The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-08

! LilSlT stiil nope 10 nOlQ tAeSe elements I'M
/ der control for some future demonstration
Tor the same purpose-the overthrow of
/ joyernment and the supremacy Of the
/ Southern rebels. The one way to avert
this new peril is TO recognize il in'time and
be prepared for it. When South Carolina
wento of the Union, twas laughed at as
joke, and that merry Jest has cost us O
hundred thousand lives and a. thousand
hililions of money already. That expert
ehce should have brought us wisdom
enough at least to comprehend a purpose
when the conspirators hardly pretend to
dlsSulse-to take New York out of the
! Union. The attempt will end in their des-
truction if we prepare for it: in the destruc-
ton of free government, and all that will
go with it, if we do not.-N. Y. I,,depen-
dent. W. =. - 10
THE GREAT MoGUL OF THE KNIGHTS OF
THE GOLDEN CIRCLE IN CAPTIvITY.-Dr.
George w. Buckley, the inventor and pat
entee of the secret political organizationy
| known as the Knights of the Golden Circle
has been arrested, as we have hitherto an
nounced, and is likely to come to grief
Some circumstances connected with his ar
rest, however, have not been made public;
and as he is well known in these parts, and
has obtained some general notoriety thro'
the X. e. C.'s, they will not prove uninter-
esting. s-f. - ... ...sF
Shortly after the occupation of Tullaho-
ma, by the Army of the Cumberland, Gen.
! Johnson, OF McCook's corps, sent out for
aging party some twelve miles, Arriving
at house, gentleman appeared who an
nounced himself as DR.. George w. Buckley,
formerly Professor of Physiology in the
Cincinnati Eclectic College of Medicine
tie represented that, just prior to the COM
mencement of hostilities, he had removed,
with his family, to Virginia, and since that
time had been vainly trying to reach the
North. Passes had been refused him, and
he had only been able to reach the point
where the foragers found him. q He ex-
pressed unfeigned pleasure at bring once
more under the national flag, and desired
! the party to convey note from him to the
commandant at Tullahoma. The note was
accordingly taken to Gen. JohnSon's head
quarters. 1t contained the substance of
the above information, with request that
the General would send out conveyance
! and remove his family within the Federal
lines, and also asked the loan of $40 with
which to settle his arrearages for board.
| 1t was suspected that the DR.. Buckley of
this modest note was none other than the
famous Gen. Buckley, OF the K. G.. C.'s, an
| opinion in which Gen. Resecrans, to whom
his letter was submitted, concurred. An
ambulance and the needed money were &C
cordingly sent out and the Doctor and his
wife brought in. Being accused by GenI
Johnson as being no other than Gen. Bick-
| ley, he stoutly denied it,. He was only the
nephew of that famous individual, and
could prove it in Cincinnati, by we'll
known gentlemen, whom he represented
| to be his brOther-in-law, and who would
make his little financial operation all right
with Gen. Johnson. He talked great deal
about the sufferings he had undergone, and
SO won upon the sympathies of officers at
headquarters that he was supplied with
some $50 to defray expenses. 20 ozon
! He was paroled and ordered to report to
TO-, j. a.
actly satisfied with his representations,
Gen. Rosecrans placed detective on the
same train that conveyed the Doctor north
ward. Arriving in Louisville, the Doctor,
in place OF coming to Cincinnati, sneaked
off to New Albany, and commenced put
ting himself en- rapport with the Knights
of the Golden Circle. He was permitted to
have his own way day or two, and was
then placed under arrest, his baggage
searched, and documents found that left no
doubt that he was the great..modern knight
himself; and nobody else. 1t was also dis
covered that he woman he represented as
his wife sustained no such endearing reIa-
tons to him. His deserted wife and child
rem are residing in Memphis. Buckley will
be tried as a spy, and, possibly, executed
as one. 49, W.
This is rather shabby end to all his
greatness. His influence has been PERM
cious, and through the organization of
much to engender disaffection with the
Government in the West. The Confedera-
cy and its sympathiZers should be proud of
the men selected as their representatives
in the North. Andrews, stirring up the
devilish passions Of 4 New York mob, is
found living in crib with negro wench,
and Buckley, operating in the West thrO'
the castles of the Knights of the Golden
Circle, cohabits with woman Of easy vir-
tue, leaving his wife and children to starve
In Memphis. We have not heard that any
attempt has been made to sue out writ of
hdbeas corpus in Bickley's case, and we
suppose the papers that howl about consti-
tutional usurpations will regard his as a.
case of arbitrary arrest, and additional ev-
dence of the tyranny more atrOcious than
that of Bomba in Naples" which Abe Lin
coin has saddled upon free people-Cn.
Commercial. 53G ,nG
THE CRoPs.-A friend who has Just re-
TUNED from a trip through Delaware.
Bremen and Buchanan Counties informs
US that the Wheat looks remarkably, we'll.
and that it has sustained very little danr-
age from the red insect which at first
threatened to destroy the entire. crop. The
wheat is unusually heavy, and, the berry
is so well filled that the heads droop unu-
sualy low. The oats crop is very heavy-
one of the most extensive ever known in
the counties mentioned. Many acres Of
barley nave Deen SoWn, and many fields
have been already cut. The yield is large
andthe berry more than commonly good.
Corn, which was very backward during
the first part of the season, is now "com-
ing. on'' finely. Potatoes are doing well,
and promise very large yield.
The wheat is being generally cut. Har-
vest hands are scarce, and prices for labor
high. Good hands get from 81 to $3.50 in
many parts of this section.
Contrary to general expectations yery
arge amount Of hay has been cut and
stacked, the protracted dry weather affor-
ling the farmers abundant opportunity for
getting their hay crop well in. While the
growth ofgrass is not perhaps near so havy
IS in some seasons, the fine weather and
he dryness ofthe marshes has enabled all
% cut large quantities of hay, and to get it