The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-03-07
The polish Insurrection

The Polish InsuFrectlon.
Victor Hugo has issued stirring exhortatios]
to the Russian soldiers advising that they refuY
to act against the Poles, that they decline to
assist 10 reducing struggling people to thu
bondage of despotism. he tells them that II
they consummate the assassination OF Poland,
they will fall, which seems impossible, even lower
than the gangs of the Southern States of Amer
lea, and raise against them the e1ecrations OF the
whole civilized world. He tells them that what
they have before them in Poland is not the enc
my lit is example. sap.
Garbaldi has issued an address to the people
of England urging them to give their aia ana anu
support to the sons of Poland, who are nsneiin lg
for the independence Of their country Tor iloer
| ty. to resuscitate, Q nation. M AZ
~ JEFF. Davis has appointed March 18th, .
dav Of humiliation, fasting and prayer through
ont Rebellion. Probably there VIII De some
.bumiliationn about that time. As to the fast
inc e the rasc.ls tell the shadow of truth,
most people throughout that region will not De
greatly tempted to do otherwise on that day or
snv other very soon. Prayers will be abundant,
M doubt.-but We guess they would not be any
| toc agreeable to JEFF. could he hear them. They
would seem amazingly like curses, hearty, bitter
and crushing, even to the stony heart of the
chief devil of the land.
ENORMOUS Bus1NEss.-On Saturday, February
estb, the exchanges at the New York Clearing
House amounted to $54, 54s,51s. The exchanges
for the week amounted to $s4o,5l4, 444 "a, be-
ing daily average of s56,7b2, 4o7.43, against
$4s, GAO, 49, Is, for the week ending on the pre-.
cedipg Saturday. The average Of the last week
in February is the largest ever reported by the
Clearing House. We should think tba: busi-
ness of three hundred and forty millions, in one
week, ought to be quite satisfactory to the most
insatiate desires of any of the Merchant Prin.
ces" Il
MrNBrRs OF CONGRESS YET TO BE ELECTED.
Elections for Members of Congress will this year
be held in the following States:
New Hampshire (s), second Tuesday in March;
Rhode Island (2), first Wednesday in April;
Connecticut "a, FIRST Wednesday in April; Ken
lucky 10y, first Monday in August; Vermont
ls), first Tuesday in September; California (s),
first Thursday in September.
West Virginia will elect three members, and
there may be applicants for seats from the old
State Of Virginia; from Louisiana, two members,
from Tennessee, two members.
l6P There is to be railroad celebration
on the l1th inst. at Marshall, Marshall county
in this State, in honor of the completion of the
Chicago, Iowa, and Nebraska railroad to that
point. Marshall is 152 miles from Clinton,
and the cars have been running there regular
ly since the 23d of February.
DAVENPORT & ROCK Island PRcKET LINZ
The packets Kate Cassell and Jennie Whipple
commence THAR regular trips on Monday next
A boat will leave Fort Madison each morning,
on the arrival Of the cars from Keokuk.
/ GEN. RusrcRANs ON DEsERTIoNs.-The follow.
ing is q letter sent by Gen. Rosecsans to the
Governors of the several States. It will be
seen that the General writes only to the Cover
nors of those States which furnish the soldiers
to bis army, and, like soldier, carefully ao-
stains from meddling with anything more than
| the concerns of his command: as.,
.g MuRFREEsBoRo, Feb 81, 1868
To the Governors of Ohio, Kansas, Minnesota,
Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and
Michigan: ' 500
! I think it due to those who suffer in the field
as we'll as those who foot the bills at home, and
run the risk of being called out to defend home
and national life, that all deserters should be
turned to duty. All citizens are interested in
this. Those who oppose it favor perjury and
rascality, because q man who agrees to serve biz
country takes wages and even bounty money
and violates bis oath of service by deserving, il
. perjurer and . rascal, and probably coward
Why should not the Legislature pass q law dis
franchising and disqualifying from giving evil
dence all deserters, for other infamous crimes!
i W. 8. ROSEORANS,
i [Oficial] SO Asjor General.
i HENRY Stone, Lieut.. and A. A. G.
OrY1cR OF o. S. ASSESSOR, INrrRNALl
RxvENuE, lsF COLLECTION DISTRICT,
Mt. Pleasant, Henry County, lows,
March 4th, 1868.
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