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The weekly Butte record., 1861-02-09

ER A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press says: "A Wall street gentleman
showed me to-day a computation, made with
considerable care by himself, of the amount of
gold produced. during the last ten years by
the mines of California and Australia. won't
bother you with long tabular statement of
the amount produced each year. but the grand
total of the ten years crop is 81 ,400,00O,OO0
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NEVADA AssAYING WoRKs-The Tran
script thus refers TO the assaying establishment
of J. J. OFT & Co
This useful and well known establishment
which, heretofore, had confined its operations
to the assayng of ores and the melting of gold
or amalgam into bars, has lately been enlarged,
by the addition of steam machinery, which
enables the propretors to reduce, in twelve
hours, half a ton of ore of any kind, black
sand, tailings, paintings, or no matter what
which may be supposed to contain precious
metals. Their mode of collecting the gold diff
fers from the ordinary quartz mill process of
amalgamation in Ibis, that whilst the ore is
being ground they mix with it dilu'ion of
acid, proto-nitrate or salt of mercury, proto-
sulphate of iron, or q heated solution of carbo
nate OF soda, as the case may require, which
prepares it to receive the influence of galvan-
c battery, thereby precipitating all the minute
and invisible particles of gold. 1t is obvious
that this is a vast Improvement on the ordinary
system which quartz mills employ, and if it
can be used on large scale, would prove of
immense benefit to quartz miners. In the
meantime, miners having black sand or rich
tailings, concentrated, can not do better than
call on Messrs. OFT & Co.
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Charge, Chester charged
On, Stanlv. on

And the bar he put, and knowed tail holt
were better than no holt and so we went,
bar'l and all, the bar at full speed. Now my
hope acere that the bar would jump orer some
presserpiss, break the barl all to shiverations,
and liberate me from my nasty, stinkin', lily
prison. And sure 'nuh, the bar at full speed,
leaped over catarack fifty foot high. Down
we went together in pile, coachaHop, on big
rock, Dustin the bar'l and nearly shakin' my
gizzard out'n me. l let go my tail holt-hdd
no more use for d-and away went the bar
like whirlgust nv woodpeckers were arter it.
I've never seen or hern from that bar since,
but he has my best wishes for his present and
future welfare.
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How Oliver Stanley Escaped from a Bar
rel Prison-A Bear his Unintentlonal
DeliYerer.

Deliverer.
There is a droll story of a man named
" Oliver Stanley" who was taken captive by
Indians. After some consideration, they put
him into an empty oil barrel, and headed him
up, leaving the bung hole open that he might
be longer dying. The prisoner related por-
ton of his experience in this wise:
:" | determined to get outn that or bust a
trace and so pummelled away with my fist,
till | beat it into nearly jelly, at the eend of
the barI but it were no go. Then | butted
spell with my noggin, but | had no purchase
like old rams have when they butt fur, you
know, they back ever so far when they make
a tilt
So caved in, made my last will and testa-
ment, and vartually gave up the ghost. 1t
wur mighty serious time with me, for sure.
While l were lying thar, balancin' accounts
with t'other world, and afore l had all my fig
gers made out to see how things 'ud stand
hearn suthin scrambuatin' in the leaves, and
snortin every whip stick like he smelt suthn'
he didn't adzackly like. | lay as stil as sala
mander, and thought may be there's chance
for Stanley yit.
So the crittur, whatever it mout be, KEEP
mosey-in' round the bar'. Last he came to
the bung hole, put his nose in, smelt mighty
pertic'ler, and gin monstrous loud snort |
helt what little breath had to keep the crit
tur from smeln' the intarnals of the barl |
soon seen it was a bar Of the woods the big
king bar of the woods-who had lived there
from time immortal. Thinks l. old fellow, look
out; old Oliver amt dead yit. list then he
put his black paw in jist as fur as be could,
and scrabbled about to make some 'scoyery.-
The first tho't had was to nab his paw, as Il
drowndin man will ketch at straw, but | soon
seen that wouldn't do, fur you see, he couldn't
then travel. So 1 jist waited spell with
great fatterbation of mind
The next move he made was to put his tail
in at the bung-hole of the barl to test its in
nards. | seen that were my time to make my
Jack so | seized my holt, and shouted at the
top of my voice,
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Notice to Creditors.

NT Office IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE CREDI-
N tors of, and all persons having claims against
the Estate of JOHN NJ. JONES, deceased, late of
Cherokee Butte county, to present the same, with
the necessary vouchers, within ten months from
this date to the undersigned, at his Store on Hun
toon street, OroYille, or the same will be forever
barred. EDWARD PARKER.
Public Administrator.
Oroyille, January 26, lsel.-f2e4 H.
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hI% 1t is estimated that 10000 skates were
on Central Park lake, New York, on the
morning Of last Christmas day.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-02-09

s1 Society is masked ball, where every
one hides his real character, and reveals it by
hiding.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-02-09

"a Miss Charlotte Cushman the actress, is
possessed of fortune of 100000, and will be
forty-6ve years old OF her next birthday.
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pa- Johny, does you love me-"
Well, Susy, / does.n

How do you know you love me ?"
kase, Susy, whenever | looks at you, my
heart jumps up and knocks agin my stumick
SO hard that I don't have any appetite for
week afterwards"
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Too SMARY TO LIVE LoNG.-1be following
story of the amazing sagacity Off dog is told
in new book Untitled " The Life of Animals
Anecdotical Biographical and Natural Histo-
ry," by Dr. Jonathan Franklin and NJ AL
phonse Esquires. After reminding its readers
of the ancient belief that attributed to the low
er orders of creation the power of speaking the
language Of man, of which power they have
voluntarily renounced the use, out of disgust
at human stupidity and duplicity, the author
cites a vast number of instances of the intelli-
gence of which they have given proof An
Englishman was one day crossing the Point
Neuf, in Paris, a little dog rushed between his
feet and drted his shining boots. The En-
glishman thereupon went to the stand of a
shoe-black close by, and got his boots cleaned.
A few days afterwards the same gentleman
again crossed the bridge, and again the same
little dog made similar attack on his polished
chaussure. Surprised at the repetition Of the
incident, he went across the bridge in order to
watch the mannuyers of his enemy, when he
sees the dog go down the steps that lead from
the bridge to the quay, dip his paws in the
mud of the rivers brink, come up the steps,
post himself al the corner of the bridge, and
rush out upon the first passenger who shows
himself at the crossing in pair Of clean boots.
The little animal was the property and eonied
crate of the shoe black, to the number of whose
customers he thus industriously added.
BaS~ The shipping on the great lakes is
rapidly increasing. There are now three hun
dred and fifty steamers, valued at S9,500,000,
and one thousand one hundred and sixtynine
sailing vessels, valued at 81 100000.
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Naples.

Naples is the most beautiful site in Europe,
except, perhaps, Constantinople. 1t stands on
the North side of the Bay, at the base and on
the slopes of range of hills, like an amph-
theater. Its churches are of splendid style,
and all Roman Catholic, the chief being built
on one hundred granite columns, which belong
ed to the ancient temple ef Apollo. 1t was
the usual residence of the King, and has a
commercial tribunal, arsenal, cannon-foundry,
ship-building yards. and a royal marine hospi
tall university, occupying the old College of
the Jesuits. with thirty-four professorships. an
episcopal lyceum, medico-chirurgcal school,
veterinary school, deaf mute institution, royal
military school, schools of design and music
an observatory, botanic garden, and mint
1t has four public libraries and many public
schools, an exchange and ten theaters, among
which. the opera, San Carlo, is one of the
largest in Italy. 1t has also hospitals for the
sick, aged, and foundings sometimes contain
ing two thousand patients, but its streets, are,
Notwithstanding, infested with mendicants of
all ages and both sexes. Its manufactures are
gloves, soaps, perfumery, silks, artificial flow
ers, corals, earthenware, hats, carriages, etc.
1t has royal type foundries, and iron and glass
works. 1t is the first port Of the kingdom !;
its harbor is formed by mole, which extends
from the centre of the city into the bay Ma
pies was founded by the Greeks who called it
Parthenope. Virgil studied here the city,
enlarged by Adrian and Constantine was
sacked by Belisarius in 53G, peopled successful
ly under the Normans, the emperors of Ger
many and the kings of Spain. 1t has often
suffered from earthquakes, and from eruptions
of Nesuvius- The French took it in 100 and
again in 1906. Joseph Bonaparte was made
king of Naples, but was replaced by Murat in
1903, and the latter was driven from it by the
Austrians, in 1914. Naples was the scene of
an outrage in May, l846, when it was plum
dered by the lazaroni, and fifteen hundred lives
lost. Among the numerous objects of interest
in the vicinity of Naples are Vesuvius, Pom
peii and Herculaneum, and the Isle of Capri
in its bay. It's population in 1857 was 49,
000, excluding garrison Of about 10000.
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VAN ARNAY.-1his is the name of the lead
ing lawyer employed by Burch in the late suit.
He is a remarkable man, and from the testi-
mony before the world, he was engaged by
Burch in his regular business, defcnding q
criminal. Mr.. Van Arman was leading law
yer in the great Mich. Central r. r. case in
which Mr.. Seward was employed for the de-
fence He was employed by Jumpertz, and,
after conviction, Van Arman moved for new
trial and cleared the cliant. He was once en-
ployed in a case where a woman was charged
with killing her husband with a poisoned cake
Van ate two or three of the poisoned cakes in
the court room, established the innocence of
the woman (hs cliant) in the minds of the
Jury, and then vomited up the poisoned bread.
He took enough to vomit him otherwise it
would have killed him. The Jury. without
knowing the ruse, discharged the prisoner. Mr.
Van Arman is a remarkably bold lawyer and
goes further lengths TO clear villainous cliant
than common man would 10 protect Inno-
cence ITSELF
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VENIcE.-As a sample of the reign Of terror,
by which Austria now holds Vcnetia, the cor
respondent of LIE Nord tells story Of the
arrest of little girl eight years old, at Treviso,
for singing popular air, the refrain of which
was:
Unhappy Venice Garibaldi will save her !"
Her mother hastened TO the Commissary of
Police and begged him to release her child !;
he refused with a sneer, saying that he would
not deprive Garibaldi Of the pleasure Of div
ering his little friend. The poor woman sob
bed out in her Venetian simplicity. "What,
must my child then suffer for three months
away from her mother p In this exclamation
the Commissary thought he had made a dis
covery and Immediately arrested the mother,
demanding how she knew that Garibaldi would
come in three months. Fortunately, some
more charitable authorities interfered, and mo-
ther and child were set free.
Dr. BUsBY, famous school master, was a
severe but not ill-natured man. 1t is related
Of him and his scholars, that during the alb
sence of the doctor from his study, one of the
boys, finding some plums in It, and being NOV
we'd to lickerishness, began 10 eat them. First,
however he waggishly called out al publish
the banns of matrimony between my mouth
and these plums. II any here present know
just cause why they should not be united, you
are to declare it now or hereafter hold your
peace" But the Doctor had overheard the
proclamation and said nothing until the next
morning, when, causing the boy to be brought
up and disposed for punishment, he grasped
the well known instrument and said | pub
lIsh the banns OF matrimony between this rcd
and boy if any of you know just cause Or
impediment why they should not be united,
you arc to declare it." The boy cried out, Il
forbid the banns !" " For what cause ?" inquir-
ed the Doctor. " Because the parties are not
agreed" said the boy. The Doctor enjoyed
the validity of the objection urged by the boys
wit, and the ceremony was not performed.
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E@ Are you an Odd Fellow ?"

R%S aiC gOu OIL OuA ShO"
"No, sir, I've been married a week."
" l mean do you belong to the order OF Odd
Fellows ?"
"No, 1 belong to the order of Married
Men"
"Thuuder How dumb? Are you Ma
SOM"
4" No, I'm a carpenter"
Worse and worse! Are you a son of
Temperance ?''
Confound you, no. am son of John
Oosling."
The querist went his way.
Blow YOUR OWN HORN. = The Mormon
Bible gives some very excellent advice to poll
ticians aud other people. 1t says:
Let every man blow his own horn, for
whosoever bloweth not his own horn, the same
shall not be exalted"
This advice is not only very excellent, but
is, we are pleased 10 say, very generally lived
up to.
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Agents for Record.
Business Notice.

Messrs. THo's CALLow and D. NJ. BISHOP, having
purchased interests in the RECORD Newspaper and
Job Printing establishment, will hereafter be asso
cated in conducting the business of the same. No
change will be made in the Editorial control of the
Paper.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Parish OF Ibervllle.

FIFTH DlsTkICT COURT.
In matter Of succession Of John Toy, Decd. No. 81.
QY virtue Of IN order of seizure and sale, to NJ
- directed in the above entitled succession Of date
the 18th day Of July. 4. D., 1861, from the lsts 9Th
now 18th District Court, In and for tie fssish Of East
Baton Rouge, in the State aforesaid, lsyin oabf ut
public sale to the last and highest bidder, IL he
Court house Of this Parish Of West Baton Roagp, %
Saturday 9TH Of September, 1851,
At II O'Clock \: T.. all the rights, title and interest
scribed mortgage property situated in the Parish of
West Baton Rouge, to w1t s.Ssction No. s~evsatee1,
in township Ne. seven, Of Range ehvsn east Of Lands
subjects, to sale in the United States Land Okes II
New Orleans" to pay aud satisfy ssid writ Of s1s-
cution. Seized in the above entitlsd aad numbsrsd
succession.
Terms Of sale Cash ON the spot.
WM. WHITE, Sheriff
West Baton Rougs, August Sd, 1851. -
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RUSSELL ON SOUTHERN .F1Gur1Na.-
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Exchange says: Mr.. Russell,
Of the London Times, states that the
loss in killed and wounded of the Fede-
raj must amount to twelve thousand, and
that the loss of tie Confederates will
probably reach four thousand. He states
history records no such defeat for The
past century-no rout SO utter and COM
plete as that Of the Federal forces. The
fighting Of the Southern men, be says,
was magnificent. They fred with the
precision Of veterans. They would fall
to permit theiv artillery to FIRE. and then
discharge their musquets and
bayone:s in splendid order.-
Some Of their evolutione were superb,
performed with perfect rapidly,
GOODNESS and discipline.
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A ZouAvE ON SOUTHERN FIGHrING.-
The Richmond Enquirer, of % inst,
tells the following story One Of the
Lincoln soldiers, who left Virginia's shore
on Sunday night week to return to it
no more, on being asked if he still
thought the Southerners couldn't fight,
answered :: " No, sir, they don't fight;
I've seen fighting in Europe, in Mexico
and III the United States, but I never
any fighting like that Of the Con-
federates. They don't igLt--they just
come down like all HI upon you.-
Talk about subduing them. You might
as we'll put HI in harness and attempt
torun against that.
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~ We begin to feel in the bumor
Of complaining about tie weather. En-
ough rain has fallen to satisfy US for
some time, but it keeps coming. Our
cotton crops already begin to suffer from
these daily showers, and if they continue
much longer, the consequences must be
ruinous to our share Of the great staple.
The e.ne, tee, bes;ns to shuw tie erect
Of rain in a manner not altogether salts
factory to our planters. Rather a little
too much of Goods contribution 10 the
Southern Confederacy."
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Soorr's BArrLEs.-An exchange calls
attention to the fact that the Joss Of the

Soorr's BArrLEs.-An exchange calls
attention to the fact that the Joss Of the
American army in the series Of desper-
ate conflicts by which the city of Mexi-
co was won, was, in all, killed, wounded
and missing, 27ls. These battles were
Coptreras, Antonio and C%hurubuso, in
which l57 were killed and ST. wound
ed Moline del Rey, ll6 killed, and 665
wounded Cbepultepec, Gates of Belen-
San Cosmo and. skirnishing in the city,
100 killed aud 7o3 wounded, missing
IS grand total, 2713, as above, Of which
3s3 were returned as known to be kill
ed. Teese figures include the losses of
the army from August 10th to Septem-
Der l4tl'. Scott probably lost eight or
ten times as many killed in the one tat
tie of Manassas as he did in all the above
fierce conflicts BY which he won Mexico
and his greatest famc as a general. He
is not fighting Mexicans now, but the
men who fought Mexicans.
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PRoposED INCREASE IN The Army

PROPOsED INCREASE IN HE Army
The Richmond Dispatch, Of the 3lst
ult., has an article on this subject from
which we quote:
1t is understood in official circles that
the Secretary Of War, tile Hon. L. Pope
Walker, has recommended to Congress
an addition to the Southern army OF
about three hundred and fifty regiments,
or such a number as, added to the force
already organized, will make an aggre-
gate of five hundred and sixty regiments.
Estimating each regiment at a thousand
men, this would give a force Of five hum
dred and sixty thousand, rank and file.
The white population Of the Conteder-
ate States being, in round numbers, five
millions six hund,e ed thousand souls, the
proposed army would amount to just
ten Per cent. of the whole, or one SOL
der for every ten white people.
The Dispatch argues at length the
feasibility of the CONSUMPTION, and con-
cludes with the following cogent reasons
for its adoption
The war might have been ended on
the day at. er the great battle of Manas-
sas, if our Generals bad not been so
limited 10 force as to render an advance
no better than an act of criminal and
puerile temerity. The army should be
promptly increased to a strength which
would relieve our Generals of all the
embarrassments which they have been
laboring under from iaferiority of force,
and to enroll them to assume offensive
operations against the enemy at every
point. We desire recognition by for
eign powers; but We can scarcely be ex-
pected to obtain it while, from the infe-
riority Of our numbers in the field, we
are constantly obliged to stand on the
defensive, and are constantly running
the risk of defeat and disaster. All these
considerations unite in support Of Secre.
tary Walkers recommendations.
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INDIANA SPEAK1NG--The State Guard
st Indianapolis thus truly spesks: All
Efforts looking to a settlement of our
national difficulties in any other way
than ny bullets and bayouets has been
voted down by Congress III every shape
they have been presented. Men and
money have been voted largely to prose-
cute the war, but all efforts for a peace
ful settlement are ignored ty the Repub-
I1can Congress in both Houses.
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An EYE FOR AN EYE.-A. Lincoln
has threatened to hang or shoot Col.
Thomas, who is dungeoned at Fort Nc
Henry for his participation in taking the
steamer st. Nicholas and several schoon-
ers with valuable cargoes, it has been
de6nitively decided at Richmond that
the Hon. Mr.. Ely, one of the Abolition
Congressman taken prisoner at Mauas
sas, shall share q similar fate. The knowl-
edge that when Col. Thomas is hung or
shot he is to perform an aerial suspension
or become a target, causes him to she'd
tears profusely and blubber in a style ILL.,
becoming any man, much less one Who
has been foremost 10 bravado in tho halls
Of legislation.
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MEDICAL sroREs.-Among other ar
tlcles that Tell to US at the battle of Man.
assas' says th. Richmond Enquirer, wa.
the entire stock of medicines of the
"grand army Of INVASION" As these
stores contained all the medicines neces.
sary for a large army, their capture was
very opportune, and supplies US with
much that Is very desirable. The Yam
KEGS some time since refused to sell M
any quinine. Wonder if We did not
get some from them on better termsq
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UNFORTUNATE DUEL.-We learn that
a private dispatch has been received il
this city, says the P;cayans Of Tuesday
last, stating that a duel took place after
the battle Of Manassas, between Capt.
Geo. McCauslaud, aid to Brigadier Cen
eral Ewell, and Capt. White, Of the II
ger Rifles. The cause Of the duel is
not stated. The parties fought with RI
des, and it seems that Capt. White shot
first, drawing his antagonists fire, and
wounding him, it is feared, MORALLY
Capt. McCausland fell before he dischar.
ged his rifle. This is most unfortuu-
ate affair and is to be deeply regretted.
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GENERAL Sco1T's PLAN.-The Louis
vile Courier gives the following as Gen
ersl SCOTS plan Of operations He
gives out to his friends that the next
blow struck at the Confederates will
crush all life from the "hydra-headed
monster" It is intended to make the
army Of the Potomac 100000 strong :;
the army Of the Shenandoah, 10000.
and to collect $4,000 men in the valley
Of Western Virginia. A concerted move
ment is to be made by these forces, in
conjunction with the Mississippi and
Ohio dotilIas. Gen. Scott insists on ia
king his time, which will probably now
be allowed him by the press Of The North,
though Secretaries Blair and Chase were
anxious to know from the Lieutenant
General where the next blow will be
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VIZ have understood from an army
officer who was in the fight at Bull Run,
that ladies' wearing apparel was certain
" amongst the effects Of the enemy
They were ball dresses. A printing
press was also found, and invitation
cards, showing that a grand ball was to
come off in Richmond on the Monday
succeeding, for which the enemy
bad provided all kinds of confectionery.
Y hat a pity that such q nice program
me WAS spoiled.-Ly~ehb"yy Vi,g;n;ian.