The weekly Butte record., 1862-01-11
Eastern News Items.

J house butter grows daily more and more una
. voidable. l have heard Of butter that was
strong enough TO pull IN shafts. Houses for
rent or sale are in great demand The eorpo-
ration is swollen like that OF an alderman after
a big dinner it would split its wastcoat If it
had one We have had recently a number of
remarkable matrimonial alliances Last week,
the most beautiful girl in town married Wild
over with eight children some Of them grown.
On the day this wedding took place, man
of eighty carried to the altar q miss OF seven
teen summers. Mr.. Black Diamonds Pol
lard, one of the editors of the Examiner. Is
among tie list of hymenial victims. Some OF
these marriages took place 10 church, and
were attended with very noisy and very ludi-
crous demonstrations. 1t is SAID that when the
old man, mentioned above saluted his bride,
the whole congregation shouted, and the boys
poured perfect hail storm of peanut hulis on
the bald sconce Of the aged groom. Richmond
is evidently rottening rapidly.
NEGRO REGIMENTS IN VIRGIsIA.-The negro
regiments in Virginia is thus described by the
Washington Republican
We learn by gentleman direct from the
| Upper Potomac that General jackson is now
at Winchester, Virginia, in command OF
regiment of negroes that they are fully armed
/ dOu ttIulptlSu- dllu uEc Oclle iiCoi
10 which exercise they take great delight
The information comes to Us from a source
entitled to credit, and from recent developments
in other Slave States, we apprehend that arm
ing the negroes against US is now the settled
policy Of the rebels. From the first these men
have been used for the benefit of the rebel
army, either in building its Notifications sup
plying it with the means of sustenance, in
working their guns, or doing the drudgery of
the camp, and now, when they can be of more
service under arms, they are enrolled into regi-
ments, 20 become a part of their fighting ele-
ment
The PRESIDENT AND HIS FRIENDs-The
Washington correspondent of the New York
Times writes Said leading Democrat of the
West, the other day to the President If
those who helped to place you in power were
as truly your friends, and as unselfsh and hon
est in their support Of your Administration, as
those who opposed you you would have less
/ trouble" l begin TO think So" replied the
President
FoRr WARREN, BosroN.-Fort Warren is
located on Georges Island, not on Governor
/ Island they being as many as seven miles
apart. Governors Island is in the upper har-
Dor, on the east side, near East Boston. Fort
! Warren, on Georges Island, is IN the outer
harbor. and looks directly out at sea. II you
are going in from sea the outer lighthouse is on
/ the right and Point Alderton on the left, and
the Narrows the only channel deep enough for
large vessels, is between the east side Of Fort
Warren and Lovelfs Island.
Georges Island was purchased of the owner,
in the town of Qaincy, for seven thousand five
hundred dollars, under the May0ralty of the el
der Quincy for the Government about thirty
/ two years ago and the fort was constructed by
/ Col. Thayer. Governors Island, by lineal de-
cent, became the property of Mrs. James An
drews. one of the Connecticut WinthropS, who
sold it to the Government only few years
since, and on it is the beginning of fort, very
/ elevated which is as yet in no condition for
use.
BOUND TO SEE HER.-The Rochester Ex-
press tells of volunteer in camp near that
! place who was anxious to visit his wife, but
being unable to obtain pass, secretly de-
camped intending to return in the morning
out his escape was discovered and he was ar
rested, returned to camp and lodged in the
guard house. Watching his opportunity he
Slipped out and jumped iato an empty hogs
head stunding in a wagon, near the gate, and
had the satisfaction OF being driven to the city
in less than an hour after his incarceration in
/ the guard house. He remained till next MORN
ing and returned to duty all right.
WE learn by letter received last evening
from Parkersburg, that desperate fight took
place day or two since in Writ county, be
tween Captain Simpsons company, Eleventh
| Virginia Regiment, and q much larger compa
ny Of Moccasin Rangers. Capt Simpsons
company were in house getting something to
eat, and the house was surrounded by the
M0ccasns, who demanded surrender Capt
Simpson declined and a fight ensued. Some
| eight or ten of the MOccasinS were killed, and
they were driven back into the woods Among
| the number killed of the Moccasns is the no.
/ torious Pat Connoly, who has boasted of hav
/ ing in his possession thirtyone scalps of Union
men. The fight continued about an hour
/ Wheeling lntelligencer, Dec. 5th.
A LETTER from Kentucky in a Cincinnati
paper gives later news from Nashville:
! Governor Harris had begun to draft from
/ the Tennessee militia, and in apprehension that
he would adopt such course, six or eight
/ nundred bleboded Unonists had left Nash
vile within week-some for East Tennessee,
and some in other directions. The State Bank
in Nashville had been filled with arms wrench
ed from the hands of citizens, in obedience to
Harris threatening circular. All the firearms
in the hardware stores had been seized. The
CITY uuGS:el with It's bed and bedding had been
taken for hospital and several large ware
houses had been taken for the same purpose.
REBEL PRoPERrY CoNFIscArED.-ExCo Com
modore Tatnall, who commanded the popgun
feet of the rebels at Port Royal, owns large
amount OF property at Sackett's Ha,bor New
York. Measures have been taken for the coz
iscatiou Of bis furniture, which is estimated 10
be worth $4,000. A libel and information
were filed by the District Attorney, and q
motion for condemnation was made in the Uni
ted States Court, at Buffalo. Eli Cook ap-
peared for Tatnall as claimant Of the property,
and proposed TO answer and defend. The
District Attorney asked leave to amend the
libel, which was granted, and then three weeks
were allowed Cook to answer the amended libel
after it should be served. The case will prob
ably be tried at the next term at Albany.
Docs OF Wharf.-The United States steam
frgate Niagara" which is reported to have
en.aged the forts in the bands OF the rebels at