Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-03-15
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shorter Session than was anticipated by many.
sB- JOHN PErrrr has received the appoint
rnent of Chief Justice of Kansas Territory, IN
place OF Judge LEeoMPrE, removed Mr. PET
is of the political strife of his illustri-
ous predecessor.
AZ Navigation has already opened on Lake
Michigan. The Milwaukee papers notice the
arrival of several boats from Chicago
tH fire occurred in Buffalo, N Y, last
week, destroying property to the amount of
$4,000.
No IroEssE--The citizens of Warren, Ill.
have voted TO grant no license to sell liquor in
that village for the next year. The vote stood
SO to e.
Judge NoGeLE has been called on by many
voters in the first Judicial District to permit his
name to be used as candidate for Circuit Judge
in that district. He replied in the affr native 20
the request -.
EY A new postoffiee, named Martinsyille.
has recently been established IN Grant County.
between Platteyille and Observation-Disclosures F.
CLIFTON Postmaster
- The Depot for Newport on the La Crosse
road was inaugurated on Friday evening, the
18th ult., with many demonstrations of rejoicing
Boar FROM Sr. Lours-The w L. Ewing left
St. Louis last Thursday for Galena and is hour
- expected.
sY joan Mason, the Third Assistant Post
master General, died suddenly at Washington
on the evening of the Sd inst. He was at his
office the same day, attending to his business
sH ROBERT OLD has been appointed q. S.
District Attorney for the District of Columbia,
vice Key, deceased.
- The Democratic Legislature of the Ter
ritory of New Mexico have passed a bill for the
protection OF Slave Property in that territory
and to forbid emancipation therein. This is the
territory in which DANIEL WEBsrE. declared
the law of God had prohibited slavery, render
sng human enactments TO that effect unneces-
sary
| DuSLEIrH ITEMs.-During the past week, the
Illinois Central Railroad has been shipping ice
from Dunleith TO Decatur at the rate OF four car
loads day.
| The Ferry boat commenced running at Dun
| leith on Thursday.
| A numOer of teams cross the River at Dun
| leith daily, route for the gold mines. Among
those who are going to the mines from Dunleith
/ is DR.. Rose.
bluff this season.
1 The Dunleith Advertiser says that more
mineral is being raised in the vicinity of Potosi
than for several years previous, and that some
good shows for big leads have been recently
struck
20 The State Democrat, recently started at
| Springfield to sustain the Administration, has
gone up" for the want of support
| sx- The New York Herald thinks Mr. COG
GIS, the Opposition candidate, stands better
chance of being the next Governor of Virginia
than Col. Le;clIer, the Administration nominee
/ The Democracy much divided in the Old
/ Dominion, while the Opposition are thoroughly
united and enthusiastic in support OF their
I ticket.
e9S- RICHARD CoBDES, the celebrated English
reformer, arrived in New York on the 9th inst
- ROBERT WALSH, formerly editor of the
/ Philadelphia National Gazette, died recently
il Paris
/ - The Natteson House, Chicago, is to be
raised some six feet above its present founda
1 ton.
sg Seventy fugative slaves, from Missouri
passed through Grinnell, Iowa, on the 2lst inst.
on their way to Canada.
/ - The Common Council of the city of
Rockford have passed an ordinance declaring
the sale and manufacture of liquors, including
lager nuirance, and prohibiting any per-
son from manufacturing, selling or giving away
the " critter," under a penalty of 800 for every
offence.
sY The Stevens Point Pj,aery pronounces
very emphatically that MoRGAS l. MARTIN, of
Green Bay, viii be the next democratic candi-
date for Governor.
~ A Washington letter-writer says, the
case of Mrs. SIoKLEs is singular only compared
with a vast many OF the ladies who hutter there
In fashionable life, in the fact that she was dis
covered.