Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-01

I 1t IS proposed to remove the capital fNew
Hampshire from Concord to Manchester.
James Taylor, of New York, has been ap-
+ pointed special agent at large of the Post
once department, in place of James Hol-
+ brook, deceased.
A rebel Lieutenant states that Lees army
numbered before the battle from $4,000 to
/ &C, zoos Eat he has lost $4,000 to IS, OOo-
he also says the rebel army has plenty of pro-
I visions.
Wendell Phillips says that q the gristle of
the South is hardening into bone" William
Lloyd Garrison replies If the gristle of the
South Is hardening into bone, it Is the bone
OF a skeleton"
The Richmond papers of the 10th instant
claim great victory over Sigel at New Mar
ket, and say they would have captured his
army had IL not been for our cavalry Ac-
cordlng to their accounts Sigel ran 20 miles
without Stopping, abandoning his hospitals,
burning his trains, &c.
Acapulco advices of the 18th say that the
French occupy but a narrow line from San
Bias to Vera Cruz and Tampico. II i sur
missed that the Fench Admiral doesn't ven
ture TO occupy any other Pacific port because
he would not be able 10 keep up communica-
ton with the interior.
Two men were captured the other dav near
Annapolis, with large rebel mail destined
to Baltimore, with letters for New York, Bes-
ton and Philadelphia parties, also 81, 900 in
gold and 3, 600 in Greenbacks The letters
speak of scarcity Of food &c., and contain
highly important information.
\ BaItimorean, temporarily residing in
Boston, invited five friends to dine with him
a few days since, but they noticed Just before
they seated themselves, a small secession flag
topping piece of ornamental pastry, and
IN.
the house. Next day Mr. Baltimore went
home.
The Hartford papers tell a sorry tale of a
young widow belonging in this city whose af-
fections we're won by a gay deceiyer in Hart
ford and who was swindled out of $3.50 I'M
der the pTetense that the money was TO 90
for place where " they two would live
in connubial bliss. Now the Springfield wild
ow looks in vain for the faithless lower.
General SIocum, commanding the District
of EicksbUrg, has ordered that, where the
Government lessee of an abandoned planta-
ton is robbed by guerrillas, sufficient proper
ty shall be seized from disloyaI citizens in the
vicinity to indemnify the sufferer; and if a
lessee Is killed, an assessment of $4,000 shall
be levied upon disloyalists.
The Burlington Free Press mentions as the
prominent feature Of the late State conven-
ton at that place, 'the apparently unani-
nous desire for the denomination of Abra-
ham Lincoln, which found expression in hear
" applause whenever his name was men
toned in the convention; in the resolutions
adopted by unanimous vote, and III the elec-
ton of delegates unanimously chosen" The
same paper thinks Senator Foot, the chair
man of Nermonts delegation to Baltimore,
would look well presiding over the National
Convention.
The success of the patriotic women in their
attack upon indulgence in foreign dress
goods, emboldens them to seek reform in
other fields. They are now preparing cam
paign against the fashionable watering places
this coming season. under the conviction that
while 50 many fathers, husbands and sons
and brothers are imperiIling their lives on
the field Of battle, 1t does not become wives
and mothers and sisters to be dancing and
flirting at Saratoga, Newport and Niagara
No, II don't. Let them take their relaxation
i'll a more quiet and healthy style