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The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

~ If food and other necessary sup
plies are not exceedingly scarce in Dixie,
if the rebel armies are not seriously dcple-
ted, then there is a vast deal of talk in the
rebe! press which is wholly inexplicable. -
Every newspaper that comes to us from
the blissful land Of Dixie, printed any
where from Richmond to Mobile, is just
now discussing the question of supplies
and mourning over their evident INSULT
cheney. They seem unanimous on this
point. None of them dispute or doubt the
fact alleged, All are making suggestions
as to the best mode of providing for the inn
perative want
When this unanimity ofopinion prevails
there must be cause for it. We must ac-
cept their statement as the truth or else
Conclude that they have some sort Of pur-
pose in uniting in the circulation of false
hood to mislead US. But there is far too
much earnestness among all the papers to
leave any room for doubt as to the reality
Of the misfortune they bewail. There is
no pertence about it. They are in want,
terribly in want of provisions, in the army
u
Gent and they feel it to the marrow
lfthey are thus situated now, how will il
be before the next harvest? III when the
winter is but half through. they are already
suffering from this cause, how will be it
be three or four months hence? Is ii not
plain that matters must grow no better rap
idly, and that before any new harvest can
assist them. they will be staring starvation
IN the face? The question then comes up,
whether the people will submit to starva-
ton or compel their leaders to disband
their armies, disorganize the revolt, and
let the rebellion 60 to the dogs. IfJetl
shall manage to feed his armies he will
hold UP the revolt long enough to try a
spring campaign. If he can't do this the
army will disband itself and JEFF will flee
for his life
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

E0> Five Wolves were killed the other
day at High Prairie, in Muscatine County,
ana there was an abortion case in the fam
lily Of highly respectable farmer" High
Prairie seems to be lively place.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

~ The First National Bank of Daven-
port has received the first issue Of Notes
sent to any part of the West, and some of
them were first paid out last Thursday.
The Bank received $4,000, all in bills Of
the denominations of five dollars. So says
the Davenport Gazette. fc
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

Va The "Greybeards," the S7th Iowa
Infantry, arrived at Rock Island last Tues
dry, from Alton, Illinois. According to
the Davenport Gazette, no orders had been
received to prepare quarters for them, and
for want of other accommodations thew
were housed about the town of Rock Is
land. Red tape, it seems, can never do
anything otherwise than backwards.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

va It is said that the cold weather of
the early part Of this month has utterly ru-
ined the blossom-buds of the peach, the APP
ricot and nectarine, as far South at least as
the Southern boundary ofTennessee. Some
apprehension is entertained that not only
Is al prospect Of 2 peach crop for this year
absolutely gone, but that the trees them
selves are also killed by the excessive cold.
In the peach growing regions Of Illinois a
large proportion ofthe trees are knownto be
Killed, and il any are not those that sur
we VIII scarcely be better than those lust
from the nursery. So we may make up
our minds to DO without peaches this com
ing season at least.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

vT-edMesdny, January ~.

rs Red Tape is rather expensive. In the
matter of expenditures, in some instances,
it is not merely expensive, it is studious-
iy and of deliberate choice a game of
swindling. In the Navy Department sup
plies are mostly obtained by contract
These supplies are portioned out by classes,
that is the contractor is bound to furnish
all the articles in certain class at certain
fixed prices. And the contract is given to
the man who will furnish the article Of the
class at the lowest aggregate price.
To chance observer, this seems all
right. 1t looks as if the Navy would get
the whole at the lowest market price, But
this is sad mistake. The contracts are
not to furnish certain quantities of each ar
ticle for certain aggregate sum, but to
supply certain small quantities and such
additional quantities as may be called for,
or in other similar modes. And here is
where the stealing comes. The honest con-
tractor puts in an honest bid for each article
at what he conceives u fair price. The man
who knows the ropes puts in bid in
which The majority of the articles are offer
cd at prices much lower than the market
value and the rest at prices one, two,
three, or five hundred per cent above their
value, bat SO arranged that the aggregate
price Will still be under the lowest honest
bidder. These low priced articles are those
which he knows are only required in small
and limited quantities. Those to which he
attaches the highest rates are those of
which very large additional quantities are
invariably ordered. He calculates on
losing money on the small quantities, but
on the others he makes this up in many
instances thousand times over. This is
one of the beauties of the contract system
of ''class' supplies.
AL this would be avoided by contracting
for each article separately and buying each
article of the nan who would furnish it at
the lowest rate. But that don't suit Red
Tape and the whole army of swindling
contractors. The present mode suits them.
II is such nice mode of "robbing the ex-
chequer," and all according to law. The
law we believe has long been thus. II
seems to have been fixed up to suit the in
terest Of the thieves. It is time it was al
tered, and we believe our Senators have
attempted without success to alter it. 1t |
ought to be done at once. The Congress
man who won't vote for its change NAV
safely be set down as a party to the public
robbery. Our attention is called to this |
matter by IA statement we see that the Ma
Wy Department has been paying $50 per
dozen for monkey.wrenches of which the I
market price is $40 per dozen.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30


GN- II there is any Northern Comprehend
who knows what he wants, and can posi-
bly, assign any loyal reason for his conduct,
We would be glad to hear of it. On the ba-
sis Of reasonable intent-devotion to sla-
very, and unalterable subserviency to the
siavemongers, their policy is all plain
enough. Their acts and their talk result
properly and inevitably from the most
fraternal regard to the traitors. They can
be accounted for on no other reasonable
ground. If there is any other plausible
OASIS Tor their falsehoOds, their denuncia.
tons OF the Government, the army, and all
who act as loyal citizens, they have hitherto
failed in making it known.
THESE fellows are profuse enough in fault
nnding. They assign many reasons and
apologies for their conduct, and doubtless
desire the public to believe they are yery
much in earnest in what they say. But
these reasons and apologies, so far as we
nave met with them, are either gross and
self-evident lies, concocted to deceive the
ignorant, or else afford no justification for
the disloyal conduct they have at all times
manifested. They are all distinctly in the
interest OF the rebels, intended for their
advantage and our injury, and are known,
by none better than themselves, to pro-
duce no effects other than dangerous to the
Union.
Now we would be glad to hear of one
plausible excuse for their apparent pertidy
-one which would satisfy the mind of the
most unreasoning man permitted TO walk
al large outside mad-house. If but one
such could be furnished, we will be glad
10 ADMIT that Copperhead is somew at
less OF a deliberate villain-a miserable
compound OF baseness and malevolence
than he seems to be. But it can't be found.
Copperhead is such merely because of
MS natural and unalterable depravity. He
Is mere devil. He can't get up to the dio-
nifty of manhood.
MSOne of the necessities of tho ,;,,os =
Tue prompt detection and the summary
ano exemplary punishment of the gang of
."eVes and Williams who have sought moth
ing since the war begun but how to rob the
treasury. The frauds upon the Govern
ment, OF which there are far too MANY
could not be perpetuated without the CON
nivance and cooperation of persons in
Office whose duty it is to ruard against
them. In the New York Custom Honso
Tor instance, it is discovered that officials
have been parties to the export Of goods IN.
tended to go into the hands of tho roho,s
And in all the Departments, it would s,.o ,a'
from results, that officers in WHOM, ~.
Government has confided have hoon
pered with, have allowed their cun;d;tv :,
get the better of their integrity and -
basely abetted frauds of the most o,,t..
geous character.
The Government is not resnons;h,o 3.
these robberies unless it neglects thor M, ~
lshment or attempts to shield the th;a,a.
ana IN the necessity to confide SO mucr
10 oincers suddenly called for nv tho ox;
sencles OF the times it isnot wonderfu, tba
scoundrels should in too manv instance.
nave crawled into places of trust.
But the Administration has spro RON,
edy In its own hands. AS often as If dis
covers 4 dishonest officer let him ha nroso
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

Sssi~ The Chicago Tribune OF Saturday
last, says that the winter is not to be an
idle one insnuates that it has special adj
vices of what is going to be done, and af-
firms that it is not contraband to say that
there is stirring news in store! All that
may possibly be true. The Tribune may
have been taken into the confidence OF
some one who knows what il is to under
taken. But if so, what are we TO say of
this limiting and suggesting facts and pro-
liabilities which, if really of any import
ance, ought to be kept entirely secret? If
blow is going to be struck at the rebels,
is anything gained by informing them that
we are going to strike? Would it not be
just as wise, or u little wiser, to let them
find it out when they are struck?
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

w. Col. Elliot Rice, of the eth Iowa, re-
turned 70 his home in Oskaloosa yester-
day. His regiment having re-enlisted, all
are at home on thirty day visit.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

EO-The chief conspirators in the South
are already talking seriously about a Die
tator. They mean not such one as Davis
is, with the formula Of a Constitution hedg-
ing him round, but one free of all restraint
and clad with absolute despotic power
The only thing that seems to be in the way
OF this exhibition of modern democracy, is
the fact that the army and the mass Of the
political leaders don't like Davis They
want another man i'll his place, so that he
is the only obstacle to the plan. He is not
inclined to yield his power and position
They won't make him Dictator. They
want Gen. Lee. They think Lee will do,
and Lee, himself, is said to be quite will
ing. That appears to be the situation at
present. TO this complexion has democ-
racy already come in the South. 1t is easy
to be seen that the moment Lee can obtain
control of the major part Of the rebel army,
he will be promptly proclaimed Dictator,
unless the Rebellion shall sooner be starved
out OF resistance.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

A CASE OF GREAT uARDSHIP.-SOme
miserable "cuss' stole the hat of the editor
of the Gate city at the "Deming," the other
day. We should like to know who got the
worst of it.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

The daughter of Gen. f. b. Brown
was married at Jefferson City, Mo, on the
18th inst, to Lieut.. J. c. Dodge, of ST.
Louis. The event came very near being q
funeral instead of wedding. The bride,
fully apparrelled for the ceremony, acci-
dentally allowed her gauze dress to come
in contact with a red hot stove, aud of
course it was instantly in flames. Fortu-
nateiy the Bridegroom was near and cool
enough to envelope her with thick over
coat thus extinguishing the flames before
any harm was done to her person. II
merely caused an hours delay and the sub
stitution O impromptu robes for the hab-
erdashery thus lucklessly destroyed. Fire
is not always pleasant thing for too close
a contact
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

~ Judging from what We see in the
English papers the John Bulls are not so
much delighted with the prospects of a
European War as they We're with the idea
OF war in America. The chalice which
they held to our lips is not found so palata-
BILE when commended to their own. They
were delighted immeasurably with the
hope of American disintegration. There
was huge sheer on their sardonic coun-
tenances as they contemplated the prospect
OF our division and consequent weakness,
and the utter destruction of Democratic
Constitutional Government. That pleased
them hugely. The only trouble is that We
would not submit to any such result. Then
they read us tremendous homilies about
the evils of war and the blessedness of
peace, and denounced our bloodthirstiness
because we thought the integrity of this
great and free country was something
worth fighting for. And now there is a
prospect of great European War to
maintain the right of one Of their order to
reign over a couple Of Dutchies, about as
large as a couple of Iowa counties! And
in this war England will take part, and is
probably the chief instigator of it! 1t will
hurt that liberal and disinterested nation
for Germany to have port or two on the
North Sea! That appears to be the impor-
tant reason for the present roaring of the
British Lion! Isn't this nice cOmmenta-
~ on English honesty and sincerity. when
it talks of the immortality OF War? Don't
it show how much confidence we should
put in the honor of its press and its lead
ers? The great Bully evidently imagines
that no nation has any right but itself
Thank God the time is coming when it will
be taught 10 mind its own business and tn
hide itself in its own filthy kennel.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

GA- Under date of January 9th, the Ad-
jutant General Of the .Coniederacy' has
issued an order requiring all persons who
are able to bear arms to report themselves
for duty to the enrolling officers in the
various localities, before the first day OF
February. All who do not comply with
this order by that date are at once to be
conscripted. This order includes all white
men in the 'Confederacy," without regard
to age, including those who have heretofore
furnished substitutes. 1t is now to be de-
termined whether or not the people Of the
South will submit to this universal com
pulsory service in the army Of traitors
They are to be tried as with re, in order
that the Rebels may make one more effort
to stay the Northern tide which threatens
TO overwhelm them. The thing is plainly
coming to an issue with them.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

VA They are putting up immense guam
titles of ice at Dubuque. One man has an
ice-house which holds about four thousand
tons, which he is filling at the rate of three
business will not prove as profitable this
year as it was last. During the late cold
weather ice was made in abundance as far
South as Helena, and of course all the
people North of that point will put up
enough at least for home consumption
Last season the supply was limited even in
this vicinity, and the cities South of us had
to look for what they required to the region
North of us. This year it will be quite diff
ferent. Still we guess the trade will pay.
They will rant ice at New orleans. Mint
Julips can't be made without it.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

Ma There is company at Chicago en-
gagged in boring for oil in the vicinity of
that city. 1t commenced operations last
December and has now bored some tiftv-f;va
feet below the surface, mostly through a
rock which itself furnishes int,amable oil
They think they will succeed. We hope
so. If they do we presume the article will
become cheaper here in the West, by at
least the cost of transportation, which is a
considerable item. Go ahead, and good
luck to you.
~ The Senate of New York has unan-
lmousiy passed resolutions, previously
ADOPTED in the Assembly, providing for
sucn change in the State Constitution as
".li enable soldiers to vote. This indicates
winch way the wind blows. There arc
some copperheads In the Senate. Wa al,
Know too well how ve,y dear to them are
the rights OF the soldiers, and how extramo.
~ ANXIOUS they have at all times baan that
the gallant soldiers should be permitted tn
vote! But these fellows dare not. aftor ,,,o
lesson they got last Fall, put themselves
again on the record against them. Thov
comprehend the fact that Butternut;sn, !,
"gone UNDER" 1t won't be long befor.
they will swear that they were ALWAYS j.
favor of the soldiers, and were the oripipa
"Abolitionists," whose thunder was stoio,
by Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phil,;nu
So we go.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

va A proposition is said to be under
consideration in Pennsylvania to remove
the Capital Of the State from Harrisburg to
is said to be the inadequacy of the old pub
lie buildings at the present Capital. 1t is
none of our business, but then as matter
of opinion we think Philadelphia a much
better place than Harrisburg for the seat Of
government. In that city, we judge, the
Legislature would not be subjected to be-
ing overrun by mobs, as has been the case
in times past, where it now meets. Mobs
are very apt to be dealt with in summary
style in large cities. They have police,
which Harrisburg has not.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

IA There are said to be many people in
Europe who believe that Louis Napoleon
has an understanding with kossuth and
his friends, and that while Italy and Hun
gary attack Austria, and Denmark pitches
into Germany, the Emperor will evacuate
Rome and undertake the conquest of the
Rhine! If this be the fact it is only another
compliment to the inscrutable policy Of the
Emperor, and shows that people are quite
willing to assign to him such purposes az
they themselves esire. That's all.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

Gg- The Chicago Journal styles the
Union men OF Missouri who denounce
Schofield, faction" This faction
constitutes the majority of the people OF
that State, who probably understand their
own wants and are much better acquaint-
ed with Schotield's regeneration, and the
necessities of their own position than the
Journal can pretend to be. They know
very we'll that Schoiields policy does not
suit them, and has cost u vast amount OF
innocent bloodshed to say nothing of it's
political enormity.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-30

suted and punished to the outside limit Of
the law. And besides let it also at once
dismiss every officer, if any there be, whose
negligence has given security to the thieves.
It would be good thing if it would at once
dismiss the whole gang Of officials at the
New York Custom Houce, and replace
them with men who have some better quail
itications than mere political huckstering.
Honest men can be found competent to do
the duties; but they will not be so long as
such positions are given to mere Coffee
house politicians. Clear them out. Pun
ish the guilty. Make examples of them.
Make the stealing dangerous, and take a
little pains to find honest officers, and then
we shall have less stealing and more safety
to the public treasure.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-02

MAID AND WIHE.-Marriage iS to Q
woman at once the happiest and saddeSt
event of her life; it is the promise Of fu.
ture bliss raised on the death Of present
enjoyment. She quits her home, her par
ents, her companions, her amusements-
everything on which she has hitherto de-
pended for comfort, for affection, for kind.
ness and for pleasure. The parents BY
whose advice she has been guided, the
sister to whom she has dared to impart
every embryo thought and feeling, the
brother who has played with her, BY turns
the counselor and the counseled, and the
younger children to whom she had hith-
erto been the mother and playmate-all
are to be forsaken at one fell stroke; every
former tie is loosened, the spring Of every
action is changed, and she flies with joy
in the untrodden path before her; buoyed
up by the confidence of requited love. she
bids fond and grateful adieu to the life
that is past, and turns with excited hopes
and Joyous anticipations to the hsppinssS
to come. Then woe to the man who can
blight such fair hopes-who can treacher.
ously lure such heart from It's peaceful
enjoyments and watchful protection Of
home, who can, coward-like break the
illusions which have won her, and destroy
the confidence which love has inspired.
Woe to him who has too early Withdrawn
the tender plant from the props and stays
of moral discipline in which she has been
nurtured, and yet makes no effort to sup.
ply their places, for on him is the respon-
sibility Of her errors-on him who first
taught her, by his example, to grow care
less Of her duty, and then exposed her,
with a weakened spirit and unsatis6ed
heart, to the wild storms and the willy
temptations of sinful world.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-02

We have EXAMINED the books OF the various
county officers, and found them correct.
We have added TO our annual report null state
ent OF the receipts and expenditures Of the county
fTom July lS62 TO July J. lS63 owing to the abb
ssnce OF one OF the Commissioners and Illness OF
another no report made out at the July session
Of lSS: the other Commissioners, together with the
county officers at that tinle and found them all cor
rect
When majority OF the present Board OF Commits
sIoners came into ONCE, in September. 1852 they
found one of the present hospital buildings In pro-
cess of erection and were obliged to hnish and fur
nIsh the building speedily possible, for the ap-
pllcatiOns for admission were many and private ae-
nI purchase many other necessary articles for the
use OF the county, was the question. We could not
purchase lumber, lime, furniture, provisions, medi-
zines help OF assistants etc., with scrip, without
nayinx enormous prices for them. The former Board
nnf1,oulmisSioners labored under the same dtsad-
yanSages In q lesser degree, for the expense up TO
that time were comparatively hght put tney lounI
rse money and they selected the plan for creating
contingent fund and setting apart onetnird oi tne
revenues Of the county for the payment OF warrants
drawn upon that fund. The amount 80 drawn by
the former Board OF Commissioners on Lnis contin-
gent fand, up 10 the time the present Board came
into once September, lS62. amounted 70 tns sum o.
3. .ti4 ~ and the present Board contnnea 70 aiaM
On the same fund up to November, 1851, 70 pay
pressing bills which were coming IN very ast al
that time as the hospital building WAS about com
pleted We had to plaster the whole ouhuine. pains
snd finish the same pay the various bills contracted
for lumber labor materials, etc.. besides furnishing
IL which was Of itself alone heavy Item.
Al that time there were warrants lssuea On
ES1 drawing ave psE cent per NOUN ~"