Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-07-23
News From Eiichmond.

Washington, July 6, 1862.
DIR ID. q. Oliver, formerly of Grant coun-
ty, Wis, recently of Holy Springs Mass.
who was impressed into the rebel service
at the beginning Of the war, and since the
battle Of Bull Run has been acting as As
sistant Surgeon in the rebel army. reach
ed here to-day. Eie had presistcntly re-
fused to take the oath Of allegiance to the
rebel Government but was compelled to
do so on Tuesday last He was detailed
IN charge OF twenty-five ambulanees filed
with wounded to &c to Lynchburg. Being
possessed of the countersign, he determ-
med to take advantage of the existing CON
fusion to get away. He bribed a negro in
Richmond to swap clothes with him, and
after passing the pickets, bv means of the
countersien, he tramped to Fredericksburg
at that point He has had a good oppor-
tunity to observe the condition Of affairs
in rebeldom. He states that the entire
white male population Of the South, be
tween the ages of fifteen and forty, have
been forced into the armv The conscrip-
ton there is reality Numbers who are
in arms are doing duty unwillinglv, and
would gladly Get away from the tyranny
of the Davis autocracv
DR. Oliver has been in Richmond for
the last two months The rebel force in
Virginia is estimated at fully two hundred
and fifty thousand They admit loss of
twenty-five thousand in the recent battles.
They are subsisting on what is termed
half rstions, by which is meant onlv the
substantials without any of the small
stores. They have an abundance of bacon,
rice and corn but no salt, nor coffee, nor
other small stores that 90 to make up a
soldiers rations.
Since the occupation Of the Mississippi
by the Federal forces, cutting off commu-
nication with Texas, their supplies of beef
are brought from Florida, where there is
an abundance Of wild cattle The stock
of whiskey Is pretty well exhausted
DR. Oliver says the greatest depression
he observed was produced by the intelH-
gence that President Lincoln had called
out three hundred thousand additional
troops. The opinion prevailed that if these
troops SHOULD be promptly furnished, the
rebel game would be ended They have
exhausted their resources for soldsers.
and would be unable to contend against
fresh army of that size. Their only hope
is that this call Will not be promptly re-
sponded to by volunteers, but that there
viii be sufficient delay to afford an oppor-
tunity for foreign intervention before thew
are forced to give up
DR. Oliver says the rebel plan OF fight
ing is not with reverses, but by retreats
in the field, and that in every battle, regi-
ments are regularly relieved by fresh
troops, after having fought for a little
while In this way it was hoped to wear
out and tire down the troops under Me
Clellan, 1t is seldom that the same regi-
ments have been allowed twice to engage
in the same battle. The rebels have con
centrated nearly all of their available
troops at Richmond, excepting so much of
Beauregard 8 army as stopped at Charles
ton, and about thirty-fye thousand of the
same army let in Mississippi. The rebels
are terribly afraid of the gunboats They
reckon one gunboat equal to a whole di-
vision on land They admit that the re
cent movement of General Mcclellan was
a mastery stroke of policy, and that his
present position is infinitely stronger than
the one he abandoned 1t is his impress
sion that no further attack will be made
upon him where he is. This rebels are
sending their wounded and prisoners to
the interior. There is no room for them
IN Richmond, aud medical stores are ex-
ceedingly scarce Dr. Oliver was obliged
to dress wounds and amputations with
only cold water and bandages.
How TO CURE THE HoGs.-A stranger
stopped all night not long since at a farm
house near Doddsville, and on learning
I .I,o he's Il, roriaF1 yVara