Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-10-09
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Summary of News.

The citizens of Oswego have taxed them
selves TO improve the harbor and preserve
the Government Piers from total destruction.
and have put dredging machine from the
Welland Canal in operation. About seven
ty-fve yards of stone and earth are removed
daily from the channel and bars. The East
pier has been considerably i'm. foved.
NJ. Audraud, of Paris, is said to have dis
covered a new system of Railroad travelling,
by means of compressed air. His expert
ments on a small scale have been very sue
cessful, and show that from fifteen to sixty
miles may be obtained with increased safety,
and at one half the cost of the engine pro-
PEELED carriage.
Difficulty exists between several men or
companies claiming the exclusive right to
construct Morse's telegraph over certain
routes. The route from Chicago to Mil
waukee is in dispute, which will probably
defeat for a time the proposed work on this
route.
Col Fremont and his wife, and suit of
Itwenty-three persons, arrived at St. Louis
on the evening of the 28th ult. Mrs. +. met
her husband at Kansas Landing, ON his way
to St. Louis.
DIR. King, the American Missionary at
Athens, has been virtually expelled from
the Kingdom by the Government. The
Boston Traveller announces his safe arrival
at Geneva, Switzerland.
The majority for Tweedy in all the coun-
ties of the Territory except Chippewa and
Portage, which have not yet been heard
from, is 1888 votes. This we learn from
the Milwaukee Sentinel.
The exports of Cincinnati by public con-
veyance, for the past year, according to the
statistical report of Mr.. Peabody, of that
city, amount to $50,ooO,ooO. This is ex-
elusive of exports by wagons, which would
make it sixty millions a4
The steamer Great Britain was success
fully foated off on the night of the 9th ult.,
and arrived at Liz erpool on the 30th.
John Jacob Astor, of New York City, is
now negotiating with Capt. Ward, the well
known steamboat owner, for the establish
ment of line of tow boats between Buffalo
and Green Bay, early in the ensuing sea-
son.
The Fond du Lac Journal states, that the
frame of the new Court House was raised
in that village week before last. 1t is three
stories high-the basement of stone, to be
used as Jail.
Gen. Caleb Gushing has been nominated
as a candidate for Governor by the Massa-
chusetts Loco Foco State Convention.
Twenty dwellings burned, corner of Tenth
and Baltimore: streets, Philadelphia, on
the 18th. ult
We see it stated that the Reybold family
viii net $40, 600 from the sale of peaches IN
Philadelphia, this year.
The estate of Sias Wright is valued at
ten thousand dollars.
A gentleman writes that he dined at the
ST Charles in New Orleans, with but one
other person at the table.
The Chicago Journal says, Ellis, of the
Chicago course, has secured Steeprock and
Gildersleeve to close up the fall races in
this city, for purse of $500. Steeprock,
next to Santa Anna, as runner, is said to
distance all competitors.
The highest price at which the best Ameri-
can flour has been sold in London this year,
was 54s. Every nearly slS,) which is about
100 per cent. above what it was last year
At the last accounts it was about 26s.
a young married lady named Lord, in
coming out of the Stark Mills, at Manches-
ter, n. H., on Friday, was run over by the
cars and killed. She belonged TO New
FORK, and was on a visit to friends in Man
chester.
One Campbella nd his son, were drowned
in the Passaic, at Paterson-the former, at
tempting to take the life of the latter, chased
him into tie river, which he tried to ford,
and both, being unable to swim, were
drowned
The Count de Paris, the heir apparent to
the throne of he French, was mae wears old
August l4th last. Louis Philippe VIII be
seventy-four years old ON the 9th October, II
he Is not shot before then.
The Maryland Light Artillery, under com
mand Of Capt. Tilghman, sailed from Baitl-