The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-04-25
public would now be enjoying the advan-

public would now be enjoying the advan-
tages of conquered peace.
The North has made beautiful and plo-
rious sacrifices;but they have not been gem
eral enough; and even while our brave
soldiers are dying in hostile section in
camp and battle. their own kindred and
people are endeavoring at home to encour-
age and strengthen the foe. re
Alas that it is SO! Alas, that in such a no.
bic cause the worst traitors and the most
formidable enemies, afar from the perilous
field, in prosperity and security, are secret
ly plotting our destruction! What deep
and burning shame! What a mortifica-
ton to make such confession! JuNIUs.
THE WAR IN PoLAND.-The brief and
detached news items which the telegrephic
summary of the European mail steamers is
wont to furnish about the progress of the
Polish Revolution are entirely insufficient
to convey an accurate idea Of the real state
OF the war. To obtain this it requires q
careful comparison of the details furnished
by the correspondence in European pa
pers. The following explanations will as
sist our readers in understanding the &C
tual situation. They already know from
the telegraphic summary received by the
last steamers that the reports of the entire
suppression of the revolution were prema-
ture.
The latest news is to April s. All the tel
egrams dispatched from Poland on April 8
and speak of the spreading of the revolu-
ton, in particular, in the two Governments
(Provinces) of Kovno and Wilma. These
two Governments, containing together an
area of about $4,000 English square miles,
do not belong to the Kingdom of Poland,
but were, with other Provinces, detached
from it before the last partition and annex
ed to Russia. In Wilma, as well as in the
adjoining Government Of Minsk, where the
Instruction has likewise recently broken
out, and several towns have been occupied
by the insurgents, a large majority OF the
population are still Roman Catholics, and
are showing strong sympathies with the
insurgents. In Kovno, u large proportion
belong at present to the Greek Church, but
it is asserted that they were induced by the
Russian Government in 1880, under false
prctences, to join that Church, having for
rmerly been members of the United Greek
Church, which, though following the Greek
rite, acknowledges the supremacy of the
Pope; that they are now kept in the Greek
Church against their will, and that they
therefore are all the more anxious to see
the Polish revolution successful. It is from
these two Governments that the report
comes that the peasants, the nobility, and
the middle classes are joining the revolu-
ton en- ndsse. The capital of one of the
districts OF the Government, Poniewiz, a
town with about 4, 600 inhabitants, has been
captured by the insurgents. " 's
The Government of kovno has partic-
ular Importance for the Polish cause, be-
cause it is the only one involved in the in
surrectiOn which borders upon the Baltic
Sea, and where. therefore, requirements
and ammunition may reach the Insurgents
by sea. This point has suddenly become O..
Importance, for telegram of April says
hat Ii Dbl c1,
years ago joined the Circassians in their
war against Russia, had landed with we'll
differed band in Courland, a Government
north of Kovno. Fresh Russian troops
have been at once dispatched to this locali-
ty, and Prussia is also again concentrating
troops in Mcneil, town on the frontier of
Kovno. An English steamer, the Ward
jackson, had landed 100 Polish volunteers
ofiwhom twenty-six were officers and engi-
neers, an a large cargo of farms and ammu-
milton, at Malmo, in Sweden. These vol
unteers were likewise to join the revOlu-
ton in kOvno, but the English crew left
the ship in consequence of the vicinity of
Russian cruisers. and the Swedish Govern
ment confiscated the ship, with view, as
was believed of protecting her from the
Russians. The Poles were permitted to
remain in Sweden, from where it viii be
difficult for them to reach kOvno.
The most important leaders in the Polish
Provinces of Western Russia are Roginski,
who has lately moved toward the Govern
ment of Podolia southeast Ofthe Kingdom
of Poland, containing $1,000 square miles, }
Count TyczkiewicZ, and the brothers Ry-
koff, two Russian gentlemen, formerly in
the Imperial army. BY the last accounts
the Rykoffs were fighting hard in the Gov
eminent Of Kovno. A Cracow correspon-
dent ofth London Times says that it is a
fact beyond doubt that several Russian Of
ficers have Joined the insurgents, and that
if a list were drawn up ofthose Russian Of
ficers who have openly taken part with the
Poles, and those have attacked their own
men TO keep them from plumber, then the
list would already be long one.
In the Kingdom of Poland, Cieszowki
and Czachowski are commanding the i'll
surgent forces in the government of Ra-
dom, which borders upon Gallicia, and
which was the seat of the operations of
Langiewicz. A telegram OF April seems
to indicate (the proper names of the tele-
graphic dispatches are. however, generally
given so inaccurateiy as to make the intel
1igence, in many instances, very untrust-
wosthy) that the capital of this Govern
ment, with its public treasury, has fallen
into the hands of the insurgents. In the
northern part of the Kingdom Of Po-
land, in the Government of PlOck,
Padlewski commands the insurgents. In
tlle SONeIIlitleIit VI
and Lelewel share the direction of nu-
merOus band. Lelewel seems TO have re-
Gently suffered defeat. for a telegram of
April 3 asserts, that he, with the remainder
of the insurgents under it's command-in
all about 800 men-had withdrawn to the
interior of Poland. 1t was in the govern
ment of LubIin that Mielenski gained two
brilliant victories on the Odd and I'D, when
the Russians are said to have lost altogeth
er about 400 men. This is thought, how
ever not to compensate for the fact that
Mielenski himself, one of the best of the
insurgent chiefs, was dangerously wounded
in the action of the second day.
All the partial successes which are claim
ed for the Poles are, however, we fear, not
sufficient to make their final success prob
able. The numerical preponderance of the
Russians, is still, as it was at the outbreak
of the revolution, overwhelming. The
of the revolution may, however,
have the good effect, that it will strengthen
the diplomatic intercession OF other Euro
pean powers in behalf of the brave Polish
Y. Tribune. aadH hgr
Boy ENTERPRIsE.-Boys of energy and
are the boys who become men of
and wealth in those prnUroc