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The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-12-31

DREADFUL ILLUSTRATIONS IN oPAlN.-A
correspondent Of the London Morning
RcrcLd, writing from Denia, Spain, Nov.
II, furnishes the following details Of the
inundation in Valencia, which has been
already referred to:
The news Of the hurricane at Calcutta haa
Just reached us by telegraph when a
somewhat similar catastrophe befei one Q!
the wealthieei and most populous districts
in the province OF Valencia. The river Ju-
car, which has its source among the noun
tains Of Cuenca, flows through and fertil-
ICES one OF the mos. productive districts Of
Spain.
On the night Of the Sd there was copi-
Gus fell OF rain, which continued On the
morning Of the 4.b, and towards the eve
ming 1t seemed Of II the windows OF heaven
had opened. Before midnight, the towns
with many adjoining villages, We're SUBJ
merged in water.
In Alcire alone upwards Of two hundred
houses near the banks Of the river were
completely swep. away; others have fallen
since, and many have had their founda-
tons sapped. The poorer classes, whose
houses were Of one story only, were OBJ
from being drowned. Thousands from
their house. tops anxiorsly looked for the
morning. There was no escape.
AThe water had risen TO the hight OF six or
eight feet in the highest parts OF the town
in the lower part the houses were covered.
In the Convent of Carcagente the water
was fifteen feet deep. Except cats and
dogs, not single domestic or farm ami
NAL has been LEI. alive. Now that the wa
tiers have subsidized, the streets and houses
are full of lie dead carcasses Of horses,
mules, aonkeys, pigs goats and sheep. On
the first entrance into the town twentv.one
corpses were found in the streets; how
many more are to be found in the houses
that have fallen, how many drowned in
their beds, and how many swept away
with the flood no one presumes to estimate.
Already, above one hundred corpses have
been taken to the church; but there is
no place Of interment for them, scarcely
q .vektige Of the cemetery having been
About one hundred square miles-the
most fertile and populous that the prov
ince Of Valenc cha can boast of-heving been
Inundated. From many places no infor-
nation has, as yet, been obtained, and in
this letter. have confined myself PRINCE
pally to what occurred at Alcira, rs being
the largest and most important town in the
district. tAlbalat, village rear Alcira,
was completely under water. From the
nearest approach only the steeple Of the
church could be seen. se.ste,rt eS.-st f.,
Spanish Government fer the opening Of
alnational subscription in aid ri the euf-
ferers. s,, & 6..f.si. 4 asf,s bad tt4i
The Correspondence, of Madrid states
that one thousand and two head Of cattle
and one hundred and sixty-eight thousand
demestic animals had been drowned; two
hundred and seventeen houses are in ruins,
and six hundred and thiry-five others in a.
lettering state. a-s"s af *a
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the tren ches, and in front OF US lay more
killed and wounded Of the enemy than we
nssm hezed.nhS no sf s.,apg = Is.
Sin &c my last writing we have had rain
Ra sss sayts ss sensfa . dsgnt
edngood deal. Night after might / have
lain awake with the cold, and. last night /
had to get up and start FIRE to warm 7
ann not accustomed to this kind Of suffer-
ing. or course have been accustomed to
+ ying outs the ground Of nights, butsven
taoaeh scaled an n;Ys sseF'ly ksps warn
cape from here have noticed in another
part Of this, were caught and brought back.
They went down the river in canoes. four
ia the party, and got over e-hundrea miles,
when they imprudently, at night, hailed d
party on shorethey tooklto be negroee.and
were captured. At - N1,
Yesterday great many officers got out
plan was this: IA number Of small par
ties were out on parole getting timber for
cabins, &c. Every two hours the guards
are changed and officers 70 out, pretending
they have been out before. To carry blan.
kets would be suspicious, so they come
back to the lines with wood and cali over
to companion to bring blanket to them,
bedding. The blanket is brought and in
look ON stupidity, thinking it all right! It
is amusing to notice the tricks resorted TO,
to get out Of the lines and afterwards to
get supplies out. The rebs are perfectly
bewildered 1t these Yankee tricks, and
think the .Yanks' can do anything. They
are IN daily wonder at our ingenuity, as
exhibited in our building, &C. Some Of
the prisoners make pipes, DC, and sell to
the guards. One officer has q barber shop,
another Goes tailoring, others mend shoes
dc. Anything to make little money. n II
an officer has trade he can use, and is out
Of money, he does what he can. Captain
Turner is this time In company with Lieu
tenant Pickenpaugh, who had commando Of
Camp Mcclellan at Davenport, some
thy Bostonian.v The latter is atundantly
supplied " til money which may help thsrp
through. = A. roll call this morning only
9SS were present. A few days ago il was
1,lS9. But very few are being brought
back. Capt. Strong and Lieut.. Pic1uet Of
oar cabin are watching for an opportunity
70 leave. Ifthey 60 will fall heir to more
bedding-a thing greatly desired p
flames McManus' son, Lieut.. McM.,
I did not know it till few days ago. Yes
terday went out TO hunt him up and
found that he had m9ue his escape the day
before. This morning met nephew Of
Elder Hartzelps who inquired about him..
Heis . Lieutenant Capt. Bill Holmes Of
the % Iowa, has died Of ye.loy fever at
Charleston. We left him there sick. When
I arrived at Macon, hungry and rationless,
be gave me pound OF cornbread and 2
piece Of bacon, tor which ehal. ever hold
his memory atfectionately. He had been
. prisoner nine months. afterwards met
him at Charleston. He was o whole heart
ed lnan.-1GVeaD6rt .G0sd3te.
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The female operators in the Eastern cot
ton mills are adopting the. Bloomer cos
tune as working dress, as being. less liza
bic to becoming entangled in the machine
~, and is besides quite novelty.
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= 14nOrrA Ap0uatr1a Cala RI h;s Envl;sh n "a.
Mo nm. re,ases aha savars ~ Gamars,
er e. .I y NJ Wnr .n1 s saves H. 2, nsnI
fiaI elec,ion.
rv,r nt.rs - k;re AZ =. tAo L,n pr.
10y so -. .hs ~, = ias % ne' gust
reance Thnse WIN hava n iarca .tock -
ki.amen on hand should take care 10 Eeen
thsaYnsfch hot for there i somchofiv Il
NJ Mothers sron,d ha careful ~ Eoav,
;h.;r ch;Iiron w;th;n door, and tho rrrsap
p cate fast joor al for the O0re e IN tha
s;,sm naran Rank mcnarers ~onia ~
wa1j ~ escura IN fra-nr"oT v.,i,. ths;-
s-aorhacIS anJ eovor.ih:rtias w;,h s.,oh
s.ysv coI.I watches and silvar snaon. "a
have esca mad the heyira of snen;e Ifihare
he anv iewelrv about. tell # NJ: in Cath
.lon,t Yet 1. ha mentioned at Asralon !. fcra,
hear 70 speak of II a. Jonna. A lille bird
NAV carrv the news to the F;fth Avenna
To;c, There moods . hsncar ND = No..
:entons bird. a bird of the most evil omen
a hirfi whose falons were r. hetted at Nav
Orleans. whose beak was sharnened at
Fnytre.s Monroe. who has heen latolv frv-
Snr his STRONG wind a, the James kirsr.
Ee ia n .xerv horrible bird~a hald headed
EAGLE y wall eve. q bloa,ed cav and
drIls coarse pluma4e' His evr;e ;s f;,il ~
cr;nnline 81, irts cotton unar,n;tso blood.
thirsty nroclamations beef contracts zane
gloves. Sig stocS:nrs' AMI the homes al
load wnnnen and cSiidrap HE name ;s
Reniarn;n FRANKLIN E,ifler. and Hufler .ha
Ter9;hla has inst assumed ,ha 1nilita-v
command NJ the f;tv ana S,afe ~ New
Yo-k - -
The terror with which the news of tho
appoin.ment of this notor;ous person 10 a
ten,pornrv ilictator.h;p. has been re ceived
habitants would he iud;crous. We're j, no.
oitiable. His very name seems to be pro-
ductive Of psllor and palsy. The allah
sorbinr theme i. Eutler. What ia he doing
Hare Whv 10 he conner What does hS
mean to do? How long will he stav ,
Vhy was be sent? Will be surersede
General Dix? VIII he suppress the Demo-
cratic newspapers? Will he p,unaer any
frnna s.renu.ed nh,lsntbronists9 ~ WIN he
shut m the New York Hotel. and send Hi
% m Cranston tn Eort Iafave,tep Docs he
mean anv misch,ef 10 Fernando Wood, or
- Governo- Sevrnonr ar Erastus Brooxs J
H;ll ha hang anvhodvp These ara nnes.
TONS ron hear neryouslv and anxicuslv
aslxed IN every SIDE. They shake. fhet
tremhla. the;r fingers twitcR. their knees
nrocp ,ore,h.r eshsv h.~n, r"nsa'fesh
their roices die away in fnint and ina,ticn-
late whispers. Two or three nights since
he yrent. Win = numerm,s staff. and in full
nr;Tnrm tn tina onara - ~
A thonesnd heartsr heat hauniIv. - of
conrae ana ..rnnsic arose with i,s yolun.
fs,nns ,swell.n when suti,lenlv Bosev al.
ne.ynd in 3 HOY. + ahnmld like n, hnye felt
how the Thousand hearts heas, them Th,
variation Of nalnitation Was mot discover.
shio- INT e. * cerfsiI, sl1at astnnussn6 Ssiia
IF hsnds hassr' fo,th-;th, - heat- The
sna;ence slScI,,taIr srrianfisd, Reniamin
P,,.ie,. .ra raArrsy.i 10 ~ 4ho, q c;art
statne. he looked unon them with. q cal m
sternrass e =: ,h~nci, ~, .sv az am here. 7
Tnn;tar Eero~ =, 'Esac nothing mil, vn !,
foo, mn ro~or .Y,,st nov wear the Hh;te
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INCOME TAX INciDENTs.-As GASES in the
desert 70 the traveller, tortured with the
bitterness Of perverse nature, SO will be the
mention Of q few bright cases Of honesty in
the payment OF the tax that was called
forth to preserve the life of the nation. We
have no reason to doubt that the majority
OF the income Taxpayers have been con-
structavely honest in rendering returns OF
their incomes; but we fear that those who
have gone Step farther, and rendered not
only unto Caesar the things that are C;e-
0Od's' are remarkably few. Such q case
as the following will illustrate our idea:
One OF the former business men Of the
city, now retired on an income of twenty
i've Thousand dollars, paid his tax, as he
supposed, in full. Bat subsequently he
called on the Assessor, and told him Q cir.
cumstance hadtranspired which made him
feel that he ought to pay an additional tax.
A part OF his former assessment had been
on gold. counting it according to its face
value but, bat having turned it into pa
per, he presented an additional return that
yielded ave hundred dollars to the war
fund. Another case was that OF q farmer,
who, AFTER returning and paying on his
full income, remembered that he had
house which he was allowing SON to live
In rent free. Estimating the amount that
II would yield If rented to q paying ten
ant, the honest yecman and patriot hand
ed over TO the Government what was due
It. Such incidents should smite the con-
sciences OF those who have sought to with
hold from the Government everything that
could be kept out Of sight Of the Assessor,
and especially the hundreds OF young men
making salaries o. a thousand dollars and
mere who have returned nothing.-Cin.
Gazette.
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The Detroit Free Press gives the follow.
Ing account Of terrible incident Of an
accident on the Grand Trunk Railroad:
After recovering from the shock, those
who escaped turned their attention TO the
rescue OF these in danger, and succeeded in
delivering several from the burning mass.
While thus engaged they were forced to
witness sight which fairly curdled the
blood Ia their veins, and toward the recital
Of which the pen denies its Office.
The Mail Agent, George w. Millen, from
Port Huron, was found to be jarnmed in
between the baggage and forward passen-
ger car. His ley was firmly held between
two pieces Of broken timber, and all efforts
to rescue him before the devouring flames
engulfed him in their folds proved futile.
The most hercuiean efforts to extricate his
crushed and bleeding limb from its fearful
embrace were used, but the rapidly spread
ing flames drove tie laborers from their
work. and they were forced to witness him
perish before their eyes, his heart-rending
shrieks piercing their ears for help, until
stified by the smoke and flames of the de.
vouring element. God ofHeaven! it was
sickening sight, and completely enerva-
ted the energies OF those around in their
duty 70 others, probably equally terribly
situated. After the IRE had burned down,
his charred trunk was taken from the ruins.
the head, arms and legs completely de-
voured. and the body roasted to cinder.
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An INCIDENT ON TEE BATTLE FIELD
NEAR NAsHv1L1E.-1 have seen many
battle fields and witnessed many scenes Of
carnage and suffering during the war;
Among all the thousands Of Incidents that
have impressed themselves indelibly on
my memory, none is stamped deeper than
the one am aboIt to mention. The bat
terry that Col. Post charged on Overton
Knob was manned by as brave men as
ever fought in battle, We had two batteries
ing hurricane Of missiles into 1t, and yet
it held out and fought to the last minute.
Our shell and shot tore the works in front,
spsintered the trees around, exploded
among them, tearing two caissons to pieces,
and yet the cannoniers never left their
posts until the infantry supporting the bat
terry had retreated. found among the
captured guns a rebel artil!erist who had
his left arm shot away at the elbow by one
Of. our. shells, and his right leg terribly
shattered by the explosion Of the same
hour. s ef
,Aparty Of our soldiers cameup. One Of
the number Was drafted man, Just arri-
we'd from the North, who had never vet
been in fight. He lifted the blanket from
the man, saw that he was conscious, and
MORALLY wounded, and casting down the
blanket, without covering the wound, he
exclaimed, swell, Cd d-n you, that's
what you get for your trouble" The poor
fellow had just uttered prayer to Heaven
for mercy, in our presence, and this bias.
phemy and unmanliness stung an old vet
eran, near, who stepping toward the often
der, said, "Sir, I have been soldier over
three years, and fought in half q dozen
pitched battles. ! don't know you, but I
never yet saw man who would insult q
wounded prisoner who was not coward"
Such vslorors heroes as this old veteran,
developing the plans of that revered old
soldier, who led our army in this most i'm.
portant struggle, achieved the victory that
the loyal people OF America are to-day Of
fering thanks to Heaven for.-Cor. Louis.
yna,rMDJ
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AND CANADA "a = s IS =
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Connecting at Galerburg with the NOkTHfn
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To Shipper Of 1--we Ssoeh.
Stock Trains wiliIu1i regularly, leavthe DIN
Sunday excepted. These Trains have IN ~
rights Of Passenger Trains, thus insurin9 -
patch and consequently avoiding all thocovn,
atinus delays that are constantly occuxrngo
new STOCK PENS have been built O. ~
sides OF the Mississippi, close Iy the Eesry: -
DrOvers will ind there anything they could vN
for the accommodation Of their stock.
York. 81. THiEIssEN. srperintsDdens
Gen. Western Agent. c. E.AQ RIS
oct7-wtf
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LETTBR FROM COL. ADD. p. eANDERss
EDrror or GAZETTE: sat your request
1 MAKE fsw extracts nom q letter just re-
ceiyed nom my brother, Lieutenant Colo
mel Add, FL, Sanders. The letter 10 In the
form of q Journal, II pages Of closely writ
ten can paper, commenced November IL,
and ending December 2, Ut which time, !
presume, he met with an opportunity OF
sending IL by an exchangea prisoner. II
is dated ut Camp Prison, near columbia
60. q so- Yours, Truly,
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The iron-clad monitor Manayunk was
successfully launched at Pittsburg, on Sat-
urday last. She is designed fora ram. and,
inch guns. Her length is oc5 feet, breadth
Of beam forty,three feet, depth Of hold th!r-
teen and half feet, and she Will draw u
feet OF water. The weight &< the ship will
be about 400 tuns, WITH q speed Of twelve
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tr0 A MONTH"; want Agents eN
- U erywhere, at SO month. expsrass
paid, TO sell FIFTEEN ARTICLES, the boes -
OTIS T. CAREY,
uoyl9.d&w3m Biddeford, Aalns
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RAILROADS.

~ B. / Q. R. 4. LINE, 9
&C., 1z~ru :.
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a. Seventh Avenue, New York, when fur.
nlshlng their church, used cotton for stuff
ing the backs OF the seats. Recently they
nave been refitfing, repairing and painting
their house; in doing this they substituted
posed Of FOR 50, 3e9 SO. This amount more
than sufdced to cover all the ex pense Of the
RESTING, DC, leaving them q balance of
several hundred dollars.
A letter from China states that when the
imperialists took Nankin they cut off the
heads OF the rebels u the extent Of nearly,
ten thousand.
The Illinois Central Railroad is making
an effort to have the capitol Of that State
removed from Springfield TO Decatur, and
offer, as an inducement, Sl,ee0, 600, to build
q new 0apitol at that place. The people
Fef Springfield are, in Consequence, much
exercised on the subject. Ss.s a
/ A letter from Vicksburg says that the
appropriation Of JEFF. Davis farm for the
use Of freedmen win relieve the Govern
ment Of the support Of some ten thousand
negSoes. gttasJi ~ 9l7 E re ~
Mike Gleason, charged with the murder
OF MaTshals Woodruff and Bashore, was
last week taken to Mon.ezuma, and by the
grand jury Of Powesheik county indicted
indictment had previously been found
against him by the United States Circuit
Court at Des Moines. The District Court
was probably not awire Of the previous in
dictment. Gleason was returned to the Jail
in this place. Cskaloosa Herald, Esd.
The Hebrew Bible used by DR.. Increase
Mather. when he was the FIRST President of
Harvard College, is still extant, in good
preservation. The Bible was published in
Antwerp, in 1854, and broughtto this coun-
try in 1856, and is now 80 years old. Il
contains all the books OF the Old Testa-
ment, in Hebrew, the New Testament in
Greek. and has Latin interlineation
throughout. In front Of the Bible are en-
cravings OF MI. Richard Mather, DR.. In
crease Mather, and old Dr.. Byles, OF Puri-
tan notoriety.
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cniid, no ha6 beon Watahing him with
cnriesity, yan from behind the large arm
chalr, and hesitatingly approached
ynssD your name. dear9" inquired the
alia !" lisped the little one.
esta3' h6 repeated, while the great
teS 4ashered IN his eyes; 81 once had a
lit Eirl named Maria, and you look very
my Ike she did, 80
nd your, inquired the childvith SEEM
1ntere.t; land was her name Maria East
''1fercifnl Godp' exclaimed III old man.
startlqg from his chair and dropping into
i with his head bowed upon his breast
''This cannot be! and yet, Why not2o
He caught the child in his arms with an
eagerness that frightened her, and gazing
into her face until he found conviction
there, suddenly rose to leave the house.
II cannot meet her without betraying nv
uelf, and dare not tell her that am that
drunken father who once attempted to take
her life, and perhaps left her husband q
cripple" he groaned, Is he hurried toward
the door. The little ones were bewildered.
ssYou are not goingf" said the mother, re-
appearing, and discovering the old man in
the act Of leaving the hall.
He stopped and apparently turned his
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CnIl for a Convention.

wEsT ALEXANDER, PA Aug. 9th, 1854:
The undersigned ministers and members OF the
various Christian denominations Of West Alexander
and ycin ty, unite in extending cordial invitation
to their Christian brethren and fellow citizens Of
the surrounding country to meet with them in con.
vsntion on Tuesday. the 23d of August, 1854 at 10
O'Clock A. NJ, for the purpose, specially, Of dis
Guessing the following proposed amendments to the
Constitution Of the United States viz:
LIST. The exp icit recognition Of God. .-l.t
Cd The mediatOrial supremacy OF the Lord Jesus
Christ.
Sd. The supreme authority of the Divine laW.l q
4Eh To make 1t 1.-THE constitution) explicitly anti
slavery.
In addition to these topics the following were
adopted for discussion by the convention: 49,
a. The duty of national sanctiheation OF the
Sabbath. rg.
~ The duty Of national Temperance Reform.
Come and I us meet together as above sin the
fear of God and In much of the funess of the bes-
sing the gospel of Christ and endeayor TO ascer
tain what Israel ought to do in this the day Of our
nations sore calamity. "Oome and lot US reason
together" ....
Rvs ALEXANDRA. THOMPSON, MoLEEN, JOHNSTON,
NIsHARF, STEVENSON, LESLIE AND EAToN, AND
MEssRs Oar, MCCONN, ERsKINE, ToDD, sUTHER-
LAND, AND OTHERS. aug9 1td&WF
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three years men should be diminished &C.

three years men should be diminished &C.
cordingly, under such new call.
At each successive call, all accounts OF
service preceding that call are made up,
and the call for quotas should be such as
shall equslize the amount of service re-
quired from each district, in proportion to
the persons therein liable TO military SER
vice.
That district which, in the present draft,
furnishes one year men, cuts up its burden
into three parts, and shoulders only one
part of the present year, and leaves the
next to be met at the next call.
That district which furnishes three
three years men now, gains at once in its
account with the Provost Marshal General
the same benefit on the quota of the next
draft as though it had furnished three
times as many men for one year service.
1t is the duty of each district to furnish
the full number of men designated as its
quota; these men should be received
whether for one, two or three years. ser
vice.
Those districts which furnish three
years. men now will be entitled to the full
benefit thereof on all future calls.
WILLIAM WHITING,
Solicitor of the War Department.