The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-29
Northern Items.

Never since the settlement of Oregon has
there been as backward Summer experienced
as the present. During the forepart of this
week the rain was almost incessant and the
weather was more like April than June
Farmers say if this kind of weather should con.
tinue two or three weeks longer, the wheat
crop will not amount to even half usual yield.
Grass is generally good.
The Puget Sound Herald of June 9th saws ::
Yesterday the officers and seamen Of the United
States steames Massachusetts were sworn, in
compliance with recent orders from the Govern
ment Several of the men refused to take the
oath, urging that after signing the articles of
agreement, no such oath could be exacted-
They were of course discharged
\ shooting affair occurred at Seattle, w. T.,
May 3lst, In which a young lawyer named j.
w. johnson was shot in the leg with a pistol
by young man named Babcock. johnson
attempted to force himself as a member upon
a military company, was opposed by Babcock,
when a quarrel ensued and resulted in the
shooting
The Oregonian says: " The designations in
the army are doing some good. They secure
the promotion of valuable men. Capt. A. j
Smith, First Dragons at Walla Walla, will
be promoted to Major, and Lieut.. J. S. Mason,
Company E. Third Artillery, at Fort Vancou-
yer, will be Captain"
The company which has been organizing in
Linn and Lane counties for the purpose of
prospecting the Malheur river, will leave Eu-
gene City on the Oath instant, TO carry out the
object of their organization.
The machinery for a saw mill was sent I'D to
the Nez Perces mines on Friday, by compa-
ny in this CITY, The editor of the Times
accompanied the machine and is said to be
one of its proprietors.
A man named Charles Montague was seri-
ously injured by the premature discharge of
cannon at Union meeting at Sublimity, Ma
rion county, on the 8th.
A dispatch to the Marysville Appeal, dated
June 22d, from Yreka, has the following:
A terrible accident occurred on Tuesday
night, at the house of Mrs. Mary Hincke, be-
tween Crescent City and Jacksonville. The
residence was burned to the ground, and Mrs
Hincke and two daughters perished in the
flames. The fire was discovered about mid
night by persons being near, who did all in
their power to save the inmates, but without
success. Mrs. Hinckle was forty-two years of
age. Her eldest daughter, who was soon to
have been married, was sixteen, and the young
est six years. They emigrated from Missouri
in 1853.
CIuggage & Drum had six valuable horses
stolen from a ranch on Butte creek
A shooting affair occurred at Sailor Dig
gings, June 18th, between James Little and
Matthew Graham. Little was shot in the
hip.
In Linn county party of men, probably not
quite sober, overlook two young men, who
were returning from Union meeting, took
flag from one and pursued the other with
threats of shooting Several similar outrages
have recently occurred.
A man named Isaac Hale was accdently
killed in a drift at Dead Wood, on Thursday. |
Timbers were being thrown in the drift, one of
which struck him in the head, breaking his
skull
The Union meeting at Corvallis, Oregon,
was attended by over 5000 persons.
1t is believed that the lost cabin" which
has been unsuccessfully searched for, number
of years, is at last found. tits about fifty miles
from Yreka. Good diggings have been struck /
there, and two or three hundred men are now
making from SO to $l5 per day. The local- |
ty is kept rather secret.
From THE KERN RIVER MINEs-From a
letter from Keysville, bearing date of June
18th, we learn, says the Visalia DELTA, that 72 |
tons of quartz recently crushed at Marsh a.
Kennedys mill, yielded S8,413. 1t was from
the Mayhower lead, owned by Burgess and
Mulrian. Some new diggings were recently
discovered about thirty miles from Keysville, /
of which, says our informant, but little is
known, except that gold has been found over
quite scope of country. but whether in suf1i- /
cient amount to make it proftablc-future /.
prospecting will develope Some fifteen or
twenty men are at work there now.
GEN. BRADLEY, OF ARKANSAS, on A BIG |
ScARE.-We can give some authentic informa- |
ton upon this interesting subject. The num-
Der of troops at Union City, Tennessee, a few
miles from Columbus, was, two or three days
ago a little short of 5000 at Randolph, |
5000 ct Corinth, few miles out of Mem /
phis. upon the railroad, 1000 at a point six !
miles below Randolph, on the Tennessee side,
200; at Fort Harris, six miles above Mem
phs, 300 at Mound City, on the Arkansas
side, nearly opposite Fort Harris, 100. At
Randolph there are fifty cannon, mostly So
Founders the rest larger, 42s an1 64s.-
Thlrty-two of them are mounted, and ten or
twelve ready to mount. AT Memphis there /
were, two or three days ago, thirty cannon of
large caliber lying on the wharf some of them
Dahlgrens, and a large number Of balls. The |
people there have just been hauling out two
thousand bales of cotton for breastworks ex-
pecting Cairo to be along every day.
One little incident may be worth relating |
Ten or twelve days ago, General Bradley, Of
Arkansas, who was then at Memphis, heard a
rumor that all Cairo had broken loose. He
rushed instantly on board the Ohio Belle, the
Cincinnati boat seized at Helena, and steamed |
away with all possible speed to the encamp-
ment of his men at Bearfeld Point, about a
hundred miles above on the Arkansas side
Upon reaching the point, he leaped ashore,
and fastening breathlessly among the men,
bade them fly to the boat for their lives. |
There were sixteen or seventeen hundred of
them, but, incredible as it may seem, they were
all on board in less than twenty minutes.
When they were ready to start, the fact oc
CURED to an officer that IN their precipitation
they had left their picket guards behind them. |
" Let us fire our guns, said the officer, " and
bring the picket in" "Dont shoot, for Gods /
sake !" exclaimed Bradley, " no doubt the en-
envy are right on US. The boat started down
the river like greyhound, the General all the
while leaning himself forward to hasten her
speed, and he wouldn't stop till he had landed
his men on the Tennessee side, six miles below
the Tennessee troops at Randolph. ph.-Louispnle 1
Journal, Junc 10th.