Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-08-12

tue gnerrilles, bat We have heard nothing
of their success.
The steamer CITY Of GEasgsw arrived
| last night with $50 sick add wounded
from Vieksburg, Eighteen died on the
way up
The city Of Madison hes arrived from
New Orleans. Her news Is anticipated
The steamer louisville. recently captured
by General Rshsom's forces, has also ar.
rived.
! Halifax, August 3.-Tbe Ara6ia from
Liverpool, July Goth, via Queenstown,
| July 10th, arrived here this afternoon.
The Armg and Nary Gazette thinks
that with Grants army TO Cooperate with
Rosecrans, there is no ground for speaking
/ hopefully OF the prospects OF the Conied
eracy, unless Lee Is aole to reverse their
misfortune by great victory.
Cincinnati, August 3.-Only ten wagons
| were captured and 5urned by SCOTS reb-
els at Stanford, Ky, instead OF sixty as
| reported.
! TAe Gasctte's Lexington Dispatch SAYS
| SCOTS RAID Is concluded. Some three
| hundred rebels effected crossing OF Gum
/ Derisud river, leaving stolen wagons and
| other properly behind them. Fear hun
| dred prisoners, captured from SCOTS COM
| mahd passed through Frankfort TODAY
! tor Louisville
Tue election in Kentucky as tar as
known passed off quietly. Tie following
! returns have been received
/ Paris-For Governor Bramlette. Union. oes
/ Wlckhfe, Dem, 81; Congress Clay, Union, 800
| Buekner, Drm., p Boy,e, Ind. Union.
! Congress, Waasworth, (UnIon) 3l2, Brown s
LeNington-Braulette 6lS, Wlcklife Io7. CLAY
/ SIS, Bucku-r l61, Boyle l22.
George BIamletre 3 9, Wicklife 355 CLAY
| 500, Buckner Z99 Boyle Is.
Aichoasvllle-Br amlettr 152, wicklfy ., Clay
/ 1T DUcAuer 10, Boyle I6
! Uynthiana-BrAmette I35, Wickife ST. Con-
/ gress, Menzies dem III, Smith (Uuion)1 l.
Oevingt -Bramlette 1858, Wickhfe SO. Con-
| gress, Smith l 1881, Menzies 55, Leathers 20
The Union majority in the State will
| be about twenty thousand. Brutus j
| Clay is certainly elected IL the Ashland
/ District.
Louisville, August 3-The election for
State officers passed off quietly TO day.
! Bramiette's majority over WIckltfe TOR
| Governor, here, was 1850. Mallory's
! majority Tor Congress over Volt rs 2 800
NeIghbOrIng districts, as far as heard from,
give large Union najorities.
Fit. Monroe, July 3.-The Richmond
| Wig Of August 1ss has been received
here, and contains the following:
Charleston, July 31.-Oummlngs' Point
| was severely bonn oarded yesterday morn :
| ing, commencing about 10 o'clock. The
I Lr0zaSideS and two Monitors were engaged.
The bombardment lasted until about 3 p.
ID, when the vessels withdrew. The bat
terIes Gregg, " agner and Sumter respond
cd TO the eneny's fire. Two men were
Killed and wounded at battery Gregg
The batteries are Lot materially damaged.
Weldon, n. @, July 27-At The last
| accounts the Yankees were retreating be
low jackson, destroying bridges as they
went.
San Francisco, August 3.-The ship
ocean PeGTt from Hong Kong with three
hundred passengers has arrived here. The
papers give an account OF q terrible earth
quake at Manila June Sd, running half oI
The city and damaging every building.
Two thousand lives lost
New York, Aug. 4.-The Times dis.
patch, dated Washington, Aug 8, says:
Ii Is again asserted on the most un-
doubted authority that the main body OF
Lees army Is encamped between RapIdan
Station and Orange Court House. La Is
positively known that this was the posi-
ton OF the rebel army ON Wednesday last.
Lees real depot OF supplies is at Gordons-
vile, but the latter point Is now his place
of distribution.
1.-Two divisions of Longstreet's corps
now occupy Oulpepper.
ut Is officially stated that the total
number OF Union wounded in the three
days battles at Getty burg il about IA 600.
4 fraction over 1900 wounded still re-
main Ia the hospitals tlere.'
The Herald correspondence under date
Of 5perry vile, the Isl inst, says that the
Fourth Penn. Regiment OF cavalry was
despatched by Gen, Gregg yesterday
morning upon Reconnaissance. At Lit
tie " ashiUgGon, twelve miles from here,
they encountered company OF rebel
cavalry about 100 strong, and drove them
through town, capturing Priv te OF the
ID Va, who bad been directed by an or
der from Gen. tItz Hugh Lee TO purchase
bacon and -four for his brigade in the vi
cinIty OF Waterford, Loudon co.
iG 10 ascertalned that brigade of rebel
cavalry was posted between Little VI ASH
ingfon aud Sperryville. The private cap
tured had III Ills possession some cores
pUDdence indicating that the rebel army
Is IN q very desperate condition, and bit
lerly bewaInug .he error OF the recent
raid into Maryland and Pennsylvania, and
predicting that II war should much longer
oe wageG, Lees army would be starved to
death 10 the mountains.
i dispatch to the Herald says Gen. Nc
Clernand having been renewed sirom the
command OF the 18th Army Corps, and
| ordered to remain inactive In the State of
| Illinois, has rendered his unconditional
resignation of the Office OF Major General
OF Tie United States volunteer forces. The
General Is unwilling To hold a commission
aud receive pay from the Government
without al opportunity to serve his coun-
try In position appropriate to his rank
/ Secessioniots here are making them
selves happy over 5he report that jeff.
| Davis Is about TO raise a great army %
| negroes upon the promise OF freedom and
| lanas, but large shareholders in this re-
/ gion express the opinion that he will never
| venture upon such policy, IN fact he
| dare not trust the siavs.
| 1t will be remembered that the remark
| was attributed to Mr.. Lincoln st the date
! of his first essay OF the emancipation
! scheme that he had reason to believe the
| rebel government was looking to the same
| thing ana might be before him in the
movement.
A rebel prisoner OF rank was brODght