The weekly Butte record., 1863-04-04
OUR EASTERN LETTER.
lEDIroRIAL coRREsroxDEscE.
THREE RIVERS, alieh.) March ,, 1858.

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Another week has rolled around, and one of
Greeley's three months, in which the rebellion
was to be put down. or " the best attaiuable
peace made, has passed. and the only advance
thus far made is the loss of the ram Queen of
the West, on the Red river, aud she viii soon
come out as the formidable iron-clad ram and
guuboat that she really is, under rebel colors
Commodore Elicit, who abandoned her to the
enemy, is the Elicit who published pamphlet
last year, in opposition to the organization Of
the Army Of the Potomac by Mcclellan. and
inaugurated the opposition of the radicals that
has resulted so disastrously to the Peninsula
campaign and the Union arms generally. The
radicals. doubtless, advanced him TO the CON-
mand of one of the best Union gunboats as
reward for his onslaught upon Mcclellan. We
shall have the result when the Queen has de-
stroyed portions of our vulnerable river feet,
and aided the rebels as she is capable of doing.
The siege of Vicksburg is progressing under
Grant, there being no longer a doubt but that
he will succeed in making his canals uavigable,
so that the Notifications may be fanked by
gunboats, as they were at Island No. 10.
Glorious Rosecrans Is again ready for action,
and is advancing upon the rebels at Chatta-
nooga, as fast as the muddy state of the roads
will permit. His gallant army is thoroughly
re-orgauized aud reinforced, and be is conf.
dent Of another and more complete and impor-
tant victory. He is so far from Washington
as to be bevond the meddlesome influence Of
Chandler and Wades war committee, and the
greatest confidence is felt in his success.
Banks is performing prodigious service for
the Union cause in New Orleans, by trying to
make white soldiers fight and work with ne,
groes, and salute colored officers of the day.
He recently typiGed the object of the war by
mounting a negro girl on a cannon, and Sum-
ner, in the Senate, characterized it as the
"most sublime spectacle of the war" Well,
that may be a little more sublime than the ac.
tion of Gov. Yates. of Illinois, who appointed
woman major, and chartered a boat, at the
expense of the State, to take her to Donelson
to look after the wounded. 1t is said that
Banks is to go TO Texas, and that Butler is to
be restored to the Department of the Gulf
1t is difficult matter to tell what Hooker's
army is doing. The rebels report that 25,000
of them are at Newport News, and, if So it
looks as though the Peninsula campaign was
to be revived on small scale. The informa-
tion from this portion of the army is very
meagre and unsatisfactory.
Hunter is organizing negro regiments at
Port Royal, and has several iron-clads there,
to help him keep order among them. Thus,
in brief, stands the military display of the
Government on the Isl of March, 1868. The
radical influence to which the Administration
has given way, seems 10 have parayzed its
movements, and held the army in check, to
await the workings of the proclamation.
THE New York Herald reports that Gen.
Mcclellan is to be restored to the command of
the army next month, and that the Cabinet is
to be re-organized upon a conservative basis.
with Seward in his present position. Would
to Heaven that that much light and patriot
ism might break in upon the Administration
through the black cloud of Republicanism that
has enveloped it like a pail. We fear, how
ever, that the report is entitled to no more
credence than the dispatches that erst while
came from the capital, that hereafter the
war was to be vigorously prosecuted"
] Mn. SUMNER, in a recent debate in the Sen-
ate, claimed that Massachusetts should be
credited on her contingent of troops, with the
men who had joined the navy from that State
Other Senators objected to this that more
than half the seamen were foreigners, that
Massachusetts fishermen had joined the army
rather than the navy, and that large portion
of the volunteers from Massachusetts were
working men from the other States. Governor
Andrew acknowledges the unwillingness of ne
groes TO volunteer, and that he can get no
more troops from California The high.toned
Republicans of that State cannot stand a draft
Thus it seems that the State which has done
more to bring about the war than any other
State claiming to be loyal, is likely to remain
nine thousand behind her quota. The stencil
of her politics has sufocated her PATRIOTISM
DO her people owe their bigotry. intolerance
and cowardice to the education of her schools.
WHILE Senator Wilson's conscription bill
was under consideration, Mr. Sumner moved
an amendment that clergymen be exempted.
Mr.. Henderson of Missouri, said, In Missouri
ministers in many cases had preached treason,
and, to great degree, been instrumental in
/ bringing about this war. If be had his way,
he would put them all in the field and make
them fight the battles of the war they had
done so much in inaugurating" Mr. Hender-
son deserves the thanks of every patriotic lover
of his country, for the Inauguration of move