The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-05-07
Rebel News.

news Of importance from New Mexico.
Rebel News.
WASHINGTON, May 3.-The Richmond
Examiner of the 10Th ult. says il we hold
our own in Virginia until summer is end.
ed the North's power of mischief every.
where will be gone. If we lose, the Souti,a.
capacity of resistance will be broken. The
Confederacy has ample power to keep its
place in Virginia, If its means are employ.
ed energetically and consistently, and this
is the last year of war which ever wilma.
The Enquirer of the 3Oth says . company
has been organized with capital OF SO.
OOO, 900, OF which $l5O, 900 has been paid On
disclosing the condition of TIA
enterprise, but says the Company aspires
to grand results. It will have q fieet g
least, and there Is now every prospect Of 4
success. aa 1ss 49,
Longs speech ia publishedin the Raleigh
Conservative, and Is spoken of as bold and :
manly, and as one of the most remarkable 4
speeches that has been delivered in Yan,l.
keedom. E 6
~As each day rolls away to take Hs !
place on eternity's calendar, Wa are mort
and more convinced, that but "few days,,, ID
ct farthest, will witRess the usheringin Of
the Millennium. That brotherly love, which
is to extinguish all tastes and caste, il ii.
ready assuming it's supremacy. The lioa
aud the lamb is about to lie down together
The Editor of the Quincy Herald, q hith.
erto Copperhead organ Of the worst kind.
has in his employ, a negro boy, who b
''devil" for the Herald office. Not . mis-.
cegnation negro, but q pure oderiSerous
African. Surely the good time is near at
hand. Let Us pray!
mo one can blame the rebels greatly for
Wreaking vengeance on the black trOOps-.a
Placed in their situation we all would do
likewise, and in addition, consider the
white officers in command but the equal Of
the negroes, and serve them the same. The
quicker the negroes, and the white men
who have no more self-respect than to ac.ta
Gept commissions in niger regiments, are
Killed of, the better it win be for all par.
ties.'' 4 s It-a f4a
The above paragraph is from the pen Of
" Brick Pomery," editor Of the La Crosse
Democrat. II it were not that we are OPP
posed to "mob law" and to disgracing the q
gallows, we would urge the survivors Of
that horrible massacre at Fort Pillow, to !
take and hang Pomery, until he is dead
and damned. He IL not lit to live; and IL
dead, mother earth would disdain to 70. i
ceive his filthy carcass. However, he !
might be put on Brownlow's inclined
plane, and sent to the internal regions
where he properly belongs. ~
~ A friend of ours local) ia the srural
dustricks,' writes US little note, in which
he says:
The prospects for line crop u sDog-fen.
al to- -. Al 49, -
: l hope you will send the Daily to me
for one year, in order that may the more
fully establish my loyalty. ! woald also
add that buy all my apples from the ne j
gro barber here, and patronize him in va.
rious small ways"
Well, "Yorkup,'' we have complied with
your request, but we fear it will 20 stuff
with you. If We can possibly save you, We !.
will DO so cheerfully. But that little affair
OF accepting the Cop nomination last fall
about knocked all the loyalty out OF Won.
However, II you will continue to buy as.
Pies Of the negro barber, and talk to Uncle
Natty about the ways OF Providence. Won
may possibly be saved, but it will Be 3
mighty hard squeeze, alsd almost miraclsi
Business Mems Meeting. al
At an adjourned meeting Of the bushes
men OF Burlington to hear the report Of
the committee to, examine the road and
BRIDGES opposite the city, the chairman, A. s
W. Carpenter, Esq, made the following
report:
the bridges and road on the east of the
river opposite Burlington, have made Z
pretty thorough examination and fini The
bridges In very bad condition. We are Il
satisfied the bridges can all be builf and
put III good order for sum not to exceed 4
i've thousand dollars. We also examined
the road, which, in our opinion. will cot !,
about three thousand dollars. The whole !.
Will not cost over eight thousand dollars,
Your committee would also suggest to To
meeting the propriety OF ascertaining who
the road belongs TO, whether or no the fer.
~ company had forfeited their right 70
said road. We are OF the opinion vp.ess
company can be formed that can control
Inc road ana terry, the repairing Of the
EFT to US as a city that We desire it to be-
All OF winch Is respectfully submitted. j
a. w. CARPENTER, Chm, s
On motion Of f. d. Rand conmittee Of
five was appointed to examine the condi.t.
ion OF the charter of the. ferry company
N Illinois, and learn the general feeling q !
tue, Tue Pubic as TO the propriety of starting a
one, repairing the road, rebuilding the !,
bridges and culverts and keeping the road /
meeting. IL - Al.
z; y. Rand, Theo. Poehler, J. p. Snnder-
land, =. NJ. Eisfeld and s. w. Greenbannl u
were appointed that committee. sad.
mittee. a n - al, :
E. D. JAccAR, SEQ 7. FRENCH, Oh "a .aaa
!. A few years ago y physician Of George.
town. West Indies; examined the body a.
man that had been discovered undety
heap of cane-trash, or the fibrous residue
OF tue canes, and found that the body emit.
ted no smell, and was dried UP Hike a ip1nSssu
my. He did not at the time proclaim ,his 4
discovery, but Immediately Instituted ex !,
periments on dead animals, which CONF i
pietely confirmed his observation. Con.
vinced thereby that by the fermentation o.
fresh cane-trash disinfecting and anti
septic gas was evolved, he Immediately
turned his attention to the means Of EN-.
ploying the, sugar-cane as preservativea
against epidemics and contagious diseases,
and "a n medicinal n1anf srn,sI~ov1~-@ rTh0rU