The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-06-14

of the butchers refused on SATURDAY. to tax
the Confederate notes for beef There has bee
no order issued to prevent the people passin
such money rs they have. but it seems that tn
butchers have become "a law unto themselves,
in this respect.
SLAvEs-PoLIcY OF THE MILITARY AUTHOR
TIEs.-A merchant, who happened to be In tn
Provost Marshals Office yesterday, heard q cor
versation between that officer and slave owner
which may serve good purpose to communi
cate. The STAKEHOLDER had lost some slaves. an
came to know whether, If they should come :
Memphis, he would be permitted to recove
them. The Marshnls reply was substantial
this: That they did not allow runaway negroe
to come into their linss under any circumstances
and that they had no power over them outsid
their lines. The stakeholder went away salts
fed that his negroes we're in no danger.
From the Memphis Avalanche Of The 7th.
The Federals have reached and now posses
Memphis. Six gunboats, of most excellen
proof, frown upon it, and from its post ofic
now floats the Federal flag, symbolic of thei
presence and present power.
The flag chip OF Com. Davis, the Benton, lie
dark and threatening within fifty yards of tn
shore, aud in close proximity floats her fv
scarce less powerful and destructive compan
IONS Mortar boats are On the Arkansas side
with their massive engines of destruction; th
"Dickey," their commissary boat, and the Platt
Valley, transport, are moored at our wharf
and contain two Illinois regiments, the 48d an
46th, under the command of Col. Fitch; while
| afar of, repose the ''swift and stir rams OF Co
ElIet
As all outbreak or provooation to anger b
our people, of such force as this, were but
wanton irritation to destructive anger, or a
some will have it, would be plausible excuse
for it, we tr=st indeed We little doubt that ou
citizens will be wary, calm, and careful, attend
ing to their civic svocstions, il they choose L
resume them, in such way as neither to provoke
harsh measures or painful hanteurs.
The immediate command of the city itself will
we judge. devolve upon Col. Fitch, now acting
as Brigadier General. He is reported brave
and efficient soldier to the Government be serves
has been, in the polrS passe, strong Breckin
ridge Democrat and in privete life bears the
reputation of a man of high and sensitive
honor.
In the exchange of one military rule for an.
other. however different the merits of the res.
pective central Governments which the officers
serve, the municipal affairs of the city will be
little affected; and The individual citizen in such
case must b. prudent to be wise, and in this
juncture, he is most truly valorous who is dis
Greet "neither quick to give nor to take offense "
When men are agitated, the unthinking are
foremost to the fray, to its continuance, to its
creation, and the scum of the boiling Dot will
ever be uppermost The Mayor and the present
military commander of the city, will, we trust,
see to the rapid establishment of sufficient and
reliable police, whose watchfulness NAV be
needed to prevent all useless and dangerous
ebullitions of feeling, as much to be depre Gated
by the civilians of Memphis as by those who are
now its possessors,
WHO LIVES IN MEMPHIs
From the Avalanche Of the 7tb.
The question which forms the caption of our
article were much more easily answered if it
were in the negative-who does not live in Men,
pbis9
Many of the strongest advocates of the Con.
have left US, where their circumstances
were such az to permit their leaving Hundreds
have lett Memphis for more Southern localities
In advance of the approach of the Federal fleet.
among these were many who, though Indifferent
to political revulsions, feared the coming power,
and among those were many Of the best and most
useful citizens of Memphis.
All soldiers or attaches of the Confederate
army have left Memphis.
All the banking institutions, With Presidents.
teliers, cashiers and accountants, have lett Mem.
phis, with very few exceptions.
Our late ruler, the commander of the post.
Col. Rosser. than whom there is no more affsble.
able or kind hearted officer, bas
left Memphis. Col. McKisick, our late Provost
Marsha, who discharged the onerous and often
ulpleasing duties imposed upon him with 60 ar.
dent desire ito do right" as to have earned for
himself the hearty concentrations of a large
majority of those ever having ITO do" with him.
has left Memphis.
The telegraph operators, with their popular
CHIEF, Col. Coleman, have all left Nemphis The
Postmaster has left Memphis.
Many of the best physicians of the city. of its
most able, most admired men and women, have
left Nemph;s ~
Then Who lives in Memphisf" Its eiyiia,..
We use the word in contraaistipction to politi.
sian as to soldier. The men with whom the
duties and inclinations of dome.ticity have rem.
1sred business, home, and pursuits OF literature
,r art. paramount to the more boisterous astrac.
hon OF military distincioa--men, civilian in taste
ls in occupation, form now the population of
Memphis.
Not only is Memphis extra civilian in its DOB.
'lation now, but also in its possessions. All
rms, all munitions Of war, the very sinevs of
var (the banks,) all down to the last pound Of
'ommissary bacon, and the last pint of comm,s.
'ary -four, have been removed, and the leayiurs
n civilian possessions themselves are also of the
neagerest.