Butte record., 1856-08-30
FERNANDEZ LAMASToURo. }
August 18th, 1856.


August Eth, 1886.
Mr.. EDlToR:-
Dear Sr-You would confer favor OF
, readers in this section, if you would publish
the enclosed article in your valuable paper
: 1t is from the New York Day Book. and, by
! the bye, one of the ablest and most valuable
papers published in the Atlantic States.
: The holders and SPECTATORS In bogus float.
ing grants, have been very sanguine of hav.
ing possession before this time, and have i'm
PudeHtly boasted what would be done before
the adjournment OF the present Congress
and this extract will show what thev relied
upon, and it would be useless to say that il
any Of our Representatives favored such a
scheme, that their names wouli be bye
word and a reproaeh" if they ever showed
their faces to the people again
SUBSCRIBER.
ANOTHER EXPLANATION OF THE FIRE.
MONT NOMINATION.
No satisfactory explanation Of the strange
nomination for President by the late Phila-
delphia convention has vet been given, un-
less one can be drawn from certain very
significant suggestions contained iu Il late
number Of the New York Day Bo1k A.
cording to these suggestions, the - almighty
dollar" has entered into partnership with
abolitionism for the double purpose OF reap
ing and dividing the profits Of stupendous
gold land speculation in California, and OF
placing the federal Union under the guar
dianship ard protection Of the champions of
-. l.,
a kind Of joint-sto company, in which the
capital consists in large number Of land
claims (that Of Mariposa iucluded) in the
State OF Clifornia, and large amount OF
abolition philanthropy and fanatieism, and
the profits to depend upon carrying the
presidential election The idea would seem
to have been borrowed from the Emigrant
Aid Corporation chartered by Massachusetts,
in which fortunes were TO be realized from
the rich lands of Kansas upon the success OF
the project OF aboitionizing the Territory.
The Marip0sa scheme IS to make milli0naires
Of the stock holders as the consequence of
abolitionizing the federal government. II
this suggestion of the Day Book be well
founded. We can readily comprehend the
process by which i'remont's nomination was
effected. 1t clears up the mystery which
surrounds several sudden tergiversations
which have heretofore baffied all attempts
at explanati n. Bat or object IS to call
attention to the suggestions of the Day Book,
and to await isrther developments
FREMoxI-A AND HIS BACKERs.-Gur mo-
ney article Of Thursday last tended to dis
close the most stupendous California land
iobbing scheme ever known in the history Of
the country, at the head Of which stand, in
partnership, Palmer. Cook x Co and Col
John Charles Fremont How many leading
men and presses they have induced to take
Interests and issues in their schemes IS un-
known. They suppose that by securing
Colonel Fremont's election as President,
their eighty odd claims Mariposa included,
will net them SJ0 600 .0U0, and make them
all millionaires We make 10 charges, and
call no names But if We could carry the
case into court- as public prosecutor, We
III oUld call to the stand sereral prominent
politicians from their fa4slic duties at Wash
ington, and fnoeTrogate them As to their
completely in this stupendons speculation.
We should call II the stand the Tribune. Of
New York, and ask its editor whether he or
any OF his associates are Interested IN the
Mariposa l4al grant, or other claims Of the
said company. and demand an answer-yes
or no. We should call to the stand the Cou-
D 4
Of its editor, and demand an answer-yes or
no We should caR to the stand other men,
und other editors, and pat the same ques-
tion 10 one and all, and demand them TO
swear an oath yes or no, so kelp them God
-gUiffU OF not guilty
=. We hope some measures will @e taken at
Washington 10 institute searching inveSti-
CATION into the doings Of this powerful COM
binaton of land -jobbers. who, if they sue
ceed in making good their claims, will come
into possession of large share of the whole
State Of California, gold and all
Rcw-RIor AND MoB.-One of those old
fashioned gatherings ofminers TO hang some
body. came Of yesterday on the Bluff, just
above town. The Chnaman spoken of in
connection with the robbery of the SlC0. /
having had time given Aim to return the
money-sup supposing Of course he had stolen
it-he all the while protesting that he was
innocent-the looser Of the money hs3 with /
Il great crowdfastened the fatal rope around |
his neck, and with one end fastened to the
windlass, was about to let him drop into the
shaft, when deputy sherits McGlaughlin I
and kimmel arrived just in time to spoil ali .
their wicked fun, By arrestng the China
man and bringing him to town, where he is
being examined by Justice Jones, and from
the evidence as far as it has gone, the pro-
babilty is that he Will be discharged. 1t is
too late in the day for an excited mob to take !
man-hlack, white Ghinaman or Indian
up on mere suspicion, and hang him whether
or not.