The weekly Butte record., 1863-05-23
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TaEEE RIvEEs. (aIieh-) April y.

startling character. No essential advantage
has been gained or lost. The rebels still hold
their main points. which are still menaced by
the Government forces. Two or three brilliant
little episodes have occurred, which reflect
honor on cur troops, and shows that they
might accomplish much under favorable cir
eumstauees and competent leaders. The little
garrison at Washington. y c.. under Foster.
have maintained themselves against len 10 one.
and still held the place. it being reported that
the rebels have raised the siege and departed
Some Of Rosecrans' cavalry. il Western Ten
uessee have done good service lately, in pick
ing up rebels and teaching them their manners.
Gen. Peck, at Suffolk. Va, has also repalsed
a rebel attack, capturing battery and 200
prisoners On the Mississippi, We have recap
tured the famous ram Queen of The West, and
the Diana, taken from Us some time since. 4
very fair weeks work as defensive operations,
and may have tendency TO discourage the re-
belion. Let Us hope that We may be equally
successful whon We attempt the offensive
TIE sailing of another rebel cruiser from
England, and the partial success Of the rebel
cotton loan, have raised the expectations OF the
rebels to the seventh heaven. and they expect
to have peace and the Southern Confederacy
in ninety days" There are several other
steamers preparing for them, but it is doubted
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they may do so. as those that are already
ahoat have escaped, while the English Govern
ment pretended to be watching them.
While these rods are in pickle for the Amer
lean Government, the Republican leaders are
pulling the ropes for the next campaign, kill
ing of our ablest generals, and yiifying the
Union soldiers, all for the purpose of making
room for some abolition politician for the next
Presidency-probabIy old Ben Wade. The
committee on the conduct OF the war are I'D
ding in politics while our army and navy are
either repulsed or at a stand still at every point
What care they? They go on with their work
Of misrepresenting those who won the only
battles of any benefit to the Union cause, be
cause they might otherwise become favorites
with the people, and prevent these disgusting
politicians from accomplishing their schemes
Ben Wade is their candidate Eyerybod
else must be killed of, no matter what the ef-
feet may be upon the Union cause. They re
gard Fremont, Banks and Seward as already
killed of. Hence the satirical points in the
committees report against the President. He
must give way to make room for Wade. That
is the Union and safety the abolitionists are
now seeking.
AT Charleston our fleet only reached the
entrance of the harbor. 1t never got within
it. Had the iron-clads succeeded in passing
the Instructions, they would still have found
miles Of batteries to run. They would have
entered an Inferno which, like the portals of
Dautes Hell, might we'll bear the flaming le
gend, Who enters here leaves hope behind"
Not a point at which they would not have
found themselves
Mid upper, neither. and surrounding fires"
They pass out of the focus of Forts Sumter
and Moultrie, Beauregard and Bee ard they
find themselves arrested under the ranges of
the Redan, Johnston and Ripley. They get
beyond this, and a concentric fire from Ripley,
Piuckney, the Wappoo battery, and the guns
Of the city fall upon them! Our iron cads
presented 80 guns against 500 rebel guns
The fleet was manned by eleven hundred men,
with which to take and hold dozen forts and
the city, occupied by about forty thousand re
bels. The land forces did not get within d
dozen miles of Charleston. The attack is to
be renewed shortly, says the telegraph. Ii
the meantime the land force has returned to
Port Royal, to corral niggors and orgarize
coored regiments, and the iron clads are to be
sent TO Farragut ou the Mississippi. Who, in
view of the attack upon Charleston, will dare
say the war is net efficiently conducted?
As showing the crime ard treason OF the
Republican leaders, we give al extract or two
from tue Commonwealth. Senator Summers
organ, published in Boston, Massachusetts,
That Republican paper copies paragraph
from the Presidents proclamation for fast,
wherein the hope is expressed Of a pardon Of
our national sins, ard the restoration of our
now divided and suffering country to its for
mer happy condition of anity and peace" and
comments thereon as follows:
1t is cool assumption of the President
that the pardon Of our national sins has any
kind of connection with the restoration of our
country to It's former happy condition of
unity and peace Our own opinion is, that if
God had resolved not to pardon US at all, He
would prove it by allowing the restoration of
that old unity and peace That unity was
crime that peace worse than war
Again. in the course Of the same article:
May the tongue be vithered-ere it is an
swered, that prayers for restoration of that
Old state of things from which God in bis
mercy seems willing to rescue us-than which
his fercest wrath cOud fud no more terrible