Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-02-20

| count oil al our ports, and s 10, 000, 900 !;
low estimate from tho amount of pro; :
erty exposed on LakeMichignn alone dur
ling the year. Then consider the vas,
number of human lives fscamen and mass.
engers) continually in jeopardy. and the
importance Of good harbors and lighs-hou-
ses will be manifest. From Detroit 10 the
head OF Lake Michigan, over eight hundred
miles. embracing coas, of over two thou
sand miles,) there has not been the first
harbor completed. Harbors has been be-
gun at Chicago, Michigan ci,y,and 81. lo-
seph; but were abandoned, with al. The reg.
a, the session of 1888 and 80. And in
l54O insult was added 10 injury, by selling
on: our implements. Our partly construc-
ted works were thus permitted To decay,
Until the last session, when my much res
pccted friend he delegate from Wisconsin.
go, an appropriation for three towns in the
Territory through this body;which was a
mended in the Senate so as TO give Mill
waukie $4,000, and Chicago and ST. Jo-
seph S25, coo each; and in hat amendment
this flou,e concur ell. So, after waiting
patiently five years, Lake NJ chigan got
$50, 0O0,m addition to the 81 9 AT which
is the whole sum she has ever received;
whilst in ten years, there has been lost in
IN her navigation all or $l,500,00O or
$4,000 pei annum; one hundred and
twenty five W ssels, or twcl g and half
per cent. per annum. And Insurance is
from thirty TO forty per cent. higher than
on Lake Erie or Ontario, where there are
harb rs. Save this $50, 900 for Lake
Mlckige", there have been 40 appropria-
tons for any lake harborSs since Tie sess-
i Of 1888 and 1889, though they are
much need by 9th, lakes besides Michigan;
but leave them in the hands OF their mors
inn.ed a'e representative s, who are better
ab g 10 portray their necessities. From
1928 10 1898, & vernment extended It's
fostering care over the harborS, and gave
them are or less appropriations. Why
should tie old policy, 50 proyident # pro-
perty and lille, so just, SO necessary,at this
late day, be exchanged!
The lake trade the past year must have
reached 100000, 90 las i, was 7,O00,-
600 last year. And twenty-five new vess-
els have been built with tonnage Of 3,2l2
toLs,anj coast of S2il, 340. An annual
appropriate n of $500, 0O0--which could
be clipped from our navy and army with
out beng iell--ior III &c years, would be
abundant for all our wishes, and would
save that sum in SIX years. In these ap-
propriat:ons, rising 100000 people arc
Directly interested. Yes, sir, the riparian
counties alone make up l,2D0,000.
found hope Ina, coon The allimpor-
IAN, canul around tie Saull Ste. Marie
Costing AS III Secretary OF War informs
me, only s&Lt0 1000 VIII be completed.
and then The out,ourj & Of the vast wealth
Q. the Lake SJpor.or c0afLy vii give
additional yal1e Ia the uifdudy great and
Increasing norluwe t.rn trade. Now, sir,
as one of The representatives of this vital
interest o. or common country, with my
Fresen, favorable opinion of the Commit
tee on Commerce, cannot vote to take
it away from h m; and nope no friend
of it will entertain such proposition for q
moment. TO them it legitimately belongs;
and 10 Them in behalf OF its friends, asl,
% have il go.
/ With these, Jews OF ti.e $ sro,y Of tho iate4
Interest, whilst intrusted to the usual stand
ing committee, | beg Of our Mississippi.
RIVER friends TO let US take the ordinary
! that, in courtesy to Them, will support Il
! reference OF their interest o whatever com
NIT ee they may choose.
The i'm provement OF cur harbors and r.
ri,the compile on o.tla { Tmb 2rland Fold,
with the don1..on Of land to which We are
oat "a 10 make us even with Ohio, would
harry sales FOR mos Of our other la Ids. And
am Informed that several THOUSAND English
men arc prep hing 20 EN- CRATE to tue West
in tne spring, with money averag NJ S SEQ.
Much, however, W. Il depend on The course
of this Congress. But, witlo4t any govern
mental aid, llliEo will never regulate Il
m Il Of her public debt, bit will struggle on
as well as she can un1. her mountain load
ofmis'oruaes. We are poor, but thank God
we are honest. Incorruptiblc, we suspect
no man com ng to bay us with British gold,
until The overt act. The young men OF IL
linois expac; in their day to see her out of
d bt; and they are all bent on paying ntcr-
est, to some extern, Immediately; AMI that
extent depends much, very much on the ac-
ton Of this Cong ess; and may say the
same Of Indiana, Michigan, and other wcs-
tern indebted states. In these views, BE-
eve al! my colleagues, and all our respcc
tive Constituents, and all the west, concur.
We have pride in wing olr state solvent
once more. and paying every cent Of her La
bilit;es, without any legal bubbles Or dsho-
| norlble comprom'scs. And glorious coz
summation viii that be for US ALL Fer one,
when it arrives, would say, with tho COOL
man Of old, "Lord, no" lettcsi thou thy ser
want depart in peace, for mine eyes hayo
secl our salgaiion." SIR, would celebrate
the day of such an even like jubilee. Az,
sr, next after the birthday of our Saviour,
AMI the day on VIII CHI Amqr;cln indcpe nd
elcc was declared, | would worship the day
taat rc~e2m5 Illinois from bankruptcy and
d3bt--tho day OF her cioii restored, and her
homo; lcgtned
MISERY AND DEATri.-The New York
Evening Post Of Monday says: - We are
informed that twelve dead bodies hnye been
received from The House in the Park, this
morning. Six Of them were men who
have been found dead in yaroas Oafts Of