The weekly Butte record., 1858-12-18


n. Y. Musical reveiw, letter from j. NJ.
Boulard of the Alleghanians, dated Big Tree
Grove, California, July 10th, l65S, in which
the folowin account OF a concert on the stump
of The Big Tree is given:
"We arrived here yesterday; Travelled fl
teen miles out of our route for the purpose of
viewing what consider the greatest natural
curiosities in existence. These curiosities are
nothing more nor less than trees-trees ofsuch
mammoth proportions that any description
which might be given Of them must certainly
appear fabulous to any one who has not actu-
ally seen them. Within an area of fifty acres
ninetytwo of these monster trees are found
standing, and are, beyond doubt, the most stu
pendous vegetable products in the world
They are situated in valley in Calaveras
county, at the source of the tributaries OF the
Calayeras river, fifteen miles above Murphy's
Camp. These trees vary in size from eighty
to one hundred and twelve feet in eircumier-
ence, and from three hundred to four hundred
and fly feet in hight Only one of these gi-
ants Of the forest has ever been cut down; and
to accomplish this feat it took FIVE men, with
saws and augurs, twenty-five days. it was cut
of ten feet from the ground the stump at
This point measures thirts-two feet in tiissaeter
and being covered or Shaded by beautiful
arbor, We used the top of this stump for a con-
cert room.
Friday Evening, July 10Th. we gave aregu-
lar Grand Stump Cenceri," for one night
only, to an audience of fifty three persons !;
we sang all our national and patriotic songs
and the enthusiasm manifested was almost un-
bounded, and was certainly highly hattering
to as.
We have sung in the Mammoth Cave"
under the Horse Shoe" at Niagara Falls,
and given hundreds Of concerts during the
past twelve years, but never one that viii be
longer remembered by us, than the one given
upon the Big Stump" Ouly think of it, 53
persons besides our four selves and instrument
all npon the stump of tree at the same time.
BosToN Posrs.-A western paper mentions
as among the advantages derived from a resi-
dence ia Iowa that people who have endured
childless union for 40, these many years" in
other states, have been blessed with ''well
springs Of pleasure to the full extent of their
The editor of Harper's Weekly has been
contributor, who signs himself Beelzcbub.
eeiuS P"eiii VI WHICH eHG lolLoNlu0 cOupicI
is the conclusion:
''Bnt now thy reign is well nigh Ger.
dnd soon thoaN cease 10 be nioreli .
Ceasing to be no more strikes us as being sort
of double distilled extinction. Whoyer Beel-
zebub' may be, he justifes his nomme de plume
by writing dish bad poetry
"Roast me alive" said Corwin the wagon
boy in his speech at Xenia Ohio,-"Roast
me alive / haven't got much fat. but it shall
all be tried out Of me before will vote to ad-
nit slave state &c. Toms drippings
would supply any quantity of spirit lamps un-
less his pores have been very open for the last
five years.
The popular idea that there is more going
on IN day in New York than in some cities
in a fortnight seems to be forcibly demonstra-
ted just now. There are races for a very lofty
-SA0,9e0-sparring matches, lectures
on love, political meetings, operas in every
known language, trial for murder, theaters,
hops at hotels, suicides and, in act, every
thing bat virtue, order and decorum..
a New York correspondent of the london
Illustrated News. writing OF the recent horse
show ct Springfield, describes some Of the no.
liabilities present. Among them was Gov
ernor Banks, late Speaker of Congress, who
has his eagle eye on tie Presidential chair"
We are glad that he has no other part of
him on the chair aforesaid Eagle eye in
deedt Don't insult the fierce grey bird
don't
A medium pretendS to have discovered
Thurston, the unfortunate ballooDist, and re-
ports bin in house, suffering from high fe-
yer. His condition was rather high at last
accounts.