The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-04-19
Las. so.sAsrn News.


The Richmond Examiner's Charleston CORES.
popdent. under date Of the S0th uls, writes a.
follows.
Since the drawn battle between the Monitor
and Virginia, we have made up our minds that
the strength Of TIE batteries OF Fort sumter
will, within the next three months, be tested
by half score Of iron-sheathed monsters. We
are now doing something to get ready for them.
The gunboat fever, just now 80 universal among
the uncomfortable women Of the South, SCENE
to have awakened the Navy Department from its
tofpor. What is now being done ct the eleventh
hour, by the orders Of the Government, should
have been done twelve months ago. Since the
cumbersome floating battery, intended for the
reduction of Fort Sumter, was launched, our
ship carpenters, as far as war vessels are con-
cerned, have been absolutely idle, though their
services could at any time have been secured by
the Confederacy But the past is past, and We
must all put our shoulders to the wheel for the
future.
The Norfolk Day Book Of the 4th inst has the
following interesting item, which may be taken
for what is worth:
We have pretty strong hint that pilots &C
quainted with the various harbors along the
Northern seaboard will speedily be in great de-
mand, and that their services will be handsome
course, to say more than this, a. those interest,
ed will easily find out where to apply for further
| information. As the weather Is getting warm,
| possibly some of our Southern friends intend to
| get up few pic mic excursions to little colder
climate, and it may be that they need the servi
| cea of the above pilots.
The Richmond Examiner says:
| The Hon. William N. Gwin, of California, who
was arrested in New York some months ago and
carried to Washington by Lincoln's minions, blu,
afterwards released, also arrived in this city yes
terday, and is stopping at the Spottswood Ho
| tel. DR.. Gwin came from Maryland by the un
| derground railroad. He states that the Yankees
| intend eIhaustiDg every means to crush out the
so-called rebellion" BY the first Of May. The
number of mechanics in the work shops of the
| North has been doubled, and they are nov
working day and night, turning out iron for gun
boats, as the North believes them to be their on
ly salvation.
The same paper says:
1t is suggested that Congress will take meas
ures to check the evils which are becoming quit
perceptible from the large issue of Treasur,
notes, and will provide adequate means for alb
sorbing the currency. We learn that the e Z
penditures Of the Government are at the rate o
two or three millions a day, and that there i
q weekly addition of that sum to the currency
We hear it recommended that Congress shouI
make all future Issues of Treasury notes bear in
terest.
ALI the Generals Of our army of the Missis
sippi are now at Coiinth, including Beauregard
Sidney Johnson, Bragg, Polk, Crittenden, Glad
den Ruggles, Carroll, and Kirby Smith. Ger
Jackson, of Georgia, is in command at Corinth
The Richmond Examiner of April contain
leading article urging the execution OF the fu
sentence of the law upon several persons cor
victed of eounterfeiting rebel treasury notes.
That penalty, says the Examiner is hanging b
the neck until they are dead.
The Richmond Dispatch, OF the Slst, an
nounces that it is the purpose of the Proves
Marshal to interpose and regulate the prices O
provisions, &c, in the markets of Richmond.