Mahoney, of the Dubuque Herald says . . .

. . . in denunciation of the Administration and the war , and that the “people will soon open their eyes and understand,” &c.  This is a pretty good joke for Mahoney to get off at the expense of his friends.  Loyal men have always had their “eyes open,” and their “understanding” good.  But Mahoney and his traitorous crew will not get their “eyes open” until their “understanding” lets them slip through the “drop.”  Mourners will be few and scattering, like the days of Judas, but the attendance will be large. – {Indianola Visitor

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

Mutilated Treasury Notes

TREASURY DEPARTMENT

WASHINGTON, May 18, 1862

To guard against frauds upon the Government and to secure the just rights of holders, the following rules, for the redemption of mutilated United States Notes, are hereby established.

FIRST – Mutilated notes, which have been torn no matter how much, but of which it is evident that all the fragments are returned or defaced no matter how badly, but certainly satisfactorily genuine, will be redeemed to their full face value on presentation.

SECOND – Fragments of notes will be redeemed in full only when accompanied by an affidavit stating the cause and manner of mutilation, and that the missing part of the note is totally destroyed.  The good character of the affiant must also be fully vouched by the officer before whom the affidavit is taken.

THIRD – In the absence of such affidavit, fragments of notes will not be paid in full, but the parts presented will be redeemed in their proportion to the whole note, reckoning, as a general rule, by twentieths.

FOURTH – Less than half of a note will not be redeemed, except by payment of the full value of the note under the second rule, or by payment of the proportional value of the missing part, when presented under the fifth rule.

FIFTH – Fragments of notes, for which less than the full face value has been paid, will be retained for a year, to an end that the owners who have received less than the value of the full note, may have opportunity to return the missing part and receive the amount previously withheld.

SIXTH – Until further order, mutilated notes and fragments will be redeemed only at the Treasury of the United States at Washington, whither they can be sent, addressed to the “Treasurer of the United States,” by mail, free of postage.  A draft on the Assistant Treasurer at New York, for the amount allowed will be returned in the same way, to the address of the person remitting the same.

S. P. CHASE,

Secretary of the Treasury

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

The Government Expenditures

The country was some time ago informed on what seemed to be “reliable authority,” that the expenditures of the Government were fully three millions of dollars per day. – A great deal of astonishment and some apprehension was felt at the statement.  People were justly puzzled and alarmed at the idea of the nation plunging into debt at the rate of one thousand millions of dollars per year.  It now appears that the average expenditures of the Government have not been one million of dollars per day.  The New York Commercial Advertiser says of a speech made on Tuesday, by Mr. Dawes of Massachusetts.  He showed on authority which is entirely trustworthy, that the whole expenses of the present Administration, and for a period of fourteen months and eighteen days, amounted only to $441,000,000, which was three millions less than one million per day on the average.  The entire indebtedness including the seventy millions bequeathed by the last Administration was $482,796,145, on the 22nd of this month.  The speech of Mr. Dawes was in reply to Voorhees of Indiana, who made out that our National debt would soon amount to six thousand million dollars.

Mr. DAWES said:

The expenditures of all the departments of the Government outside of the war and navy, since the Administration came into power are as follows, For the Interior Department, Indians and pensions to the 22nd of May $8,681,860, civil list, foreign intercourse and miscellaneous $21,635,010, making a total of nearly $25,367,000.  The expenditures of the War during that time amounted to $374,172,000 and the navy during the same time $42,055,000, or a total of $416,227,000.  The average daily expenditures in the War Department have been $897,295, and those of the navy $100,852 making the average in both departments $998,147.  No requisitions are unpaid, excepting a few thousand dollars for illegality or disloyalty.  The payments last Thursday were only $864,917 yet the day after when the paymasters came in the expenditures were $2,000,000 but on Saturday only $500,000.  So the expenditures of the government up to the 22nd of May inst. in round numbers, were for the military $374,000,000, navy, $42,000,000, all other expenditures, $25,000,000 – a total of $441,000,000.  From the 4th of March, 1861, till the 22nd of May the public debt including $70,000,000 old debt bequeathed by Buchanan, amounted in the aggregate on Friday last to $481,796,145.  Mr. Dawes run [sic] a parallel between the expenditures under the former administration and the present showing as to the civil list, this administration has been far more honest and economical than that.

The expenditures of the Government have been greater in the past than they will be in the future.  Vast sums of money have been laid out in ships and arms.  The creation of the enormous artillery force which is now so effective an arm of our military department involved lavish outlays of money.  Our coast expeditions have cost us extravagantly.  Arms have been procured at great cost.  In fact we were not prepared for war, and have been obliged to make up for our want of preparation.  We have now made our permanent investments in war material and the current expenditures will be diminished.  The estimate that the war was costing us three millions per day, was made just at the time that hundreds of vessels were charted for the transportation of McClellan’s army from Alexandria to Fortress Monroe and while an immense fleet of steamers were conveying Gen. Grant’s army up the Tennessee river the great cost of these vessels of course swelled the aggregate daily expenditure greatly, but yet the three million estimate was much too large even for that time.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

A Fight at Huntsville

Private letters from Huntsville mention a fight at that place between an officer of one of the Ohio regiments and Col. Davis, of Huntsville, a law partner of Jere Clemens.  Davis was a member of the Alabama Secession Convention, and a Union man.  In the Convention he told Yancey, who threatened to coerce North Alabama, which was disposed to remain in the Union, that if he wanted a fight he should not have it in North Alabama, but on the dividing line.  After the Act of Secession, however, Davis took up arms for the Southern Confederacy.  The meeting between Col. Davis and the Ohio officer, who was of equal rank, took place at the quarters of Major McCook.  Some Champagne was opened and the discussion of the state of the country presently grew warm.  The Alabama Colonel told the Ohio Colonel he was a d----d liar, and Ohio told him that if he were not the guest of Major McCook, he would knock him down. – Alabama begged Ohio not to have any scruples of that sort, and repeated the epithet.  So at it they went.  Fair play was shown, and Ohio soon made his word good, knocking Alabama down and giving him a severe pelting when he was down.  Ohio’s damage consisted chiefly in a badly torn shirt.  Alabama received a pair of black eyes and enlarged nose and mouth.  Jere Clemens met the Ohio officer a few days afterward and told him he had inquired into the particulars of the affray, and that his partner (Davis) had been served exactly right.  Davis afterward acknowledged that he had got no more than he deserved.  This little circumstance has contributed largely to the popularity of the Ohioan in Huntsville.

P. S. – The three first letters of the Ohio Colonel’s name are Len. A. Harris. – {Cincinnati Commercial

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

Another New Man-Of-War

The new steam sloop-of-war Adirondack has just been completed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the Navy Department have been informed that she is ready for her armament, and may be put in commission at once if required.  Her rigging and external decoration were finished last week, and she now lies in the stream, a perfectly built model.

The Adirondack is one of the new steam corvettes ordered by the Government, and was built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and launched on Washington’s birthday, the 22d of February last.  She is a wooden vessel, having been far advanced toward construction before the advantages of iron clad ships were made so manifest.  She is 237 feet 2 inches long, over all, has a breadth of beam of 36 feet, a depth of hold 10 feet 11½ inches, and will draw when laden 14 feet of water.  Her machinery is of the first class, and was constructed at the Novelty Works in this city.  It consists of two horizontal back-acting engines, with cylinders 42 inches in diameter and 30 inch stroke.  The boilers, of which two splendid once have been put up, are Martin’s patent, provided with the latest improvements of the inventor.  The propeller is a three bladed, true screw, 14 feet 3 inches in diameter, with proportionate to pitch.  Sewall’s furnace condenser is attached to the machinery, and a distilling apparatus, capable of distilling 300 gallons of water in 24 hours.  The armament of the vessel is prepared, but must not be described now.

Officers for Adirondack will be appointed in a few days, and it is expected she will make her trial trip in the first week of June.  Her model was designed in Washington by the United States Contractors, so that she is a “regular navy built man-of-war.” – {Tribune

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

“Raid” on Owen

Owen county, which has been noted for being infested with traitors – traitors big and traitors small – traitors low and traitors tall – and for their vehement declarations, that they knew their rights, and would maintain their liberty and independence until they all – big and little died in the last ditch.  Well, Owen county was recently thrown into a terrible ferment by a “raid” from Union soldiers, but after all their boasting not as a traitor was ready to be the man to show where the last ditch is located.  Ah! who shall tell it in Dixie that Federal soldiers invaded the “sacred soil” of Sweet Owen, a few days since and instead of resisting arrest, as they had all sworn to do, the county Judge, the County Court Clerk, the Sheriff, the Circuit Court Clerk, and others, with lamb-like meekness, permitted themselves to be led off to prison at Louisville!  And so ended the first chapter.

Chapter two is rich with incidents enough to form the basis of a good story, but we have not descriptive powers enough to do the subject justice.  Let us give the facts as we heard them.

One day last week – probably Monday – court having adjourned for dinner, the traitors assembled in the Court House to nominate candidates to fill the various offices to be voted for at the ensuing election.  The meeting organized and was ready for business, when Dr. Gale, the Ex-Representative to the Legislature from Owen, had occasion to go to the front door.  No sooner had he reached it, and cast one look out into the street, than he started back, “his hair erect like the quills of the fretful porcupine” – his eye balls starting from their deep sockets, and glazed with horror – and approaching the officers of the meeting gasped out: “Lincoln’s whole ------ army has surrounded the Court House and town!”

What ensued on the announcement is beyond our powers of description in the words of the old saying, it can be better imagined than described, the pencil of a Hogarth alone could do it justice.  A thunderbolt falling into the midst of a crowd, could not have produced greater consternation, and a 1,000 lb. bomb shell falling in their midst would not have caused a more sudden skedaddling.

Reader, you can form some idea of the scene by imagining you were present, and witnessed Representative Burns jumping out of a back window, carrying the sash on his neck like a yoke on a goose; Senator Grover following after Burns and lighting upon his back, and think it a horse he was astraddle of, rode him to the horse rack; Burns mounting a horse without taking time to unhitch him, and finding it impossible to make the horse break lose then cut the reins to get free from the rack, leaving his horse to his own course, so he would only increase his speed in proportion to the zeal and energy that his rider belabored him with heels and fists.  Judge Nuttal finding no place above earth to hide, some of the rebels let him down a well in a bucket.  Will Pryor of Henry coming into town during the excitement, was urged to hide after some parlay he consented; was ushered into a room with three beds, but found no place in either for even his head – the traitors were piled up two and three deep under them!  In despair, he rushed down stairs, and so soon as possible put the Kentucky river between him and Owen county.

That was the second chapter in Owen County’s ferment.  We only regret that we have not the power to do it justice to it. – {Shelby (Ky.) News

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

The Crisis and its Demands

Col. Forney writes from Washington to the Philadelphia Press:

We are living in the midst not simply of a revolution unparalleled in history, but a rebellion against all the improvements in Government, in science, in law and in society.  The men who refused to stand by the Government in this crisis cannot stop this revolution.  They cannot save Slavery, but they may temporarily wound the Constitution and the Union.  Radical remedies are always the offspring of grave diseases.  The ingratitude and savage atrocities of Slavery have turned the heart of Christendom against it and have made the severe medicines of men who were called fanatics a few years ago, palatable to those who have been among the moderate classes of our people.  The true statesman accepts things as they are.  His duty is first to his country.  He must put down her foes by every means, and if one weapon fails he must try another. – Such a leader can no more ignore the revolution against Slavery, brought about by slave-owners, than he can blot out the undying memory which preserves for eternal veneration and example the great events which have changed the civil polity and religious systems of other nations.

One of the incidents of this revolution against Slavery is the extraordinary transformation wrought in the minds of intelligent and conscientious Democrats.  I have just received a letter from a gentleman who bears an honored name as a consistent member of the once respected Democratic party, which I publish as one of the thousand evidences of the change that is taking place in the minds of men.

“The leading article of the Press this morning speaks the language of truth and necessity.  You remember it was my policy from the outset – no more legislation, no more talk, no more compromise or conciliation.  The Government must show sterner stuff.  We must treat those heaven daring and hell-deserving offenders, those highwaymen, those assassins and pirates as the worst of foes.  Mercy to them is cruelty to the civilized world, which on its broad expanse is more or less interested in the maintenance of this Republic in all its integrity.  Our Government should and must ‘press them to the wall,’ follow them up on their way, defeat them until they are dispersed, lay down their arms and return to their allegiance, are subjugated or exterminated.  We must decide at once and sternly – no indulgence of domestic traitors in our midst.  We must imitate Baltimore everywhere all over our country, and drive the traitors and their treason from our streets.  No more talk of consanguinity, affinity, or sacred friendship with barbarians and assassins.  They dissolve in thin air before the true patriot, who must bury the recollections of all ties in the proud consciousness of duty to God and his country from which source he will be sure to receive his reward.  For God’s sake urge, by all possible means at your command, the necessity of the most stringent measures, nor hope for any peace or restoration of the Government by other means.  You are doing much persevere [sic], call men and things by their right names, and [illegible] our thoughts turn to subjugation or if need be extermination, American and Christianity demand it.”

You will tell me this is strong language, but remember, it is the voice of one who has not only been foremost in the ranks of the Democracy, but foremost among the defenders of the South.  He speaks as tens of thousands of Democrats feel.  Mr. Lincoln told the Border States of the “signs of the times” and there is none that suggest a more solemn warning that the revolution in regard to Slavery among the masses who have been its ardent advocates and apologists.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

How the Prisoners are to Get their Pay

WAR DEPT., ADJ’T GENERAL’S OFFICE,

WASHINGTON, October 28, 1861

General Order No. 90

The following plan for paying the families of officers and soldiers in the service of the United States, who are, or may become prisoners of war, the sums due them by the Government, having been approved by the President, it is published for the information of all concerned.

Payments will be made to persons presenting written authority from a prisoner to draw his pay – or without such authority, to his wife, the guardian of his minor children, or his widowed mother or in the order named.

Applications for such pay must be made to the senior paymaster of the district in which the regiment of the prisoner is serving, and must be accompanied by the certificate of a judge of a court of the United States, of a District Attorney of the United States, or of some other party under the seal of a Court of Record of the State in which the applicant is a resident , setting forth that the said applicant is the wife of the prisoner, the guardian of his minor children, or his widowed mother, and if occupying either of the last two relationships towards him, there is no one who is more nearly related according to the above classification.

Payments will be made to parties thus authorized and identified, on their receipts made out in the manner that would be required of the prisoner himself, at least one month’s pay, being in all cases retained by the United States.  The officer making the payment will see that it is entered on the last previous muster roll for the payment of the prisoner’s or will report it, if those rolls are not in his possession, to the senior paymaster of the district; who will either attend to the entry or give notice to the payment to the Paymaster General, if the rolls have been forwarded to his office.  By order,

[Signed]

L. THOMAS

Adjutant General

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

Incident in Mahony’s Life

During a portion of the last summer, Mahony, through his Herald, so exasperated the loyal sentiment of the patriotic portion of the people of Dubuque, that he began to fear for the consequences.  The employees of the Herald went armed to the teeth, and on the passage of squads of volunteers along the street, pistols and guns were sometimes displayed at the Herald office windows.  Mahony at length took it into his head that he was no longer safe at night in his own house, and like other consummate villains before him, he had recourse to the Sanctuary.  He besought the Bishop to allow him to sleep in his own house.  The man of peace of course would not turn out the trembling wretch, and so Mahony found what he believed to be a secure asylum at the Rev. Father’s house.  Thither he repaired every evening at dark and as his mind was full of fears he regaled the man of peace with tales of horror about the threats and intentions of the “cowardly and bloody Abolitionists,” until even the good man feared for Mahony’s life. – Every sound on the street was eagerly listened to and every dog barks was a source of alarm.

Thus things went on for several nights until, one among the rest, when the fears of the rebel editor became unusually excited.  He had met with several sharp reprovals during the day, and he retired to the Bishop’s in a very dubious state of mind at night.  He regaled the good many with his usual tales of horror and fear, and in this state of mind retired to bed.

Some time about midnight, or a little after, a knock was heard at the front door.  Mahony who had been half asleep heard it instantly and started up in bed.  His burly form shook in terror from head to foot, and the bed trembled as if its occupant had a fit of ague, while he peered into the darkness and his ears stuck out from his head like a wolf’s.  Another knock and the Bishop heard it, and starting up in bed, said “Mahony, do you here that?”

“Oh, Lord!” groaned Mahony, “I’m gone.  They’ve come! they’ve come!” and springing out of bed, fell down on his marrow bones by the bedside, and began a most agonizing pray to the Madonna and all the Saints to pray for him, and the Savior of the world to have mercy on him.  Another knock louder than before and Mahony fairly jumped from his knees and shrieked in terror.  The good Bishop pitied the wretch in his agony, and tried to console him, even if his end had come, but he would not be reconciled to his fate, and made a bound for one of the windows, to get out headlong, which if he had accomplished, he would have been killed by the fall.  The good man held him back, and partly by force and partly by persuasion, got him to go down stairs with him, and examine whence the knocking proceeded.  Upon going to the door it was found that a poor harmless crazy person was the cause of all the knocking, and consequent fright.

Could we relate the above “incident in the life of Mahony,” as it was related to us, it would excite the broadest merriment, as well as show most conclusively the groundless fears of Mahony’s “guilty conscience.” – {Dubuque Times.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

Who are the Loyal, and Who are the Disloyal

From the Nashville Union, 29th

It is a source of honorable pride to contemplate the elements which constitute the loyal portion of our people, and contrast them with the faction of treason.  Loyalty can truly boast of possessing the material and substance which constitute a State, – the “high minded men,” who are the glory of all nations.  Treason on the contrary, has gathered in its retinue the frivolous, the ignorant, the conceited, the apes of foreign aristocracy, the dissolute and the profligate.  In ninety nine cases out of a hundred, men of experience, cultivation, correct morals and elevated principles, are hearty supporters of the Union.  In nine hundred and ninety nine cases out of a thousand the debauched, the reckless, the giddy voltaires of fashion, the bankrupts in political and pecunial fortune, the would be aristocrat and the snobs who follow at their heels are, the violent and malignant enemies of the union.  A man who makes his living by honest labor is in the great majority of cases loyal, while one who looks on labor as degrading, is equally apt to be disloyal.  Who originated and planned this rebellion?  Floyd, Cobb and Jeff Davis, men of wealth and the repudiators of public and private debts, Judah Benjamin, who was compelled to leave college in boyhood for base thefts from his school mates, and other political schemers whose large fortunes enabled them to dance attendance on the Courts of London and Paris.  The vigorous and manly and classic literature of the nation is loyal to the core.  The men who are honored abroad in the learned circles of Europe as poets, historians, jurists, and inventors, are without exception, as far as we recollect at present, firm and zealous loyalists.  The literature of the rebellion is confined to the few ranting stump speakers, of large gabble and little brains, and a few editors who write atrocious falsehoods in English that would disgrace a kitchen wench’s first attempt at a love letter.  On the side of loyalty, we have Bancroft, Everett, Prentice, Bryant, Longfellow, Mitchell, Dr. Breckenridge, Motley the historian, and a grand editorial corps of great power and brilliancy.  On the side of treason we find Armageddon and the Confederate Almanac and Primer, the last two works being plagiarisms from Yankee works!  The parallel or rather the contrast is one which will fill the patriotic heart with an honorable pride.  The rebels with more truth than they are aware of, often call this a rival of the war between the Puritans and the Cavaliers of England.  The two wars are indeed alike.  The same issues appear in both, the great issues of free Government and monarchy.  The leaders of the two parties are similar in their origin and character.  The voluptuous and profligate King Charles is no bad prototype of King Jeff while Oliver Cromwell, bluff, rugged and straight forward, is not unlike blunt and honest Abraham Lincoln, who possesses more true manliness and chivalry in his soul than all the officers in the rebel army from Beauregard to Isham G. Harris.  When we look at the rebel army we find it only the reflection of that of King Charles, both armies being made up of aristocratic leaders, followed by an idle vicious, demoralized mob.  The Union army, like that of Cromwell’s is made up of industrious, sober, substantial, God-fearing citizens.  The loyal forces will as surely destroy the rebel armies as the sturdy Puritans destroyed the mob of King Charles.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

Late and Important from Western Maryland -- The Union Spirit Overwhelming

At Cumberland, Md., as we learn from the Wheeling Intelligencer, the excitement on Monday was not less than it was in Baltimore.  A large crowd assembled in front of the residence of Col. Tom McKaig, a prominent Secessionist, when a pistol was fired from a window of the house.  They then commenced throwing stones at the window which they completely demolished.  The stable of McKaig was set on fire and destroyed.  All the prominent Secessionists were compelled to leave town upon short notice.  The mob was started by the exultant manner of the Secessionists, on the reception of the news of Banks’ rout.

At Hagerstown, Md., the Union men were terribly exasperated and destroyed the office of the Mail, a secession paper, and the Secessionists were fleeing the place.  The Union men of Virginia were crossing over into Maryland with their families, at Hancock and other points, and the hills were swarming with men, women and children.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

Imposition Upon Soldiers

The Davenport Gazette of the 27th, calls attention to certain gross outrages inflicted upon soldiers by some of the steamboats on the river and particularly by the St. Louis and Keokuk line.  The Gazette relates the following facts:  A private of the 14th regiment named William Harvey, from Jones county arrived in town on the Kate Cassell Sunday, from Keokuk.  Mr. Harvey when at St. Louis, was directed to the Die Vernon as a through boat to Dubuque, and did not discover his mistake till too late for the Canada, which was just leaving.  He accordingly came up to Keokuk on the Vernon, and in payment for his passage handed his through pass onto the Clerk, who returned him a ticket entitling him to a passage on the Kate Cassell. – This ticket, brought him only to Davenport, leaving him to make his way to Dubuque the best way he could.  The officers of the Bill Henderson kindly took him to Dubuque yesterday, running the risk of getting their pay.  The Die Vernon will charge Government for passage to Dubuque, of course, and thus make the price of the trip from Davenport to Dubuque clear.  This would be a mere trifle if it were the first occasion of the kind, but the Gazette is assured that the St. Louis and Keokuk boats frequently serve soldiers in that way and in some cases give them no pass beyond Keokuk.  Whether this be true or not soldiers complain very much of the treatment they received from that line of boats when coming home wounded.  If the owners of these or other boats cannot afford to treat soldiers decently, disabled in the cause of their country, they should be made to do it.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

Emancipation of Slaves in the Dutch Colonies

By our last arrivals we have learned the final action of the Dutch Government in respect to the abolition of Slavery in its colonies.  No further importation of slaves is to be allowed at Japan and the neighboring islands. – Those already there are being nearly freed under progressive emancipation.  In the West Indies similar steps have been taken.  A Surinam paper says that all the slaves in the Dutch American possessions are to be free on the 1st of July 1863, on the following conditions:

1st.  An indemnity to be paid to the proprietors of each slave man, woman or child, of three hundred guilders, or about one hundred and twenty dollars United States money.

2d.  The slaves are to be subjected to a system of apprenticeship on the plantations for three years, and received for their labor a certain amount of wages; one-half of which is to be paid to the Government.

The Dutch possessions in America are Guinea, St. Eustatius, Curacoa, St. Martin and Saba.

Guinea contains a free population of fifteen thousand souls and thirty seven thousand five hundred blacks.  St. Eustatius, a Leeward island, has five thousand whites and twenty thousand blacks, and has been in the undisturbed possession of the Dutch since 1814.

Of the number of the slaves in the other colonies we have no account.  It is well know however, Curacua once carried on every extensive slave trade from the port of St. Barbara.

Thus steadily does the work of emancipation proceed throughout the world, to be followed up, beyond all question in some philanthropic and satisfactory form, by a similar movement in this country. – {N. Y. Post.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

A New Weapon In The Army – "Coffee Mills"

The correspondent of the Philadelphia Press with Gen. McClellan’s army says:

“In one of the brigades of the Union army they have six guns of a new construction, and terribly effective.  We have not yet learned their names.  The men designate them ‘coffee mills.’  It is a heavy rifle barrel mounted on wheels.  At the breach is a kind of clock-work machinery, surrounded by a hopper similar to the hopper of a coffee mill, at the side is a crank.

One man turns the crank, while another supplies the cartridges, and a third sights the gun.  By means of a leaver he moves it laterally, or raises or depresses it at pleasure.  Its effective range is 1¼ miles.  It throws 240 balls per minute, the size of an ordinary minié ball.  When operated with, the rebels were utterly amazed, not knowing what to make of them.  One of these guns properly worked, and well supplied with cartridges, is estimated to equal about 300 men.”

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

The Charleston Mercury, in anticipation of . . .

. . . an attack there, puts the query – “Is not Charleston to be defended?” and a correspondent, speaking of a contemplated surrender of the city says – “If, indeed this decree is written in the book of fate then let us know it at once, that patriots may have the chance to die before so terrible a doom shall overtake them.”

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

A gentleman who has just returned from Mexico . . .

. . . where he had excellent opportunity of acquiring information, expresses the opinion that the French and rebels have an understanding with regard to operations in that country.  He confirms the report that the rebels are attempting to get a footing in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua, with the design of annexing them and Lower California to the dominions of Jeff. Davis, and of thus having a Pacific coast and one excellent harbor there at least, Gauymas.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

Northern troops in hot climates are . . .

. . . said to enjoy more robust health and perform more work, under certain precautions as to health, than natives.  Actual experience in Jamaica under the direction of Capt. Marryatt, and in Africa under Dr. Livingston, the great explorer, has proved the ability of northern men to withstand the most deadly of the tropical miasmata.  Capt. Marryatt, demonstrated the utility of wearing flannel next the skin.  Dr. Livingston proved the value of quinine as a prophylactic.  At Port Royal our troops use quinine with whisky, in the proportion of two grains of powdered quinine dissolved in half a gill of whisky, diluted with half a gill of water.  This is taken in the morning before eating, and again at night, by troops exposed to malaria, and it is said that so far from promoting intemperance it really gives a distaste for intoxicating drinks.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

General Butler has . . .

. . . the faculty of using the right language at the right time.  During a recent interview with Mayor Monroe, the latter remarked that “he (Gen. Butler) had always been a friend of the South.”  The General here interrupted him with the following remarks: “Stop, sir, let me set you right on that point at once.  I was always a friend to Southern rights, and an enemy to Southern wrongs.”

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

A young lady named McConn . . .

. . . was saved from falling out of a second story window at Cohoes, N. Y., being caught hold of by the feet.  Her modesty was so much shocked by the liberty that a young man took in rescuing her in this style, that she left Cohoes the next morning and has not been seen since.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1

Coolness On The Field

A lad of fifteen years of age belonging to the 5th Wisconsin, whose name is Douglas, and resides at Beaver Dam, was in the battle of Williamsburg, and got his gun wet so that he could not fire.  During the hottest of the fight, and whilst the regiment was falling back, he deliberately sat down, took out his screw driver, unscrewed the tube from his gun, dried it out, put it back, capped it, got up and put into the field as if nothing unusual was going on.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1