The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1865-01-14

may. at present We have hardly been
touched. Our people, recovered from the
lethargy into which they were thrown by
the events OF the latter part OF last year, es-
,imated all this properly. They have
made their minds up, and viii not Lack
Ou,.
REBEL BARBAR.TIEs-BaUTA OF
FORESTS MEN, Lieutenant Fitch has
jus. arrived here, badly wounded, and
reports Capt. Penfield, Of the 4th .; : :.
CT, and Lieut. Cook, Of the 18th y. :. q.
! l., murdered by Forests men. The iol-
lowing are the particulars:
! On the 22d OF last month, while the above
officers were bringing up supply train.
near Columbia Tenn, squad Of FORESTS
scouts, under command OF Capt. Harvey.
fell upon them aud captured them. They
had stopped at a house 20 get something
TO eat at about noon, aud as they came olt
/ Of the house, TO their sorrow, the rebels
| Eau them surrounded. The train bad ust
passed On, and its rear was near quarter
or mile up the road. They could 10
nothing but surrender.
| The rebels marched them OF and kept
marching them until dark. On the next
morning the rebels said they would send
them 70 Gen. Forests headquarters. So
they started them under a guard Of four
| ,uen. This guard marched them over hills
and through valleys. Finally, they turned
up a narrow lane, and Cap. Pendelc asked
them why they took thatroute. They said :
/ I'VE are going 10 put up over mere Tor the
night at = big white house i then being
about p. n. But after they had reached q
desolate looking place. the guard with
Lieut.. Fitch, being about = hundred and
fifty feet in front OF the others, suddenly
halted, wheeled his horse and. at the same
time drawing kis revolver, fired, the
ball entering just behind the right ear
The other two officers, seeing Lieut..
Fitch shot, started TO run, but were shot
| ieaG immediately. The murderers tied in
swift haste. IL a few minutes Lieut.. Fitch
recovered his consciousness and drew
himsel. into the plshes, and sooE
negro boy came anG helped him 10 the
house OF Col. John {. Hills. Lieutenant
Fitch had not more than reached the
house until the heli-hounds were a: his
heels, they having returned, tracked the
poor, ,ainting ana bleeding soul TO the
house. They rushed 10 the uooY and led
l1g that wounded YANKEE was there, IN very
rough and proiane words. II ne was they
had come 10 Kill MIN, and started in, bu;
Col. Hills met them ana told them he vas
there, but could no, live natf I'd hour any
way, and il wouid pe TOO inhuEan tor any
brave men 10 Kill a poor, wounded. dying
man. They haltec. turned aOou, and
mounted their horses. and started. saying
that party would be passing soon who
would Kali him ii be was not dead. Lieut..
Fitch felt j. would be death 70 remain ihere
longer, and probably the same fate woald
NEE. him II he started, yet this was his
only hope. BY :he aid ofnegroes and some
Union citizens he was kept concealed du-
ring the daytime. he was eigh. days
reaching Murfreesboro, and suffered great
pain from his wound Col. Eiils helped
him along AL ne could, and buried Capt.
/ Peniie!d and Lieut. Cook in his Own anil 2
buryng ground, side by side.
Lieut. Cook was rom Dubuque, Iowa
| He was mach respected officer. He was
very devoted and faithful n his efforts TO
iaakethe order 20 transform s.avee ln.3 SOL
d.ers complete success.
Capt. pentield was from Michigan. lie
entered the army among the first who an
swered 20 their coun.ry's cali. He came 10
the 18th with lst Lleutenant's commits
sion, bu. was soou made Captain OF COM
pany f. His military experience, and his
untiring zeal caused Us ali % look on Capt.
Pentield rs one Of the best officers in the
regiment. He was very desirous TO have
the mem bers of his company well drilled
in the manual Of arms. But his efforts did
not stop here. Whenever box Of school
books reached the regiment, he was among
the first and often the first TO call for books
for his boys. He talgb: the non-commis-
stoned officers as his duties, as aconmand-
ing officer, would permit. de would talk
10 his company and show the value OF edu-
cation. His company loved him dearly,
for he iapored hard to make them manly
soldiers and well informed mer. IN less
/, than one week alter the egimen. was cap
tured a; Dalton As OF his men reported a:
Chattanooga Tor du.y. He drilled three
companies in the sath until they were good
soldiers, before he was assigned to his pres
ent conpany.-fc Ter, en-. Gce., jca. =.
4 TRACT ron THE MON PRlsoSERs.-
Sergeant Wallace, Q; Winchester, OF the
seth Massachusetts regiment, who was TAX
en- prisoner during the march o. General
Gran; on Richmond last summer, ard who
| has run the gaUntle. of all the rebel pris-
ons from Libby 70 that Or Macon, Georgia,
furnishes Us with he copy o. a tract which
was literally distributed among the Union
prisoners, showing them tha. they were
The victims Of the craftiness and canning
OF the Northern capitalists, whose wish il
is TO oppress free labor and 20 bio. out ey-
cry vestige of Republicanism, and who in
this design are backed up by the crowned
heads OF Europe. BY lighting against the
South, and robbing people who nave con-
| tributed SO much 20 the riches and welfare
Of the North, the Federal soldiers are ad-
vised that they are rivetinE the chains Of
| bondage on their Decks: and they are fur
ther instr acted that the promised confisca-
ton Of Southern lands, and their division
! among the Northern soldiers woIild be- Of
| no service whatever TO them, as white Ia
Dor could no: cultivate them, and emaI-
cipatiOn Of the negro would 80 unfit him
for labor and the great interests and useful-
ness Of the "fa;res., r;.host and mos. beaI-
tiful country the sun looks. down upon y
i would become desOlate. The writer insists
that the real aim and obec. Of the North
ern leaders is no. % put down slavery, but
to monopohze its benefits, and that The
lives Of men and the expenses OF war are
wrung out OF the laboring classes OF the
North for this profiigatc object. The SOL
diers are also urged 20 abandon cause as
hopeless as it is wanton and cruel towards
themselves and their interest 9, and to con-
slider their release from the slavery OF what
is called free labor at the North the great
est object they could aim a., for by its al
tainment Northern labOrers would become
as happy as the Southern slaves. whose
happiness is promoted by humane and con-
siderate masters which 90 no: let i: The
] North.
Sergeant Wallace says the .rae. seemed
to make very little, in fact, no impression
on the recipients, bu. tla. OF contempt 10.
the ignorance Of its author and of the RI
u Nf &c <-