The weekly Butte record., 1863-10-24
fead and Receiving a Stone,
fiery contributed" says the n.

S"oay mercury, Delhg raluel
.nck skinned and fearless Of the conse-
quences attending his rashness, sends US
for publication the following correspon-
dence, which he has intercepted and in
terpreted:'' y
H. G. to Father Abraham about
year ago, asking for the abolition proc
lamation
Father Abraham, this crael war will never reach
its end,
Unless your party platform you more stringently
defend.
Throw aside old Stewards bickerngs-Ioose ths
shackles of the slaves,
Call around your banners freemen who'll put down
these rebel knaves,
Let bold Fremont be commander Of the Riehmo nd
going corps
And well send you, Father Abraham. nine hundred
thousand more. H.G.
Father Abraham having issued the
proclamation that was to bring forth the
nine hundred thousand, thinks that on
the arrival of General Lee in Pennsyl-
vania few weeks ago, one third of that
number would be very servicable, and
accordingly says:
Dearest Greely. we're surrounded by the rebel
leader Lee,
fail ono udrc1 md and
battery;
He's already at the QIakers-they are shiyering in
alright,
And Hooker says we must have men before we can
have fight;
Just keep your promise faithful that you made some
months before,
And send US down to Washington three hundred
thousand more. AL.
H. G. having crept from beneath his
editorial .able, where he had been the
last two weeks, indites the following In
answer:
Father Abraham, we honor you, and think you
great and just,
And we'd like to hang those fellows who are kick
ing up dust;
But there is one thing holds us back when would
our spunk exert
Those rebels FIRE with bullets, and who knows?-we
might get hurt!
Besides all good Republicans are wanted here, you
know,
To hold the public Offices and make the money go.
1here have hoo, sor,a hlundar the
made before
We can't come but we send you-yes-three
hundred DOLLARS more H.G."
STRENGTH OF CHARACTER consists of
two thlngs-power of will and power of
self restraint. 1t requires two things
therefore, for its existence-strongf feel
ings and strong command over them
Now we all very often mistake strong
feeling for strong character. A man
who bears all before him, before whose
frown domestics tremble, and whose
bursts Of fury make the children of the
household quake-because he has his
will obeyed and his way in all things
we call him strong man. The truth
is that he is a weak man; it is his pas
sions that are strong; he, mastered by
them, is weak. You must measure the
strength of a man by the power of the
feelings he subdues, not by the power of
those that subdue him. And hence
compoShre is very often the highest re-
suit of strength. Did we ever see a man
receive flagrantinjury, and then reply
quietly! that's man spiritually strong.
Or did We ever see a man in anguish,
stand as if carved out of sold rock,
mastering himself! Or one bearing
hopeless daily trial, remain silent and
never tell the world what cankered his
home peace? That is strength. He
who with strong passions remains chaste;
he who, keenly sensitive, with manly
powers of indignation in him, can be
provoked and yet restrain himself and
forgiye-thcse are the strong men, the
spiritual heroes.
Mrs. PARrINcroN is delighted that
Prince Alfred would have nothing to do
with Foreign Greece. She says she
always thought that he had better stick
"a L., M ti,-n IL