The weekly Butte record., 1867-01-19
RED BLrFv. January lisa. 1851

RED BLuFv, January ltta. 1867.
In. Enron: This town 1t the present time is
very dull. owing to tie almost impsasabe STATE of
the roads. The Victor arrives every Sunday night.
and brings up . good load of freight. but for the
last three or four weeks all of the freight for the
upper country has been obliged to be stored in
warehouses at this place. But the cold weather Is
drying the rnads up very fast The stages. both
north and SOUTH have made their trips for the past
week with some degree Of punctuality; but the
passenger travel is very small.
RED BLUFF OBsERyER--This paper has ceased
to exist the last number having been issued on the
18th inst. The proprietor, Mr.. Baker, announces
that arrangements have been perfected for the
transfer Of the material to a fourishing town at
the Bay. The O6serror has been good local jour
nal for Tehama county, but has not met with suffi-
Gent encouragement to warrant continuance OF
its publication. It says: ITO the professional
politicians We have only to say that We shall en-
deayor to forget their Injustice That is the rock
upon which too many county papers are wrecked
Hopes hung upon their promises are indeed ashes
the lips To be of service to the people papers
must be independent of professional politicians
They are the most remorseess fellows in existence.
With the people to back up paper, professional
politicians may hang as high one of the first
of their kind-old Haman-and great service at
forded the rpeople thereby. We wish Mr.. Baker
better success his locality. Mr.. Merry, of the
Independent, now has clear field. he should
bring his paper up to the standard size that be may
no longer be ''cabined, cribbed and confined
MASONIC FUSERAL.-On Thursday last the body
of Lieutenant C. Gillet, who was drowned in Cow
Creek, near Fort Reading, December 24th, was
found a short distance from the ford where he met
his DEATH His remains were brought to Red Bluff
by Major Chaplin and escort, yesterday, and buried
with Masonic honors by Vesper Lodge, No. 81 +.
& A. NJ. A detachment of Co. G, Eighth U. S.
Cavalry, fired a salute the grave. Lieutenant
Gillet was from Hartford. He served in the Union
army through the late war, and arrived in Califor
MIA last October, with the above named company
lie belonged to the End U. S. Artillery, and his
company, are informed, is now duty in Tex
He was Quartermaster and Commssary at
Fort Reading. His age was about ~ years. Con-
slant search was made for the body from the time
he was drowned until it was recovered, and al
though he had been in the water seventeen days,
his features natural if he had just fallen
asleep. Brothers Henry Ankin and j. =. Webb,
of Western Star Lodge, and Brother J. &. Roley,
of Vesper Lodge, accompanied the escort from the
Fort To this place, thereby indicating the strength
of the mystic tie.-Red BRIT Observer.
The long contested case of Corcoran ct al VS..
Tehama County Stock Breeders Association, which
consumed more than four weeks in trial, has finally
come to close, by the jury bringing in special
verdict against the plaintiff.
man by the name of r. F. Bell was drowned on
the 9TH inst, near Tehama, by the upsetting of
small boat while crossing the Sacramento river.
The Red Bluff Guard will celebrate Washington's
birthday by grand Ball in their new Arnory.
On Wednesday last, Chinaman in the employ
of Schultze& Bro, of Thoms' Creek, stole from
his employers, while they were absent from the
honse, s72l. He was arrested the next day and
the money recovered, and is lying in Jail await
the action of the Grand Jury, which meets to-
day.
To-day has been very cold and cloudy. wind in
the no nth, with occasional drops OF rain. Snow
can be seen very low down on the mountains. The
river is falling very fast.
A grand revival is going on in the cause of tenn
perance in this town. The Red Bluff lodge of
Good Templars have added more than twenty five
members to its roll within the past eight weeks
and now numbers nearly one hundred and fifty
good standing members. W.
ond volume.