The weekly Butte record., 1863-05-02
OUR EASTERN LETTER.
[EDIToRIAL coRREsPoxDExcE.

! The total absence Of news of stirring impor-
tancs, must be my excuse for this gossiping
letter. Concerning army and navy affairs,
DO not think conld add anything that you
have not already had by telegraph The Ad-
ministration itself is without definite and salts
factory news from the army on the Mississippi,
or from Banks, or from Hunter The gallant
Rosecrans is the only bright. particular star,
( that the patriot has cause TO be proud Of, and
! the prospects are that be will soon have bat
tie that will definitely settle the fate of Ten
nessee.
Rumors that the rebels are evacuating Vir-
ginia, are telegraphed over the country. Of
course there is no truth in them. They are
intended to aid the Republicans in carrying
the spring elections yet to occur in the North
cru States, by holding out to the people that
the policy of the Administration is working
successfully. The old state of things will be
found to exist after the first Monday in April.
Here in the Northern States, of course,
everybody claims to be for the Union, at all
hazards. The Democracy ard conservative
men in the Republican ranks really are in IA
vOr of the Union with or without partisan con-
siderations. But the radicals are not, and they
have proved their lack of patriotism in very
marked manner, as follows: Union Leagues
were formed all over the loyal States which
prospered finely until after the passage of the
conscription law, when the conservative pa
triots and Democrats therein prepared gene
raj bylaw for members of the league, to the
effect that all who were drafted, under its pro-
visions, should pledge themselves not to pay
the $500, but abide the draft and fill up the
army. Upon this proposition, the more rad-
cal Republicans withdrew aud started an op-
position society that they are now forming
throughout the loyal States, under the cabalis-
tic title of " S. B." If you have not got it in
your midst, you will have it soon. 1t will Just
suit your old shell back radicals, who REQUIRE
some secret den in which to express their
Union q sentiments, and to devise ways and
means to avoid the discharge of patriotic
duty. Some little explanation of the meaning
of s. B." may be interesting to your readers
The great highcockalorum of the order in the
West, is John Irimble, D, of Chicago. S.
B. is universally admitted to stand for Steam
Boat in legitimate advertisements. So that,
whatever the institution may be- it is designed
to Steam Boat the public. In this clan
destine cabal, it may mean something else If
only those are admitted who swear to vote for
the Republican nominee for Circuit Judge, it
may be the mark he places upon their collars,
and mean Smiths Bummers. If groom to the
Republican Giraffe, perhaps they mean Stable
Boys As secret political societies in the loyal
States can only be of service to those who
wish to aid the rebellion, they may mean Sc
cesh Bnllheads. The sanguinary abolitonist
will embrace them at once, because they smell
of Southern Blood and at the same time ad-
monish him to Stay Back 1t is appropriate
for society Of Stay Behinds or for those
who think the complexion of their grandchil-
dren will be improved by becoming Shade
Blacker; for Shell Backs, who crawl under
cover at sight of war for Sanguinary Blood
letters, of the Chandler stripe; for Silly Block
heads, who would lose their own freedom Jaw
ing about freedom for the negro who is fighting
for his master against them; Some Pumpkins
Sambo's Bodyguards; SacriGcial Budhsts
Shareholders Blood; Sly Burglars; Sixty
Blackegs; Silly Bloats; Shallow Blobber- /
lips; Secret Blinkards, whose sentiments won't /
bear discussion Scurvy Blisters, on the body
polite; Seedy BOgglers; Shiny Bordellers
Silent Bores; Smell Badly etc, etc.
I'D. D." in police reports, means Dead
Drunk, or Drunk and Disorderly. In the pre-
sent instance it may mean Doughty Dabbler,
the Devils Dad, D-n Democracy, or what
ever else any one pleases. We are content to
consider that it means the Dirtiest Dog of the
Den. Perhaps we should do injustice to these
night hawks, if we failed to mention that they
dub themselves the Spartan Band, and D. d. /
may stand for Double Dubber. We can only
add, in the appropriate language of the poet
d" Now then, nine cheers for the Spartan Band
rangers,
Blow the great fish-horn and beat the big PAM
First IN the field that IS farthest from dangers
Take your white-eather plume, - Wide-Awake =
man -
The PENINSULA CANPAIGS.-In the Islands
Of the Eastern Archipelago grows an aloe,
which shoots up from the ground in the shape
of hard prckly spike, which reaches the
hight of foot and a-half in forty-eight hours.
Had Chandler aud Wade been bound upon
such plants, when the Army of the Potomac
started out on the Peninsula campaign, instead
Of being left free to plot its defeat, the rebellion
would have been crushed out, and these Re
publican ghouls would have been impaled by
the growth of nature, as their treason to that
gallant Union army justly deserves. The blood
Of the thousands there slain cries TO Heaven