Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-02-24

There are but forty-one daily papers pub
lished in what rebels call the Southern Con-
federaey.
The rebe! Congress has passed and Jeff.
Davis has approved bill prohibiting the i'm
portation of luxuries
The old regiments are returning from their
thirty days visits to their homes with an av-
erage Of lao new recruits each.
1t is quite probable that the Secretary of
! the Treasury will in few DAYS advertise the
ten-forty loan
By orders of the War Department, no vol
unteer shall be rejected on account of his
height, who is at least five feet
The New York Commercial 4d,ertiser re
commends the entire abolition of our pres
ent postal system, leaving the carrying of the
mails open to private enterprise.
The LIST Minnesota Regiment having re-
enlisted for the war has gone home on fur
Tough. They reached St. Paul on the 10TH
and were received with great enthusiasm.
The total funded and fundable debt of the
United States on the 29th of January was
| 81 ,446, 81 ,507. The interest of 1856, III
500 is payable in gold.
The extent of immigration into Colorado
! Territory may be judged from the fact that
/ ten thousand and forty -one acres were taken
up in Golden City District in the month of
January.
A land grant bill has been reported in the
U. 5. Senate, to aid in the building of road
from ST. Paul to Lake Superior. 1t grants
five sections of land for each mile of road.
Henry Ward Beecher declares that he is in
favor of President Lincoln's reelection, and
that he shall announce this fact to the public
and give his reasons under his own sigma
| ture.
4 IL. n
! the intrepid missionary explorer, has been
murdered, is perhaps untrue There are
| grounds for hoping that he has only been
wounded.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, the well-known
English author, has left Washington for Ha-
vana- After short visit to Cuba, he will go
/ to Vera Cruz, thence to New Orleans, and SO
| through the South and West.
The HeraiFs Washington dispatch says the
policy of extending the Presidents amnesty
to colonies is much talked of. Rebel prison
ers and refugees state that this would cause
| whole reg iments to desert.
Sixty thousand veteran troops have already
re-enlisted. All the regiments in the Army
of the Potomac, whose terms of service ex-
! pire this year. have re-enlisted, or are about
| to do so.
| An emancipation meeting was held at Gov
| ington, KY, on the 18th, to elect delegates to
the emancipation convention at Louisville,
on the oath. Among the speakers was J. R.
| Grant, father of Gen. Grant
JOHN S. BURNS, the only citizen of Gettys-
burg who joined the army and fought in the
battle in July last, has been put on the pen
sion roll at the rate of IS a month. He
fought with the It'll Wisconsin and is an old
man.
Rumors as to an intended protest by our
Government against the French occupation of
Mexico are certainly not well founded The
policy of the Government on this point is full
ly explained in the lately published diplo-
matte correspondence.
Gen. John Morgan and his two staff officers
who escaped with him have been made the
| recipients of grand ovation and testimonial
from the State of South Carolina. The testi-
mOnial consists of magnificent horse to
each, and seven sets of elegant and costly
caparisons.
The steamer Mn Boy was sunk on the lst
inst, s miles below Jacksonport, on White
river, laden with Government stores for the
troops at Batesyille. a part OF tho cargo
was saved. The boat was valued at Sl4, 1000
and was total loss.
The Richmond Examiner of the 10th inst
has an editorial denouncing the Virginia Leg
islature for attempting to interfere with
State and war matters, by the passage of an
act requesting JEFF. DAVIS to remove the
outlawry against Gen. Butler, TO facilitate an
exchange of prisoners.
The Richmond enquirer also contains
long editorial bitterly denouncing the Vir-
ginia Legislature for its chicken hearted
course in recommending the acknowledgment
of the beast BUTLER, and yielding to terms
for exchange of prisoners in secret ses-
sion. 1t urges DAVIS to remain firm, and de-
cares there will be no exchange of prisoners
till they get more than we have.
The Washington correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune states that it has the highest
authority for saying that GeH. Grant has
within a few days formally, peremptorlly, and
in the most decisive terms, rejected direct
offers made to him lately by leading Demo
cratic politicians to secure his nomination for
the Presidency by their National Convention.
The Times Washington special saws that
Gen Butler has issued an order forbdding
the sale of liquor to be drank on the premi-
ses in his department, under penalty of fine
and Imprisonment at hard labor; also, an
order that all estates in his Department,
abandoned or occupied by rebels be taken
possession of by the Superintendent of negro
affairs.
Mr. Corvin, who came to this country as
the respondent of the Augsburg Gazette
and the London Times, and obtained situa-
ton in the Treasury Department about year
since, has just been dismissed. 1t is said that
the calumnies upon our Government and ar
mics, contained in his letters to the journals
mentioned, were the cause of his removal.
He claims to be German count, and a de-
scendant of the famous Corvins.
The Secretary of War has decided that the
term three-fOurths, used in connection with
veteran regiments, means three -fourths of
the organization serving together and does
not include men absent in prisons, hospitals,
&c Men who have not served two years
viii be allowed to go on furlough with their
regiments, provided it goes as an organiza-
ton, and they agree to re-enlist "a soon as
they come within the limits of re-enlistment.
Very near one hundred and ten thousand
new recruits have been formally mustered into
the service since the LIST of November last,
and many more thousand are known to be ell
listed, although not yet mustered in. The
last two weeks the enlistments have averaged
| 800 a day. OF the number formally mus
tered into the service, New York has furnish
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