Oroville daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville, Butte County, Calif.) 1856-1858, 1857-02-18
Eastern Items.


contains the following:
Washington, Jan. 20.
Ny letter was showed under.
Snyder is confirmed as assayer OF the
Mint, vice Conrad Wiegaad.
Chas. 4. Carr is nominated for Collector
Of San Pedro His confirmation IS delayed
for matrimonial reasons.
No patent is to be issued for the fulgas
Ranch, because Judge - protests against
it, Patents to Richie and Heading nave
been issued.
Crershaw will be appointed postmaster at
Nevada
No appointment of receiver at Marysville
will be made al present.
Wagon Road Bills still pending with hope
of success. The greatest difficulty is parties
who want to close the contract, while wei
Ter insists upon having ii open to compeu'
ton.
Pacific Railroad is unpromising.
Gen Wool having written that the Indian
wars in Oregon aud Washington Territories
were instigated by Stevens and Curry, re-
commencing no appropriation to be made to
pay expenses, the House has tabled the
bills for that purpose.
Denver introduced bills to make grants of
land, in the Sacramento Valley, for the Be-
nicia and Marysville railroad.
Also, bills to reimburse California ex-
penses in Indian wars.
The bill to increase the pay of officers of
the army twenty dollars month, and fix.
ing ratons thirty cents, will pass.
The Committee of investigation has posi-
tive information that Gilbert, member for
New York, has bargsined TO receive fourteen
thousand dollars to pass certain measure s
also other facts indicating widespread cor
ruption.
No general legislation is going on of much
Importance.
Herbert has won thirty thousand dollars
at Pendleton's faro bank.
The Calilornians gave Weller public din
ner here on Thursday.
ADDITIONAL ATLANTIC PARAGRAPHS.
In Delaware, the Senatorial election has
resulted in the return Of Mr.. Bayard for the
long term, and the choice Of Martin W.
Bates for the short term.
On the 10Th ult., a riot occurred between
a party of lrishmen and number of Amer
leans, at Albion, N. Y. Two Irishmen and
four Americans were killed Cause-whis-
key
Wells, Fargo & Co. have announced it as
their intention to pay the balance of the
January coupons.
Hon Samuel Prentiss. Judge of the U. s.
District Court of Vermont, died at his resi-
dence in Montpelier, on the 18th January.
On the 10th ult., an earthquake was felt
in the city of Mexico, which lasted thirty
seconds.
The Vermont State House at Montpelier
has been destroyed by fire.
The weather at the east has been extreme
" cold, the thermometer standing at from
four to ten degrees below zero. On the
18th of January at leaat seventeen thousand
persons crossed from New York to Brooklyn
ON the ice
The sailing of the steamship Tennessee for
Nicaragua has been postponed to Saturday,
the 25th, when it was announced that she
would positively sail.
Orders have been given at the Post Office
New York, that sixpences, shillings and
Spanish quarters should not be taken here
after for postage.
1t is said that the ceremonies attending
the inauguration of Gov Polk, of Missouri,
were delayed nearly an hour in consequence
of the difficulty Of finding, within the pre-
cincts of Jefferson City, "A bible, on which to
administer the inaugural oath One was
finally procured from the penitentiary.
The Washington correspondent OF the N
Y Herald. under date Of Jan IL, says: The
course pursued by the Supreme Court of
California, in regulating her debts, will, |
am credbly informed, defeat all appropria-
tons for that State until they adopt some
means for the payment Of the debt.
Moses II. Grinnell has given a party in
New York, which cost SO 900.
Matilda Heron is playing at Wallack's.
Louisa Pyne, of the Pyne Troupe, is mar
ried to Harrison, tenor
Laura keene denies that she is married to
Lutg.
The Batemans are at Baltimore.