The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1862-05-17

than gold-are at premium IN all street.
And this, too, notwithstanding the fact that
Congress has not yet enacted revenue bill
has not yet made adequate provision for paying
either the interest or principal Of our large pub.
Nc debt. The credit Of the Nation is sustained
solely BY the very apparent willingness Of the
people to make al necessary sacrifices, and pay
all needed taxes. Its built upon the solid basis
Of The integrity and industry ofshe people-their
devotion to Republican institutions, and the
boundless resources Of the Great Republic. 1t
IL thing to be proud Otto thank God for. 1t
10 thing to give US strength and hope.
c-4&@ raEAsON. X
Northern secesh papers are examining the
definitions Of treason, looking up the law and the
rulings and precedents Of the Courts, ip order to
sss how far they can 60 without making them
selves liable to civil prosecution, in aiding the
rebellion BY their ;countenance aud sympathy.
We are resdy TO Sdmit what they claim, viz :
that opposition to the war is not treason in the
sense of the Constitution. Neither is declara.
tion that the rebels are right aud the Govern
ment wrong, 1t 10 not Constitutional treason
to rejoice at Federal rsverses and be jubilant
over rebel successes Il 10 not treason to huzza
for JEFF Davis and Beauregard and vihfy the
President Of the United States, Congress and
the Generals commanding the Armies Of the
Union. We cannot indict, try and convict such
of treason. We do NOT desire to do %. But
bsfor, God ans man. tbsy are ss guilty in their
heart, 90 those who commit the over act. And
Wills We cannot and would not prosecute them
In the Courts, We do not desire to see any vic.
lent and unlawful means used, to either stop
their reasonable utteranoes or drive them from
the country they disgrace. We would leave
them to public opinion except in cases where
their plostinse endangered the public safety.
fosT.i1oUTa xNp ME The SEsrRUC. RUE
TION OF THK MER RlMAC. al gr55I
We have already given an account Of the
taking Of the two important rebel cities Of Nor
folk and Portsmouth. the recovery of the Cos
port Navy Yard and the destruction of the
much dreaded iron-clad nondescript, the Nerri.
mac, all done by an insight 6cant force Of 5000
men under command Of the President himself.
This could oil have been done better, and easily,
at any time during the last six or eight months.
Had it been done in October or November last
what a destruction of life and property would
have been saved' TIE humiliation of the de-
struction Of two Of our vessels of war-of the
scare at Warrington, New York and all along
shore, would have been spared us. But no,
General Mcclellan would not cooperate with
the Navy and strenuously set bis face against
any thing and svery thing looking like business
Hs would not aid In raising the blockade nor in
anything else and nothing but the most positive
and psremptory orders to p,ous, drove him from
Washington. That all the water courses about
Fortress Monroe are now cleared of rebel gun.
boats and "rams," that Gosport Navy Yard,
the best and most extensive in the Union, is
again In possession of the Government, we are
indebted to the personal interposition of the
President of the United States The "great
strategy business is played out. 8s5s
n When this rebellion broke out, We were
informed, with great flourish of trumpets, by
those who sympathized with it, that We could
never whip the rebels-thst the Southern men
were fighting men-Northern men were not
that one Of the former could whip from two te
i've Of the latter, and great deal more of the
same sort Now that We have whipped them
everywhere. on every field. upon land and watel
NOW that it has been satisfactorily demon
strated that Northern troops will fight, and to
say the very least will fgbt well AZ the South.
srp, these dwelling tories have changed their
tune We hear no more about one secesh lick:
ing two Yankees. But they tell Us now. "you
can destroy their armies and navies, but you
cannot conquer them (the secesh). They neue,'
will give up" Instead of dying in the last
ditch, ss was fret intended, the chivslry, 1t
seems, are resolved to enter upon guerrilla
warfare. burning their cotton and sugar, de-
Wasting and destroying their own country, hiding
themselves amid the ruins, and stealthily playing
the assassin wherever they can. Let them try
this kind Of warfare and see how they like it,
Let us see who can play at it the longest and
who make most by it.
II A professor of Music, from Ksokuk, has
rem Of the Union School out Of $40, raised to
purchase q Melodeon, besides doing several 9TH
sr things not exactly on the square. His name
10 Tillotson. -us5t 1s.
~ The dividends of nearly all the banks Of
Philadelphia, whose capitals amount to an ag-
grssass of nine 'nillions seVn hundred and
fourteen thousand one hundred and ninety-fiv,
dollars, have just been declared for the last al,
months. The largest has been that of the Far
mers' and Mechanics Bank, Ahich divided sixt!
thousand dollars, and the smallest has beer
that of the Tradesman's Bank, six thousand dol
lars. .The total amount of dividends is over 81,
hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars
which sum will thus be put in ci circulation.
~ Will there be = battle At Corinths Thi
10 the question often asked bat not yet solved
We confess We opins there will be no battle
that Besuregard win not give battle. But ther.
no certainty about it. The rebels may risl
everything upon . last desperate battle at Co
rinth. But whether they fght or not, they hay,
agsnsrL to deal with who will be hard to out
msnosuvse or whip. Gen. HalIeck, We think, |,
equal 70 the great occasion and to al the rebe
generals pitted sgainss him. u llsss i,
u Our pious and respectable friend Hender
shot, of the "Ottsmwa Democntic Mercury,
devotss two columns Of his valuable paper
more OF less, TO ''Ciark Dunham." OF course
% grave and digni6ed pen on would not max,
ablackauafd Of hiGself, or throw dirt-pf coura
not We judge bs feels better after's easin,
hls mind. II he does not obtain entire relic
We advice him to bite himself nit snakep
Assistant Post Master General Kasson ha
gwen an opinion that handtills cannot be iu
c'ose0 10 newspspen and sent through the mail
without subiecting them IN laStar nosN.pe