The weekly Butte record., 1862-03-08
Eastern Summary of Minor News.

4 correspondent of one Of the Northern
journals give sad picture Of the condition Of
affairs in the great State of Missouri. All the
banks in the State have been robbed Of every
dollar 10 specie, and you can form but an i'm
perfect idea of what a deplorabIe state we are
in. Six months ago men that were worth
S500,000, to-day are not worth half that
Real estate could not be sold for ten cents per
acre where heretofore it has been selling at $50
per acre.
An extensive haul of bogus coin nlanufactu-
rers WAS made recently in Chicago--the coin
consisting chiefly of halves and quarters. The
men we're surprised at the mint itself, where
they found three Of the parties engaged in the
unlawful manufacture. One of them was melt
ing the metal in an iron lade in the stove while
moulds we're placed convenient to his hand
Another was engaged in trimming and brush
ing up the newly cast coins, while the third
superinended the operation of eaIvanic bat
! terry. used for giving them the desired appear
auce Of silver.
/ The rebel General Zollicofer met bis death
/ lost his road, and riding through a patch of
wood for a short cut, came upon Fry regiment
the Fourth Kentucky he mistook
(
ing these troops to charge against the Mis-
sissippians, be exclaimed. Don't fire upon
those men-they are your friends" At this
moment an Aid of Zocoffer shot Col. Fry's
horse from under him, when the Col leveled
and shot the rebel General dead
General Mcclellan, in a letter to Professor
Bache, strongly depreciates the proposed sus-
pension of the coast survey by Congress, on the
score of economy. He says that the topo
graphical information of the country south of
the Potomac, which has been of such incalcu-
liable service to our armies, and without which
their movements would have been paralysed
was entirely derived from the coast survey of
former years and that any money now ex-
pended on this service will be repaid a hun
dred fold in time of need.
DR.. Winship. the American Sampson, has
rival in Professor" Ira Field, of Troy, who
recently lifted sixteen hundred pounds.
A most interesting book has recently been
published in New York under the title of
F" The Fallen Brave''-embracing the lives of
Ellsworth, Winthrop, Baker, Cameron. and
many Others-a good idea. The contents are
principally by John G. Shea and George VIM
Curtis.
Among the bills now before Congress, and
specified as sure to pass, is one providing for
the construction of twenty iron-clad steam
batteries each of which is to be 2l6 feet in
length, As feet in breadths, and abont IA feet
depth of hold. Each boat is to have revolving
turretS worked on familiar mechanical princi- |
pies and each containing a Columbiad of the |
largest calibre, which, by a movement Of the |
turret upon its axis, can be directed at pleasure
to any point of the horizon.
The sum of S25 900 has been authorized to
be appropriated by bill which has Just passed /
both Houses Washington, for the better pro- /
lection OF the Overland emigration to Califor-
MIA. Last year $4,000 was appropriated for
that purpose, of which only $4,000 was ex-
pended
Granny SlOcum' and " Cousin Reuben
performers in the Old Folks" concert troupe. |
were publicly married upon the stage to Mus |
cal Fund Hall, Philadelphia, recently. The |
bridegroom was dressed in very long brown
coat, reddish wastcoat Hessian boots. bell |
crowned hat, and long hair of the period of !
1890, and the bride as an old woman of the /
same time, in short wasted iawn colored silk. |
with very high, broad cap. As she appeared |
with Father Guck the chief of the troupe, |
Wadsworth the officiating clergyman, entered |
by an opposite door, and when the company
were ranged in row, the marriage took place |
with great solemnitv. At the conclusion, the |
audience were invited down stairs where in
bomely style they were RECALLED with mugs of
cider and doughnuts. upon bare piuewood |
tables, as in the old fashioned farnhouses of
former days. Both parties are young. the |
groom about fve-and-twenty and the bride
some years younger.
Col. Colt leaves a fortune of over S5.00O.- |
600. The original inventor of his pistol never
reaped dollar, and is, it is said, now poor
man.
Philadelphia has the largest Fire Depart
ment in the world 1t comprises 100 compa- |
nies; - steam engines, 46 hand engines, and
ll6 carriages. The plumber of fires in that
city, during the past year, was SS2 estimated /
loss $4,000; insurance, S205 ,355