The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-18

We did not zee an open store between Bald
win and Jackson, q distance Of more than two
hundred miles. I suppose their scanty stocks
of goods have been sold out and cannot be re.
plenished.
'.It looks like Sunday" said one Of our party,
HAPPY land,
Where congregations ne'er break up,
And Sabbaths never end"
CONCERNING BOOTS.
From the moment | became an involuntary
visitor in Dixie found myself an object Of in-
tereet.
Ny boots we're the attraction. No feat of
arms or evident superiority of mental endow-
ment made me the cynosure of rebel eyes,
Leather is not, in the Southern Confederacy.
The paper blockade excludes it. Ny boots we're
made by Fulton street Brooks, were Of the cav
airy pattern-worth, perhaps, ten dollars
Firstly, ~ guerrilla friends desired to steal
them while was asleep on the first night Of
my captivity; so says the wounded soldier who
lay awake and heard them discuss the plan
At Baldwin officers and men alike worshipped
those boots and were loud in verbal alteration.
At Tupeio l was offered one hundred dollars in
Confederate scrip for those boots. On the
journey from Tupelo to jackson a tall young
Texan stood on the platform some thirty min
utes and gazed at me with rapt attention. Then
ne took courage, came in, and sat down by my
SIDE. bis conversation may be condensed to
this:
Fine day. Whar are you from? You can
never subjugate the South. We have plenty Of
arms, plenty Of provisions, plenty of every
thing. Good Lord what splendid boots those
are!"
Are boots scarce in the Confederacy."
paid twenty Eve dollars for those shoes.
Aud he pointed to the pair of fmsy pumps he
why don't you make leather in the Confed-
eracyP" said.
Don't know how-but they are making clay
pipes in Alabama"
And this Was said with an air of exultation,
as if to make a red clay tobacco pipe were q
triumph Of mechanical art
II seems that thus far the prosecution of the
war has proved, to the South, . bootless task
Forgive the feeble joke.
wore during my trip an old felt hat, the ug-
liest on this continent, which had been thrown
aside by my Colonel At Tupelo said to the
genial Captain who entertained me:
eff I had foreseen this visit would have
worn some decent head gear"
I" Humph that hat Is worth thirty dollars in
this town."
The paper blockade plays curious tricks. It
must be made of what is called cartridge paper.
JACKSON AND rnGHNAN
We reached the capital of the State about 3
o'clock Monday afternoon. It is decent look
ing town, of three or four thousand inhabitants,
with that shiftless look which results from the
climate and the " institution" We we're
marched about the streets for time in rather
indefinite manner, not for show, l fancy, but be.
cause some one had blundered At length we
were paraded in from: of headquarters and Gen.
Tigman, of Fort Henry fame, stood picturesque.
| ly on the steps to receive US. He is a we'll
dressed, good-looking rogue, with the smile of a
| demagogue and the eye of gamester. I use
these terms advisedly. The subscriber happen.
ed to be the only officer among the prisoners,
| and go to the subscriber the lovely Tghman
made this sweet speech:
| Lieutenant, you will go to Vcksourg to.
morrow morning In the meantime you will
have private room fitted up for you, and
your meals will be sent to you from the hotel
at the expense of the Government. We desire
to make you as comfortable az possible"
We touched our Twenty-Five Dollar Hat, and
the crowd around US gaped in admiration OF
Ti!ghman and that Government which, through
him, promised to pay for our supper. We lifted
our hundred Dollar Boots with alternate step
We reached the private room. 1t was so
called because it contained nine private SOL
diers In fact it was a guard room. It also
contained Captain of the Twenty Hi.
nois and Surgeon of the Fifth Minnesota, who
had come down as prisoners the day before. 1,
was fitted up" with two broken shutters and
a. half inch of dust lying on the floor The nine
private soldiers, Confederate, were smoking
chewing and playing drawpoker. The room
was twelve by sixteen.
Eight o'clock came but not the supper prom
ised at the expense of the Government. The
fact was that the keeper of the hotel received
an order for it, but like Louis Napoleon, did moi
recognize the Confederacy. We rose in oul
wrath:
Sergeant of the guard, your General made
me some very kird promises, but they are MOI
performed. Shoulder your musket and take me
out to eat"
He obeyed we marched half mile aud go
a supper, paying dollar for it. You pay one
dollar per meal all over the Confederacv 1t i:
generally corn. meal-corn bread, corn coffee
and corn-fed bacon.
! We returned to our private room, hired
piece of blanket from the Sergeant-they have
no blankets in Dixie to speak of-laid it in
corner, made pillow OF one of the broker
shutters, and thereupon the Captain of the 9th
Illinois and the reliable gentleman lay down anC
slept the sleep of innocence.
Next morning, without breakfast, We took the
o'clock train for the city of Vicksburg. On
Tigham! ,.,.e.
i At the depot, on his way to join Price at Iu
ka, we saw the chief of political sinners, Johr
c. Breckenridge, the man who played game
for the Presidency, got beaten and now refuses
to give up the stakes. For this let second-ratt
gamblers look down on him with contempt HI
seemed to be in good health, wore a linen coat
and sort of Bowery collar and scarf. 1t was
easy to detect in his manner mind i'll at ease
vICKsBURG.
About noon we rolled into Vicksburg, anG
were sent TO the Washington Hotel. the hes