Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-01-27
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stopping OF the overland mail TO California
Gen. Blair has resigned his position in the
army.
Orders have been issued to rifle all the II
and 81 FOUNDER guns al the Washington ar
/ senal, on the James p tern.
The Secretary OF War has ordered the dis
continuance OF the premium Of 50 to or for
| accepted recruits for volunteer regiments
Rumors say that the Secretary of the In
terror has cancelled the sale of the W-inneba-
go trust lands, and has ordered a new sale.
Immense deposits of lead, believed TO be
| impregnated with gold and silver, have been
| discovered near Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The Wilmington Journal announces the.
Bleaching of two more blockade runners, the
| steamers Ranger and 4dore
The Richmond Wig, of the 18th, thinks
the future of the South is involved in the
| next Springs campaign in Upper Georgia.
The British blockade runner SRra5uSs was
| captured in Dobov Sound, Georgia, on the
Sd inst, by the gunboat Huron.
The Postmaster General has invited bids to
| reduce the running time four DAYS from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, for the convenience
of the letter mail as well as entire mail.
Two trains run through daily from Chatta-
nooga to Nashville, the time being l9 hours
The mortality in the Chattanooga hospitals is
| about go per week.
A proposition made in the rebel Con-
| gress to conscrIpt negroes for soldiers but
| was vigorously opposed by the members from
| Virginia, Georgia and South Carolina.
\ riot occurred at Seymour, Ind, Tuesday
between some drunken soldiers and guard
| resulting in the death of rioters nd the
woundlng OF several others
\ special to the Tribune SAYS The Arkal-
sas delegation say that in four months Arkan-
| sas will come into the Union as a free State
They recommend Col. Rogers for military
Governor.
The War Department has decided that
volunteers who have served faithfully for two
years are entitled to the bounty provided bv
the act of July 22d, no matter at what time
since the commencement of the rebellion
they entered the service of the United States.
The wholesale rebel CONSUMPTION law is
| creating great CONSERVATION and excitement
in the western portion of North Carolina,
| where preparations are being made to resist
it. Meetings are held at which the Southern
Confeder9cy is openly repudiated and a re-
| turn to the Union favored
The H017Ps correspondence SAYS Gen.
Grant telegraphs that Gen. Foster, who is
suffering from his wounds, asks to be relieved
| He requests that either Gen. Schofield or
Mcpherson be Immediately assigned to the
| command.
The IriJuaes special says that the Senate
committee have determined to postpone the
consideration of the nominations of Major
| and Brigader Generals for the present, in
order to ascertain how many vacancies and
unemployed Major Generals there are on
hand.
The Holsteir question shows an increasing
! hi and i still
Danes have evacuated Hosten The London
Times continues to take gloomy views, and
| says the Germans watching still upon
| events, while events threaten more and more
to be masters rather than guides.
The New Orleans Era gives the statements
| of a Union refugee Just from Mississippi He
says that fully one half the population of that
| State left at home, are strongly Union, and
! the women are especially bitter against left.
! Davis. Hundreds of Mississippiaus were in
/ the woods, to escape CONSUMPTION.
! 1t Is ascertained that the Arch Duke Max
| imillian viii accept the Me xican crown prof
| fered him by the Mexican mobiles, and viii
| shortly sail for Mexico. He is expected TO
| visit Paris and TO reach Mexico before the
end of March with requisite reinforcements
| The understanding between the Arch Duke
and Napoleon is said 10 be excellent, and ii
Is said that capitalists 0verwhclm the Arch,
luke Win OHcIS OF money on the ~iHlpiG
guarantee Of his accession.
4 refugee from Richmond who travelled
via Wilmington and the Mobile y Ohio Il. r.
to Oklahoma, gives the Memphis Balietut a long
account of the condition of things in the Con
federacy. lie describes the state Of society
in Richmond as terrible, the Generalization
among all classes being most extraordinary.
| There Were large number of rebel officers in
the city, and Uuuon men were said to be nu-
merous. The same Generalization existed at
Mobile
Secretary Seward in letter to minister
Adams dated Oct 9th, last as IT appears from
the published correspondence, says, the l. 5.
| insist and must continue to insist that the
British government is justly responsible for
the damages which the peaceablc, law abiding
citizens of the United States sustained by
depredations of the Alabama, that vessel hav-
ing been built and fitted out in British waters,
the secretary cannot therefore instruct Mr..
Adams to refrain from pressing claims which
he now has in his hands.
special to the Post says letters received
from Robert j. Walker, now in London, state
that great revolution is going on in public
opinion in England in reference TO the fnan-
cial strength of this government He says
also that a heavy tide of emigration viii set
| into this country in the spring, and with con
GrtSSlOQii Ie9lSlaLlOU IL VIII swell 10 udli q
million persons a year. He proposes that
| Congress shall enact that emigrants shall
be liable to eonscripr IN during this war.
This would disarm suspicion abroad.
The Era has intelligence from Texas,
through Rev. Mr. RcRea, of Port Lavaca, who
| saws there Is an overwhelming Union seuti-
ment in Western Texas. \ number of Union
men have been imprisoned by order of Ma
| gruder, for publishing book called Com
mon sense Fears for their safety were en-
! tertained, as the "sOns of the South had of
| fered to hang them. Much mutiny exists
| among the rebel soldiers in Western Texas
| Magruder was concentrating his forces on
| Brazos river 80 miles from the coast, and in
! trenchng.
/ The committee WAYS and means have
resolved to tax manufactured tobacco 30 cents
per pound snuff, 80 cents; fne-cut, in bulk
/ exceeding half pound, 80 cents; fine cut in
foil, one ounce, s cents per pound ditto, in
two ounce packages, cents do, in three
ounce. cents; DO, each additional ounce,
( cents per package; cigars not worth over
ten dollars, 81 per Thousand; not worth over
| fifteen dollars, 50; not worth over twenty