The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-02-14

From the army orshe Frontier.

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Correspondence Of the Chicago Evening Journal.
3,,s4, HEADaUARTERs srH AID era DIv1sIoss,)
Army or fHE FRoSrlfR, s.
CAMP CURTIS, MArsTILLE, ARK, Jan. 26 J.,
q A bright, warm sun, almost q cloudless sky,
and and the green grass bringing up beneath your
be rarity to you cold blooded Noftherners.-
Don't take o6ense-Ifor some one has said
e 'i'g"The coldin CLINE are cold in blood. ygl
The Dixieites most religiously believe this to
DC fact. The real, genuine, Southern-raised,
uneducated whites entertain an opinion Of North.
ern people anything but complimentary to even
the worst specimens Of the human race. 'oy, :.
appreciated the compliment paid u the
other day by one Of the softer sex, in apswer 70
ii.Hov, abe liked the looks Of tie Feds ~ She
replied, "Wall now, stranger, since YOU vanter
know, jist allow to tell yer. / was bornd and
raised real Southern woman, and think that :
niger hadn't orter be on . level !; but YOU ri.
ding, pin making, collaborating, abolition Yau.
kees think they had; 90 you zee, iist think,
from the bottom Of my heart, that II there is .
difference 'twixt you and the niger. the niger
hss right smart chance the advantage ssBul-
~ for VOW r. said ], and then she took . pinch
Of snpf that would have sncezed an elephsnt
for half an hour, without even winking q Il /
passed on with the advance guard. but heard
the poultry screaming terrifcally in. the rear.
caused, probably, BY the nnusuA sight OF. blue
coats, or in derision of the Feda I. ~.
Hardly day passes but our forage train is
fred into by the shwhackers To-day We
brought down couple Of these birds Ii the
most approved style. They generally pay for
their temerity severely. You would shudder, TO
pass over, this country and witness the horrid
condition Of afairl s 'sBresd I" il now the cry
from all quarters, and hundreds are applying 10
our lines for, something to eat. You viii rsi
member that in former letter predicted the
approach Of the "evil genius, Of war" He 10
here famine il sitting upsn the thresholds Of Il.
most every cabin in the country. All must dee
before him, and where can they 60 but to our
lines? Many Of these deluded people have n.
ready emigrated half dozen times "a. get be.
yond our reach. We find them oil. the way
from Northwestern Missouri, having moved
from point TO point, thinking 70 fnd place Of
safety aud rest but, alas our armies have
hunted them TO their last hiding places. ~
i Farther retseatis hopeless. and they now come
and ask US to help them to 60 North. Poverty
stricken, slmost without clothes or food, we are
lSVupOnCV w BtvO SuCtu AoAOAe blu oSAN geASAAs
forward in our empty commissary trains. They
60 back a wiser, and, ! hope, better and more
loyal people. Almost every day the Commander
is in receipt of notes from those who have been
in the bushes" for months, asking if they may
come and give themselves up and have their lives
spared. This shows the approaching dissolution
of the rebel cause In this country, and thus will
i. terminate, throughout our whole lines, if Our
Generals will only pull of their gloves and deal
with rebellion and treason % if it were crime
endangering the existence Of the nation. Two
days ago We sent heavy scouting party in the
direction of Taliqus and Park Hill, in the Cher
okee Nation, under the command of Lieut.. Col.
Downing, Cherokee officer of fine ability. We
are compelled to send forward subsistence to
many loyal families there, who are in state Of
entire restitution. What few small bands there
are now in the country are committing robberies
upon all classes of people. They are dressed in
our army clothes, and pass themselves az Feds,
or Kansas Jayhawkers.a The greater portion of
Col. McIntosh's Cherokee and Greek regiment
will come to US the frst opportunity Colonel
Sandwiches regiment is in about the same con>
dition. They have not over $50 men each, and
those tired of the rebel service. ri
Hiudman is said to be lowering along the Ar
kansas river, above Little Rock, afraid TO make
any demonstration north, and not able to take
his forces much further east. His Missouri and
Arkansas troops refuse to fight east Of the
Mississippi river. Marmaduke has two or three
thousand cavalry in the vicinity of Clarksville,
below Van Buren,. We have just learned that Q
band of wild marauding Indians, Kickapoos,
Osages and Kecheis are in camp nearly west of
this, some 40 miles, on the Verdigris river, in
the Greek Nation. They will soon be routed
News Just in from Fort Gibson and the Creek
Agency say that the rebel forces have all fallen
back to Red river and Doggy. Depot. ais2,
The refugee Indian families now in Southern
Kansas will probably 60 to their homes early in
the spring. The total of their number must be
about twelve thousand. These, at the present
time, are being fed and partially clothed at the
expense of the Government, but the amount will
be taken from their annuity money, upon final
settlement.
As soon as the grass starts in the spring, suf-
fcient to eubsist the ponies, the grand cavalcade
will take up it's line of march, and make the eff
fort to raise crop upon their own lands To
this end, this division of the Army of the From,
tier is working, and. unless the rebels can mass
a much larger army than We now think, the OBJ
ject viii be attained.
Is UNANIMITY POSSlBLE3
y Those Who look for unsnimity in the action Of
the people on the, present w:r, count upon a
perfection Of humanity which never yet existed
in the history of nations, and which, in the nature
of things, is never possible. Never was there .
nationality which, in the midst of the most dire
calamity Of war, was completely united. The
sel6shness Of individuals, the ambition of party,
&c ntap-