The weekly Butte record., 1861-01-05
Prenticeana.

The following items from the pen OF the vet
eran and witty editor of the Louisville (Ky.)
Journal, will be read with interest
If our good friends of the Cotton States, in
stead of spending hundreds of thousands of
dollars TO place themselves in position for de-
fence against imaginary evils and foes, would
employ John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas, Mr.
Memlnger, ef South Carolina, and Mr.. Brady,
of New York, representing the Southwest,
Northwest, South, and East of the Union, to
carry the recent Chicago rescue case to the
Supreme Court, they would be putting their
money to profitable end Here is a case in-
volving the RIGHT to protection of slave proper
ty in Nebraska Territory, the very occasion
required for carrying the question up to the
court of last resort where we can have an ali.
thoritative Interpretation of what the Coasti-
tuition guarantees
Can any statist tell how often Toombs has
seeded r threatened 10 leave the Union in
disgust? We have counted on every finger
and thumb and our recollection still holds to
several more of his crisis, but we would like to
be numerically correct. Who has the time TO
make the calculation? 1t would be pleasant
recreation for some gentleman of leisure with
mathematical turn of mind
1t is said that Browne is about to abandon
the Washington Constitution to its fate. Ifhe
does it will be like Satan repudating the hell
OF his own creation. The Constitution was
merely weak under Brigadier General George
Washington Bowman, but it has become both
weak and malignant under the poisonous incli-
nations of Browne
The telegraph states that the Rev Mr. Yates
made speech at Charleston in which he said
II the South required it he would 90 into the
foremost ranks with the Bible in one hand and
revolver in the other That is more like the
conduct of Mahomet than of the meek and
iowly Messiah, whose birth at Bethlehem was
the herald Of "peace on earth, good will to all
men," We are not aware under what dispen-
sation Mr., Yates breaches
Old Buck is cunning when the Southern
Postmasters resign he has letters written re-
questing them to designate competent success,
sors and to send on their bonds. limo competent
persons are found of course the places are
deprived of postal facilities, and the President
has the credit of not attempting to foist iucom-
petent persons upon them.
Harper's Ferry ought certainly to be sensi-
tive on the subject of slavery, but it gave its
vote 379 for Douglas, 275 for Bell, and II for
Breckenridge. From this it appears that the
Democracy of Harper's Ferry do not regard
secession as q remedy against John Brown
raids.
The Fredericksburg (va.) News takes
strong ground against the secession of the South
1t thinks the South should remain in the Union
and dismiss the free States That will be
much the easiest way if it can be the easier
effected.
Is not South Carolina pursuing Malthusian
policy in driving from her borders the "Y ankee
schoolmasters ?" Why, at this rate, her breed
of Eiammonds will be extinct.
1t has come to be generally understood that
when Mr.. Lincoln is President his first covert
acts" will split him and his cabinet and his
party into flinders like an old rail-