The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21
ne Gen. Sherman is reported to have

ne Gen. Sherman is reported to have,
formed junction with Gen. Thomas
We hope the report is correct. If so, we
Judge that Gen. Grant is now in force suffi-
cient to manage Bragg's rebel army in any
mode he may deem expedient. But we
confess that we have not the utmost conf
dence in its truth. Our last reports from
Sherman placed him long distance from
that consummation, with an extremely
i'hard road to travel' before him. Still,
it is some time since we had information
of his movement by way of Memphis, and
the statement may be considered within
the bounds of possibility.
If this junction has been accomplished,
in all human probability the next battle
about Chattanooga will be participated in
by numerous regiments of Iowa soldiers.
In the former conflicts there was none
That they will give good account OF
themselves we have no doubt, whenever
called upon, and we shall be sure to have
letters from that quarter detailing the ac-
ton of our brave troops and awarding
them due share of the glory they will be
sure to earn. But the Richmond papers
hint that Bragg is falling back, which, if
true, means that Lee is to be reinforced in
the hope of overpowering Meade. We
don't credit their story. But we shall not
be surprised to hear that the next battle is
fought by Burnside somewhere about
Knoxville. That is the flank movement
we suspect they are aiming at.
1 There is a proposition before the City
Council of st. Paul, to loan five hundred
thousand dollars, in City Bonds, to the
Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad
Company, on condition that it will con-
struct and put in operation, within five
years, a road between that place and Lake
Superior. The local papers are said to OPP
pose it. We should think SO. That sort Of
hocus-pocus ought to be about played out.
If the road will pay, let private individuals
do it. If it won't, lst it alone. And II 1t
won't pay, the Company will get the bonds
and won't build the road. Nobody ever
heard of Railroad Company performing
such contracts. They gobble the bonds,
and the public whistle for the road. a7iJ IT.
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Mr Alexander county, the extreme
south of Egypt in Illinois, two or three
years since was unanimously Democratic
At the recent election it came within seven;
votes of regulating the factionists who rail-.
ly under that name. The Illinois papers.
say that the better opinion is, that at tie
late election Egypt, as a whole, gayea,
Union majority, though the vote has notaH
come in. If that idea turns out to be true,
what a wonderful change in public opiniop,
throughout that region it will demonstrate
1t will be more of marvelth the change
in Maryland, for in Maryland the people
have had the question brought home to
them in a practical shape, and they have
been compelled to meet and decide upon it.
~ Peter Cooper, the lifelong Democrat
of New York city, one of it's best citizens,
and whose wisdom and philanthropy find
an enduring monument in the Cooper H.
stitute, his self-supporting and perpetual
benefaction to the poor of that city, has
written another letter to the President ap-
proving Emancipation and the enlistment
Of negroes for the war. He thinks that
within ten years the people Of the South
will erect monuments in commemor alton
of their deliverance from Slavery! They
doubtless will do so if they have any sense
at all left them. But still we shall expect
to see the late 'slave-owners hungering
for the ''fesh-pots of Egypt" even then,
and the Copperheads also,-these latter, Of
course, have less brains than their mas
tiers. Et G'zt@ -.'.a p" ..'.si se5a .lE
R- The miserable Copperhead leaders
who set on their pack Of ours to howl Sab
olitionist' at all the defenders fthe Union,
as their friend Beauregard told them, have
made as many Abolitionists in the North
as the rebels have in the South. Southern