Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-01-13
sE We clip the following items from the
Milwaukee Free Democrat

Milwaukee Free Democrat
81 The Philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA,
the chief organ of the Pennsylvania de-
mocracy, conducted by FoRNEY, the par
ticular friend of Mr.. BUCHANAN, advises
its democratic friends 10 send Commodore
STOCKTON of New Jersey, to the United
States Senate. Com STOCKTON is one
of the original simon-pure Know N 9TH
lngs and was FILLMORE elector for the
State at large, during the last canvass
Our contemporary of the Banner can find
no Know Nothingism In all this be cause
the toreIgn-born citizens are expected 10
sacrifice themselves for the salvation of
negro slavery.
sas| The Newport (Kentucky) Daily
News says no candidate for any office In
Newport will say he is in favor of Sla-
very. That is significant in slave state,
and the same is true of st. LOUIS, we
think. AT least no avowed pro-siavery
candidate can be elected either in the city
or country.
EB- A gentleman familiar with the
region embraced in the Gadsden purchase,
writes that the number of inhabitants
there is grossly exaggerated. He doubts
whether all the people, Indiads included,
amount to thousand souls. A gentle
man who was present at the Territorial
election, says there were but &c votes
cast.
ss9- The Southern papers are now ad-
vocaung the muzzling of the telegra PHI
The telegraph must no longer inform the
world how many victims are butchered in
behalf of Southern Slavery 0 glorious
Democracy! What beautiful spectacle
1t is, to see even Germans, whose every
interest is opposed to slave labor, uphold
the system.
ACCIDENT ON THE LA Crosse RoAp -
THREE MEN KILLED As the La Crosse
tram was coming in, and passing the
Round House, at ) l-2 p NJ, the hind
car was thrown off the track by ice, and
this threw off the forward passenger car,
which was smashed in pieces, killing two
men outright, who were piling wood, and
wounding third so that he must be dead
ere this time.
STATISTICS OF lS56.-Twentv men
have died during the year, in the United
States, over 100 years of age. A slave
woman IN Virginia attained the extraor-
binary age of 127, another in Louisiana
l24, and one 12Or During the year 80
Revolutionary soldiers have died. The
number Oh the pension list in July last
was SD.
KS The Madison Journal saws Sem
ator DURKEE has sold his farm in Dane
/ ri
of kenosha County.
sEy The Chicago Journal Glow church,
! has sued the n Y Churchman (high
church) for libel and places the damag &c
at $4,000. This IS Christianity of rath-
er belIigerent kind.
! s.B- Congress has passed bill, pay
! ing Gen. ScoTr $500, 900, in addition to
! the $4,000 he has already received of
over pay. 1t also places him on the same
footing with Gen. WAsuISGroS.
EfD~ A Methodist Conference has al
ready been held in Kansas, at which elev
en- members were present. The Metho-
! dist Missionary Committee have appro-
priated SIC, 900 for the work in the bounds
Of that Conferences.
go On Wednesday, 1920 hogs were
slaughtered in the pork house of Hall.
HUsT & CO., Of Louisville. The Courier
thinks the feat was never equaled, and
can't be teaten by any pork packers in
/ the world.
Esz5- Ga the 81 of December there
were twenty-seven lots sold in Nebraska
City, for Sl3 900, cash in hand. The
News says the same lots could not have
been sold eighteen months ago for $3.50
FIREs ~ lS56.-The amount of prop
erty destroyed by fire in the United States
during the year, is estimated at ST., 99S,-
900.