Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1847-09-03

| 'ocdi ION lie KNOWS notHlnT. eSCepf
that he lives in Wisconsin. eble IN
mind and in body, having partially lost
both his hearing and memory; careworn
and toll worn, since he is both anxious
about the object of his journey, & scarcely
able 10 move about on his blistered feet ::
In the midst Of strangers, and without a
doll in his pocket, he is fit object for
the sympathy and aid of the benevolent
city authorities VINO have charge of the
poor, and who have taken him under their
temporary protection. Our object in re-
ferring TO his purpose and condition is to
endeavor, by this public notice. and with
the cooperation of Wisconsin Editors, to
arrest the attention of the son. The oil
man states that his own name is William
NJ Blair, and that mis- sons name is Mos
Is w Blair, and that the latter works
both as a blacksmith and carpenter
! The son has a friend or plrtner, lit is
not known which, of the name of Mills,
settled in the same locality, and that
| locality is supposed to be from present
circumstances, that are mentioned by the
| father, the district of country contiguous
to Milwaukee. Wisconsin Editors are
respectfully requested to copy this notice.
the son Moses w. Blair, or Of any friends
or acquaintances of the son, it is requested
that information of his address may be
immediai ely communicated TO the editors
| of tle Chicago Daily Tribune, for the
guidance of the father and of the fathers
friends in this city Chicago Tribune.
Mr.. B. T. Harris, long and well known
as one Of the editors of the Pittsburg Ga
zette, died recently IN that city.
| The whole number Of acc id ants which
occurred to steamboats, from November
| Isl. 1915 to the same month in 1916. is
| l45. By these accidents SO lives were
| lost, and 90 persons more or less injured
! OF the l45 accidents, ll6 boats were t -
tally lost, and % badly damaged. The
number lost on the Western rivers was
| 100: 40 snagged, 80 sunk, Is boilers
! burst, D run into by other vessels, IL
burnt, 10 shipwrecked, and cut through
| by ice.
Mr. Stewart, of Lexington, Ky, whose
rm was broken not long since by a car
collision on the Little Miami Railroad,
| has entered suit against the Company for
damages, setting them at 500. Paid
without suit.
| Two hundred emigrants arrived at Bal
| tIn0re recently, said to be the vanguard
Of a colony of several thousand Holanders
who are about to settle in Missouri. They
| flv from religious persecution under the
! King of Hanover.
The public d"bt of Ohio now amounts
70 $40 246 200. and the interest to 81 =.
524 ,2G0. A plan is proposed Tor paving
it off BY IA tax of cents on every 81 600
If the present taxable property, by which
it is calculated that 500 600 year NAV
! be raised. This, added to the sinking
fund, and other means already provided,
will, it is said, pay off the debt in thirty
| FIVE years.
The Grand river Rapids Mich Eagle
announces the death of an Indian of that
village. known as Blacksl,in. The Eagle
saws he lived to be upwards Of hundred
years old, and has enacted at the head of
his tribe. many exciting scenes during his
! life. His hand frs: applied the torch to
| l'lt civ ol Dulitlo- III me war pi 10 -
! The old man. with the remnant of his
tribe. has long been on friendly terms
with the whites, and his death is nota.
bic event in the history of his tribe.
A Quebec correspondent of the Mont
real Herald. under date of the 81 ult,
writes as follows The steamship St.
George has Just arrived from Crosse Isle,
and brings up 66 convalescent immigrants
! The sickness has not abated, and the NOR
taiitv is much the same = between 80
and 40 per dav. Hospitals are all full -
| learn that 900 of the passengers of the
NirginiuS have died since her sailing. and
IT Is sad that very few Of her whole num-
Der upwards of FIVE hundred) will survive
The Cincinnati Commercial saws that
they are informed on good authority, that
a block of three story buildings is TO be
erected in that city, the entire front to be
of cast iron The plates for the same
are already being cast
About $4,000, 900 are yearly earned in
Massa chusettS by females employed in va
rIous factories and manufactures ofsIraw.
hats, stocks. &c. About 40 600 are thus
annually employed.
There are four lines of ocean steamers
between the United STATES and Europe =
the Cunard line. plying between Boston
and England; the French line between
Cherbourg and New York the American