The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-29

dian OF lie, VINO, to aVolQ being IOTCeu INTO
the trenches, succeeded few weeks since
in escaping from one Of the Gulf States
assured me that he had conyersed with
wealthy planters who were weary OF sacrl-
hciDg their sons to preserve their slaves !;
and II as within my personal knowledge
that many OF the most enlightened citizens
Of the South regard Slavery as an unmi:-
igated evil. They did so even before 1t
had wantouly involved them in the inea-
man nature that the masses OF the people
should carry on ruinous war for ever, to
crafty the pride, the temper, the ambition
of few political and military leaders, or
the governing aris.ocracy to which the he
long. Why, then should We overturn the
Administration of our own Government IN
the crisis of the Struggle, in order to bring
in successors who will otter TO those leaders
new guarantees on the subject of Slavery,
with the assurance beforehand tina. the offer
will be rejected?
SOLDIER iNGEsuIrY.-At the sailors
fair, soon to come off at Boston, there will
be on exhibition and for sale a miniature
steam engine, built of picked up materials
by two private soldiers, Westel f. Hank
ms and Abram r. Evans, both belonging
to the 44th New York regiment, which was
begun and finished since the arrival of the
army before Petersburg. The engine, con-
sidering the materials and the means of
making them, is great piece of ingenuity.
Its length is fourteen inches and its heiGAn
twelve inches. The boiler is made froH
common oil can the furnace fre,E Gimp
kettle the smoke stack from a table tray
the cylinder from piece of 4 muske( bar
rel from the battle field the cylinder cover
from piece of sigma. telescope frame; the
lining round the boiler from snare drum
hoop; the post connecting the cylinder
with the bed plate from the rein rings Of a
get of harness: two tri-cocks from a key to
a door-lock from house at Spostsyivania;
the steam chest is piece of a door plate
the steam pipes q piece Of scale beam.
helped out with a silver pencil case; tie
steam whistle which, when working, is
loud and shrill, is composed Of the mouth.
piece to a bugle, part Of a Spencer rifle car
fridge, and the knob from the tip of bay
onet scabbard the safety valve is a piece
OF lightning rod from a mill at Rappahan-
mock ; the beam OF the valve r part of a
cavalry soldiers belt buckle; the weight a
rebel grape shot; the piston rod and crank
are made from pieces OF musket ramrod;
the connecting rod is piece of wire from a
railroad lantern; the fly wheel is made
from piece of a mahogany table the four
spokes to the wheel OF a musket ramrod
the hub ofthe wheel is a fuse plug of 4 reb-
el shell the brace from a railroad lantern:
from parasol the Maltese cross (the 5th
corps badge surmounting the frame, the
bed plate, stand plate, shaft standards,
crOss-heads, eccentrics and guides are all
made from pieces of brass picked up in
various places in Virginia; the packing
boxes. and screws were made from a United
States medical instru ment, destroyed. The
machine rests upon frame made from a
piece of q mahogany piano case, from a
house near Petersburg, belonging to an Of
ticer in the rebel army the legs are pieces
of andirons from the same house, and the
brass knobs on the frames are from rebel
cartridge boxes from the battle field at the
Weldon railroad. This nice piece Of mech
anism, though so small, il in perfect run
ming order, and works beautifully, and
has power sufficient to run a sewing ma
chine. 1t is named the General Charles
Griffin.
Edward Everett took very advanced
ground upon the subject of the Proclama-
ton Of Emancipation in his Faneuil Hall
speech. He said:
IT is very doubtful, ,phether any act of the
Government Of the Uxsted States aCdS neces-
sGT.y to H6erdtc the Slaves in q State which is
in rebellion. There is much reason for the
opinion, that, BY the simple act of LeCying
soar against the United States, the relation
of Slavery ,Das terminated, certainly SO far
az concerns the duty of the United states
to recognize it, or to refrain from interfer-
IND with it. Not being founded on the law
of nature, and resting solely on positive
local law, and that not of the United States,
as soon as it becomes either the motive or
pretext0fan unjust war against the Union;
an efficient instrument in the hands Of the
Rebels for carrying on the war; source of
military strength to the Rebellion and of
danger to the Government at home and
h init ttNo nd ssntv hot
in any event but its abandonment, il will
continue in all future time to work these
mischiefs, who can suppose it is the duty
of the United States to continue to recog-
nize it? To maintain this would be con-
tradiction in terms. Itwould be to reoog
nize right in Rebel master to employ
his slave in acts Of rebellion and treason,
and the duty of the slave to aid and abet
his master in the commission Of the great
est crime known to the law. No such ab-
surdity can be admitted, and any citizen
Of the United States from the President
down, who should, by any overt act. recog-
nize the duty Of q slave to obey q Rebel
master in hostile operation, would him.
self be giving aid and comfort to the en-
envy.
How HoRRALL Took PASSAGE FOR C1x-
C1NNAr1-A GOOD STORY. "A good story il
told Of Washington countryman, who on
his way to Cincinnati became somewhat
elevated by sundry ''driuks," but, a. good
luck would have it, found boat ct the
wharf, and was quickly. on his way.
Soon after leaving the wharf, q man
came around for the fare. Horrall handed
outa fve-dollar dill, and received four dol
lars and ninety 1--WE cents in change. He
rammed it into his pocket book with great
eagerness, supposing the clerk had made q
mistake. That done he leaned back into
his chair and fell asleep. A little while
and he was plucked awake by the same
man, who again demanded fare. "Discov-
sfsd the r.. holding out handful
Ave cents, and Horrall again went into q
doze. Ere he had got fairly into dreaming
Of home and friends far away, around came
the collector again, and thus 1t went on for
. long time.
At last Horrall thought It very inconven-
lent, and concluded 70 vote the collector a
nuisance, and him bit Of advice besides;
20 he said: +t4F
n (hicl thie danger (hicA Oua ihic>