The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-02

pistols, ten gallons of brandy, and. more
valuable to the Confederacy than all, per-
haps, the mail, with letters and official dis
patches, which the party were conveying
forces at Osabaw Island, where the 18th
New York regiment are stationed"
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES H1NT.-It is
not q little remarkable that, up to this time.
nothing has been DONE even here, to enforce
the confiscation law passed at the second
session of the late Congress. s.
There is, in the District of Columbia, not
less than seven or eight millions of dollars
worth Of property belonging to notorious
rebels, now in the Confederacy, and most
of them in the rebel army. These men are
rapidly covering up and absorbing this
property, getting it protected by mortgages
or transfers to friends here or in the North,
and SO, as they suppose, securing it beyond
danger of confiscation. cargo asg "a 9
! 1t is curious illustration of the good ma
tured way in which we still carry on the
war, that Lieut.. Semmes, the commander
Of the Alabama, still owns three houses in
Washington, two of them near, one on Penn
sylvania Avenue, which are duly rented
by his agent, and on which the rents are,
without doubt, duly collected and forward
ed, in lawful currency, to the lawful owner,
as aforesaid. - "A =
1t was not so strange that Lieut.. Semmes'
wife should be quietly residing in Cincin-
natl while her husband was proving upon
our commerce, but that he himself should
be deriving his private income from rents
regularly collected in the capital of the Ma
ton, is refreshing. Isn't it about time the
proper authorities were getting ready to
enforce the confiscation law?
BY the way, / see Lieut.: Semmes' wife
has been notified to leave Cincinnati. Be-
fore she goes, there is one return she ought
to make for the forbearance which has so
long been extended to her-a return we
should the more naturally expect, inasmuch
as she cannot but despise the baseness she
might thereby expose. Let her furnish to
some officer OF our Government the letter
IN her possession written to her husband by
an Admiral of our Navy!
Many reader has doubtless puzzled
himself in trying to decipher the astonish-
ldg scrawl on the face of every 'sgreen-
back" followed by the words Treasurer
OF the United States" 1t is pity the sig
nature is SO utterly illegible, for the name
OF r. A. SPINNER is one that deserves to
be remembered. In the darkest hours of
the rebellion there was no man whose hope
was so uncOnquerable as his; and now that
we have passed the crisis of our danger it
still does one OF weaker faith good to get in
his presence.
AT a chance meeting at the dinner table
the other day, it was particularly refresh
ing to hear his account of a little affair with
a young Captain in the army. The Captain
wanted a newspaper, but would buy none
except the World. He never read any 9TH
er, wouldn't have anything to do with any
other. Gen. Spinner had been witness of
the colloquy with the newsdealer. t'Then,
young man" he burst out, "you've got the
wrong uniform on. You ought to be in the
rebel army, where your sympathies are,
and I'll thank you for your namev The
young gentleman in straps was unwilling
to give his name. "Then you're a coward
too; willing to sympathize with the rebels,
but too cowardly to take the responsibility
of your sympathy!'
"Burnside's order is the best thing I've
seen yet" said the General. "Let these
people who sympathize with the rebels go
and cast their lot with them. They have
no business among us. For my part, long
ago made up my mind that no man could
utter treason in my presence, without get
ting knocked down; and that he could mt
long. breathe the same air with me if 1
could help it!'-Cor. Gin. Gazette.
THE LoUIsvILL JOURNAL ON ORDER No.
28.-An cutlery has been raised against
General Burnside's late order, bnt not half
as great a one as we expected. We don't
know whether, the tongues Of rebel SYM
pathizers are restrained by fear or by some
higher and worthier consideration. If we
thought good deal better of them than
we do, we might probably conclude that
they are kept partially in check by a con-
viction that the order-though essentially
curtailing their tongue-privileges-i essen |
TALLY right and proper and just. Undoubt-
eddy it is stringent, but any other policy
than stringent one in such an exigency
as this, would be weakness, imbecility,
foolishness. There should have been strin-
gency good while ago; there must be a
" St IN II on
lucky at this time is the, right and neces-
sary thing in the right and necessary place.
1t is required that i'll Kentucky those
whether male or female, who declare SYM
pathy with the rebel cause, shall be sent
where their sympathies are. To complain
of this is absurd. While we are sending |
thousands of our young men to the South |
to subdue the rebellion, we should be gull
ty Of the most miserable treachery to them
as well as to ourselves and to mankind, if |
we We're to allow lnen and women in the |
midst of us to electioneer for the rebel |
cause. To carry on a war against the re-
bellion, and at the same time to tolerate on
the theater of war men and women who bv |
their acts or words are encouraging and |
fomenting the rebellion, would be prepos-
ferrous to the last degree. No peoule ever
did so monstrous thing, and ours will not
be likely to set the first example. So let |
our male and female rebels, in view of the
facts before them, act as they think best.
If they are satisfied with their homes. let
them guard we'll their acts and put check
rein upon their tongues. If they prefer
residence within the Confederate lines. let
them talk on without regard to Gods law.
or their country's welfare, or public opin-
ION; Which is the better-that insolent
anu loquaclous rebels should be sent with
IN the lines of their friends, or that thew
should be tolerated here, making converts
10 the Iebellion, communicating every day.
II not every hour, information to the
enemy, and doing all in their power to in