The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-02-27
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shall not be assigned as State troops, bu
, shall be mustered into regiments or com
panies as u. s. COlOred Volunteers.
Sec. rs. And be it further enacted, Tha
the words precinct" and ELECTION dis
trict," as used in this act, shall not be con
strued to require any subdivision for pur
poses of enrolment and draft less than thu
wards into which any city or village may
be divided; or the towns or townships int
which any county may be divided.
SEC. q. And be il further enacted, Tina
so much of the act entitled IAN Act for en-
rolling and calling out the national forces
and for other purposes" approved on the
3rd Of March, 1868, as may be inconsistent
with the provisions Of this act, is hereby
repealed.
THE DANNEwERK.-In a letter from
Flensburg We have the following account
Of the "Dannewerk, !" the great Bulwark OF
Schleswig:
| 1t Is situate at the extreme south part OF
the dutchy Of Schleswig, and is now an
enormous earthwork that stretches almost
across the entire country. The length OF
the Peninsula Of Schleswig- HOlstein to the
end Jutland is said to be three hundred
miles, SO that it extends almost as far as
the base line of our country, from the
North FOreland to the Lands End. The
breadth Of the Peninsula, however, is but
one-third Of its length, and the Dannewerk
is fertilization that reaches very nearly
across the land from the German Ocean TO
the Baltic. This "bOrder wall" is said to
have been erected in the ninth century,
and, according to the accounts given OF it
i'll "Olaf Tryggveson's Saga it was built
Il fk,.,0
the wall, We are told, was strengthened by
Queen Thyra, whom the people, in their
thankfulness for the national defense,
christen danabod, which, literally transla-
ted, means the pride of Danes; and, as a
proof ofthe extreme antiquity ofthe struc-
ture, have myself seen at Flensburg .
splendid collection Of flint arrow heads
the barrOws or earth mounds in the imme-
date neighborhood.
There were spear points wrought out Of
| splinters of flint no thicker than paper
| knives, and worked sharper than the best
steel. Here we were shown the knuckel-
bOne-like stones which had been used TO
| separate the fine layers Of the siliceOus
earth from the solid mass, and which were
found embedded in these same barrOws
| with the very fiint chip beside them that
the people, thousands Of years before, had
| broken from the integral block. Here,
moreover, we saw the slabs Of stone that
| the old Celts has used to grind their spear
heads on to the sharpest BILE points,
grooved with the tolls of the workman and
| seeming as if they were destined to tell
the present age how this wonderfully fine
| workmanship Of the hardest possible
| material was executed. Indeed, in this
collection Ofworks long precedent to histo-
ry, saw arrow heads made out Of flint,
hardly thicker than mother-of- pearl, and
wrought as sharp as needle.
The fortress consists at the present Gay
without going into all the niceties Of his
torical detail,) Of three enormous earth
works, stretching across the entire breadth
of the land they are so arranged ~ to
form the neck, or funnel, with a long out
work to protect the narrow channel thro'
which the troops are ultimately intended
TO be driven. Towards the Baltic, or East
Sea, there runs the ''Oster- Woldeni Tor
east rampant J this lies toward the Eek
enfOrde, and Is sometimes called The Ca
ei-Dannewerk. :" II is about two Eng
lish miles long, the earthwork being from
four 10 five feet high, and sixteen yards
broad, and beset with a ditch, the depth of
which varies from six 10 ten feet. Beyond
this is the grea: bay formed ny the river
Schey, which is 50 wide that no troops
could possibly attempt TO pass il. Stretch
ing inEne diaiely in front OF this is the
"kurgraben,'' which is upward Of 4 mile
IL length, beginning 1t the end of Selkir
| Lake f.; ii is from 10 feet to II feet broad,
and from feet to i feet high. Behind this
| lies the great "Dannewtrk Itself, which
consists OF ear.hworks not less than four
teen miles long. IN some parts it IL from
thirty feet to thirtysix Zee. high, and the
rampartS are from sixteen to twenty feet
| broad.
| The whole OF these earthworks are i'm
mediatey in connection. from one side of
tl,.,y to snsAx wit thn
| Treene, which falls into the Northern
| Ocean SO that the Danish forces have it
within their power TO flood not less than
sixty four square miles OF land in front OF
the great bulwark of Schleswig at mo-
ments notice. But" said the Saxon SOL
der to the writer, what are the uses OF
the sluice-gates in the time Of frOst?" On
talking with the engineers, however, they
told us they had flooded the country a
| fortnight before with the thinnest peliicle
of ice, and let the water out Immediately
| asterward, 50 that any troops attempting
to cross the country would be moved down
by the artillery like corn. Indeed, from
| what heard during my stay IN Sch.eSwig,
there is not :he ieas: doub. that 40 900 men
could hold the Dannawerk against 100000
opposing troops and from what saw
myself OF the Qualifications, and heard from
| the engineers as 20 the means of flooding
the country, either with thin sheet OF ice
! or How OF water, am convinced That II
would require rs strong an army rs united
Germany could possibly muster 10 wrest
ScL.eswig from Denmark.
| 4 LOGICAL CONFERENCE.-The Bal
timore american, in discussing 1.-The infiu-
ence Of Slavery upon the lower counties Of
Maryland" remarks:
| Zone may look upon the map of the
State, and then glance at the census tables,
while recollecting the events Of the war,
and almost the whole story is at once told.
Not more certain is it that the rivers seek
the sea than that, noting the fact that sla-
very, increasing in bulk as it leaves the
mountain and approaches the coast, has
shown, in the same ratio, . population with
a decreasing devotion to patriotic aims
with waning regard for the Government
established by our fathers-until the lower
counties Of the Western Shore are proven
to be hot beds Of disloyalty, of treason
their people as much intent on overthrow
| ing free government. in favor of the vile
despotism seated at Richmond, as are the
people of South Carolina themselves.
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