The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-03-16

EECREfARY DN.-T0-day NJ. DIX eufrenoer
tho Treasury 70 his Repnb licAn successor ant
turns his face homeward. II is questionable
whether in any equal period Of the history of oul
country any equal service has been rendered 70
the people % during the brief term Of his service
At the moment when Mr.. Dix was called to re.
deem the financial affairs Of the Government,
they we're apparently beyond redemption; Cobb,
with unfortunate personal habits, and gross in.
competency, having courtcd them to the verge
Of bankruptcy where Ex-Governor Thomas
found them, and only failed to precipitate tho
ruin which his predecessor had prepared, by the
fortunate and necessary accident Of his resigna-
ton. No motives, save Of the purest patriotism
and utter self-negation, could have tempted any
man Of established reputation to flt the danger.
Gus gap thus presented, with its multitudinous
risks Of fnilure, and seemingly hopeless prospect
Of success. Gen Dix had the courage, ability,
and public confidence, without which 1t could
not have been filed. He found the Treasury
without money or credit, and leaves it with both.
He bridged the chasm between the sinking wreck
Of the Buchanan Administration and the stout
and baoyant timber Of its successor; and if See
rotary Chase finds it possible to assume his du-
ties without the peril Of ruin awaiting his first
steps, he will have to ascribe the comparative
ease of his position to the labors Of the retiring
Secretary This tribute is eminently due to the
statesman who has rescued the financial affairs
Of the country from inextricable embarrassment,
aud ia rendered with additional satisfaction to
an eminent and honored member of our own com.
munity.-N. Y. Times. 224sa :
An ACCESSION TO SEcEssloS.--The principal
chief Of the Choctaw nation has issued mes
sage, urging his people and the several Indian
tribes composing the nation, to join the Southern
fad aud .Jn1o go .oS
ern Congress His advice has been followed
the General Council having passed series ofre.
solutions to that effect. aai
The chief also recommends sending commits
sioners to Washington to confer with the Presi-
dent Of the United States, and to look after the
security of their moneyed investments. These
inquiries can be much better conducted at the
Southern Congress--for the seceders took most
Of the indian Bonds with them before they left
Washington. Chicago Journal. 90 Isaha1
The Charleston Courier Of Thursday has
lengthy leader on "piscontent," and from the ev-
ident feeling and earnestness with which it dis
cusses the subject, We infer that our candid con-
temporary is being compelled to encounter
great many of what it emphatieally terms its
''espicial abhorrence"--sour faces,
Locomotives, to be driven by American auth
and Orleans Railway company, at their work.
shops at Ivry, under the direction Of Philadel-
phian, of the name of Miholand. The coal
can be laid down on the line for 1915 per ton.
and the experiment annoys the English coal
dealers very much 1t is said to be owing to the
enterprise of French nobleman recently in this
country, whose attention was drawn to the sub
ject while travelling with Lord Lyons, the British
minister, over the Reading Railway.
An illiterate person, who always volunte cred
to ''go around with the hat, but was suspected
Of sparing his own pocket, overhearing once
hint to that effect, replied, "Other men puts down
what they thinks proper, and so do !. Chariiy's
a private concern, and what give is nothing to
nobody"
Mrs. T. &C Higgins, discovering pack Of a
dozen hungry welves proving about the calf
pen, near her house at Eau Glare; Wis, on Mon
day night, during the absence her husband, de-
termined upon summary plan to getrid of them
Putting striehnine in some meat, she threw it to
them. The voracious beasts eagerly devoured
it, and when her husband came home, he found
twelve dead wolves lying within few yards of
his house.
We understand that one of our iron houses has
been notified by its New Orleans correspondent
that duty of twenty-four per cent, viii hereaf.
ter be collected on Tennessee iron in that city,
1t is wonder the gallant city did not collect
tax OF twenty -four per cent. on Tennessee musk
cts in lsl5!-[ Nashville (Tenn.) Patriot.
Weston, the pedestrian, who undertook to
walk from Boston to Washington in given
time, arrived five hours too late for the inauga-
ration after all He took the proper steps to
get there, but didn't take them quite fast enough
As he walked on wager, he probably lost some
thng-his temper, if nothing more.
The Nashville Banner says that two revolu-
tionary pensioners are still living in Tennessee;
Peter Bashaw, of Davidson county, who will be
ninety-eight years of age on the 31st of this
is about hundred. The latter has a son sew
enty three years old.
In the year 1860 the public income of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
amounted to Ell, 967, 494-about S350,o0O,0O0.
That of the United States during the same Pc
Rod, rs has already been stated in our columns,
was S54, 100000.
SAD TRAGEDY.-Wheeling, Va, March H.
Two young men named James McLane and Rich.
ard Hadden got into difficulty last night whiIs
under the influence of liquor. when the former
shot the latter, intiicting wound which will
probably prove fatal McLane escaped to Bel
laire where he committed suicide by shooting
himself this afternoon. Both belonged to farni
lies of the highest responsibility, and the affair
has cast gloom over thewhole community.
Probably there is not even among the friends
Of secession solitary gentleman or man of honor
who has not at this moment incomparably more
respect for Major Anderson than for Gen. Twigg:
and Major Armstrong put together Louisville
Journal,
PIrHY VALEDlcroRy.-Henry Winter Davi.
made striking reflection on the close of Mr.
Buchanans Administration. 1--WE are at tn,
end" said he, 'of the insane reyel of partisan
license, which for so many years has worn the
m ask of government"