Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-08-12


discovery Of mineral near Beetown, Wis on the
Muscalonge Branch.
~ The New York Herald says it is rumor-
ed that the employees in the Custom House and
Post Office. commanding about two thousand
votes, are contemplating bolt from Buchanan
to Fremont.
IF. The Louisville Journal says that the vote
of the German population of Kentucky is esti-
mated at ten thousand. This vote has hitherto
been given TO the Democratic party but nearly
the " hole Of IT will new 60 to the support Of
the Fremont ticket.
sE Prentice ofthe Louis lie Journal, saws:
A" The North won't trust the Democratic candi-
date, with the resolutions annexed" and the
South Is suspicious Of the platform with The
candidate annexed"
lB- The Fertilization Bill appropriates 81
637 600. of which only $4,000 are to be ex-
pended north of Mason d Dixons line No sec
tionalism in this. eh2 The North raises the
money and the South spends it.--Daily Free
Democrat.
CouSTERFEITIse-AB Bank Note De:ecto- gives
the number thanks in the United States whose
notes have not been counterieited or altered as
1853; and the number whose notes have been
coun;erfeited or altered, as SD.
sE Democratic accounts from Pennsylvania
to Washington represent Fremont as running
with immense success In thar State, aud as a
consequence the BUCCANEERS Of the Federal City
are becoming exceedingly alarmed.
s8- The Delaware peach crop, il is said. is 4
total failure. The peaches are few ard inferior
In quality. With large wheat crop well Sc
cured throughout the country, the people can
endure the loss of their peaches.
sF- The Lebanon Courier and York .4apocate
both old Wing papers of Peunsy lvania. which
have waited TO see the course Of events, have
just come cut Tor Fremont and Dayton.
sy~ TIE Mauch Chu,.k Pa J Gazettc, the Dai-
lg (Pa) Times, the Morristown Pa Herdldand
Free Press have hauled down the Fillmore and
run up the Fremont flag.
sg- A correspondent at Prattsburg. Y. Y,
says that save the Postmaster and Mormon
who doseH't like the Republican opposition to
Polygalny, there is hardly a Buchanan man
here.
- a Fremont clock has been invented in
Connecticut, which is warranted to run without
winding, until that gentleman is elected Presi-
dent, or no pay.
- Accounts from the Plains state that
sangulnary battle has taken place lately between
the confederatcd Sacs and Foxes and the Cam
anches. and the latter utterly routed
sS European papers statd that tie stock for
a canal across the Isthmus of Suez has been
subscribed, and the great enterprise is now GER
tain to be accomplished
s 1t is said. that among those who have
been orderedto leave California by the Vigil
lance Committee, is Ex-Governor Bigler a broth
er Of Senator BIgler, of Pennsylvania.
eB The New Orleans Crescent expresses the
opinion that sugar and nolasses will advance in
all probability, beyond rates attained At any
time during the-last 25 years.
ca lose RbcJa
MIA, Iowa Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Verrnt.
and all the slaveholdine States. and vet be cleo
ted President by the Electoral College.
sB- An unexpected stampede from Buchan-
an to Fremont Is represented by the New Jer-
sev papers as occurring IL the northern part Of
that State.
sS The New York Herald SAYS that PIERCE
borrowed $4,000 of George Law, for the ex-
Pense of the presidential canvass of 1852, and
has never yet repaid a single dime.
a NEW JUDGE-Gov. BAsuFoHD has appoint
ed ALEX. w. RANDALL, of Waukesha, Judge of
this Circuit, to serve out the balance of Judge
Hubbells term.
sE The citizens of California have already
subscribed twenty eight thousand dollars for
the family of James King, and also presented
his widow with a residence.
- Exchanges enumerate thirty steamboats,
destroyed by fire, fifteen by ice and twelve by
explosion thus far during the present year.
sY- We learn from the last St. Louis papers
that the late rains have caused rise of eleven
inches in the Mississippi at that point.
sE- The I2affsmens Journal, Clearfield. Pa.
and the Coal City Item, Newcastle, Pa, have
come out for Fremont
IF If Fremont gets all the free States and
Buchanan all the slave States, which would be
the most sectional candidate?
s|The first fortnight of the campaign in
New Hampshire produced $50 Fremont Clubs
In as many different towns.
IF 1t is stated that within few weeks no
loss than 259 whites have been killed and woun-
ded by the Indians of Oregon.
What could have become of the vendors
OF shilling calico if women had never been in
vented?
rT The wheat crop in southern Illinois is
stated to be equal in value to that of last year,
though somewhat affected by the drouth.
sE The NV HAMPSHIRE DEMocaAr states
hat within q month after Frernont's domination
$50 clata we're fe--sed in tbassetass.