The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-01
Washingtep Correspondence.

try SO much lately that the readers of the
Hawk-Eye have missed my occasional cor
respondenee for period or, il. they have
not missed it, they have not had it.
Twas in New York city on the 4th of Ju-
ly, that carnival of the Democracy; for, in
New York, on the 4th, from sunrise to sun
set, you will not see solitary sample of
the arstocracy or of the better business
class of the city, or, in fact, single we'll
dressed person, of either sex, though the
streets are crowded as they are crowded on
no other day in the year: "What common
people,-I never saw such common looking
people in my life BEFORE" said my better
half, and she never puts on aristocratic
airs, or turns up her nose at the presence of
the multitude; the look of the crowd that
streamed up and down all day past the
Park was simply such as to attract her at
tention.
Invent to Barnum's, to see his humbue.
They had play there, that they called pa
thetic. And suppose it was so. But it
brought no brine to my eyes; yet while it
was going on, the manager came upon the
stage and announced the great victory of
Gen. Meade, in the somewhat exaggerated
form in which it was first reported. had
been three days on the water, away from
news. 1t was the first report of affairs
with the Army of the Potomac under his
command that had heard. Then the foun-
tains of feeling were unsealed. My eyes
gushed full of tears and my frame shook
with emotion. Oh! how infinitely more
tragic and touching are the actual occur
FENCES OF life in our country, in this our
age and day, than the weak inventions of
the most fertile fancy! How they dwarf the
subllmest 'lmaginings of the past! How
much fuller of grandeur and emotion and
significance they are!
But when came back, / saw cannon in
the Park, and soldiers pacing their beats,
instead of the common herd that filled it
when 1 last saw it,. / always despised New
York. / have lived there, and I know
what it is, by personal observation as well
as by common report. 1t is mean-spirit-
ed city. There is but little that is manly
or noble in it. There is plenty of upstart
pretention and gewgawgery there, and
much that is worthy of SO great mart of
trade and commerce. But after all it is
substantially populated by mercenaries,
funkies, and Williams, and the latter class,
by virtue of their character and beldness.
and the meanness of spirit of the remain
ing portion of the people, are allowed to
govern, and they long have governed it, in
manner becoming them. The only hope
see for that city is through those cannon.
mouths gaped wide; for they were of class
fitted for effectual work with grape and
canister. At every turn looked into them
with satisfaction and respect. They init
mated an awakening sense of the real char
acter of-the governing class in that city,
which ranges from Fernando Wood down
t0the glowering beast of the Five Points
have only to hope that if the late exhibit
&, ton OF it is not enough to open the eyes,
arouse the sensibilities, and impart de-
cent degree of manly sense to those who
have the chief pecuniary, personal and
moral Interest in the city, and who might
make it the pride and glory, instead of the
centre OF danger and shame to the country.
that then there will be more mobs and
more of those grim rulers of mobs to be seen
in its streets. But the moral sense of that
city Will never be elevated sufficiently for
that purpose until it is made to understand
that the difference between the Dean Rich
mond and Peter Cagger branch of the So
called Democratic organization, and that of
fernando Wood, is not difference of es-
sentlaI spirit, but of management, of poll
fy, and of boldness only; that it is secesh,
disorganlZlng, destructive, Godless-ali
of it.
: Between my two late views of New York.
INVENT up among the hills of New England.
saw old faces that had grown dim in the
mirror of my memory, l angled for front
under the dark shadows of spruces and
hemlock, where the sun of Summer is new
er felt among the black, moss-covered
rocks, where the cool, noisy waters furnish
an abundance OF those pleasant little eddies
so seductive to speckled- backs and so
charming to the disciples of of good Isaac
Walton. And the little crimson and gold
eolored fellows, are as sweet and toothsome
> as ever-as pleasant to the palate as they
are beautiful to the eve But what n diff
terent country was that from the broad and
fertile prairies of Iowa, over which had
lust careered in the midst of their green
fruitfuluess!
Yet here am again in this dusty and
steaming city. Iowa.
ny List of deceased soldiers who have
uid in Hospitals at st. Louis, Mo-, from
July 25 to July 90, 1853. Furnished by
Ihos. W. j. Long, (of Iowa. office No. 2,
Laelede block, Olive street, st. Louis, Mo.
July 25.-Richard Lansdon, f, I'D Ill.
secondary hemmorhage; Jas S Downward,
IL, S0th Ohio, Phthisis Pulmonalis; Chris
tan Crivity, X, 2lst Mo-, ditto; John King,
y, 18th Iowa, gunshot wound; L Miller.
ID, 7th Kansas, Chronic darrhea; John
Sauerteig, G., 18th NO., ditto; Newton
badgly, b, 10Th ILL.,, ditto.
July 26.-Giibert Crispin, E, 23d Iowa,
Chronic diarrhea; ID B Northup, A 18th
Wis.,, ditto; Chas. n. Shane, B, 10th ILL.,,
&bscess of the left knee; Edward Bosgood,
%, Sd Mo-, Phthisis Pulmonalis.
July A.-Chas A Hawkins, D, 35th Iowa,
a Shronic Diarrhea; Hiram Eggleston, b,
:oth ONO, ditto; J Schestiter, c, 18th Wis,
otto; Jas Perkins, G, Goth Ind, ditto; A
Casad, X, 4sth Ind, ditto; Eben Long
fellow, {, I'D Iowa, ditto; JOS Jepsohn, 81,
i2th Wis, ditto; Joshua Baker, II, 5th Mo.
, otto; c Williams, G, SD Mo-, Phthisis
ppumonalis; J w Rowson, G, lOlst ILL.,,
psarotitis; Robt Walton, X, 10th Ind, Ty-
phoid Fever.
July 2s:-Eiijah Lamar, f, 49th Ind,
Pneumonia; Adam Strain, B, 95th Ohio,
Chronic Diarrhea; Jacob Yount. C, 10Th |
No, ditto, Sergeant VIM H Elder, B, 10th
~, Gunshot wound; Sergt Ora b Doug
lass, ], lZ7th ILL.,, ditto; John M Mackin,
d, s7th H., Amputation left leg.
pu saly s oft 1a Mason, X $50 MI, Am
III, not stated Chas E Shipley, F, 18th o.
~ ~: Intermittent Fever; c j Brain, g, 18th
ps, Chronic Diarrhea; Oliver lawson
D'SSd H., ditto: Geo. Gellecheimer. A 1st
NO NO. Artillery, ditto; VIM III Fritz, G. seth
ND, Fistula and diarrhea-
HELP THE SICK AND WoUNDED.-The
following circular is published in the hone
tnat it, will produce worthy and and ac-