Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-12-10

DcSFUcfjue.-Wa shngton county, Iowa,
has been devastated by contlagration. I'M
mensc fires have consumed the praircs,
and A great destruction Of property has en-
sued.
John Randolph once avowcd himself de-
cidcdIy in favor of fall elections. lie said
he wished the voters to appear at the polls
when they could "lceltheir independence"
" In the spring." said he, ''the people have
corn to 6ty--n the fall they have ii 10 sell
and they always feel more independent
when they have corn to sell than when
they have it to buy !"
During the revolution, while poverty
pressed heavily upon nearly Ill the lnhabi-
tants, a man in Dover had the large blttoNs
on his coat made of sole leather, and came
to show them to DIR. BeIknap.
"Thcrc," said he, pointing to his leather
substitutes, "yJU SEQ am not proud: |
have leather buttons
Il see no proof of that" was the reply;
" | think you are proud OF your humility. -
C0i|9rni0.-Com.S stockton SAYS that if
the Government of the lnltcd States does
not choose to accept ot California. he will
take the country himself as private job,
lie Will take the country oil their hands if
they don't want it. Cmon.
Adyicos from Quebec to the 18Th inst ,
arc as follows -
Winter has set in. Our streets are EllcG
with snow, which commenced falling CA
Saturday last, and cahrloles have driven
from their occupation carts and carriages.
The people IN Smyrna profess three dis
tinctinct rcliGipns, and observe three differ
ent days in the week for The Sabbath. The
Jews, Saturday; Christians, Sunday and
the Mahomelans, Friday.
Specie.-Thc Journal Of Commerce cs-
Inmates the amount of specie in this country
! at 500, 100000.
Stewards magnificent dry goods palace.
in Broadway, New \ ork, is to be enlarged.
1t is large enough now to ruin halt the nus
bands in GOTHAM Chron.
The stcamer Washington, at New York,
taxes out SlS9,972 IN specie.
1t is said the n. O. Delta cxpcnds about
81 900 month for news from the army.
The Fidclia packet-shio ts..h out about
100000.
4 correspondent Of the \. Y. Journal of
Commerce saws that Mexico is about send
inc Commissioners 10 Washington 10 treat
for peace.
Death from Joy.-A German. named
Henry Sach, who arrived at New York on
Thursday last, accidentally met his broth
or from whom he had been some time sep
aratcd, on Friday night in 4 house in
1 Washington street. which caused him such
excessive Joy and excitement, that he burst
/ a blood vessel in the chest and died III a
few mnutos.-L ChronoWpe.
lLarridrC.--Thc Intervention Of a priest,
or rather ecclesiastical functionary was not
deemed indispensable IL marriage, until
| the Council of Trent, l4C9. The cclebra-
ted decree passed il that session, intcrdict-
ing any marriage otherwise than in the
presence of a priest, and, Al least two wit
nesScs.
Nor so BAp.-tho loss ofHfc BY thc col
lision on the Mississippi. by which the stca-
mer Tempest sunk the Talisman' is not 50
dreadful as at irs,reporied. No cabin pass
cngers were lost aad but twenty or thirty
deck.
GEN. ScQIT NELL SrsTAINEp.-Gcn.
Scorr has beer much laughed at for his
q" hasty plate of soup" but we find that he
is well sustained by one of the greatest gem
erals of modern umes.-NAPoLEoN. who
used to say that -" il is the so1pthat makes
the soldier" an old French adage, which
had its origin in the well known habits and
necessities OF the French armics.=L Albany