Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-12-02
News Items.


Two rebel mail carriers, with about ! ooo
letters, were recently captured near Somer-
vile, Tenn.
An Army of the Potomac letter saws that
an order has been issued to Immediately shoot
al suerrllias as soon as capturrd
1t is understood that Gen SigeI takes Gen
ocheneks place IN command at Baltimore. af
ter the latter takes his seat in the House.
Inc transport Delelcare, from Port ROYAL
and Stone Bar the Goth, reports the cantnre
OF the rebel steamer Ba,pShee, from Nassau
with cargo of great value.
A train of ten wagons, loaded with cavalry
clothing, ei route from Little Rock TO Benton.
was captured by sixty guerrillas, the wagons
burned and the clothing carried off
hon. l.. Anderson, recently captured at
hayneiu py the rebels, passed. through Cairo
| en- route home. He was released on the con-
dluon that he procured the release of Trus-
ten Polk.
Rowing bands of guerrillas infest the river
below, 100 of whom, under the notorious Sol
Street, entered Hickman, Ky, last Thursday,
| plundered the stores and houses, and captured
| four or five unarmed soldiers
BY the steamer Fulton we learn that the
sea wall of Fort Sumter has been entirely de-
stroyed. The rebels were building a bomb
| proof on the ruins. The bombardment still
| continues.
Gov. Ramsey, of Minnesota, has brought to
| Washington treaty with the Indians on the
border of the Red river, by which we acquire
| 100000 acres of land, and all distractions
of traders from St. Paul, are removed.
A Morris Island letter of the 10Th SAYS that
nineteen shells were fired into Charleston on
the 18th inst, falling into the most populous
| portions of the city. On Sunday night very
| heavy rebel fire continually poured into
our batteries from the rebel works.
| John r. Shelter, of Philadelphia, has been
sentenced by court martial to five years i'm
| prisonment in the Albany Penitentiary, for
fraud IN furnishing supplies to the army. His
| sentence has been approved by the Presi-
| dent.
c. W. Hall, horse contractor for Govern
ment, is found guilty and sentenced to six
| months Imprisonment and fined Sl0,0 900 for
! detrauding the government III purchasing
| horses.
| There is no truth in the Cincinnati En-
| qairerS S atement that Secretary Chase's res
| ignation was in the hands of the President
| sent in view of Judge Taney's resignation,
and for the succession to his place on the Su-
preme bench
The Times has a letter dated Annapolis,
| Nov. 10TH containing list of $50 Of the pa
rolled Unionists who arrived there from Rich
mond. Six died on the passage These $50
were the best that could be picked out to
| send They all confirm previous accounts of
| horrible hardships and sufferings.
The disbursements for all branches of the
public service for the fiscal year, ending with
the last of June, we've S9O3, OO0, 900, of which
| amount, 5000, 900 was for the army, and
| 500, 100000 for the navy. 4 sufficiency of
| money has been placed in the hands of all the
| paymasters to pay our armies up to the pres
| ent month.
4 Washington dispatch to the Times says
Recent captures of blockade runners off Cape
| Fear river have so frightened the North Car
DINA rebel State authorities that they have
| given up the business and farmed out the
| privilege of importing contraband goods to
private parties.
| The Hospital Examining Board has been
| ordered to inspect the L. s. General Hospi-
tails in Harrisburg, Philadelphia, St. Louis,
| Chicago, Mound City, Cairo, and in the Vi
cinity of those cities; also to report on the
manner of forwarding cCnvalescents from
| these hospitals to their regiments, and sug-
| gest measures to facilitate their return.
The Times dispatch says the rebel game of
cooping up Congressman Anderson, of Ken
| lucky, till after the organization of the House,
| is defeated, and he has been exchanged
| Immediately after his capture his friend
| Boindee went to work in order to effect the
| arrest OF a squad of prominent Kentucky and
| Tennessee traitors. The captors of Anderson
! were brought to terms and offered to ex-
| change him for Trusten Polk a Confederate
| Congressman, and consent given by our
| Government. Anderson is now on his way
| to Washington.
| The Times Washington spe cial states that
| an officer on Gen. Banks staff, writing to
| friend here says: \ large quantity of cot
| ton was captured at Brownsville and an expe-
| dition had been sent up the river to get all
| they could find. The Union men at Browns
vile, who hailed with delight the capture Of
| that place by our forces, were forming them
| selves into defensive organizations and rem
| dering valuable service as scouts. The cot
| ton which will be thrown into market by the
| occupation of Texas will reach 25, 600 bales.
| The amount stored on the Rio Grande line is
| immense.
The Tri5ane's special says the Navy De
| partment has advices from the Vanderbilt
| down to the second or third week of October
| The Vanderbilt left Cape of Good Hope early
| in the month, and when two days out fell in
| with d Dutch vessel in a disabled condition.
To save the lives of forty persons on board,
! the Vanderbilt took the vessel in tow and re-
turned with her to the Cape, thus losing four
| days.
| At the latest accounts the Vanderbilt was at
| the Island of Mauritius, and the alabama in
the Bay of Bengal. The Captain of the Va,a-
| derJiH is believed to be well informed with
regard to the rebel pirates course.