Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-06-03

ing, and tore one anOfher'5 tatters OH. we
laughed at this--still many broil has ia
ken place between nations, from fully as
ridiculous a cause.--Knickerboeker.
The Chicago Journal says, the Illinois
and Michigan Canal was opened for regu-
lar business on the 9Th of May, and the tolls
at this end Of the line for the first five days
thereafter, amounted to 81 ,4a6 40.
The Courier and Eng, says, we under
stand that on Sunday morning one of the
engines on the Harlem Railroad ran off the
track, near White Plains, and against the
telegraph pole, at the same time breaking
the wire which remained on the engine
which connected with the cars. At the
same time a flash of lightning was conduc-
ted to the cars, giving the passengers a
severe shock. No injury was done, how
ever, except breaking the engine and slight
ly hurting the engineer and fireman.
The Galena Gazette says: About one
thousand men have been sent of from this
place to fight the Mexicans; while at home,
a few lawless men come into the centre of
the city, and liberate prisoner arrested for
murder from the public custody, and the
Mayor of the city directly forbids The more
nent of those who volunteered for the pro-
lection of The Lapsi Out upon all such
nincompoopery.
On hearing of the French Revolution
Donna Maria, Qeeen of Portugal, sent off
to the English Fleet, 81 heavy cases Of
jewelry, plate, money, and other valuables.
The venerable Ashbel Green, Chaplain
to the first Congress, died at Philadelphia
on the morning of the 10th. Bev. DIR. EN-
DRY, President Of Dickinson college, died in
Baltimore on the evening of the same
day, of disease of the lungs.
Of the new lake Boat, Empire State, the
says, the tonnage Of this boat is
100 tons, and nearly as large as an ocean
steamer, while her draught of water is such
as to pass the St. Clair Flats without diff
Guilty. She will accommodate 1900 passen-
gers, 400 cabin and 500 steerage.
England becomes the refuge of all the de-
throned Monarchs, discarded Princes, and
fugitive Ministers of Europe. Prince Met
ternich, ofAustria, with his wife and daugh-
ter, arrived in London on the Goth of April.
The passage oyerthe Niagara River, sus-
pended on single wire, is getting to be a
large business. The charge for the trip is
81, and it is said that the receipts of the
have been nearly 10 per cent on the
expenditure Already.
DR.. V. Mott, jr.; whose conduct at Pal
ermo, in the Sicilan Revolution, we have
already recorded, has been appointed Sur
geon-n-Chiof to the army, with The rank
Of Major, as well rs Director and inspec-
tor-General of the hospitals, with salary
of 81 ,5o0per year.
Letters from Cuba state tina, there has not
been drop of rain on the north side of that
Island for four months. The sugar cane
crop was coming on badly, and the young
rattoons for the next crop were looking
very sickly.
A London letter TO the New York Lit
erary World. states that Guizot aud his
family are now in London, actually in a
state of destitution.
Monthly steam communication is now es-
tablished between New York and Bermuda,
by means of the English packets.
The boundary of Wisconsin on the North
west, is the river St. Louis, to the first rap
IDS, thence in a due South line To the II.
Croix, aud the St. Croix to the Mississippi
river.
The Boston Journal chronicles the theft
of package containing $4,000 in small
bills of the Commercial Bank, Providence,
r. l., which was stolen on Tuesday after
noon during the passage of the steamboat
Bedford Duriee from Providence to Bristol.
The New York Express says, that the
business on the Canals meets with serious
detriment for the want of sufficient water
Commissioner TRIsr is about TO prepare
an address to the people of the Union, upon
his course in relation to the treaty. His
disclosures will he rich.
The news from Germany is much of the
same character as it was last week. Il j:
far from encouraging. The violent but par
tial agitatic produced by the first shock Of
the revolu,.on has subsidized into gener,l
iferment, which is loosing the foundation Of
social order, and carrying away, one by one
the pillars which supper, the political fab
rio. Republicanism raises It's head here and