The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-02-07

Col. Scott Of the s2d Iowa Infantry, has bean
placed under arrest for deserving bis post. obe,.
ing the orders of General entirely outside Of
this Department and wantouly DESTROYING
large amount of Government property at New
Madrid. r. Is.
g Army Correspondence.
Ra On BOARD TIE STEAMER MMxEnAHA.,
II Lh nEnPHIs, Tenn, Jan. 20, 1856
Gen: AcArthar's division has been paid Of
for two months only. aRT ayf1 10 sgg
Our feet Of transports leave for vicksburg At
one o'clock p. M, to day, escorted by gunboau,
They are crowded to Overlooking With troops
On Thursday night last, snow fell to the dep,b
Of eight inches, and the weather was VERY cold
and disssreeable to tic natives, but did 10. at.
feet us mseh. Our army 10 in excellent health,
Gen. Grant is ias .Nspoleos, to which place GU,
troops fell back after the attack on vicksbure.
Gen. Bsaks il reported At Port Hudson 40
miles besew Vicksbuag. Our army is jubil.ns
on their departure on the trsnspoits-hurr.h-
ing and anxious to b. led against the enemy.
Business Of all kinds in Memphis is lively
merchants and cotton brokers are up to thei.
eyes in rwork-the hotels and theatre are crowd.
ed, the faro-banks and gambling bells arc
nightly filed with their votaries; and at least
two acres of ground near the depot Of the Mem.
phis and Charleston Railroad is covered with
contrabands 5s1, 7aG5a 10 sEgas-yoias
The army, grim vissged wal, "ssbrings ito
camp followers, veteran prostitutes, '.bummers,"
shouldsr-strikers and thieves, and the soldiers
have been out seeing the sights" and woe be to
the unlscky "butter nut" who should run agsius,
an Iowa on his "hi OK" for "as sure as euns
iron, /" be will get his horns Knocked Of"
Col. Chambers of the 10th returned . few, day,
ago, having recovered from bis wound and 20.
married during his absence. -
= Gen. Crocker is still in command of the Sd
brigade and dsservedly popular % an officer; biz
appointment Is : brigadier is no doubt one Of
the best selections that has yet been been made
from Iowa. leaaboaoa Boon y ..y,s5
Maj. Cunningham and Captains Madison and
Studer, of the 18th Iowa, have resigned. Cap
tsin J. n. Hendricks Of .Ottumws has been
recommended for Major, and Lieuten,nt Edgar T.
Miller for captain Of Co. e, Lieutenant Porter
for captain of Go. b, Lieutenant Hendricks for
captain of Co., K. Captain James n, Reed il
now senior captain of the 18th. - sam
! The weather here is again clear and pleasant.
Gen. Mcpherson commands our corps de ar
ME, consisting of McArthur's, Logan.s and prob.
ably Quinby's division. Our division with Is
transports gunboau and batteries. 90 down to-
day, and Gen. Mcpherson vii! follow in ten days
Gen. Logao's division is now on the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad. 80,
saw the statue of jackson in. Court Square,
a beautiful spot in the heart Of the city, cover.
ed with evergreens. Your readers, doubtless,
recolect the story which went the rounds of the
Northern papers some time ago, that the memo.
rable words of the old hero of the hermitage,
"The Federal Union, it must be preserved
had been obliterated on the statue by some reb.
Ell. The story excited universal indignation I
the time, and.as I heard It again repeated after
coming to Memphis, went 70 see the statue to
satisfy myself whether it was true, and to ny
utter sstonishment, found it vas . lie manufac-
tured out Of the fertile genius of some nessps-
per reported; not one word or letter was Ell ssed
or 10 any manner injured, but the statue, With
the names Of the victories, Tsllsdega, Horse
Shoe. New Orleans, &C., were as perfect and
the frowning features as eternal" as On the day
they were first erected. ,aass,s,f 80
2 Memphis 10 most beautiful city, situated on
an elevated site, with any amount of wharf
room for steamboats,, and the back country Is
the finest on the Mempsis 4 Charleston Bail
road, which have yet seen 10 the South. TIE
streets are laid out on a magnificent sca!e-uoi
like the little Fiench alleys of ST. Louis, and rec
mind one of the beautiful avenues of New YORK
or Chicago The public and private buildings
not only in the city, but back as far in the couu'
try as Lafayette, are many of them magnificent
goats, mules, niggers, and butternut-clotbed CT
tizens only remind us that we are in the South
Jews here, too, are very numerous--everywbeH
| they follow in the wake of commerce.
] was very much amused q few mornings go
by the remarks of soldier belonging to IT,
7th Kansas, who, by the way, had "brick IL
his hat" in a barber shop, which was fulss
of citizens, soldiers and others, waiting for thei
"turns" to be shaved my number was 81
Looking about the room, he asked the BARRIERS
for his number and was handed No. 100 That
will never do said the Kansas Jayhawker, ID
citizen or a Jew-I would like to have one Of
them ga y aomathipD IN mo m 7 copId uhin him.