The weekly Butte record., 1861-05-18
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M;scellaneous Items about the War.

+rreatest praise When Gen. Butler asked il
snv of them could sail the Constitution fifty.
four men stepped from the ranks, one of whom
was the son of the man who built her. A
similar incident occurred when the General
called for mechanics TO put the dislocated en-
gine together. One stalwart Yankee stepped
from the ranks and said, Well, General
rather think | cam made that enginer' and
in two hours the engine was at work drawing
with the troops towards Washington.-Co
NJ Y Times.
John Wilkins, late a seaman on board OF
Lincolns ship Cumberland, asserts, with the
ability to prove it, that Lieut.. Selfridge, who
visited our city under flag OF truce on Satur-
day last, deliberately cut down and instantly
killed man named Nathaniel F. Wolfe, Of
Maryland, seaman on board said ship, for
refusing to set fire to the ship United States,
at Gosport- Norfolk Daybook
The negroes of New Orleans are being made
sensible that the whites are afraid of them
The negro churehes have been closed several
steamboat crews of blacks, both slave and free,
have been locked up, and every measure resort
ed to to prevent serve insurrection.
The Rev. Mr.. Quinn. Catholic Priest, of
Providence, formerly of Connecticut, has en-
listed in the army as Chaplain OF the Rhode
Island (Gov. Spragues) Regiment. He passed
through Hartford on Tuesday, on his way to
join the regiment. He was met at the depot
by number OF his old Connecticut friends,
who gave him three cheers as the train started
off for New York.
The Rock Island Register says the Repub
Icans and Democrats Of Aida, in that county,
took their old party poles, cut them in two,
spliced half and half of each pole. and thus
made Union pole in reality That's the
feeling
Can it possibly be true that treason is daily
uttered at the very portcullis of Fort Monroe
that treason can, 10 a moment snuff out the
lights Of its harbor-and that heavy guns from
Gosport Navy-yard, just seized by the Seces-
sionists, are beginning to be landed at Hamp
ton, whence they can be advanced to within
mile Of the undefended northern ard western
wall of Fort Monroe? Such, our correspon-
dent " Y ork," avows to be the fact. And he,
moreover, suggests that rife cannon may be
planted there. From that point of attack we
know the wall may be pierced right through
into the magazine and hot shot or two fol-
lowing, would blow up the finest fortress on the
continent IN. Y Times.
We see it stated that the Banks of Lynch
burg. in this State, have resolved to give some
forty thousond dollars to the Secession cause
it is to be hoped, for the sake of Secessionists,
that the Lynchburg Banks will not give it in
their own money. Nobody here will touch it ;
you cannot pay debt or buy piece of calico
with Eastern Virginia money Wheeling Intel
lgencer.
Corcoran, the Banker, to day offered large
amount of gold to the Government, if the latter
would give him drafts on New York. Treas
urer Skinner told him if he had any gold he
must fight for its protection. The Government
would not do it for him.-WaSh. Cor. N. Y
Times.
The Board of Police Commissioners have
to-day directed Superintendent Kennedy to
seize all munitions of war = all provisions
clothing, boots and shoes for men-intended
for any point south of the Susquehana River,
unless forwarded on account of the Govern
ment. The City Express Companies have
also been notified that all munitions of war,
intended for other States, will be detained,
unless addressed to the Governor, Commissary
or Adjutant- General thereof.-Tribune
The Charleston Mercury, on the very day of
the collision at Baltimore, printed letter from
a Baltimorian, dated April l6, in which it is
said speaking of the Presidents call for troops,
Volunteers can't pass through Baltimore. -
This sentence, and the whole tone Of the letter,
shows that the attack on the volunteers was
premeditated.
While Fernando Wood was speaking at the
Union meeting, n. Y, there was brief inter
ruption to read dispatch. Just then one of
the roughs, who had perched himself in a tree
Just over the Mayors head, leaned down and
said: " Now, Fernandy, jist you look out
what you say, cause you've got to stick to
this" The Mayor heard and needed.
A deputation of sixteen Nirginians and
eight Marylanders visited the President and
demanded a cessation of hostilites until after
the session of Congress. Mr.. Lincoln of course,
declined Ike proposition. One Of the deposition
said that $4,000 Maryanders would contest
the passage of troops over her soil to which
the President replied that, he presumed there
,cds room enough on her soil TO bury 10000
men. The answer was prompt and decided.
Six hundred and thirty men have already
volunteered for the California regiment, and
The cry is still they some" E. d. Baker,
late of California, is the Colone.-N. 7. Her.
There was flag raising at Frankfort, KY,
on the 20th, at which the Stars and Stripes
were raised on a hundred loot pole. Speeches
were made by Col. T. P. Hill, j. G. Cooper,
H. I. Harris. Thos. w. Vernon. and J. Ii.
Owsley. Everything passed off splendidy.
The leading merchants of Boston are fitting
out large steamer carrying ten guns and three
hundred men, to cruise against JEFF. Davis
pirates in the Gulf 1t will sail under the au-
thority and commission of the United States,
but the expense will be borne by State street.
1t is stated that Benz. McCulloch, on his
route home to Texas, did not seem sanguine
of the success of the secession movement, but
said they were going to make fight for it.
aud if they failed the leaders were to escape
be means of a vessel.
Mr.. VIM. B. Astor on Thursday, placed
$4,000 in the hands of VIM II. Aspinwall TO
appropriate for the purpose of keeping open
communication between Havre de Grace and
Annapolis. In "a hours time, the steamer
Yankee was chartered, equipped, and dispatch
ed upon this mission. She sailed at Il O'Clock
4. NJ, yesterday. in command of Capt. Fox
The Yankee will convoy vessels from the Capes
up the Chesapeake, and run as a dispatch
steamer between Havre de Grace and Annapo-
lis, until the route through Baltimore is reestab-
lished. She is armed with two long thrty-two
FOUNDER guns, small arms &c.
Latest--Datest to May 4th.
ST.. LOUIS, May 4th.-By application Just
made by some of the diplomatic corps at the
State Department Washington, the following
points are ascertained LIST. Vessels in the
bloekaded ports when the blockade took effect,