The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-02


attachment for debt.
> BY uniting capital, large tracts can be
purchased and subdivided amongst the stock
holders at saving of at least 80 per cent. tC
individual purchasers.
3 The concentration of individual interest
and capital thus brought into play upon a
common object, must advance in an unusual
manner the value Of property thus purchased
10 the benefit OF each shareholder.
To BE BLOWN UP.-Ten soldiers who recent
II deserted from Fort Sumter and took refuge
on board the blockadng steamer Seneca. state
that the rebels on that post have made all ar.
engagements for blowing up the Notifications as
soon as it shall be apparent that Charleston
must surrender.
ITs BoUyDARIEs.-Som genius thus gives
the boundaries of JEFF Davis dominions The
Southern Confederacy may now be bounded as
follows On the North by Mcclellan and Hal
leck, on the east by Burnside aud Hunter, on
the South by Fort Pickens and the Gulf
Squadron and on the West BY Com. Foote,
Gen. Butler, Com. Farragut. Capt. Porter and
Gen. Pope.
Ex PREsIDENrs.-Two ex-Presidents of the
United States have died since the beginning
of the war-Tyler and Van Buren,. Three are
still liying-Filimore, Pierce and Buchanan.
The population of the Humboldt mining
region is said TO be 1900. including some
twenty families, and emigran;s are coming in
and settling rapidly,
The CHAMPIoNsHIP OF ENGLAND.-A match
has been arranged between Jim Mace, the
Champion of England, and Tom King, to come
off six months from the time of the latter's
challenge, May 25th.
\ YOUNG man named Michael Grimes, a
member in Capt. TidbaII's Company X, Fifth
Infantry California Volunteers, was drowned
in the Colorado river, at Fort Yuma, on the
10th day of June
GENERAL BurLSR is engaged in feeding the
poor OF New Orleans. The Louisville Demo.
crat says they object to martial law, but they
like its provisions"
The MERRMAc.-A recent court of inquiry
at Richmond decided that the destruction of
the Merrmac by her officers was unnecessary,
and that she ought to have been used to pre-
vent the passage OF Federal vessels up James
river.
\ SMALL boy. named Tom De Cordav, was
bitten by mad dog, iu San Francisco on
Monday morning last.
The Personal Liberty bill in Wisconsin has
been repealed.
The recognition of Italy by Prussia has
been telegraphed to Turin.
RIFE grapes are selling at Stockton for fifty
cents per pound
THE PENALTY.-P. K Woodsde. of Bear
Valley has been imprisoned fifteen days in the
Mariposa county jail for refusing TO give in an
assessed value Of his property.
IMPEAcHED.-Two Republican State officers,
who helped Kansas 10 bleed have been i'm
peached. They are q. 5. Hill, Auditor of
State, and Governor Robinson.
JUICE MoTT.-The Virginia City Enter
prize recommends Judge Mott as a suitable
person to represent Nevada Territory as Dele
gate in the next Congress
A RELEASED contrabaud in Newbern, art
lessly siguided his rapture by standing on
his head five minutes and knocking his heels
together" The Providence Journal SAYS " his
wife was less ecstatic.' We should hope So
The grape crop in the vicinity of Stockton
is said 10 be considerably affected by mdtw,
produced by the humidity Of the atmosphere.