Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-12-10
Tur WAn.-The following lines, BY Coler;dyo

me poor wretch who has learnt his only prayers
From curses who knawS scarcely words enough
To ask blessing from his heavenly father,
Becomes fluent PhFasenail absolute
Ard tGchncai, in victories and defeats
And all our dainty terms for fratricidc:
Terms WHICH We trundlp sa,4otlis o or our tongue.
Like mare distractions empty sounds to which
we JON no telling, and attach no form!
As ii the sold cr died without a uound
As if the fbres OF their Gollikc frames
Were 2orcl without png; as it tie wretch
Who Tell in battle. dong bloody deeds.
Passed of TO lleA, on, Translate ed an not killed
As though he had no vie to pine Tor him,
No God 10 indge him!
Tremendous .3pptes.-We have been
presented,by gentleman ofthis village with
sor'c apples which measure tro feet Gndone
inc. IN Circumfcrenc!-aad which weigh
TWO fpuNps FIVE OUNCES Newark IN,
" Herald.
short man became attached Ia 4 very
tall women, and somebody SAID that he had
fallen InIove withhcr. D6you allthat fai-
Ting IN iore.'" said an old bachelor. at is
more like ciinbing up TO ~"
"lsay, PompGy, what AN jury ofinkosi,"
"Nhv, dc fact IS, you niLgcr, a Jury of in
kest am lot of iellers what sits dawn on
a dead man Ia find ont weddcr he is dead for
sartln, or onley playing 'possum."
BoGrs.-A Frencman was lately arrested
at Dayton O., for passing counterfeit eagles.
they arc said To he well executed, and are
so thpkly coated with gold as to stand the
test OF aqatorls.
Mr.. EDWIN G.. LIrCHFIELp, il is said is
to succeed Mr.. CHoswELL in the editorial
chair of the Albany Argus.-N. Y. Globe.
IMPORTANT DEcIsloN.-The Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania has decided that "A
will to which the mark" of the testator 10
afllXed is void and insufficient, According
to law of thostatc, when man cannot sign
a will himself, it must be done in his pres
encc, and by his express direction.
I0icM10eS in the United .Sdfes.-Somc
days ago, VOLCANO commenced an emp,
ton as place called the Narrows, in Look
Out Mountain, Ga.
Nemspdpers.-A farmer was asked WHY
he did not take the newspapers. Be-
cause" said he, "my father, when BIO diseh,
let me good many newspapers, and
have ma read item through yet"
GEN. TAyLoR.-The Washington cor
respondent of the Charleston Courier
learns from one of Gen. Taylor's friends
that he will pot, during his six mohtlt's an
sencc from the camp, visit Washington, or
attend any public meetings, nor, IN any
way seek notoriety, but will employ him
self exclcs vely in the management of his
r.va.e affairs, which have suffered from
long neglect.
The Montreal correspondents of the bet
r Free Press states that il was currcn,
in that city, as news from London.
The great Jewish house of ROtiSehaks
rs salito be embarrassed. This house took
the Irish loan at or % cents. The three
per cents, are now but fraction over 80,
and decline daily; and il is not improbable
they will fall rs low as 20 supposing, how
ever, the funds 90 no lower thals they are
now, tins stock, which cost the cORtructura
81 100000, is now only worth 46,4O0
020, 4 depreciation q 200, 900, CSC, O00,-
600.
The following was t'ouhitcSs written nv
some te. ly old bachelor, whose single bless
cdncys is matter of necessity. not OF choice.
We piry HIM:
fla man tees v.ry much like getting mar
RED Vet imagincs lhat he ought not. the hes.
remedy IS to help one of his neighbors to
move houscfh ol furniture, or borrow
about nine OF his children Tor three DAVIS and
Ic.r them cry. Ii that fats Luld up fire
of damp wood and when the smo c in the
room is the th;ckest, hire women 20 gFct
and scold for about two hours.-If he can
stand all these things. he had better get mar
ricd the next day-givc his wife the pants,
and be silent partner in the great firm Oh a+st-
rimonv. The remedy is severe, but as
every man is liable to these things after he
yokcs himself up il would be no harm TO
try il before.
We extract the following from letter re-,
ccycd from gentleman at the falls Of st,
Peters.
People in 4 more southern climate, find
are too apt to think we cannot raise any
thing up here, hut they are greatly mistaken.
Three. years since there were vcrv few far
mcrs IN this country, and almost nothing
raised; but this wear there have been raised
upwards of thirty thousand bushels Of wheat
re. oa.s and corn. and some fifteen thou
sand b, shc!s of potatoes. Anavcrage crop
Of heat, is - bushels per acre; rye, 20
bushels, oats. -, c IN, 80. i, po'a acs ,250,
Tier. is !argc extent of beautiful farming
couuty-alI we want is farmers, TO raisc
grain enough for home consumption, and
somcp spare, instead Of having 10 transport
a la.-v NOUN. from lhclower counEy every
year. Prairie du CHEN Patriot.
John Fan Buren, Esq-The Albany correspon-
dent Of the New York Herald iB giving an account
Of large meeting Of the democracy OF Albany, in
honor Of Mr. John an Buren,, son OF the expires
dent thus speaks OF that gentleman:
- Mr. Van Buren, seems indeed TO have lnherlted
III the intellect for which his father mas been 81
distinguished Mr. John Van Buren, is OF tho
psst advocates in America. HIS enuncia,ion he
voice. and his entire delivery are grand aDd nov,
he j. man also, of some personal beauty and b
mental faculties are all that is necessary to mak,
ais career in this world ilustrous lie is plan
man ard great man
The south Carolina legislature assembled on Mon