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Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-02-06


IMPORTANT STAMP DECIsIoE.-By the
following letter it will be seen that the Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue bas decided
that according to the act of Congress, passed
December 25th last, any revenue stamps, ex-
espt proprietary stamps, can be affixed to
documents:
Treasury DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF INTERNAL Revenue,
WAsHIEoToN, Jan. 81, 1858.
s1R Your letter Of the 2Ist has been re-
seived. The third seotion Of the act, APPROX
ed December 25, 1882, copy of which is
herewith enclosed, permits all kinds Of Rev
enue Stamps, except Proprietary Stamps, to
be used indiscrimiuately, care being taken to
anxa stamp Of the proper amount.
Yours respectfully,
GEO. s. boutwell,,
Commissioner Internal Revenue.
To 3. CowLss, P. NJ, Cleveland, Ohio.
By the above sfty cent mortgage stamp
wiz answer for a fifty cent note stamp; tive
twenty-five cent insurance stamps viii an
swsr for fifty cent deed stamp and 80 on /;
and that q proprietary stamp aaa1ed to q
document viii be void and Of no ssect-no
natter II the amount is all right.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

@- The Yearly Meeting of Friends, re-
Gently held near Oskaloosa, is said, by the
Herald of that place, to have been one Of
the most numerously attended religious
gatherings ever convened in Iowa. On the
Sunday during its session there was preach
ing from three several stands at the same
time, male and female preachers being
about equally divided, and the discourses
were marked with extraordinary fervor.-
Esther Weeks, a minister from New York,
is stated to have delivered no less than six
discourses on the Sabbath, which, we take
it, may be considered good days work.
The meeting closed on Tuesday last 1t
was attended by from two to three thou
sand persons from abroad, including dele
gates from the Church in all the loyal
States and Canada, and passed off to the
satisfaction of all present. A new site has
been selected for the House of the Iowa
Yearly Meeting, on land donated for the
purpose, and some sixteen thousand dol
lars appropriated for building and improve
ments. All of which seems to indicate that
the Friends in Iowa are becoming numer-
ours and are prospecting here as they do
everywhere.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

rs The papers are saying that, in case
England should chance to be engaged soon
in war of any magnitude, it is by no
means improbable that the Irish would
make bold strike for separation. There
are said to be at leasta dozen papers in Ire
land which are advocating separate ma
honality, and the influence of the Catholic
clergy is also asserted to be exercised in the
same direction.
we are not much posted in Irish affairs
or troubles just at present. Our own en-
gross all our attention. But we shall not
complain if the prophecies are at any mo-
ment converted into fact. We would like
to see how it would please John Bull to get
just such treatment as he has so kindly ex-
tened to us. 1t would be comical TO note
how he would foam and sweat and "b,ast
his eyes," when the Irish should he ra.
cognized as belligerent! It would he
further Agreeable to mark his rage when
the Flag of Erin adorned an iron-clad and
"played smash with his craft on the high
seas! 1t would be funny, to be sure-but
no more SO than the neutrality he has
kept with us.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

Gs-The Dubuque Herald says that n,o
cessions of people fifteen miles in lena,,
and numbering fifty thousand are dr.
quent' with the acknowledgements in
OHIO! The Heralfs veracity is beyond
suspicion, of course! But will it be l;na
enough to tell us where all the people conn
from? 1t is imagined down this wav th..
there are not more people to the souars
mile in Ohio than there are in China q,
Japan. If the Herald is posted we SIM.
pose we are slightly mistaken. 7n&
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

gs~ The enrolment in Illinois is COM
pleted and thereturns made to the Adjutant
General of the State. The whole number
enrolled in the First Glass is reported at
1877 300. How many are in the Second
Glass is not stated. There seems to be
enough men yet left in Illinois to make up
q Respectable army, notwithstanding the
enormous number who have already gone
into the field.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

@s-The Council bluffs Bugle publishes
a long letter from Jesse Williams, formerly
of Fairfield, dated in Nevada Territory.
Aug. 18th. 1t is long letter. Those who
know Jesse will appreciate his statement
to the effect that he ''passed eleven DAYS
very pleasantly in Great Salt Lake City"
We can hardly doubt that assertion.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26
@s- Who began the war, Tho p,,..o

@s~ Who began the war? The Rutter-
nuts say the "Abolitionists." IF wo 70
member rightly, JEFF. Davis was inaugural
ted President of the "Confederacyn on tho
18th of February, 1861. James Buchanan
was then President. Mr.. Lincoln was inap-
gurated on the 4th of March following. The
attack on Sumter was made by express Or
der of JEFF. Davis, with the certain knowl-
cage that the Fort must be surrendered
within forty eight hours without the as
sault! Saying nothing of the innumerable
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

COSTLY BRIDGE.-A railroad bridge is in
hannah river. It is thirty-five hundred
feet in length, piers two hundred and tif-
ty feet apart, and the estimated cost is over
one million dollars. 1t is for the benefit Of
the new direct line of road from New
York to Washington, which will not
trouble people with compulsory visits to
Philadelphia and Baltimore, and to pay,
which is as little desirable, for the addition
al distance,
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

~ One of the most remarkable proofs
of the resources of our country, and Of the
slight effecteven the present giganticstrug.
gle has had upon them, is contained in the
statement made by Gov. Curtin, of Penn.
sylvania, that during the past year thu
public debt of that State was reduced s957
722-almost million dollars! This warts
without dougt, terribletrial. But or 70,
sources appear to multiply in proportion to
the demand for their use. 1t is teachinyu,
our strength and our wealth. a
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

no The Rev. Henry Clay Dean is said
to be engaged in preaching the gospel ac-
cording to JEFF. Davis in Pennsylvania. If
he stays long there will be a pestilence and
perhaps famine.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE

other acts of war preceding this assault,
here is the stubborn fact that JEFF. Davis
and his fellow traitors opened the war of
arms, of their own will and purpose, and
without necessity. Yet the Butternuts
never cease the cry that this is an "Aboli-
ton WARP What q brazen impudence
these scoundrels have when they talk in
this style to people in their senses, who
know all the facts! Can't they invent a
new lie? This is old and stale, flatand un-
profitable. Give us novelty. Is their in
ventive faculty so dull that this old song
must still be sung in the ears of men who
know it's falsity? Start a new tune. Its
novelty might amuse for a while, though
its absurd falsity might be as apparent as
the MONDAY sun.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

ID-"Tax Titles Chairman of the Com
mittee engaged in running Brigadier Gen
eral Tuttle on the Copperhead Platform
gives notice that FERNANDO WOOD, Che
OF the New York Snakes, principal insti.
gator OF the New York riots, whose skirts
are reeking with the blood of the innocent
as well as ofhis guilty dupes for all which
he is morally responsible Grand By-
ington, Chairman as aforesaid, gives notice
that this notorious enemy of his country
Will address the people at Dubuque, Oct,
30; at Iowa City, Oct. 9Th; at Des Moines.
Oct. 9TH; at Ottumwa, Oct. 9th and at BUR-
LINGToN, Oct. 10th, Of all which appoint
ments the whole venomous breed are Or
dered to take notice and make due prepar-
alton. We make no charge for this adyer-
tisement
Isn't this pretty announcement? Think
Oft! Fernando Wood, the most notorious
friend and supporter of JEFF. DAVIS and his
treason in all the North, the man who, on
.he breaking out of the revolt, proposed to
JON it with New York, the man who has
never omitted an opportunity to give COM
iort 70 the traitors and to stab the country
10 .ne heart, this man is called upon by the
Gniei ol The Butternut engineers, to ad-
oress tne people of Iowa in behalf of Gen.
Iuttie! If that is not an insult, gross and
oannaole' 10 our people, we are utterly at
a loss TO know what can be. If JEFF, him
self were invited we don't see how it could
be worse. Now let us note the men who
go TO hear "Fernandy." We shall know
where their hearts are. at al, o,.,,
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

rs Vallandigham, everybody knows, is
a great advocate Of "peace." He don't like
war at all. He has had so little faith in il
from the beginning, that lie has been quite
willing JEFF. Davis and all his tribe should
take just as big slice of the country as
they chose to demand, and do with it and
its people exactly as they pleased. He is
for "peace"-peace on any terms, in any
way, through any degradation and ruin, sc
it be what he styles "peacer'
But small note of his has just come tc
light which wonderfully exhibits the true
character of all his pathos in behalf OF
peace and deprecations Of war in opp osi-
ton to the demands Of traitors whom be
styles his friends, and against whose war
upon the Union he has had no word OF
complaint to utter!
While at Washington, in January, 1861,
this lover Of peace wrote note to firm in
Cincinnati, dealers in arms, inquiring the
probable cost Of seventy-five MIME musk
cts, if they could supply that number, and
a good many more! Val. protested to want
them for "frtend." Whether that ''friend"
was one of the Southern traitors does not
appear positively. But if he was not, who
could have desired to have so many musk
cts and a 'good many n,ore?" His honest
love of "peace" is evidenced by his willing
ness to aid traitors to procure "muskets''
with which to slay Northern patriots. =
The South was buying muskets, then, to
make war with against the Union. In that
sort OF peace Val. was willing to be an
instrument! He has been consistent ever
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26
= TFlANhLIN I lEKCE
Hon. JEFF. Davis, Washington, D. G.

rs Hutchins has at last been smoked
out on the Lawrence raid. He says he does
condemn Quantrel and his gang. And
how do good, honest, sensible people sup
pose he does it? Why he says that they
are just as bad as Jim Lane and Mcneil.
That's the way he manages the matter.
That is exactly the mode in which the But
ternuts censure JEFF. Davis. They prove
themselves patriots, lovers of their coun-
try, and enemies Of traitors-by affirming
that jeff is just as bad as Abe Lincoln ~
In the same manner they will next prove
themselves devout Christians and entitled
to the highest seats in Heaven by proclaim
ing as their honest opinion, that the Devil
just as vile as Saint Peter.
Ng~We see it stated that the snake de-
mocracy spent million dollars in the eff
fort to carry the Maine election. The
result indicates that it was most excellent
neutrality-suspicious. as we'll as good
Last year they were beaten .fue thousand.
This year they are beaten twenty thousand.
Next year we hope they will expend five
millions. If it produces similar results
that will be the last of the Maine Butter
nuts. We don't know how much they
propose investing in Iowa. But unless
they have money to throw away we think
the outcome in Maine will not encourage
an enormous outlay. But Byington can
use all they will furnish. If he can't find
any other use for it his own pockets will
hold it. And certainly his devotion to the
cause of treason ought to receive and ade-
quate compensation!
ZsB-A Des Moines Butternut, anxious to
do the Estate some service" ran into Dali
las County the other day and delivered
himself of a two hours TRADE before six
reptiles and one Union man! 1t is under
stood that the speech was most effective.
One or two more of the same sort will en-
sure the casting off Of the Copperhead
skins and the complete conversion of his
listeners to sound Union sentiments The
fellow forgets to sugar coat lbs pills
Most anything can be got down. by that
process. But very few OF the people choose
to imbibe treason-''s straight"
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

&a- When Fernando Wood comes to
enlighten our people on their duty to their
country,-bringing the reek and filth Of
the "back- slumes'' of New York to defle
the free air of Iowa, won't it be we'll to in
quire of him about those guns he was anx-
ious should not be stopped on their way to
Savannah? Perhaps he will be able to sat-
isfy his auditors that his anxiety to supply
the traitors Of Savannah with arms was
the result of the purest patriotism and the
most exalted virtue! At all events he
should have an opportunity to try his hand
at that problem. 1t will be an interesting
effort. 1t will enable him to exhibit his
aptitude for lying in the boldest manner.
There are many other questions which
might be propounded, but this one will
suffice. ..
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

va Bylngton tells us that the irrepressi-
BILE "Fernandy," in his speaking tour
through Iowa, will be accompanied by
other distinguished speakers" As the
public is pretty well posted as to the char
acter of s'Fernandy's'' friends and asso-
ciates, it will be curions to know which OF
the shoulder hitters," house-burners, and
negro-killers, who spoke in such "telling
way'' during the recent riots in New York
are ''ticketed through for that campaign!
Why don't Tax Titles complete tie list
We have no doubt they are all notorious, -
if not distinguished" There are great
many notorious Williams in and about
New York. They are generally booked,
too, among the friends of Wood and
Seymour. The people would like to know
which among them have been selected to
enlighten the minds of Iowa Butternuts.-
DO tell us, Byington, who these sdistin-
gulshed' gentlemen are to be. We would
like to know. Knowing we could all be
better prepared to extend to them SUIT
able reception. We know Wood exactly.
But there are other accomplishments of the
ieast-what are they? Are they any better
than Wood? If they are not we shall be at
loss to know where to put the gang. Ger
tainly any prison in Iowa would be much
too reputable place for them to occupy.
Really, what a dilemma we shall all be in
'Dlstlnguished'' guests, and no suitable
for them. What wiU they do?
How they will rejoice when at last they get
home. again.among their kindred, "Dead
Rabbitsv' f5-s
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

To Let all loyal Democrats who are in
the habit Of thinking, observe events as
they transpire in the Iowa canvass now
progressing. Let them observe the men
who are leading the so-called Democratic
party, and listen to their utterances. Do
these men talk like loyal mens Do they
act like true patriots7 Do they express
any sympathy for thecause of the country?
DO they express concern for the success of
our arms? Are they in sympathy witt, the
arnyf Have they any friendship for our
brave soldiers fighting our battles?
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26
The Dodgeville Meeting.

OuI SOppeTueau ITleuuS Q8U QuiUe b pow
WOW at Dodgeville Saturday. They were
in drumming up quite large
crowd, we hear. But the meeting itself
was dismal affair, as everybody will un-r
when we say that Dodge did the
most of the speaking. Capt. Martin Van
Buren, Bennett, we hear, made a short
speech worthy of the meanest secessionist
in Dixie. We are told that he advised re-
sistance to the draft-said Mr.. Lincoln was
as much to blame for this war as JEFF
Davis--that if he had known what the war
was for he never would have enlisted
that now was the time if ever, for the DEM
ocrats to triumph at the polls, for if they
did not they never would have another
opportunity of voting Some convalescent
soldiers, who were present, captured Sc
cesh flag, as they call it, consisting of red
and white stripes, with red union and
thirteen stars, which they brought to town
and are showing as trophy.
~0A "war Democrat the Butternut
organs have repeatedly told US, is the same
thing as an "Abolitionist." Yet these
same Butternuts are now hurrahing for
Gen. Tuttle, who is soldier in the army
and processes to be in favor of prosecuting
the war! According to their own declare
tions they are running an "Ahslitionist."
This being the patent fact which crops out
glaringly in the canvass, what are we to
infer from it? Are we to understand that
the Butternuts admit that no one but an
s'Aboitionist'' has the ghost of a show for
votes among the people and the army, and
therefore they, are using the General as a
tool-pigeon to- ''draw game into their
net," and assist them in securing those
thirteen Representative Districts Byington
is so anxious about? Or are we to believe
that the General has satisfied the Copper
heads that he is not uery much of an "Abo-
litionist' after all-nor so deeply in favor OF
the war but that he could manage to get
well over it all, and come out thorough
Butternut In the end for the sake of being
Governor? Either the Butternuts are
running an 'Abolitionist'' or they are not.
If they are running one, they do so, not for
love Of him, but to assist others of their
own kidney into office. If they are run
ming real Butternut under the guise Of
an "Abolitionist," then, of course, as soon
as the result is known, the mask will be
thrown off and he will come out fat-footed
in opposition to his present profession
But in either case it is plain they are seek
ing votes by false pretences-that they are
deliberately attempting to deceive the peo-
pie, and the whole canvass is an enormous
sell Can't they manage some way tc
blind the people so that they won't see
it? If they could, what huge joke il
would he To them Hsrnf
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

THE GREAT BATTLE.-That ROsecrans
has had another great battle, and that, too,
as seems his fate, against largely superior
numbers, is now evident. But the latest
accounts seem to intimate that he not only
held his own, but inflicted more injury
than he suffered. His falling back to Chat
tanooga was necessity, not of the force
against him, but of position. 1t was the
source of his supplies which it was requi-
site he should guard, and his being there
would both strengthen his numbers and
make safe his immediate communications.
If he was not strong enough to annihilate
the enemy, which he is not, then the pru-
dent course is to await an attack, and to
await it at his strongest position, until he
is so recruited as to be able to assume the
offensive. The addition of Burnside S COM
mand, and the concentration of the troops
in his rear, will probably enable him to
resume offensive movements, especially if
the army in Virginia is able to move for
ward against Lee. Rosecrans is not likely
to be idle while there is ightingto be DONE
We guess he will not be assaulted at Chat
tanooga, in hurry. If he punished the
enemy in the field, he will do it up worse
in his entertainments.
s-In his Dodgeville speech the other
day General Dodge advised his Copperhead
auditors TO go the polls armed on the day
of election? We are correctly advised that
he gave this direction to his hearers. We
are so informed by men of both parties who
were present. What do our readers think
of this. Remember General Dodge is a
"peace' man who objects to fighting Re-
bells. Remember that he is driveling
mountebank who mouths hackneyed
words of endearment to the Constitution,
and processes to be Conservative" And
he would send all the men in the State pre-
with deadly weapons upon the lying pre-
tence that 'Black Republicans and
"Abolitionists'' intend to deprive them,
by force of arms, of the right to vote as
they please! What do our readers think
of this exemplication Of Conservatism
What do they think Of this manifestation
of 'peace'' Is this the advice of pru-
dent, law.abiding citizen? Is this the eoun-
sci of wise and loyal man? Is this the
advice of a lover Of his country and Of his
race? If we have any readers of the Cop
perhead party who have anything at stake
for themselves or their children-who have
not gone stark mad and crazy-we ask
them to notice this and much more of the
same sort transporting daily all around us,
and consider where they are drifting and
what are likely to be the results of such di-
abolical teachings if needed by the people
to whom it is addressed.
Daily national Republican., 1863-07-28
U. s. PATENT OrfIcE,)
WAent Harnu Ipna % tQG1

v. y. PATENT OFfiCE,)
WAsnis0ToN, June %, 1863
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
office until II O'Clock NJ Saturday, the lst day
Of August next, for furnishing and constructing
the cases for models In the north saloon Of the
Patent Office building, including all materials and
Workmanship, except ne Iron pilasters Of the
These will be furnihhed by the Goyernment, but Ii
will devolye upon the contractor to put them up.
These cases will he similar In form and con-
strction to those Of the saloon Of the west ing;
but the lumber must be Of the best quality, well
seasoned, and free from knots and shakes; and
the work must be done In the best and most work
manlike manner.
The contractor will be required TO furnish the
brass hinges and to ht them In, also, to hiruish
locks like tn -ae of the present cases.
The whole work to be finished throughout with
four costs OF paint, composed Of the best pure
lead ground IN oil. The glass must be equal, In
every respect to that Of the cases In the west
saloon, and must be well bedded and braided, and
left clean and whole on the completion OF the con.
tract.
The plans may be seen at the office Of the Archi.
tect OF the U, g. Capitol Extension, on last Capi.
tol square, every day, Sundays excepted, from a,
NJ. to p m.
The Commissioner reserves the right to rejec,
any OF all OF the bids II he considers II to the in.
All bids must he addressed to the Commissioner
OF Patents" and indorsed Proposals for Gases
for the U. s. Patent Office"
The said bids will be opened at 70 o'clock M on
the aforesaid lst day Of August In the presence OF
such OF the bidders as may see proper to attend.
b. p. HOLLOWAY,
Nl-lawtau1 Gommiaainn