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The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-05
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE.

in regard to your slGves! When Fremont,
Hunter and Phelps issued their proclamations
Of emancipation, did not the President revoke
them all! Has he not said, over and over
again, that he had no constitutional right to
emancipate the slaves Has he not adhered
strictly to the Constitution and Laws of the
country? Does he not insist that all the States
shall be protected in all their rightss What
more can be asked Of him, who is the Presi.
dent of all the States? Why then are we in.
volved in War. Much is said about the slaves
coming into the Federal lines, and many com.
plants are made because they are not promptly
given up. Are they not in the Rebel lines,
and are they not used to build fl rtifcatious and
do the work Of rebels, and in many instances
used to man rebel guns and fight against the
Union The Federal army can't make busI'
ness of catching negroes and delivering them
up. They have come here to put down trea-
son. and war which the rebels inaugarated.-
Sufferings must be expected, losses will be in
CURED, you must abide by events. The South
is to blame for all the disasters which may oc.
cur. IF this war continues look at the conse-
quences, see what has already taken place, see
what must follow. In Newbern there are near
ly 5000 slaves, they are here, more continue to
come. Should the war continue, and the Fed.
eral army is obliged to advance into the interior
then will the consequences be upon your own
heads. Then your institutions and everything
you have and own will necessarily be put in
peril.
= Much has been said about the negro schools
in Newborn When came found them there
established by Mr.. Colyer. He came to me and
asked my opinion. I,gave it to him, and told
him that thought itSwas injudicious at this
time-that it would look as though intended
to disregard the laws of the State, which would
destroy all my influence and make me very un.
welcome visitor to the people of North Carroll.
ma. Treated the gentleman kindly, made no
threats to him, nor did give him advice or in.
structions. have been misrepreseDted in the
whole matter, which has unnecessarily engender.
ed bad feeling. Mr.. Lincoln is no abolition
ist. He is the best friend the South has GOT
Look at his proclamation to Hunter. It is full
of meaning If you will not take these things
into your own hands you must abide by the con.
sequences. The administration wants peace
The Government did not commence the war. II
am no agent of abolition generals When re.
quired to be such will leave you, and return
with heavy heart. will do nothing unbecom-
ing Christian gentleman and patriot"
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impossibiity. They did know better, and the
row they have kicked up about it only betrays
their enmity to the American mutton, and their
thorough sympathy with q slayeholders' and
slave.bfeeders' rebellion.
We have no voice that can reach the English
people, but it is we'll enough that we express
what we feel, and give expression to the feelings
and sentiments Of our readers. We have SIM
ply to say that we regard the readiness With
which the press and parliament of Great Britain
have taken up and condemned this matter, with.
out giving it a decent hearing, as proof of the
hearty enmity Of that nation; that we regard the
new talk of Intervention to which it has given
rise as another proof Of enmity, and that every
demonstration OF this character plants the seeds
of international bitterness which are sure to
spring up, sooner or later and bear the fruits of
war and great calamity. We feel that at this
time We are engaged, not only in a struggle for
national life, but struggle for the maintenance
of freedom and Christian civilization on this
continent We are pouring out our treasure
and our blood in as great and good a cause as
ever an honorable nation was called upon to
maintain, and ne aciN not be intertered nth. ANY
intervention in our affairs, by any nation, at this
stage of the war, would be regarded as a virtual
declaration of war; and we assure Great Britain
in no spirit of buster or of Boosting, that the
real military spirit of our nation is not yet
touched. An interference in our affairs on the
part of Great Britain would involve her in
quarrel which she cannot afford, develop Ameri.
ca into the most powerful and warike nation of
the earth, and do neither party immediate good
Great Britain has done evil enough already. If
she had not wantonly coquetted with our tra.
tors, she would have had cotton long ago, and
we should have been at peace. If she will main.
tain her present policy of non.interference Cot
only, but treat US with common decency, and
not betray too openly her sympathies with trea.
son, she will be the first to be materially bene.
fitted by her Observation-Disclosures Republi.
can
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men," The rebels, Is we'll a. ourselves, suffered
terribly on those ever memorable days, the 9th
and 7th Of April. Pertinent to the above copy
| from the same paper the following advertise
ment:
ONE HUNDRED OFFICERS
Wanted to gil the vacancies created at the
battle of Shiloh, where so many Of our gallant
officers fell leading the charge. The under
signed has authority from the proper depart
ment to raise the above in Travis will com.
mence at the capitol FIRST. I wish the Secretary
OF State to head the list. Next all of the able
bodied men in each of the departments. Next
| I want Gen. Sheley's Aids and then the War
Tax Collector. Next the G. s. Receiver and the
clerks in the G. Court. Next comes the Dis.
trict Judge and District Attorney. will say
this: It will not be in my power to give each
of YOU your rank but will say this much: If
any of your salaries should fall below the pre-
sent, it will be made up by the patriotic ladies
of Travis. There will be an offensive war in the
future, and officers will be expected to lead the
charge. For further particulars apply to
J. z. SrxMs.
thority that the county shall have credit for the
number and thereby save Travis from the odium
of draft. j. r. s.
IL Will DC QOGlCcO IuAS Guc u1uu.SlllS are uOt
represented in shoulder-strap-d dom or rather
lacedom as the rank of rebel officers unlike
ours, is denoted by lace on the coat collar and
sleeves Field officers by the former, line Of
fcers by the latter.
The paper upon which the State Gazette is
printed is of the coarsest kind, about of the tex
ture of common "gunny- sack," and the color,
what shall say of it I? 1t is pretty near the
color of the inevitable "butternuts." But per.
haps you will have little better idea of it, if
describe it as once heard facetious friend de-
scribe the color of . horse which he had pur-
chased HE is, gentlemen, of subdued pump
kin color" Iwould send you the scrap entire
but it is too much worn and soiled to be of ser.
vice to you. HENRY A. MULLEN.
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THE GREAT BATTLE BEFORE
RICHMOND.

The accounts which we have of the Great two
or three days battle on the Chickahominy are
90 meagre, and unfinished, that We are unable to
figure any decisive results. We do not see tho
strategy, which, it is reported Mcclellan used to
lead the enemy into this attack. We have no
doubt Stewards bold cavalry reconnaissance
was for the purpose of spying out road to our
rear, which Stonewell Jackson has followed, if
not with entire success, at any rate with serious
loss to one of our Divisions, capturing some of
our guns. The rebels have massed all their
available troops at Richmond and the two days
fighting on our right flank, followed by the at.
tack upon our front, were intended and expected
to annihilate our army. Such is not only not
the result, but the Federal army was driven only
at one point, aud inflicted far greater loss than
it received, if we are to credit the accounts
We incline to the opinion that the rebels are
badly cut up and crippled. This is probably the
greatest battle of the war in numbers engaged
and loss on both sides.
Those who made so much noise over the mis-
management which weakened Banks, in order
to send every available man against Richmond,
will be loud in their inquiries for the wherea-
bouts of Banks, Shields, Mcdowell and their
forces Of course they will howl louder than
before.
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Societies will please be particular to place the
name Of the place from which box is sent, on
the outside of it, and list Of contents bearing
name of place and date of packing, signed by
the President or Secretary of Society inside. I
have received 20 boxes from unknown sources
during the month of May. Of course cannot
acknowledge the receipt of them. Ship to Mrs
J. B. Howell, Keokuk. The Society there will
Immediately forward to me.
ANNIE W1rrESMYER,
Gen'l Agt S. A. S.
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SORRY TO SEX 1.-THE Hawk-Eye has fairly
committed itself to the defence of the intelli.
gent "contraband" who perpetrated an outrage
upon a white woman in Ohio. The editor insists,
however, that the administration is not respon-
sible for the crime committed by the s'nigger"
He does not dare say that such offences will not
be frequent, if the abolition doctrine is carried
into effect.
The negroes idea of freedom, is exemption
from useful employment, and the liberty to CON-
NIT all kinds Of licentiousness and crime.-Ft.
Madison Plaindealer.
The Editor of the Plaindealer ought to have
learned before this time that his connection with
the press does not make it necessary for him to
be "dirty dog"-that hard lying and scurrility
can never supply the lack of brains Mr.. Casey
ought to learn how to be a gentleman and to
tell the truth. If be cannot be should quit.
Without stopping to refute his lie that we
have defended or excused the crime of the ICON.
traband," We want,to know if Casey denies that
it is owing to the preaching of Democratic prn-
ciples that leading Democrat of Des Moines
county now lies in jail for the commission of
most horrible outrage Does he deny that Bar.
siuA, VI nv. L leoeousy ueputy Oulteu SCACeS
Marshal, under Buchanan's administration, now
fugitive from justice, was lead into the CON-
mission of an outrage which now outlaws him,
by the preaching and practice of Democr attic
prin ciples? Will be tell US, also, if be believes
in negro equality?-if negroes are better than
white men?-if this Ohio niger is better than
these two prominent Iowa Democrats?
Perhaps the answer of these questions may
lead Mr.. Casey and the two dozen other "dirty
dogs" who edit papers in Iowa, and who have
paraded the disgusting details Of this contra
band outrage in their columns, into the contem-
plation and realization of the meanness of the
act. If Mr.. Lincoln and the Republican party
are responsible for the crime of degraded ne.
gro in Ohio, the Vallandighammers certainly are
for the crimes committed by these two active
and leading men il Henry and Des Moines
counties. e.sa
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'respondence Of the Burlington Hawk-Eye1.
CAMP OF SECOND Iowa IsrASrRY. }
NEAR CoRrNrH, MISS, June II {

EDITOR HAwK-EYl:
copy from mutilated number Of the estate
(Texas) Gazette I" bearing date April 10, 1859,
and published in Austin City, few tems which
may prove interesting to your readers, I.
speaking of the 81 ecen. engagement" referring
to the battle of Shiloh it says =" The advance
OF General HArdee suffered terribly. There
were HOO casualties out of $500 men in General
Cleburne's brigade. In Colonel Thornton's 9Th
Mississippi there were 800 casualties out of 400
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DISTRIBUTING OFTIcE.-The Muscatine Journ.
al says that petitions are ready for signature in
that city in favor of making Davenport dis.
tributing post office. We also learn that similar
petitions are in circulation throughout the int.
rior OF the State for the same object There
are abundant reasons for making this place q
distributing Office, as we may take occasion to
show in few days. Davenport Gazette.
And the Gazette might have told its readers
that these petitions and circulars were prepared
at Davenport and sent into the country for the
postmasters and the people to sign by way Of
manufacturing public opinion. The whole cen.
trail and southern portion of the State has been
flooded with these petitions and circulars pre-
pared at Davenport, and which the Davenpor,
postmaster and Davenport newspapers propose
to have signed and sent to Washington. And
signed and sent to Washington, they have been
sent to Burlington almost in cart loads with
earnest protests against Davenport being made
distributing post Office as the worst possible
arrangement that could be made-an attempt to
force half the mail matter of Southern, Central
and Western Iowa out of its natural channel, a,
the expense Of delay and ve1ation, for the ben
eft OF the Davenport postmaster
The facts are that more mail matter goes nat
urally through Burlington, and has for years
than any Iowa town-more than through Keo
kuk and Dubuque both, although both are dis
tributing Offices, while Burlington is not. Keo
kuk matter about all Of goes through Burlng
ton. Mr.. Grinnel, the State Nail Agent, has al.
ready made several efforts to run the Western
mails out of their natural channel over the Da
venport route. Now We have evidence that ar
effort is to be made to run all the mail matte,
to Davenport, it being found impossible to rur
it round US via Keokuk.
This matter is of very little consequence to
the people of Burlington, but of considerable
Importance to the people between US and the
Missouri river, four.ffths of whom must SUITE,
delay and annoyance if this project of the Da
venport postmaster is successful For years the
Burlington Postmasters have done the work 70,
which the Government pays the Keokuk Office
Tue PROJECT now is to pay the Davenport instead
OF the heokuk Office. Against, this, as mere
question OF spoils, We should not be inclined to
say much but for the apprehension that an eff
fort is being made, BY parties out of sight, who
use the Davenport postmaster, to force mails GU,
Of their direct channels of communication and
travel. The trade and travel, and therefore
mails, cross the river at three principal points
Dubuque, Davenport and Burlington and cs,
not be massed at any one of them. Thew arr
separate, distinct and independent thorough
fares. The Burlington route, in travel, freight,
and mails is ahead of either, probably of bott
the others.
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The Federal Tax.

Congress has complicated the Federal Tax by
suspending the operation of the act passed at the
Special Session OF Congress. This was done to
sweeten the New Federal Tax Bill, but its effect
will be to sour and yex those who have ALREADY
paid the Special Federal Tax, Is many have in
this State, and probably in others where the
Federal tax has been assumed. Those Who have
not paid this tax already will of course not be
required to pay it now. Those who have paid
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gTOne of the richest and most suggestive
Jokes Of this or any other season has been enact.
ed inside of the great Vallandigham party
among the high functionaries who have taken
high seats and believe themselves to be mana
ging the resurrectionary business With great
success, in this State. It is nothing less than
the reproving of Steward of the Fairfield Con.
stitution and Union for imprudently exhibiting
secession sympathies, by Clagget of the Keokuk
Constitution, and Henderson, of the Ottumwa
Democratic Mercury! 1t seems tina. Clagget and
Henderson, fear an odor of disloyalty will at.
tach to the resurrected party, even before the
breath of life is breathed into it if Steward is
not restrained, and hence they are determined
to either put him out or make him be STILL We
hardly think this is necessary. As long as
Jones and Mahoney lead the movement, second
ed b. Clagget with his pre- eminent ability and
Henderson, with his white.cravatted respecta.
bilty, to say nothing about Deans piety, Shew.
ards cavorting can do no possible damage
With such leaders, thus championed, the repu |
tation of the new party must be, like Caesars
wife, above reproach.
Steward takes the snubbing in good part, but
refuses to be quiet he says he is opposed to
policy he can see no propriety in, or necessity
for, deception. He is for JEFF Davis and the
G. S. A., and that is why he is Vallandigham-
mer. If he proves refractory and irrepressible
we recommend that he be tied across whisky
barrel and padded until this nonsense is pad.
died out of him.
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it will be in singular predicament as the mo-
ney cannot we'll be paid back for some time

ney cannot well be paid back for some time
Dubuque Herald. -
The character Of the Vallandigham opposition
is well illustrated in the above sweet scented
paragraph from Father Mahoney, the lying old
villain, who would be glad to create dissatisfac
ton among patriotic people who promptly paid
their Federal tax by making them believe that
collections have been suspended, and that all
who have thus far neglected to pay get off scott
free. This is the meanest lie We ever saw in the
Herald, which is saying good deal, and never
could have originated anywhere except in the
dismal laboratory of traitors brain, intent
only upon sowing discord, defeating the collec.
ton of direct taxes, and giving aid to rebellion
BY weakening the Government
The fact is the collection of direct taxes is
suspended, after this year, after the first twenty
millions has been paid. Many of the States
have already paid their quota. All will be re-
quired to do so. Here is the langu age of the
law:
So much of the act of August last as imposes
a direct tax of 10000, 900 on the United States
shall only be held to authorize the levy and COL
lection of one tax to that amount, and no other
tax shall be levied under and by virtue thereof
until the lst of April, 1865, when the same shall
be in full force and effect.
We do not believe of all the men confined at
Fort Madison there is one who would not be
ashamed Of deception so shallow practiced for
a purpose go base.
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There is something much more genuine than
this affected shock to the English feelings, in
this demonstration in Parliament Ministers do
not agitate in that way to stir up the popular
feeling against this Government that the minis.
terial journals instigated in the Trent affair,
which they desired to precipitate into war
without permitting word of negotiation Gin.
Gazette
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Ten soldiers, who recently deserted from Fort
Sumter and took refuge on board the blockadi
ing steamer Seneca, state that the rebels on that
post have made all arrangements for blowing up
the Notifications as soon as 1t shall be apparent
that Charleston must surrender.
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H We shall publish the new tax bill in full
IS soon as We receive a correct copy--also the
Pacific railroad and new tariff laws,
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cT As the leaders in the Valli ndigham
movement have called county meeting at Ma
rion Hall, Saturday next, we shall soon see what
will be their programme for this year. They
will hardly try the shameless trick Of last year.
which we then exposed and which brought the
conspirators to grief They will hardly again
try the trick of palming off secession platform,
shifted with the adroitness Of thimble rigyer,
for the one adopted in public meeting. The bo'
gus platform business is played out and some
otLer trick will have to be resorted to before
the rank and file of the Democratic party can
be made to occupy such position as will suit
the ends Of the leaders. These leaders have
Iabored hard during the year past to induce the
loyal masses of that party to follow them into
a disloyal position-to oppose the war for the
Union--to oppose taxation for its support-to
lay the blame of the war upon the Republicans
and screen the rebels. Now let US see what
ne adway they have made. Let US see if the
masses have been so far educated up to their
work that they can be trusted with such plat.
orm as will suit the views and purposes of these
;onspirators. We prophecy that these men will
Utterly fail and the more earnestly they push |
heir Internal scheme the more signal and over.
will be their failure. The people are
oval through and through. They will stand by
abraham Lincoln in putting down the rebellion
without distinction of party" and in spite of
be rotten Jones.Mahony conspirators great and
mall. The bogus platform secesh of Des Moines
ounty will find themselves in October next in
worse fix than even last year.
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TO the Iowa Soldiers, Aid Societies,

| The following is list of article needed in the
hospitals-not furnished by Government or not
supplied in such quantities as to meet the de.
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HOMICIDE About o'clock YESTERDAY In the
afternoon, an Irishman named Michael King, q
well known teamster OF this place, was stabbed
| to the heart by Marshal Marsh, and expired in
| thirty minutes. The tragedy occurred on the
Sd floor of Sherman Block, in the vicinity of the
Court Room. 1t is impossible at this writing
Tor US to obtain any satisfactory account of the
difficulty which terminated in this homicide
All we know at present is, that the poor man 10
lying stone-dead outstretched in one of the up.
per rooms of Sherman Block, and that the foul
deed was perpetrated by the City Marshal We
know, too, that the wife of the murdered man ia
kneeling at this moment over the bloody corpse
In an agony which cannot be described!
We have not learned whether any measures
have been taken as yet to arrest the criminal.
We will try to give the result of the inquest be-
fore we 60 to press. In the meantime, we will
forego further comments, trusting that the law
will take hold of the perpetrator, and teach him
that the murder of this Irisbman shall not 20 I'm.
avenged !-[Des Moines Register.
The commission on ordinance and ordinance
stores find that the existing contracts and or
ders for Springfield muskets amount to /, 164,-
900, while there will be required for year to
come not exceeding half million guns of this
model. Some Of these contracts have already
lalieu from non compliace, and 1t seems likely
that others will be added to the list of failures
In four cases, so far, the commission have con-
hrmed contracts without reduction. These
four cases are the only ones out of thirty.si1
in ALL in which it was found that a formal con-
tract had been signed and sealed by the con-
tracing parties, and the only ones containing
the provision imperatively demanded by law,
that no member of Congress should be admit
ted to any share therein or to any benefit there
from