Intelligence has been received from below to
the effect that the rebels have cons;derahIv
strengthened their forces at Fort Royal, and that
tho enemy maintain contraband communities
ton with their northern friends via the Potomac
and Mattox Creek, crossing the Peninsula and
Rappahannock at Leeds, about 80 miles below
this point
No shots have been exchanged with the enemy
for several days. The river pckets maintain =
friendly disposition towards each other
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BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE
anseressIng Documenes.

The following interesting documents have
been received at Gen. Curtis Headquarters, at
St. Louis. The first lie the address Of the Con-
federate General Hindman to his troops before
entering into the battle of Prairie Grove. The
second, is Gen Herron's address Of conGratula
ton to bis soldiers after the battle.
HEADQUARTERS lsr CoRPs, TRANS MISS. ARMYI
In the Field, Dec. 4th, 1862. !
SOLDIERS! From the commencement to the
end of the battle, bear constantly in mind what
now urge upon You:
First, Never FIRE because your comrades do,
nor because the enemy does, nor because you
happen to see the enemy, nor for the sake OF
firing rapidly. Always wait till you are certain.
" within the range of your gun; then single out
your man, take deliberate aim, as low down as
the knee, and FIRE.
Second When occasion offers, be certain to
pick off the enemy's officers, especially the
mounted ones, and to kill bis artillery horses.
Third. Don't shout except when you charge
the enemy. As general thing, keep silent, that
orders may be heard. Obey the orders of your
officers. but pay no attention to idle rumors, or
the words of unauthorized persons.
Fourth. Don't stop With your wounded COM
rade; the surgeon and inirmary corps will take
care of him; do you go forward and avenge him.
Fifth. Don't break ranks to plumber; If We
whip the enemy, oil he has will be ours; if not,
the spoils will be of no benefit to Us. Plumber
ers and stragglers will be put to death upon the
spot. File closers are specially charged with
this duty. The cavalry in rear will likewise At
tend to it.
Remember that the enemy you engage has no
feeling of mercy or kindness towards you. His
ranks are made up OF Pin Indians, free negroes,
Southern tories, Kansas jayhawksrs, and hired
Dutch cut-throats. These bloody rufAans have
invaded your country, stolen and destroyed your
property, murdered your neighbors, outraged
your women, driven your children from their
homes, and defiled the graves of your kindred
II each man of you will do what have here
urged upon you, we will utterly destroy them
We can do this; We must do it; our country will
be ruined if We fail.
A Just God will strengthen our arms and give
us glorious victory. "g
T. @. HINDMAN,
Major General Commanding.
Official: R. @. NEwToN, A. A. General.
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THE GUiLLorINEs.-Northern secession prints
have been making great hue and cry about
story imported from England, to the effect that
our Government had ordered lot of guillotines
"a story they affected to believe and impose
upon the ignorant. The stupid falsehood origi-
mated with q nameless nobody in London, and is
proof of the pitiful spite and vulgar malice OF
the English aristocracy. 1t appeared in the
London Standard, in the following shape:
REIGN OF TERROR IN NEW YORK.
To the Editor
S1R:-Letters from Liverpool mention that
steamer which sailed last week from Liverpool
for New York, took out twenty-four guiHotines.
These French national razors," Of the most ap-
proved description, were imported foom Hsvre,
transhipped at Liverpool, and consigned to
we'll known leader of the Black Republican and
Anti-slavery party in New York, who is conf
Dental agent of President Lincoln.
am, sir, yours, &C., BRUTUS.
LElCEsrEs S0UARs, Nov. Is. 90.
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PHILADELPHIA, Dec GA Fortress Monroe
letter of the 23d inst, says that General Foster
arrived here to day. After leaving Kingston bis
forces took GoIdsboro, without much loss-after
tearing up the Railroad, burning the ties and
destroying the rails and telegraph 30 that they
cannot again be used, they returned to Newburn,
n O. in safety.
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GEN. Fosser 70 be Attacked.

NEW YoRK, Dec. PA Washington dispatch
to the Philsdelphia Enquirer says: Gen. Fos-
ter's dispatch in regard to the capture of Colds
boro' states that the rebels are advancing in
force, estimated at $4,000, to drive him from
his position. Foster believes himself strong
enough to bold out until reinforcements arrive.
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The Rebel loss It Frsaerscksbuyx.

FoRrREss MoNRoE, Dec. Alt will be seen
from Richmond newspaper accounts of the
battle at Fredericksburg that while Gen. Lee
in his official report places the loss at 800 kill
ed and wounded; the same papers containing it
ed had arrived in Richmsnd, and mentions
many more at Fredericksburg depot drenched
With rain and unprovided for.
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PRosPECrs ABOUT NASHVILLE Nashville is less
burthened with soldiers within the city limits
Daily have troops been passing out toward the
Aurfreesboro front, until now, on some of the
pixies, the advance pickets of each army are in
sight, if not within shooting distance. Time Is
aiding General Rosecrans' army; it is enervating
and disheartening the rebels. The "wiuter OF
their discomfort" without clothing or shoes, or
suficiency of tents, and with no regularly organ.
lied commissary department, tells fatally against
them. Daily our army ia getting in better shape
and condition. Its health is excellent. There
is now a store of perhaps fifteen to twenty days.
rations gathered here, and, were it the best poll
icy, doubt not Gen. Rosecrans is ready to ad-
vance to- morrow in battle array. But Il tbink)
Rosecrans is skifully playing his game. What
would it avail him to push off hastily and run
his game down into the Chattanooga mountains
and brakes? He could easily have been in MUIR
freesboro long ere this, with Bragg's squads of
tatterdemalions scattered below him. 1t is not
ground he desires to travel over, but traitors in
arms. His racing them into Georgia, in a wild,
exhausted, hostile country weakens him and adds
to their strength. Therefore, all will see that
Gen. Rosecrans' true policy is to lay low and let
the rebels come up to him as close and strong
as they will. They are doing it. Gen. Bragg's
whole army is now around Murfreesboro,-hi
centre this side of there, his two wings some
eight to twelve miles on each side, fronting
Nashville, some thirty miles of, in half circle
of some eighteen miles in length Joe Johnston
has left Mnrfreesbopo, and Bragg is in full com.
mand.. Gen. Johnston's health will not admit of
his assuming the command. He cannot yet sit
his horse, from his wound, so reported here.
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EXPERIMENTS WITH IRON ARMoR The ex.
traordinary progress recently made in ord
nance, as against iron armor, has received an
other demonstration. At the last trial at
Shoeburyness, England, on the 14th of Nov
ember, the Whitworth steel shell was used
being fred from the octagonsl-rifed wrought.
iron gun. This projectile is simple steel
bolt, made on the principle of q fat-headed
punch, which is used In iron works for making
holes in boiler and other plate iron. To cut Of
q foot or two from on octsgonal bar of steel,
and put it in place of our superanuated round
shot, is the only illustration needed to explain
this great invention.
The target was of five inches solid iron, and
eighteen inches of wood. A 15O-pound shell
went through it at the first shot and burst in
side. A hundred and fifty pound shell burst
ing inside of ship y A second shot produced
precisely the same result. A cast iron round
shot, of $50 pounds, was crushed on the face
of the target at the third shot. At the fourth
q steel bolt of the same weight went clear
through. These experiments were made With
a 12O-pound gun, at 800 yards.
A 70-pounder was then used at 600 yards.
1t sent three 80-pound shells through the tar.
get in rapid succession. These experiments
prove that i've inch armors are no obstacles to
modern artillery. What is to become of the
English and French iron-clsd navies?
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..wm. Cornell J.wes,, ofColorado.n

"Wm. Cornell Jsweti, OfCOl0fad0."
The Denver Commonwealth, Of Colorado Ter
ritory, gives the following first rate notice to
WIN Cornell Jewett," who is writing to the
London papers:
He has about as much right to hail from the
moon as from this Territory. He never was here
but once-in the summer Of 1s6O-and we ven
ture to assert that ne won't show his head here
again. He was formerly an auctioneer in Chica.
60, and ran away from that city and his credit
ors. He is swindler and thief, besides being
crazy fool, in whom there is excessive self
admiration and emptiness. He insults the Ter
ritory of Colorado every time he writes his name,
for be never writes it without appending the lie
- of Colorado Territory" While in this Terri.
tory, in 1860, his father-in-law denounced him
through the press for what he was, and refused
publicly to be responsible for his debts or bis
liabilities. He published letters which he had
received from his wife just before her death
letters which should have been eternally sacred
in order to bring himself into notice and to get
people to trust him.
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the Times sdvertises Dick Merrick's speech in
pamphlet form. Dick is in favor OF conven-
tlou OF the people to take back the rebels, who
swear they won't come back. The piece is set
TO the tune OF my Maryland" and is intended
cago Journal.
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The Cherokees.

WARRINGTON, Dec. 22.-Recent information
from the Cherokee nation discloses the shocking
condition of affairs there. Loyal and disloyal
Indians are slaughtering one another. The gov
eminent has secured one party which Is with
the UniOniste.
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9 T. @. HINDMAN,
Major General Commanding.
Official: R. @. NEwToN, A. A. General.
HEADQUARTERS 2D AND 81 Dlv1sroNs,)
Army OF THE FRONTIER

ADDxEss OF GEN. HIRRoH AFTER TIE BATTLE.
HEADQUARTERS 2D AND 81 Dlv1s1oNs,)
Army OF THE FRONTIER
PRAIRIE GROVE, Ark, Dec. 10, 1862.
Fellow SOLDIERS: 1t is with pride and pleas
ure that am enabled to congratulate you on
the victory so recently achieved over the enemy.
Meeting their combined forces, vastly your su.
periors in numbers, armed and equipped in the
most efficient manner, contrary to what we have
been lead to believe, marshslled by their ablest
Generals, posted in strong position of their
own selection, prepared and ready to attack US,
entertaining towards us feelings of hatred and
fendisn passion, evoked by infamous lies which
even rebel Generals should have disdained to
utter, you, w-sodiers, after forced march
of over one hundred miles in less than three
days, weary, exhausted, and almost furnishing,
animated only by that feeling of patriotism
that induced you to give up the pleasure and
comforts of home to undergo the dangers and
hardshps of the field, did most CALAMITY meet,
fight and repuse the enemy. Your fellow
soldiers elsewhere, your friends and relatives at
home, your fellow citizens and your country, as
they learn of the splendid service Of the artillery.
men, of the determined, daring and brilliant
charges of the infantry, will render you that
praise and honor which is justly your due. Iowa,
Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Missouri, your
native States, are proud of their noble sons. /,
who witnessed your gallant daring in every en-.
counter, in behalf of your country and myself,
tender you grateful thanks for the services you
have rendered. Whilst we drop q tear, there
fore, for those who have fallen, and sympathize
with those who are yet suffering, let US not for.
get to render thanks to the Bene6cent Giver of
all blessings for the success that has thus far at
tested the truth and right of our glorious cause
F. ]. HEBRON,
Brig. Gen'l Command'g I'd and Sd Div'ns.
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From ColumAus.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. N-Advices have been rev
ceived by Gen. Curtis from Gen. Davis, COM
marding at Columbus, Ky, that be is receiving
achievements in season 70 prepare against any
rebel attack there he thinks no rebel attack
was meditated
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WaehinRton News.

STAFFORD G. h Dec. 22.-Scouting parties have
visited Brentsville, Catletts and down the Rap
pahannock to Kslleysvills without meeting the
enemy's cavalry in the intervening country
At Keleysville some firing across the river took
place with the Rebel pickets.
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From Kentucky.

CINCINNATI, Dec 24.-Advices from Le1lng,
ton report fears of a rebel raid BY Floyd and
Humphrey Marshall, who are advancing in large
force from Western Virginia. A movements OF
our troops has occurred from kicnmono, ~,
that will secure Eastern Kentucky from rebel IN
vasion
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SENTIMENT IN CHARLEsroN.-The Wing, pub
lished at Bangor, Maine, has letter from gen.
sleman now visiting in Charleston, Is. C.) of the
10th inst. in which he speaks Of public sentiment
there as follows:
prophecy that when this town falls into the
hands of the Federal Government there will be
such different state of things here from what
is generally anticipated as to surprise many out
side of it, and many in it. The leaders of se-
cession are no longer here, and they are thoro'-
ly killed off as far as future influence goes, how
ever this war ends. Of no man is there more
thorough detestation to-day, in South Carolins,
than Robert Bsrnwell Rhett-not even Abraham
Lincoln. The news of the death of his whole
family would give more joy than any other event
could name. How sure it is that every revo :
luton of such character - this kills its own
sires.
The Northern papers talk about the absence
of Union feeling in the South. There is no
want of love for the old Government. It ia
daily growing stronger rather than weaker
But the power of that Government must be
shown to be strong enough to occupy and pos.
sess the territory. Once give Us a chance, and
the pressure Of the peril off, and the welkin will
ring with joy at the downfall Of the Confederate
Government But as long % the Confederate
Government is the one which exercises exclu.
sive power over US; as long as Virginia stands
defantly in front of the Federal army, so long
will oil men hesitate to take the risk of openly
espousing the Union cause. ....
1t is hard now to find any man who will awow
that he was an origianl seccessionist. But their
pride is engaged in the conflict. That will yield
to hard blows this winter. Then let jeff Davis
l. Co. look out for peace party at the South
They have been straining their eyes to see one
at the North; they may see one in the South be
fore they want it. There is no single grievance
of which the Southern States complained at the
hands of the Federal Government Except the
one in connection with slavery which has no,
been aggravated by the Confederate Government
and the common opinion here is, that whateve,
the result Of the war, so far as connexion with
the Federal Government goes, the axe has been
laid at the root of slavery.
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Fire In Boston.

BosroS, Dec 24.-Atheneum block, Pearl st.
was badly damaged by FIRE last night. Lose es-
timated at $40, 600, mostly Insured.
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About Gen. Rufus King,

WASHINGTON Dec. 2S.-General Rufus King
while sitting in his carriage. in front of the Ma
tonal Hotel, suffered slight attack Of epilepsy.
Medical attendance was Immediately procured,
and he is now nearly recovered.
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The montauk for Hampton Roads.
NEW YoRK, Dec. 24.-The new iron-clad
Monitor left for Hampton Roads yesterday. She
Is commanded by Lieut. Wordeu, Of the frst
Monitor notoriety.
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How THE PEOPLE OF FRrDER1cKsaURa PR
PARED FOR THE BoNBARDKENT.-The Richmond
Examiner says: The distress in Frederlckshure
on Friday evening, when Mayor Slaughter ane
nounced that the women should be removed ;s
said to have been heart rending, and the newt =
day when the hour arrived, the confusion and
uproar was unparalleled. The population he inc
mostly women and children, had no means of
transporting their trunks to the depot. and had
not number of ambulsnces been sent in At a
late hour from our army, the most of them must
have left their homes with nothing but the
clothes they were wearing. A lady told us Abe
had offered man with furniture wagon ten
dollars to carry her trunk three squares. With
the assistance of the ambulances the people
brought away their clothing, but nothing else.
Most of them locked up their houses, and left
them with all their worldly goods to the chances
of war and the mercy of the contending armies.
Many of the poorest people refused to move at
all, but determined to remain, at least until the
threatened Smelling should begin. Others moved
from two to three miles in the country, and are
now encamped along the roads with such of their
furniture as they have been able to bring out by
piece meal"
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Tho Banks Expedi

Tho Banks Expedition.
New YoRk Dec. 22-Two squadrons of Banks
expedition passed Key West on the 9th and 10th.
Gen. Fremont lett for St. Louis to dav.
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SHOCKING TRAGEDY-A most shocking ira.
gedy was enacted in this county one day last
week by Q woman named Seward, who, in TEN.
porary fit of arrangement, as is supposed, killed
all her children, two or three in number, set FIRE
to her house, and then killed herself This sup
position is arrived at from the fact that, on ex-
aiming the ruins of the house after the FIRE, the
bones of the unfortunate children were found in
different portions of the burnt district from that
Of their crazy and frantic mother, her remains
being found about the centre of where the build.
ing stood. Evidently this suppostion is cor.
rect. Several reasons are assigned for this hor-
rible and melancholy deed, but the one most be
lieved is, that the woman and her husband did
not get along veil together, and in one of her
melancholy moods, she committed the fearful
act which destroyed the lives OF herself and
children. Some suspicion at first was attached to
her husband, but as he was not near the house at
the time, all such suspicion of course is ground
less. The family we're poor, but romance says
that the woman had seen better days, at one
time having some property; that she had become
tired of her husband, and her life had become
burthen.-[Greeufeld (Ind,) Herald, Dec. 10th.