The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-03-22

upon the second iron plated steamer, at Greer
Point, 10 pushed with the utmost epeed, day ans
nightf and it is hoped that che will be ready fc
sea during the present month The vessel vii
be much larger than the Monitor. will carry IL
guns Of the largest calibre. and will be practi
cally invulnerable. It is confidently believed
that she will be the fastest of this slow species
Of war vessels ever constructed. The third iror
clad steamer provided for in the original appro
priation is in process Of construction at Phila
delphia. The news Of what the Confederatet
are doing in the same line Of business will doubt
less lead to the hurrying Of the work upon thi.
steamer, 80 as to ensure her completion as soon
as possible.
u We are sorry to state that the person
who was drowned in the river on Saturday even
ing last proves to be Mr. Francis 7. Ricb, Of this
city. The circumstances connected with this
pathies of our community in behalf Of the fam
lily who have thus been suddenly deprived Of
their only means of support. Mr.. Rich arrived
in this city with his family in the summer Of last
year, having emigrated from Gibralter, Europe.
In travelling SO great distance their pecuniary
means became very scanty, but being mechan.
ic, he hoped soon to obtain employment, but
failed in doing so until winter, when he was em
ployed by Messrs. Sunderland l. Kendall, du-
ring the pork packing season. This being over
he was again unemployed until last Monday,
when he again entered upon what was likely to
prove permanent situation at the hands of q
Mr.. Turner, living at Oquawka Junction. Hav-
ing labored there week, he was Oh his way
home to stay over Sunday, when within a few
rods of the shore at this side of the river, he
broke through the ice, and all efforts to save
him were Intellectual Thus family consisting
of his widow and four young children have
| been left destitute of any means of support and
are thrown upon our sympathies as strangers in
a strange land Any relief offered in their be.
half will be thankfully received by Messrs. A. j..
Messenger and s. T. Acres, who have undertaken
to visit as many of our citizens as may he con.
venient, and anything left with Mr.. j. P. Brown
at his Bookstore, by such as may not be called
upon, will be properly applied.
| HOUSE OF REPREsENTATIvEs,l
Washington City, D. G., March l2, 1s62.}
O. DuNHAM, Esq, Ed. Hawk-Eye:
Dear Sir,-I shall in the course of the present
session Of Congress, have placed at my disposal
lot of Cotton and Tobacco seed for distribu-
tion. l wish to furnish these to persons who
will plant and cultivate them; and will thank
such persons throughout the First Congressional
District, to inform me at an early day, SO that l
may supply them.
Papers throughout the District will confer q
favor by inserting this in their columns
Very truly you're, JAMES F. Wilson.
The Southern Panic.
| Every Southern newspaper that finds its way
| North, gives indications of the prevalence of
panic throughout rebeldom. Just such an
alarm a. spread over North Carolina after the
fall of Hatteras, and over South Carolina after
the capture of Port Royal, has been initiated
throughout the South by their recent reverses
and the general retrograde movement of their
troops. We published, last week, copious ex.
tracts from Richmond papers showing the ex-
treme disquietude there. We turn to other
towns to show the universally of the feeling
of apprehension and the confusion of counsels
among the rebels. The Charleston Courier of
Feb. 2Sth, says:
We are gratifed to learn from high military
authority that there is no foundation for the
alarming rumors which have been afoat in this
city for several days, and that there is no just
cause at present for apprehension.
Ii the feeling of security were real it would
hardy be worth while to be at such pains to
reassure the people.
The Augustas Georgia, Daily Constitutional
| ist of Marchs2a, ssys:
The anxiety arising from the large stock of
cotton in our city is carried to extremes The
fear that the cotton will add to the enemy s in.
ducements to move on Augusta and attempt its
capture is magnifying the danger in the eyes
| of many of our citizens.
may we not pronounce all present schemes for
| removing the cotton from Augusta as unneces-
| sary, impolitic, mischievous The enemy
have been within one hundred and fifty miles
of the city for three months, yet we have re-
mained serene and quiet. During all this time
cotton has been crowding to Augusta as to a
place of safety. To commence now to remove
it would SAVIOR of unmanly panic, rather than
of sound judgment. And if the people of Au-
gusta thus give way to apprenensions, might
not sort of stampede ensue in every other
town in the South in two hundred miles of the
enemys camp?
Fear is infectious and ''betrays like treason"
Commence to remove the cotton, and soon timd
| women, and possibly some timid men, would
be flying from the city, and in less than week
it would be reported all through the land that
the enemy had captured Augusta.
We would exhort the impulsive to pause, the
excitable to be calm, the timid to stand irm.-
Augusta is long distance from the enemy's
gunboats. 1t is hardly conceivable thing
that the gunboats can get here.
| The Macon (Ga. Telegraph says:
We hardly know which threatens greater
peril to the independence of the South-the
hordes of Lincoln, who are precipitating them
| selves upon our border, or the insane spirit of
speculation which is possessing some of our
people. A friend from neighboring city says
il is an actual fact that the people are talking
/ less Of our per!ls by war than our perils by
sharpers; and if two things continue long at
this rate we shall have two of what Lincoln
would call civil wars on our hands at one and
| the same time.
From the great degree of evaporation among
| the people, he seriously fears that the internal
peace of the country will be in danger, unless
greater spirit of moderation prevails among
dealers and manufacturers.
| The occasion Of the present excitement is the
extraordinary and general rise in sugar and
molasses Immediately on the receipt Of intelli-
gence of our disaster in Tennessee, by which
it was supposed the railway communication
with the Mississippi and New Orleans were en-
dangered. Upon this every dealer held out at
once for rise, and it is said molasses in various
markets went up ten to twenty-f cents gal
Ion, and sugar three to six cents pound.
The Mobile Register of the 4th, says:
1t will, of course, be generally known to day
that Gen. Bragg left this city this morning, by
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. At time
when every circumstance is rolled as q sweet
morscl under the tongues of croakers and panic
makers, this departure will be sure to be mag
nifed into undue proportions of significance,
and some amiable people will be delighted at a
fresh opportunity to terify the women and
children and perhaps send few more of the
sex that do wear unmentionables and ought to
wear crinoline, flying into the country and cre-
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