The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-12-31

BURLINGTON WI
A ROMANTIC SToRy.-The correspondent
Of ,ho Springfield Republicar with the Po-
tomac army gives the following story OF
German corporal:
Seven wears ago and more he enlisted
into the British army in York. HIS frst
night as a recruit ne passed with q fellow
the two talked together as coup,rymer
thus situatedwouid be likely to. The next
day they left for London, and there they
were separated. Time passed on. This
soldier was ordered to India. He WAS
nearly five years in service. Receiving
his discharge, he returned 20 England,
shipped on vessel for Norway, was, later,
on q Norwegian vessel, and in that was
shipwrecked on the coast OF Sweden; bare
ly escaping With his life he went TO Wales;
again, ne was on Prussian vessel; he Wis.
tied Constantinopie, Odessa and the West
Indies. Coming to New York. he was,
after one or two brief voyages, led 70 Con-
nec.icut; enlisting there he joined his regi-
Inent last spring .. Gloucester Point. and
has since been in all the battles CT the
army Of the James. A fortnight since,
while corporal of the guard, he was calling
the relief at midnight; in passing tent ne
heard q voice, the peculiar tones OF which
attracted his special attention and revived
remembered associations Of that first night
as recruit in York, more than seven
years before. He was sure that the voice
was that OF his then companion, and IN.
quiry proved him not mistaken. His com.
| rade' 9 ex perisnce had been hardly less va
aied than his OVID. After several years
service ON special duty in Great Britain, he
also had taken to the sea. Coming to
America, the opening Of the war had found
him At the South, and there he joined tie
rebel army. For n time he was an orderly
OF a well known Confederate General, and
as such he on one occasion carried mes
sages back and forth in battle where the
lMh Connecticut fought prominently and
VIGOROUSLY. Later, he escaped from
Charleston to Our gun boats. and Af.aI va
rious experiences at Morris Island, Hilton
Head and in New York, entered the army
as a substitute, and here he found himself
in the very regiment before the pressure
of whose gallant charge he hrd two years
before fled in PERCEPTIONS haste after his
chivalrous and feet ;Ooted commander, on
a battle field in another State; and now his
voice was recognized and his name was
called by a fellow counirylnan who had
been for a single night his comrade in the
long gone years IN distan. land. Would
it be strange If he rubbed his eyes ariC
asked If i, were all dream?
THE IECoME TAx-THE ENFORCEMENT
OF THE LAws.-Ouf exchanges from ali
quarters contain lists of the Income tax.
i payers, and everywhere honest men are
astonished aad indignant at the develop
ments made; and the perjured sneaks who
have been swindling both Government
and people, are marked for public scOrn
Not more than half the revenue due The
| Government from the income tao has bee,
collected. 1t is very important question
whether Congress will be Aenseless on this
subject. II Congress were a business body
action would be speedily taken. II there
is any doub as 70 the facts, let a committee
many persons seem 70 be Of opinion thai
they are not liars and cheats when they
make false statements under oath, ard
covering themselves with lies, evade the
payment Of a tax. They, like the South.
ern traitors, act upon the idea that nc
wrong can be done the Government, and
| tina: it IL rather smart than infamous &c
swear to q lie and dodge the discharge Of a
debt due the nation. But the class Of PEG.
pie who do not swear to lies are interested,
in bringing the perjured scoundrels to jus.
,ice, and il they are in the majority, and
are the manufacturers Of public opinion
il is high time they were making the fac.
known and manifest. Our observations
must not be understood to be confined en-.
tireiy to the income tax swindling. 1t is
our impression that in other sources Of
revenue under the system Of interna! taxa
ton, the leakage is still greater; and We
are confident ifthe laws now supposed to
De in force, were really enforced, there
would be no occasion for additional taxa
on. The publication of the incorne-tax-
sts, will, we have no doubt, do much
irectly, in the way Of reforming the evils
complained Of, and from y bat we hear, we
are impressed the: good many of the
boosters OF princely incomes who have
made oath 10 comparative poverty, or 4
phenomenal unproductive:iess o. their es-
tates or business for 1868, will be brough.
into intimate and not agreeable relations
with the officers OF the law. Blu: the law
is defective in lis dealings with such men.
/ The machinery should be made more etfi-
cient, tina. the fpos. mischeyious rascality
OF the day may be adequately punished
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