The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-01-17
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE.

EKLY HAWK-EYE.
{gFHo razY xRrl Ty1ea1rso rAaAissr. -oh
the return to Richmond Of the arch .trsftor
and rebel JEFF. Davis, - wss sssrsnaded by .
number of the citizens. Davis came to the
door and was introduced to the crowd % the
8. President of the United States" This an .
nouncement being greeted with Misses, his
sponsor amended his phrase by styling him
the President of the "Confederate States -
Thereupon jeff. made little speech and gave
his audience what encouragement he could, to
persist in their abominable treason. Among
| other things he remarked -" We are fighting
against the hirelings Of all the earth. Our
foes come as savages to murder, rob, and des-
ecrate, and We must treat them as SUCH" He
also announced that q brilliant victory mad
crowned the Rebel arms at Murfreesboro'!-
We fear that Davis and his auditors CRASHED
their teeth considerably when they got better
information and learned that these (" hireling
savages" had "coerced " Bragg into an igno-
minious retreat from his stronghold
-O- rs.
DEATH oF ELISHA WHITTLEsEY.-The Hon.
Elisha Whittlesey, of Ohio, long Member of
Congress from that State, and for twenty years
past Comptroller of the Treasury, died at
Washington on the night of the 5th inst. He
had been apparently in his usual health and
had discharged his accustomed duties at the
Department during the day, and had been able
to ride to Georgetown in the afternoon He
had made his entry in his diary, after his uni-
form custom, and was about retiring to bed,
when he expired apparently without pain, be-
fore the ink in the sentence he last penned
was dry. He was over eighty years of age
and man Of incorruptible integrity, singu.s
larry well adapted to the responsible position
he so long filled with honor and fidelity.
EASTERN DEpARrMrNr.-Msjor General John
E. Wool, has been appointed to the COMMAND
of the Eastern Department, in place Of Gen.
Morgan, resigned. He will make his headquar
ters at Albany, New York.
LoSawoRTH.-It is reported that Nicholas
matt, is now lying very i'll at that city. He is
about eighty years old, afflicted With paralysis,
and is not expected to recover. He has been
married over Fifty years, and not great while
since, with Mrs. Longworth, celebrated his gol-
den.wedding. alasi.
JOHN B. GouaH.-The well known Temper
ance Lecturer, John B. Cough, is delivering a
course Of six lectures at Cincinnati during
the present week. The net proceeds are to
be divided among number of the charitable
associations Of that city. s 81
BOUND SoUTH.-Iti is said that General Neg
ley's Division was embarked on transports,
and left Hampton Roads on the 3lst ult., for
some point in the South, accompanied by sew
eral iron clad steamers. The number of
troops is said to be sufficiently large to hold
any point on the Southern coast, but its de-
situation has not been made public. s41a
cEThe Chicago Tribune announces that the
Hon. Thomas C. Brown, formerly one Of the
Judges of the Supreme Court of Illinois, posi-.
ton which he filled with honor for more than
twenty years, died recently in California, at the
age of seventy-ive. .., .s
nag w. Cornell Jewett, has turned up in
Washington. Senator Bayard presented his
petition that our national difficulties be sub
mitted to the arbitration of Switzerland, SC.
Jewett is certainly ajewel Of fellow.
A HIT PALpABLE The New York Herald;
wishing to state that the Chicago Times justified
jeff Davis latest proclamation, and to FIX its
political status, styles it. "Copperdsad!"
!, OrAHErrAN, ,CANE-One of our Kossuth
friends wishes to know where he can procure
seed of the Osaheitan sugar cane. Can any Of
our readers inform him? stas -"1f' 7't ''S
eY The Chicago Trbune's Nashville dis
patch of the ssh inst, says that 1000 rebels
were made prisoners by Rosecrans at the battle
of rNurfreesbroro'. 1t also says that Rosecrans
was pushing on after Bragg, and that the enthu-
siasm of the army for its commander was un-
bounded. 49, 49,.
| ~ The semi annual dividends declared by
| the New England Railroads and Manufacturer
corporations, payable in Boston, on the first OF
this month. are said to amount to about seven
millions of dollars. This is more than double
that OF the last six months Of 1861. Ra3l -
! sC.B. Sc RAILaoAp.-The work on the East
cru branch of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad, from Aurora to Chicago, has
been commenced, aud we understand will be
i nushef forward with yiror. When COMPLETED