Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1854-02-23

table of exports of the city OF Gaena, from III
advertiser of Tie 18Th:
Lead, 32s, al3 Pigs, q, oesooolb. si.264 500 oC
Barley, 1886 Bush. 5942 81
| Oats, 256G9 77u0 Il
I Corn $3.50 $3.50 O(
! Ga-na Cement $40 2i6O o(
!! Butter 15o.472 lbs 22,57O oC
Sundries, including Pork and Bacon,
packed here, Eggs, Cheese, 1860 DC
/ Total sl,s25,623 oC
Extract of letter dated
| MApIsoS, February Goth. 1854.
! MEssns Bliss & CHASEr-The Prohibitory
Liquor Bill has just been ordered TO be engrossed
/ by the Senate. 1t provides to again submit the
question TO vote of the people, before II goes
into effect. From the vote taken upon this Bill
am satisfied that no Bill can pass the Sem
ate, that will be of any benefi, to the cause OF
Temperance. L.
FonrIGx NKws-Ihe last dates from the seat
of war are 10 Jan. goth. The Cars last proposals
rejected, and negotiations broken off France
! and England making open preparations for
II is said the Enpero.. will avoid general
conflict ii he can only preserve his honor and his
rights. The Car, it is said, is about TO send
letter TO the Queen of England, in which he will
endeavor TO prove that he is not the asgressor.-
No farther fighting reported.
IL We must decline the publication of Equal
Rights" not much account of difference of
opinion with the writer dislike to open our
columns TO a religious controversy. as we ear we
should be required 10 if We opened the way by a
publication of his communication. We have no
doubt, but the author, upon reflection, will justify
Doc TAx.-The Madison journal says bill is
pending in the House to tax dogs fifty cents per
head, the tax thus levied to go to the support of
the poor. Should this become law and be en-.
forced Mineral Point will pay Poor Tax enough
TO support all the Paupers in the State-provided
always, that all the dogs about town should be
able TO find owners
II GEoRGE L. FRosr, Esq, understand
now occupies the "arm chair of the Democrat and
makes his bow editorial in the next mum er-
We extend to him the II of professional friend
ship, with the of best wishes for his
appeties of the community.
STEAM Boiler OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the boilers
Of the Steam Packet Kate kearney, No /. ex-
ploded at St Louis the 10th inst About IS
persons were badly scalded, IS of whom were
taken 10 the Sisters Hospital terribly mangled,
several of them il was thought fatally injured.
u The Sentinel classes the members of the
Assembly follows on the Prohibitory Law
question
For the Law, % Wings. 81 Democrats, and 7
Free Sellers Total, 50
Against the Law, Wings and % Democrats
Total, 80.
This includes the total number in the Assembly
III Rents in New York are rising beyond all
precedent. The rent of No 5, Astor House. which
has been $1,000 per annun during the last twelve
years, will be raised after the first OF May next,
TO 30 and the stores in the metropolitan Ho-
tel, which have been bringing $500, have been
raised 10 81 900.
II Herbert Reed. Treasurer of .he Dannan
Monument fund, acknowledges the receipt of
1888 81 from all sources towards the creation of
between $4,000 and $4,000 The first excitement
having passed off, the funds come in slow
AcTs PAssED-The Milwaukee Ssnti,sel pub
fishes list of over 50 acts, and a large number
of appropriation bills passed, by the Legislature
now in session Most of the acts are of a special
nature.
II The majority in favor OF the amendment of
the New York Constitution and the Canal En-
larsement, is as far as heard from, overwhelming
Buffalo gave over 10 900 majority for il
u Several articles copied into the 7-ib,.ns
last week without credit, from the Miwau-
kee Sentinel. The omission of the proper credit
was unjntentioual.
ID Mrs Z. C Judson the wife of the cel.-
brated missionary, and known in literary circles
Fanny Forester lies dangerously i'll al Utica,
Ny
II We notice bill has passed the Legislature
authorizing State Road from Potosi to Mineral
Point, via. Lancaster, New California and AIitflin.
II The cars expected to into Rock Is
land from the East on the 22d inst. A eeiebra
ton OF the event is contemplated
II The Legislature OF Texas has passed an act,
granting 100 acres of land to each present settler
r fes among the Californians-It was noticed
that all the wounded among Colonel Walkers par
" shot with Kentucky rifles al a distance of
not less than two hundred and fifty yards, from tie
bind bushes and guIches-showing that the native
Calfornians not only skilled in the use of