The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-01-19
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Raleigh, n. ", Jan. 10.
Tie Senate has been engaged all day OH the
| bill providing for the calling Of State Conven-
ton. There vas considerable debate. No vote
| has been taken. ''f
The House has been considering nearly all day
| the coercion resolution. There Was split on
| the details. Various amendments were offered
to the resolution, but no vote WAS taken on it,
| All the members are against coercion, but some
are agains. secession. s5ft
AIrEMus WARD on HIS TRAVELS From De-
troit l go west'ard hoe. On the kyars was he
| lookin' female, with green cotton unbreller IN
one hand and handful of reform tracts in the
other. She said every woman should have a
! spear. Them as didn't demand their spears
| didn't know what was good for them. ii&
What's my speary she axed, addressin' the
people in the kyars.l us it to stay at home an
darn stockin's l. be the ser-l,ve OF a dounerin'
man? Or is it my spear to vote Il speak, d
! show myself the ekaI Of mans Is there sis
ter in these keers as has her proper spear ~
| Sayin' which this ekcentric female whirled her
| umbreller round several times, and finally jab-
| bed me in the wesait with it.
81 hev no objeekshuns to your goin into the
spear business" sell, "but youle pleze remem
Der amt pckeril Don't spear me again ii
you pleze." She sot down.--Vanity Fair.
SAVE THE SwEEPlNGs. The New York CORES
pondent of the Philadelphia Press says:
Happening in at the publishing house of Har
per & Brothers this morning was not a httle
surprised at a fact that transpired during a chat
with one of the firm. The foreman of the bind
cry, Mr.. Rosenquest, who has, for some thirty
years filled that position, came in with bar OF
gold valued at 1907 81, accompanied with the
assa!er's certificate. This amount was the pro
ceeds OF gold dust swept up from the floor ant
wiped oil ON the rags used by binders during s
months. Twas so much surprised by this bit u
economy that asked what the value of thei
picked up things amounted TO in the course OF d
year, and was told tina; the gold sweeph,gs>wel,
worth about 81 800, shavings from paper 5000
shavmgs from pasteboard 800, and scraps from
leather 81 5O-nakinS an aggregate from thos,
four sources OF 1880 per annum. .l of .a..
The Louisville Journal says:
distinguished gentleman, just from Charles
son, informs us that fear iul reign OF terror
prevails there. The Secession authorities know
ing exactly what all the rich men, mer chants
and persons engaged in business of every kind
severally have in bank, and what means Of other
kinds they are supposed to have at their com
tnand, continually levy npon them accordingly
no man daring to resist the levy, inasmuch as a
wild and inluriatcd mob is ready to execute
vengeance upon every man deemed refractory.
Our informant says that the deepest distres IS and
the deepest alarm go hand in hand, and that ali
the railroads and other roads leading from South
Carolina are thronged with persons escaping
from the State as ii they felt that rain OF fire
and birthstone were already falling upon it.
We earnestly hope there will be no necessity
for the shedding OF South Cerolna blood by thu
General Government If South Carolina be but
left to herself little louger the spirit of rebel
lion and revolution will perish within her Dor.
ders like rat in an exhausted receiver
SECESSION AND MISSISSIPPI NAvIGATIoN-A
mob has taken possession of the Government
defenses near the mouth of the Mississippi river
Another mob is reported to have planted can
non on the banks OF the river, at Vicksburg. with
the avowed purpose of sinking every steamboat |
that offers to pass without consentng to be over
hauled and examined. The former act is palpa. |
BILE treason against the Federal Government, and
requires prompt attention from the Administers |
ton. The demonstrations ut Vicksburg, as
stated have special interest for the people OF
this city. Both are offences so injurious and
insulting to the whole Northwest, that, whatever
the Fedora! Government may do, they will not
be tolerated by our people.
1t Is needless to say that the Vicksburg des- |
patch referred to, has created much excitement
and indignation among those more Immediately |
interested and in fact, among all classes of our
people. No idle threats or bravadO are uttered |
but no disposition prevails to submit to any in
reference with the free navigation of the Mis-
sissippi. No rash ill-advised steps will be
taken, but on the first insult or hindcrancc to
any boats pursuing its customary and lawful
business, measures will be taken to put perma.
ncnt stop to this insoence.
What we have before said, we say now again
The North west will be unit in maintaining its
right to a free and unobsiructed use of the Mis-
sissppi river throughout its entire course OF
this, Intermediates and u itors to the Union
may take note, and gororn themselves accord
ingly.- Cincinnati Gazette.
South Carolina processes a deadly hostility to
coercion, yet she is very much in favor Of it as
means of obtaining loans from her banks and
rich men, Louisville Journal