The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-01-14

in I779.
In Monument Square there is beautiful
Dorc Obelisk designed 10 commemorate
the deeds OF Greene and Pulaski. zen.
LAFAYETTE laid the cornerstone of TINS
structure in 1925. The base OF the pedes-
tel is ten Zee. by seven, and about twelve
feet high. The shaft sarmounLing lhls -
about forty feet high.
Mounds and tii,ches still remain near
he swamp southeast of the city, ana
fort hliit Dy General Greene can silli pc
traced. Tatnalls tomb is in the cemetery
of Bonave cture, and many OF the soidiers
OF that olden time are mou-dering WIN
him. IL sucn ground could be cursed now
deep the stain which would rest upon It
from all the traitor graves winch now mar
the beauty OF tho spot! Sleeping s'oe oV
side are those who blea 10 establish our
Government and those who have dled seek
ing It's overthrow. Ye. the flag that aved
over those old forts when the nations life
began, ttoaes above them again, the earnest
OF a nohler life, fawEing even now. ihe
FAC that Greene loved and Pulaski looked
on while dying, and which hoated over
| Ta:DalFs sEi os, SheTman's men, rom lhoir
i far OFT Western homes, have oorne across
q continent, and set il up again on the he!d
Of is old renown. 1t shall wave there long
after traitors have received. their merlted
reward OF .nfamy.
EoSAvENTURE.
This cemetery situated nesr Fort Jack
son, Is a most wonderful spot. Originally
il was private estate laid out with great
taste and well stocked with shade trees and
Ornamental shrubs. These trees now form
shaded avenues miles nextent, and hung,
a. they are, 50 ,bickly with the long gray
moss. they look rs X
"Et4rr ity .iad showed is years aior them.
And the white winter o. tneir age hsd come
Yet through these marks Of age The
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sanity, even as lie glorv oi the Resurrsc-
.or oa.sh;nes the dimness Of the graves oi
the s.eepe-s below. There are walks here
tha. remind one Of The Dosphorua, with lts
cypress and It's gloom. There arc bright
groves Of orange and bay, brilliant TOW
ers and birds OF golden plamage and sweet
song The far of nlGrfnur OF the sea IS
ever family heard birds do not cease 70
sing or flowers ~ b.oon. acre nature
never dies, and were i not for mans de-
cav we might almost Imagine that our
footsteps were leading Us over the beau.l-
full walks Of Paradise.
THE CoNDIT.oN OF THE SoUTE.-A
, force OF the North Carroll ma home guard,
sent TO resist our raiders on the East Ten
nessee line, refused TO cross their state !lne
ana the rebei papers abuse them ior lack
of patriotism. me North CsfoilnIans are
evidently not inclined TO light inuch more
! for such independence 81 Daviss conieder-
acy gives them. Capt. Gran. Of a Wlscon-
! sin regiment. who ,a.ely escaped from
I Columbia. S. c., and made his way througE
western Norta Carolina, reports thai he
found many earnest Union men there, VINO
fed and sheltered him and helped him on
his way The mountains were swarmine
r with Union men, refugees from the rebel
conscription. Many Oftnem live IN caves
| venture out to see their families st night
: and altogether lead 2 very strange anc
Wild life. They We're no. alarmed at ths
G idea of entering an army because they
feared 10 encounter the danger OF war
D but they had horror OF lighting sgains
r their country and the old flag aic woalt
r undergo per;is and privations. and di'
rather than do it. Capt. Grant found II
one place den in the woods, ingenlonslJ
! constructed, in which fifteen or those me,
. ,i;yed When he reached these friendly
people he was in a pitiabie plight, hl
: clothes being nearly al torn OF, anu hl
4 boots worn lntii they ceased TO afford any
\ protection TO his feet. The union 1ucitive
!, harbo,iug IN one OF the hats in the woods
: where he found shelter. mendad hi5 boots
20 that they were made Eflise serviceabie
II is the opirion OF Capt. Grant that iler
are from six 10 ten Thousand Union mel
: avoiding rebel conse-iption IN western
I North Carolina, and that ne Union teelln
: there is as general and positive as II eve
i was in East Tennessee. lie actually raise
q a company, nearly 100 strong, ct the Care
+ lima refugees, brought them into East Zen
q nes,ee. where they narrow escaped beiE
'e made prisoners by BrecAinridge, an
e be left his company III the woods and prl
, ceeded to Knox vile with one OF them, 50
n lected to be an otii Ger, who received a lier
u tenants commission, and returned 70 II
u men to complete their organization.
n PETROLEUM IN EUROPA London col
II respondent Of the New York Herald write
" -"Your new kingdom Of Petrolia is cr'
G. ating one or two small! revolutions III III
II rope. 1t has struck one branch Of indu
i. ,ry that few would suspect was in DANCE
.e Letters from Italy say that the advent,
y American Goa; oil has 50 reduced tae c,
~ uland for olive oil that there is no profit
their olive orchards, and tina, no more vi
A. pa planted, while the old ones are. many
Ill them, being cut down. You know that Q
10 v. oil is used in the sonth OF Europe f
purposes Of illumination, for iIbricatio
IL aud numerous household and manufactu
a iny purposes, as we'll as for the table. Z,
lie most Of these purposes coa! oil is both be
r. te- and cheaper. The grease from The On
~ pig alu.terated much o, heretofore, a.
or cieapened it; and now the new "Oil Dor
ne do Is going 10 come n and complete q
- l.si ruttion of one Of the most ancient a
r. r,eul;ural pursuits of the shores OF i
u Mediterranean, the Levant and the East
- 4 production noted since before the time
Our Savior.
Here in England the results seeia Dc
ae ,.nad ID be quite as great. No OIL wells
\. deposits have been foand AZ yet. and as 7
~ cos. mines are, many Of them, two to 70
e. tia4asand feet deep, it may 90 safely
d. fs-res ina. little or none OF the pet-oleu
1s- exists under the surface 81 these isianl
.te Tlere are, however, .h-ee coal mines
I'd Wales that produce coal that, by heut y;
as aistilla.ion, produces good coal oil A
~, .4ese mines have already been laid und
fl, Contribution by en- enterprising AIeric
IL u ,io has contracted for all ihe coal proll
80 Ios fifty years. When nis engines, furr
sre cas and machinery are all completed,
ire expects to use FIVE hundred tons day, a
RI on. of each ton to maze from one hundr
-, TO one hundred and twenty gallons of {
be al net profit of a pound ster!ing(So)ato,
cts
~ tTae New York Post speaking Of The ina
~, g,ral message Of Governor Fenton of N
~ York, says:
- The Governor, true to The old oenlocr
Ill. il Jews of financial policy, which obtain
es- ~ me times Of Marcy, Flagg, and 81