The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-07
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE

Wednesday, the 18th Of November, ha
been designated as day of Thanksgiving
IN Canada, s'for the late harvest, and for tl
peace and prosperity which the Province j
now enjoying"
A MONSTER GUS.-The patterns hav
been made and preparations commenced
at the Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburgh, TO
the casting of gun which will have bor
OF twenty inches. Its length will be TWEEN
ty feet, and its greatest diameter at thu
breach five feet four inches. It will weigh
about 1000 pounds.
We don't expect some people to recog
nIze merit, for man can't recognize wha
he knows nothing about.
MCCLELLAN IN WAxwoRK.-Mr. Con.
way writes from London to the Boston
Commonwealth
Mcclellan has at last had his due apoth.
costs! Madame Tussaud has issued a hand
bill announcing the same. have not been
to see it, but fancy that little Mac in wax
would be good thing to see. At any rate
1t may comfort his friends to know though
he wanes in America he wakes here.
The Pope continues to show himself in
| pnblic. On the I'd inst he walked all the
way up the Coroso from the Piazza del Po-
polo to the Piazza di Venezia, followed by
ms noble guards and eouipages. His Ho-
liness, who looked rather thin in the face.
but stout in the body, walked good pace
pauslng occasionally to give his blessing
10 the groups OF bystanders, who knelt to
receive 1t.
The following is recent Scotch Adver-
tisement:
WANTED to marry, a Young ladv. n ma.
tive of Elgin, and not more than twenty
one years of age. She must be lady-liEe.
slender, tall, have white cheeks. black
eyes. and red hair, without freckle upon
her face. Disposition immaterial. AppH-
cation to be lodged with Jokiah Horn
dumps, 1914 High Street, Elgin. Please
1863"
A private letter from -, Ala. saws:
Our minister nearly got himself into a
scrape the other day, and whether he is "a
on nr' 81 Ah Mag, or very careless fellow, or
discussion with us. At the meeting on
fast day, he gave out DR.. Watts hymn,
com mencing:
Sc And nd, are we wretches yet alive,
ana do we yet rebel?
It's wondrous tbs amazing grace,
That we are out of hell
CoLoRED TRooPs.-The number of color
ed troops actually under arms, along the
Mississippi River, we learn from cores
pondent who has made thorough investi-
CATION eff the matter, is over twenty thou
sand. General Gilmore has a large brig
ade of colored men on Morris Island, COM
panies in process of organization, here and
there in the Northern States, and the Dis.
trict of Columbia. The whole number of
oolored pen carrying muskets in the Uni
ted States army, is about twenty-five thou
sand.-Cin. Com.
REBELLION AND SLAvERY.-"The rebel
q iS fn
sumptien-only its legitimate manifesto
ton. We cannot avoid the slavery cues
ton: we must either settle it, or it will set
tie US most effectually forever" This plain
language is from the Nashville Union. 1t
expresses not only the growing conviction
OF the whole people of the Free States, but
of every loyal man in the border and slave
States, whether he be or not an owner of
slaves.
A distinguished California divine uas
asked, after a trip to Silver Land, ''What
he thought Of the country?'' He replied
"There are but three things at Washoe-
big mines, little mines, and whisky shops
in other words, Ophir holes, gopher holes,
and loafer holes"
The Toronto Globe in speaking of the
Presidents last call for ''three hundred
thousand more men, says that time
has proved that all the earnestness and de-
termlnatlON or purpose is not on the side OF
the rebels; that there are no indications
to warrant the belief that the war will soon
close on account of the refusal Of the Nor
thern people tosupply Unnecessary means
for its prosecution, but that the Govern
ment will be sustained in every effort to
suppress the rebellion. It is not for want
Of means that the Administration of Mr..
Lincoln will break down. The writer
speaks encouragingly and favorably of
the cause of the North.
A young married woman, whose hus-
band has ''gone to the war; heard in a
conversation the remark that the Governf
ment wanted more cavalry and more in
tantry, She replied that she knew nothing
about cavalry, but added, with a sigh, that
fmore infantry were needed, the Govern
ment had better send some of the volun-
teers home.
A BoNAPARTE PRESIDING AT AN EMAN-
CIPATIoN MEETING.-Jerome Napoleon Boz
naparte Zone OF the Bonaparte Pattersons
or descendants of Louis Napoleon's uncl9
Jerome,) was first Vice President Of the
Great Union Emancipation meeting in Bal
timore last Wednesday. We are glad to
know that there is at least one true repub-
lican in that family.
The leading New York city hotels are
now asking $3.50 per diem for board
that is to say S24 so perw week. Rather steep
that! ~-4-l-n