The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-08-13

cree q Co.'s mill. No. I, WAS entirely de-
stroyed by fre last night. II was running
on army woolsa4. and had . sets OF ma
chinery and Smployed 40 OPERATOR; To-
and machinery 1lo6;1o9 andthe insurance
on stock y 1lit, 6o0. -------
ln The are 6kfkinated ins the drysak -suom.
The mill viii not be quite q total Ion, -
the Weaver'1 room and the basement are
saved. sta1 ~ sos.r. .IUXE
The RAIDERS g Winchester. y
BALr1HoRx, Aug. S-P. n. The latest 70
ports from the valley represent the rebels
In force south Of Winchester, and it u sup
posed we shall have an engagement with
them there. This is on good authority II
Our PEACE "PATRroTsr-WHoaq AAD
THEY?-The character Of that ''patri0tisWs
which ID crying out for peace with the Ee-'
bells may be gathered from . few inctdentA
connected with the late Approximation N
\ ist. The American Gag was carefully
excluded from the procession which para-
"a. In its place there floated over the
speakers stand 2 new and arrange device,
q Gag with . white ground and single star,
which may have been intended TO repgo-
sent Peace, or what ID more probable, the
projected "Northewestern Confederacy'' Of
the o. A, X. Trailing beneath this new
flag appeared the stars and stripes. 7e u a-.
81. No cheers were heard during the
entire affair for the Union, but cheers
were repeatedly heard for JEFF. Davis,
while cheers were also given for North
western Confederacy and for Stonewau
Jackson. s..-.,..ss as,,...:
4th. Not . single word was uttered BY
but the men who are legally adnainisteEinG
the Government Of the United States wefo
denounced as traitors, and our Chief Exc
ecutiye Is q man deserving TO be hanged.
5th. While protesting the utmost dev0.
ton to freedom of speech and freedom Of
the press, one of the speakers declared he
would put padlocks on the mouthso Of eve
~ clergyman and silence every pulpit in
9Th. The rebel sympathy Of the active
participants in this affair was undisguised.
One ofthem said to q lady, whose name We
know, and whose reliability is beyond
question, that Grant cannot take Rich
they 1.-THE peace men, would turn in and
help the rebels.
9Th. One of the prominent speakers at
the meeting was known defaulter to tho
government. Another WINS . protesting
Christian, who had been deposed from the
ministry for lying. A third has lust come
out Of the Pen3tentiary where he has been
serving four years term for forgery!
Let the people OF the United States scaR
these facts - we have Get them down. In
credulous - they may appear, they aro
true. And those are the men who arrogate
70 themselves al the patriotism, IN the po-
lttical virtue, Ill the ndslity to the Union
And the Constitution, there are In the ma
ton. These are the men who denounco
those that, in this trying and difficult hour.
are honestly sndeavoring % navigate the
ship Of state In this Storm Of rebel1ion and
revolution - tyrAnts and treators, worthy
only Of resistance and overthrow! These
are the man Who are endsavoring to get
II they ON, fbseibly II neceasnEy. Are the-
men Of Illipois, are the men Of the loyal
States, who have property q stake, who
have love Of country, who have still : lin
gering affection for the government Of our
fathers, any doubt or hesitation, shout
their future course t-Peorid Transcript, 4