Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1861-05-10
Items From Southern Papers.

the Southern press
SOUTHERN OPINION OF NORTHERN VALoR.-
The North has no officers TO command
drlil the cowardly motley crew OF starving
foreigners and operatives that 1T proposes TO
send South to fill bitches, and as food for
cannon because 1t has 10 room or means In
IT'S penitentlaries and poor houses to receive
or sustain them. The regular troops OF the
Union, since the resignation of the Southern
ers, are deficient in officers, aid who are 10
drill and command the $4,000 militia sheep
II 'cc orcept BENEDICT Arnold there .e,er ,ras
a Northern man rho eedS fitted TO command, II
goa 1coeid gre han chance to run Like
cowardly boys when put up on ship board
without chance OF escape, thy gather cour-
age from despair, and fight desperately. But
| with linety nine North ern msn - hun
dred on all OCCASIONS, duty, honor, patriotism.
has ever been considered, and Will ever be
considered. mere matter OF profit and oss.
Since the days Of Washington, they have
ever deemed that course of conduct 10y which
most money is made. and least risk incurred,
The most vlriu"us ana honorable.
They viii not come to Washin ton. they
cannot he handcuffed and driven TO Wash
ingon, if we WI only precede them and let
them see that they will have TO fight for
! glory, and not for spells and plumber They
I
for pay, for pillage. aud for plumber. Once
satisfy them that there is no money to be
made. no pluuder to be COTTON by Invading
( the South, and 40 power on earth can lash
and kick them south of Mason and Dixon :
/ Hne.-Rihcmo,.d Eadmanaer.
! a VoIcE FROM THE MOUNTAINS The Lex
Ingtor (ky) Statesman. a secession paper,
of the 18th has heard from the mountains and
saws:
We refer especially TO the counties Of Rock
as,le, Laurel, Whitley, and adjoining por-
/ tons OF other The question of secession
/ las there resolved itself INTO the Issue of
Slaeery and treedom Tie Southern Rights
men are strengthened by large accessions.
but the UnIonsts have thrown off the mask.
aud openly sustain the Administration, avuw
themselves coercIonists, condemn Gov. Mag
offin severely because of bis refusal Of troops
! TO Lincoln, and admit themselves 10 be
friends of freedom.
TIE same paper also says
The condition of kentucky is deplorabe
There is Il division of her people in some To-
calties which may lead to serious collisions
The old emancipation party Is revived aud
Will ere long become the nucleus Of formid
able organization. Already men have avow-
ed themselves the champions of freedom and
the movement is foot 10 lend them large
accessions of voters now being rallied under
the neutrality flag.
STIRRING Up THE DARKEys.-Some four or
five steamboat crews of negroes free aud
slave hands, cooks. chaimbermaids, and all,
were yesterday taken off their respective
boats by tie police, under he Mayors order,
and confined In the first District lock up
all IN consequence Of the lately discovered
fact that free negroes have come here and
passed themselves off as slaves with fictI-
clous passes. 1t also being ascertalned that
1890 Woota r.--1---.-- & ;..oo.,l:ar. -oni :
ments have been mlnglIng with and laborne
I" demoralize our local slave population, the
Mayor upon consultation with the Governor
and The military authorities, and by their
advice. has ordered the police TO prevent and
break up all slave aS~cmblages, religious and
Otherwise. The measures enforced To pre-
eIude all possibility Of our slaves being
sampered wlth.-Ne1o Orleans Crescent, 2lth
a SUGGEsTIoH.-It has been sugces ted to
stop the supply Of qulnne to Cairo, IN
Which case II - believed that the vaor0us
troops there would soon shake IN their boots
with fever nger.' Pundit, who furnishes
tins atomic suggestion. positively objects to
yhody spelling II with the impertnent re-
mark that most Of the troops in question can
well afford to dispense with quiuine, As they
are ieutonIc alIeady.-Ae0 Orleans Delta
! 24tb.
OLD ABE OK a SPREE The Richmond
v Ing says that the last reliable intelligence
represents that Old Abe had been beastly
III toXlcated for the previous thrty-six con
secutiye hours, aud lh;t eighty Border kut}i-
ans from Kansas, under tie command of
Lane, occupied the East Room 10 guard his
Majesty's SAUNDERS. Ii j. broadly limited ia
a Washington paper, that his guard exers a
despotic control over the Presidential inmate
That all his DEGREES are of its inSIitatior
The paper (the States and L,siea) then pro-
eeeds to shed a becoming quantity of tears
over this Is sad subject for contemplation =
). Orleans Delta.
THE NORTH Go1YG MAD.-The Mo
bile Register, noticing the entire una
nImily of the North il the present cri-
SIS, and commenting particularly upon
the fact that the policy of the Admins
tration is sus,aind by STEPHEN A.
DOUGLASS x-presiden's BucHASAs and
FILMoRE, Gen. CAsS,a aud Gov. SrRAcUr
Of Rhode Island, says;
Here IS i representative man of ev-
cry shade OF Northern conservatism
We confess that this coincidence and
slmuitaneonSness Of action on the part
Of men who are wider apart by their
antecedenls than even by their place of
residence, takes US by surprise. We
endeavor in vain to explain il blythe sup
position thet these gentlemen consider