The weekly Butte record., 1861-11-16
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Late Eastern Items.

the Richmond Examiner tells them that the
Congress will pass relief measure, seeing
there is no prospect of disp9sing of the staples.
No passes are issued to cross the Potomac
except to the regular army correspondents of
the leading daily journals, and this Dumber
does not exceed a dozen. DR.. Russell has not
visited the army of the Potomac since his
ret1rn from the West. As fast as the army
moves, telegraph wire is erected.
The wife Of the Syracuse volunteer who at
tempted to incapacitate her husband from SER
vice by amputating his finger, did not !" let up
in her strong love, after the failure. She sent
her brother and brother-lnrlaw to syracuse to
seduce her husband away from the army, but
after brief conversation with the patriotic
husband, they both enlisted
Border State Union man writes iu pri-
vate letter in this urgent style: For Gods
sake try 10 wake up your Northern people
You ali seem to US to be half asleep. You say,
we can put two soldiers into the field to their
one You say it-and they do it. You are
contendng with maniac, and you measure
your effort by the strength of halfgrown
boy"
Mr. John Patch, who claimed the honor of
being the original inventor of the steam screw
propeller, died at the Poor House in Var
mouth, n. S. on the 9th of September. He
was Nova Scotian, and died like many men
who have given valuable inventions to the
world, poor indeed.
The Washington correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Inquirer says that orders have been
given for one hundred thousand stand of arms
to a foreign house. twenty-five thousand of
which ara to ta Jal;varad vritb;o L.,
The gun is similar to those used. by the Chas-
seurs d Antique.
There are now one hundred and eighty-six
paymasters in the army, a large number of
whom are stationed in Washington. Some of
the disbursements amount to two hundred
thousand dollars per week. The salary of
paymasfer. including rations, ETC., averages
about $4,000 per year.
1t was feared at one time that the rebels
would gather all the Red men of the Terrific
ries under their flag. The Commissioner of
Indian Affairs who returned to Washington
last week, holds out, however, more promis-
ing prospect. From his report we learn what
we had already more than half believed, viz I:
that the Confederate army has nary red
Thomas b. Clay, of KY, eldest son of Henry
Clay, is in Washington. He was warmly wei
coined by the President and prominent citizens
of the District. He expresses confidence in
the ultimate success Of the Union army. and
believes Kentucky can never be forced to sue
cumb to traitors.
Barnum has been sold A few days since
a eountryman appeared at the Museum and
upon admission to the manager, declared he
had great natural curiosity no less than
.. 1lf ..,i,
many but never a cherry colored one. and
speedily paid twenty-five dollars for the curl
osity, which was to be delivered next day. At
the appointed time came the countryman and
a bag, out of which he produced a cat Of the
color of 6iGok cherry! Barnum was sold,
and relates the joke with great gusto
" Colt of pistol fame" says Rev. Mathew
Hale Smith. the New York correspondent of
the Boston Journal. " has on sale 10000 guns,
for which he asks the price of S25, and will
get all he asks. The history of these muskets
is Instructive They once belonged to the
Government, but the bore was thought to be
too small, and the officer at Washington, in
whose charge they were sold them to Mr. Colt,
and took his pay in pistols. The guns are now
in the market. The Government needs them.
The price asked is Sl0 more than Colt paid
for them, and that, too, in pistols. lie viii
get all he demands "
\ change has been made in the ten cent
pieces that bear date this year, from those
heretofore coined. The figure of Liberty in
stead of being surrounded by stars is eucircled
by the words " United States of America, y
which formerly was placed on the reverse of
that piece.
The British Quarterly for July contains the
following amusing statement of facts"
BE it remembered that since the 18th of
April Fort Sumter has been in the hands of
the Secessionists, and that the ten thousand
Caronians who took it, only lost some two or
three hundred men. Fort Pickens, which
commands the entrance Of the Gulf of Mexico,
is also in possession Of the Southern Coneder-
alton, which possesses Fort Monroe, in Virgn-
ia Fort McIIenry in Maryland large fortress
on Delaware. and the arsenal in New Albany
aud Kentucky.
The Postmaster General has ordered to be
placed on sale at the Post Offices a new and
CONVENIENT form of newspaper wrappers, which
are formed Of obong sheets, gummed at one
end, and adapted to any sized newspaper. The
Introduction of these convenient envelopes will
doubtless greatly increase the postal revenues
"AiD ttiS 'NHAtNto VI Ai1hoiidk'Nio oAi'Nu cuHFis
themselves with them, the better to enable
purchasers Of papers to transmit them, when
read, 10 their friends.
A man in Wisconsin was sent by his wife to
procure the release of his son, under age, who
had run away and joined the Northwestern
Tigers. The father fell in with Drury' Artil-
lery Company. and enlisted himse, The in
dlgnation of the wife can be imagiaed.
LABoEERs FOR WAsHINGToN.-The n. y.
Express, Of October 18th says
la pursuance of an order from the Govern
meut, the United States Engineer Agency in
this city are now engaged in forwarding FIVE
hundred aborers to Washington to be ems
ployed in digging trenches building earth>
works and other labor incidental to the defense
of the capital. Two hundred and fifty were
sent on Yesterday to Washing ton, and fifty this
afternoon. The laborers, who are to receive
ninety cents per day and the regular ratious,
have TO furnish their own blankets clothing,
etc. They have been engaged for no specific
term.
The Knights Landing News, which has op-
posed be war, and has been bitterly secesh.
says that all good citizens should uphold
and sustain the Government" The editor de-
uies having ever been tiuctured with secession.
1t is hard 10 tell, now. whether Government is