The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-05-28

STOCK JoBBlNo FRAuDs.-Civilization
and Commerce have doubtless conferred
great blessings on mankind, but they have
not tended to make men honest. On the
contrary, they have furnished facilities
and temptations to novel, ingenious. al
most infinite, manifestations and permu-
tatiOns Of rascality. All villainy resolves
itself nj last into the one desire and effort
to secure the fruits Of others labor without
rendering therefor just and satisfactory
equivalent; and, while it il certain. DESPITE
the poets, that primeval ignorance and
barbarism are generally AZ replete with
covetousness, envy, and every sordid, "a
venOus impulse as the most complex and
artificial condition, it il nevertheless true
that the citizen is surrounded and beset
by multiform suggestions of roguery which
the savage never dreamed Of Attila or
tive, bloodthirsty, hideOus; but no barba-
rian was ever swayed by the multiplicity
Of evil influences that contribute to form
the character of the civilized stOckiobher
who markedly goes in to winr
Good men doubtless speculate in stocks.
and make or lose by their rise or fall; but
no bad man ever become good through
stockjobbing: and very few good men do
or can persistently follow the business
without moral deterioration. To make
SIC, 600 to-day, lose SIS, 600 to- morrow, per-
haps make and perhaps lose So, 900 next
day, is calculated to tax the coolest and
steadiest brain, and He that makes haste
to be rich shall not be Innocent is as true
now "a it was thirty centuries ago. How
many heavy operators in the Stock Mar
ket would hesitate to profit by a false re-
sity9 and from this to cOnniving ut its cir
culation, II not its cOncOcti0n, there is but
step. Blessed is he who never felt the
lust for sudden and easily won riches! II
man will game, better do 1t where he
knows how much he risks than ut the
Stock Board, where he may lose tens Of
thousands when he fancies he has only
played for hundreds.
The blackleg who Is caught using marked
cards or loaded dice loses caste even with
gentlemanly Sports the stock gambler
who invents false news, or circulates such,
Knowing its character, Is more widely and
deeply execrated, as he should be. The
blackleg ruins single individuals-not
many in all; while the fraudulent stock
iobber wrecks the fortunes Of thousands
how many, he neither knows nor cares. II
we suppose stock jobb!ng to have been the
sole end OF the author Of the recent forged
proclamation and his confederates, we
must believe them willing seriously to in
jure their imperiled country, as well as
thousands of her citizens, merely to I'LL
their own pockets. For the evil influences
Of such . fraud are illimitable. The Rebel
Gen. Lee lately announced to his army the
surrender Of Gen. Steele with nine thou
sand men to Gen. Price at Camden, Ar
kansas; stating that he had learned the
fact from Northern papers! There was not
q shadow of truth in the report; and yet we
presume some Northern paper must have
contained it; for Lee is hardly the man to
Burnside's corps had been assaulted and cut
to pieces by Lee obtained currency through
professedly loyal journals, though it had
not scintilla of foundation. Banks army
has been destroyed, or nearly 80, or on the
point Of captivating, repeatedly, within
the last two months, If newspaper reports
were to be credited. A traitorous Balti-
more sheet recently reported that Grants
army had lost 10000 men in the combats
beyond the Rapidan, and charged the lie
TO the Associated Press. which never utter
ed nor countenanced it. So the sky is in
cessantly darkened by atr0ciOus and dis
heartening lies, in the conjoint interest Of
Stock -jobbing and Treason. IL it not high
time an example were made of some
among their fabricatorsf
We feel that the Opposition Press lends
itself too easily to the circulation Of these
depressing, injurious falsehoods. We al
Jude not alone to the avowedly "Peace"
Oracles that proclaim themselves hostile to
the prosecution Of the War for the Union !;
for we find those that profess TO support the
War scarcely less eager to magnify the los
ses and exaggerate the mishaps which may
at any time befa,l the Union armies. Suro-
", no one whose reading was confined TO
these journals would INFER, from the tenor
Of their editorials, that we have long been
steadily gaining on the Rebels, and now
hold, beside every foot of the twenty States
that they don't claim as adhering to their
Confederacy, nearly if not quite half Of the
thirteen States they do claim. We do not
expect of those journals any manifestations
of partiality to the cause of the Nation; but
ought they not to treat it with common
fairness:-N. Y. Tribune.
AFTER THE BATTLE-SI0H1s AND SCENES
IN WAsHINGToN.--The appearance Of the
city during the past two weeks has been in
marked contrast with that presented before
the late battles in Virginia. The quiet
which then brOOded over Us, while anxious
hearts waited tor the first sound Of the COM
ing strife, has been dissipated, and the tur-
moil and hustle, the excited crowds, the
sickening sights and sounds that ever fol-
low in the train of battle, are again visiting
as. About eighteen thousand sick and
wounded men, including many prisoners,
have within that time arrived here, and
been distributed among tho different hos
pitfalls. Many were but eighty wounded
and these have been seen promenading the
avenue, or standing in knots ct street COR
ners or about the hotels, perhaps relating
the story Of their adventures 70 interestsd
auditors, or, It may be, telling how battles
are won. Here might be seen one with his
head bandaged, another with IN arm slung,
still another on crutches; on every side the
sight Of it, dreadful results constantly re-
minded Tho spectator that the carnival Of
war 10 not yet ended. And. Is If to impress
the horrible realities of war more deeply
on our minds, long lines Of ambSlaneee
have moved in mournful procession thr0'
the streets, loaded down with their suffer
ing weight. Slowly and carefully the
wounded have been transported from the
landing TO tho hospitals, awakening In
the breasts of the thousands Of specta-
tors Q sympathy that has often found
vent in something more substantial than
words. We venture to say that the wound
ed Of any army that ever existed never re-
ceived such tender and unremitting atten-
ton Is has been afforded our own after
their reception in this city. The oommodi-
Gus and splendidly arranged hospit ls.
which Government has spared nothing to
make perfect, have some Of tkem been
taxed to their utmost capacity /; yet, so far
10 "a hava hnen able Is discover every