The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-04-28

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racted and demoralised condition Or the party.
wc aazgest that - three platforms be adopted
and used IN the different sections Of the Union
= the cxigencics Of the canvass may require
Popular Sovereignty In the Northwest--Dred
Scott and I Slave Code in the Cotton States, and
protection in PENNSYLVANIA.
- There l. feverish anxiety 10 know who
will be nominated at Charleston. Most Of our
democratic friends are confident Douglas will be
the man. while . few arc equally confident and
hopeful that he win not be chosen. At this dis.
lance, with the means Of information which We
have, It u impossible for Us to make up an opin-
ion. If the friends Of Douglas are a. plucky -
their leader and stand firmly to their man, they
VIII certainly procure his nomination Or break up
the Convention, or both. But politicians are
very uncertain. Mach % his Northern friends
lore Douglas, they love themselves and the
spoils . great dead more. They win all be found
enrolled among the arm and original friends Of
the winning man, whoever he may be.
Asto the platform the only interest politicians
take in II Is in having it Of that kind best cacu
lated to cheat and deceive the people. They
want votes and want such Get of planks in their
platform as win enable them the most eiEectually
to draw the wool over the eyes Of the people
Tacy care nothing for principles or men. They
hare not the most distant expectation of admin
btering the Government according to the policy
shadowed forth in the platform to be adopted
at Charleston. They care nothing about meas
ures-they are not in the least concerned, whesh.
er slavery is voted up or voted down--whether
it is confined to the States where it legally ex-
lists or goes into ell the Territories under the
bred Scott decision. All they want is to fasten
themselves upon the National Treasury for the
next four years.
y The Davenport Gazette proposes to make
new rule and rule every man of the track who |
has been in State office two terms. And, bv
way Of enforcing this new feature in the Republic
can programme, the Gazette proposes that all
iucumbcnts in State Offices except Sells and Rice.
be re-nominatcd. while these latter gentlemen,
having been two terms in Office, be required to
give place to other aspirants. As far "a Mr. Rice
Is concerned, this is very WE'LL he has sigai!ied
his intention of retiring at the end of his term of
Office In regard to Mr.. Sells we are not in |
formed; and the Gazette does not stop to en- |
qlire. Without as much as saying, by your leave,
1t sets Mr. Sells aside and invites Mr.. Mcpherson,
p esent Senator from Madison county, to take
the Office of Secretary of State.
We object to this little matter being arranged
without consultation We have known Elijah !.
Sells for the last three or four years as public
officer, and We have known him to be one of the |
most prompt, efficient, faithful, and ineyery way |
competent public men, that ever held o response
BILE position in our State. He has to-day more
personal popularity than any man in Iowa. and
he deserves it. No interest Of the State ever
suffered in his hands, and no single blunder or
omission Of his was ever exposed. Such public
officer thus faithful and true to public trust,
in these days Of corruption, should not be discar.
dcd for trivial rtsaon
Mr.. Mcpherson is good man. We know of |
no man, except Mr.. Sells, that We should prefer
for the place Mcpherson is one of the |
ablest men in the Republican party, capable of
filling with credi: any position in the gift of the
people of this State. But we don't believe he |
was consulted, when his name was brought out |
in opposition to Elijah Sells
GONE GLINMERING."-The Council Bluffs Non |
parcel says that Doc. Farmer has taken his depar-
ture for Pixies Peak, and then adds parenthical.
~, that "many worse fellow has gone the road |
before him." We don't know much about the |
character Of the Pixies Peak e,nigrants-no. so
much the Nonpareil- But if it is correct when |
1t says that ''many" worse men have gone, 1t can |
"couat us out" We shall not 20 any nearer to |
the Peak if we can avoid it.
HE EPIDEMIC AMONG THE MASSACHUSETTS
CArrLE-SLArGHrER OF THOSE INJECTED
State Commissioners of Massachusetts, have com.
menced the slaughter Of infected cattle in Wor.
ccster county. At the farm Of Mr.. Allen Woods,
twenty-onc Durham cows, with eight or ten
calves were killed. AT the farm of Mr. Alauson
A Needham, who has lost seven animals by the
disease, the twenty three remaining were killed.
After death they were buried all in one deep
hole. The stock Of Mr. Leonard Stoddard, some
fifty or sixty will probably all be killed Mr..
Stoddard, who understands very well the value
of manure, has dug holc at the side of every
tree in his orchard, and intends to deposit one
slaughtered animal At the foot of each tree.
letter in the Boston Courier says: F
Up TO this time the whole number of animals
killed has been one hundred and eight valued. 1t
was said, at five thousand dollars. As the whole
appropriation was only ten thousand dollars, and
one hundred fresh cases were reported, the CON-
sioners decided to stop the slaughter till the
Governor could be consulted. 1t is evident that
this appropriation is but drop in the bucket to
what will be required to exterminate the disease.
1t they stop here, the money already spent will
avail nothing. 1t appears by tile testimony of
stock owners, that the disease is as contagious as
small pOx. When the cattle are turned out to
pasture, as they must he very soOn no limits can
he assigned to the spread Of the disorder If any
thing is done--t must be quickly. The course
to be adopted will probably be known to morrow
or next day at fartnest
This difficulty will put damper on the State
Fair at Springfield next fall. People say they
would not let their cattle 60 there at any price
Buyers at Brighton are very suspicious of beef
from this locality 1t Is thought that the process
OF determination will occupy the summer months
A report was in circulation this morning thar
one Of the commissioners had resigned. and
second, thought seriously Of doing the same
thing
The Traveller states that the Governor and the
Commissioners had held q meeting at the State
House, aud had discussed the expediency Of call
ing an extra session of the Legislature. 1t was
finally decided that medical board of the most
experienced veterinary surgeons should be en-
ployed to make further investigation, and the
killing of cattle be suspended until the result Of
their observations are known,
GRAPEs.-The Patent Office has received seve-
raj Of the choicest variety Of grape slips from
Hungary, which it il proposed to have propa-
gated under the direction Of that Office. in order
to determine their adaptabiltv to the soil of the
different States. The fruit Of these vines is said
TO be superior to anything Of the kind grown in
this country, either for wine making or for table
use.
u Messrs. L. W. Vale and L. w. Wells are
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