Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-01-27
Items from Rebel Journals.


of Richmond papers received at Washington
which come down TO the 18th inst:
The Army correspondent of the Atlanta
Iatel!iqesce5, says.
ION Dec. 18th, two corps of the enemy
left Chattanooga, en- route 10 Virginia. 10 re-
| inforce Meade.
q \ division of infantry has gone towards
| Nashville, to be distributed TO guard the rail
road
The Federal brigade at Stephenson is in
winter quarters, and there is a large force at
| Bridgeport, where the enemy is accommodating
| large supplies.
= There is a Federal regiment at Trenton,
Tenn, and 30 cavalry near the State line OF
Georgia and Tennessee, twelve miles from
| Trenton, who are scouting day and night on
Sand Mountain from opposite Bellefonte TO
| Bridgeport
Seven thousand copper pennies were
| sold in Chesterfield, Va, on the 18th inst,
at S47 per hundred.
A dispatch from Abingdon, Southwest
Virginia, reports ire capture of g 400 of the
Yankees infesting that country"
The Ashyille (N. c. Ne,cs reports an en-
gagement with 500 - tories" in Cook county,
| Tenn.
| = The Richmond Enquirer says: .,Seyeral
thousand tons of ice have been gathered from
the river and ponds and housed in Richmond.
The ice is three or four inches thick"
The fruits of Lees and Ross recent raid
towards the Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad are
claimed to be 600 cattle, 800 horses, 80 wag-
ons, $40 mules, and about Zoe Yankees.
| = The Raleigh Journal says that Line DIN
| gold is being freely used in North Carolina TO
betray the Southern people into the hands of
the Yankees" and suspects that prominent
persons and newspapers are engaged
| The Atlanta appeal of the Sth says: SIN
| the late cavalry fight near Charestown, Ten
| ncssee, our troops were stampeded.- A large
portion OF our loss was occasioned by the
| stampede, our men and horses running over,
| killing and wounding each other in their
| fright Our loss is variously estimated at
from 65 to 300 men, and the same number OF
horses.
A bill passed the Rebel Congress on the
Ith, making appropriations q for the support
of the government Of the Confederate States
| of America for the fiscal year ending June
| 30th, 1864, as follows: For compensation and
| mileage of the members of the Senate and
| House, 1927 900; President, u, 500; Treasu-
| ~ Department, S476, interest on the
pubic debt, $4,000, 900; engraving Treasu-
~ notes and bonds, $4,000; rent of Presi-
dents house, $4,000; for expenses of keep
| ing and transporting coin belonging to New
Orleans $500 War Department, S240, 900
| Commissioner of Indian Affairs, -, l25
! Quartermasters Department, for pay of army,
| &c, S3IS, 745 support of prisoners of war,
| 81 600, 900; Commissary Department, s., 1875
800; Ordnance Department, Sl,0O0,0o0
| Medical, SIG, $40 600; Navy, SIP 495; for
| constructing four cruisers, of the class of the
Alabama and Florida in the Confederate
! States, s., 500, 900. Appropriations in keep
| ing with the above are also made for the De
| partments of State, Justice, Postofiice and
| Indian Affairs.
- The Petersburg (Va.) Express of the
| 18th, says: " The Yankees are concentrating
large force at Portsmouth. There are now
| there about 900 negroes, infantry, besides a
! battalion Of mounted men. 1t is supposed
| that a raid is contemplated towards the
! Blaclwatcr. No Yankees have recently VS.
! tied Suffolk, but piclets are still at Jericho
! Run, two miles below the town, and a camp
| of cavalry is kept at Demands Mills"
In reference to the exchange of prison
| ers, the Richmond H1ey,ftTcr of the 18th saws.
| Butler Is an outcast, and never can be re-
| cOgnized entitled TO the privilege ac-
] corded a foe taken III lawful warfare; vet it
| may become a question whether our govern
ment should not consult the feelings of the
| Confederate soldiers now lingering in North
ern dungeons, and take the earliest practical
bic opportunity Of releasing them. Treating
with Butler should not release the pitiful
wretch from the ban Of outlawry pronounced
against him: but catching is before hanging
He could, however, he executed, and doubt
less viii be by the Confederate officer in
whose hands he may chance to fall"
The knquvez, speaking of the announce.
meut Of the re enlistmentS of so many FEEDER
al troops for the war, SAYS "The action of
the enemy in this matter is important to Us.
The preservation of their organization shows
that they intend TO move forward at the ear
Hest practicable moment in the spring. If
| they will not sacrifice an organization which
has stood the ordeal of two years campaign
ing, can afford TO hazard the experiment
! OF opening the spring campaign under officers
recently organized, with companies uuaccus-
! toned to association, and men strangers 10
each other We shall need every energy of
| national defence for the spring campaign.
Richmond viii, in all probability, be APP
preached from the Rappahannock, is well as
from the Blackwater. In Northern Georgia
the fate of Atlanta, and in South Carolina
that Of Charleston and Savannah, and in
North Carolina that of Wilmington, all must
| De ueclGtu IN the spring.
- The Atlanta Co,ste7sracy of the 9TH,
says: " Gen. Armstrong; and Martins di-
visions Of Gen. Wheeler's corps are at Beans
, Station, East Tennessee, where they are con
| tinually having heavy skirmishes with the en-
| envy. -Four or five days ago, a squad of our
| men captured a lot of Yankee clothing, and
were in the act Of draping themselves in the
captured property, when they were recap
| tured by the Yankees, who, finding them in
| Yankee clothing, contrary to their pub
| Iished orders, led them out for the purpose of
| shooting them. just at this time the 4th and
| 18th Alabama regiments of cavalry arrived
upon the spot, and charged them, but not in
| time to save cur men, who were shot down in
! cold blood. The ruthless villains escaped.
| 4 few days afterwards the regiments above
alluded to caught fifteen or twenty Yankees
! and shot them in retaliation"