The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-05-07


chronicles the arrival there Of the 9Th Iowa
Infantry, Veterans, under command Of
Lieut.. Col. A. J. Miller, The number Of
the men is stated to be 335. They were en-
route, first to Cairo and thence to SCOTS.
borough, Ala. Chicago may be on the way
to Cairo from Davenport, but We confess
we did not know it before.
~ It will be seen by reference to the
letter from the 10th Iowa, in another col
umn, that privates Albert c. holland, Of
Prairie Hill, Boone county, and James NJ.
HARRISON, of Indianola, Warren county;
died from the measles, in the hospital At
Huntsville, Ala.
~ According to our dispatches yester-
day the rebels are engaged in concentrating
all of their available forces in front Of Grant
for the defense Of Richmond Longstreet,
from East Tennessee, has been there some-
time; and Beauregard, from Charleston, il
said to have been called up to that point.
How true this statement is we have no
means of deciding. If true, it implies that
the rebels doubt their ability to defend
Richmond without exhausting all their re-
sources, that they begin to apprehend that
the huge army which threatens them will
swoop down upon them andannihilate them
at one fell blow, unless ali their energies
are concentrated to preventit.
1t may be that these reports Of so large An
accession to Lees army as is reported to
have come up with Beauregard, are all
CANNON. 1t does not seem probable that
he could have so many men who could be
spared from that quarter. The rebels are
accustomed to magnify their Plumbers, and
AS they have profited much by doing so be-
fore, it is just as likely as not they are try
ing the game of brag once more. The tales
they circulate about their movements, are
not to be credited except upon ample evil
dence. We apprehend that Grant has
learned by this time how to ascertain cor
rectly what forces are before him or avail
able against him. The reports Of outsiders
are not particularly Trustworthy at any
time. Just now the rebels are anxious to
deceive US. Whenever they seem to allow
information to leak out, it is most likely
somethingcalculated to betray usinto error.
s- Gen. Butler recently sentenced nine
officers to be reduced to the ranks to serve
rs privates for rendering designations upon
the eve Of the campaign, and the sentence
has been duly approved. 1t is a pity that
this policy had not been adopted from the
beginning. 1t would have been ) proper
penalty for those carpet-knights who are
quite anxious to serve while there's moth
ing to do but to take their pay, and back
down the moment there is any signof "bus-
iness'' or peril. Such ''blood-suckers" are
deserving of almost any penalty, and we
think Butler has found out how to trea,
them. There will not be any more resig.
nations except for the best Of reasons in his
department.
@The Annual Report Of Mrs. Witten-
meyer, State Sanitary Agent, which we
have just received, indicates that the peo-
pie of Iowa have done literally il contri-
buting to the relief Of sick and wounded
soldiers. Between the 25th Of September
1862, and January 18th. 1864, Mrs. Witten.
meyer received and distributed cash and
supplies amounting to the sum Of enc hun.
dred and sixteen Thousand dollars; the
value OF the Sanitary goods being estima.
ted at about $l09, 900, and Numbered two
thousand seven hundred and twenty -threse
packages. The report contains many use.
full suggestions, some Of which hve al.
ready been adopted. The Sanitary work O.
the people has been wonderfully useful and
'sucoessful. 1t must still be continued. sThe
prospects are that they will soon Be IRE.
mendous need Of its humane miniAtrations
Let the work 60 on. ..s. K -
- Sir Of the Illinois Copperhead mem.
beers of Congress, who call themselves
Democrats, voted against the Tax Bin on
its passage In the House, along With Fer
'nando Wood. That II the mode in which
they demonstrates their patriotism. That /,
how they support the war and labor "a
to suppress tho rebellion. That is the mode
in which they observe the oath they took
when they entered upon their duties. ne.
did not vote against the bill simply becanse
its provisions were not, in their optimism
suited TO it's purpose. An honest opinion
on that point would excuse them. Thev
vote against it because they are opposed ID
anything and everything which viii aid in
suppressing the traitors. They wanted
their position known on that point, w.
trust the people will remember them. W.
guess they viii. - s7of rs: d
~ The stage proprietors Of New Yor,,
City, who undertook to make the peonle
pay ten cents q ride instead Of i've. have
had to haul in their sails and return tn tha
old prices. The people wouldn't ride IN
their omnibuses ct all, while they insistel,
on robbing them. That brought the fellow,
70 . proper appreciation Of the public in.
tentaon, and on Monday they resumed the
old prices. That's the way to do it. IT.
& Refugees who have come in 10 Chat.
tanoosa are said to report that there A.
only y, 90 troops at Dalton. Ga ord a..