Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-04-09

D.bN II ONeTlb3ru from Tile ste inner Amer
icus, and drowned
A fiat boat oeeupie by a poor family as
residence, was blown away and sunk;
the family escaping upon a coal barge, as
it foated past. The Cairo and Columbus
wharf-boat was towed back last night not
much damaged
Things is working at Island No Ten
Night before last Col Roberts of the 42d
Illinois regiment with forty picked men of
his command, in company with a boats
crew from each OF the gunboats, under
command Of first Master johnson of the
st Louis started III o clio k to take SCUM
derigs At IL 'clock they brought up to
the Redan fort, which is the upper one of
the rebel works where they landed to rec
conoitre
Cairo, April Especial to the Chica-
20 Journal THE most terrific tornado
that has visited this locality for several
wears came upon US at o clock this morn
ing. The storm came up from the south
accompanied by wind, rain, hail, thunder
and lightning. Nearly all the transports,
har"es steam tugs and all floating proper
" was torn from the moorin IS on the Ohio
leyee and blown across the river. The
slate roof of the st. Charles Hotel is scat
tered over the town Several rows of bar
racks were lcvelied with the ground, but
happily thew were ntenanted or the loss
OF life would have been terrible. The
Cairo Il Columbus wharfboat lies high and
dry on the Kentucky shore opposite here
The steamer Illinois had both her Chin
nevs and upper cabins ,orn away, in the
falling of which four or FIVE lives were
lost
Captain Carrall, Of the steamer SaIHe
Yard, had his ler broken, and several
others were ally injured
Several harees which had been covered
over ana were beng used for store houses
were broke ! ose, and fotted down the
riv"r The large piles OF Government lum
& on the Ohio levee were Blown into the
riTer
The wooden barracks at Birds Point
eau cht ne .ale about mids lips and had
t. cave in largely; so also at Fort Holt.
No loss of life at either Of the last two
pcint'.
Bu.ord's capture at Union City amour
ted to { prisoners and forty horses in
-te"d OF 100 prisoners and four hundred
horses.
Today 40 or 80 soldiers came into Hck-
man and gave up their rms, and desired
to return to their allegiance and join the
Federal army.
y tipatch from New Orleans, dated
March 10Th. states that the Confederate
steamer Vanderbilt had founded at sea
with all on board.
The rebels in their flight from Union
City left their breakfast cooking, AMI left
all their personal property in their tents.
Col. Buiord secured all he could take, and
DESTROYED the balance.
The rebel sentinels fired their pieces
and ran in, leaving the battery in our pos
session. The Union troops found six guns
here, which they spiked and left One of
the guns massive Ga FOUNDER, the
rest were 50 and 3fs. Not man was
killed or wounded on our side, nor was
any one hur. on the other side as far as
heard from
New York, March 23-It is rumored
here today the rebel Cabinet has decided
to burn the city of Richmond on the APP
proach Of the Union army.
business was never SO brisk the line
of the Orange and Alexandria T. Y. as at
present
Since the affair in the Sickles brigade,
when a master shot at his servant General
Hooker has positively refused passes to 60
into the camps of his division to hunt Con
trabands
Lieutenants J. p. HILL and W. jaime
-
officer Foote.
The number Of sick soldiers in the Gov
eminent hospitals in the District of Col
umhia, was 2,3l4 Of these $50 are from
\. Y regiments.
Slight skirmishin@ continues to be the
order of the day, along our front each ar
my lying in sight of the other, entertain
ing each other with occas NAL artillery
practice and cavalry charges
Yesterday Col Geary captured num-
Der of rebels after spirited skirmish, in
which several Of the enemy were killed
and wounded
Washington, April Sit is now consid-
cred among the rebels that the Virginia
troops are equal if not superior to any OF
the rebel army, notwithstanding the brag
Of the South Carolina Chivalrv. 1t Is
charged upon them that they were the first
TO break ranks and run at the battle OF
Bull Run
y large number of deserters from the
North Carolina and Georgia regiments are
reported TO have taken place lately
The time OF the London troops expires
April 23d.
The steamer King Philip arrived from
he Lower Potomac last night, bringing
up four refugees from Richmond and
estmoreland county, Va, who came OF
from kins;ile Saturday last.
They state the rebels are pressing every
male between the ayes Of eighteen and
forty-fve into the rebel service, and they
have been closely hunted by the press
gangs For a week the rebels had mostly
left the peighborhood of London, but a
few squads of their cavalry roamed over
the country pressing into the service all
able TO bear arms The refugees also say
that late Southern papers state the FEEDER
al loss in the conflict with the Werrimac,
was fifteen hundred men Also that the
shots OF the Monitor had no more effect on
the iron sides of tle .ferrimac than hail
stones
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