The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-14

Augusta,
Union, ~
Total, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ............... lo1
This apportionment, based, we believe,
upon the number of persons enrolled in
each Township, will enable the people OF
any locality to understand precisely what
work is required to enable them to fill their |
quota and avoid the draft. All they have
to do is to unite and labor together for the
desired end, and they will accomplish it.
Mr.. Harper, the recruiting officer for this
County, has already entered upon his la
bors, and all who know him need no assur-
ance that he will prosecute them with en-
ergy. His office in this city will be an
nounced as soon as he is able to secure a
suitable one. Meanwhile any who wish to
volunteer will find him at the office of the
Provost Marshal. Volunteers need not de-
lay moment in offering themselves, and
all accepted will be credited to the Town
ship of their residence.
Let us al do our duty in encouraging
volunteers. We think this will ensure the
full quota of the County in very short
are not, who are disposed to do otherwise,
it will be we'll for them to remember that
the law provides severe penalties against
those who in any mode discourage enlist
ments.
m~ If it be true, as reported, that the
French Government has seized six iron
clad rams building at Bordeaux and Nam
ties for the Rebels, what will these latter do
and say about it? There has been an inn
mense amount of coquetting going on be-
tween jeff. Davis pet ambassadors and
the French Emperor and his minister's
The "Confederates'' have been pretty con-
fident that this CHILLING and cooing'' would
result in regular match in due season,
and meanwhile Louis Napoleon would
avoid all interference with any such slight
evasions of neutrality as the building of
ships of war for the brazen harlot he had
determined to take to his virtuous en-
brace! What will the miserable strumpet
do when she finds that her last hope is
gone? What consolation is there for this
"unkindest cut of ALL dealt. in the very
hour of her deepest trial, by the one in
whom she had trusted, and upon which
she supposed she might rely for future
support through all extremities? If the
report is true, what a "gnashing of teeth,''
what torrent of billingsgate will soon
flow from the land of Dixie! How the
knaves will curse the hand that has thus
betrayed them! How they will execrate
their own folly! Won't they understand
%1,n ell &c <ho o1l NJ, DIT
not your trust in Princes?' We hope it is
true. 1t will be pleasant to see the trait
ors rave, and what will come of it. They
deserve it all,-and more.
rs In eighteen States which have held
elections within the past seven months, the
majorities on the side of the Country foot
up to the modest figure of Four HUNDRED
AND THIRTY THOUSAND. What do you
think of that, MIR. Butternut? Will it do?
Is it satisfactory? Does it promise much
comfort to the faction which, last winter,
got so elated that it was outspoken in its
declaration that it would carry the North
west into the ConfeJeracy? Are your pros
poets as encouraging as you thought? Do
you think you will succeed? Don't you
wish you had been wiser and kept dark
until you got out of the woods? You
thought you were out, but we guess you
have found that you were slightly deceived
~- Ever since this civil war began, the
wise men of the London Times have in
dulged lin sundry special Vaccinations in
regard to the movements Of our armies,
which,. altogether and in each particular,
have run counter to the facts. The last of
its false predictions which has reached us
was based on the late foot race between
Meade and Lee from the Rapidan towards
Washington. The Times knows all about
the meaning of the movement, which was
incomprehensible to. all outside the army
on this side the "Big Drink" and said
there was to be another fight at Bull Run,
where, for the third time, the Union forces
were to be fused up byLee instanter! We
don't know what the Times thinks of the
movement now. We suppose it has crawl
ed out Of its position in some mode, and
found a new matter to croak over. But the
the Times has demonstrated, long since,
the highest title to the name of Butternut.
1t lies all the time by instinct, and like
other Butternuts, never repents and never
learns wisdom from its failures. 1t ought
to know that its knowledge of this country
and its people, their motives, purposes and
resolves, is altogether so meagre as to be
unworthy TO be called knowledge at all
After evincing such abundant ignorance
SO often, it ought to have learned to say
nothing. But it has not. 1t s0iH forsooth
pirate necessarily. It is resolved always to
be wrong Just as other Butternuts are.
:w> The Hon. John F. Dillon, having
been elected one of the Judges Of the Su-
preme Court of this State, has resigned his
present position as Judge of the Seventh
Judicial District, his resignation to take eff
feet on the 18th of December. The Musca-
tine Journal says J. Scott Richmond, Esq,
of that city, has been appointed by the
Governor to succeed Judge Dillon, and