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Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

North Carolina is rapidly earning the
distinction of a dangerous character" in
the Rebel Confederacy. She has evidently
fallen into state OF chronic disaffection.
She insists upon considering herself VIC
tim of misplaced confidence in having
Joined her fortunes to the new Dahomy.-
Finding herself in bad company, she spares
no pains to conceal her dislike OF her as
sociates. On the contrary, she takes ad-
vantage of every opportunity to express
her bad opinion of the Richmond Junta.
Nor does she content herself with mere
growing" More than once has she
threatened to unturl the standard of re-
volt Her present Governor YVES elected
on specific Anti-Jetf. Davis issue. Her
present Legislature is erwhelmiDgly hos
tile to the proscIiptive policy of the Rebel
leaders. Some OF her strongest men ere
unequivocally committed In favor of seces-
sion from Secessia The subject OF with
drawing her troops from the Confederate
service has been more than once gravely
discussed.
More than this: SYMPTOMS of returning
affection fer the old Union are unmistaka-
bly, manifesting themselves. The Raleigh
Standard takes distinct ground in favor OF
construction of the Union, and expresses
itself willing to acquiesce In the policy of
gradual emancipation. The Wilmington
Journal-rabidly secession-charges that
the secret object of the present meeting
of the Legislature is to make overtures OF
peace to the Federal Government; while
the Raleigh Journalistic ultra secession
announces the discovery of secret po-
litical organization, whose purposes are
most infamous and reasonable" to the
rebel cause.
These 6 manifestations are not to be
mistaken. They reveal deep and wide
spread disatfectiOn among the people
toward the sham ConfederacS. How
much genuine Union sentiment there is,
we are not prepared to say; but that that
State is on the verge of revolt against the
iron rule of Davis and his aristocratlc
minions, there can hardly be doubt
albany Journal.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29
From Gen. Blunt's Command.
Correspondence of the Leavenworth Conservative
CABIN GREEK, FIFTY MILES NORTH OF
Port Gibson. july TO- 1862.

CABIN GREEK, FIFTY MILES NORTH OF
Port Gibson, July 10, 1St@.
Arrived here about noon to-day. We
expected to meet the rebels, as we saw
cav troops coming out of the times be-
fore we reached here. They proved to be
the escort of Union train returning
from Fort Gibson to Fort Scott When
the old man (BlunD heard of an enemy
being in the brush, he seemed to be new
man. He was all alive, active, enthusiast
tic and ready for the work. | really be-
lieve Blunt with ten men would fight a
thousand rebels before he would retreat.
A week ago the troops guarding a train
from Fort Scott had fight with Gen.
Cooper and Col. Stand Waite. The reb~
els numbered l, 900 men-2O0 Texans and
500 Indians. As far as l can learn, the
fighting was between Capt. Stewards
company, 9th Kansas, the Colorado Sd
and Sd Wisconsin, on our side, and the
Texans On the other. Stewards compa-
ny routed the Texans in a fair charge
losing one killed and fifteen wounded.
The loyal Indians, commanded by Col.
Foreman, twho, all say, acted bTavely)
were ordered by him to cross the river.
Immediately the Indians on both sides
disappeared in the brush. Not one OF
them was killed or wounded, and not one
was seen again on the ground. This Skin
mish settles the fact, if it needed confr-
nation, that Indians won't stand in tair
standup fight.
All reports from the lower country are
to the effect that we have to rely mainly
upon the colored soldiers. An Irish Dem
ocrat, an officer in the Sd Wisconsin cav
airy, told me s. never believed in mig
gers before, but, by Jasus, they are hell
tor fighting"
Gen. Blunt means to beat Grierson,
Fitzpatrick and Pleasanton, in the raiding
business, and it is not impossible that we
shall reach the Gulf of Mexico. His hatred
of rebels can be likened to the terrible
luminosity of Haynau. He seems to have
a divine ambition to kill and destroy
them.
The Arkansas is very nigh now, and it
may be five days before We can cross it,
but yon may as well announce now that
be has done so. We shall reach Fort Glib
son by to morrow night.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29
From NOrfOlk-An Atrocf0us Murder.


tragedy occurred here on 18th inst,
which has not attracted the attention of
the country only because the accounts of
it reached New York at juncture when
the city press was WHOLLY occupied with
the great riot. 1t il q representative, and
is to be historical case
Lieut.. A. S. Sanborn, of Thetford, VT,
ID Lieut.. Co. B, Is e. S. colored troops,
had quietly been raising colored COM
pany here for a couple of weeks. He
first appeared IN the streets at 8 O'Clock
on. that afternoon with his company, which
then numbered fifty men. The company
was fully armed and uniformed; looked
well and acted well. They were passing
along in the very centre OF the business
part or the town, marching by the flank,
on the sidewalk. The secessionists were
in troubled state Of evaporation. DR..
David NJ. Wright, prominent citizen and
choleric man, while standing IN the door OF
! Foster & Moore's store, accosted Lieut..
| Sanborn with the words" You cowardly
son of bitch" The Lieutenant halted
his company sent bis st Sergeant after
the Provost Guard; walked up to DR..
Wright and said" You have insulted a
United States officer, consider yourself
under arrest" Dr. Wright, who had
| drawn pistol and placed it behind him
as soon as the company halted, immedi-
| in az eronancton
The Lieutenant rushed forward pushed
| the Doctor back into the store; struggled
with him a moment fell, and expired in
five minutes; shot through the lungs. The
negroes charged bayonets upon the Doctor,
but the officers and Provost guard rushed
in and saved him from their Avengine
bayonets.
! There was intense excitement; shouts
and brandishing of weapons but amid
Ill, the assassin was safely conveyed tc
the office of Major BoHay, Provost Mar.
shall, where full examination of the case
was made, interrupted only by the violent
and abusive EXPLANATIONS of the Doctor
| He was committed on the charge of muir.
| der, and on that charge will be tried. His
trial is to commence to morrow, before q
military commission composed as follows
| Brig. Gen. Foster, late Colonel of the 18th
Indiana; Col. Dutton, of the 21st Con
uecticut, and Col. Donahue. Major J. a.
Bolles, A. D. O., Judge Advocate. The
prisoner has secured two eminent Union
men, Hon. L. J. Bowder and Hon. J. II.
Chandler, as his council. The trial must
be short because the facts, and | have
stated all the material ones, are few and
simple. In all Union circles here there is
but onelopinion, that it was coaodrdty, 6ast
murder. The copperhead officers, are, il
possible, loudest and most vindictive, and
none were found who objected to march
in procession with the negro company a.
| the funeral. Y.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29
Republican Union State Convention.

"A Republican Union State. Convention will lie
held a the Capitol in the city of Madison, at IL
O'Clock NJ,
On Wednesday, the 10Th day of August
next, to nominate candidates for State officers to
he chosen at the general election in November,
aud to take such other action the public welfare
SD all seem to demand.
The chief public questions now before the coun-
try are those relating to the present war; md the
proper method of dealing with the rebellion. There
il reason why those who concur substantially
in opinion upon these subjects should not now act
together politically, whatever may have been their
antecedents. We therefore cordially invite all
electors to unite in the election of delegates the
State Convention aforesaid who approve OF the fol-
lowing propositions:
That the Union be preserved in its integrity;
That the constitution and laws Of the United
States be enforced throughout the whole national
domai-;
That the rebellion be suppressed, not by COM
promises with concessions to traitors, but by
the sword whose agency they have themselves in
yoked;
That the National Administration should be
heartily and generously supported, in its efforts to
put down the rebellion.
Each Senate and each Assembly district Will be
entitled TO two delegates in said state Convention
The Central Committee recommend to the dis
trct committees that the conventions for the cleo
ticn of delegates be held early as Saturday, the
sth day of August.
Madison, July sth, 1868.
| HORACE RUBLEE, JOHN P. LEWIS,
| s. ]. TODD, b. f. COOPER,
| G. W. HAZELTON, J. E. MUNGER,
| JOHN LOCKWOOD, CHAS- EsSLINGER,
| j. W STEWART, j. NJ. GILLETT,
| c. S. CHASE, 5. II. CL0UGH,
| W. E. SMITH,
| Gov
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

MAJOR MoCooK.-Among the most re-
GREETED incidents OF the late battle of
Burlington Island, at which Morgan was
defeated, was the wounding mortally of
Judge MCCooK, father of " the fighting
family of MeCooKs,n and worthy sire
OF worthy offspring, whose place IL the
annals of this war viii be 81 imperishable
as any part of its record. The dispatches
from Cincinnati announce the death of
this stirling old patriot, on Monday last.
st Pomery, Ohio. The death of Major
MoCooK furnishes some melancholy coin
cidences in the history of his family con-
neetion With the war. His youngest son,
CHARLES, was killed at the battle of Bull
Run, on the 2lst day of July, 1861. Gen.
RoBT. MoCooK was killed on the 21st day
of July, 1862; and the father was killed
0n the 2lst day of July, 1868.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29
The Promoters of the Mob In New York.
From the New York Times.1

Last January we took occasion to ex-
press our opinion of the democratic
Union Association which held its weekly
gatherings at the corner of Broadway and
Twenty second street, and which on diff.
ferent evenings was addressed in elaborate
harangues by Vallandig ham, Pendleton,
Wall, VOORHEES,, Brooks and other men OF
that stamp. We showed that, in every
essential respect it was "the exact coun-
terpart of the Club OF the Cordeliers under
Marat ia the revolutionary France OF
1791."
Every syllable of that exposure and
warning now finds its verihcation in the
practical revival in this same City of the
Partisan street scenes of 1898. This surg.
ing savagery against which we are now
fighting as for our very lives, Is but
translation into practical action of the
Jacoblncal sentino..5 then and there
uttered. Let Us cite single specimen =
and to make certain that the report does
the speaker no injustice, we viii quote
from the report in the HorId, q sy1npa-
thiser and fellow worker. In his studi
cusly prepared speech before the crowd
at that place, Vallandigham said:
Your misre presentatives-for such they have
become, not speaking the will OF the peopie-haYe
of conscripting lhissesl every man in the United
States between the ages of twenty and forty-fve,
A voice. They cannot do it They will have a
nice time. TO compel them to enter the army, ana
enable the President TO keep up whics, by
that bill itself. he and they confess to be against
the will of the people"
And again:
50 The provision is made upon the assumption
that the President, the Secretary State, and
Secretary of War hi sses may send forth their
minious, aud lay their hands the people of this
country. voice-'Let them try it, -
TIE wind is not more sure to raise the
{ waves than such language, kept up week
after week, was TO bring on just such
| bloody commotion as We are now ex-
| periencing. Because the President dis
| aOIed Vallaudigharl from his revolutionary
work, Gov. Seymour, but three short
weeks ago, united in canonizing him as q
martyr; and yet to day he stands aghast
before the men who are but carrying out
Vallandigham's bloody instructions"
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29
" TuUR1ow WEFp recently

Is THURLow WEED, recently of the
Albany Journal, has sent his check for
$500 to New York, to be used for the re-
lief of the oolored people of that city,
who have been rendered destitute from
the effects of the recent riot in that city
me check Is accompanied with good
letter, except the indulgence of 8 few
nlngs at WENDELL PHILLIPS and Others.
"hieh IL would seem to Us. that good
taste would have omitted n q letter of
this kind. But Mr.. WEED cannon veu
omit giving man be hates dig, when
ever chance offers. He is s good batter,
Is well as warm friend.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

THE PoRT OF THE Milton
was Puritan one who instead of trust
ing himself and his hopes of the universe
to secondhand hesrsays, systems and ira
ditions, had looked Gods Word and his
own soul in the face, and determined TO
act on that which he had found And
therefore II is that TO open his works at
sny stray page, after these etfeminate
Carolists, is like falling asleep in a sitting
city drawing room, amid Rocco French
turpiture, not without natidy traces of last
nights ball, and awaking in an Alpine
valley, amid the scent of sweet cyclarnens
and pine boughs, to the music OF trickling
rivulets and shouting hunters. and to see
above your head the dark cathedral aisles
of mighty pines, and here and there,
above them and beyond, the spotiess peaks
of everlasting snow; while far beneath
your feet
4" The hemisphere OF earth, in closest KEN
Stretched to the smplest reach Of prospect lies"
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

Coop COOKING AND PIETY-Tve nothiu'
to say agin her piety, my dear, but l
know very well | shouldn't like her to
cook my victuals. When man comes in
hungry az tired, piety wont teed him l
reckon. L called in one day when she
was dishin' up Mr.. Humans dinner, an
l could see the potatoes were as watery
as water. Its right enough TO be speritn.
al-I'm no enemy 10 that; hut | like NV
potatoes mealy. l don't see SIS ANYBODY
NIL 90 to heaven the sooner for not dires.
tin their dinner-providin' they don't die
sooner, as msyhap Mr.. Truman WILL poor
dear man! Adam Bede
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

PROFITABLE Wool GRowING.-A. Lud-
low, Esq, has kindly furnised Us with the
following item, from which it will be seen
that sheep raising is fast becoming one of
the most profitable branches of business
to which the farmer can turn his atten-
ton: Mr.. L. sheared this spring 454 sheep
getting from them 2,7944 lbs. wool,
which be sold at % cents per pound, re-
ceiving for it the round sum of 81, 1916 a..
1t will be seen By computation that this is
an average of 6 lbs. d ounces to the fleece,
the cash value of which was 81 to each
head of sheep. When we take into con-
sideratiol that no special effort has been
made to select large sheep, but that the
teeces are taken from whole flock az
they run, it speaks well for Mr.. Ludlow's
care of stock and skill in improving it. If
any of our contemporaries can beat this,
we shall be please to see the figures
Monroe Sentinel
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

The 10TH WIsOoNsIS.-A correspondent
in the 10th Wisconsin, writing from De-
cherd Station, Tenn, July 18th, says that
regiment is in the 1st Brigade, 1st Divis-
ion, i4th Army Corps, commanded by
Gen. THOMAS. The writer, in speaking of
the recent forward movement OF the army
says:
We have been pretty hard up for ra-
tions some Of the time. In the two DAYS
at the Gap our regiment sustained no loss.
though several were struck by spent balls.
Our first day there, the enemy, from
hill about mile in our front, shelled our
position. Several in the division were
killed. Shell and shot whizzed freely
over our heads. The health of the regi-
ment is good. The army is in good spir
its and has all confidence in the ability of
our Generals.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

LIEUT.. Col. RH1TTLEsEY.-The Chicago
1rl6une'S Vicksburg correspondent, in
noting the promotion Of Capt. WHITE
SLY, OF the 18th Wisconsin, says:
1t gives me pleasure to add that Col.
"hlttlesey Is an accomplished gentleman,
q brave and efficient officer. Promotion
IS rarely bestowed on one more deserving.
he has filled every position in the line
and staff, TO which he has been assigned,
with distinguished ability, and his present
stepping stone to higher ones they know
he can fill so well.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

AN AVENGER,-TheN New Orleans Era.
of the ,11th inst, relates the following
incident of q Wisconsin soldier:
A private In the 4th Wisconsin, Isaac
Earl, has sworn to avenge the death of
Col. Bean, by killing a rebel Colonel. He
has mounted the enemy's breast works
twice to-day, and although exposed to the
fire Of the sharpshooters, strange to say,
he escaped unframed He is determined
to try again, and until he ''gets" colonel.
He says there were plenty of rebel lieu
tenants and privates within range, but he
was looking for higher game. He has
gained very good idea of the position of
things and the lay of the land inside, and
has given the information to tue proper
persons.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

the State under this law and was looked
upon with distrust in consequence of mis-
representations of the law, but on the
whole the result was satisfactory, and q
large amount of the most valuable pro-
perty was transferred from Sebel to loyal
owners. Many officers and soldiers pur-
chased homes, and about fo.tv fugitive
slaves secured permanent residences for
their families. r.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29
WEAKNESS.

With weary steps loiter on,
Though always under altered skies,
The purple from the distance dies,
My prospect and horizon gone.
No joy the blowing season gives,
The herald melodies Of spring
But in the songs 1 love to sing
A doubtful CLEAN of solace lives.
II any care for what is here
Survive in spirits rendered free,
Then are these songs sing OF tnee
Not all ungrateful to thine ear.
In Aemoridna.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

JEFF. DAVIS IN HoT WATER.-The rebel
newspapers are now denoancing JRFF.
DAVIS and his Administration for incom-
potency. The Richmond Rhig attributes
their disasters to /" the scattering of forces.
the prejudice against men of proved abili-
ty, and the partiality for men of proved
incompetency" Itsays:
Whether :he President thinks the conn
try has suffered enough at the hands of
his tayorites, it is impossible to say. But
IT he thinks the qualification of his evil
passions and the fantastical preferences,
or IT be supposes the persistence in his
system of divided forces, under pet lieu
tenant generals, OF more consequence than
the independence Of tie confederacy, then
we need no longer doubt what fate is in
store tor Us.
The Richmond Examiner says:
Mr.. President Davis proclamations and
pronunciementos, his horrible threaten
ings aud gloomy appeals have been so Of
ten repeated that tkey are the sheer of
the world. But never have they resulted
in one solitary performance. He is very
obstinate, very bitter, when he gets into
a quarrel with some Southern officer over
whom the law gives bin temporary con-
troll He is very firm indeed ; g maintain
ing q ninion or a measure against the
smothered indignation of people who
are compelled by their present unfortun-
ate situation TO support silently a great
deal from their officials. But when his
duty brings Lin Into contact with the en-
envy he Is gentle as the sucking dove.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

~"I haven't another word to say,
sir-I never dispute with FOOLS" said a
gentleman, who was getting the worst OF
an argument. No." was the reply,
Won are sure to agree with them"
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

~ & boy weighing eighteen pounds
was born OF the 18th inst, in New Bed
ford. Both mother and child are "com-
Portable, and doing as well as could be
expected."s
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

Mr.. GEO. w. STURGEs-A badger
soldier" whose letter was mislaid, writes
US from Keokuk Hospital in warm praise
of Mr.. STUReEs, The Wisconsin State
Agent, to look after sick and wounded
soldiers there and at st. Louis. He thinks
him emphatically the fright man in the
right place." speaks highly OF his zeal, eff
ficiency, energy, indomitable perseverance
and pleasant address, and adds:
s While in Keokuk-and / learn from
some members OF my company in the hos J.,
pital at st. Louis, that he does the same
there-Mr. Sturges visited, every day, all
the Wisconsin soldiers who were sick and
by his good advice, cheerful countenance
and humorous anecdotes, cheered and en-
hvened them, causing them to feel that,
although away from home ard friends,
and deprived of many little comforts and
delicacies to which they had been accus>
toned, they were not forgotten Tor neg
lected by the State of their adoption, and
under whose flag they enlisted. All sol
dlers who are acquainted with him have
the most implicit confidence in him, and
go 10 him for counsel and aid whenever
they are in trouble, without fear Of being
deceived or batfled off.
Soldiers from every State have applied
TO him and received gratuitously any as
sistance which they needed. About one
hundred soldiers from Illinois signed q
petition TO the Governor of their State
requesting him to appoint MIR. Sturges as
Agent for Illinois at this post"
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

E The Prescott Journal says of the
call for Republican State Convention
Under it all those who love their coUn-
try more than party, and would wage war
on JEFF. Davis, instead of President Lin
coin, can co.operate.i
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29
From the 10Th WISCONSIN,.

The Sur ender Of Ficks5uwg-Inte'course '0ih
the Rebel .Sozdiers-TAsy aoant to quit Fighting
"A Hunt for Johnstom-Recent Deaths an the
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

R- The publication of the Troy Times
has been resumed. 1t will be remembered
that the Times office was destroyed a few
days ago by mob. The editor, in the
first paper of the new issue, says:
I" The Times shall be in the future, as it
always has been, the advocate of law, the
defender OF public integrity, the upholder
and champion OF every man who earns
his bread by the honest sweat o. bis
brow. 1t will support the Government
and defend any policy calculated to re-
store most speedily perfect reunion of all
the States IN our Republic. And it will
denounce and oppose, fearlessly and I'M
hesitating, the bad and dangerous spirit OF
criminal lust, lawless violence, and I'M
wholesome opinion, which was the source
of the scenes our city has witnessed this
week, and, in more extended sphere, has
been at the bottom of our desperate na.
tional disorders"
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

MAJOR CALKIss is l. command of three
companies OF the I'd Wisconsin Cavalry
with Gen. BLuNr's Arkansas expedition.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

A RICHMOND PArkR ON THE NEW YoRK
RIoT.-lhe following is the first paragraph
OF an editorial Ia the Richmond EnSufrer
Of the Ioii, on the New York mob:
Riot, murder and confagration have
begun In New York Ii is worlds won
der that the good work dad not commence
long ago. And this out break may be the
opening scene OF the inevit able revolution
winch Is 10 tear TO pieces that most rot
ten secrecy, and leave the Northern half
of the old American Union desert of
blood soaked ashes. We bid it God
speed"
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

Operations at Charles.on-Gen. Gitmore-CoE.
Montgomery and his Black Pegiment-How
the First Regiment tcas Demoralized-Sateso Of
Forfeited Property.
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-29

The hemisphere of earth, in closest KEN
Stretched to the smplest reach Of prospect lies"