The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-12

RBssI HoPEs-THs CAT Our OF ryu
bAa.-R. (. Haury, the rebel who r.r
away from the Washington Obserya,ora
at the commencement Of the war. and VIII,
Is q scientific humbug Of large proportion
ard enormous pretensions, is in England
az an agent OF the Southern Confederacu'
After the July victories of the Union az
mics, he felt it incumbent on him to writ.
letter to the London Times, to prom tbo
falling fortunes of the Confederacv hs
staying the downward tendency Of Thy
Confederate loan. The letter was dataJ
"Bowden, Cheshire, August H. The lot.
ter begins and ends with the assertion
b,1ghter.' ""
He thinks the editor of the Times will,
agree with him as to Southern prospects
when he comes to look over them, Tha
South, he says, is fighting to be let alone
and the Union is gone. He gives tho
British tory aristocrats, who are the born
and bred enemies and haters of the Ame.
rican Republic, and sympathize with all
its enemies, and especially with Southern
rebels, the benefit OF the doctrine preached
by Vallandigham to the Butternuts. that
neither party to the American war can
subjugate the other, and he says, sit fol-
lows that the war is not to be ended by tha
sword AS the rebels have undoubted-
ly suffered great military reverses, and
Maury assumes that their prospects for
establishing their independence were nev.
military reverses? Maury says to the edi.
tor of the London Times, and through him
to all Europe and America:
AS an offset, then, against the tide of mil
ttory reUerSes, which in the first weeks of
July ran so strong against the South, and
from which our friends in England seem
not to have recovered, let US look to those
v,,,e l~oS. a. \ 4.
quire Whdt progress has been made on the
road to peace, and, consequently, in our
favor, Notwithstanding these military reuer-
SeS'' .....N,..
We ask men who are of the opinion that
they love their country, and who some
times think they will vote the Democratic
ticket-even for vallandigham-to mark
the words--"An offset against the tide of
MILITARY reverSeS." What have the rebels
that compensate them for our July victo-
ries? Maury says the war sis not to be
ended by the sword" But:
"Other agents have to be called in pIay.
What are they? Let us inquire. 7Aev are.
divisions in the camp of the enemy, dissen-
sions among the people of the North. There
is already peace party there. ,AU the en-
6drraSsne',ts NTH Which that party eos sur
round Mr.. Lincoln, and all the difficulties
that it can ttro,o in the Way of the war party
IN the North, operate directly as so much aid
and comfort to the South"
Will the butternut Ignorant and the cop
perhead scoundrelS make a note of that?
"OTHER AGENTS than the sword have
been called into play to secure the indie
pendence Of the South. And thev are, as
Maury boasts, the peace men of the North,
who operate directly to aid and comfort
the South'-that is to say, the rebellion.
Maury becomes specific, and defines the
reasons for the brightness of the Southern
prospect. He says: .....r
New York is threatening armed resist
ance to the Federal Government. New
York is becoming the champion of States
taking Southern ground 4.,.,,.s
He exultingly adds that Lincoln is
'afraid to enforce the CONSUMPTION in New
York. The situation at Charleston he
states in this way: ..@H ..r-. -
In the attack upon Charleston, the enc
my is losing ground. He is evidently CIV
ing way. He has been driven from James
which will sweep Morris Island, which is
nothing but sand beach. So Charles
ton may be considered safe.'
But 1t IS not upon the Southern armies
he places his main dependence. He relies
upon the 'other agents. Here is his eli
max of condolences:
" VALLANDIGHAM WAITS AND
III N.
ELECTED GOVERNOR
OF THE STATE OF OHIO-TO ARRAY
1T AGAINST LINCOLN AND THE
WAR, AND TO GO FOR PEACE. What
the result of the election there will be can
not tell; but the canvass is going on, and
we know that opposition to Lincoln and
his war party is growing more and more
popular every day, and throughout the
whole North" Gin. Com.
CoFPERHEAD FINANCIER.-It was re-
ported on the streets yesterday afternoon,
that hiiby Ferguson, a prominent copper
head of this city, who, finding after a few
years trial, that he was too sharp to be
lawyer, went into the banking business in
a small way, up in some garnet, few
months ago, had run away with all the
money of his depositors, amounting, it is
supposed to about $500 He left the CITY
for New York, on business, it was thought,
last week, but yesterday a letter was re-
celVed from MN, conveying the pleasant
that he. was on the point of
sailing to South or Central America. We
DO not know how many have lost by this
operation, and the rumorS are too
and conflicting to guide coniec-
ture. Pretty much all who had any money
In his hands, have lost it, and that is about
all that is certainly known. Several wild
oWs are said to be among his victims, and
Samuel Hesselgesser, it is said in most of
t he reports we hear are the two heaviest
losers, the first 81, 600 and the other 81, 900;
and Captain Elliott is said to have been
stuck" for two or three thousand, but
these are mere rumors. The fraud has, no
doubt, been in contemplation good while,
and 1t has given the swndler enough to
live on, till he finds out that stealing is not
any more happy than an honest way of
living. 1t IS not improbable that his fears
of the successes of the Government i'm PEELED
his flight. He loved the rebellion with all
his mean, swindling soul, and the pros
pect of its defeat filled him with such an
guish, that he preferred to rob his creditors
to staying here and witnessing the Govern
ment re-established. His absence will be
a serious loss to his party, as he was fond
Of being candidate, and was always &C
tive in preparing resolutions -Irdia,,apo-
us Journal.
The MUTATION OF UNITED STATES
CURRHECY.-ln further answer to the que
ry as to the mutilated currency in our pa
per OF Sept. LIST, we have received the fol-
lowing letter:
To the Editor of TIE ". Y. Tribune;
SiR-'"Rhe principal reason for the regu-
ion II g. H.,