The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-19
Letter from Vicksburg.

YICKsBuRG, Miss, Aug. 80, 1863.
| Mr.. EDIToR-By favor of Miss Shelton
| of your City, send YOU d note. 1t is i'm
possible to send you the anews," hut Mad
Forts Wagner and Sumter have yielded to
Yankee Guns. Sic Stusto. write you
from Vicksburg, Quarters of the Iowa San
itary Agency. We revel in the 'Halls OF
the Montezumas." The chivalry have de-
parted. 1t is said they are out "hunting
up the Confederacy.n' Their fine and spa
cious palaces and rich gardens, are swarm
ing with yankees and Triggers" in
sometimes anything but blissful contigui.
ty, and some of them exulting in style OF
| magnificence that makes their heads
swim. 80" ~
| The 18th Army Corps, of which our Re-
giment forms part, is some IL miles in the
rear of the City-20 per cent are at home
| on furloughs, and still larger per cent,
probably, about to start home. Some 1G
to Is per cent have been transferred to the
Invalid Corps while about 2 to per cent
have lately been discharged. Our ranks
are thinning. Still more and more room
for conscripts. We shall greet them, well
csme. Only let them come quickly. The
work seems easier now, but still let them
come. Our faith grows strong. Republic
can Liberty is not failure. We shall not
perish but we shall make progress. The
naughty despots that gave tone to public
sentiment, and made it dangerous to have
an opinion in the South, are gone and their
power is broken. The land is free. We
inhale the genial zephyrs of a generous out
going humanity upon the soil, and in the
very palaces of the goddess Master who
recently "Lorded it over Gods heritage"
and flung his hate into the face of the
philanthropist, loyal and patriotic. The
poor African, SO lately an ignoramous
slave, is drafted into the service of the
country, dressed in the warriors custume,
and defended by the government. He is
in all the fundamentals of liberty peer in
the realm. His master is a fugitive seeking
protection from a fugitive Government,
and can never recover from the infamy of
his treason. God only knows what suffer-
ings the negro is yet to endure, but we re-
.cognize in these changes an over-ruling
Power, and permanent progress.
= The Administration is not so much what
it promised or expected to be, as it is what
it must be. The opposition to it, at times
seemingly formidable, has power enough
to organize in some sort the enemies Of the
country, and infamy enough to destroy the
unWary, but deserving few, who are be-
guiled by it. Take a few items,-what is
said publicly, suppose, may be repeated
without censure, especially if it be thought
to conserve the good of the country. ~.
Good evening Colonel" said Capt. -
of Gen. Crocker's Staff, to Col. Williamson,
of the Fourth Iowa. ''Good evening, Cap
we'll" ''What do you think of Gen'l Tut
tie, Colonel9" 81 think I can't vote for
him. "What does the General think ?''-
she thinks just as you do. He won't
touch him." ..r{ ,.e.. r. .,r-,i -. n.y.
/ have it from responsible parties that in
the opinion of the Magnates of the Army,
Gen'l futile has allowed his ambition so to
fn 1harr 1xy
his future prospects, as a partizan, but his
standing as a military officer. c"He aDiit
not again command a Diuisi07e,'' says one
who ought to know. she ought to resign"
said another, whose favor Gen'I futile can
not very well afford to loose, He has al
lowed himselfto be sacrificed, and we may
well regret it, for he deserves well of the
country. This was the expressed senti-.
ment of an interesting group, assembled
this afternoon, not far from the spot where
the symbol of our powerfloats to the breeze
over the city.s7G en'l Tuttle is a good man,
and true to the country, doubt not, said /,
to soldier democrat, but he is IN bad CONF
pany. True saidehe, but 50 are the other
candidates. I think as little of an Adolf
ZIONIST as any body can of Copperhead. 1
think Ishall vote for him." Every other
democrat to whom 1 have mentioned the
subject, and have spoken with several,
openly declares opposition. no. ,u.. 49,.
These straws may indicate the currents
of the flood about to sweep over Iowa
Treason in it's terrible. consequences, as
they may be seen at this moment, in the
sickening horrors of war throughout the
country, but especially here in the South,
is too damaging to be touched or trif1ed
with. Why do not men see it? The bril-
liant fame and commanding talents of Cor
win scarcely saved him from the infamy of
doubtful sympathy with the MeXicans-
q, NOT hwy in and +al ba
still budding hopes of his proud but over
reaching ambition, and we may expect
that the time is not far distant, when all
this sympathy with the rebellion, if it does
not hang it's unfortunate victims, will at
least bury them and consign them to polit-
ical oblivion. a.. ,-,o.-sr ..r.,...
r But took up my pen to write a word
concerning the Sanitary Commission. Sol
diers don't differ much either in politics or
religion, and have quite as much interest
in the continued success of the benevolent
Sanitary Commission, and the progress of
their arms, as they have in the squabbles
of sects and parties. The appearance, the
other day, of Mrs. Wittenmeyer and Miss
Shelton in camp on their errand of mercy,
elected the liveliest interest among the sol
diers. Their words of cheer and assurance
that their friends in Iowa cherished the pa
triot soldier and would give substantial
proof of 1t, fell in sweet accents upon the
heart. Any thing to awaken sweet melno-
ries, and link back the soul to its earlier
bliss is timely and grateful to the lonely
don't say poor soldier, and rouses within
him Steiner fortitude and brighter cheer
fulness for the time to come. But some
thing good to. eat heralded by generous
hearted, sympathising ladies' is a dual
blessing, provided it is not "gobbled up
before it reaches its benevolent destination.
If they had done no more than to stand up
before the sick soldier as the representa-
tives of grateful and patriotic people, and
remind him as they failed not to do, that
he is looked to as their pride and defense
in this hour of danger, their mission would
not have been in vain.
But i was especially pleased with the
| earnest effort Mrs. Wittenmeyer seemed to
be making to secure to the soldiers, what
the bounty of their friends had bestowed.
In giving assurance of large supplies, and
the fact that a generous people was willing
to replenish and renew them, in suggest
ing to the officers the best means of obtain
ing them, and the best method of distribu-
ting them. She has rendered, doubt not