The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1862-11-08

on the reports that come BY eyerv eteainer or
to let their hopes 60 up or down according to
the character Of the last report. We may look
at home for certain evidence. If We make de.
cided progress in destroying the military power
OF the rebellion, the prospects of recognition will
fade. But with continuation of the indecisive
war we have had up to this time, we may calcu.
late with certainty on recognition. Our VIC
tories may be as great ~ the Generals bulletins
announce; the genius of our Generals nav he
past nndlng out; but some other results are re-
quiste to prevent this action of foreign 90 vers.
Gin. Gazette.
Correspondence Of the Missouri Democrat.
INTERFERING FROM THE SOUTH.
CAIRO, Oct 20, 1852.
Inc steamer Dacotah has arrived from Vicks-
burg, having on board 364 officers and men. ex-
changed Federal soldiers who were taken nrison.
ers at the tate battle before Conuth. From
Csptain 4. II. Low and his brother. CAPTAIN G.
q. Low, OF the 9th Illinois infantry. I learn
many intsreeting particulars of the treatment
tney received at the hands of the rebels aud also
as to the condition Of the South and the state of
pubic opin!ou. The Captains Low are intelli-
sen' anu ooserv'ng men, and their opportunities
Ior seeing and judging of rebeldom have been
sooo, ana tney have used them to advantage
Despeas, therefore, for their statements the
weight they are justly entitled to. They we're
night the exultations of the rebels on their suc.
cess and the confident assertion Of All hands that
on the morrow Corinth would fall and thev be
made. the possessors Of its rich stores. Alas the
morrow did not realize their high expectations.
iney were also in the midst of the 6ght on Sun.
osy, ana saw how utter Sud complies the rebel
root ana overthrow was-how they burned their
TRAINS. blew up their caissons and abandoned
tneir guns, and how their retreat degenerated in.
TO o'sorderly scrabble for dear life. Soldering
Is hard business at best but this rebel horde had
Pecuisar reasons for grumbling at the DEGREES Of
fate. From Friday morning to Sunday morning
they had no water but the little contained In
tneif canteens at the commencement Of the bat
tie, and no rations were served out until Nondav
morning; the contents of their hsversacks. corn
or corn-meal, being oil they had to appesse the
gnswings o. hunger through three days hard
hghtlng Our prisoners say that, beyond doubt.
from 500 to 500 rebels died the last day of hun
ger and fatigue. Altogether, the rebels in this
memorable struggle last one.half their arny, by
loss IN battle and desertion. In speaking OF it,
the Jackson hississipian says ''Van Dorm, Low
ell and Pillow, precious trio, whose prestige is
only defeat aad disaster. A rare combination
of military ineficiency to defeat anv armv upou
the face Of the EARTH" The rebels had hut 90 :
900 at Corinth.
Our prisoners were taken to Holly Springs.
from there to jackson, Mississippi, and thence
to Vicksburg, where they were EXCHANGED -
While at Holly Springs q flag Of truce came
down from Bolivar, with 400 prisoners to ex-
change; but the rebels refused, no doubt for the
reason that their demoralized condition was
known to their prisoners, and they did not want
them to return sill they could have time to re-
cuperate.
The defeat of the rebels and their disorderly
retreat spread the utmost CONSERVATION and fear
throughout Mississippi, and had our forces been
in condition to have continued the pursuit, it
is not probable that they would have met With
any serious opposition this side of Vicksburg.
Immediately on receipt of information that pur-
suit had stopped, requisition was made on the
planters in the vicinity for negroes, and large
force OF them we're put to work on the torti6ca-
tions at Holly Syringe. The rebel force there
at the time our prisoners we're there was small.
Since that they have received reinforcements
from Texas and Arkansas to the number of. per.
haps, 10000. Most of these have crossed the
Mississippi at Vicksburg, to the number of about
IA 900, have been added to Johnson's and Prices
army, which would swell their ranks to forty or
forty five thousand.
This is the entire force that will have to be
contended against by both Grant and the expe
dition against Vicksburg. An officer direct from
Gen. Grants headquarters informs me this morn
ing that three days ago Price was certainly mas
sing his troops nine miles south of Grand June.
ton. If this be so, it is interpreted to be an act
OF defense and not offense, and the next battle
in East Tennessee will be brought on by our own
forces pushing southwark. 1t cannot be possible
that any rebel general will be foolhardy enough
to again attack our entrenched forces at either
Corinth or Bolivar. z-s
Captain Z. N. Low gives it as his deliberate
opinion that 200 men will be amply sufficient
to take Vieksburg Since the first attempt to
take 1t the defenses have been considerably i'm
proved, though they to-day are by no means for
midsble. The most important work is water
battery, mounting nine barbette gums north Of
the town. This once battered down or silenced,
the place will be ours Vicksburg and Mobile
in our possession, the rebellion in the West will
collapse at once. The rebels are not naughty
and sanguiue as they once were. They wear an
air of detection and gloom, and our prisoners
were asked hundreds of times what the United
States would do with them if they we're beaten.
Their only hope is, aud they express it freely,
that the Presidents Proclamation will cause q
counter revolution in the North, that will divide
the people and paralyze the Government Al
most the Erst questions asked by soldiers and ci.
Williams were, What do you think of the Proc
lamation!" "De you mean to stand il?
They also frequently appealed to our prison
ers rs Northwestern men. Col. Rodney, at Hol.
ly Springs said be didn't see what in the ID
Northwestern men wanted to fight for. He said
they we're natural allies of the South, and there
ought to be no struggle between them. North
western men were highly complimented every
where for their fighting abilities.
A Louisiana planter, and one who was mem
ber of the convention that took that State out
of the Union, said he could not understand this
war, unless it was that God had decreed the end
Of slavery, and was using the damned abolition.
lists to carry ont his purpose. He said if he
knew that was the case, he would never again
raise bis hand to assist the rebellion.
said above that the rebels were not sanguine
of success. That is unquestionaly true Of the
mass of them. Once in while one is found
who believes the Confederscy must succeed, and
when warned that, in that case, there will be an
end to Republicanism, the unvarying reply was
"Well, q Republican form of Government is a