The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-15
From Keokuk County.
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Sigourney, Aug. 9, 1858.
| Dear Journdl.-Skunk isstill untroubled
and none Of the boys hurt, unless sundry
back aches, caused by a promiscuous lay
ing around loose upon hard floors ana sui
harder benches, may be considered serious
wounds. Sunday morning finds us all
still in the best Of spirits, notwithstanding
side world, a few drops Of which find their
way into the room wherewe are now quar-
Tered, by way of an Overground entrance,
trlckllng through numerous little defects
IN the tin roof ofthe Court House. 1t may
be easy for an old soldier to write whilst
CONFUSION worse COMPOUNDED" reigns all
around, but confess myself almsst une-
quail to the task. The BOYS have Just held
drum head court martial upon Hart,
who was convicted in open court, cOmpo-
sed OF Harry Gardner, Judge Advocate,
Joe Williams Associate, of the crime of do
ing nothing, at the time when he was ''cor-
poral OF the guard" He has just been
informations against Demorest, Harry
Canon and Barnum, for wilful desertion in
billeting themselves upon good natured
Unionist who has excellent feather beds
and ''yaller legged chickens. They have
not yet made their appearance. guard
will soon be sent for them. In the interim
our glee club is making the air melodious
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The prisoners were brought before Esq.
Wilkinson yesterday, charged with the
crime of manslaughter. They waived an
examination and were held to bail in the
sum of s., 900 each, for their appearance at
the next term of court. This bail was
readily given and the prisoners discharged.
Court meets one week from to morrow. J..
Woodin appear for the defense. The writs
issued last Thursday for the arrest Of the
rioters have not yet been returned, none OF
the men being come-at-able. The officers
are still aftcr them.
A most enthusiastic County Convention
was held at the Presbyterian church yes
terday afternoon, by the Republicans, for
county officers. The nominations made
were highly satisfactory to the party, all
of the nominees being old and highly re-
spectacle citizens. They will be trium-
phantly elected. Cor. M'tscotine Jour. llth.
THE LONDON TIMES ON THE AMERICAN
WAR--A CANADIAN REBUKE OF ITS INso-
LENCE.-The excessive insolence of the
London Times in dealing with the Ameri-
can war, its tremendous assumption of su-
perior knowledge and judgment, and the
confidence with which it makes predictions,
are patent to the whole world. 1t has stat
ed many times of late that Vicksburg was
impregnable, that Grant must retire from
it, and that Lee had Washington, Philadel-
phia, and Baltimore.at his mercy. Every
one was, therefore, curious to see how 1t
took the recent news. Its natchlesS impu-
dence does not fail it, but it dares not dis
cuss the consequences of the fall of Vicks-
burg. 1t passes that by, and speaks of
Lees movement northward as mere raid,
and his retreat as not unexpected. The
plucky Star having good opening, pitches
into the Times in capital style. The affec-
ted insolence with " hich the Times speaks
of the American war as a kind OF weary
some annoyance, involving no principle or
anything else of Importance, is extraordi-
nary. Here is great contest between two
| systems of labor-slave and free; between
| the rule Of peopleand a slaveholding aris-
| tocracy involving the liberty of four mil
| lions of blacks, and of more than that num-
Der of whites, as well as the integrity of one
| of the great nations of the earth; and the
| Times treats it as a thing of no moral i'm
portance whatever, as only noticeable on
account of it's effect on the cotton market,
| and to be brought to some termination
without any regard to the effects on the
people of the United States, at as early a
| day as possible. 1t would not speak with
one-half the contempt Of a row in the 1oni-
| en- Islands, as it does of this gigantic strug-
gle for the mastery between slavery and
freedom in America.--1oronto Globe.
How GEN. GRANT LOOKS AFTER THE IN
| TERESTS OF HIS ,SoLDIERS.-Gen. Grant has
| issued special order forbidding steamboat
| men to charge more than five dollars to
enlisted men, and seven dollars to officers,
as fare between Vieksburg and Cairo. Inn
| mediately after Vicksburg had fallen a
! large number of steamboats, cleared from
| Northern ports for that place, and were in
| the habit of charging soldiers going home
on furlough from fifteen to thirty dollars
g.. H. fps@ clntp + hot
| the steamer Hope was compelled by Gen.
Grant to disgorge its ill-gotten gains the
other day, under the following circum-
stances: This boat had about one thousand
enlisted soldiers, and nearly two hundred
and fifty officers aboard, en- route for home
on short leave of absence, after the fatigues
of their protracted but glorious campaign.
| The Captain of the Hope had charged these
men and officers from ten to twenty-five
dollars apiece, as fare to Cairo. Just as the
boat was about to push off from the wharf
at Vicksburg, an order came from Gen.
Grant requiring the Captain to pay back
to his passengers all money received by
him as fare in excess of five dollars to en-
listed men, and seven dollars to officers, or
submit to imprisonment for disobedience
and have his boat confiscated. The order
was an astonisher to the Captain, but the
presence of guard rendered it useless to
refuse, and so, amid the shouts Of the SOL
diers over Gen. Grants care OF their inter-
ests, he complied with as good grace as pos
sible, and paid back the money. Our in
formant, himself passenger on the Hope,
was present when Gen. Grant issued the
order above referredto. The General, upon
being informed of the impositions being
practiced upon furloughed men and otfi-
GERS, by steamboatmed, was very indig-
nant. II will teach them, if they need the
lesson" said the gallant General, THAT the
men who have periled their lives to open
the Mississippi River for their benefit, can
not be imposed upon with impunity.,' No
wonder that the soldiers of the Army Of
the Mississippi fairly worship their Gene
ral.-Cleveldnd Herald, Aag. 10th.
AN INCIDENT OF THE MORGAN RAID
CoLD-BLooDED MURDER BY THE GANG
In conversation with Methodist minister,
a member of the Ohio Conference, and "a
resident of Jasper, Pike county, we learn
ed that when Morgan's band was within
four miles of Jasper, Pike county, Ohio,
they captured number of citizens, among
them school teacher by the name of Jo-
seph McDougal, aged AZ. The captured
men were marched on tho double quick to
the village of Jasper, allowed few mo-
ments rest, and then double-quicked two
and a half miles to Piketon, and there,
,,,;3L ofbor c.otpro1 fnru,od into l;on g.,