The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-09-06

REBEL C0N0REss-sHC0HD SESSION.
Prom The Rishnond Despatch, Aug. ls.
Congress will meet on Monday. It will havs
many important measures to discuss and decide
Let us hope that discussion will DO limited ant
decision Quick. This Is no time for talking
The Ecrisis demands, if ever . kcrisis did do
mand. the briefest possible consultation ane
the most decided action. e - eiav 79!Fv
The first and most important measure 10 b,
decided IL counocted with the conscription.-
That law IL msnifsstly imperfect and demand
Immediate revision. The Yankees have a.
ready called for On addition Of 600, 900 men {,
the forces they already have in the field. Th,
order for rssorting to . draft went into opera,
ton on Friday. There can be no doubt tAot tt
mon vi forthcoming at very abort notice, and un
less Congress not ct once and with the utmost
energy, We shall DO taken ct disadvantage
We trust in Heaven that the experience Of las
year may not be thrown away upon that body,
and that it will take such measures - to rem.
der the reoccurrence Of such disasters a. We
then experienced an impossibility for the future
To do 50 they must put into the field force
IS large Is that Of the enmey. That this can
be done, by calling out all the conscripts be.
tween the ages Of thirty -five and forty and
be extending the list to sixteen on the one
hand and 1fty-fve on the other, and that 700
without any very great inconvenience to the
agricultural interests Of the country, We think
is quite evident. Youths from sixteen to eigh-
teen are, in general, fully - able to carry q
musket a. they ever become afterwards. Il
there should be especial cases where such abil.
ity does not exist, there should be special ex-
emptions to suit them. The general law would
not be effected by such exemptions. For the
rest, . man fifty years old is, in general 81
strong, Though perhaps not % active, - . man
1t any other age whstever. Although he may
not be able to double quick 1t with younger
men, yet there are many duties which he can
perform just ss well. Battalions Of men Of
that age might be placed in al the garrisons
thereby releasing younger men for field duty
They can serve the heavy guns and even field
artillery IS well as younger men. But above
all there is NO reason on earth, why they should
not serve as drivers and O. cavalry. We are
/, ure tho Government could find employment,
Or ono hundred thousand men, without max
ing them serve - infantry, whore the youngest
andmost active alone should be employed. They
would leave thereby one hundred thousand
young men to serve ii the infantry. We think
too, that old men might be employed in the
public Offices entirely with great advantage to
the public. It would give whole battalions of
young men On opportunity, which no doubt
they eagerly desire, to serve their country in
the field. We hope the government will take
this view Of the subject and begin the work at
once. to
If the measures here proposed to be followed
out rigidly, We can put into the field force
quite equal to that called for by Lincoln, in
numbers, and superior in every quality that
goes to the making up Of good soldier. We
can get our conscripts into place quite as soon
as he gets his and instead Of disaster and defeat
such as marked the winter OF '61-62, We may
calculate on pushing the victories that have At
tended our arms Of late to their most remote
consequences But, above all, let Congress act
with decision and at once. They have no time
to lose, for the cold weather is rapidly ap-
and the ranks Of the enemy are
rspily filling up. We trust they sOiH not Be de-
lsyed By the d:eom Of intervention which some Of
our cotemporaries find it 80 hard to awaken
from. There Is less cause to ezpeet any interpo-
stition from abroad nos0 than euer has been from
the beginning. England not only does not in
tend to intervene herself, but she has done,
and apparently will continue to do, everything
in her power to prevent France from taken that
step. The English people are, no doubt favorable
to US. but thus far the English government
has not only sympathized with us, but has pur
sued policy little less than hostile. She has
withheld France and has opened her ports to
the Yankees for the purchase Of arms and
munitions Of war. The Arabia, which We were
told was to bring out the welcome news
Of recognition, has come and she brought out
instead, news Of the debate in parliament on
the Canada question. We trust there will be
no more Of these humbugs. They have cost us
enough slready. They aided to produce the
supine attitude in which the Government in
dulged last year. Their results we're: Hat
teras, Roanoke, Port Royal, Donelson, New Or
leans, &c.
Much, everything, depends upon the prompt
seton Of Congress. We cannot but hope it
will leave ct home oil the leaven of donna
gogusism which it contracted under the old
Yankee Government, and recognize the change
in it's circumstances, Is we'll as in the people
ofthe country.
The ENHMY on TH1 JAnRs RIVER.
frsa u Peseraburg Express. Aug. ID.
We hear from source entitled to the high.
est credit, that Mcclellan is evscustine his
position at Berkeley. The recent movement on
Malvern Hill, and the pretended permanent oc,
cupstion Of Coggin's Point and Msycox, are
now known to have been feints to cover this
evacuation. ifs ha sa
Such Of his army as has already left, have
been sent to Pope or Burnside, but the majori-
ty Of them. it is believed have gone to the for.
mer. Burnside is known to be at Fredericks-
burg.
A Fortress Monroe letter to the New York
Tribune, of Friday last, says:
''Burnside's army has certainly not rome
far, as the transports which left With the
troops day or two since have alrestdy re-
turned"
A party who was recently in McClellan's
army, says the parties who are throwing up
Notifications on the opposite river side, have
never exceeded fifteen hundred OF two thousand
and laborers and soldiers are changed every
day, . fresh party going over in the morning,
and those who went over the previous day re.
turning Immediately. It is considered sort Of
excursion to cross the river, and the south bank
has been declared by the Yankee surgeons the
healthiest.