The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-02-06

of evidence, that the farmers have "set-
tied fever for greeHbacks and fve-twen-
ties, and they are now laying in q good
stock of the latter, in order to be all ready
when the smash comes. Herein they are
wise; and be it known that all who do not
thus provide themselves with these docu.
ments for the future support of their house,
holds, are worse than-Jeff. Davis.
Are our railroads, banks, insurance COM
panies. and other corporations going to
smash? Who says so? Show US the man.
Is it not fact that they are doing q snug,
safe business? Have they not paid on their
floating debts? Are they not earning more
money than ever before, and making larger
dividends? There are certainly no signs Of
weakness in that direction.
No, we have only to smash the rebellion,
and all other smashes will be indefinitely
postponed. All will be well with us if we
are wise in our war movements. If we are
afraid to hurt traitors in their pockets, or
on the neck; if we want to preserve sla-
very the sum Of all denominations; II we
want our armies differed and controlled
by "do-nothings;' if we rush headlong
over present duty and go now to President
making; if we are more anxious to please
Government contractors and curry favor
with the copperheacs, than to do Justly
and love mercy; ii we want to do all these
things-.just at the consentng moment
look out for q smash. 1t will come in just
there.
But now we have other business. SHoUL-
DER ARMs!-N. y. Independent.
THE REFUGEE ALBERT PIKE.-A letter
from Arkansas gives the following inter-
| esting sketch of one Of the most remarka-
bic men who have lived in the Southwest:
He is now refugee in the mountains of
Southern Arkansas, and is said to be occu-
pyiDg his leisure time in the composition
| of two works-One an "Art of War;" and
another on "Civil Government which it
| is said he proposes to publish. Soldiers
who saw him in the battle of Pea Ridge,
| where he led the Cherokee Indians, whom
he had seduced from their allegiance to
| the Government of the United States de-
scribe him as a noble-looking white haired
man, Of very imposing appearance. Citi-
zens here tell me that he proved an utter
failure as a military leader, and his friends
here did not deny that he ran like a cow
ard before the veterans Of Curtis and Sigel
on that bloody day.
| General CAN'T said that Pike was q man
Of extraordinary genius-that he had seen
him, during term OF court, meet his
| brother lawyers for an evening carOusal,
shrink with them until the stoutest was
"laid OUT under the table, then seat HIM
self and in the midst Of their singing and
roaring, draw up bill in chancery, with
out an erasure or interlineation. He
would DO the same thing in court, appar-
antly undisturbed by the noise OF a
trial in progress; but with all his genius
and wonderful versatility of talent he was
| utterly wavward and dissoiute in his hab-
it,. and had spent half dozen for
tnueS IN reckless and rrodigal excess |
was told ~ the citizens that General Pike
| had pocsefel a hundred thousand dollars,
the fees oi a single law suit His wife who
now here, occupying part of their old
residence. has long since retired from SO
! cietv, and is. as l have been told by
4 lady who resides III the city, half insane
/ "a mild maniac, who ''wanders'' in her
| talk whenever the conversation turns
upon albert" as she still fondly calls
him.
To a friend of her husband. who called
upon her a few days since, anxiou, 70 aid
| her, she insisted that Gen. Steele had pro-
missed the day before to serd her 70 her
husband. No said the gentleman,
Gen. Steele will permit You TO Z" to your
| husband but he has not the transportation
that he can spare to send yon.' but the
General promised to send me- she insist
| ed, and could not seem to understand the
distinction. "Oh, well,'' she finally said,
albert will come back II they let him
publish his book. which abuses both sides
! but sides with neither All this Interest,"
ed me deeply, and my imagination ran
backward over the path Of Il life whose
neaTt SoFrOWS Hlaue up one Oi tncSe tragic
histories which God alone has read. / re-
call my school boy enthusiasm for the
young poet who wrote the ..Hymns to the
| Gods while a student at college, and
which had been pronounced by an eminent
scholar to be one OF the most remarkable
literary creations, considering the age Of
| the writer, this country has produced.
Once young, highly educated, graced with
personal accomplishments which entitled
him to be called the "handsomest man in
| the Southwest his magic touch had swept
the Tyre of the gods, compelling busy,
dim resounding nation to stop and listen in
enraptured silence. Now, an exile from
his home, a traitor to his country, the pu-
sillanimous leader Of red-handed savages
| against the valiant defenders Of the Union
and the old flag, and, to cap the climax Of
his infinite disgrace, deserving the savage
| victims of his silver-tongued, satanic elo-
quence, and running like coward in the
day Of battle!
$50 fallen! SO lost the light Withdrawn
Which once he wore;
! The glory from his gray hairs gone
Il