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Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04


NATcHEz, Miss, Oct. y, 1854
Editors JoafHal: After long silence. I
again write YOU concerning matters and
things IN this region. The Division is still
here, and is in far more efficient condition
! physically than upon its arrival. as the eonse
quence of Its prolonged stay in this healthy
locality. Everything goes ON from dav to
G"' with the regiment IN matter-of-course
manner, performing guard and picket duty,
with occasional inspections, but nothing of
moment has occurred since my last
A few items which have come under nv
notice, | viii briefly state, as they NAV inter
est some of your readers: and first the reoi-
ment had general inspection on the l4th of
September, when everything was reported in
a very satisfactory condition.
On the 18th inst. party of guerril.as
burned 700 bales of cotton, about l miles
from this city, which had been bought bv
citizens, who were preparing to haul it in
y champion drill of one company in each
regiment of our Second Brigade occurred on
the 2lst which was an interesting affair The
arms and equipments of the troops were in
perfect condition, while the evolutions showed
great proficiency III the manual of arms as
well as field tactics
Great numbers of Confederate deserters
come into our lines, many of whom take the
oath and 90 home, while within the past
month two lots of prisoners have been sent
up the river.
Lieut.. Clark, of Co. X, llsh Wis, who has
been in the Quartermaster's Depart on Gen.
McPhersOn's staff, has been appointed Quar-
termaster in his regiment. He is a most
worthy officer, and is well liked.
On the Sth inst. our former Major now
Lieut.. Col. W. E. Strong, Inspector General
of the 18th Army Corps, inspected our (3d)
Brigade, next morning the records, and on
the 10th, the First Brigade, finding them IN
excellent discipline and efficiency.
4 short time since the officers of the 18th
Wisconsin met and presented an elegant and
expensive sword TO Col. Malloy, on which oc-
casiOn toaSts and speeches were made, whisky
and wine drank to an alarming extent, and a
general good time > INDUCED in.
Quantities of whisky have been confseated
by the efficient Provost Marshal here, and
many fines paid for selling the forbidden ar
ticle to soldiers, but still the sots find enough
to get drunk with, in spite of every exertion
to prevent them.
Yesterday the troops composing Gen
Smiths Brigade, cd of 9th Diysionl in which
are the l4th and 18th Wisconsin,, started up
the river TO Viekshurg, leaving the post 10
the 4th Division to preserve from the rebels
The 18th and SD Wisconsin are still here
and likely to continue so for some time yet
4 few DAYS ago c. \. Becbe, and last night
Corp. J. NJ George, of Co. y, 18th Wiscon-
sin, died. They were both good soldiers, and
their loss to the company is irreparable.
The former commander of the Division,
Brig. Gen. LaUman, was here on a visit last
week, reviewed each regiment and gave them
a farewell speech. He has not had his trial
for the blunder at jackson yet.
Respectfully yours, w.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04
T1r CoyTEpERATE FLAG.

WHOM treason, in Plutcnian night,
"TnTurled her standard to the air,
Sba took comets baleful light,
Aud set the star called NORWOOD there
{ Sbs mingled with its funeral dyes
pra -,.ovvIiug of IscaIiot@s eyes
-, r,ucifer revengeful glance,
~ Il Wing from Ithuriels lance
she .riped it with the guilty blood
Of every felon since the flood,
And babe it gather in its flight
F,rebrands from hell' eternal night,
Then called a vampire from its cave,
Fresh from its banquet of the grave,
And gave the symbol in his hand
To madden and a?pal the land
Flag of the weeping bondsman's home
By demon hands to traitors given,
In Gods own nauie We tell thy doom.
Ard call ON thee the curse OF heaven.
Perish thou thrice accursed sheet
when rebel cohorts fly before US,
With Freedoms soil beneath our feet,
and Freedoms banner streaming DER rs.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04
BLOCKADE OF MEXICO,

~ ASHINGT0S, Oct 20.
The State Department has been officially
informed that from and after the 9th of Sep
TENDER last effective blockade will be es-
tablished and maintained by the French naval
forces of all the ports, rivers, Ravens. roads.
creeks, &c, along the coast of Mexico which
are not occupied by the French troops, and
which still acknowledge the authority of
JUaFez. From the Lagoon, ten leagues south
of Aatamoras, to and including Campeachy,
between % deg. - min. north SO deg. 81
min. west, and l9 deg. 80 min. north 81 deg.
30 min. west of the meridian of Paris. and
that friendly and neutral vessels will be al
lowed the period Of % days to complete their
lading and leave the blockaded places. The
points excepted from the blockade are Tam
pico, Vera Cruz, Alvarado, Coatzacolacos.
Tobacco and Carmen. -
4 vessel attempting TO violate the said
blockade will be proceeded against in con
tormIty with international law and the treat
les IN force with neutral powers.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04
EElsteasin soldier. Prisoners in Richmond.
RIcHMoNp, W, Sent. 30th. 1863.

RICHMOND, Va, sept Both, 1868.
EDITORS STATE JoURNAL:-The following IS
a list of the names Of the Sd Wisconsin Bat
terry, now prisoners in this place, captured on
the 10th of this month:
SeTgt. o. Decker; Corp. j. J. UHne; H.
Hess; Paul Guyon; James Livingston T.
Boyle; Titus Chaplin; T. HawIey; Sylvester
Palmer; VIM. McMaRn II. ). Howard
Sergt. Decker is slightly wounded. All are
well
Ycu viii please publish this, so our friends
will know of our situation.
Respectfully yours,
II. S. HOWARD.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04

my head towards the engine-my only chance
Of safety. Commencing my soul to God, lay
PROSTATE and closed my eyes.
"The next instant the shrek Of the engine,
loud and terrific, Blended with the rattle of
the carriages and the grinding saund of the
wheels upon the snow teat covered the rails,
and then-aud then l looked up to heaven.
with a feeble laugh of speechless gratitude,
and all danger was over. The train had p5lss-
ed along the other line of rails, not over those
between which lay--the snow had prevent
ed me from distinguishing the from the
other; but liad I=had strength enough to
crawl in the direction | had intended, the en-
CINE aud carriages would nave inevitably
passed over me, and left me there mangled
corpse. 1t was my utter weakness which
saved nv life. - -
"The Joy of my delivery from a horrible
death was followed by a natural reaction. !
sank back in a swoon and, when conscious
ness came back to me again, found myself
weak and wasted, in my OWN bedroom, in my
own bed where (they told mel had lain for
eleven DAYS in a raging fever. 1t seems that
in the morning. one of the railway portcrs
found me living insensible in the snow; and
thus was q third time within dozen hours,
saved from death. But this bald pate was the
price paid.
50 But the bag of gold? ?"
WAS found suspended from my neck, and
with the letter in my pocket was delivered in
the proper quarter"
And the intending assassins?"
81 knew nothing of them. The did not
belong to that part of the country. They
had disappeared from the cabin several days
before | recovered from my fever, and there
fore, before suspicion could have fallen upon
them; and they were never. heard of after"
''The Garstons, hope, were grateful.
4
that window across the line there Frank
Carston's sister is sleeping peacefully, l
should hope) in that room. She is mother of
three of the finest young Britons in this big
shire, and l am their father-But here
comes the mail train, and it makes no long
stay here; you had better look after your lug
gage. "-Ohcc q Week.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04

SOUTHERN NEws.-The Atlanta (Ga.,) DIP
peal OF the goth, says the Fedaras are pre-
pairing for terrible onslaught in Georgia and
Alabama, to seize the railroad connections,
and thus produce a second severance of the
Confedcracy. The fifteen days that have
elapsed since the battle of Chickamauga, have
enabled them to make sure of their grip on the
entire State of Tennessee, which is of far
more service to them than would be half a
dozen RicInonds, or the same number of
Charlestons. The Appem thinks that they
will not move with less than hundred
and fifty thousand men.
The Southern papers contain returns from
the recent gubernatorial election in Georgia,
which put the election of Gov. Brown, the
present incumbent, and the constant antago-
MIST of jeff. Davis, over both his competitors,
beyond doubt. His majority ever both, so
far as received, is 5000, while lis antago-
nists have not more than /, 800 votes between
them.
Gen. Charles Clark has been chosen Gov
ernor of Mississippi.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04

Lee has been outgeneraled in his atte,,,.- :.
ges oetIeeh Us and Washington, and be mao -
With bis ' taii boenee he came like sorry dog
so had better look out for breakers a' long
aneaa, at least N his rear, as our cayalry are
marching condition arc SAL III
Late promotions in Co. G arr .Iobn "
Johnson OF Madison, vice Albert s Isban,
Wounded ana discharged. Ishaln was snlen
ela s sold oa and much is oppressed
received in the knee at Chancano,-M.o, wound ne
Trusting that Lee will make little amy va .,
greatly BY this last movement, u lose
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04
News Items.

= 1t is estimated that l, 800 men VIII cover
our entire losses in the recent operations in
Northern Virginia, including killed, wounded,
stragglers and prisoners.
The Nashville (Tenn.) Union urges immi-
grafton to that State from the North, and
pertinently says, We know of many Re
bel in Davidson County whom we would glad
ly swap off for a dozen of the brave men who
have come to redeem US from treason"
"A gentleman at St Paul, Minnesota, has
produced, after long labor, six automatic fig
ures, three of each sex, life size, and so
closely resembling live persons as to deceive
all but the closest observers. They play up
on musical instruments and mind their own
business great deal better than some live
people we know OF.
= The New York banks now, hold IS mil
lions specie, which is ten millions less than
last July. Mr. Chase's pile has increased
more than as much.
= Thurlow Weed has purchased a large
tract of land opposite Fort Washington, on
the Jersey bank of the Hudson, and inten Is
to make it his home. He will build a splend
id residence there.
- The marriage of a daughter of Victor
Hugo, with an English officer of distinction, -
is announced in the forei On papers
Hon. Pierre Soule has been appointed a
Brigadier General in the Confederate Army,
and ordered to take the field
= Gen. Herron's Division, of the l3th Ar
my Corps, at last accounts had left the vicini-
ty of Morganzia, La, and gone to New Or
leans, with the intention Of joining the rest
of the corps in the Texas movement Gen.
Heron, who has been north on leave of alb
sence was at st. Louis yesterday, en- route for
New Orleans.
In recent march from Knoxville to
Cumberland Gap, the brigade of infantry I'M
der Col. Fitzroy de Courcey made sixty miles
in forty-two hours. This is the best exhibi-
ton of military pedestrianism during the war,
and the President has directed the Secretary
of War to present his compliments to the
heroes of this expeditions feat.
The public debt on the LIST of September
1868, was one thousand two hundred and
twenty-eight millions eight hundred and thir-
ty-two thousand and seven hundred and sew
ty-onc dollars.
Mr.. Theodore Tilton, cditor-in-chief of
the New York Iad1edeut in the absence OF
Mr.. Beecher, having been drafted, has sent
to the war an experienced Prussian sergeant,
substitute, worth any two undisciplined men
that can be found; and yet, in the face of
this fact the Cupperhcad press of New York
is daily teeming with abuse of Mr.. Tilton be-
cause he has not gone to the war himself
Comment Is 1111rlnnnssa1r
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04
SONG.

As thro IN the land at eve we went
AID plucked the ripening ears,
We fell out-my wife and l.
o. we fell out, | know not why,
Aud kissed again with tears
For when came where lies the child
Welost in other years.
! There above the little grave,
o. there above the little grave,
we kissed again with tears.
TESNYsoN.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04

HORRIBLE AccIDDST. = The Black River
Falls Banner saws that VIM. Rowell, head
sawyer in Spauldings' mill at that place, hav-
ing gone into the mill alone to file the saw,
was found last Tuesday wound round the
shaft that draws up logs, with his entrails and
blood scattered about for several feet The
bull wheel was close by the saw at which he
was working, and it is supposed that in pass
ing along, II being dark, he accidentally hit
the lever that throws the shafting out of gear,
and set the horizontal shaft in motion 1t is
further supposed that he put up his right
hand, in which was held a caudle, TO see
about the matter, and it got caught by the
rope winding up the shaft and he was tast-s
The rope passed three times around his chin
and neck, and several times around his body.
In passing round the shaft he was thrown
against beam, and the spot is marked With
blood. His heart and most OF his entralis
were torn out, and lay ten feet away. Two
logs were attached 10 the rope, ana we're :
drawn up till they touched the beam. 1t wasza
a Horrible sight to behold. The deceased,
was married man, aad was probably TWEEN
ty-eight years old.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04

THE NEXT CoNGREss.-The Administration
has clear majority of three in the House of
Representatives among the members elected,
without counting upon FRANK BLAIR or Roll
Inns, Of Missouri, who will generally vote
with it. There are ten members yet to be
chosen, namely, FIVE from Maryland, three
from Western Virginia, one from Delaware,
and one 10 fill the vacancy occasioned by the
York. OF these large majority viii be
friendly to the Administration.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04
\ RIOTER PUNISHED.

BosTcN, Oct. Is.
John Long, convicted of participation in
the CONSUMPTION riot in July last, was to-day
sentenced to ten years hard labor in the State
prison
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04

EXPULSION OF BRITISH CoNSULS FROM THE
SoUTH.-The British Consuls in the rebel
States have recently been ordered to quit
the country by JEEF. DAVIS. Their offence
is that they have written to British subjects
there, advising them that if drafted into the
rebel service they should ''acquiesce until
called from their homes to meet the United
States forces in actual conflict; but in that
event to throw down their arms and refuse to
render service directly in the teeth of her
majesty's proclamation which would incur
the severe penalties denounced in the neutral
ity act"
BENJAMIN, the rebel Secretary of War in
his official letter, says:
1t thus appears that the Consular Agents
of the British Government have been instruc-
ted not to coufne themselves to an appeal
for redress, either to courts of justice or to
this government, whenever they may conceive
that grounds exist for complaint against the
Confederate authorities in their treatment of
British subjects, Tan appeal which has in no
case been made without receiving Just CON
sideration,) but that they assume the power
ofdetermining for themselves whether enlisted
soldiers of the Confederacy are properly
bound to its service; that they even arrogate
the right to interfere directly with the exc
cution of the Confederate laws, and to advise
soldiers Of the Confederate armies to throw
down their arms in the face of the enemy.
This assumption of jurisdiction by foreign
officials within the territory of the Confede-
racy, and this encroachment on its sovereign
ty, cannot be tolerated for a moments and
the President has had no hesitation in direct
ing that all Consuls and Consular Agents of
the British Government be notified that they
can no longer be permitted to exercise their
functions or even reside within the limits of
the Confederacy.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04
Ir"in TIC HIIWaukee Sentinel.
The Tenth Wisconsin REGIMENT.

The following letter was sent by the flag of
truce boat from Richmond TO Fortress Monroe,
and forwarded from thence by mail. It's per-
usal viii carry Joy to the hearts of some and
sadness to others from whose friends there
has been no tidings received since that fatal
battle:
LIBay Prison, RIcmoND, Va, Oct II
EDITORS SENTINEL II send YOU list OF the
officers and men of the Tenth Regiment Wis
consin Volunteer Infantry, captured on the
20th September, about SHUTDOWN, and just at
The close of the battle Of the Chickamauga.
which are now here and held as prisoners of
war:
Major D. McKercher.-
Adjutant J. NJ. Gof.
CoMpaay 1.--Capt darkness; Lieut.. Ellen
wood Sergts. J. 5. J. Eaton and L. " Carver
Corps J. Tyler and W. Woods W. II. Fountain,
W Dalton, p. Adams, W. H. Coburn, Il. NJ. Luce,
7. Nicolas, F. Y. Smith, w Hay.
Company B.zsergt. Il. }. Hun; Corps. J. A.
Parret and W. W. barrow j. NJ. sutton. 4. ID
Cowles, W. H. Smith, r. Yoht, a. Burgess y. Her
Company G:-Ljout. Burdicki sergts. }, L.
Corps W NJ. Robinson and W L. Wheeler r.
NJ. Freeman, Ill. A. Etdridge, II. Bemis, NJ. Hof-
man.
Company D-Capt. Collins Sergts. Ole Gilbert
and John Gofney Corps. E. T. Best, j. Z. Web
ster and j. ". Doughty ?. Monitor, }. NJ Burk,
Company E.-Sergts. ". W. Chapman, T. W.
HARRISON and }. Fitzgerald Corp. }. E. McGee O.
Pardy, NJ Pardy, T. L. Harrison, James Burk.
Company F.-sergt Bratnober Corps. j. CahiH
and A. Gotwals, II. Schloesser, J. J. Shoemaker
W. Pierce Il. X. T. .er, K. Langstaf
company H-Capt. spencer; Lieut.. Makinson;
Sergt's J. Hulihane and Z Chapman; Corp. G. W.
Spooner; 9. f Adams, j. r. Coles; p. Edn hudson.
K. Northcott, Q. Nelson, II. o. Weaver, William
Lemon.
Company Capt Perry; Lieuts Fairchiid and
Butler sergts- W Nelson. NJ. CoIigan, W. NJ
Bush, and ID. I. Parrish; Corps. h. Bewnee, Il.
curtis aud G. Fish: J. H. Travis, II. II. Winter,
X. W Randall, W. Richards D. Eastman, J. Wall,
VIM Rimcs, II. Talbot, II. SfrigIey, +. Grosh.
Company K.-Leut. Hinkley; Sergts /. Omstead
and o. Gilbransou; Corps. b. +. Hough, f. C.
Iowt and J. Colehammers G. +. Alverson, j. L.
B. AllSn, J. A. Bishop, W. c. Banker, VI. Beutler.
L. l.. Patters on, ". Cort, H. Fuller, J. T. Gaylord
+. Howard, G. Hatch, J. c. Hitchcock, j. ingra-
ham, G. Jacobson, T. l.. Reynolds, II. Rockwell,
L. soper, b. V. swan, J. Squier, L. Tallage.
Company g was on detached service and
was not at the battle. We were taken ifnme-
nediateIy from tae field, therefore l cannot
give correct list Of the killed and wounded.
l send YOU this to publish for the benefit of
the friends at home
l tours respectfully b. MChERcHER,
Major Tenth Wisconsin
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04
An English Estimate of President Lincoln.

The Liverpool Post of October lst, praises
President Lincoln's letter to Mr.. Hackett, the
tracedian, and finds much indication of char
acter in his selection of favorite PLAYS in
Shak espeare 1t says, The choice of Mac
beth as principal favorite, and the preference
of the less popular of Hamlets solloquies, al
SO indicate that incisive use of his own wits
which is one of the surest indications of a
man of power" And again. ''He is man
whose simple truth and cultivated intelligence
viii not forever be concealed by the anwield-.
illness of his frame and the uncourtliness of
his manners. A contrast was wanted TO the
suave deceitfulness and emptiness of James
Buchanan and one was found in Abraham
Lincoln" Having spoken of the ridicule of
proceeds TO give its own estimate OF him,
which is high one, and in many respects
just:
Perhaps no leader in a great contest ever
stood so little chance of being subject of
hero worship as Abraham Lincoln. Scarcely
any one has good word to say for him; and
even his own party in the States seem too
ready to remain silent about his merits, and
to base their defense of the administration
on any grounds rather than confidence in its
head. Yet a worshipper of human heroes
might possibly travel great deal farther and
fare much worse for an idol than III selecting
this same lanky American-the PRESERVATION
of free-soil principles-the representative of
the idea that slavery, without being torcibly
interfered with, must not be allowed to spread
itself over the North American continent
and the impersonation, also, of the victory of
that idea-a victory, which, as it were, stands
on the defensive against those who would
turn it into defeat. Absolute truth, stern
resolution, clear insight solemn faithfulness,
courage that cannot be daunted, hopetulness
that cannot be daShed-these are qualities
that 90 long way to make up hero, what
ever side the possessor of them may take in
any lawful conflict And it would not be
easy to dispute Mr.. Lincolns claims to all
these. He has never given up good servant or
a sound principle. He has never shut his eyes
to facts, or remained in ignorance of them
He has never hesitated to do his work, or fal
tered in doing it. No resolution has remain
ed IN 1lll6jbltS with him because it was strong
one. No measure has been adopted merely
because something must be done" The
exigencies of fanatical war have neyGr be
trayed him into fanatacism, and the sharp
stings of satire have never drawn from him
an expression of ill-humor, or even an i'm
prudent rcioinder Depend upon it, the
whole history of the war proves that this
quiet, unpretending, awkward man is on the
whole filter subject for respect than ridi
cule, even as q public man, leaving altogeth-
er aside the consideration, once Isyorite
one III England, that he raised himself lite
rally from nothing.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04

- The death of Mrs. FRANCES MILTON
TRoLLoPE, the authoress, is announced in the
English papers. She was born in 1880, was
the daughter of Rev. WILLIAM Milton, and
was married to ANTHONY TRoLLOPE, a lawyer,
who died in 1885 She first became notorious
by her soiourn in America, 1S29-3l, most of
which time she spent in this city. Her & Do
nestle Manners of the Americans" in which
she coarsely and bitterly carieatured our PEG
pie, naturally aroused intense Indignation
She was also the author of various novels and
other books which gained no very remarkable
success. She was the mother of ANTHONY
TRoLLoPE, the author of Orley Farm" THE
Small House at Arlington" etc; and of THoM
As ADoLPHUs TRoLLoPE also q writer of some
distinction.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04

Are you to be let with this house ? f"
inquired a gentleman of young lady. ''No."
replied she, u am TO be ld alone"