The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30
A Word Of Caution.
HEADQUARTERs,3 BOTH Iowa Vols.
PAINT Rock CREEK, Ala,
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January 18th. 1864

January 1lth, 1864
Mr.. Edttor:-I feel sorry that some Of our
| Great Provost Marshals can't find enough
deserters, without arresting meritoriOns
ana SICK men who have been permitted to
return home on business or to recruit their
declining health.
Ihere nave been two men sent back to
this regiment, under arrest for desertion
who have been marked as sick during
their entire absence, and who, in nv
humble opinion, did not think of desert
ing.
Hard! hard, is it not, for our poor. brave
and noble men who have been fighting the
battles OF our country, to be picked up
While at home for only few DAYS with
| their friends and dear ones, and returned
to their regiments under arrest, even be-
fore their time expires!
Now Mr.. Provosts, just please send the
papers belonging to the accused, (if YOU do
get the almighty $780, so that we can give
these poor, pale and sickly soldiers fair
trial, when called to appear before gen
eral Court Martial. Ponder well before
arresting. AURELICS ROBERTS.
Lieut.. Col. Commanding.
WASHINGTON, Jan. -, lS6f.-CAPTAIN
CoNsTABLE.-At an early stage in the war.
an individual named COnstable-a tall.
heavy-set, red-moustached Englishman-
made himself conspicuous in Cincinnati
and succeeded in getting an appointment
from General Fremont, as Captain Of artil-
lery. Soon afterward, he was put in charge
OF the mortar-bOats of the Mississippi Flo
tilla, but did not continue in that capacity
long, being removed for the good of the ma
val service. He next turned up in this de-
partment, and brought some sort of infiu-
ence to bear upon the Secretary Of War,
which resulted in a commission as Major
OF the LIST Virginia Artillery, and assign
n ~ fafr n,,.
in Washington, in December last, saw the
gentleman strutting around Wizards HO-
tel In very pompOus and cOckney man
ner- as large as lite and twice as impudent
the identical individual who succeeded
in drawing the wool over Gen. Fremonts
eyes, and who is accused, whether Justly or
unjustly, cannot say, OF having engaged
in a general borrow and -neyer-pay enter
prise in Iowa, few years ago. 1 last saw
him yesterday, entering the Senate gallery
with the air OF a Foreign Minister, and I
last heard of him to-day in an official order
from the War Department, as having been
disgracefully dismissed the service for ex-
torting money from prisoners, while serv-
ing on Gen'l Woofs staff. Where he will
next turn up, it is difficult to say; but it is
well to put the public on their guard against
him. He is intensely English, and devil
ishly impudent, and can be known from
the rest Of mankind by these general quail
tiles. Hewill not be apt to try his fortunes
in the West again, being pretty well play
ed out III that section.
THADDEUs STEVENS.
1t is somewhat of q coincidence that such
political antipodes as Thaddeus Stevens
and James Buchanan should live within 4
mile Of each other, and both be old bacheE
lOrs. There is not much difference in the
two celebrities. Parson Brownlow once
said Of the old public functionary, that
man who would live to his age without
marrying woman was not tit for wolf bait.
and Thaddeus must consider himself in
this category, unless he can get the Parson
to make his case special exception. Mr..
Stevens is Vermonter by birth, having
added one to the population of the Green
Mountain State in 1898; so that he is now
in his seventy-second year. His life of sin.
gle-bessedness has not exempted him from
the entertainments which Time is wont 10
make upon the human constitution. nor
freed him from the infirmities natural to
the eighth decade. Still, Notwithstanding
he has passed the grand climactric. is shorn
OF the vlgor and strength Of manhood, and
defOrmed to the extent of a club foot he
manages to git around in the Capital yery
well, and walks every day to and from his
place of residence.
He is considered a very efficient officer in
2 position second only to the Speakership
OF the House of Representatives. Chairman
OF OF the committee on Ways and Means.
There is not much eloquence in him, but a
good deal Of what is called smartness, and
little dry humOr is occasionally extract
ed from him by the friction of debate. As
pubic man he is composed Of little of
the statesman. good deal Of the politician,
somewhat Of the patriot, and large pro-
portion Of the AbOlitionist.
MIR. Stevens graduated in Dartmouth
College in 1914, and during that year re-
moved to Pennsylvania. In 1913 he was
elected to Congress from the Lancaster
district. He is now serving his fifth Con-
gressional term. He is now for the third
time Chair man of the Ways and Means
Committee. MACK.
Cor. Gin. Commercial
REMARKABLE BLAST. The most remark
able blast in the history Of iron mining took
place at the Lake Superior mine, a short
time since. In ordinary ones but one and
q half inch hole in diameter is drilled. but
in this case one Of four inches in diameter
and eighteen feet depth was made. distant
from the edge of the cliff about ten feet.
into which one key ofpowder was put and
exploded as preliminary, and which had
the effect to open seam to the depth of 30
feet. Sixteen kegs Of powder were then
put in as final charge, which threw down
over three thousand tons of ore so COM
pletely broken up that the largest portion
was small enough to load on the cars for
shipment without further reduction,