Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-01-28

Memphis, Jan. II, via Cairo. Jan. 81,
1868
Gen. Hamilton was yesterday assigned
to the command of the District of West
/ Tennessee, comprising the territory here
tofore known as the District of Memphis,
Columbus, Corinth and jackson, with
headquarters at Memphis, subject to be
removed to any other post required bv the
exiSencies ofthe service. Gen Hamilton
will soon visit eash post and place affairs
upon satisfactory footing
Certain changes viii soon be made in
railroad operations, not properly mention
ed in dispatches
Matters in and around Memphis are
vastly improved since the advent of Gen
| Yeatch.
The trading boat Forest Queen was cap
tured and burned by guerrillas at Com
MERGE Miss, on Wednesday evening. Her
officers and crew were paroled and releas-
ed
Advices from below are that Gen Cor
man, with most OF his forces, moved in
some direction unknown. and that Good
news is expected
/ Thursday last a detachment Of the 22d
/ Wisconsin, carrying dispatches from He
/ lena to Clarendon, was set upon by the
rebels and seventeen Of the iaon were
/ captured, and rebel Lieutenant ana six
men killed and wounded
/ Last Monday the Confederates made
raid into Holly Springs committing mum
erous depredations.
/ \ large number Of negroes that were
/ left behind by the Federals when they
| retired, were attacked and several billed
and wounded, and the balance were sent
/ South
/ Col r. c Murphy, by order of General
Grant, dated Holly Springs January s, is
dismissed from the service for cowardieo
and imbecility. DR.. & p. Buel, Adiutant
j. &, Phillipot and Lieuts HiI and Tan~
ncr Of the SOth Ohio, captured from Gen
| Quimbys division while aseortine mo
vision train frcn Holly Springs to Mem
/ phis by gaerriiias belonging to Richard
/ son command arrived last evening on
/ parole. They viii probably be dismissed
! from the service
DIR Martin of the 7th Kansas Cavalry
captured at SoInmervil!e, also returned
last evening. He was brutality treated by
! the rebels because he was iayhawEer
Last Sunday the Sd Michigan Cavalry
/ skirmished with Richardson, near Brown
VILE and drove him south of the Hatchie.
with the loss OF six men There was no
loss on our side
Daily skirm;shes take place in the vi
cinitv OF Corinth, and an attack is looked
I for. A cavalry demonstration was made
on the l4th inst, on the railroad near
Germantown, but nothing is kno,. = Of the
cause
| A gentleman recently from Mobile in
| forms me that the troops haze ali been re
moved thence, except 3, 600, now guarding
the forts 1'aines and Morgan. There are
in the harbor four wooden gunboat5 and
an. iron clad ram.
General Buckner threatens tc burn the
/ city if he cannot otherwise prevent its
To this the citizens object strenuouslv.
and heavy batteries on Pintas Point and
Steel road, which, with the gunboats and
ram, are relied apon as sufficient protcc-
/ ton to the city. The feet is under the
command Of Ca Randolph. the troops
and Qualifications being in charge OF cen
/ I}nckner
There are 3, 000 rebel troops at Merid-
an at the junction Of the MoGtg9me. Y
AID Mobile and Ohio railroads
JEFF Davis addressed $50 citizens at
Mobile on the z}th inst There was no
enthusiasm.
The English, French, and Spanish con
suIs are now engaged N running the bloc
kade
Columbus, Miss, has been evacuated
by the rebel forces, except 800 rebel mi
litia who viii not fight if they can run
Ali their machinery and arms are now at
Meridian, waiting transportation to Ala
/ bama
Gold is worth SO. 80 to 80, 80. and groen-
backs s. Confederate scrip being the
standard Coffee is worth 81 90 per b
Other things in proportion.
From the Richmond Whg-16.
Wilmington, \. c., Wed Jan IL
All quiet here Itis believed that the