The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-04-08

The following are the only names our
informent could give us of persons kuoWa
70 have been saved, George Williams.
Brocket, Osborn, and Joseph Fitzgerald.
all Of the 56th Illinois.-N Y. Tribune.
The LONDON Tl9es O the lnsa.
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For the fret time since the days o. Gu.
Jackson's immense popularity an Amer.
can President has been in,suRurated forth
second time. The circumstances und@
which Mr.. Lincoln assumes Office for a.
other term Of four years are so strangeand
impressive that they may justify m -
dress full Of q kind Of Cromwellian dictioa.
and breathing spirit very different from
the usual unearnest utserances of SUCCESS
full politicians. This short inaugural speech
reveals the disposition and the opinions al
the Federal Magistrate more compistaH
than many Of the verbose compositione
which have proceeded from his predecee.
sors.' We cannot but see that the President
placed in the most important position to
which q statesmen can aspire, invested
with power greater than that Of most
Monarche. fulfills the duties which destiny
has imposed on him with frmness and
ccnscientiousness,s bnt without any feeline
Of exhiNration at success or sanguine an.
tictpation of coming prosperity. an flte
The brief allusion 10 the expectations Of
the two PARTIES during the carly daysof
the war shows what 10 passing through the
mind ofthe Chief Magistrate when he looks
back to four years Of slaughter, aud turns
round to geze into the black darkness
which shrouds the future. AL dreaded the
wsr. alt sought to avoid it. When the last
inaugural address was delivered secsssion
was but bali acCCmp lished. iVirginian of.
f7cers attended President Lincoln fol, two
months after hts INSTALLATION, aud many OF
them left the Fat,erat capital with unWill.
ing hearts to tight. IN the, cause to which
they felt themselves bound. This war was
not n thing that came suddenly or without
(deliberatiou. Everything that could be
said for isaor axhinstittwas freely uttered
before the first great armies were5in the
tfead. President buchanan thought il Inn.
pssyihie'tO reetrain thesRctiun Of 8 State
On the ether hand, ihepeshad never been
wanting ineh wto-tOld aflU North, that they
Ers.st Raet noterrG sAlsith siNveo wners aud
tfaitpfs.o Ieilibgp. & q pi1as., Is ssi.
TIE mass Il the people went ,iato war
unwiliirgl y, and yetawith,but little know
ledge Of 10 hat Was before them o4efN
party, 'eaysj Mn Htncotr, ,st.expected tie
lf,agnfttdeGr durKriot, which it haeAleeady
Fattain eds neither, anticipated that the cause
|of ehe conf ict right cahselsvaus before tie
con Hist itself Shout q. cease. Each looked
for An easier triumph and a resuiI lees fun
daruental ard astcmshtng.' Mr.. LiUceln
aNtttirtites thaA this result wilt be- in favor
efhis section of the Unions but. warned
bystxpertence, lie does not venture to pre-
|diOE al early term tor the great settlement
In bis Message Of . few months since he
7 gavs his opinion that the war would last
ut ieAst.as long Is Mr.. Jefferson Davis, re.
manned at tho head ofthe Southern people.
This opinion, so far tEon, being changed BY
the successes the Federssls have since gain.
ed is ex pressed in even stronger terms on
The present occasion. In q tcIe of mingled
resolution and dependency he prsys that
the seourge Of war may pass away. put
pfoteaseS himself resigned to the inttictl0n
|of the present evils until the wealth piled
BY bendStnen duringtwc hundred and fifty
years ofsunreo rtitpd toll shall be sunk, and
until every drop OF hood dr8Rni with tho
lash shall be paid with another drawn BY
Ftbe kworG:N) o5I4t ,sis1sss 81 ID nj o efg
p such language il not unbetUning tuan
who has been nElnued IN power AyOwed.
" that he navy persist iua devastating war.
Mr.. I,incoin has mo doubt made up hS
mind 10 carry through 70 the letter tae.pol
lev which has been indicated in his, procls.
DiatiOns and mesaages.s For this he labored
during his first term Of Offices: for oEhia. in
the worst days of federal ! aticevss, he is-
sued his decree for the abolition OF slavery.
/ Il was in consequences of has steedfastness
on these points that ne was reelected by Q
"
would, shrink from doipg all that he has
promised, and y mich his party expect But
even after fortune has favored tee North.
ernsArms s0ubundautly aud cOptiap0Esly,
the President abstaintsg from Any Of those
predictions whiehaweee rife in the early
part OF thefwsArse zasituis gas@s7a, - vi.
y He knows too welLthe lhR eulties nps tho
task = tich sttsl lies l,sfore his gosssnIasns
be thinks Oi theimtSuies which, must ~
kept mp, theadebts th,st must ,be cincNrred,
ehe'derangement OF political s4d social re-
lAtions which mustsbn endured sbes9se tho
States OF the old Union return 70 Their TOR.
ner condition. lo His address AppeAE4to b
intended totrspeess the more san9gine ex.
Pectati0ns Of the Northern people Apd 70
intimate to them that fresh exeftiens aud
sscrificesswill be necessary f0rl t9e attain.
by disappointed hope 10 often dangerous,
and il the Federals should Imagine mat the
present summer will bring the end OF the
war, and should then be deceiyeo m Their
expectations, q feeling OF oascgS5skemens
akin to that of last autumn might possibly
supervene. Mr.. sIinc0ln, tne.elgses axe
prudent statesman, c0noeals nisoW0 HoPees
tif he cherishes any, and bids ne pe0pie. "
effect, to make up their min0s ioE aqotnel
consiaerable term of fighting IS
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7 EXTENSIVE Sw1NpLIN0.-Ai man nacnea
Wordsworth has lately succeeded in swino-.
ling several farmers on the Mount Hswley
road, near Peoria, Ill, to very large ea-
tent. His method Of procedure Ms some-
| what peculiar, and consisted chiefly Q. Pu
chasing stock Of the farmers, giving tnI -,
in payment promissory notes. s,goea - =
one Robert johnson, . wealthy fsfneI -
the neighborhood, known by repmaIio..s, 81
least to all the dupes. 1t now appears I'D
1.-The r JOhnsop ,chnSo rame really !CGses
the bills was man of that name, Of sol .s,
| what questionable character, who resia ~.
with Wadswortn. On the fraud beang ui "A
lowered, warrants were immedlsteiy lss !, =