The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-05-03

Through il . level river slowly drawn.
= He moved with q vast crowd and Ut its head
Il II m Streamed banners like the dawn.
There came 8 binding fash, . desfsning roar
And dissonant cries of, triumph and dismay
Blood trickled down the rivers reedy shore,
ID ei And with the dead he lay.
The morn broke in upon his solemn dream;
And still, with steady pulse and deepening eye
"Where bugles call, " he said, '.and rifles CLEAN,
follow, though die.'
Wise youth! By few is glory's wreath attained,
But death or late or soon awaiteth all.
To fight in Freedoms cause issomething gained
And nothing lost, to fall.
BUsMsss PRosPRcrs FOR THE SUMMER.-
Some of the timid ones are fearful of o general
stagnation of business after the first of May.
They reason that the provisions Of the tax bill
are soon TO 60 into'effect on articles manufact-
ured Afterithat time, and that dealers of every
kind are laying in large stocks in anticipation
Consequently business will come to q dead
stand after the tax bill is in force. But is1ch
q conclusion is very fallacious one. 1t must
be remembered that people will need food to
eat and clothes to wear, taxes or no taxes; and
everybody has been living for the past year on
the most economical plan, and under the gen.
eral buoyancy of feeling occasioned by our re-
cent victories, they will be more disposed to
to spend money than they have for sometime
past, unless-which is not hkely--we meet
with some sudden and severe reverses. This
will make the retail trade lively, and the small
traders will soon dispose of the stock they may
have accumulated in anticipation of the tax
They in turn will call on the wholesale mer-
chants again, and thus the circuit will be con-
tinued, the people will pass from the untaxed
into the taxed condition Of things, as easily
and uncopsciously as q river glides into the
ocean, and there will be no break in the stream
Of commercial intercourse. And again, the
trade with the South will soon be very consid-
cradle. The inhabitants Of Kentucky and
Tennessee are already renewing their business
connection with the North, and we are among
those who believe the rebellion will soon be so
| thoroughly put down that the whole South will
be opened to trade before another winter
After SO long dearth of the necessities, ,nst to
say luxuries of life, the South will do large
business in northern merchandise; and recent
events in Virginia, where the federal arms have
advanced, show that there is still money in the
South, which has escaped the grasp of jeff
Davis, and which win be paid for northern
| wares.
To those who are still more fearful, and in
addition to general stagnation of business are
anticipating the speedy bankruptcy Of the gov
ernment and the people, on account of the large
expenditures for war purposes, it may be com
fcrting to be reminded that the expenses of
Great Britain for the last year, and in time
of peace, were nearly million and quarter
of dollars day. This is nearly as much as
our expenditures in time of war; and yet who
talks of the English nation becoming bankrupt!
If England can safely weather such a tax as
4 30 o1I,
of this war for the Union, and pay it without
groaning, hundred cents on the dollar. Let
the nervous, and the timid and the speculat-
ing, croak on about bankruptcy and ruin
The nation is not yet insolvent and is not like
ly to be. We have passed through the hardest
financial period, and with the general hope and
confidence in the success of our efforts to crush
out the rebellion, business must revive. 1t is
impossible that it should be otherwise; for even
the tax bill, heavy as it is, is not weighty
enough to crush the buoyancy and enthusiasm
of the people.-[springfeld Republican.
O
D9-The Senior Editor of the Cedar Falls
Gazette happened to be in Dubuque on the day
of the Charter election in that place. The
Gazette gives some of his experiences in that
Goddess village:
"Our Senior was in Dubuque on Monday
election day.) He says that while walking
up Main street he met a party of Democrats"
crazy with liquor. The party were passing
saloon when one of the members suggested
that they 60 in and take a drink. "No," said
one of the number, s'not here this is q id
abolition hole-let's 60 down To- They
started on, when it was proposed that they
return and give three cheers for jeff Davis
The suggestion was promptly accepted and
fbo rafro oaa1f fhair afo To fha nf
the saloon, and there, in the city of Dubuque,
on Main Street, raised their hellish, treasona-
BILE shouts for jeff. Davis and the Southern
Confederacy! We could not believe the re-
ports of the doings in that city as brought us
by the Times, until they were corroborate
by our partner, who saw with his own eyes
and heard with his own earst Talk about re-
gard for the Union and the Constitution for
such men as carried the municipal election of
Dubuque on the 9TH inst, it is simply BIAS
phemous! We have lost all faith in those who
lead the Democracy of Dubuque. The scenes
enacted on Monday in that city are a burning
disgrace not only to the city itself, but to the
whole United States"
| How NAPOLEON 'CoNCILIATED THE REBELS.
| When, seventy years ago, the Roman people
assisted by the French, threw off the yoke of
| their miserable government and proclaimed the
| Republic, a great many malcontents, mostly of
the aristocratic classes, sought refuge in the
mountain passes of the Apennines-gathered
around them bands of armed outlaws and ban
dts, and commenced predatory warfare
against the Republicans and their French allies
They committed for a long time all kinds of
outrages, arson, rapine and murder. The
French troops sent against them were waylaid
and shot down from behind bushes, or inacces-
| sible mountain gorges travellers were plupder-
ed and murdered, and the whole country de-
vastated. At last the matter was laid before
| Napoleon, at that time commander in chief of
the French troops in Italy, and he issued the
following orders:
l. All outlaws, caught with arms in hand,
assaulting our troops or peaceable citizens, are
Immediately to be shot. without trial.
! .. All dwellings, from which our troopshave
been fired on, to be burnt down; of the inhabi-
tants, if they cannot prove their innocence be-
you'd doubt, the males over twenty years of
age to be sent to the gallows, the females TO our
hospitals as nurses, washerwomen, etc, the
children to the house of refuge.
3. For every civilian murdered, the district
in which the crime is committed pays 5000
franco; for every soldier, double the amount;
besides reimbursements for all that is plunder-
ed. The money to be taken firstly from the
avowed malcentents; if not sufficient, then from
the so-called neutrals, and lastly from the 10y
al citizens, whose cowardice permits such out.
RACES.
One short month after these orders were
passed, and in about dozen instances prompt.
!. iy executed, order was restored, and the Roman
Republic soon became known as a peaceable
and safe country.
J "a QovERsoR JOHNSON SHIPS THE TRAITORS
NoRrH.-Captain G. H. Wood, Of the Fifty first
Ohio, with squad of four men, arrived in the
, city this morning from Nashville, having in
charge Gen. Washington Barrow and Gen VIM
G.. Harding, of Nashville, and Col. Joseph G
Guile, of Galatin, three members of the Tennes
see Military board, who were arrested by com
msnd Of Gov. johnson, and ordered to be sen
, ister to Portugal during Fiimore's administra
ton, We believe. He is at present member o