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Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-06-03

Gen. Sherman opened the ball on the
right at about nine IN. | cannot speak
in detail OF his movements, as | did not
witness them, being on the battle-ground
on the left all day. The part he took can,
however, be judged from his casualty list,
which is very small-only two or three
killed, and a proportionate number
wounded, | believe. After the rout by
Crocker's men, the rebels were panic
stricken al along the lines. Gen. Sher-
man arrived in the city immediately after
Col. Sanborne had hoisted the Stars and
Stripes on the Capitol building.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-06-03

the magazines and other works L started 1t. Com
manding Walker up the YaIoo river, With sunncient
force to destroy all the enemy's property In that
direction with orders to return with all dispstch
and only proceed IS far Yazoo City, whore the
rebels had a navy yard and store houses.
In the Rntimo Gen. Grant has closely In vested
vicksburg, and has possession Of the best COM
maudng points
In very short time a general assault viii take
place when 1 hope to that Vicks-
burg fallen, after series OF the brilliant
successes that ever attended an army. There has
never been q during the when the re psIs
have be- successfully beaten all poir t. and
the patience and endurance shown by army
and navy for many months il about being re-
varded.
1t is the question of few hours and then, With
the exception Of Port Hudson, which will follow
vicksburg, and the Aississippi tcQ9 be opened sts
| entire length. d. D. P0RTEk,
Actg Rear Admit Comd'g Mississippi Squadron.
New York, May 28.-The ship Com
| maonpedlM of Boston, Capt. Mcclellan,
| from New York March 10, for San Fran
| cisco, was captured by the alabama pre-
| vions to the Oath ult.
| The cargo of the Great Eastern contains
| 200 tons OF iron plates for the o. s. gov
| ernnent
The Washington Star says letter was
received there yesterday, stating that
| large rebel steamer heavily laden with
| cotton has been captured off Charleston.
| The steamer america, from Greytown
| the Goth, has arrived. she brings large
| number of passengers from California
A correspondent of the Commercial says
| New Orleans has been secured from any
invasion by the arrival of reintorcements,
so that should the insurgents attempt q
foray upon the place during Gen. Banks
absence they will slgnaly fail.
Washington, May 25.-All the male
contrabands in the neighborhood of Alex
andria have been put to work on the en-
treuchments near there. Great alarm
was caused by the report that osnarts
cavalry intended making raid on Alex
andria.
Our pickets were attacked yesterday in
the vicinity of Bull Run, and one killed.
The enemy was chased ten miles, and some
of them killed and wounded. 1t is sup
posed there is no force of rebels from War
renton to Acquis Greek.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03
Letter from TheOphIIus Iron. Clad,
Esq, TO President Lincoln on Ne
gro EnIIstmenta.


NASHVILLE, TENN, Nov. l, 1868.
To Abraham Lincoln, President, and Commdnderin
Cliefof he Army and Macy Of Ue Cnited States
AmGricI:
DEAR SIR-Having taken the oath,
feel that am loyal citizen of the United
States, so long as you may be able to
hold Tennessee, and therefore feel at
liberty to instruct you as to the policy
to be pursued towards this State. l
deeply deplore your late order to enlist
colored troops in this State. 1t will ex-
asperAte the true Southern Rights people
very much. 1t has exasperated me
greatly, and unless l can get another
contract, may possibly pursue such
course as will make it necessary for me
TO take the oath again. Sir, your order
is q death-blow to all our rights, and
undermines our freedom. You probably
need more soldiers, although l doubt it.
But if you do want more, why take our
slaves instead of our white men? have
fifty able-bodied male slaves, worth at
least $1,000 apiece, and it will break me
up, ruin me if you take them and
place them in the army. There
are hundreds of poor "wlde trash"
greasy mechanics, and hard-Rsted mud
sills rowing about Nashville, whom you
ought TO take. If poor white men are
killed nobody is hurt, but if my slaves
are taken 1 will lose fifty thousand aollarsl
Think of this, sir, and see the enormous
radicalism of your policy. / believe
that there are too many poor white men
in Tennessee already, and it would be a
positive benefit TO US if you would clean
them out by drafting them into the army;
while on the other hand there are not
SLAVES enough. The poor white men raise
little or no cotton, and are Of no use to
the great commercial world. The slaves
raiae cotton, n commodity which brings
about 80 cents per pound so you can
see hog much more valuable negro slaves are
to the STATE, as 10eU as to tho country at large,
than poor i0lite citizens. If this be so, it is
plain that slaves should be saved from
the casualties of war, SO long as there is
a white man to send to the field. Yes,
sir, painful as it would be TO see my sons
drafted, would rather give them up
than my slaves. Your order is death
blow TO slavery, and, sir, without sla-
very, neither the Union nor life itself is
anything to me.
Respectfully,
THEoPHILUs IRONoLAD,
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

The Press asks why we did not attack
Truesdaips infamous Army Police while
Truesdail was here. We did attack IL
repeatedly. We denounced its rAscality
on various occasions. We denounced its
unauthorized seizures and conGscations.
We denounced it's interference with the
business of the United States Marshal
We denounced its seizure of Southern
money in the hands of our brokers. If
the editor of the Press wants evidence on
this point let him call on our brokers,
Mr.. Mari, Mr.. Dunn and others. We de-
denounced Truesdaips swindling news
paper monopoly again and again, in such
terms as to stir up the wrath of Trues-
dai's minions. We did all this while
the Nashville Dispatch was receiving
large Gums of money for doing Trues-
daiPs printing, and was publishing his
lying reports which had been rejected at
our office.
The editor of the Press seems, or at
least pretends to be as ignorant as to our
course in this matter, as he is on every
other subject save that of propsgating
mummies. Why was he as dumb as an
oyster in regard to Truesdail's rascality
which was notorious to all the loyal men
of this community Did he too pocket
some of TruesdaiPs fees as 3 compensa-
ton for "the charity of silence?' We
do know that while Truesdail had the
newspaper monopoly, we received re-
peated letters from officers and soldiers,
stating that TruesdRil and his agents
would furnish the Press frequently when
the Union had been ordered. Perhaps
there was an understanding.
The following extract is from letter
written about a month since from
Stevenson:
"Can you not get an established
agency in Stevenson The soldiers all
want yout paper but are forced 10 buy the
Press. Yours Respectfully,
nj. CHAMBERS"
It is not at all improbable that Trues-
dali and the editor of the Press under
stood each other.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03
A few days ago the Pros said /:

1--WE know there is q party in the
Notion, who olamor for indisorinsinate
slaughter and devastation" We called on
the Press TO prove its assertion, and it
complied by borrowing from the st. Louis
Republican, and endorsing a batch Of
irrevelant newspaper clippings, beginning
with forged quotation from Daniel
Webster The pretended quotation COM
menced: "If the Internal fanatics and
aboliiionists, etc" No man acquainted
with Webster's style could fail 10 de d.
teet the miserable forgery, which is who'll
ly un -Websterian. WEBB 'er never utter
ed it. The editor Of the Press il appears,
maintains his positions by borrowing
forgeries from newspaper whose editors
were arrested in ST. Louis for defending
Jackson the rebel Governor Of Missouri.
Well, that's respectable enough for q
pro-slavery journal, in these times.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

The Nashville Union of Friday ex-
presses the opinion in reference to the
Prose, that "a paper which makes such
assertions as that ought to produce the
proof" Well, if we were the Editor Of
the Union, we would-.iust for the nov
city Of the thing, and to see how queer
we should feel after the operation
Press.
If you "were the Editor Of tile Uaion''
you would prove your assertions, would
you? But as you are only tie Editor Of
The Press, you either make assertions
without proving them, or else begin a
string of pretended proofs, borrowed
from galvanized rebel" by publish
ing a forgery and Sttributing it to Daniel
Webster, as you did on last Saturday.
That is conservative proof.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

Hon. Allen A. Hall, United States Min
lister TO Bolivia, states in q letter to his
family, that he arrived at Oruro the pres
ent seat of government, on the last Of
August He was very cordially received
by the President, members of Congress,
and the military, who manifested every
evidence of friendship for the Minister
and the Government which he represent
ed. Mr.. Hall was in the enjoyment of
excellent health.
In consequence of civil war in Bolivia,
oocasioned by the outbreaks and guer-
rila operations Of the Indians, the gov
eminent has been removed temporarily to
OrurO, strongly fortified city, five days
journey from La Pas the Capital, and in
the central portion of Bolivia. 1t has
some 5000 inhabitants, although il once
contained $4,000. The mountains at
whose base it is located, once contained
three thousand silver mines, none of which
are worked now. Doubtless the noun
tains still abound with gold and silver
The Spaniards tried the divine institu-
ton of Slaveryin those mines in former
days, and the miserable Indians and
Africans persisted by thousands under
the lash of the task-mAster. Divine
Justice delayed its awful visit to Bolivia
for many years, but came at last--just
as it has come at last upon Tennessee
We are repeating the experience Of
Bolivia. The wealth and prosperity of
State purchased with blood are doomed
TO pass away.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03
sIsveAbOIltlOn and state Abolition.

slave on and state ADDITION
The idea cannot be too deeply impress
sed upon the public miiSi that Slavery is
neither the State, nor a part of any Slate.
IL constitutes no part Of the government
of Tennessee nor any other Slave State,
so-cAlled, although il has been the con-
trolling power in them all for many years.
Slavery is simply domestic system,
which has corrupted and perverted the
State Governments, just as the Mormon
Church might do in course Of time, if it
were transplanted from Utah TO Tennes-
see. This fact admitted, IL follows clear
ly, that Slavery may be destroyed with
out destroying or impairing the integrity
of State in the least or diminishing
its power The authority and jurisdio-
ton of the State so freed from the mere
domestic system of Slavery would be as
ample and vigorous as ever; nay, it would
be far more so, as is indisputably estab-
lished by the example of New York,
Pennsylvania, and all other States, in
which Slavery has been established. All
history proves that freedom and free i,lsti-
t,ttions give power and wealth TO a State,
while Slavery rstards the physical and
mental development of every people a.
mong whom il exists. Slavery fosters
idleness, and idleneJs 10 the parent of
ignorance and crime it oultivates q
spirit of tyranny and love of despotic
authority, which are wholly incompst-
ible with republican government. 1t
follows then that TO ABOLISH SLAVERY
Is TO INCREASE THE POWER OF THE
STATE. We see then, no wisdom
10 the position of those who advocate
the policy of remanding the rebellious
States TO the condition of Territories, in
order that they may be re-Admitted here
after as free States. We do not believe
either that a State can legislate itself
out Of the Union, or that the Federal
Government can legialate States out Of
the Union. We oppose the doctrine of
expulsion as much as we do that of seces-
sion. There is no necessity for any such
policy to get rid of the aristOcra tioAl
and dangerous institution of slavery,
for we have shown that there is no more
identity between slavery and the State
Governments under which it exists, than
there is between toad-stool and the
giant oak on which il grows. Who would
propose TO cut down the oak merely to
get rid of the filthy toad-stool? Let us
kecpup the idea of unity throughout this
Government, and resolutely oppose all
propositions TO diminish the power OF
any of its members. Let no unhAllowed
hand lift the weapon of destruction
against the State Government, for the
purpose of getting rid Of an odious, per-
nicious, bArbarous, Anti-republican and
disgusting system, which is tumbling to
pieces as fast as itpossibly can. Let US
sanction and ratify the abolition of Ella
very, but not the abolition of any State
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

The MArylanders in Richmond are in
bad odor. Many from Baltimore are
Enthusiastically of that description of citi-
Gems who can only "leAve their country
for their oountry's good" and of those
who may lay claim TO respectabilitv
there are few who would not gladly. II
they could, return to "My Maryland .
Notwithstanding her down odden and
oppressed condition. They find little
sympathy in the Confederaoy, and are
generally regarded with distrust, and
not untrequently snubbed by the +. f.
VS.. A young lady, OF some pretensions
among the Richmond fashionables, was
heard TO say in company that she "did
not want to know any one born north of
the Potomac. " Mary landers are told
that their State is Yankee State, and
not ut to be numbered among the South
ern stars"
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

Everybody knows Bill Rawlings, the
good -natured barber on Market street.
His wife, Mary, is now engaged in making
up uniforms for the troops. Her brother
Dim Dunge) is raising a company Of
free negroes TO eight Lincoln's men, and
Bill says if anybody will furnish him
with good leg, he can whip any ten
aboltionists, but even with one leg, he is
willing to hobble out to the battle field,
if the Governor wants his services.
The editors of the Union and American
were perfectly willing to employ black
soldiers, to destroy the Government, but
they probably consider it an awful thing
to use negroes to help save it.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

He Gov JOhnson) in his official char
aoter has done nearly everything he could
do TO fulfil the vision of oppression and
OF insult which in q moment of frenzy
drove Tennessee into rebellion. Louis
vile Journal
"Jeif Thompson want to send some
good liquor to you. jeff Thompson l
love you personally. JEFF Thompson if
you want money call on me. If you
want anything call on me-"
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03
THEOPHILUs IRoEoLAD.

CINoINNATI, Nov. IAN extraordinary
case of treason has just come 10 light,
duplicating several persons in this city,
Columbus, Coyington, and Newport, in
conspirlng to release rebel prisoners at
Camp Chase, and overthrow the State
Government. The conspiracy was brought
to light by the United States detectives,
who were supposed by parties implica.
ted to be spies from the rebel army, and
were treated with full confidence. The
plot, as disclosed by the detectives, was
that an attack was to be made on Camp
Chase TO release the prisoners confined
there, numbering $500, seize the arsenal
at Columbus, take possession of the PEN
itentiary and release John Morg an and
other officers confined there, and then
commence rebel campaign in Ohio.
United States Marshal Sands and Pro-
vost Marshal Reaney arrested the follow
ing persons implicated in the plot
Charles w. Ii. OAthart, of Columbus,
formerly School Commissioner of Ohio;
j. ID. Cresop, of Columbus, formerly suit
Ter in the 18th regulars, who were 70 lead
the attack on Camp Chase; James ID. Pat
ton, OF Cavington, regular agent of the
rebel government, who frequently fur
nished money to detectives under the
impression they were spies, and, accord
ing to agreement, met Cathart aud others
at Camp Chase and assisted 10 mature
the plans of attack; Ruth Mcdonald, of
Covington, who acted as mail-carrier
through the rebel lines, and whose house
was the headquarters of rebels; Samuel
?. Thomas, merchant Tailor, of Cinoin.
natl, and his wife, and Catherine Par
menter of Cincinnati.
Information was obtained that an or
ganization exists in Illinois, waiting for
an outbreak in Ohio, to produce similar
results in Illinois. Other particulars are
known to the authorities, but not yet
made public.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03
arlFIIth,s Rebel NeFro Fhalanx.

We noticed the other day the capture
Of j. o. Griffith, ex-editor of Harris's
Southern ire.eAting organ, the Nashville
Union and american. This Griffith was
eager 10 raise negro troops in this State
to fight "Lincoln's men," and he encOur-
aged the enlistment Of black rebels as
zealously as he did the enlistment Of
white ones. Here is puff he wrote for
a negro company of which Griffith was
to be Suter, we believe
From the Nashville Union and American, Apri
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

A man Of one idea would certainly
make 3 capital hghter-unless that idea
should happen to be to run aloay.-Pres,.
A fellow Of no ideas at all stands still
hence the conservatism Of the Press.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

Truesdail's police banjo, the Louisville
Journal, says that Gov. johnson has de-
parted from his task. The editor of the
Journal adheres faithfully to his, SANDER
and drunkenness.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

The Louisville journal inslrucls the
President in regard to his duty towards
Tennessee. This ambitious tutor of
the Federal Administration is said to be
an importation from Canada. He would
profit by remembering that an ass is
none the wiser for having been raised
upon that pestilent weed the Canada
Thistle.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

The Press repeats its old joke that we
have only one idea. That is one idea
more than lie editor will ever be oompli-
nented for having. dc hasn't even an
idea that he has no ideas.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

Gen. Rosecrans having been invited to
visit Springfield, wrote from Yellow
Springs ON the 28th: "The increasing
yirnlence Of the symptoms of temporary
indisposition renders it imperative that /
should remain quiet for some days"
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

A oopperheAd editor speaks of laying
the axe at the root of the evils in this
State We don't lay the axe Al the root
OF our evils. We hold the axe in our
hands and ply il vigorously.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03
The Next House of MepresentatLves.

The Next House of Representatives.
The Administration will have de-
cided but small majority in the next
National House of Representatives, and
will elect its Speaker. The majority
will probably be increased by tho Mary
land delegation. The copperheads are
frantic for a Congressional election
TO be held immediately in Tennessee,
hoping that in the present distracted
condition of the State it would return
nearly a solid cOpperhead delegation,
and give them the control of the House,
the choice Of Speaker, and tho appoint
ment of the committees. We don't fancy
aguerrilla Speaker.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

Emancipation trOts briskly in Mary
land, canters in Tennessee and goes at
Atull gallOp in Missouri. The scrub race
of the pro-slavery mules furnishes food
for infinite laughter at the same time.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03
NC LoulsyiIIe Demoornt anra.

The Psymasters Of this Department
nave received . large amount of green
0ackS' and gone to the various armies in
kentucky and Tennessee, and elsewhere,
to pay Oh the troops.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03

The editor of the Press thinks that
We would lay off straight cOrn-rows with
one stake. The editor of the Press takes
too much straight corn" himself, judy
ing from his maudlin editorials.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03
mARHIEp,

% Sunday nothing, the let inst, 81 the Residence
o. the BRIDES father, BY Squire Willis, Mr. T. J
IRWIN to MISS MARTHA B. sHIvERs-both Of
Davidson county.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-03
OASHMRRE GnATs.

= 'hREE PAIR or THEsH BEAUTFUL ANIMALS
can now be procured, very cheap, by making
immediate application at the &C. Cloud Hotel. 60
LOO SAMUEL j, CAhTER, Jr.
East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-11-11
Conspiring for Separation.

From the Albany Argus.
We have not seen the article refer
red TO below; but its alleged tenor is
in harmony with the views of Chase,
''to let the South go )" with the origi-
nal proposition Of Greeley to rccog-
nizo the right of secession, and with
Monsieur Conway's offer to Mason, in
the name of tho anti-slavory men of
tho North, to force a cessation of hos
tilities and recognition of the South
on the condition of emancipation.
We shall not assume to judge of
the course Of Greeley in this matter
without sceinghis course of argument;
but we accept the structures of the
Hartford Times upon it:
BRBAKING THE IcE.--Mr. Horace
Greeley, in last week HdcpeadaRt,
plainly iutimates-that we SHALL BE
FORCED TO GIVE UP THE WAR
AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE IN
DEPENDENCE OF THE SOUTH.
And he moro than intimates that He
HAS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
FROM TILE FIRST
This being the case, we would ask
why Mr.. Greeley has urged on the
war? If he never believed it would
save the Union, nc must have known
that its continuance could only avail
to exhaust our resources, make the
nations ruin more completes, and add
countless thousands TO the number o.
Americans whose lives have been sac,
riifccd in the war.
Hero is badposition for Mr.. Gree
ley. 1t will not help him, either t.
resort, as he does, TO weak gable
about copperheads, &c, in explana
ton of what he believes to be the fail
Te Of the war. He oponly expressed
his conviction that war would fail i
it were resorted to before war was he
gun; and it seems he has never aban
doned his belief. The truth is, he ant
his friends want disunion, and hav,
meant it, and nothing else. In urging
on the war, they have done yiolenc,
to their conscienees-if they have any
And they now break the ice, cautious
ly, for the presentation Of their Ions
cherished programme, viz, SEPARATION