The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-06-06

DoS MONIES. he subsequently Pu" -
report of his travels. The following are
few of his pithy observations:
"Des Moines is the County seat OF Iowa,
and the shire tOwu of Polk county. 1t IS
situated at the confluence q. 9. the 1orks) OF
Raccoon and Des Moines River. The latter
stream is navigable at certain seasons OF
the year by boats of small size (if they are
not too big) and the former, when we saw
it was being navigated by large drove OF
Hogs from Madison county. We lookedat
them with deep interest; we were stran-
ger in a strange land, thirty miles from
home. and the sight of familiar penatal
Porcines affected US deeply. We sung
"Home, sweet Home" and went up street.
Des Moines has large number of Dry
Goods, Hardware, Jewelry, and other es-
adjustments. Property of all kinds is
rising in value every day. The streets
were crowded with busy men, fat horses,
and fair women.
''Des Moines has a Mayor and an ex-
Mayor, we did not see the former; the lat
ter defuncted in the early part OF this
month, and when we saw him was lying IN
state. The body was placed on an excel
lent rostrum composed of four salt barrels,
and over head was written in gold Larger
Bier Supposing that the interment had
been postponed for the purpose OF procur-
ing larger bier we entered to look at the
final arrangement provided to bear the
mortal remains of the illustrious c1vll pro-
genitor, when, what was our astonlshment'
to see that we were mistaken IN the orlna
ography of the words, fac simlle OF tne
outside inscription placed above splrlteu
picture of the venerable Gambrinus, read,
ttIaper Beer Embarrassed at hndlng
ourselves in such an unaccustomed sltua-
ton we swallowed glass OF water TO re-
cover our fainting spirits, and lett the sa-
loon scene. (P. S. There was a strange
rofa
Hops.) There is an extensive bridge over
the Des Moines River at this point, gen
tleman with one pedal extremity collects
the toll for crossing, in very gentlemanly
manner. East Des Moines is on the east
side of the river. There were formerly two
bridges but some two years ago the Adolf
tionistS broke the lower one by carrying
large loads of deadly weapons across it.
The weapons were intended to arm troops
to take away our liberties and crush the
Democratic party. The q. S. Circuit Court
was in session. The Judge of the Court is a
fat oily Judiciary, "a good lawyer and much
better looking than any OF the Des MONIES
bar. We remained in Des MONIES over
night and the next morning turned our
faces homeward and arrived at Winterset
at precisely 9 O'Clock minutes"
THE TuscUMB1A.-The Chief Engineer,
John w. Hartupee, of the Tuscumbia, has
written an account OF her performance in
the bombardment of Grand Gulf, which is
published. He states that the boat engag-
ed the upper battery at a distance OF 400
yards, and part of the time was within so
yards. She was finally disabled from the
cutting of her hog chains by shot, letting
her stern settle and throwing her engines
out of line, and from the breaking of one
of her engines by a shell. The engineer
saws she was struck by eightytwo solid
shot, and that her plating was not penetra-
trated, also that it was impossible to count
the shells that exploded in her, Early in
the action one entered her portfolio and
exploded in the turret, killing three men
square and stationary, with port-hole on
each side and in front. OF course these port
holes cut away considerable portion OF
| the walls. This arrangement has the in
convenience of the narrow pent up turret,
without the advantage of revolving and the
reduced number of PORTFOLIOS. Fourteen
gunners were disabled by a single she'll in
this case. Another shell entered a port
hole of the after turret, killing two men
wounding nine. Besides this the engineer
mentions nine shells that entered the YES
sci and exploded, most of them among the
timbers:.of the cylinders and other partsiof
the engine 1t is remarkable that only one
of these actually broke any part of the en-
gines. Mr.. Hartupee says the Tuscumbia
was under fire from 100-pound PARROT
guns, and effectually resisted their power.
How UNFAvoRABLE News IS suppress
SEQ BY THE REBEL CONFERENCE.-THE is
generally supposed that the officers Of the
| Government are very reticent OF unfavOra-
BILE news. This is certainly so with respect
to the general public; but we fear that this
! foolish farce of keeping secrets in the de-
partments, while doing injustice to the le-
ultimate claims Of public curiosity and the
patriotic anxiety Of the people, has given
opportunity to some few individuals, IA
vored with a sort Of left-handed informa-
ton in the departments, to speculate in the
news and make commerce Of our disas-
| tiers.
The intelligence of the fall of New Or
leans was in the possession of this Govern
ment five days before it was communicated
to the public. That Of the Yankee occupa-
ton Of jackson, Mississippi, has been
known to the Government for several days,
and is still withheld from the people; but ii
is remarkable that notorious earwig OF
the War Department should have got in
telligence of it within ten minutes Of the
time of it's supposed reception, the conse.
quence of which was pretty safe specu-
lation in sugar, and the advance already
of that article is some 12c per pound. This
commerce in official news is infamous, and
the only way to provide against it is to give
all intelligence of important events in the
war Immediately and directly to the pub
lie, and have no back door conferences with
spectators. We shall then have less, too
of rumor chasing about town, and the nui
sance of the confidence man" on the street
corners.-Richmond Examiner.
The Copperheads at Des Moines have
gone blind, and have commenced to bite
They have tjerked up, on three different ac
counts, the editor of the Register. They
are all libel suits, as matter of course
We can't see at this distance from De
Moines, how man can claim damages 70
being called a Copperhead! Judas might
and perhaps Arnold, too, have got "dama
ges'' in their day, had they been mea,
, enough to have commenced prosecution
against their enemies. But how wretche
who neither fear God, nor have any loyalt..
: in their bosoms, and are stepped in tn
J pool of hellish infamy, are to get ''dama
! ges'' for characters sullied by an expose c
\ their infamy, is beyond our powers Of con
4 4 ception. If Heaven, in its wisdom, wer
= to allow the internal regions to spew on
= it's damned of six thousand years, it coul
+ not show us a wretch more loathing an
;. debased, than he, who, in this hour of hi
y 30 &c frixyinr did III