The weekly Butte record., 1867-12-07

GREAT EXCITEMENT IN ORovILLK,-wAR on
NoxreoxEY Er!-JUDGE STRAus' GREAT
Snow HIS TRAINED ANNALS PKRFoRx BEAU
r1ruLLY .-Oroville during the present week has
been the scene Of much excitement. Whatever
the devil may have been cast out Of at future
period in the worlds history it is toeraby evident
lhat the old chap entered into some who have set
tied in OroviIle. Our recent herculean efforts at
pacifcation have failed, and payments in green
hacks have provoked receipts from the shoulder,
and thrown a brand of excitement into the bosom
of this peaceful community 1t is astonishing that
men will let their angry passions rise to green
back and fighting pitch They will do it occasion
ally however and then come constabes and com.
mitments, and all the dread paraphanalia of out
ragged law. The present excitement originated in
about this way: Justice Strauss rents an Office of
"Curly," our popular Adonis and Tobacconist, and
the other day, paid his rent in greenbacks. This so
excited the ire of Curly" that he assaulted the
wooden Indian that stands at his corner, and max
ing tomahawk of his fists, would doubtless have
taken the Judges scalp TO make a wallet for his
greenbacks, or tobacco pouch, had it not been for
burly constable, who seized him and persuaded
him from the immediate execution of his sanguina.
ry purposes; but there was blood in his eye, well
as on the venerable and disfgured smeler apper.
tanning to the Court, and the Judge proceeded to
declare Curly guilty of contempt of Court, y
and committed him to Jail for twenty-four hours.
The young man was deeply affected on arriving at
his appointed lodgings and was sustained by big
black bottle. Crowds of our first citizens assem-
bled around the grated window of the captive to
offer coincidence and bail Ito inquire what he had
stolen-and to assure him. as he stood behind the
bars, that the Justice could not send him to Jail
A writ of habeus corpus was sued out of the Dis
trict Court, and some error found in the commit
ment, which placed "CurIey,' at liberty. suit
was commenced against Justice Strauss for carry
ing concealed weapons. His Jewish friends deser-
ted his official bonds; but were Immediately re
placed by others. Our venerable Justice was hoot.
ed at he paced the sidewalk in front of his office
with judicial dignity. He was assailed with eu.
phoneous and high-sounding Names from across
the street, and given maternal relative not com
plimentary to his legal position. He felt the digni
ty Of his Court must be maintained and so correct
ed the error in his former commitment papers and
sent his prisoner back to 'durance vile" After
keeping him in "quod" until about P NJ, he is,
sued an order for his release, and an alarm Of fire
occurring shortly afterwards, the greenback war
was at an end. Though less numerous than his
assaants the Judge stood with the front of Jove and
sent his mandates. as old Jove himself would hurl
his lightning bolts. He made his enemies perform
to his liking and then graciously pardoned them !
As there were two parties to this war, there is a
double moral to this tale Firstfor the innumerable
gentlemen who went in spirit with Curly to the
jail-it is an easy matter to make Justice Of the
Peace but a difficult matter to whip him and break
him OF his offie. Second-The inability of the
Judge to pay his rent in the coin of the realm,
arose in part from bet he made that gentleman
named Gorham would receive more votes than Gov
ernor Haight; never bet elections. All quiet on
the Feather.