The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-07
The War in East Tennessee.

A letter from a soldier in Burnside's ar
my, written from Knoxville says:
I saw an old man. from jefferson County
in this State, who, although seventy-three
years of age, came to join the army. He
brought, as he terms them, his own crowd,
of one hundred men, ,and another of eighty,
he and forty of his company have been
bushwhacking in the mountains for four
teen months.
Seven or eight regiments are under way,
several of which will be full this week.
Morristown, Greenville, and Jonesboro
have, learn, each a regiment nearly full.
| When we were at Morristown, and get
ting on the cars for Greenville, an old coun-
try man from back some twenty miles,
came riding into town. AS he did not
know we were thei Hhe looked at the bri-
gade while with gtonishment, When
the state of things began to flash upon him,
he asked if we "wer'nt the blue -bellied
Yankees and as soon as he was satisfied,
he went almost crazy, shouting GLORY to
God they have come at last then sinking
his heels into his horses sides he went gall
Looping through the town, waving his hat
and shouting away, "Glory to God, they've
come at lastr'
! 1T was not long, however, before he was
back and coaXing some of the boys to go
home with him. He said 1T wernt onIy
twenty miles,; if they would go home with
him he know'd the old woman would 90
crazy He said she had been Saving thir-
teen jars of apple butter ever since last
summer, for the Yankees to eat When
our boys told him there would be fight at
the salt-works, and that that was our des-
ination, he wanted to borrow gun and
go along, saying the rule of the rebels was
over now, and his was come, and he was
'arter revenge, like four-year DID,
That is the universal cry Of all the peO-
pie in this country, and not man comes
TO join the army, that does not talk of re-
a hrir do of ay,aay ,trfft ftrrt
this country. every traitors house will be
sure to get firebrand. The majority Of
them, so far, have had their houses burned,
and themselves hunted like wild beasts,
and will never be satisfied until they finish
the work by driving their prosecutors from
their sight" -.-4s..... .s a....
COLLISION on THE HUDSON RIVERA
collision occurred on the North river op-
posite the city of New York on Thursday,
of Boston, of the New York and Norwich
line. and the Oregon, Of the New York and
Hudson line. The Oregon had reached a
distance of nearly half a mile from her
pier, when her pilot discovered the City of
Boston approaching at high rate of speed.
He Immediately blew his whistle indica-
eating that it was his intention to 90 to the
left. Not noticing any change in the di-
rection the City of Boston was being steer
ed, the pilot Of the Oregon endeavored to
avoid collision by higher rate OF speed.
They came together with f-arfuI crash,
in the middle of the river, about opposite
pier No. 80. The prov Of the City Of Bos-
ton striking the Oregon, crushing in her
wheelhouse on the starboard side-pessed
nearly through the vessel.
The scene on board the Oregon, which
rapidly began to sink immed- lately after
being struck, was one of the widest con-
fusion. Fortunately the two boats remain
ed fastened torether for a bOut ton ruinntoS
which enabled many of the Oregons pas
sengers, upwards of I90i in number, to es-
cape. The balance were rescued by the
steam tug Samuel r. Brewster. Scarcely
had all the passengers been safely removed
when the Oregon sunk to her hurricane
deck, drowning five horses. None of the
freight or baggage was got of.