The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-02-14
BURLINGTON. WEEKLY IHAWK-EYE.
From the army Of the Frontier.
Correspondence Of the Chicago Evening Josrsa.

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From the army Of the Fronsler.
Correspondence Of the Chicago Evening Josrssl.
HEADoUARrERs SRI AID era DIv1s1oss,)
ARxY Of rHE FRoHrifR, s.
CAMP CURTIs, MAYsviLLE, ARK, SAM %
bright, warm sun, almost Z, cloudless sky,
and the green grass spripEing up beneath your
feet, on the 18th of January, would doubtless
be rarity to you cold blooded Noftherners.-
Don't take offense-for some one has saido
. to llit"The cold IN CLINE are coldin blood
The Dixieites most seligiously. believe this to
be q fact. The real, genuine, Southern-raised,
uneducated whites entertain an opinion OF North.
ern people anything but complimentary to even
the worst specimens Of the human race. i,
Isppreciated the compliment paid 10 the
other day by one Of the softer sex, in answer TO
E""Hows abe liked the, looks Of the Feds" She
replied, "Wall now, stranger, since you wanter
know, jist allow to tell yer. was bornd and
raised real Southern woman, and think that .
Niger hadn't orter. be on . level but you tri.
ding, pin making, collaborating, abolition Yam
KEGS think they had; 90 you see,, jist think,
from the bottom Of my heart, that II there is :
difference 'twixt you and the niger. the niger
has right smart chance the advantage" "Bul.
" for you r. said !, and then she took . pinch
Of snuf that would have sneezed an elephspt
for half an hour, without even winking ct Is /
passed on with the advance guard, but heard
the poultry screaming terriically in, the. rear,
caused, probably, By the unusual sIght Of blue
coats, OF in derieion of the Feds a 4 "a.
Hardly day passes but our forage train is
fred into by the bushwhackera To-day We
brought down couple Of these birds IL the
most approved style. They generally pay for
their temerity severely. You would shudderc 70
pass over this country and witness the horrid
from all quarters, and hundreds are applying TO
ouf lines for, something to eat. YOU viii rsi
member that in former letter predicted the
approach Of the 'evil genius, of war" He 10
here, famine ID sitting upen the thresholds Of a.
most every cabin in the country. All must dee
before him, and where can they 20 but to our
lines ? + Many Of these deluded people have a.
ready emigrated half dozen times TO get be.
yond our reach. We find them al. the way
from Northwestern Missouri, having moved
from point to point, thinking TO End place Of
safety aud rest but, alas !! our armies have
hunted them to their last hiding placeA + ~.
i Farther retreat is hopeless, and they now come
and ask us to help them to go North. Poverty
stricken, almost without clothes or food, We are
compelled to give them rs,ions and send them
forward in our empty commissary trains. They
60 back a wiser, and, hope, better and more
loyal people. Almost every day the Commander
10 in receipt of notes from thoee who have been
in the .'bushes" for months, asking if they may
come and give themselves up and have their lives
spared, This shows the approaching dissolution
Of the rebel cause IN this country, and thus will
it terminate, throughout our whole lines, if Our
Generals will only pull of their gloves and deal
-: nhnll -
endangering the existence Of the nation. Two
direction of Tsliqus and Park Hill, in the Cher
okee Nation, under the command Of Lieut. Col.
Downing, q Cherokee officer of fine ability. We
are compelled to send forward subsistence to
many loyal families there, who are in state Of
entire restitution. What few small bands there
are now in the country are committing robberies
upon all classes of people. They are dressed in
our army clothes, and pass themselves AZ Feds,
or Kansas Jayhawkers.a The greater portion of
Col. McIntosh's Cherokee and Greek regiment
will come to US the frst opportunity. Colonel
Sandwiches regiment is in about the same con,
dition. They have not over $50 men each, and
those tired Of the rebel service. i
Hiudman is said to be lowering along the Ar
kansas river, above Little Rock, afraid TO make
any demonstration north, and not able to take
his forces much further east. His Missouri and
Arkansas troops refuse to fight east Of the
Mississippi river. Marmaduke has two or three
thousand cavalry in the vicinity of Clarksville,
below Van Buren,. We have just learned that q
band of wild marauding Indians, Kickapoos,
Osages and Kecheis are in camp nearly west of
this, some 40 miles, on the Verdigris river, in
the Greek Nation. They will soon be routed.
News just in from Fort Gibson and the Greek
Agency say that the rebel forces have all fallen
back to Red river and Doggy Depot
The refugee Indian families now in Southern
Kansas will probably 60 to their homes early in
the spring. The total of their number must be
about twelve thousand These, at the present
time, are being fed and partially clothed at the
expense of the Government, but the amount will
be taken from their annuity money, upon final
settlement.
AZ soon as the grass starts in the spring, suf-
fcient to subsist the ponies, the grand cavalcade
will take up its line of march, and make the eff
fort to raise crop upon their own lands To
this end, this division of the Army of the From
tier 10 working, and. unless the rebels can mass
q much larger army than We now think, the OBJ
iect viii be attained.
Is UNANIMITY POSSlBLE2
Those Who look for unsnimity in the action of
the people on the present w:r, count upon a
perfection of humanity which never yet existed
in the history Of nations and which, in the nature
of things. is never possible Never was there q