The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-16

| ness yesterday for the benefit of the School
| Fund. The criminal docket was called and
forfeiture of recognizance taken for the
non-appearance of defendants to the
amount of ten or twelve thousand dollars.
DISTRICT CouRT.-Samuel Alien, the
burglar caught by Mr.. Joy, was convicted
| yesterday.
Richard Dearlove was convicted of aban-
doning infant child, the one left upon the
steps OF Mr.. Barhydt's residence last sum-
mer.
Jacob Miller, convicted of grand larceny.
st.T
~ Calendine, whose arrest is noticed
elsewhere, is probably the oldest, most
noted and extensive operator in counter
felt money and spurious coin in the State.
He lives in this city and has resided
here for the last twenty years, in property
OF his own on Angular street. in what is
generally known as Bogus Hollow" He
has seen the inside of great many jails,
but has always contrived to get out in
some way, through his accomplices, by
| the ski of his lawyers, or in some other
manner. He is sharp and shrewd and is
| believed to be the head of gang of bur-
| glars and counterfeiters scattered over the
country, the head villains living in Bur
| lington.
CoNsCRIPTION OF THE SLAyEs.-Gen.
| Banks has discovered rebel military or
der TO the sheriffs, issued in accordance
with the act passed by the Secession Legis-
lature of Louisiana, and directing them to
call out all the able-bodied male slaves be
tween the ages of eighteen and fifty years
| to be used for military service. He has
given notice that the officers who comply
VIII be treated as enemies, and he adds:
Negroes who desire to escape the inten-
ded CONSUMPTION in the rebel army. wheth-
slave or free, will follow the flag of the Gov
eminent, now and forever the flag of Union
and liberty.
This course of the rebels shows the i'm
possibility of carrying out any policy on
our part to leave their servile relation un-
disturbed. General Banks, refused to re-
celve fugitives into the army, or furnish
them protection, and his efforts to have
them remain on the plantations, are met
by rebel military order for sweeping
conscription, and the Sheriifs set themselves
at work to carry it out. Surely the last
vestige of objection to the emancipation of
these blacks as military measure must be
ll
them to the rebel military service.-C,n
Gazette. -as,
The PACIFIC RAILRoAD.-The SPRING
field Ill.) Journal states that Messrs. Ross.
Steele & Co. have contracted to build $50
miles of the great railroad to the Pacific.
This division; or rather separate work, lies
within the boundaries of Kansas, beyond
which the Union Pacific railroad properly
commences. Colonel Carter of st. Louis,
has been engaged as consulting engineer
1t is intended to have the first forty miles
opened the present year, In addition to
the grants fland and bonds made by Con-
gress, it is stated that the company have
also secured by purchase from the Indians
over SOC, 900 acres of valuable lands on the
route. These can be readily disposed of
for cash, thereby furnishing in part means
to extend the road as it progresses. The
whole line through Kansas is to be compile
ted within four years from date. The rails,
spikes, &c, are already purchased, and the
work will be pushed on vigorously with
out cessation.
In addition to the communication with
Kansas City, the new company is compell-
ed TO build another reaching Leavenwor
which IS already connected with st. Joseph
and the East by railway.
RASCALLY IMPoSToRS.-The New ALBANY
Ledger says there are persons constantly on
the boats between that city and Hender-
son, whose first labor is to ascertain
whether any sick, discharged, or furlouyh-
ed soldiers are aboard, and if there are
they next set to work to swindle them out
OF all the money they may have. These
scOundrels represent themselves as detec-
tives, appointed to arrest deserters and SOL
diers absent from their regiments without
leave; and by representing the papers of
discharged and furioughed men as wrongly
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dier, and finally offer on the payment by
him of a sum of money, to allow him to
pass without arrest. In this manner many
soldiers have lately been feeced out eff their
hard-earned money.
We have ust received intelligence by a
special messenger, that on Tuesday night
last MI. Jackson, "a well known and highlv,re-
spected young man, and an Othergentlealan
while returning from the Indian Agency,
and encamped upon James river at Green
ways Ferry, Were suddenly fired upon by
party ofindians, and Mr.. jacobson was
instantly killed. and his companion woun-
ded by three balls through an arm and an
arrow in the back of the neck. Immediate
ly upon hearing the alarm Mr.. Greenway
seized his gun and reached the camp in
time to see but one OF the assulting party.
he fired upon him, and compelled him to
retreat in such haste as to leave behind his
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}. were found the following morning some
distance from the camp having apparently
been abandoned by the Indians i'll their
haste to escape.
We learn that upon being apprized of
OF the fact Gen. Cook dispatched a squad of
men in pursuit of the murderers. This
event is to be much deplored as it will in
crease, to a fearful extent, the alarm;which
had already existed in the Territory, and
induce many persons to abandon the coun-
try. We trust it may have an effect in in
ducing the authorities TO send the 9TH Cav
airy to garrison Fort Randall and protect
this extended and exposed frontier during
the absence ofthe troops about to proceed
up the Missouri. -,Stour city Register, 9th.
CONFEDERATE PLANS.-A friend who is
unblest with large circle of disloyal rela-
tives in Maryland and the District of CO.
lumbia, is given to understand by them
that the Confederate chiefs, rendered des-
perate by their falling resources and tho