The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-01-07
Surprised aud CAPTURED.

istry las proposed to the Queen the aban-
doninen. Of st. Domingo.
Surprised aud Captured.
WAsHrNGToS, January 2, lS65.-The
rebels made a dash on our pickets
between forts Howard and Wadsworth. in
front Of Petersburg, Saturday morning.
about daylight, and captured s. men, to-
setf'e- with their blankets. knapsacks, &c.
It was surprise, and succeeded well.
THE MYSTERIES OF THE INCOME TAX
THE WEALTH OF new YoRE.-Few per-
sons appreciate the hollowness of the boast
ed wealth OF TIL. great metropolis nor can
they fully believe until they peruse the ra-
turns to the Commissioners OF Internal
Revenue.
The intelligent conductor OF peanut
stand and the enterprising individual who
sells twelve sheets Of writing paper for four
cents, will be surprised to ind that in SUBJ
stantial pecuniary resources they stand on
the same level with many of our Million
aires. How un.ruthful are the brown stone
fronts and gi!ded equipages Of the Fifth
Avenue. We find Opulent families living
on an income which would not pay their
servants wages, and individuals high in
commercial and financial circles conduct
Ing an apparently prosperous business for
a net profit which would not pay half their
Office rent.
One man, who was supposed to lave an
income of over one hundred thousand dol
lars from Unencumbered real estate, lives
like an English nobleman on about twen-
ty-eight hundred dollars per year, and
another supports luxurious town mouse
and country place on the prodigious In.
come OF ninety-eight dollars and two cents,
from which is to be deducted the sum Of
two dollars and ninety-four cents for his
bleeding country. Such thrift and execu-
tive capacity are unsurpassed in ancient or
modern times, and they place many OF our
tellow-citizens high above tina: celebrated
individual Of antiquity who was detected
laying parasite for his Oleaginous de-
post ald cutic.e.
These records Of the Commissioners of
Internal Revenue are like the grave; they
are great Jewelers.:
There, side by side
The poor man aud the son of pride
Lie calm and still
Occasionally one sees conscientious
monument of atfiuence, but the great bulk
are there buried with . stake at their head,
EnrecOrded and unknown, except with the
brief inscription of mot y cent
The poorest class OF our community are
our Copperhead tellow-citizens, who seem
to have lost every thing. Grief for Union
and impoverished them beyond the reach
OF taxes.
Mr.. G. P. Putnam, the Collector Of the
Second District, is the enterprising pub
Usher of Knickerbockers History Of New
York under the Dutch dynasty. Would it
not be we'll for him 10 give us the sequel.
from the ample means at his disposal. and
let Us see how the substantial burrhers Of
that good old time, the Tenbroeck or Ten
brooches, celebrated for their great breadth
OF beam, have degenerated financially in
to posterity without any bottom whatso-
ever?-N. 7. Post.
CONDUCT OF HOOPS REBEr.s TN Cnr.uu.
BIA, TENNEssEE.-A correspondent of the
montgomery Mail, writing from Columbia.
Tennessee, describes the evacuation Of the
town BY the Yankees, and the entry of the
Confederates, and adds:
Some q the boys plEndered confection-
cries, and filled their arms with nick
hacks. Some were laden with boots and
shoes and hats; some with bags Of fiour
some had tinware enough to start a Con-
federate hotel-everything was plundered.
But while this jubilant melee for spoils was
at its height, Gen. Forrest, with the good
taste characteristic Of both Of US, rode up
to the pavement weighted to the gunwales
from hundreds Of willing lips. To see
them running to the streets, raising their
little hands in Joy, and crying, 'Lor Won
der's Gen. Forrest! yonders Gen. Forreets
howd'y Gen. Forrest and an ocean Of
SIMILAR explanations, and then turning up
their little faces and pouting their pretty
mouths with lamb.like submission FOR
his kisses, makes one thrust his hands to
the elbows in his breaches pockets and
wish that he was in Forests boots.,-
Pichmond Wing, Dec. 24th.
Gov. Brown, Of Georgia. denies indic-
nantly, the statement recently made in the
rebel Congress that there were 5000 ex-
empts from military service il Georgia.-
lie says that OF that number Of State mill
tia, all are in the service except ,43O. made
UP OF judges. sheritfs, tax collectors. &c.
who are absolutely necessary to the main
tenazce OF the State Government, and a
large proportion OF whom are over fiftv
years OF age. He says that the Ia rgest part
or the militia is made up Of boys between
10 and L. and old men from so to IS. He
. quite angry that Je-s. Davis forbade tha
Georgia troops to come home to the aefanso
of their native State, and asks wbe,har
while naarly fifty reg .'uents Of Georr;ans
are endeavoring TO defend Richmond no
ought to turn over also his State of,icars
old men and boys. The above facts wIicS
are embodied IN a letter from the Govar,n-
70 M. Staple. Of Virginia, are a SUFFICIENT
refEtation Of the boasts u the Richmond
Wing eEd other rebel journals fant The
South. has still q large white fn.ce not vnt
called into the field,