The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-03

10 the entire ticket in 1864. We according
~ nnd Johnson in Lee county instructins
10 local speakers in that county to save the
county ticket and swell Tuttle's relative
vote by throwing Duncombe and Mason
overheard: Or. Durham, one of Johnson's
orators.tels inc people in the school houses
OF Lee county, that he believes Duncombe
and Mason are both disloyal, and that he
only asks the people to support the comfy
ticket and Tuttle. This game is being
played in almost every township in Lee
county. 1t will result in Tuttle's leading
Duncome in that county one hundred votes.
In the next State Convention we will see
johnson protesting that he stood by the
entire ticket, but found it impossible to in
duce the people to support Duncombe.
mis- game will not win. futile may lead
Duncombe in the State, but even this is
doubtful. The Byington wing have been
dragooned for the last time by the War
Hypocrites. He controlled the last State
Convention. Woods visit will make it
easier for him to control the next. Let
Johnson cut the throat of Duncombe. By
lngton will retaliate in 1864 in a manner
that will put quietus upon Johnson for
ever.-!Tate Register. .r- s -.
GILLMoRE's MARSH ANGEL" NEAR
CHARLEsToN.-'The Marsh Angel as
the Federals call the big gun of Gen, Gill
Fort Sumter to wake up some of our crit
les at nome to what is a fact in despite of
them. They have criticized the American
struggle throughout, as if it had been a
hoie ana corner intrigue Of half a dozen
politicians, instead of grand and conyul-
slve atonelnent to Nemesis for a national
mistake committed three generations ago.
AS they have under estimated the civil con
test, so they have overlooked the Titanic
character of the military duel-peddling
ana muddllng over StrategieS on the map,
ana Dllnd, meanwhile, to the revolution
with these giant combatants are accom-
pllshlng in the art of warfare. The same
small critical faculty which sneers at the
passion OF people, and mistake it for the
intrigue OF back parlor, will, we dare
say, clatter about the fate OF Sumter, and
ignore the stupendous circumstances of its
iail. Ii the Americans are cain of beinq
oig, why not do them the Justice of con-
tossing that they attain that adjeettye. in
thet1 contentious, their sat6eringS and their
engines and methods of W01Jdre9 Twice in
me course Of this tWo gears stJqsogle Hey
haue altered the complexion Of the science Of
ueStfuctt0n-Once on the aOdter aud once on
me land. The Monitor and Merrimac con-
iessedly initiated new era in naval tao
Tics. The plates Of both are hardly rusted
yet by the salt water into which they went
down so soon; but already every country
that pretends to keep the sea armed is fit
tlng out vessels after their kind-ponder-
GUS Golaths IN iron, descended lineally
from the memorable fight in Hampton wa
ter. Now 1t is revolution in the art of at
tack by battery and defense by battlements
which these energetic fighters have deyei-
oped. Sumter is down-breabced and
shattered into such ruin that hardly one
stone stands upon another of the fort which
first flew the flag Of secession. And this.
q q tod f%sl l.
could be made TO float on ship board. has
been accomplished by enormous cannon
fixed on land battery, discharging bolt
OF two hundred pounds weight at range
of 4, 400 yards. ......
q Sir William Armstrong could
not have done this so soon, but he could
have done it; and Mr.. Whitworth would,
no doubt. make short work of even such a
place as Sumter. But neither of them has
yet shown us any thing like the range ana
accuracy, combined with sheer ruinous
force, Of Gilmore and and Dahlgren, for the
reason that their monstrous guns have
generally committed temporary suicide
at the few initiatory discharges. These
American officers have first in their pro.
tession laid, levelled, and kept at work
throughout three days, siege guns, the like
of which, for weight, were last used when
Mahomet besieged Constantinople; and
there can hardly be moreimportant ques-
ton for country spending $4,000, 600
sterling in Notifications than "Can any
ship carry and work this sort Of artillery?'
Pending the facts and details, which can
alone enable us, as regards this splendid
passage of scientific warfare, to do more
than wonder and wait, one fact, already
known, is very well worth signalizing.-
Four hundreds yards away from Gilmore's
forwardest sap were the embrasures of
another fort-"Battery Wagner'-whileI
Sumter, as we have said, was two or three |
miles Of. The same ponderous guns |!
might have been turned upon Wagner at
two hundred yards less space than ordina-
~ preaching distance in past wars
But because Battery Wagner is an earth
work, Gilmore is sapping up to its face
10 take it by storm, while his great can
mons are resting idle after their triumph,
because all they could do would be to
knock the slim slopes and glacis Of the
work into cooked hat'' of scattered |
,and-as serviceable for defense as before.
Is not this one fact trumpet-tongued as to
he method of resisting such artillery
The sand heaps that an army can throw up
or itself defy the tumbling masses of
ron, and even the volcano-like exploding
'hells, masonry and brick. upon which we
ire spending so much precious money,
,oes down before them. OF course there
ire spots-and Sumter's ruined founda-
d
ison must live as well as fight, and where
permanent work is indicated. But if
Battery Wagner falls by storm, amid the
lence of those tremendous pieces that
wept rebelliOus Sumter from the face of
t. artificial island, we shall assuredly a, k
gain whether the rage for trim brick
ayers and masons' work has not made
'ur departments and the Government a
title oblivious of what earth and sand can
10 with classmates and stout hearts behind
Telegraph, Sept. 9th.
Union Meeting at Pilot Grove.
The meeting held here on this day, the
9th September, was most glorious sue
eSs.
1t was delayed some three hours, in con-
equence of an accident happening to the
peakers from Fort Madison. They, how
yer, at length arrived, and the people re- t
aired to the school house at about four g
clock. Mr.. N. NJ. Cowles was chosen S
President, and the undersigned Secretary. i
]pon consultation it was deemed best, ow-
ng to the lateness of the hour, to have
ong and short speech, and then adjourn h
ntil evening. Accordingly Prof. Cham t
erlain, of New York, was called upon for @
cnpc ,,I roan>n1oH after "a hiph ha do