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

y The Irish girls os Columbus Ohio, have
contributed sl0s5 for a HellandsgAanss faad.
= Sergt PLUNkETT, of the Twenty first
Massachusetts,, was recently married to Miss
NELLIE LoRIMER, of Worcester. Sergt. Pun
kETT is the gallant soldier who lost both arms
at Fredericksburg while bearing the flag of
his regiment in front, after six men had been
successfully and Immediately shot down I'M
der its folds.
= The Richmond papers state that there
are 500 eases of small pox among the Union
prisoners at DanviIle.
= 1t is stated in dispatches to the Rich
mond papers that Gen. LoNGsTREEr has re
Gently gained some advantages in East Ten
hessee, but is unable to follow them up in
| consequence of the large proportion of his
men being bare footed. The rebel army in
East Tennessee has gone into winter quarters
: 1t is said the rebels have sent an ennis
sary to notify the French Government of the
recognition of the Mexican Empire by JEFF.
DAVIS bogus Confederacy, and to solicit a
recognition of the latter in turn by France.
This is an attempt to trade on small capital.
= c. EDWARDS LESTER, arrested spy at
Harper's Ferry last summer and held in dur
ance there ever since, has been acquitted by
the Court Martial, no evidence having been
brought against him.
- The Army of the Potomac has finally
settled down, mud bound, into winter quar-
tiers. Cedar Mountain, the key to the posi-
ton there is held by our forces. The people
all over that section are in a state of starya-
ton, and daily thronging camps to pro-
cure provisions, which our commissaries are
ordered to sell to them at government prices.
In this way many are relieved, while also
nests of Juerrillas are enabled to obtain sup
plies and protract their thieving and murder
ing system.
= Col. STRAIGHT and his Adjutant, Lieut..
REED, recently escaped from Libby prison,
but were re-captured Immediately, their de-
signs being known. They have been put in
irons and thrown into the dungeon of the
prison.
Great excitement has prevailed at Ca
lais, Me-, in consequence of apprehensions of
raid by the rebel agents and sympathizing
"roughs at St Johns.
jenny LIND, it is said, has lost her voice.
This is related to have made itself painfully
apparent on the occasion of her singing in
the Elijah" of MendelsSohn, lstely in En-
gland.
The Detroit Free Press furnishes an alb
stract statement of disasters on the lakes,
which have occurred during the navigation of
1868. The number of disasters which took
place the past season numbers somewhat
about $50, an increase over last year of 80,
and of the season previous IS. BY far the
greater part of them have taken place on the
St Clair flats, as has been the case in former
years
The following post offices in this State
have recently been discontinued Erfurth,
Jefferson county; Pine Bluff, Dane county
Postmasters have been appointed as follows:
JOHN THAYER, Hammond, st. Croix county
JOHN SIcKLEs, Otsego, Columbia county; En-
MUxD D. Boswell, Wheatland, Kenosha Co.;
J. W. SHERWOOD, Cobb, Gate Simmer,) Iowa
county.
We dont't wish to alarm people, but one
Of those everlasting searchers for spots upon
the sun has uiSCOFtIct IildL the lace OF iudt
uminary is as thickly covered with spots as
though it were marked with smallpox, suf-
fcient to impair its business capacity for
lighting and warming about one per cent.
"A Boston beggar woman, who has here
tofore been contented to received a five cent
bit, astonished the editor of the Ege,sitq Ga
sette, the other day, by returning it with some
disdain, exclaiming: "Why, yer honor don't
We know everything is riz." As she was evil
IDENTITY on her strike he yielded.
A young lady in Richmond, writing to
her friends in Baltimore, says that the gave
ties Sof society in that city consist chiefly
of what are called starvation parties" at
which people meet in each others houses,
and have music and dancing, but nothing to
eat or drink