The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-21

@s- We are advised by circular letter
of the purpose OF certain gentlemen, who
met at Rochester on the 18th and 10Th of
August last, and who style themselves
conservatives, to hold a Convention at
Cincinnati, on the 3D. day of December
tive element in the next Presidential cleo
ton. The Secretary inquiries if we shall
be there? We take this mode Of informing
him that we shall not be therefor two
reasons. One is that we have something
better to do than pulling wires for the nom-
ination of President about these times
The second is that we have no desire to as
sociate with FOSSILS who have not yet
found out that the world has moved some
ages in advance Of them within the past
three years, and who prove themselves
such egregious asses as to talk about stand
ing on the "Kentucky Platform" People
who have any sense would hardly 60 there
for platform, especially at present, par
ticularly to associate with Leslie Combs
and Garrett Davis, who are living proofs of
the fact that men ought never to be praised
until they are dead-that the longer some
men live the less they know. No, Mr.. Sec
rotary Stevens, we shall not be there
When we 90 meet with old women, we al
was make it point that they wear petit
coats. Old women, who wear pantaloons,
are, in our opinion, "most tolerable and not
to be endured" We will preserve the cir
cular of the "Conservative' mummies.a 1t
will be an article of virtu one of these days,
and bring hundred times it's weight IN
gold as an example Of the folly of age and
the age. ras 3 VI "a. eaff
; Gs- Only thirty-seuen blockade runners
are said to have been found in Mexican
waters of the Rio Grande when Banks ex-
petition reached its destination! This is
to indicate the vast amount of trade
which has been carried on at that point I'M
der the guise of neutrality! But twill
be ended now-is already ended. Norelief
in that shape will hereafter reach the rebels
west of the Mississippi. They will be in
pen ont Of which they cannot get, and
into which material Of war can no longer
be. sent from our exquisitely neutral"
friends over the sea. They will howl over
the past, snap and snarl awhile, and then
" come down . like Davie Crockett's game.
NJ Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, who
les been making himself notorious byat-
teAajunH to show that Slavery is sanction
HlBR the Scriptures, has been victimized
Bal Sally ,6Y Some one who dedicates to him
paanphlet entitled the'' Bible View of Po-
lygamy.''2 He justifies hisattempt to prove
q, plurality of wives altogether right and
ppi3us, by the devout example of the Bish-
Cpl neutrality-suspicious. that Polygamy is
by Holy Writ, by the same sort
of argument as that which Satisfies Hop
kins that Slavery is ordained OF God. We
have not seen the pamphlet but the dedi-
cation is good, and its elegant satire must
make the. Bishop wish that he had not
"gone and done done itv' #-5y s's~r
Coon WoRK.-An exchange says that
several counties of Indiana, are wing with
each other in the noble work of making
soldiers families comfortable and in af-
fording aid to the Sanitary Commission
As instances of what is doing there it says,
that a supper at Lafayette, the other night
netted $3.50. Carroll County supplied $685.
in cash and four hundred wagon loads of
provisions. One gentleman in Richmond
contributed $1,000. So the works goes on.
So it ought to go on. Those who have
means cannot do better than to distribute
portion of it to the dependents Of those
whose courage and patriotism have made
their means available and valuable. Val
our people do likewise? e' T.""
rs Caral Shurz has written, and the
Louisville Journal publishes, a letter in re-
ply to the recent letter Of Leslie Combs, in
which that venerable old lady re-iterates
the charge that Shurz showed himself a
coward at Charlottesville. Shurz tells
Combs he lies, and challenges him to come
down to Chattanooga and keep company
with him at the next battle, and see for
himself whether or not he is coward
Combs won't go, and ought not to go. He
sires just such sharp rebuke for iterating
a calumny everybody who reads the papers
knows was long since refuted by the highest
authority. e9#
rs The editor of the Deseret Nears, pub
lished at Great Salt Lake City, the paradise
of the Latter Day Saints, in his paper of
October 2sth., which has just reached us,
great anxiety on account of an
scarcity of breadstuffs before
the next harvest. Hesays that complaints
are made from every part of the Territory
Of an apparent insufficiency, and INDUCES
in dismal forbodings as to what may result
if half that is reported turns out to be true.
We don't know whether the fellow is to be
believed or not. Probably it is only another
Of Saint Brigham's schemes to rob Uncle
Sam. But if food is scarce the Saints had
better seek more fruitful haven.
Horrible DEATH.-Mr. John Barry. a
farmer living in Iowa Township, Dubuque
County, while returning to his home. in the