The weekly Butte record., 1858-11-06
Atlantic Slope.

Since the Overland Mails began coming in with
semi-weekIy news from the other side, much of the
keen enjoyment of fexpectancy-the hope and look
ing forward for startling pews-awakened by the in
coming of Mail Steamers. has died away, and thus
one Of our most pleasurable seasons has been much
rnarred If not entirely annihilated 1t is but in de-
cent keeping with the spirit Of the age that we
should have at least semi-weekly communication
with our friends and kinsfolk in the older States,
but we canno. reJSress a feeling of regret that
what before came to US in richly filed budgets Is
now daled out to us in little meagre drbblets, tax
ing off the sharp elge of news appetite and unfit
ting US for the feasts of gossip heretofore reserved
for semmonthly ..sqEare meal"-so to speak.
But the Overland Mails bring US no tHeralds" and
sTribunes' and Deltas - and the arrival of the
steamer is yet the event for eastern news seekers.
Tie papers have been served oct 10 Us, and we
once more have peep into the affairs of love, bn-
sness and politics Of cur transmontane neighbors.
Tie great event which occupies the attention of
eastern journalists Is the terrible catastrophe which
happened to the steamer Austria, which taking fire
in mid ocean, caused the most terrible marine dis
a-ter of recent record. Out Of five hundred and
thitty-eight human beings, bat sixty-seyen are
known to to have been saved from the relentless
flames and waves. The papers filed with the
sad horrifying, particulars, and hope for the
cue of than the sixty known TO be saved
sinks with the perusal Of the dreadful stories re-
counted by the escaped. Culpal lie carelessness and
unmaiIy fear on the part of the Austria's officers
and crew are the reasons assigned for the terrible
casualty.
The administration seems determined to display
great vigor and an insatiate desire for blood as
balm for wounded national honor, by appearing as
vessel Of wrath to the presumptuous rulers of the
Republic Of Paraguay. That power must lie
brought to an abiding sense of Ler nferiority and
terrible prowess even if what earnings we have
horded in the national stocking to bald railroad
across lots is spent, with many other dollars, in eff
fecting that desirable result. Paraguay must be
spanked for being sassy" and are the cousins
Of John Buii that Can do that slanking bus ness
and Paraguay mast be made t. know it,
The Illinois battle still goes bravely on. If hard
fighting and an unparalleled succession of brilliant
victories can accomplish anything among the suck
ers, the little Giant will sweep his State from Egypt
to Chicago, and from Sugar Creek t. the Wabash.
lie is everywhere greeted by enthusiastic thousands
and in his encounters with Lincoln, so confounds
that deyotee of Ethiopian politics as to unfit him for
ordinary displays Of his real abilities Douglas sue
cess is accounted certainty by those whose PIN
ions are based upon the most reliable data.
On Tuesday, the 18th Of October, elections t1' k
place in Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana, Iowa and
Minnesota, determining highly important questions
in politics, Of which we may daily expect returns
by the Overland Mails. During the present week,
the fght before tie people of Illinois has been
brought to q termination at the ballot box and 81
multaneossly, elections have been held in New
York, Michigan Massa ehasetts, and New Jersey.
We shall wait for tidings from these battIefelds
with much impatieace, confident in the triumph
of trae Democratic rrincil les.
The Atlantic legraphc wire, still continues to
maintain is silence in its watery bed and up to the
time Of the last steamers sailing, had laid for many
weeks unsusceptible of feeling from the electric
sparks that have long courted in vain. Profes-
sor Hughes is about Introducing his ingen pus-and
hitherto infalibe-apparatus, as q dernicr resort.
The directors are confident of success
Miscellaneous matters of interest are included in
our summary of eastern news which appears else
where