Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-09-11
OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
New YORK. Aug. 30, 1885,

| New YORK, Aug. 80, 1851.
EDITORS OF THE HAwK-EyE:
The late publication, in the Herald of this city,
of the correspondence between Donaldson of
Texas and Greer of Iowa, on the one side, and
the members of the Democratic National Com
mittee on tie other side, has caused good deal
Of excitement among the Locofocos, and threat
ems to destroy Sam Houson's chances for the
Presidency. The Southerners temporarily
journins at the hotels positively froth at the
mouth, when they speak Of the contemplated
| treachery of the hero of San Jacinto, so costly
determined on in the Donaldson letter and the
free sellers are thanking their stars for their es-
cape from Sans sympathy and fairness.
It is now pretty generally conceded that all
that can give Sam the slightest chance of NOM
nation, is for him to come out hat-footed for
Cuba and it is understood that he is about to do
| Walker OF Wisconsin. or rather his friends in
this city, the land reformers, are the men that
| gave Sam his death blow. know the man. per-
sonallv and intimately, who got the letters from
Nathaniel H. Greer. of Iowa, aud forwarded cop
les of them to the Herald
New York has been in state OF ferment, ever
since the news of the execution of the fifty Amer
leans. at Havana, reached III. Meetings have
been held in the Park almost every night, and
the most intense anxiety is felt and expressed for
s:news'' from the Pearl of the Antilles. BIT yol
must not not Think that we hear nothing on the
subject, by my saying that we are ANXIOUS TO:
news You could not invent story more i'm
probable than those we hear every hour; nor
! could You concoct more fiat contradiction, than
one telegraphc dispatch gives to its Immediate
predecessor. We want reliable, uncontradictcd
news, but that cannot get.
Whenever | see thing started in New
York, | instinctively probe it, to see how money
is goirg 10 be made out of il, and who is going
to make il; experience having taught !ne, that, in
ninety nine cases out of hundred may safely
sumo the highest motive in every new enterprise
| whether it be styled BY its gritefs-up, pallo-
sophical, industrial, philanthropsc, social, moral
religious, individual, national, Anglo Saxon, or
cons'itutional-:o be, really, The lore Of money
or its equivalent. Occasionally, q ncw move is
made that cannot through for sotac time,
but / generally manage at last, to trace. as usual,
every act back TO the two grea. motives of The
age, the ruling and the most Tevered of the facul
ties Of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and secretive-
tiveness-which give a man the desire and the
capacity TO become rick; or rather, without
which he cannot become 80.
| Just at this moment, however, / am regularly
| hoored by move made by medical man of this
city. l don't see what motive he Can have, IN
making such novel proposition as that which he
publicly announces, except good one; and vet,
partake of the popular prejudice to snch an ex-
tent as to totally disbelieve the possibility Of
vender of patent medicine being impelled by
any higher motive than that of fattening himself
on the gullibiiity Of the community. The ndi-
vidual 10 whom | now aiiude is DR. Talbot Watts
of this city, who claims to have discovered n
remedy for consumption and nearly every other
disease, and who advertises TO supply patients in
every part Of the Union, with the Nervous Anti
! dote-the name of his medicine-and to wait for
! his pay until they are cured.
D.. Watts must have strong faith in the poten-
CIV of h.. medicine, and an equal confidence in
| the honesty OF consnmptve people; or he would
| never pursue such course. IL Is time that doc
| tors, and especially the vendors Of Pltent medi-
| cines, took some course to demonstrate TO their
customers, that they have a lively faith IN their
compounds; for heaven knows there is need
enough of securing the public against imposition
| in this respect.
| A country friend of mine, had his pocket pick
ed of over $3.50, al Barnun's Museum last night.
wish could instl into the minds of your read
ers, the propriety Of staying away, atogether,
from dramatic performances, or of going at once,
to well conducted theatre. No New Yorker
| thinks of going to the Museum which is Goa
sidered by us. low affair, got up 10 make mon
ey, BY pandering TO the curiosity and uncultva-
ted tastes OF gaping countrymen, who are attract
ed by the wretched performance of five or six
| tenth-rate musicians, hired by Barnnm to strum
away Oh balcony, and by large da1bs represent
ing, the impositons upon the public crednty that
he has inside.
The dramatic performances, dancing and sing
ing, in this establishment, are Of so kind,
| that man Of any taste could not be hired to
witness them for So night; and an actor OF the
| first grade would not allow his name to be con-
| nected with it, for any money. From the fact
that it is chiefly freqnented by country people, 1t
is great resort of pick pockets; ard ii is said to
be extensively patronzed as an designation house
| Go, good reader, to Burton's Niblo's. the
Broadway, or the Opera, or to all Of them, if you
choose-if you must 20 somewhere. From all
of these. however, it is better. perhaps, 10 stay
away, If you have not New York friend 10 ac-
company you. But, by no means vitiate your
taste, run the chance of having your pocket pick
ed, and get yourself stamped ''green," by going
to the Museum; if you should happen to be
green enough to 60 there. don't, for goodness
| sake, tell any one of it in New York.
! Yours, truly, IOWA