The weekly Butte record., 1862-06-14
NO. 32


interesting epistle:
GEoRGE D. PRESTIcE Il have the pleasure
of informing you your days are numbered
your death near st hand. General Buckner
has friends who are sworn to avenee him. and
upon YOU they look as a cowardly enemy; one
who fears 10 speak while his foe is powerful,
but who exults and sacrilegioUSly dares to
thank God he can exult over the downfall Of
Simon Boliyer Buckner" Beware. George
D. Prentice The rebel gunboats are grada-
ally approaching Louisville, and what they fail
10 accomplish. willing hands aud hearts will
perform Poison aud the dagger have put
many 10 sl.ep who walked no more. Then
beware that such IS net your fate.
CHARLorrE CoRpAY.
The letter came to Us says Prentice) III a
very pretty female chlrosraphy, and is pos
marked Georgetown We get letters like
it every day, and almost every hoar Of every
day, and we publish this merely 10 Illus
trate the general spirit of the rebel women of
Kentucky. \ thousand devils have evidently
entered them. and perhaps it would be great
loss if, Ike the swine that experienced a slmi-
lar visitation nearly two thousand years ago,
they were to rush down steep place into
the sea-
Charlotte" says cur days are numbered"
No doubt they are numbered" and so are
We, but we guess that their number is three
score and ten years. and ours \ No. l."
From the signature that our amiable CORE
spondent uses. Charlotte Corday,' We judge
that she means to do The stabbing part of the
business herself But we don't believe she can
Her namesake stabbed Marat in his bath, and,
to protect ourselves from the intrusion of just
such characters as err Georgetown correspon-
dent. we have long been in the habit, while
taking our bath, Of keeping the door locked
However, if she viii convince US that she is
pretty. we may be prevailed on to give her a
ticket Of admission.
The DEATH OF THE PoEr-SoLDIFR O'BRIEN.
Lieut. Fitz James OBrien was sacrificed by
an ignorant Methodist minister who had re-
ceived an appointment as surgeon through
some political influence, and who dressed his
wound so unskillfully that for more than a
month the gallant soldier was suppurating his
life away A resection of the joint of his arm
by competent person, caused tetauus, from
which he died The last words he over wrote
were to friend, describing the painful opera
ton:
"All my shoulder bone and a portion OF my
upper arm have been taken away. l nearly
died. My breath ceased. my heart ceased to
beat, pulse stopped. However, got through.
l am not yet out OF danger from the operation,
but worse disease has set in. | have got
tetanus or lock-iaw There is a chance Of my
getting out of it, that's all. In case | don't,
goodbye, old fellow, with all my love. don't
want to make any legal document but desire
that you and Frank Wood should be my lite,
rary executors, because, after | am dead, | may
turn out a bigger man than when living. I'd
write more if | could, but I'm very weak.
Write to me. 1 may be alive, Also, get
Wood to write
The next morning O'Brien felt little better
than usual, and being helped up, sat for time
on the side of his bed He now managed to
swallow little beef tea, which was given him
through a syringe. The doctor then asked
him if he would take a glass of sherry
Brien said, Yes" While slowly slipping
the sherry he turned pale and fell back. The
doctors Immediately dashed cologne water in
his face and began to fan him with the pillows.
But it was too late. His features were set in
death But for the incompetency of the i'm
postor who at first handled his wounds, he
would now be alive and we'll Boston Post
THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING A NEGRo.-A
letter from Port Royal to the Providence Press,
says: " No doubt you remember Oliver Twist,
and what be did in the poor house Perhaps
l shall do so, too for though we are not in
poor house, we are on a miserable island, where
tie luxures Of life are among the things we
remember 10 have heard of-uness we happen
to belong to the commission for ameliorating
the condition of the slave, in which case we
should fare well, lnasmuch as their scouts pick
up almost everything that is to be had, and if
there is any surplus, the negroes may sell it to
the soldiers eggs, for instance, at fifty cents
dozen. Taking everything into consideration,
| wish sometimes that l was a coored indi-
vidual :"
Democratic State Central Committee
THE following is a list of the Union Democratic
State Central Committee for the ensuing year.
Chairman-D. D. COTTON, of san Francisco.
Alameda-R. :. Farley.
Amador-A. C. Brown.
Butte aud plumas-N. D. Plum.
Calaveras-William Highly
Contra Costa and Marin-Tmothy Mah0n.
FL Dorado. Hume. J. J. Green and t. Willow.
Fresno and Tulare-William c. Morris.
Klamath. Humboldt and Del Nurte-J. 7. Ryan,
NaripOSa. Merced and Stanslaus-A. peering
MeHdocino. Napa and Lake-Edwar1 McGary-