The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-01-07
Letter from . Eecesh soSer IN hi.
BeCleF.halE.

Letter from . Secesh soger to his
Betler.halE.
CAMP OF lsT SOUTH CAROLINA GR.y
RACKS, BEFORE A SWAMP AND RruIr-
PETERSBURG, OR TREREARoUrs. JnIv Il
loo4.--BELovED or NY Soul :-YoDr -
worn nus pand takes his pen III hand ia i
strange lard, OH a foreign strand nnI<
the command OF our mutual friend ~
mel Pluck Buzzard, of Rainwater Con-.
house, South Carolina. Nv pen ia
anu have no ale. My ink is Door anS .'o
is my grub. My quarters in camn 90 %
passaDie, but the quarters III nv pocs =,
are not. Las: night had 1 mud. p,a1,a.
l1r my pillow, and covered myself ' i,h 4
sheet OF water. ! long for more wbi~lv
barrels and less gun barrels, ,aore L;scn!y
and less bullets. How ] wish yoa wer.
here the further get away s.oin Won ths
better IKE y0u. So that VOC ;nay sno,y
how we work here in defiance of Ina n11.'
sed iaEE keel send you VIVA: d'ye call I
a dairy 81 ny daily labor,
the mud by roli Of drums. No prosns =
Of Q roll Of bread. Shoulder spades.
Haif-past five TO six. A. MI dig srs
throw up the earth. Get sick and ,ihro,.
up my yesterdays ration's.
Seven o'clock.-Another roll of drums
Filing OIL into line and detiling nv iney-
pressibie with mud and other sacred so;i
drawing ara. r,amrods, bu. no pay. No shels.,
sight too much Smelling out hy Grant.
Nine o'clock.-More drilling. but not q,
the cotton kind, wherewi:h to increase nv
present supply Of one shirt.
Ten o'clock.-MOre digging. Spadulsr
researches into the geological formation q,
the earth. Find il 10 comprise alternate
stratas OF sweat, sun-s.roke, swearing ana
blsters.
Twelve o'clock. -Evidences OF I;nner
Saw Captain Yawslacx picking his teeth
with ten-penny nail, and the corrorsi
taking a chew OF tobacco.
Oh Marian, you only knew what Ihav.
suffered to save you from being bomtarde5
by the diabolical Yankees? Rather than
any Of the Northern scum should blockade
my dear Mar:ar Id divorce her. Colonel
Pluck come very near being shot in ne
neck by one 81 his own officers.
The Colonel had just got his staff toee,h
err, and struck his noble sieed with it wher
Captain Swipes ieveled bottle at hin.
Fortunately the contents missed his jagG-
lar, and went dOwn the natural way. Ian,
reduced TO skeleton. My eyes are sunk
so far into my head that l can look down
my windppe, clean through my entire liz
terror. II there was hole in the top o,
my head Id make first-ciass telescope,
I've got the glasses in me now. Ny chm
is so sharp il shaves itself. am going on
picket duty tonight. Picket duty is awfr.I
hard work. Almos; every night y pickei's
gun goes off, and when We 80 TO look for
him we lind he's gone of 100.
Ever your dear husband,
BUCKHORN HANDLE.
y. S.-If yonr old father las drank upa3
the tangleroo; Juice lei. at home, Ill
cram tho delnijohn down lis throat and
cork up his sarcophagus VIII a boot heel.
That's SO, Ma!iar.
POPULATION OF ST. LoU:s.--A census o:
the city and county OF ST. Louis, Mo-, has
recently been taken by order Of the county
court. The population Il The city is.
Whites, 80, ooo: blacks, 6.s5l. Total, 49,
056. That Of the county outside the city
limits is: Whites. os,2O5; blacks. 2,,59-
Grand total, 81, SO. The aggregate OF the.
and o,olo females. Ofthe lacks 1928 are
free, and 1875 slayes. The LepabNcc':
says the results have disappointed ex pec.a-
ton, and it thinks the males absent n tie
army and elsewhere have nc. been enum-
Grated. 1t adds:
A comparison Of the preser. census with
those Of former years may no: be uninter-
1920 TO 6,694 in 1890, to 1890 n 1870, and 10
g., CSC in 1850.
The U. 8. Census Of 1850 reported tho
population Of the county q. 1850, Of which
,3eS were free blacks and ,.l6 slaves; and
4, 367 were white males, and u. 43s white
females.
The censns OF 1850 reported he popula-
ion at 100, So, of which 81, lo9 were white
males and IS, >53 white females, and $50
were free blacks and $40 Saves.
These figures SHOW q falling q: since 1919
of a,T04, taking the Whole aggregate d
black an,. white, and .a..5rs Oft in H.,
plumber q whites ot abrIt u,or. A. -.
same time they show s.-ls ~ change III
the proportion 81 white tetla.s. In 1879
the whole white population; IN 1860 they
were but little over 81 per cent. o.: It; while
in 1865 they are nearly 81 per cent. Of it.
The figures show that the proportion Of fe-
males was advancing in ordinary times,
but without war-anting the anticipation
that the advance would have been 90 rapid
as il has been since the war began. That
advance is no doubt chiefly explained by
the events OF the war, which have taken OF
large numbers of fbe white males, who are
not, bet no doubt many OF whom ought 10
have been, credited TO tie present census.
The changes in the nn.n he, Of blacks in
this county will excite some attention, tho
not any surprise, The Saves have been
reduced in The space 81 .olr years from
|, SAC to 1885, which Nigh. have been ez
pected. So also nigh. the Increase OF FIRE.
blacks, which have run Up from 1866 il
1850, 10 7,62S in 1861. In 1850 we had here
5, 2li blacks, and in 1864 have 9,4l3, q gain
II over fifty per cent: in fog- years. Had
I not been for this large Increase in tbs
1nn Der Of our black population, The fall
ng off in the aggregate w1Dii lave showIs
ven greater than il does NV.
AMERICAN FINANCES N ENGLAND
Henry Yates Thompson, young English.
nan who visited this country in the sur
ner and fall of 1865, tfen fresh from ,ha
University Of Cambridge, England, writes
0 the London Star in defense o; tie Gnap-
es ofthe United States lie says that il IL
,ery fashionable in high tircles there ID
neer at tho Yankees and to cues ion Their
bility to sustain heavy deb, and -
prophecy Reputation. t"Bu:,n he says.
some Of us do know something OF the
United States, its vas. present wealth, in
lustrious population. and endless future
esources. We know tha: IN 1918 tie Eng
lsh government raised u 5oaLs and taxes
.l7G, 600, GOO sterl ing, eQua. 10 about $3.50
90, GOO in American coin, q krM scarcely
Exceeded by Mr.. LincOln's governments
ny one year Of the present costly war.
We know that in point OF wealth the Egg