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

to love him, and he has ceased to oppose YOU.
/ 1t is impossible for your husband to love YOU.
/ 1t is impossible for any man either to honor
or to love u woman SO selfish as YOU are; and
your sex may blame you and those who are
like you for all the contempt which certain
| class of men feel for women. You degrade
yourself 10 the position of a SNOWY creature,
good for nothing but to spend money. You
! teach men contempt for your sex, and it is
only the modest and intelligent woman whom
| you despise that redeemS it to admiration and
| love.
4 Loyal SoJtbern Woman On Trial for Treason
to the Rebel Authorities.
! The Richmond Enquirer of the 2lst has a
| long report Of the proceedings in the examin-
alton of one Mrs. PATTERSON ALLAN, charged
| with holding reasonable correspondence with
! persons at the North. The case caused great
J excitement in Richmond. Among the wit
nesses against her were Gen. WNDER, Mrs.
| HoGE and other wen known rebels The
| principal evidence, however, relied upon for
her conviction, consisted of three intercepted
| letters, said to be in her handwriting. OF
these the following is the most important,
and is alleged to have been intended for Rev.
MORGAN DIX of New York:
RICHMOND, Thursday, June S, 1868.
CARO- SIGNoRE: | humbly entreat you will
| hasten to inform your father of the contents
of this letter! Oh, friend in these days of
terror, despotism and dependency, one seeks
in vain for sympathy in these regions of Sc
cessna, where every heart seems filed with
hatred, malice and revenge-where one hears
young women talk of turning over on battle
fields q horrid, nasty, grinning skulls Of Yam
KEGS, with their dainty feet. Then, for the
sake of your country, do what you can to ar
rest all instigators and abettors Of this rebel
lion. Tell your father that about the 18th of
this month the Rev. NJ. ID. Hoge viii attempt
to ran the blockade from st. Thomas to
Charleston. He has been for some time past
in London, where his apparent BUSINESS was
to collect Testaments and Bibles, but where
his real object was to write for English jour
mails and exert his influence for the Southern
cause. greater rebel frebrand does not
exist. He has friends and sympathizers in
Brooklyn, \. Y, one is Rev. Pas
or-of some church, and another IS --,
who lives or did live on street Mr.
- has q son III tie FlderM Nag3L IHe7l are
al IN ttH sympathy nth tie South, and do ,clat
they can To promote tie cause. Then in Balti-
more, everybody there is Tor the South.
Those that stand very prominent are Mrs
-, sister to one --- of --, Va,
most Industrious worker for the cause: a
/ Miss --, sister of - -, and one Mr.
--, 60 --. His wife viii try and go
| to Ohio. They should all be sent South. The
| whole family of -, are in constant cores
pOndence with this place. a Mrs. -,
| whose husband is in the Confederate army,
ran the blockade some time since. She is a
spy of the worst character, and ought not to
| be tolerated in the North. Her mother-in-law
| is a Mrs. -. She also expected to 90 to
| Philadelphia. Com. HoiliGs will soon leave
here to 80 to Nassau or St. Thomas, to sail
for England, where he expects to take com
mand Of a steamer. Ewen has taken
the place Of Stonewall Jackson, although he
has but one leg Report says Lee will soon
make a forward movement. Stuart expects
to make raid from Orange into Pennsylva-
MIA.
1t IS truth, the rebel soldiers live on rats,
and anything else they can get Corn and
wheat, green, and from the field, are common
articles of diet If the Northern army can
not vanquish such miserable SCI of starved
and naked wretches. then NAV the Yankee
nation become by-word with all nations on
che earth In the North, Treason stalks forth
in the broad daylight! Here egerrdting is sub
scrgie7,t to tie cause, and one acoyH Of rent0z.-
STRANGE IS instant death.
Stoneman had within his GRASP the plauta-
tions of several of the most prominent rebels
Seldom, Secretary of War; Anderson, OF
the Tredegar Iron Works Hobson, son-in-law
of Gen. Wise; c. c. Lee, brother of Gen.
Lee; Harrison, Colonel at Drewry's Bluff
besides the farms of hundreds engaged in the
Southern service. The damage done canal
and railroad was repaired in twenty-four hours
after the retreat.
Oh, Sir the universal cry here is 10 raise
the black flag. Oh for the hour when the
avenging angel shall appear, with torch in
/ one hand and the ayengiug sword of justice
/ in the other, and consecrate TO death and
| destruction this land and these people, re-
warding them with a fate they so richly de-
serve When, when will that time arrive g.?
1 The women and preachers are among the
most earnest and determined rebels in the
South. They do more to stimulate and keep
/ alive the spirit of rebellion than any other
members Of society Many mar rearing
tie Federal ao5ifoInl IS a traitor, and where the
men are true their wives false. 1t is this
which has so often proved ruinOus to the
! Union cause. Here, every mind, heart and
arm are bent to serve the cause OF the South.
Money, property, crops, everything, is sacri-
feed for the main idea. Thus the South has
been able to maintain its position thus far.
As Nallandigham has announced himself a
prisoner Of war, they expect 10 forward him
to City Point, in exchange for some rebel
He wishes to 90 to Canada in order TO infiu-
ence the vote of Ohio. Put tie wretcd ia Fort
Warren.
Oh, friend. watch well, and, beseech thee,
allow no appearance of Southern sympathy
in your presence. This letter would be my
deatb-warrant if discovered.
..Whatever my fate may be,
Do not weep for me-
Now as then. SANTA TRINITA
This letter was inclosed in a white euvel-
ope. and directed to =" Rev. Morgan Dix"
Both were then placed into buff envelope
and addressed to " Miss II. Haines New York
In haste The direction on both of the en-
yelopes was evidently in the same handwri-
ting
\ SOUND REPLY-One of the drafted men
IN the town of Stiles. WIS up at the City Bank,
IN Green Bay, the other day, paying his $500;
some one remarked that it was pretty rough
10 make poor man shell out that way, and
asked him if he didn't feel little sore and
dissatisfied with the draft. ''Not d-n bit, +"
was the reply; cts all right-the Govern
| ment's worth it" and walked off. Sound