The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-02-28

seamen, who were mostly, 1t not all, negroes
from St. Thomas, to make them prisoners, and to
capture the vessel. She took iron handouts
from her trunk, and, with their assistance, put
the rebels in irons, and took possession of the
vessel on the 18th of January. She had studied
navigation on the voyage with her husband, and
having assumed command, Sailed for st. Thomas
ill! she spoke French vessel, which gave her
the right course. She made Tortola, one of the
Virgin islands, to the windward Of st. Thomas,
when she was piloted by negroes to st. Thomas,
where she arrived on the 18th ult., and placed
her prize in the hands of John 7. Edgar, United
States Consul, who put the master, mate, and
FIVE seamen on board the United States steamer
Alabama. ts TFE9ffa9AE 20
NAPOLEON AND THE MAsAsoRE OIL. DIcEnBER-
Mr.. Kingslake, in s'invasion OF the Crirnea,"
, reviews the history OF Napoleon III with caustic
pen Of the massacre of December, 1852,
speaking of the slaughter from the Rue de Sen
tier to the Western extremity Of the Boulevard
Moutmartre, he observes that the slayers were
thousands OF soldiers, and the slain were
number that will never be counted; but among
ali those siayers and slain there was not one
oombatant. There was no fight, no riot, no
frav. re quarrel, no dispute. 'What happened
was a slaughter of unsrmed men, and women
aud children. Where they lay the dead bore
witness. Corpses lying apart struck deeper into
peoples memory than the dead who were lying
il heaps. Some we're haunted with the look of
az old man with silver hair, whose only weapon
was the umbrella which lay at bis side. Some
shuddered because of seeing the gay idier of the
Boulevard sitting dead against the wall of a
house, and scarce parted from the cigar which
lay on the ground near his hand Some carried
il their minds the sight of priater'S boy lean.
ing back against shop front, because, though
the lad was killed, the proof,sheets which he
was carving had remained in his hands, and
were red with his blood, and we're futtering in
the wind" E
One grand object was gained By these mill
tary operations, They efectually stopped the
laugh against the silent, torpid man who had
undertaken 70 succeed his uncle. The comic
side of the plot of December passed quite out
of view. The new power was from that time a
thing which all men respect, great fact
Oae of the Colonels engaged declared that his
regiment alone had killed 2, 400 men. Paris on
tie 9Th of December looked like city struck
down by plague The Parisians are not afraid
to look OF street fighting, but an English writer
Gays that some of the people retreating from
the scenes Of slaughter we're of a strange, livid
hue, which, he had never before seen, Tins,
then, Louis Bonaparte was delivered, at once
and forever, from the r;dicUle which until that
day had necessarily pursued him. France was
efectnally cowed, and now was the time to dis
arm her. In a few weeks twenty-six thousand
FIVE hundred men, selected in the belief that
tAsy were citizens who would dare something
for the honor aud liberty of their country, we're
seized and transported without form OF law uu-
der a Retrospective decree of the piotters.
These were the acts by which Louis Napoleon
founded his power, and thus nesowas enabled to
sit, like the Gar, and govern the movements OF
fha no md
ships of France, by his personal will -
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How NAN FExLs IN BArTLE-There can
be nothing more puzziing than the analysis Of
ones feelings on battle field. You cannot de-
scribe them satisfactorily to yourself or others
To march steadily up to the mouths OF a hundred
cannon while they pour out FIRE and smoke, and
shot and shell in storm that mows the meu
like grass, is horrid beyond descripton-appal-
Ing. 1t is absurd to say man can do it with
on. fear. During Hancock's charge, atfreder-
ioAsburg, for a long distance the slope wa:
swept by such hurricane OF death that We
thought every step would be our last, and an
willing to say, for one, that was pretty badly
scared. Whatever may be said about "gettins
Used to it," old soldiers secretly dread battle
equally with new ones. But the most difficult
thing to stand up under is the suspense while
waiting, as we waited in Fredericksburg, drawn
upin line Of battle ca the edge of the field
watching tee columns file past vs. aud disappear
IN cloud of smoke, where horses and men ano
coors 60 down in confusion, where all sounds
are lost in the screaming shells, the cracking
of musketry, the thunder OF artillery, and know
ing our own turn comes next, expecting eacl
moment the word Forward 1t brings
strange kind Of relief when Forward" comes
You move mechanically With tie rect One,
fairly in for it, your sensiblities are strangl,
bunied, you care comparatively nothing abou
the sights that shocked you a: 6rst; men torn t
pieces by cannon shot become q matter o
course. At such time, there comes iAtcn
sustenance from Within US, or above u.s. which
no man anticipates who has not been in such
! Place before, aad which most men pass through
me without knowing anything about. What i
1t? Where does it come fromf
-o-
GoSSiDERABLs OF A Law SU,r.-An actor
pending 10 the Supreme Court. and now OF
sriai at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, before Hon
hensy Hogeboom, as referee, brought by til,
delaware and Hudson Canal Company agains
the pennsylvania Coal Company, to recover
large amount Of tolls claimed to be due to thu
palntifs under an agreement with the defend.
ants tor charging the plaintiffs canal for Join
use-wnicn IN the aggregate involves upwards O
taken before referee, and in documentary form
amounts to some $4,000 folios, and in openin,
the argument one Of the counsel spoke e;gi.ee,
days The argument is still in progress, counse
on each side being limited to the short space q
'''entyy:fosr days.-[New York paper.
EMPEROR OF RussIA.-Accounts from Moscoy
state that the favorable progress OF the emanci
patton of the peasants, the intended reform O
the administration Of justice, and the other lib
eral measures announced, have made the Ca
OF Russia more popular than ever. He wa
received at Moscow, where he now resides wit
bis family, as though he had never been ther
before. On the frat day after his arrival, th
that the neighborhood was completely impassa
Die, and the people swarmed on the house top