The weekly Butte record., 1863-04-11
OUR EASTERN LETTER.
IzDIroR1AL coHaEsrosDEsoE.l
- e.. lNish.l Narrh 10.

The Ides of March are upon Us. Il is
the season so long dreaded By radical Con
gressmen, who are obliged now to exchange
their assumed impotence and put on retiring
manners. Iu one respect, the present is the
most important 4th of March that the world
viii ever witness. Il viii be remembered here
after, By the great united, happy ard prospe-
rous American nation, as The IA of Marrh
which witnessed the constitutional dissolution
of the last Congress Of the Republican party
that ever assembled on the continent. 1t passes
away like the present equally miserable failure
of a winter Good bye. both of you The
people gladly turn from the mud, the bayoug.
and the sloughs, with which you have blocked
the highways and byways of the Government
and Of the land, and turn with Joy to the sill
yer lining behind the dark cloud. that beto-
kens the approach of welcome spring. to ob-
literate all traces Of the winter. by robing the
earth in 4 mantle of green Is there a person
/ in the broad land who does not wish that the
coming spring might be as successful in wipiue
out the bloodstains Of our battle feds. as in
removing the trace Of desola;e winter, and bid
4 the flowers Of peace grow again in their beauty.
loveliness and spleudor
| Good bye, old white bearded winter You
have not been much of an institution this time
You have taken pride in violating the great
laws of climate here. which require that you
should f,-r;-b snovr ,rba, rao,la bo,-a NOV;
ded themselves with sleighs aud bells You
have persistently dishonored their Just and rea
sonable expectations in this respect, and have
made legal tender of mud You have
given fair promises of sleighiag to the eye, and
broken the hopes of those who turned out on
runners to visit their neighbors. thus coutribu
ting greatly to the increase of profanity among
men. You have made decided failure in try
ing to assume the airs of summer, and have
appeared almost as ridiculous as have the Re
publicans and rebels in their attempts to ad
minister the Government of the United States
You have not been cold enough to give travel
lers comfortable nips, and they have been
obliged to call at the wayside hotels for them
You have destroyed the settled theory of all
the great philosophers. that, it SHOWS more
in the winter than it does IN any other season
Of the year" and have exhibited a desire to
enable unruly boys to SNOWFALL their parents
without making their fingers cold, and to slide
down bill in summer clothes because the Re.
publieans have reduced the price of cotton!
You have rendered ice houses about as su-
perfiuous as sleighs, and have interfered with
the sale of skates to such an extent that, an
honest Republican manufacturer of skates in
New England, could only save himself from
total failure by burning his buildings and get,
ting the amount for which they were insured
Religious revivals have fallen off because you
have enabled sinners to stand ont in the cold
Well, good bye, old winter. We haven't
cared much about sleigh riding, any how. II
is never pleasant riding in sleighs, unless it is
cold enough for the boys 10 assist in holding
the girls muffs.
The news Of the week has been somewhat
interesting, although it is the reverse of salts.
factory. The capture of the iron clad gun
boats, Queen of the West and Indianola. was
a great misfortune to our river fleet, aud the
worst feature Of The affair Is, that both of them
were repaired by the rebels in less than a week,
and are now doing them service. If this fact
shows anything, it shows that they were fool
ishly or tritorously surrendered. l never had
much faith n Commodore Elicit He is a son
of the man who first assailed McClellan's or
gauization of the army, and was therefore ad-
vanced to his position on the river by the aid
Of Chandler aud Wades war committee He
placed the Queen in charge of a captured Sc,
cesh pilot, who run her aground under the
batteries Elicit was the first man to leave
her, on a cotton bale \ correspondent OF the
Chicago Tribune, who was on board when she
ran the batteries at Vicksburg, states that not
a shot was fred at her. If this is correct, it
would seem that Chandler and Wade have a
and that the rebels at Vicksburg, knew her
surrender was 4 foregone conclusion when she
started down the river.
The defeat and surrender of four or five Fed
eral regiments in Tennessee is confirmed
Great blame is attached to a Col Gilbert who
was in supporting distance but did not re in
force them. suppose this was the same Gil
bert who had Republican orders TO break up
peacea6le assem5lagcS Of the people of Ken
tucky, and Of course, had DO time 10 whip the
rebels His business was TO shape the politi-
cal action of the loyal people Of the loyal
State of Kentucky, and prepare them to be
debauched BY Republcanism.
Troubles continue in Gen. Banks command,
owing to the Introduction of negro troops.
Numerous designations have taken place 1t
Is shame aud disgrace that the Administra-
tion should insist upon the introduction of this
clement into the volunteer service TINS cri,Sh