The weekly Butte record., 1861-09-21

rebel trooper to pollute the dust of State
whose people desire TO remain in the Union.
Gov. Gamble has recently called for 40, 900
volunteers. and am thus enabled to announce
as it has been announced every day since the
war began, that the rebels are about to be
terribly whipped. l know, from the feeling
here, that men enough might be raised to
crowd the rebels out of Missouri, should the
Government make the necessary call, and also
to render Arkansas unable to send more rebels
thither
Another rebel victory is reported in the
kanawha Valley, Western Virginia, by yes,
terday's telegraph. The Union forces in that
section of the State, will be captured or driven
out. l have mentioned this subject in for
mer letter, but the proceedings seem so sngu-
lar that if will bear repetition. simultaneously
with reports of rebel victories in Western Vir-
ginia, it is announced that rebel pickets are
nearer Washington than ever before; but it is
| thought their presence does not denote an at
tack. OF course not. 1t only means that q
sufficient force has been sent into Western
Virginia to clean out our troops there, while
the authorities are occupied with the feints
upon Washington
At every turn we hear complaints of the
War Department, of its inefficiency and want
of energy. We have now, in Michigan. six
regiments of men nearly ready, and vet there
is not an Assistant Quartermaster of the Uni
ted States in the State, not a person authori-
zed to do the least thing which may be ncces-
sary to secure the well-beng of the volunteers.
Various surmises have been made why this is
so, but nothing is known as to the time when
this want will be supplied. The Administra-
tion should remember that the want of proper
attention to these small details affecting the
comfort Of the men who offer their services.
strikes a blow directly at the country. Once
let the idea go forth that the Department does
not look after the welfare of the soldiers as
/ they should be cared for, and there will be an
end of volunteering.
/ RUSHING TO THE REscuE.-According to a
Baltimore paper, during seven hours of We'd
nesday night and Thursday morning, no fewer
than seven thousand troops passed through
that city, on their way to Washington. One
/ thousand an hour on one railroad alone Add
to these the numbers moving southwark in
other States and one may form some idea of
the preparations going on.
The Guns FOR THE New GUx-BoATs.-The
heavy guns, most of them. sixty>fours, on the
three new gun-boats at Cairo are the identi>
cal pieces that Floyd had ordered for ship
ment from the Pittsburg Arsenal for Memphis,
at the time when some months ago strong
popular movement of the citizens of Plttsburg
alone prevented such shipment. They are
now on board war steamers which are eYentu-
ally destined for Memphis.
THE HEALTH OF THE REBEL TRooPs.-The
Washington Star says: From undoubted
information received here, in addition to the
camp measles, the small pox RACES virulently
in nearly all the camp and other hospitals from
Vienna to Richmond. For instance, last week
there were eighty>three dangerous cases of
smallpox among their total force of three
thousand at Vienna. From the best informa-
ton we can obtain, we believe that full five
thousand Or more Of Beauregard's force are in
the hospitals
REBEL AGENTS IN CANADA.-The Toronto
Globe mentions in an editorial article the
presence in Cnnada of an active sympathizer
with Mr.. President Davis,-a gentleman who
did service to the Southern cause as a newspa-
per writer in Washington,- seeking, through
the Ministerial press of this country, to stir up
strife between the Northern States and Great
Britain"
SINCE the suppression by the Government
of the circulation of certain newspapers in
New Y York and elsewhere alleged to be in the
interest Of the rebellion, the conservative press
is calling for the suppression of those other
newspapers, which are giving still greater aid
and comfort TO the rebels, by representing that
the war is for the destruction of negro slavery
instead of solely for the restoration of the
Union. 1t is these latter sheets that divide
and distract the public sentiment of the North
and make it ineffective in support of the Gov
ernmeut. 1t is they that drive off from the
support of the Government many wemeaning
people whose fears that the war will be con-
verted into an anti-sIavery crusade are really
excited. These sheets should have been first
suppressed, for they are doing infinitely more
damage than it was possible for the halfdozen
alleged Secession papers to do if they had not
been molested at all. c.
ARTICLES FOR NLUSTEERs- Among the
articles presented by the lady Dashaways in
San Francisco to the Volunteers are the fol-
lowing:
25 pounds Of soda.