The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-07-02
OUR STATE.


prints are endeavoring to console them
selves and terrify the Unionists with the
terrible idea that the Fremont disaffection
in this State amounts to something.
We have ''been round some in what are
reported to be unhealthy localities in this
respect, and we cant see it,
Fremontism il rapidly subsiding, and
the only show for the Pathfinder to get a
party is to secure the nomination from
John Morgan and his friends at Chicago
Wapelto Republican.
The Copperhead editor OF the Muscatine
Courier, in referring to the return Of the
traitor Vallandigham, says:
"If the Government attempts his rear
rest. let the cry from Maine to California
be, ITO arms, ITO arms and if consti-
til Northern hills and Western prairies be-
come drenched in blood"
Oh, dear! how his "beller'' must ache
Where is Mrs. Winsiow, with her ''sooth-
ing syrup" Some one send bottle of
her syrup to the Courier man, and charge
to us. Our country is in great danger of
being bowed unless his nerves are
quickly quieted. ITO arms" he says
Consider us under the bed We don't want
thing. "Drench" the "prairies'' and the
Northern hills as much a. you please,
but let us alone. They may need it, but
we don't. Roll in. brave general, with
your 'to arms and your ''drenching'
machine. You'll see lots Of fun and have
a chance to show your speed At the close
of your desperate conflict, don't fail to send
US an official account Of the battle, and q
list of the..killed and wounded, together
with lock Of your hair! The ''prairies'
and the "Northern hills are in breathless
silence-they have refused to commune"
until the result of the great battle, at the
head Of whose armies methinks we hear you
say-onward! Oh! General, did you ever
play pinss
On Thursday of last week, one of the
employees at Cheney's shot tower, three
miles from Dubuque, made q swift descent
from the top to the bottom Of the tower
Tho Dubuque Times thus describes his
ride:
is usual for the workmen at the place
to go up and down the tower IN the shot
litter. On the morning in question, Mr..
John Spear stepped into the litter, and had
gone down few feet, when the belt which
prevented the roller on which the rope
wound itself from revolving too fast, slip
ped of the wheel, and down started Spear
and the litter one hundred feet, to the bot
tom, with terrible swiftness. Strange to
say, he escaped death. The rope was very
thick, and when it was all let out, it did
not allow the litter to strike the bottom,
nor break, and although Mr.. Spear was
somew hat injured by the jar, still he was
not disabled. He is now at work. Mr..
Dunlan, fellow workman, who grasped
the rope with his hands and attempted to
draw it to the side of the tower, and thus
check its speed by friction, had the flesh
torn from the palms of his hands and fin
gers to such an extent that it is feared they
are ruined.
LOST BoY.-About the last Of April, ALI
son F. LOughrey, a boy, was sent to mill at
Hawleyville. Page county, in company
with another lad named Lewis Rainer.-
Since that time nothing has been heard of
him. His mother is very much grieved
that he has gone across the plains but he
may be in the states. A liberal reward
will be paid for any information concern
ing his whereabouts. Exchanges will con-
fer favor by making note of this.-C2or-
ind0 Observer.
The following military items wa clip
from the Davenport Gazette:
Over 700 prisoners, captured from John
Morgan's rebel command, arrived at Rock
Island on Friday last.
Several veterans from the different Iowa
regiments, under command Of a Lieuten-
ant, left for the front on Friday morning.
The following is list of the Iowa sick
and wounded received within the last few
days from Sherman's army, at the Nash
vile hospitals:
June 10th, l864.-Corp. J. T. Buchanan,
Sth Iowa cavalry, discharged.
FROM HUNTSVILLE, ALA.
M. F. Pettingill. CO. D, 18th Iowa, chronic
diarrhea; John P. Stevenson, co. I, 10th
Iowa, remittent fever.
June 2oth.-J. w. Legrand, co. D, 9th
Iowa, chronic diarrhea; T. w. Lewis, CO.
4, 9TH Iowa. right leg; G. w. Lockwood,
co. l, 9Th Iowa, chronic diarrhea.
A soldier of Company A, 4th Veteran
Reserve Corps, by the name of Black, ac-
cidentally shot Corporal Of the same reg
iment belonging to Company K, on the sd
inst, severely wounding him, though he is
expected to recover.
Three hundred more raI,a nr;ann aro from