The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1862-11-15

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IKLY HAWK-EYE.
The'results Of the elections tomorrow are
looked for with intense interest. The election
Of Seymour in New York, it 10 conceded, would
be most disastrous to our cause-perhaps more
90 than defeat of our arms.
Major General Banks has gone to New YORK.
where be will organize an expedition, OF whicn
he will be the leader, for the purpose OF re-
deeming Texas from rebel misrule. Genera
Me- Clernand is to organize similar expedition
in the West, and advancing through Aisslssip
ri to Texas, to cooperate with Gen. Banks.
Verify the anaconda is preparing for another
soueexe. Let us hopo that we will now be the
.oueezers, and less the squeezed, than when oul
ana conda last exercised himself in this style Of
gymnastics. w.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 1862. .
In letter written a short time since, stated
that it was in contemplation to make two grand
military departments, putting Gen. Halleck in
command of one and Gen. Mcclellan in command
Of the other, assigning Gen. Hooker to the com.
mand of the army of the Potomac. etc., Since
then the matter has been publicly broached, and
denied. The New York Herald has since an
nounced it as fact certain to t,anspire, while
it has not transpired, and the declaration has
been made with great assurance that it had no,
been in contemplation. Nevertheless it was
contemplated. What then stated, in advance
Of its announcement elsewhere, was true. The
scheme has been, probobly, abandoned, for rea'
sons which seemed imperative. Hooker did not
get we'll so fast as it appeared likely he would.
Preliminary movements connected with general
advance could not, under the circumstances, be
delayed, and, having been begun transfer
could not with apparent safety be made from
one general to another in the midst Of large
series of actually tranapiring operations. But
no more on that point The letter referred to,
or subsequent one, stated circumstances which
mlghtlead to an abandonment of such intentions.
only allude to the matter again to say that,
the scheme having been denied, it was, in fact,
true; and to express my surprise that scheme
of that character, practically retiring Gen. Nc
Clellan, though saving his dignity, removing Gen.
Halleck from his present position, and giving
over this great army and the responsibility for
military operations in this region to Gen. Hook
er, should have met 80 cordial and emphatic
support from the New York Herald am sor-
~ it failed. The country would have been
greatly the gamer if it had not. Blu. it proba-
bly, has failed, substantially if not entirely, in
all its parts, s,-though may be not.
A good deal of anxious speculation has been
INDUCED in as to the cause Of the Indian out
break in the West. Permit me to indulge 10 my
own speculations upon the point. have an idea.
But my idea does not correct the trouble, to any
practical extent, with secession or its agents.
am very confident tina. frauds practiced upon
the Indians are the substantial cause. have
no doubt but that upon scoundrelly agents Of the
Government the blood of the murdered citizens
of Minnesota lies. And how troubles of this
kind are to be saved, cannot see There is
no assurance except in the absolute incorrupti-
bility of agents sent to deal with the Indians
In no department. of Government, it's extent
considered, is strict integrity so imperatively
demanded. In no other department are the
temptations SO great. The Indians are ignorant,
and may easily be imposed on. They are in the
hands of the agent and the traders, and the
temptation to an alliance between these two par
ties are nearly irresistible to men of no more
than average honesty. The facilities for making
rapid fortunes are great. And they have been
improved, in almost every Indian region, upon
a stupendous scale. Immediately after the &C.
cesson to power of this Administration, met q
man in one of our hotels who wanted to be an
Indian Agent The Agent at the post he want
ed to occupy was present asked the former
what he wanted to be an Indian agent for, at a
salary of only $1,000. What inducement was
that small profit to live among horde of saw
ages? The (then) present occupant spoke up,
'If be can get the place, he will make first-rate
thing of it. I have salary of only $1,000, to
be sure. But / disburse $l25,0O0 annually, and
Government has to takemy Indian receipts for it II
The hint was clear. The practice intimated, I
am confident is common. That more outrages
do not flow from it, is matter of wonder.
Molly Lee,-where is she, and who is she p
There she is, not rod of, playing on the side.
walk with my boy. In theory she is negro
In fact she is hardly lees white than you or I
They call her Molly Lee, as the slang phrase is'
"because that is her name" and her name is
Lee, because that is the name of her father; and
her father is Gen. Lee of the rebel army. And
we'll she might be pretty white, for her mother
was the daughter Of George W. P. Curtis, the
father. in.law of Gen. Lee. Mother and Daugh-
ter were born slaves on the Arlington estate.
They cay that slavery is right because negroes
are an inferior race and cannot take care Of
themselves. Here is (tbeoreticaD negro at
least one.half Lee, one quarter Gusts, and how