The weekly Butte record., 1861-05-25


CAPTAIN ..................... lis 90
First Lieutenant ..--......-.... ........ los 90
Second lieutenant Observation-Disclosures. lob 80
Brevet Second Lieutenant t............... l03 50
First Orderly Sergeant. .............-.... 36 90
Other Sergeants ..-....-..--.. Il %
Corporals. ........... ...--...-..-..-..-.. y 90
priyates ......... % 90
Musicians. Observation-Disclosures. y 90
Officers are required to provide their own
uniforms and other equipments, but the men
are clothed and armed by the Government.
The mate of the schooner ID. b. Pitts, who
has lately arrived at New York from Charles
ton, says that there is no doubt that nearly
two hundred men were killed in the batteries
during the engagement, and that most of them
were buried on the beach. He says that on
the nights of the 9TH 10th and l7th instant,
the steamboat which piled between the city
and the batteries took down an aggregate Of
about two hundred collins He was informed
also by a gentleman who had brother aud
brother-in-aw in the garrison of Fort MOultrie,
that after writing to them repeatedly without
obtaining any answer. he finally received a
note from one of the officers, stating that they
had both been killed. and that their bodies
could be sent for which he was about to Go.
lie learned from various sources that the num-
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could not ascertain the number in the other
batteries. He is positive as to the shipment
of a large number Of cofins on board the
steamboat on the nights mentioned, having
seen them faken on board himself
A Brooklyn man claims to have invented
the most destructive missile known 1t is
bombshell so arranged that whether it falls
upon hard or soft earth, stone or wood, 1t bursts,
and the contents lv in every direction, and in
all shapes and quantities If it strikes wood,
ignition instantly ensues aud ii any human
being, it passes down and through the body
with the rapidity and effect OF lightning. A
series of test experiments have been tried, both
with cannon and projecting bo hand. In one
of the latter trials person standing impFu-
IDENTIFY near the spot Of explosion was struck
by a descending piece of the filling, about the
SIZE of a pea. on the back of his neck. In an
instant it traversed his body, scoring track
for itself, and finally stopped IN his boot Ihe
injuries will not heal for over month. Inc
shell has been offered by the inventor to the
Government. The cost of the shell IS only
one-fourth that of the form at present in use.
The Montgomery Advertiser speaks thus OF
one Jere AustiIl This veteran fighter was
in our city yesterday, en- route for the seat OF
war eastward He Is the only survivor of the
few heroes who performed such deeds of valor
in the celebrated Canoe Fight Although
sixtv-seven years of age, he is as eager to par
tcipate in the fray with the hireHngs OF Lin
coin as when a youth, fifty years ago be
volunteered to fight the aboriginal savages.-
We predict that he will be in the thlckest OF
the battle, and astound the Wide AwakeS
more than he aud the noble Sam Dale and two
others did the Indians in the canoe light
His son is Captain of the University Cadets,
who. during their recent visit to our city, won
the admiration OF all. The company we un-
derstand, will tender their services to the
Governor in response to the last requsition.-
In conversation with Austil he informed us
that he feled the first tree in our present city,
which was in lSl5.'
The Louisville Journal has the following
" 1t has been stated that while the crowd at
Lynchburg, Virginia, was groanlng at Andy
johnson, aud Offering him various indignities,
one man pulled his nose. A Louisville gentle
man, who was there at the time, says that
Andy s nose was not pulled \ fellow attempt
ed it, but , ndy drew a pistol and would have
shot him on the instant if the men present had
not interposed. Our informant was on the
same train with Andy for q considerable dis
tance, this side of Lynehburg, and he says that
the sturdy old gentleman, although iusulted by
the populace at every stopping point, showed
nerve that Napoleon or Caesar might have
admired. All honor to the brave and the
true"
The New York Tribune tells in the following
paragraph how West Point was saved from
falling into the hands Of the Seeessionists =
A short time before the expiration Of the
late Administration Major Dalefeld resigned
his post as commandani at West Point, and
through the influence Of SHdell, Gen Beaure-
gard was appointed in his stead Fortunately,
however. before the latter had assumed his
position, the Administration learned that there
was plot in existence, the iuldllment of which
would have been to place West Point in the
hands of Secessionisis. and at the same time
through the completely of traitors in New ork
a movement was to be made for separating the
city from the State. The confusion that would
follow, it was hoped, would prove highly ad
vantageous to the traitors. Major Daleield
was telegraphed Immediately not TO resign; he
replied that he had sent bis resignation Just
three hours before. He was then directed TO
resume his command, which he Immediately
did, thus thoroughly 'scotching the traitors
Our own correspondent" of the New York
Times, in letter dated Paris, April 18TH,
S.'es long detail OF an interview between
faulkner, the American Minister. and Thou
Vena French Minister of Foreign Affairs, IN
WI winch the latter says At the same tine NJ.
.l9ouyenal said that the practice OF France as
indeed OF most of the European Powers, was
now clearly understood in these cases Of reeog-
nition OF new Governments. A Government
9nee clearly established beyond dispute was
Government Gle facto, aud must be recognized,
and when the new American Government ar