The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-03-18

The New Rebel Gola Aiaes. ~
The proposition TO arm the slaves and
incorporate them into Gen. Lees army, has
th0yQpghly alarmed the Richmond blacks,
and latterly they have escaped to the Ed
eral lines by scores. Me0, Womeo, and
children have Joined in ths3hegirs, and on
90 exteaded scale, that the rebel authori-
police system, Win the special object Of
checking this fugacious tendency among
the negroes. A. fortnight ago party OF
thirteen blacks, some Of them women and
children. were discovered on the point Of
starting in wagons for the Yankee. lines.
but were overhanled by the police, and
taken back TO headquarters. On arriving
there, says the Sentinel, zone of the negroes
attempted to swallow a ten dollar gold
piece, and was thereby nearly choked 10
dealt" And it adds. the agreeable an
tnouncem0nt that 1.-THE money was recov-
cred. The Sentinel does not inform as
what disposition was made OF the gold
iconfiscated and went to swell the aggregate
Of plate, jewelry and other valuables which
the wealth and beauty OF the itisufKent
States have been invited toapour into the
rather exhausted caeh.b box Of the COnfed.
eracy. d ~. -. 5 -
Doubtless this negro was one Of those
colored fnanciers who lately unsettled the
quotations OF the Richmond gold market.
and completely upset the calculations OF
Secretary Trenholm. 1t was a mystery
bow taose that escaped managed to With
draw SO much of the precious metal rom
the market, and transfer. it to the Federal
lines, without detection, in q single in.
describing an African Chieftaii, chained
in the market place, !" distinctly mentions
that he concealed quantities Of gold-dust
and gems in his mat Of wool, making his
sskull-piece placer as rich, though not %
extensive as any Of the ca1ifornia diggings.
But the present 10 the FIRST 4 nown INSTANCE
of an African and . brother; having been
caught making his stomach place Of de-
& II it gets abroad among Lees ragged and
in.paid soldiery that the negroes carry ten
dollar gold pieces locked up in their ebony
chests, We tear'it will be fatal to ali hope Of
conecripting Two hundredt thousand ofthem
e. s1 q "A: ,Ssss
have been 'hushed up end now that IL has
al airing, fat contradiction of it, in an
official form, 10 the only adequate remedy
for the mischief that is likely to ensue.-
Jefferson Davis clamors for part Of his pay
in gold, and yet his wants are not, by bali,
20 pressing ~ those Of . thousands msanly
round him, nor his privations any thing like
20 unendufahle % those Of the chivalIy in
the trenches. None OF them. from len.
Davis down to, the editor of the GenfineL
are particularly nice how they obtain their
money, 80 that tkev oct it,: and e itsc6mea
to be understood that the nu9roaa5 ~ IN.
ward]y rich in the coin ofthe United 6tatea
with layers Of ten. twenty and fiftv dol.
lar gold pieces piled up il their-bowels, No
very mnch feartthes blacks will be com.
gelled to "heavo their dark foundations TO
the day." in ways more ,persmptory thsn
polite. Jefferson has read Joseph1s. and
he possibly remembers the fate 81 the ma
fortunate Jews, who ESCAPED from .Jernsa.
lem 20 the Roman lines. while Veenasisn
and Titus besieged the citv. A Roman IN.
dier acci lentaliy detected Jew searchine,
for gold in q place where IL could moi orsaie
narily be looked for. and Without moye aic
ripped him omen with = tvro-edoed sScrT
Thereupon commenced oenerel mss.scr:
Of the geese that laid The solden 600. ia
in one sabbath afiernOon severaf fh0n..rS
of the fugitives from the doometl Nsctsar.
Of Simeon and John perished miserablv'
the victims Of their own caution ma RI
man cupidity. ga.s
I II this discovery Rets abroad in Rich.
mond, and Lees camps. We ahall hesr ~
Je6. Davis next, like another Calisnis %.
ing about with . long knife. rinning m -
black people in search Of his eslarv. M.
Trenholm, who is in An equally had wav
for specie 70 redeem his manifold Dromises
TO pay, will-invsnt a new sort Of press 70
squeeze it out Of them and the subaltarna
aud satraps, infected bv the examplk Of the
magnatee, will be instituting post NOR