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

no u the most bitterly ridiculed nan I eye
knew. IN private. The editor Of the Savannah
hepoohcan Was ct cousin Mary's last Tuesday
evening, and had the greatest fun, a. he cali.
90 II, tnorrid old creature, that he is,) tryiae
TO make me angry. But cousin Mary stopped
MIN, and even Senator - said that a 4
WAS an avowed s'enemy Of the South" Though
Heaven knows an not,l and had oniv cofoe
there to nurse ---, fher husband. ! Va
entitled to be treated at least Win the CONF
tesy due to "a prisoner Of war! and mt ye1sd
and ridiculed. But assure you. Won can h.ys
no idea what confidence the people here hs,s
that this "chart" is correct; and SO vhsnexar
Lee or Jackson want to make Mcclellan ston
anywhere, or avoid battle, they send off
some "deserters," 6rst to tell him they are in
immense force, and any other odious lies thew
please; and then they get significant hints to
the same effect, published in the Richmond
rebel papers; and these papers actually carri-
ed to Mcclellan, and even sold to him at q
high price; the two men passing themselves
of as Union farmers, who gave him the infor-
nation which stopped HIM ten days after the
battle at Sharpsburg, when he was thinking Of
advancing, and quite ready, having received
sixty dollars between them for their trouble
and expenses in bringing the information
George says they are non commissioned officers
-sergeants or corporals forget which-and
are to be commissioned as Second Lieutenants
when they get back from Baltimore.
You may fancy how these things annoy me.
But l have nothing but annoysnces now, tho
people here say there is no chance of another
battle on the Potomac before naxt Spring. =
The remainder is merely personal,
nd ~ liz inf 4
S0urHHRN CHrvALRY.-lt would seem, from
the desperate conduct of norgan's guerrillas,
that they must believe their time to be short
Itshas been sometimes claimed in their behalf bv
their friends, that they obeyed the laws of hu-
manity, but certainly they do nothing of the
kind now. They yield themselves up to oil the
worst impulses Of uDbridled and fercely spurred
ruffianism. - ~
Think of the conduct of these guerrillas TO-
ward the poor sick teamster at Cox's Creek. He
lay in bis wagon 50 Ill - 70 be utterly helpless
The miscreants ordered him to get out He re-
piled that he could not-thst he had not the
strength. Thereupon the wretches, without .
word more, shot him dead where be lay, and set
fire to his wagon, burning il and his body toge-
ther. A more horrid murder was never perpe-
trated. But no guerrilla officer held the mur-
derer to account or even rebuked him. The
deed was considered right or else too triHing for
notice.
The treatment extended to all the teamsters
captured at Co1's Greek was atrocious. They
we're not combatants in any just sense of the
term, and they should have been treated with
foIbearance. But they were compelled to trs
vel upon run oil the way from where they were
captured to Lebanon Junction-to travel rapid
ly enough to keep up with the fast going guer-
rilla cavalry, who Of course were anxious to
make the best time they could. The wonder is
that more than half of them did not faint and
fall by the way. But no doubt they we're sus-
tanned by the fearful knowledge that if they tal-
tered they would be shot down upon the spot.
And several, it appears, were shot down. Twas
horrible. As sure as there is God above and
q Devil below, such atrocity will meet an awful
retribution.
And see what Morgan does with the mails that
fall into his hands. 1t has been the boast of him
self and his friends that he uniformly respected
private property. The boast never was true
1t was always false. He grossly and outrage
ously falsi6ed it the other day. At Cox's Greek
thousand letters intended for Gen. Woods divi-
sion. These letters they tore open, and took
out one or two thousand dollars; holding each
bill tauntingly up to the prisoners before put
ting it into their pockets
This was no public money. It was the hard
earnings of private toll sent by fathers, mothers,
brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters, to cheer
and comfort and sustain the absent ones amid
the hardships and privations of the camp and
the march. To seize it was robbery, and kind
of robbery akin to sacrilege. And the mail rob-
bing operation was repeated at Elizabethtown.
The Post Office in that town was entered, tho
mail bags were taken of, and all the money in
the letters-funds sent by private citizens to
private citizens-was confscsted. We can tell
John Morgan ard his band and his upholders
that they arousing spirit of wrath, before
which they will, ere long, stand appalled,
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