The weekly Butte record., 1863-05-16

hints as may be deemed for the advantage of
those engaged either in prospecting for ores, or
raising aud reducing them.
. DoSr SrfLL THIS GsAvY.-Catli0, the ia
nous American traveller and collector of Iu-
dian curiosities, has seen stirring incidents in
the course Of his adventures. The following is
related By fellow traveller, who gave Catlin
the sobriquet Of Governor :" "One day when
be had landed, aud most of our party were ly-
ing asleep on the boat, which was drawn un-
der the shade of some large trees, the Governor
and | collected some wood aud made large
fire on the bank, two or three rods from the
boat. over which We were roasting fat pig,
which had shot from the boat that morning.
l was squatted down on one side of the fire,
holding short frying pan, in which we had
made some very rich gravy, which the Cover
nor, who was squatted down opposite me, was
lading over the pig with a wooden spoon. All
OF a sudden observed his eye fixed upon some
thing over my shoulder, when he said TO me in
very low tone Now, | want you to keep
perfectly cool, and don't spill the gravy there
is splendid tiger right behind your l held
fast to the frying pan, and, turning my head
gradually around, had full view of the fellow
within eight PAGES of me, lying fiat on bis side,
and with his paws lifting up and playing with
one Of the legs of our Spaniard, who had lain
himself down upon his belly and was fast
asleep. Our rifles were left 10 the boat Ths
/ Governor drew himself gradually down the
bank, on his hands and feet, ordering me not
to move. was in hopes be would have taken
the old MIME, but be preferred his own weapon,
and getting it to bear upon the beast, he was
obliged to wait some minutes for ii to raise its
head, so as not to endanger the poor Spaniard;
at the crack of the rifle the animal gave a
piercing screech and leaped about fifteen feet
straight into the air and fell quite dead The
| Spaniard jumped nearly as far in a different
direction aud at the same instant behind q
little bunch of bushes on the opposite side, and
not half the distance from our fire. and right
behind the Governors back, where he had
been sitting, sprang the mate, which darted
into the thicket and disappeared. We skinned
this beautiful animal, which was shot exactly
between the eyes after all had withdrawn
from the boat, we waited several hours in
| hopes that the other one would show itself
again but we waited in vain, and lost our
| game
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character, which at present occupies the atten-
tion of the Partisan public, has just happened
to Mademoiselle A, the grand daughter of a
Senator, formerly the keeper of the seals under
the first empire. The last summer she was
courted at one of the watering places by real
or supposed Russian prince, who soon after
made proposals of marriage. But Madame A.
objected TO the match assigning as reason
that her daughter was not very rich, having
only 200000f as her marriage portion. So Ma
dame" said the prince d" that is of 10 eouse-
quence. | would prefer not mentioning the
subject Of dowry at all. Lay out those 200,
000f. in the purchase of corbeiHe worthy os
Mademoiselle, if that be possible" This mag
nihcent act of selfdenial threw Madame A off
her guard, and she neglected to take the sim
pie precaution OF inquiring at the Russian En-
bassy what were the titles and position of the
prince. The marriage was decided upon. The
money was laid out as proposed, with the ex-
ception Of 60,000f. which was, at the wish of
/ the prince thrown into the c0rbeile with the
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celebrated the other day, and, as the hotel
which the prince was building was not COM
pleted, he conducted his bride after the cere-
mony to one of the most sumptuous apartments
of the Grand Hotel. On the following morning
the young wife found herself in the same posi-
ton as Psyche after her fatal ft of curiosity
No prince was to be found. 1t appears that
her noble husband had decamped early in the
morning, taking with him the corbe,Ae and the
60,000f. The false prince is supposed to be
an Englishman already divorced from his wife.
IDAHo.-The boundaries of Idaho Territory
are: on the west the line Of Oregon on the
east, the 9th meridian; oH the south, the
42d, and on the north, the 10th parallel of lat
itude. From east to west it extends over II
degrees of longitude, the larger portion of it
lying Oh this side of the Rocky mountains.
Fort Laramie is situated Dear its southeastern
angle. The territory comprises about l25,O00
square miles.
/ Nearly all the great rivers which flow from
both sides of the mountains take their rise in
this territory. Among these are the principal
afluents of the Missouri and the Columbia, in
GLIDING the Salmon river, which is now the
seat Of very considerable mining Industry
1t is known that gold mines exist on the east
ern slope OF the great mountain system which
intersects that country but for agricultural