Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-11
Hard Times In Old virgihis-Destitutisn at
the Rebel Capita

The Richmond papers devote more space
of late to the question of how the people of
that reasonable town are going to be fed
during the coming winter than to the war.
/ The Enquirer recommends a reduction of
| the population. This it would accomplish by
1 having the Government lease comfortable
/ places in the country for the accommodation
OF such departments and such operatives as
are not absolutely necessary to be kept at
Richmond
The Wig, of the oath ult. saws:
Our citizens are aware that the coming
I winter Will be one of unusual trials and they
! are to overcome these trials by spontaneous
i:berality and not by law, by mutual assist
| ance ana not by mutual gollgiRg.
In this connection we must call at
tention to the fact, stated by the trustw worthy
| army correspondent of the Enquirer, that many
Of Gen. Lees soldiers are acitto,a shoes and made
tie late adcdHce to Manassas and back again.
| through mud and mire barefoot These are
our peculiar champions. They belong to US
and we to them. Several times they have
| called on US for shoes, and never yet have
they called in vain. Here is a chance for
liberality and no maximum to compel it.
The Wig also publishes the following COM
munication, which tells its own story of the
straits to which JEFF. DAVIS government is
reduced
To the Editor Of the Wing:
that you and other papers state that there
| is no wheat in the city mills and none arriving;
and you blame the farmers. You write in igno-
rance of the facts. The farmers not blameable.
The government agents hare Impressed all the cheGt
and -four and beef IN this region lohich deS-
tined for Richmond. L suppose the sameis the case
explain O
no wheat arrives-the farmers having none to send
it has been seized by Government agents. Look
to them. JAMES RIVERS.
The Richmond Sa,ta,el of the 3D. advo-
Gates the passage of bill pending in the
Legislature providing for system of valuing
articles of food by commissioners, in order to
prevent extort.on. 1t says;
If our case be as the opponents of the
maximum maintain, then may Heaven help
US, for there is no help in mani We would
infinitely sooner submit to the Yankee yoke
than that of the extortioners for an equal
! time. When we weigh the horrors of war
and the expressions of the ayaricious against
| Yankee serytude, We find the balance to be
decided only by the fact that the former is
| but for season, while the latter would en-
| dure forever.
There is no worse man in the Yankee army
| Beast Butler is not more unfeeling-than
the person in this city that told poor
| woman whose despair at his asking her S75 Il
| barrel for -four, caused her to enquire of him
what she to do to ive-'I reckon, mad
am, you will have TO eat your children! !" If
| there is no law for such as these-if, indeed
it be the essence of human wisdom to give
| them free scope to plumber and extort, even
| from the families of those who are protecting
them with their lives in the battlefield, then,
we say. fig for human wisdom.
The following is from the Examiner. of the
2lst ut
| want of material operate with The basin, for
merly crowde with boats at this season now looks
deserted and the railroad depots which, in better
| times, were filled with grain, tobacco, and other
! produce, are now comparatively empty. No wheat
| except supplies for the Confederate mills is
! arriving, so far learn. The farmers have
| proved deaf to every argument which has been en-
| ployed to induce them to sell their wheat. The
market Is open for them at any price buyers will
pay and still they will not send it in. To prevent,
as TAR as possible, the serious prospective conse-
quences OF this state OF Things ud 1t continue,
the City Counc ell have determined to establish sup
ply warehouses in this city, and will send agents to
the co untry to purchase the necessares OF life
The hopeis entertained that among the farm
of Virginia there will be found number of patri-
otto men who will sell their wheat to those agents.
The little Flour for sale is held at from $50 $50
per barrel though one house is still selling g Elk
| Corn Meal may be quoted at Sl2 per bushel.
Corn is very scarce. We quote $1,000 to sll per
bushel.
Oats So per bushel.
Rye SO to 81.
Forage is unchanged. No 1aled hay in the mar
ket. Hay, in bulk. SO per 100 pound.
Apples, $50 to SIS per barrel. Some superior
large size pippins have been sold at 500 per barrel.
| Wequote Onions at so per bushel. irish potatoes
IS to So and sweet at s. to IS, both kinds abund-
| ant.
Bacon quiet at s. 80 for hog round. Lard firm
at 3 per pound. Butter III demand at So 70 to
! 50 50.
Sailed trout $40 per hundred
The mar ct for salt has been somewhat xcited
to-day by the news from Southwestern Virginia,
and some holders advanced their asking rate sc to
l0c. Others continued to sell at soc " n, and a
considerable quantity changed hands at this price
The supply in first hands is LARGE the receipts last
month having been unusually heavy.
Brown sugar may be quoted ut 81 90 to - 10
market dull
Coffee SIS to $40, according to quality. Rice 25e
Manufactured tobacco continues dull, although
the shipments South are neavy. Smoking heavy,
under large stocks.
The same paper quotes gold at $3.50, and
says that bill is about to pass the rebel leg
islature prohibiting the traffic in precious
metals
The Richmond correspondent o. the Allan
ia APpeal says the question of house-room is
also serious one, adding, Houses in any
convenient part of the town now readily rent
for more than they would have brought at
public auction three years ago. A single
room, unfinished, commands one hundred
dollars month. | knew of one instance in
which a two story dwelling has been rented
at the enormous rate of 81, 900 a month.-
Heads of families are going about begging to
be taken in as boarders at private dwellings,
at any charge that may be demanded"
! From these facts may gain some idea OF
the restitution and suffering which the rebels
have brought upon themselves in attempting
to destroy the Government of the United
| States. Cannot the Union men OF the North
afford to pay few cents more per pound for
| sugar, and some additional price for tea and
coffee and cotton cloth, rather than permit
| these traitors to succeed? Shall we hesitate
| about suffering inconvenience which are but
trihing compared with the sef-imposed mis-
cry IF the rebels, in order to preserve our
Go, eminent and maintain and transmit the
FIRE institution bequeathed to Us by our
| f4rlars