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The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

@- Mr.. B. F. Taylor, correspondent Of
the Chicago Journal, writing from the
Army Of the Cumberland, on the 5th inst,
is responsible for the following. The facts
he states supply further illustration OF
the nature and humanizing influence OF
that new civilization of which we have
heard so much:
That nearly all our gallant, noble dead
remain unburied on the field of Chicamau-
ga must send a thrill of horror through
the land; that they lie where they fell, ap-
palling and CHASTITY objects, denied the
poor hospitality of the grave-digger, and
offending the sunshine. The words 'man''
and humanity" should be blotted out OF
rebel lexicons. How shall l say it?-the
birds of prey settle upon that field and
swine fatten their way through the fallen
ranks of glory! have this from sources
too many and direct the horrible assertion
is not shaded by a doubt. And yet, the
rebels passed days in picking up fragments
OF iron, broken arms, anything that could
possibly be made of use, with which the
field was strewn, and were only driven off
when all the heavy air was poisoned bv the
unburied dead. "Look on this picture
and on thts::' day before yesterday the gal
liant HOOker's Federal soldiers consumed
the hours in giving burial to the rebels
who fell in the recent battle. Are the feet
of the avenging gods shod with wool, that
we cannot hear their steps upon the
threshold, Fastening to punish the incredi-
BILE barbarity of those traitors whose guns
are playing as I wrlte-traitors to Govern
ment, GoD and mankind. B.F. T.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21
For the HaWk-Eye.
DENMARK, LEE COUNTY, Iowa,
Nov. ii, 1868,

DENMARK, LEE COUNTY, IOWA,
Nov. ii, 1868.
Mr.. EDIToR-Allow me, an sold head'
to occupy small space in your excellent
paper, for the purpose of giving to the pub
lie the results of the last election, here in
Denmark Township, Lee Co., Iowa.
You must remember, however, that this
men as volunteers, under the several calls
of the President, within the past three years,
said number being over mtg per cent. of the
entire voting population. At the last cleo
ton, this township polled one hundred and
sirty vOtes, exclusive of those Of the soldiers,
some thirty of these were Democratic, there
fore leaving a Republican majority for the
Union, of one hundred loyal uotes.
Therefore you will perceive that the peo-
pie here at home, are determined to rally to
the support of those who have gone out in
the service of their Country.
"The Union nolD and forever"
Truly yours, ''Vox PopULI."
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

WANTED.-A preacher who will preach
neither Politics nor Religion. Such q one
will meet with the hearty approval and
everlasting good will of the chief rulers OF
the Democratic party in this Iocality,-
Wdppeto Republican,. .E
One of thesame sort will find number
of slao-sided, lantern jawed, white-l ivered
countarfeits of the DEVILS worst assort-
ment OF, traitors in Davis county, among
whom hecould starve to death in a very
short time, Send him around. - URfoR
Guard. lH IG % gsa- $3.50 -. Uss"a .
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

N- The Steamer Sunny Side, was burn
ed on the 18th inst, little north of Mem
phis. A large number of passengers were
on board bound for Cairo, of whom thirty
or forty, mostly women and children, were
lost. The boat had 1890 bales of cotton on
board, which were set on fire it is reported
by sparks from the chimney. The boat
and cargo of course were totally destroyed.
1t seems that steamboatmen on the Mis-
sissippi have not all discovered that cotton
will burn! So thirty or more lives are
sacrificed to teach the lesson. Isn't it
rather dear?
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

~ In New York City events are Just
now Of the most Striking character. The
machinists, the car drivers, and host of
mechanical trades, are indulging them
selves in ''strikes'' for higher wages. This
would seem to indicate that they are all
having a hard time of it. The fact is the
very opposite. They have plenty of en-
ployment. There is more demand for
their labor than there are hands to do it.
And this is the true cause of the ''strikes."
II the laborers in these departments of in
dustry were numerous-if the markets
were over-supplied-"str strikes would not be
heard of. The trouble is, there is more for
all to do than they are able to accomplish.
They, therefore, demand higher wages and
we presume will get what they ask. If
their wages are too low, it would have been
better for employers to have increased them
without compelling resort to this mode of
equalizing demand and supply. It would
have avoided much unpleasant feeling and
proved mutually advantageous. But
somehow it constantly happens that men
who are making money on rising markets,
neglect to realize that those whose labor
makes their pursuits profitable, ought also
to share in the profits. They find it out
sometimes in an unpleasant way, and then
wish they had been wiser. But greed must
at last feed on itself.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE.

TO Somebody proposes, through the
National Intelligenceg, to raise fund OF
two thousand dollars, to be given for the
best original National Ode, written by q
native of this country and introducing a
new name for the Republic, and another
thousand for the best acceptable original
Air composed by native!
This somebody seems to think that mon
ey will evoke song, worthy of the land
and inspire the music that will float it
down the tide of Time in blissful immor-
tally. He is mistaken. He will be able
to get any quantity of verses. But the Ode
will never be indited on such stimulous.
We shall have one some of these days. 1t
will come up out of some patriotic soul I'M
sought and unbidden, because it is there
and must be heard. It will hardly be re-
cognized by its happy author; but the peo-
pie will catch at it, it will reach their
hearts, it will manifest it's fitness, and will
become the voice of the Nation. No song
was ever written on purpose, that was
worth the singing. The genuine lyric is
the utterance of the soul that cannot be
suppressed, and is sung for the same rea-
son that the bird MARBLES to it's mate or re-
joices in it's flight. We shall find such a
one in time. But we shall never manutac-
tire it if we try till dooms-day. 1t don't
happen to be manufacture. It will not
be bought and cannot be concealed.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

~ Manila is reported to have been de-
stroyed by terrible earthquake early in
July last. Nothing was left standing of the
city but single church and ten thousand
OF the citizens are said to have been killed,
The report is said to have come from COM
mander Baldwin of the Vanderbilt. We
think it rather apochryphal.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

re- Some of our Iowa boys are now in
Texas. 1t is said that regiment from
Maine and one from this State landed first
on the Texas shore under Banks, and I'M
furled their flags almost simultaneously
Thus the extreme East, and the extreme
West this side of the Mountains, stand to-
gether in the extreme Southwest of the
Union, moving unitedly towards the over
throw of rebellious usurpation in that Sec
ton. We don't believe that either of these
regiments will be anxious to turn the 9TH
er "out in the cold"
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

va A dispatch from Knoxville, East
Tennessee, of the 18th, states that the mum.
Der of Union troops captured at Rogers
vile, some days previous, was much less
than at first reported. Instead CT being
800 the actual loss was but about 800. A
large proportion of those at first missing,
instead OF being in the hands of the rebels,
made their escape into the mountains and
afterwards succeeded in reaching their
regiments. AIS . A.-. ,.t.-.. s....
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21
Quota of Henry County.

Below we print the quota of Henry coun-
ty, which had not been apportioned among
the Townships, when we published those
for the other Counties of the First District.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21
ms It was reported the other day Il

rs 1t was reported the other day tina
important rebel dispatches had been cap
tured on one of the blockade runners
which didn't run the blockade. Among
them are letters from Mason, duplicating
the late Lord Mayor of London in official
completely with running the blockade,
other letters showing in detail the negotia-
tons with parties in London for con-
structing ships, importing into the "Con-
federacy" contraband of war, &C., and two
long and important letters from Edward
De Leon, rebel agent at Paris, one to JEFF.
Davis and the other to Benjamin. These
letters discuss the foreign aspects of Dixie,
and amidst great deal of very plain talk
about late events, confesses that there is no
more hope of French Intervention than of
English, and not the slightest Of either
The rebel agent thinks that the Emperor
is and has been amusing himself with the
hopes and credulity of the men of Dixie
while grinding his own grist in Mexico
He seems to have lost confidence in that
ruler, and does not appear to be in either a
very pleasant or hopeful humor. All of
which will delight JEFF. and Benjamin
when they get the letters by the round
about way of the Northern newspapers.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

nc Howell Cobb is in the rebel army
We are not told whether he is Corporal
Captain, Colonel, or General. He was "Old
Bucks Secretary of the Treasury, in
which capacity he did good service TO the
rebel cause prospectively, by his almost
successful efforts to bankrupt the nation.
We must confess that he exhibited some
wisdom in not undertaking to manage the
finances of Dixie. We don't know that he
was invited to do so. Perhaps JEFF. Davis
thoughtmore of Mr.. Memminger's capacity
and tact. We don't suppose that any one
could have been successful in that sphere.
But Memminger has faculty of always
making bad unimaginably worse. Wedon't
complain of it, and we guess Cobb don't
either.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

WA suit has just been instituted in
London against Lord Palmerston, the mo.
raj and virtuous as well as venerable Eng.
lish Premier, in which that distinguished
vendor of moralitg in quantities to suit is
charged with adultery. So says London
correspondent of a st. Louis paper under
date of Oct. 22d. That is pleasant posi-
ton for the Palmerston, if the report be
true
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

Va The people Of Henry County have
taken hold of the recruiting business in
earnest. A series of meetings will be
held to encourage enlistments in each
Township, commencing in Mount Pleasant
Tomorrow evening. That is one mode OF
doing it, and we doubt not it will prove
successful.
@~ Calico is said to be selling in Mobile
at the moderate price of eight dollars a
yard. That is not attributable there. we
pursume, to any scarcity of cotton. Here
it is worth twenty-five cents, and that be.
| cause cotton IS scarce. Ought we to grum
BILE?
&a-Col. Stone, Governor elect of this
State, is now at Des Moines. The State
Register says he is making arrangements
to reside there; at least during his official
term. That is where the Governor should
reside, while in Office. syn u *si8
~-We find the following rich item in
the Chicago Journal of Friday last. It will
amuse the people OF the 7th Judicial Dis.
trict of Iowa exceedingly:
| hon. JOhn L. Dlllon, Judge OF the 7tl
Judicial Circuit of the State, having re.
signed, Gov. Yates has appointed J. Scot
Richmond, ESD, of Rock Island, to fill the
vacancy until successor can be elected
next November. a.r
~- The 18th Illinois Cavalry and thu
10th Pennsylvania Cavalry, have re-enlist
ed, as veterans, and have received theil
advance pay, bounties, and gone into tn,
field. Both regiments are in the Army o
the Potomac 1t seems to US that this is ,
good example. Regiments that have seer
service and are already at the seat of war
by thus volunteering, not merely secur,
good soldiers to the cause, but save til,
Government the, expense of sending ON
soldier home aud another tothe field, ~
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

~ An old man, who said his name was
HELw1G Koch, attempted to drown him
self, at Chicago, on Mondry morning last.
He was rescued from the water, and on
his revival, gave his name as above, said
he had arrived from Germany but two
months since, had been in search of friends
whom he was unable to find, was out OF
means and in poor health, and so had con-
cluded to put an end to his life. Perhaps
his attempt will be the means of ascertain
ing the whereabouts of the friends he was
seeking.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

Sa- A Washington correspondent writes
that near eighteen hundred thousand negro
slaves have been sent into Georgia and AL
ALBANIA, by rebel owners in Kentucky.
Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi!
This story is no doubt in part true. Large
numbers have been sentthere. Butthe num-
Der stated is much greater than all the
States named contained according in the
census ofls60, People who tell such yarns
ought to consult the documents. There is
no need of exaggerating facts which are
black enough without it.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

rs Our readers have discovered that
Gen. Banks in person, with the number OF
troops which could be transported on twen-
ty vessels, have reached the Rio Grande
and landed with the view of marching on
Brownsville. This movement, successful
as it will probably prove in it's immediate
aim, will result likewise in the complete
shutting up of the whole Confederacy"
from all certain communication with the
outside world. All the rebel forces West of
the Mississippi will be deprived of the sup
plies of guns, powder, and clothing, and all
the materials of war which hitherto they
have freely drawn from Mexican territory.
The trade in that quarter, and for such pur-
poses will beended until the close of the war.
and all the rebels in arms in that section,
hard up" as they now are, will yerv
shortly find themselves in still less COM
Portable condition. Brownsville once in
in our possession our vessels of war will
be able to run up to that point and enable
small force to hold the place, while the
balance are engaged in possessing the ada
cent country.
All this is good to think Of It is COM
forting to know that the traitors have been
struck once more in vitalspot, and anoth-
or long stride taken toward the ultimate
triumph of the Union armies and the over
throw of the hidious conspiracy and treason
against the Republic.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

missouri will again be represented
in the United States Senate at the next ses-
SION. b. Nratz Brown and John B. Hen
derson are the newly elected Senator'S
Mr.. Brown is perhaps the very ablest man
in Missouri, and will do honor to the posi-
ton he has been called to fill. OF Mr..
Henderson we know less, but if his views
and character compare favorablv with
those of his brother Senator, the Senate
will have an accession of two members O,
whom it and the country may be proud
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

~ If the ebelS are now out Of meat-if
it be true that East Tennessee is, as they
say, the source of supply for this essential
of war, how long can they manageto main
tain their armies with that region in our
possession? It is easy to understand that
cattle are found in Virginia and North
Carolina, probably somewhat in excess OF
the needs of the persons still to be fed al
home. But this excess is small and of it.
elf will not go far towards supporting the
army But in all other parts of dear, de-
lightful Dixie, east of the Mississippi and
south of Tennessee, the production Of beef
and pork has ever been much less than the
demand. However the people may have
sought to increase this production, it is
scarcely possible that they have been able
to make it equal to their own home require.
ments. Texas, Tennessee and Kentucky
formerly sent them innumerable droves OF
cattle and hogs. All these sources are now
cut off. The result is that there is q meat
famine all over southern and eastern Dixie.
It is scarce everywhere, as itsprice demon
strates. 1t is scarcest in Richmond. for
army exhausts it all and still hungers after
more.
If the want is now felt with so serious an
effect, how will it be through the winter,
in the coming spring, and the succeeding
summer? The armies cannot exist with
out beef and pork-or at least good sup
ply of one or the other. If we continue to
hold East Tennessee, as we doubtless shall,
where is the beef and pork to come from
1t cannot be had at all-and the result is,
that the rebel armies must be disbanded,
simply because these essentials to their
maintenance are wanting. This is one OF
the important reasons for keeping firm
hold on East Tennessee. Perhaps it may
prove the most important.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

s-Our telegraphic dispatches say that
Gov. Gamble, of Missouri, has some no.
ton of resigning. We should like to see
him resign, and hope he may be encour-
aged to do so. However, if the Blair fami-
ly continue to run the Missouri DEPART
ment, we fear his successor will be no bet
ter.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

@-We are glad to see that reliable,
unconditional Union paper is about to be
established at Louisville. This is good
move. The Journal, although its editor
has been fiattered, and pampered by the
Administration, has been only nominally
loyal. 1t has been in favor of putting down
the rebellion, but opposed to every mea-
sure adopted for that end, and has done all
it could to defeat us in every election
Prentice is an intense Copperhead.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

~ Hutchlns publishes and endorses a
letter from one of his "Democratic''
friends, who says, "our platforms were
simply LIES; ne did not believe and of
course could not expect anybody else to
believer ..-
The trouble with this correspondent, as
with Hutchins himself, is that the plat
forms of the so-called Democracy, were
not bold and defantly enough against the
war. There was too much loyalty in
them, too little sympathy for rebels and
traitors. Our readers know how much, or
rather how little, loyalty was contained in
the Iowa platform of the Copperheads.-
But that infinitely microscopic proportion,
according to these ardent peace-on-any-
terms men, was 'lie :" They knew it
was ''lie' at the time. They "did not be-
lieve" in it, and could not expect any
body else to believe in itv' If people want
a better exposition of the perfidy of the
Copperhead leaders of Iowa than this we
are at loss to know how they can have it.
1t is not often that men will openly confess
their perjuries, their treacheries, their
deliberate purpose to deceive the people,
But here it is in black and white. They
seem anxious to confirm all that has been
uttered or written of their reasonable in
tent. Their platform was "LLE'' SO far
as there was any loyalty in it. That is
their own story. Can honest men doubt
any longer? Will they trail after such
villains when they thus make parade of
their guilt? If men do, can they COM
plain if the villains act out their mon
StrOuS DurDnSpSS ..
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

~ The Chicago Tribune of Sunday. has
chapter of horrors, which sufficiently
proves that that place is really great city.
A suicide, wife murdered by her husband,
child killed by its father, two railroad
accidents, in which man and boy were
hurried to their graves, and two or three
other attempted atrocities, make up the cat
alogue of crimes for single day. That
ought to suffice for the demonstration OF
the old remark that large cities are huge
cancers on the body polite.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

~ 1t is said that in number of cleo
tons for members of Parliament, in Eng
lam, the voters in every instance have re-
quired the several candidates to declare
their opinions on the American question,
and each of the elections have uniformly
resulted in the success of the candidate
most favorable to the North and most OPP
posed to the rebels. The people are begin
ming to find out, even in England, which
side is the right side. This may be the rea-
son, too, why the ministry has modified it's
policy and begins to wish it had been lit
tie wiser in the beginning.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

~ The Radicals, Of st. Louis, are said
to be rejoicing most heartily over the cleo
ton of Brown and Henderson to the Senate.
The Copperheads and the Claybanks are
down in the mouth at the result. They tho't
Henderson one of the Gamble faction, and
are somewhat astonished that he is as
radically opposed to Gamble and his ideas
as B. Gratz Brown himself. That suits us.
We don't know much about Mr.. Hender-
son, but if the Copperheads and Claybanks
and other knaves unite in denouncing him,
we presume it must be because he is an
able and loyal man.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

~ Rev. DR.. Bellows, President of the
Sanitary Commission, acknowledges in a
warm and eloquent letter, the receipt of
$s,267 20, from Miss Charlotte Cushman, be-
ing the proceeds of FIVE dramatic represent
tations, at Boston, New York, Philadelphia
and Washington. This sum is said to be
but small part of the contributions she
has made to the cause since the war began.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

@s~ Judge Belts, Judge of the District
Court ofthe United States at New York CITY
decided that citizen of one of the States
IN rebellion, could not be party plaintiff
or demanding relief in that Court, at all
events while .the rebellion continues. In
the case OF the United States VS.. 1856 shares
OF the Capital Stock of the Great Western
Railroad Co., &c, one lie Roy M. Wiley, of
Alabama, put in an answer, claim, and APP
pearance, which, on motion, We're ordered
to be struck from the files, on the ground
that he could not be a party TO the action,
being disqualified by the rebellious stains
! Of his State. 8i b1a gEl 5al ss Es Jt -
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

s-The Cincinnati Gazette publishes a
list of the counties of Ohio with the num-
Der of volunteers and marines furnished
by each, as returned to the Auditor of State
by the County Assessors. The total num-
Der by these returns is 16O,sl8. 1t isn't a
bit astonishing that the Copperheads did
not want this enormous body of loyal men
to vote. But their votes were not needed.
There were men enough at home to put the
seal of condemnation upon the miserable
faction which, through. its traitorous lead
ers, sought to destroy the country.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-08
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