The weekly Butte record., 1863-12-12

NJ, year uanle IS 5. P. Chase. and I'm
gong 10 call yoa ShIuplazier Currency"
Ihe Secretary, being 4 man of figures if not
facts. didn't calculate upon such levlty. and
ihousat It subtracted from the Presidential
disniiy- de therefore called the joker's at
ieniIon to the eooGiti0n Of the coutrabands.
a9d said that green seal champagne and
havana cigars were needed for their relief
de added that several of them had too much
oolAed tuFAey ana oyster sauce. and that thev
wanted roast duck aid onioas pal on the bill
OF fare.
The President averred that be had sen, them
plent? Of duck. real canvass back.
Bat" said Chase, salkily. "the dncks were
entirely too tough"
I'll tel! yoa, said Honest Abe, silly, how
TO make them tender"
How p
just paint their backs green. and green
backs, you know, are legal tender
II is possible that this contrasting the bills
of fare prevalent at the rebel and Federal
Capitols. may only furnish another evidence to
the rebel mind, that We are barbarians, point
that seems 10 be pretty well determined in
their minds already. Our northern origin is
an evidence of it; for are not the words Nor
theFn and barbarian welded forever in one i'm
mortal phrase? And if there were not this
good evidence Of our barbarity, have not the
rebels declared it? Several times. But the
latest declaration of it is as deliciously fresh
as Miles 0'RieIys prophetic description of
Mr. Lincoln in his grave
With -or, of 90 y,
Turned up to the root OF daisy
Some days ago, says q New York paper,
several persons in Charleston, filed with ardent
patriotism aud desire 10 earn sixty thousand
dollars in gold, fitted up machine with tor
pedo and went down Charleston harbor. la
reference to what they Intended to attempt
there is no doubt They sailed simply and
solely to put torpedo under the frigaee iron.
sides, and to blow her and every man and boy
on board Of her to atoms. They failed, and
the Yankees immediately opened on their ma
chine with ''volley after volley of musketrv."
Amidst all the noise thus made the Charleston
spectators announced their surrender But
the muskets made the most noise-they we're
not heard-and the Yankees, says Charleston
paper, "barbarously continued the fire." What
will the voice Of humanity" say TO this most
barbarous of all our little pieces of barbarity?
1t pains US to fancy what Beauregard must
think OF it-and what the Loudon Times will
probably say about it. We have a certain
respect for all other shams by comparison
with what we feel for this miserable sham of
rose water water war. Southern men are at
no other time so ridiculousiy contemplate as
when they whine out this appeal 10 tie gencr
Gus sentiments Of the human race When the
old generntion of armorcd knights protested
against the introduction of gunpowler. as
contrary to the spirit of true religion and the
glory of chiyalry," they were only absurd but
when modern knights, who are self styled fire
eaters, give US daily poor bullesques of the
same sentiment, they are 10 be classed with
those miserable specimens of the canine race
who as viii be found written in Hudibras,
employ their tongues as men do their hands
Ito heal their wounds with"
To change the subject from rebel pusillan-
Unity to their style of chiyary, read the fol
loving from recent letter of jeff Thompson's
to the editor of the Louisville Journal JEFF
is now a prisoner at Johuson's Island, and thus
speaks of some individual who has slandered
him
This persons description of me is as be
wouid make me appear amusing and ridiculous
But il is too bad that be should wound my feel
lngs in so tender a pom. whsn | cannot retail
ate, and speak so of a lady (my wife) whose
very tracks in the dust be would not be worthy
10 look upon. Should he ever fail into nv
hands, l viii scalp him from the bridge of his
nose to the nape of bis neck, including his cars.
and turn him oo5e unable TO close his glaring
eye6alls from the shame, or close his ear.
drums to the Kisses which every vile and
mother should and would pour upon him. and |
will cut oThis coat tail, so that every husband
and father may have fair kick at him. He
certainly is no soldier, for every officer aud SOL
der in our army, whom l have met, have ac ed
Ike gentlemen. and | dc not think they would
let such man remain with them.
hope you viii excuse me for being 50 vio-
lent, but feel like Gagged hyena when such
things veX me. ard were out gallop of few
huudred miles would be q short ride for NY
white horse, were this mans hair at the end
of it,
Pennsylvania has sent 164257 three years
men to the war, and yet her aggregate vote 10
The recent election was 81 ,000 larger than in
1860. II We estimate that 10000 of these
soldiers were sent into the State to vote tie
increase of the aggregate vote in three years
is l64,357. Who believes there has been any
such actual increase? Who does not see on
tie face Of these figures, evidence of the perpe-
tra.ion of gigantic frauds? There are some
things 50 palpable as to be universally known
OF these are air, light and darkness But not
more pa!pabIe are these than the stupendous
frauds enacted by the administration in the
recent State elections,