Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-07-09
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H9- 1t is stated that the President will
order at an early day, the public sale of
100000 acres of Government lands in
Oregon, the first SO offered.
FIGHTING MAN-Samuel Cochrane.
of the first Ohio battery, remained at his
gun at the battle of Port Republic, aud
fired it alone three times, making great
havoc among the enemy, and then knock
ing down rebel with . stone, made his
escape.
EeE@ The reports of destitution and suf-
fering In Ireland are fully confirmed BY
communication from John Francis Ma
guire NJ P, which appears in the Lon
don Times. Mr. Mcguire adds to his own
testimony that of official persons in vari-
Gus parts of Ireland, all going to show
that many of the peasantry are reduced
to the last stages of poverty.
Bg- All descriptions CT crops are rep
resented as being very poor in Alabama.
Very little cotton has been planted the
wheat has been ruined by rust, and the
corn is unusually backward
nsa- The New Orleans Delta m
strong appeal in favor of aoilling re.urn
to the support of the Nation-which is
the right word to be used in this place
Ii speaks with strong emphasis in favor
of the conduct of Gen Butler, and con
graduates the people Of New Orleans,
that they have had one month of order,
peace and security.
BsA, Hon. Reverdy johnson has been
sent on q mission to New Orleans. by the
Government. He is one of the men who
can be trusted to do well, whatever NAV
be the business given into his care
re- There has been great change of
sentiments amongst the laboring classes
of New Orleans in favor Of the Union.
and hundreds have already enlisted in the
Federal Army. The weather so far has
been unusually cool, which is favorable
to the heaith of our troops.
sS5~ The steamer Tycoon took 10000
pounds of flour and bac n from Cincin-
natl last week to feed the families Of
rebels in Mississippi and Tennessee.
eS~Extra Billy Smith, rebel Colonel,
and at one time a member of Congress,
was wounded at the battle of Fair Caks
GREAT News FROM TIE SALMON RIVER
! GoLD MISEs.-A citizen of Omaha. Ma"
who went up to the Salmon River mines
last fall with no other tools for the get
ting out of gold than n common pick and
shovel, has just returned home with t,co
| Hundred and thirty thousand dollars in
. the precious metal This story is vouch-
ed for by the Omaha papers, the man be
ing a well known citizen Of that place
| gS7g~As the rebels can get no salt, thev
will not be able to save their meat with
out Jerking, and they seem to be pretty
thoroughly jerked meat themselyes.-Lo,t
isUHle Journal
s3s~"The country is now divided into
two, and only two parties Detroit Free
/ Press.
That's so. As Douglas said, ''there are
only two parties, loyalists and traitors =
the Republican party and all true patri-
OTIS sustain the Government uncondition-
ally Democratic leaders and their organs
oppose the Government sympaVhize with
its enemies, and urge reconstruction and
compromise Detroit Tribune
THE BANKER PEABODY 4 TRAITOR - 4
correspondent from London writes as fol-
lows:
1T is we'll known that Mr. George Pea
body has pocketed half million dollars
the past year in buying up American
stocks and bonds in London, and selling
! them in New York. a few months since
an American who had some knowledge of
his operations said to him, why do you
not BUY United States securities 2 the re-
/ ply was mot one dollar of my money
1 Shall ever aid in carrying on that unholy
war" Now, no one win pretend to deny
/ Peabodv's right to dispose of his money
i in his own way, but let every American
+ remember that in his country great affiic-
2 :; in,
+ her teeth as those who are her bitterest
enemies.
/ DIsAPPEARANcE OF NEBULE E-The dis
covory of the disappearance of one or two
nebulae in the heavens has excited the live
lest interest among astronomers. So un-
/ looked for a phenomenon fairly startles
the hardest understanding Objects hith-
erto regarded as firm, enduring and fixed
as the pillars Of the universe have been
found as unstable as an autumnal meteor.
What great revolution in astronomy is
about here to be made, no one can con
lecture. The awful mystery only height
ems on reflection, and vague shadowy fore
bodings of the "rottenness of the pillared
frmaments" crowd upon the imagination.
boston Courier.
\ SAD SroRY.-A rather sorrowful and
T outrageous case OF cT1In1lldi
sorrowful for the poor woman, and outra-
geous that such rascals are allowed TO run
unhung-was related to US by Mr.. Neal,
our we'll known fellow citizen, yesterday
His daughter, it seems, married a man IN
this city some few years since, by the
name of James Lucas. After residing
here some time he disposed OF her real
estate and personal property, starting with
his family for Minnesota, settled IN the
woods, and there left her with her chill
, dren to starye Her father on learning
sthe Circumstances and condition o. his
daughter. Immediately supplied her with
means. and advertised him in the Chicago
spapers. which led to finding out his where
Hbouts-Milwaukee The wife, still devo-
ted still trusting, went on, found that he
was at work on the lake, and that he had
o wife and one child in Milwaukee- Sub
seauent circumstances brought TO light
the fact this was his thi1d wife. She I'M