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


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PRsMoNITIoNs OF A SroRM.-The ant-secession
press Of Mississippi is dealing hard blows upon
the rhinoceros hide Of secession. The Corinth
which we take the following:
Even the convention of this State, 80 unani-
NOUS in its passage of the ordinance of seces-
sion, voted down, by large majority, resolu-
tion against reunion. If the convention, under
the excitement OF highly wrought sensation dis
patches, would refuse to pass such resolution,
it certainly is safe to assume that the people,
who, in many cases under an assurance that
they were not disunionsts, would by large ma
iority. favor reunion. Iudeed, so conscious were
the dsunionists Of the opposition of the people
to secession that they refused to refer the ques-
ton back for their approval.
OF one thing, at least, we believe the intelli-
gent looker-on is fully convinced, viz that civ
il war or reconstruction is unavoidable. Even
the first levy for the new government has so ex-
! asperated the already burdened tax payers as to
only require leader to induce them to resist
the collection of the tax. That a leader, ere
long, will be found there can be no doubt, unless
turn in public affairs shall take place; for many
now quite under the belief that the burdens OF
an independent government will be obviated by
reconstruction, will become insubordinate when
hope is lost for reconstruction, and the Border
Slave States refuse to:enterthe Southrn alliance.
If the Border States had been consulted, and
had consented to dissolution of the Union, the
numbers and power of the new government
would have given confidence, and insured the
obedience of the citizen but to-day, by our pre-
ciptate action, we have lost the confidence OF
the other States, as well as our own citizens,
many of whom consider the whole thing; illegal
and revolutionary, and look with pleasure at the
probable enforcement of the laws of the govern
ment to whom they claim to owe supreme alle-
gience. That this is now question in North
Mississippi, we think there is no doubt, and it
must grow into solid proportion. before the reg
ular State election this fall is clear.
Aakansas and Tennessee are now looked to by
those who abhor civil eommotion, . retreat in
the last resort; while many are forced, rs per
necessity, to stay and fight through the revolu-
ton, there being no sale of lands other prop.
erty at half the original prices. These consid-
erations, the most potent, will surely bring
crisis this summer, to be decided at the ballot
box or in blood.
A TIcKLIsH SrruATloN-THIRIY Hours WITH
A SKUNK IN A MINING SHAsr.-The Calaveras
(Cal.) Chronicle, of the 10th of January, re-
lates the following story:
While G. Atzel was On a prospecting tour last
week, in the neighborhood Of Garland's Ranch,
on cold Woman's Gulch," he observed tunnel,
and approaching it he heard noise as OF miners
| working within, aud proceeded to pay them
visit. When he had ventured through the dense
darkness $50 feet. all at once his feet gave way,
| and he was preci6stated to the bottom Of shaft
80 feet deep, breaking two of his ribs and other
| visa injuring him. On recovering his senses he
| found he had companion; large California
skunk had metwith like misfortune apparent
| " some ten days before. His skunkship had be-
come desperate, through hunger, thirst and con-
| finement, and attacked him with all the ferocity
/ of tiger, and bit him severely on the face and
hands, he being too feeble to protect himself
| In this condition he remained some thirty hours,
when luckily two miners passed that way, heard
his faint cries, and rescued him from his perilous
situation, made doubly so from the fact that this
tunnel is situated in very lonely, obscure place,
no one scarcely ever passing except Mr. Garland,
in the spring time, viewing his fence. Mr.. Atzel
| said he thought his case hopeless one ut first,
but after PRAYING two hours he took courage and
commenced hallooing and fighting the skunk,
whicI, he kept up TO the moment of his rescue.
/ sisR sos
A beathsnish mother deserted her baby, five
weeks old, in the cars, between Pittsburgh and
Harrisburgh, Pa, on the 10TH A kind lady,
herself childless, adopted the waif, and he wa
,au,sd Abraham Lincoln on the spot
AEALUrE FROM FoRr SUMrER.-The guns oi
Fort SUMTER which have been silent since the
anniversary Of Washington's birthday saluted
for thirty four States, in honor Of the inaugura-
tion Of President Lincoln, yesterday. gentle
man in this city who hears regularly from sfriend
IN Fort Sumter, says that his last letter announ
ced thai Major Anderson intended % notify ths
Ch.rlestonians Of the event of the Inauguration
hv hosting the national flag and firing thirty
foar guns for the Unios.-N. Y.Eye. Post.