The weekly Butte record., 1861-12-28
Late Eastern Paragraphs.

COulIOrt lOf LDe Teutl>.
The Richmond Enqurer denounces two
Confederate officers as the tools of Floyd
! 1t means that they are burglars tools.
There is a talk of Pillows being at the head
of Buckners staff Think of q staff with a
brass head to 1t.
A daughter-in law and daughter Of the late
British novelist, q. 2. R. James, will open a
select school in Detroit, Michigan, on the first
of January.
The Government has in service two regi-
meDts OF lancers, two composed entirely of
lumbermen, one Of miners, one of railroad men,
one of engineers and bridge makers, and one of
mechanics.
A lady in Pittsburg mourns the loss of pet
canary bird, which has just died of old age
The little veteran was fifteen years of age, and
be sang till he died.
The correspondent of the New York Post
says that one of our men found 81 800 in gold
and Confederate money, together, at Port Roy
al. We fear the proportion was much like
that of Falstaff's bread and sack.
The Confederacy postal system has broken
down. Perhaps the Confederates wouldn't OBJ
jec: to return TO the Union so far as to allow
mails. according to the old method of doing a
losing business.
The truthful force of Dean Swift's saying
that a" it is useless for US to attempt to reason
man out of thing he has never been reason
ed into,' is perhaps the cause why secession
cannot be put down by argument, for it GER
tainly never was started in reason.
A fellow about to start hotel in New
York hired thief to steal bedding for him
from other hotels The thief would pay for
his lodging, register his name, and request to
be called very early, taking when he went,
sheets, pillow cases, etc. He had visited all
the large inns of the city and accumulated sew
eral dozen pieces when he was nabbed
A sad family scene was presented in the Os-
wego Police Court, recently. Four genera
tions were present-an aged woman of ninety,
accusing her daughter, grand daughter and
great grandson of abuse and illtreatment-
The old lady realizes, as but few ever can.
'' How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have thankless child
The somewhat startling rumor gains cre-
dence as well as currency, in New York, that
the spy and nformer, whose reports to the
rebels have precluded all success on the side of
our army, is lady, of more notoriety than
reputation, residing on Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington. This woman has great facility
for obtaining news and learning our plans.
1t is, perhaps, fact not generally known,
that at the time Col. Washington was killed.
Gen. Lee and his entire staff were only 200
yards from the place where he fell. If this
game could have been safely bagged it would
have added quite an interesting feature to the
dot IL Of ba ord hut tbor f,l
campaign which has been fought in that re-
gion.
They have, it is said, rife company in
Vermont, whose captain takes them out once
week to practice he draws them up 10 sin
gle file, and sets cider barrel rolling down the
hill the men commence shooting from right to
left at the bung hole as it comes up. After
the shooting is over, the captain examines the
barrel, and if he finds a shot that did not enter
the bung hole, the member who missed is ex-
PEELED. None have been expelled for the last
eight years.
The Cleveland Plaindealer has an account
Of the wedding of Dan Rice, the Union stump
speaker and Snowman, which took place at his
farm, near Girard, Pennsylvania, on the 5th
ut., Miss Charlotte Rebecca Mcconnell, of
Girard, being the bride. His residence has
recently been rebuilt, and is fitted up in style
of peculiar but most admirable taste. A wild
and romantic tract of land, sufficiently ample,
on one section of the farm, has been enclosed a
park, in which are a number of elk, deer, buf-
falo, etc. In the centre a fish pond is dug.
Rev. William S. Balch, of Ludlow has in
troduced bill into the Vermont Legislature
which contiscates all intoxicating liquors bro't
into the State of Vermont All packages Of
liquor found in the hands of railroad corpora
ti0ns, or other common carriers, are to be
seized by the Government. If pure it goes to
town agents if impure, ii is destroyed. There
is prospect of its being passed. This is the
most stringent prohibtory law ever introduced
Commodore Paulding and the rebel Com
modore Tatnall were intimate friends. While
the Government was allowing officers to resign,
the two had long interview, in which Paul
ding exhausted every argument to induce
Tatnall to serve his country. 1t was all in
vain. At the close of the conference Tatnall
put the question What will you do if we
meet ?" The answer was prompt and eDerget-
ic will shoot you Tatnall doubted his
ears, and repeated the question in deprecia-
ting tone. He received the same answer with
additional vim, and became thoughtful. The
bONeTuiilenL VIII pIOOdu.y ItiicfC COuli' uO'C
Paulding from bis post as Commander of the
Brooklyn Yard, and assign him to active SER
vice.
The New York Times has an article on
Business matters and Brains, in which the
following passage occurs, which is quite as
applicable to political as to business matters :
The world is full of wild projectors, mo-
neyless and void of discretion, who would
swamp a nation if they could only induce cap
itasts TO embark in the realization of their
projects. There are also capitalists so timid
and incapable that the noblest ideas are stified
and starved through their lack of perception
and faith Such capitalists do not enrich q
country any more than such projectors promote
its industrial and social development But
happy is the nation, the age. which rejoices in
perfect understanding and accord between
its Money and its Brains
IRELAND.-The tremendous demonstration
made by the Irish people on the 4th of No
vember, at Dublin, in honor of the patriot,
Terrence Bellew McManus, cannot have failed
to leave a deep impression on the English
Government. The Times affect to treat the
funeral ceremonies with aristocratic nonchal-
auce but the statesmen of the country must
have regarded the event as iDdlsputaole evi-
deuce that the masses of the Irish people still