The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1858-1864, 1862-09-20

mand Of our main army, another has his Office.
He has certainly sacrificed enough of the best
and bravest of the youth of the land, and cost
the Government millions upon millions, BY his
fruitless movement on Richmond. And Is this
his return for the high honors conferred upon
him By his country? Let Us close our eyes on
the mournful and humiliatiug spectacle
In addition to those deuunciations of Nc
Clellan as traitor, and as being guilty of
+" great crime aud the Administration that
placed him in command, as being guilty of an
infatuation that is running the country, the
Union has daily teemed with sneers and abuse
of Mcclellan, as its articles plainly Indicate
because Mcclellan does not make the emanei.
patton question superior TO the Constitution of
his country. Well. the Sacramento Union is
sound on the wool question, and that, We sup
pose, gives it full liberty to denouuce the Pres
ident as being guilty of infatuation, and his
Generalin Chief as traitor
If the Sacramento Union really entertained
z sincere love for its country, and was DESTROYS
of aiding in putting down the present rebellion,
it would not be guilty of the shameless and de-
testable crime of denouncing the Chief Execu-
tive Of the nation, and the General in command
of its armies, whose whole energies are devoted
to the herculean task Of preserving the Gov
ernment. In doing it, the Union violates its
most sacred engagements to advance its parti.
zan views-dishonors itself-Cf such thing
is possible.) is guilty Of the blacklist perfdy,
and treats as enemies those who had right to
expect lis assistance and services.
SPEAKER OF THE AssENBLY.-We are as
sured by correspondent that the Union men
of Butte county would be delighted to have F.
NJ. Smith, Esq, Union Assemblyman elect,
chosen speaker of the House. The great fight
in Butte was against him. and be won it BY
earnest advocacy of the cause of the Govern
meut. He is declared to be a man of sound
Judgment, ready and quick in debate, earnest,
bold and patriotic in his devotion 10 his coun-
try, and would do honor to the position
Marysyille Appeal.
We cordially iudorse the above, and believe
Mr., Smith will make an excellent Speaker
His energetic advocacy Of his party should
entitle him to it. His is among the best legal
minds of the State, and his energy aud deyo-
ton to his profession, should place him on the
Supreme Bench. A few men of his stamp
would make the Supreme Court what it ought
to be. If the speakership will not operate
against his prospects for the Supreme Judge
ship, We hope he will get it.
The Marysville Appeal asserts, for the sec
ond time, that General Mcclellan once ran on
the Republican ticket, in Illinois, for Congress.
The assertion of the Appeal does not make it
so. Was the assertion true, however, it would
make no difference with Us. We do not pro-
scribe a man for once having been wrong, but
for continuing in the wrong The best evidence
that Mcclellan is not now Republican, is to
be found in the fact that the Republicans are
trying to kill him Off and to accomplish which
they have shown themselves willing to sacrifice
the army under his command
GONE UNDER.-Four papers of California
have been taboOed by General Wright, who
has issued orders TO the postal authorities of
the State, acting upon which, hereafter, the
Stockton Argus and Democrat, the San Jose
Tribune, Tulare Post and Equal Rights
Expositor, published at Visalia, will be refused
transmission in the mails and expresses of this
State as reasonable publications. The Ex-
positor was a malignant rebel sheet The
Stockton argus and Democrat, was Douglas
Democratic paper, but has bitterly opposed
United States Treasury notes, The San
Jose Tribune was a republication of the Lon
don papers.
AID FOR THE ESEMY.-The recent bitter,
foolish and drunken speech of Senator Chand-
Ter, of Michigan, is published in full in the
Richmond papers. Various editorials that re-
Gently appeared in the Sacramento Union will
be reproduced in the papers Of the rebel cap
ital
The KEY NorE.-The Republican mer-
chants of San Francisco, whose bills have
heretofore been payable in United States
COIN have suddenly found that the key to the
military prison at Alcatraz, is also the proper
key to U. S. treasury notes. They undertook
to play sharp on flats, but the W'ngh key made
them beat Flora Temples time in bringing
notes up to par.
The Republicans came nigh losing the elec.
ton in Maine, as the Republicans here would
have us believe, because they had joined the
army. The fact is, however, that the prospect
of draft for the army, sent the Republicans
of Maine into Canada, TO look after the int
rests of the negro colonies they had planted
there.
STATE TREASURY.-The cash balance in the
State Treasury, at the close of business on
Saturday evening, amounted TO 1914 800 IS,
of which S63,S3 81 is credited to the Ma
tional Tax Fund