The weekly Butte record., 1862-12-27
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Miscellaneous Eastern Items.

* The fashionable residents in Washington
are said to be annoyed by rumor that the
diplomatic corps propose to take up theil
abodes in New York, leaving an attacte for
each legation to transact the routine business
Albert Horn, the New York slavetrading
merchant. has been sentenced to Eve years i'm
prisonmeut. He Is ruined in health, fortune
and reputation.
Major Don Piatt who drew up the report
of the Military Commission over which Gen.
Hunter presided. Is remembered with interest
BY many people in Paris.
The charges against Fitz John Porter and
Buell-like those against Gen. Stone-are in
definitely postponed hearing.
Hon. A. J. Hamilton has been appointed
Military Governor Of Texas, with the rank OF
Brgader General, and granted authority to
raise two brigades of loyal Texans
4 The owners of cotton used in the fortifica-
tions about Nashville think it rather an ex-
travagant material, at sixty cents pound, to
be employed for purpose where turf and dirt
would do as we'll
Philadelphia party secured the contract
for two thousand headboards for soldiers
graves.
Charles Sumner paper-the one he takes
pains to frank and thus defrauds the revenue
abuses Gen. Banks.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that in all the
counties near the Canada line, to which escape
would be easy, the Democrats have made large
gains in the recent elections.
About $3.50 900 is believed to be the amount
of the fraud by Republican officials in the New
York Custom House.
OF the whole war debt estimated by Thad-
deus Stevens at two billions, there are only
sxtyeight millions funded for twenty years.
About one million and quarter is said to
be the dem'd expense" per diem, TO Uncle
\Sam at present
Old Westerfeld, Connecticut, the abode Of
virtue and onions, is rebelIious. 1t has direct
ed its Selectmen to pay no attention to any
Government order for draft.
Orders have been sent to finish the turrets
of the Monitors at once. The success of the
late experiment having demonstrated the feast
bility of arming them with l5-inch guns, they
will be completed for service exactly like the
Passaic.
The famous victor of Cowes, the yacht
America, is about to be armed with a formida-
BILE rifle gun. She will be a useful little ad-
junct to the navy.
All Government prisoners at Fort Warren,
in Boston Harbor. and Fort Lafayette in New
York Harbor, were liberated on Thanksgiving
Day
The annual town election of Hartford, Con
/necticur, took place November 24th The
Democratic ticket entire was elected by ma
jorites of from go to 400.
\ diamond weighing twelve carats. and
worth between $4,000 and $4,000, is now
on exhibition in Boston 1t is reported to
have been found year Since in Stoke county.
North Carolina.
Gen. Wool writes sharp note relative to
the report Of the Harper's Ferry Commission,
denying his responsibility for Col. Miles being
in command at that post, and speaking very
contemptuouslY Of the Commission.
The Republicans of Boston have nominated
George b. Upton for Mayor The Democrats
have nominated Mayor Wightman. George
Howland, Jr., is again the Republican caud
date fer Mayor Of New Bedford The present
renominated by a uo-party convention.
The flow of the Pennsylvania oil wells is
decreasing. the daily prodnct of the whole re-
gion being estimated at scarcely four hundred
barrels.
Bishop Elliott of Georgia, announces that
Nthe Union of the dioceses Of Texas Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina.
and Virginia is complete under the name OF
the Protestant Episcopal Church Of the Con
federate States of America.
Mr. Larkin G. Mead Vermont sculptor,
has Just completed a marble bust of General
Mcclellan, Of cabinet size. 1t is said to be an
excellent likeness Of the original
Col. Billy Wilson and staff have made a re-
cent trip from Pensacola to New Orleans and
back.