Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-09-29


Coates street, were all taken very ill on
Saturday afternoon from eating some cheese
that they had purchased among other re-
freshments, to celebrate little innocent
froic gotten up among themselves. Sew
eral of them came nigh dying. Yesterday
they were all doing well.-PhaL Ga.
New Seat of Government IN U.C.-It is
stated in the Kingston Chronicle that King
sion is decided upon as the seat of Cover
ment for Canada, and it has been rumor-
ed for two days past, that Col. Foster, the
senior military officer at Toronto, has pos
tive orders TO remove his head qnarters to
Kingston with the greatest convenient des-
patch. 1t is also asserted that the heads of
the civil departments are soon to follow to
the same place.
ri Consult my Wye"-That is what
old Judge Thatcher, of Massachusetts,
said to Blount, Of North Carolina, when
they were members of Congress, at PhiIa-
delphia, and when the latter challenged
him to mortal CONDUIT" vi consult my
wife, sir" replied the Judge, taking off his
three cornered hat and making a bow,
"and if she is willing, I'll favor you with
a meeting"
irish VIA genuine "son Of the sod"
came into our office the other day, and
asked the rates of advertising for situation.
The price we told him, would be one dollar
for three insertions, and one dollar and
seventy five cents for six. GA dollar"
said he, scratching his pate, 50 for the first
three times, and three quarthers for the
last three; well thin, my darlin, fax an
wei! have it in the last three."-N. Y.
Sun.
Tears ofthe Hero Of AusterHt=.-Who
forgets the anecdote of Napolean, and the
village bells Of Bricntz? He was riding,
late one day over a battle field, gazing
stern and unmoved on the dying and the
dead that strewed the ground by thousands
about him, when suddenly ''those evening
bells" struck up merry peal. The en-
peror paused to listen; his heart was soft
encd; memory was busy with the past, he
was no longer the conquerer of Austerlitz,
but the innocent happy school boy at Bri-
entz; and dsmounting from his horse he
seated himself on the stump Of an old tree,
and to the establishment Of RapP, who re-
latcs the circumstance, burst into tears
The rock was smittcn, and the living wa
ters came gushing from it.
off youth were to come again." said an
aged gentleman, 81 would be Il scholar"
Ay; and how many more would be-
What a useful hint is this to youth. Ifcv-
cry youth would keep in view the fact that
"sixty minutes make an hour" how much
wiser than the past would be the rising ge-
neratiOn.
Steam Observation-Disclosures continue
to be made on common roads III Steam
coaches, and uniform speed Of one mile
in three minutes has been attained on a
hard level road. When there were any
obstacles, four minutes was the average,
and in mounting an ascent, five minutes to
the mile. It viii be borne in mind that the
turnpike roads in England arc exceedingly
smooth and solid all of them being macad
amised.
Canal toHs.-The amount received for
tolls on the New York State canals during
the last week in August is siXty-seyen thou
sand eight hundred and seventy-nine dol
lars and sixty-onc cents. The amount re-
ccived in the month of August is one hun
drcd and ninety-sevcn thousand two hun
drcd and four dollars and thirty-eight cents.
The amount of acheat which comes down
the Erie Canal is on the increase. From
the LIST to the 18th of September, more than
10000 bushels were delivered at West
Troy, and in the same week over 1000
barrels Of -four.
The Northrc& Tragedy. Prcsi-
dent of the American Fur Company IN this
city has received from A. Robertson, one
Of the agents Of that Company, at ST Lou
is, detailed statement Of the circumstan-
ces Of the death Of Messrs. Simpson, Bird,
and De Gros, by the hand Of the first named
in the Northwest Territory-an account Of
which has heretofore been published, doubt
ed, and confirmed. The particulars, as g-
ven bv Mr. Robertson, vary but little from
those published in this paper several weeks
ago.
The AmiSiad Negroes In reply to
remark of the Hartford Courant, that these
negroes were unfortunate persons,' the
New Haven Herald says on the contrary
they are the luckiest fellows in the world
and observes: they live we'll and are fed
and clothed at the public expense, and are
educated and instructed by private charity.
To look at thcm-see them, fat, sleek,
greasy, and grimy-wrestling, catching
birds, (thcy will catch any bird whose nest
they can discover by curious process Of
their OWN and all sorts of fun and frolic,
you would think them any thing but unior
iunate Their notions of property are en-
tirely Agraran: What's yours is mine,
and what is mine is my own;' and they