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

been received from the cavalry expedition
recently sent southwark from here that a
rebel force, 800 strOng,-under Col. Mills,
was attacked on the 18th, at point not
mentioned, and all those not killed or
wounded were captured and sent to Little
ROCK. Our loss is very slight.
The Glorious Fourth 80. What
1 should be Done.
This day, above all the happy year, is the
one on which all are expected to possess
an exuberance of patriotism and other
equally exhilerating spirits. When the
vast populace are to lay aside all worldly
cares and patiently listen to the rehearsal
of all the deeds, single and undivided, OF
their noble ancestors. As we are to have a
celebration, and fearing that the orators of
the day may forget some very important
and vital points in their orations, we mod
estly beg leave to suggest some topics
SONGS" and also hint as to the style of their
oratory. AS matter of course, the sub
ljects are never mentioned on the 4th, and
will have at least the merit Of being some
thing new and the masses, as general
thing, delight inIspeeches "long drawn
mate that it would be highly proper to
open each discourse with the elegant
and euphoneous sentence, .We have met
on this occrsIon," &c. But to our subject
and style:
Let each speaker lay the foundation of
his remarks in that era when the morning
stars sang together, and trace minutely all
the events that have transpired up to the
time when Columbus first discovered the
country which gave birth to the freest
and best people that ever wore knee
buckles and powdered wigs with long
queues. Let them portray in tue most beau
tiful and burning language the English
nf,AfH
in the dead of winter, prosecuted for opin-
| ions sake, were forced to abandon their
homes, cross the mightydeep and ask protec-
ton in land inhabited by savages and
wild beasts. Describe the landing OF these
Pilgrims and give the dimensions, color
and formation of the barren rock on which
the loot OF the first white man was planted
in this, tour own native land" Continue
the history and Gull sweet gems from the
lapse of time, until the day of the revolu-
ton, the eliminating point in the history
of our beloved country. With a mighty
effort and an upheaving of the powers of
the eloquence, convey your listeners to the
Street, in the city Of ''brotheriy love-" and
there reyel in the "Hall OF Independence,
among those heroes whom nothing could
daunt, and whose principles of right and
love OF freedom we're as firm as the gray
granite hills of staid old New England
AouAcu cut Oh Tue lueIu0 u music, ana IN
lntOnatiOns loud AS thunder and deep as
the ravines of the mighty Alps, astound
your wondering and spell bound audience
with perfect imitation of peal from the |
old bell hanging in the belfry of that sa-
cred and hallowed building. Say great |
deal ABOUT the Declaration of Indepen-
demo. On this point a great many orators |
fail. Keep up the war at least seventy-one |
minutes, and close it with a grandiloQuent
burst of small arms and artillery. Dent
fail to recite the progress of civilization
how from away down East where ''old |
Sol" the God of the day, in fiery efful-
gence, rises over the crest of the blue-tint-
on hills-to the far of plains OF the West.
stretching for thousands of miles, the
Universal Yankee nation" have carried
"Cobb's spelling book New England
Primer" "Women's Rights and Patent
Twenty-Five Cent Baby Jumpers How the
mighty Mississippi, the wild and rapid Mis-
souri, and Ia belle Ohio, like huge arms,
meander their way through the garden
spot Of the earth, and upon whose broad
bosoms are waited the productions of the
skill of thousands of the strong yeomanry
OF the land-the rich treasures Of the earth
and the latest babies that ever breath of
the breath of life. How the cool watersed
the lakes of the North impaired an inyig-
Grating impulse to all things animate, and
whose placid waters, from the "rising of
the sun to the going down thereof" are
whitened with the sails of the leyiathan of
the Vastly Deep" How the sunny South is
bathed In the warm waters of the Cult,
and her sonsand daughters courted to sleep
BY the gentle music OF the soft lulIabys.-|.
Tell all this and about thirty-seven and q
half cents worth more. Keep telling
about it. Make item strike here. Let
your soul be ravished, yea entranced, with
the dazzlingly magnificent eloquence Of
your theme; Above all, don't forget to do
homage to the bird of extended WINGS"
oy paying passing tribute to his many
excellent qualities. Make him soar aloft,
and grasp ut thunderbolts from the top
most crag OF the highest snow-capped ele-
walton. Picture him in his lofty eyrie, his
keen, gray eye piercing the very womb of
time, proudly and detiantly proclaiming
himself monarch of all he surveys" Then
disturb him in his quiet, by tickling him
under the fifth rib, and stir up a commo-
ton in the upper world, as he unfaps his
wings to the breeze, spreads them out like
cloud over the top OF the mountain, with
giants power gathers them together
again for mighty effort, and with one fell
upon his prey, strikes while the iron 8
hot, and literally brushes it into atoms.-l,,
II II be possible, hold the bird UP all the
time, and give him strength by calling him :
''uoble bird" very frequently. Also give
your hearers all the best and most reliable
AAVA AAdSAOA VI SAo Ul6uuoT IN which 1.-THE !
dear old dag is made, &c. Intersperse
your orations with numerous drinks Of
water, and direct appeals to the ladies. Do
an TINS, and you'll do to bet on.-R,pleyl
(Okio) Bee.
The Strength Of Democratic So.
ciety.
The great American civil war ia airoadv
teaching ourselves and foreigners some az
the most valuable lessons in the science Of
human government. Among these, we
note the following:
FIRST, that universal suffrage, carving
with it not only the right Of the citizen to
cast MS vote, but to be eligible for eyery
pubic ONCE for which he possesses or can
peace. Napoleon the Third promised thai
his empire should be peace; but it was fol.
lowed 6y wars of invasion in the Crimea.
Italy, Syria, Mexico, China, Cochin China.
madagascar, and wherever else the point
OF French wedge could be driven in,
Arlstocracles and privileged orders in eve