The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-04-04

Constitution and the Union will ever bs deemed
evidences of infdelity to Democratic principles,
or q want of loyalty to the organization and
creed Of the Democratic party. If We hope. to
regain and pefpetuate the ascendancy Of our
party, We should never forget that man cannot
be true Democrat unless he is . loyal patriot.
With the sincere hope that these, my consci-
encious convictions, may coincide with those Of
my friends, am, very truly, yours,
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.
To VIRGIL HIckox, ESQ.,, Chm State Democrat
The Condition Of she states n Rebellion.
EXTRACTS from Rebel Journalal
The Richmond Examiner Of March lS, speak.
ing Of JEFF. Davis Fast day. (to-morrow,) says:
"N seoGld nsw seem pro6abk that the Predicate
proelamat'e. for day Of fasting and prayer
might have been appropriately dated title earlier.
On the 18th Of March an appendix may b. nee-
essd'y for humiliation Over defeat or thanksgiv.
ing over avictory."
The Examiner Of the 18th also says they have
from all their armies, gratifying accounts" Of
their condition, but:
''The only point upon which there is room
for apprehension, is that oar forces may be forced
by rans of food for men and horses to relinQuish
the etrongholds from which the enemy could
never dislodge them, and that this is grave and
pressing danger We have many fears for believ
ing.
at ia q fact we'll known to the enemy as to
ourselves, that all The country in the oicinty Of our
armies has long been stripped Of its PROFESSIONS and
forage, and that these armies depend for their ezis-
tence and mainteaonce of their present positions
upon the railroads."
And further:
"7Ae Railroads in this State are on tie point of
giving out. They have decreased their speed to
ten miles an hour as maximum rate, and are
carrying twenty-five to fifty per cent less tun-
mage than formerly. This change in their rate
of speed and quantity offreight has been made
through necessity. The wood work of the reads
has rotted and the machinery has worn out, and
and owing to the stringent enforcement Of the
CONSUMPTION law as to railroad employees, the
companies have not been able, with oil their ef
forts, to supply either the one or the other
We are not informed of the actual condition of
the railroads in the more Southern States, but
conceive that they are little better of than our
own, except, perhaps, in the matter of negro
labor. The slaves along their routes may not
have had the same facilities for escaping to the
enemy, as in this State"
The Jackson Miss Appeal says:
= .
to the conclusion that ere great while Gene
Grams in battle, or fall back upon Chattanooga
The country would deploreithe necessity which
may force him to the adoption of the latter al
tentative. tits all-important that we continue
to hold Middle Tennessee and North Alabama,
otherwise shall find ourselves in straitened cir
cumstances for army supplies another gear hence
''The Federals are devastating the country
as they advance. rendering it impossible for
the farmers to raise . crop this season; aud to
blot out Middle Tennessee, Kentucky, North
Alabama and North Mississippi from the pro-
ducing sections of the Confederacy would be
more seriously felt than the loss of Richmond,
Charleston, Savannah or Vicksburg. 1t would
prove long step in the direction of our sue1uga.
ton BY starvation"
The Richmond correspondent of the Mobile
Advertiser, writing On Feb'y 22d, says:
"Liquor is sold openly in the city now, and
is productive Of vast amount Of crime. At
every bar hangs paper, upon which is print.
ed, BLOCKADE, seventy-6ve cents A small
wine. glass full is measured out for one s'block.
ade." The number of dens where the vilest of
apple-brandy is sold is astonishing. have
heard Of no repeal of the Liquor Law, and pre-
sumo the police, by tacit consent, have slack
ened their vigilance. Drunken men are daily
seen in the streets, many of them dressed in the
uniform of Confederate officers; and the Mayor $
Court shoes a sad record of the increased number
of schisky shoss. The new Richmond theater is
infested NTH drunken officers"
The Richmond Wing publishes the following
from farmer in Nelson County, Virginia,
dated March 10th:
"All impressment systems, the world round,
now and heretofore, amount to little more than
the plundering Of the agriculturist, for the ben
eft Of all other classes, and it must be go in all
time, as they are ordained to be the showers of
wood and drawers of water" for mankind! Yet,
| to crush them right away; to cut open the goose
for the egg is cxi 6onei Tile consumers, Gou-
ernneat and Others, may, in their might take Uhat
I have aow for nothing, 5u: id If they can
make me make rops-rip as they may. NJ"
A local item in the Richmond Wing says hot
coffee is sold 10 the restaurants OF that city at
one dollar per cup! In the Cotton States -four
ia selling at from $50 to SOS per barrel. At
Charleston the half.pound loaf is retaied at
t,oenty:eue centI At Montgomery, Alabama,
bacon is quoted at from Is cents to 81 per
''The Atlanta Intelligencer says commission
merchant in that city few days since sold eleven
barrels Of whisky for $4,000, being more than
800 per barrel.
''The hucksters demand 1926 per pound fol-
good butter in Richmond"
The Atlanta tGeorgia) Confederacy, of March
6, says:
"a poor co,rstry ,oonsan can't get 5unch 0,
thread for less than ten dollars, (laink of that t,oc
dollars pound; and cotton at Tie highest not NOR.
than eighteen to toevty cents poSnd' aud it sells
At eight dollars and a half per bunch by the
| bale" 4a
The same paper, speaking Of impressments O.
food by the rebel Government. says:
/ "7ne farmers bacon, corn, shucks, fodder, pora
hogs. and 6eeves, are seized"
| The Richmond Examiner of the 18th says tht
/ people will take effectual measures to presea
the Governwent from obtaining i0aat they prow
| through the country to seize for nockery o
payment"
The following description of the condition O
affairs discovered by our troops at Fernandina
Florida, which was recently occupied, cores
pondent of the New York World writes to tina
paper:
livery few male inhabitants were found in tn
town, every body capable Of bearing arms beinl
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