The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-10-01
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK-EYE

] J BURLINGTON WEI
lEAltoFal CoFfespondence.
IS .mF- aNEw YORK, Sept. "A.
It is astonishing how we'll these New
Workers discern characters. We came to
town last evening. Although nearly ten
O'Clock At night, rainy and dark, tho land
lord o44he s'IYving House. saw at glance
that We belonged to the upper classes, and
| put as in the 9th story at once. He would
doubtless have given us q still higher place
but could not. a8as2
Reader, If you have any idea Of visiting
New York for pleasure, from curiosity OF
because some railroad man has given you
pass, don't do it. II you have business
in Gotham, transact it by telegraph, BY
mail or hire substitute. Coming here
don't pay How the natives contrive to get
along the way they do is more than Ne
can tell. The whole country pays the bills
it il very probable. =
When we look ct the shop windows and
the women Of New York we don't wonder
that the balance Of trade is on the wrong
side. Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheri-
dan may whip the rebels, but as long =
our elegant ladies wipe their delicate noses
upon, hundred dollar handkerchief, and
30 On to the end Of their wardrobee, gold
must be high and our national credit at .
ruinous discount. New York is the Baby
lon Of these United States, and extrava-
gance and folly are but stimulated and fed
by our National troubles. A man can't be
respectable on ton thousand year now.a-
days. II he has wife and daughter or two
| it won't pay the miliner and mantna-ma-
ker.
Our sympathies have been between the
stage and bus horses, which "rattle their
bones over the stones" through all the
weary hours Of the twenty-tour, and the
would-be stylish simpletons of small
means, who have here entered npon the
race Of extravaganza.
Great cities, it seems to us, are a great
curse to a country. New York is running
over, fun of vice, squalid poverty, igno-
rance, ucentiousness, selfishness, snobbery.
Dives descendants all live in New York,
and are having good time. They care
not If their neighbors starve and the Ma
ton is destroyed. JET. Davis or his Sa-
tanic majesty might either Of them get for
ty thousand majority for Presiden. if prop
| erly nominated by Mozart and .'Tamma-
my" and able to contribute liberal scor-
ruption fund.- aa
p How marked the contrast between the
lefty ~ it is and always win be, and the
country whore we have spent the last two
or three weeks We could hardly tear
ourself away from the Green Mountain
State, and are now sorry that We did. We
love its beautiful sceneYy-its pure air.
it, 'sdoughnuts'' and pumpkin pies
the easy and graceful hospitality Of its
people-its clear streams and speckled
trout-its handsome women and hardy
screen Mountain boys."
We spenta few days At Bennington, a
beautiful village in the southern part ofthe
State, amongvssy kind friends. Assembled
'Mt. Anthony" :, coo feet, near that place,
upon which stands an observatory 100 feet
high; from which there n q magnificent
view. A dozen villages are seen with the
naked eye, Near this village was fought
the tattle of Bennington, and in its old but
neat Cemetery rest the heroes who fell on
that early field in defence o. the country.
Here stands the old "Catamount tavern {"
where met the committee Of public safety
in revolutionary times-a frame building
in good state Of preservation. By
Tomorrow We are under promise to 60
up town to dinner with an Old friend. He
lives upon fashionable avenue IL brown
stone front, sever so many stories high,
with all the modern improvements al
though he and We were raised in adjoining
log cabins IN 0h:o-each containing
three rooms-two in the house aud one out
doors. II We survive the dinner we shall
be home soon. - s-s t. D. :
~ The .'little mackeres' eight TO be
intensely dslightsdas he observes his sup
porters. First 81 Ill, here in the North, he
has the voice Of every Comprehend. eyNrv