The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1866-1887, 1867-05-11

LosT ~ 4 " ArERsreur:-The Les Angeles eor-
respondent of the Aifa tells the following: :" The
unusual rain storm of Sunday. 10th instant, notice
Of which send you by steamer. vas not confined
to this immediate locality. On the Colorado de-
sert on the afternoon of the same day, in what Is
known here waterspout, Government train
was lost. The train consisted Of eleven wagons,
was known Chandler train, and was accompa-
MED by one company and detachment from anota-
er company of L. 5. Infantry under the com mand
of Lieutenant. They had encamped in the bed of
and just below the forks Of deep and broad wash.
The troops were marching to Date Greek and skull
Valley in Arizona. The camp was about nine or
ten miles east Of the Dos Paimos at Canon Springs
While thus eucamped small black cloud Suddenly
appeared above the horizon, from which lightning
and thunder proceeded. sufficient time hardly
elapsed TO observe this cloud when 1t or another
one teeming with electricity. made its appearance
in almost the opposite direction. The whole heav-
ens were overcast, and amid the vivid flashes of
lightning and deafenng peais of thunder. a shower
of hail commenced falling, which soon became
shower of fat pieces of ice from two to four inches
SQUARE. The mules instantly fed before the pelting
storm to some neighboring hills, while the men
sought shelter in the wagons and behind the high
banks of the wash. An employe. Californian.
who came in with An express from the command to
the Ouartermaster at Wiml ngton depot, says be
took shelter in a wagon, and in few minutes
huge volume of water, the face OF which was near
" or quite three feet high. came dashing down the
wash. This was followed very soon by an addition
al one which came pouring onward, and which pre-
sented front still higher than the first. The wa
ter rose in the wagon in which he until it near
y reached the top of the bows OF the covering only
few inches of air was left him beneath the wagon
cover. Two men OF the Fourteenth were drowned.
and the comma nding officer was carried down the
wash in the angry and boiling food, and was only
rescued from drowning by an Indian vaquero, VINO,
stan ding on the bank, the Lieutenant COM
pletelv exhausted from battling with the wild wa
iers amid the wrecks of the trees, aud threw his
RATA over his head and drew him to shore.
Six wagons were irretrevably lost, together with
nearly all the harness of the whole train and the
rest ST the wagons were washed down the torrent.
overturned broken bruised and scattered for miles
Commssary stores, with which the tram had been
laden, carried into the Salt Lake (the great
bason of the Colorado desert) distance OF eighteen
miles from the scene Of disaster.
The command and the train are unable to move
until resupplied with wagons. harness and provis-
ions from the depot at Wilmington. The provis,
ions nearly all lost. Canon Springs are about
two hundred miles from this city. on the La Paz
road, by which route and place the command was
marching.
NEW mode OF extracting money from the State
Treasury for benevolent purposes. has been devel-
oped lately in the State Legislature. Two or three
years ago Mr.. Ezra Cornell desired to give half q
million of dollars to the establishment OF Univer.
sity in Ithica where he resides and some action OF
the Legislature was necessary to provide Tor the &C
ceptance of the gift. Quite number of members
we're anxious for reasons of local and denomna-
tiona character, to get an appropriation for Gen.
nessee Coege-and it turned out that they held
the balance of power on the question. So they
added to the bill provso that Mr.. Cornell should
give s25 900 to Gennessee College as the condition
on which he allowed to give the half million
to his own University; and under this compulsion
the bill passed and Mr.. Cornell paid the money.
Now bill has been passed to refund to him that
amount from the State Treasury. Mr.. Cornell
ought to have il back but the State ought not to
pay it. The action OF the College, II II were not
.11..r ha
terized as first class blackmailing operation The
proposition has passed both houses-N. Y. Post
KILLING BEEvEs.-The old plan of killing cattle
is TO knock them down by hitting them on the head
with an axe; and then cut their throat, which is
both brutal aud unclean. In California we use the
rifle in place of the ak, and this Is the preferable
mode; but still it causes the animals much pain,
for the death is not sudden. butchering estab
lishment in New Jersey has adopted new and bet
ter mode-one which causes death instantaneouslv
In SPAIN Mexico. and South America, where bull
fights the national pastime the bull that will
fight is always killed in the ring. After the mata
dore has plunged his sword between bis shoulders
into his heart the bull staggers and falls and then
a party sticks little poignard into the spinal mar
row behind the horns, and instantly the animal
dies. And from this have the Jerseymen been
taught how to kill. There, man with spear
stands above the animal, and strikes the point into
this marrow behind the horns, and the animal is
dead on the instant. If he misses the place, the
point enters the tat OF the neck ana scarcely ANY
pain is inflicted. and he has only TO strike again, or
keep striking until he hits the proper place. This
/ system of killing has advantages which are likely
/ to cause IT to become general
! RELIEF OF THE SourH.-The joint resolution for
the destitute of the South and South western States
/ does not contain a specified appropriation of one
million of dollars originally proposed. but was
passed in the following form: That the Secretary
( of War be and hereby is empowered and directed
nf Is,,f1e IN
attic and extreme want to any and all classes OF
helpless destitute people in those Southern and
Southwestern States where the failure of the crops
and other causes ha oecasioned widespread desti
tuton that the issues be made through the Freed
mans Bureau, under such regulations As the Secre-
/ tary of War may prescribe. and to that end the
Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed,
through the Commissioner of the Freedmans S Bu-
resu. to apply so much as he may deem necessary
for the purpose aforesaid of unexpended moneys
/ heretofore appropriated to supply freedmen and
! refugees with provisions or rauons; provided that
! the expenditure shall not extend beyond the ap
preparation already made for the Bureau
GEN. BEAUREGARp adds the weight of his nfu-
ence to that of other Southern Generals in favor OF
prompt and effective action under the reconstruc
ton law OF Congress. The current OF opinion among
the military of the South seems to be unbroken III
this direction; it is only here and there that you
find politician who resists it, and the most candid
and sagacious of that class concur in what seems to
be the general sentiment. At the South as with US
the men who were most prominent and effective in
the war have the most influence with the people
at large. 1t is perfectly natural that men should
deem those who have made the most most sacrif
and the greatest risks in attempting to serve
their fellow citizens. should have the most Inhu
ence upon their actions. They are supposed to be
the most patriotic. naSmuch as they have done the
most for their immediate countrymen and neigh
bors. The united support given to the reconstruc
ton measures by the military men Of the South
will be quite likely to control the action of near J
all the Southern States.
Doesn't LIKE KIssING.-Jones. John P.-that:
the name of our next Lieutenant Governor-doeSn I
like kissing. A few days ago, while in converse
ton with party Of gentlemen, one of the number
accused Jones Of being opposed to the nomination
of Gen. Bidwell for Governor. when he replied
1T is not so am not opposed to the General: