The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-09-22

| sronder schdt scus begun for"
The great Douglas-Bell Breckenridge Fusion
| which was TO have swept the Empire State I'm
hom), has collapsed. On Saturday night arc
| Sunday, it was the great fact on Monday, il
proved great botch and failure. Toby, it i:
nowhere and nothing. Mr.. Ben Wood is per
emptoriy disavowed by his new bosses, Dean
Richmond and Peter Cagger; his consent to put
ten Breckenridge Electors on the Douglas ticket
with Viele for Lieut.. Governor and Jaycox for
| Canal Commissioner, is repudiated, and the
| whole dicker blown to the winds. There will be
| no Breckenridge men put on the Douglas Elec.
toral Ticket; or, if there were, they will not he
| permitted to remain. The masses cannot be in
duced to support Fusion ticket, unless they are
cheated into it by assurances, Ia Brooks Nc.
| Master, that it is to vote solid for the man of
their choice. The Hards are welcome to fuse
on the clean Douglas-Bell ticket; "only that and
nothing more" Those who want to help Dean
| Richmond & Co., carry the State for Douglas and
make Kelly Governor will be welcome to any co.'s!
vctuals they can find lying about loose but not
! a word of Electors for Breckinridge-t is out
of the question.
Fusion is thus at an emu in our State SO far as
the Breckenridge men are concerned The Doug
las leaders find their mysterious bargain with the
Bell men all that their party will stomach, and
will go no further. Aud, to give them their due,
the Hards seem about as sick of their almost
completed bargain as the Softs. Those who have
managed MIR. Douglas case have had their own
axe to grind. They had State tickets to save or
to carry; there were sundry good things in pos
session or in prospect to be secured (if at abby
Fusion; for there were candidates for Congress,
like Mr.. Ben. Wood, who wants to run down
town, where the Breckenridge interest is strong
Thus Mr.. Douglass slim prospects have been ira.
ded off in fatal subscrviency to personal ends,
until his political grave stands open in plain sight
to all. All the contiivances to.carry the cleo
ton into the House are alien to his tendencies
and fatal to his hopes. He is used-up man and
might better decline, but for the hope of saving
some local candidate.
All around us--in Pennsylvania, in New Jer-
sey, Massachusetts,, and elsewhere, like knots of
party wire-workers are sitting up late ut o'nights
in tavern private parlors, desperately intent on
some sort Of fusion that will take their respec-
tive States from Lincoln and send three or four
Of the fusers to Congress. They work bard and
long, and not without apparent success; bat
they forget the great mass OF the people who 90
not participate in these cabals, aud who are for
Douglas, for Breckenridge, for Bell-to say moth
ing of the still greater number who are for Lin
coin-but who are not at all for Fusion, not ex-
pecting to go to Congress or achieve any great
personal advantage by means OF it. Every one
OF these who wants to vote for the candidate of
his choice; deny him this, and you will hardly
persuade him to vote ut all--Or, if he does he
will 80 to the polls it to his fathers funeral If
you don't believe this, try the experiment, and
you will.
Coz. HARDIN's PRoPnxcY.-hon John B. Fry
of New York, in writing letter to cay that his,
health is such that it will not allow him to take
an active part in the canvass remarks
I'M vat / aI 10 a ,jou. l. \
by everybody who have regard for my opinion,
that am enlisted, heart and soul, for Lincoln
and Halnlin. ! have known them both long and
well. Mr.. Lincoln and myself were introduced
to each other at Springfield in February, 1916,
by the late Col. John J. Hardin, formerly rep
resentative in Congress from that district, and
who subsequently fell at Buena Vista. At that
early day Col. Hardin said to me land never
have forgotten the remark,) Lincoln is really
the foremost man in our State, and IL his merits
should ever become properly known, he will lead
the nation"
was in Washington during Mr. Lincoln's
term In Congress, and venture TO assert that the
man whether at the North or at the South who
dares u charge him with bein. other than Ma
Eoo4 and conservative in character purpose and
action, Is base calumniator
HoRRIBLE.-A correspondent Of the Sacra-
mento Union writes from Virginia City that
party Of white men, who had been missing some
tiEie, have recently been ascertained to have
been burned to death near Pyramid Lake by the
Indians. Their charred remains we're found
chained to trees. The head and chest Of one Of
them was not burned, and by this means the rest
we're identified as the party who left California
for the Washoe mines in May, under command
Of Norman Garfield, and were formerly from
Cambridge Washington countv Nee York