The weekly Butte record., 1863-09-05

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The recent rebel raid into Kansas and mas
ere at Ls~resce, has given rise to meetings for
self projections. Such meeting was held ST
Leavenxorih Angrst 18th. Gen Jim Lane
was the feature OF course, and threats of ter
rible retaliation upon the border counties OF
Missouri the programme. The General COM
maDding The Department was denounced IS an
inbecile, and resolutions demanding bis renov-
al were unanimously adopted.
I Gen. Grant has transferred the four, seuih
Army Corps to tie Department OF The Gulf. a
fact which, taken m connection with the e1
tensive naval preparations at Pensacola, would
indicate combined land and naval attack up
on Mobile at no distant day
The New Orleans Era rays there are hund-
reds Of as good Union men in Texas as there
is ont OF it. The Germans and thousands OF
Americans in Texas are loyal; Texas would
return TO the Union, was the rebel reign of
terror over, and would the Administration
permi. it. After the have people have whipped
the rebellion, the Administration propose TO
whip the people into abolitionism.
The men drafted last year we're called out
for nine months only. Some of them were
placed in the Department Of the Gull and
Banks told them they should return BY another
route than iha, of the ocean They are now
going home by way OF the Mississippi river.
The Mobile Register wants 1.-The people to
give over the dream that their help is not
are alone able TO conquer Us peace" a
CLEAN Of sense there.
1t is rumored in the army Of the Potomac
that Gen. Lee and JEFF Davis have quarrelled.
A report is in circulation in Warrenton among
the Secessionists, that Stuart and Fiizhugh
Lee. the notorious guerrilla raiders, are TO be
relieved Of their commands for iniempe-ance
and profigacy, and Brigader general Wade
Hampton is TO assume command of both forces
which are TO be united Through the same
sources it Is stated that both Lee and Stuart
were intoxicated q, the cavalry fight at Bran.
dy Station, and jeff Davis has administered to
both q severe reprimaDd for allowing the
~ ankees' to defeat them at that point
The draft in the West. the Milwaukee Wis
consin remarks, has very properly been defer
red in order to enaAe the western farmers 10
iugather their prolific harvest and also because
the surrender of Vicksburs diminishes the ne
cessity of immediate reiuforeements 10 our
Southwestern army and as Rosecrans is TAX
ing it quietly. he certainly has troops enough
to meet Bragg's small army. The draft will
come along some time in August or perhaps
Dot until the first of September. 1t is desira-
ble to reinforce our armies early in the autumn
as Grant should be so strengthened as to make
the decisive movement against the rebellion in
Alabama.
On the morning of August 9th, between
two and three hundred refugees from Eastern
Texas arrived in Lexington, Kentucky They
had been wandering through the mountains
over two weeks. A force of rebel cavalry,
numbering four hundred strong, attacked
them in Powels Valley near the Cumberland
mountains. A number of the refugees had
arms, and with these they rushed upon them
with wild war whoop, and actually cut their
way through the enemy, who retreated precpi-
lately. The rebel cavalry. however succeeded
in capturing about sixty or seventy, many Of
the Tennesseans being so completely worn out
BY privation and hunger that they gave out
and fell into the enemy's hands. On the day
previous one huUdred and eighty-one T,nnes.
seeans arrived at Lexington, and another large
company was expected the following day.
They were ragged, dirty, shoeless, and batless.
Among them were old greyh headed Men and
many boys. who had fed from their homes to
escape the conscription emissaries of the bogus
Confederacy.
lfthere is anything meaner than stealing
coppers from the eyes of dead negro it is the
sordid meanuess manifested by the people of
Gettysburg, Pa. to the brave Union boys who
came there to punish the plunderers of this
wealthy locality and drive them bowling to.
wards Richmond. Dictates OF the most CON-
mon decency would seem to have impelied the
citizens of this locality to welcome their delv
erers and open their s,orebouses to refresh
them after their severe three days 6gbting-
% the contrary their siingy rneauness and
mean stinginess was manifested in thousand
ways. Ten and fifteen cent, were frequently
charged per quart for milk, from one dollar to
one dollar and ahaf for loaf cf bread, and -
GROWING act Of infamy-on one occasion at
least, twenty cents for bandage for wounded
soldier. The New York Times is our author
ty for this. says the North Iowa Times. and
adds, "and We cannot repress regret tha,
Lees army did not utterly strip ihese con,cmp-
tlble villains Of everything pluuderable, while