Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-03-25
Summary of News.

t tation to visit that city. Great preparations
t were making to receive him.
The Government Loan of five millions Of
dollars has all been taken in New York.
The bids on the occasion amounted to sew
enteen millions Of dollars.
The Rothschilds, it is said, are about to
establish ii New York house bearing their
own name, their business there having be-
come so important that one Of the family Of
fnanciers is to come over and manage it,
instead of its being transacted by an agent
as heretofore.
The recruiting officer at Buffalo has re-
ceived orders to enlist no more men. The
recruiting officer at Ottawa also refuses to
receive any more.
Two members Oft the Campbellite church
in Brooke county, Va, have been excom-
municated because they belong to the order
of the Sons of Temperance.
The Hon. Edward Everett is to deliver
the eulogy upon Mr.. Adams before the Leg
islature of Massachusetts,.
We understand that the grandfather of
the Hon. John Quincy Adams had four par
alytic attacks, similar 10 that which fell upon
the Hon. member on Monday, after he was
over eighty years Of age; but affective as
they were, he survived them all, and died
at last of old age.
An ice boat recently made mile on the
Hudson river at Albany, in one minute and
twelve seconds. So says the Knicker-
booker
Miss Frederick Hershel, sister of the great
astronomer, has died suddenly at Hanover,
aged nney-eight.
On the 10th ult., in the city of Raleigh,
the Hon. Joseph J. Daniel, one of the
Judges of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina, departed this life, whilst in the
midst of his Judicial Iahors.
The new steamer SuItana left Cairo on
Monday for New Orleans, with about two
thousand tons of freight--so say the officers
Of the Lewis +. Linn, on which boat part
of her cargo was freighted down from this
CITY, This is the largest cargo ever carried
down the Mississippi on a single boat, says
the St. Louis Republican.
/ Twenty-Five cent silver coins, so admira-
bly, counterfeited that the eye cannot detect
them, are in circulation. The ring Is false,
and the practiced ear may detect the coun-
leriet readily by the sound
# is stated from official documents, that
there are but $1,000 shareholders in Ken
lucky, in population of 275,oO0 whites
over twenty-one years old.
Somebody has been hoaxing the Boston
ians by palming off upon them barrels of
soft SOAP for picked salmon and mackerel
A physician of Sacket's Harbor, New
York, named Samuel Guthrie, claims the
honor of being the original discoverer Of
choroform.
During the last year the county of Erie.
n. Y, relieved and supported 4,S0l pau
pers, and temporarily relieved S,292. The
expense was $i7,145.
Subscriptions are now being taken up in
the eastern cities and towns, for the relief
of the suffering Observation-Disclosures.
The citizens of Wilmington, Del, con-
template the establishment of High School
in that city.
A movement is afoot in New Orleans to
unite the three municipalities.
The amount of capital invested in COM
panies, in Lawrence, Mass, is 100000
dollars.
The small pox is prevailing to consid-
cradle extent at Cincinnati.
A humpback whale was seen off Charles
ton bar last week.
E5-JANEs +. CHAPMAN is elected preSi-
dent ofthe corporation Of Potosi, over HEN-
ny L. Massey and CYRus X. LoRo is ell
ectcd Clerk over MIR. BfDDLEcow. In Platt-
VILE, Gao. w. LAKIN is elected president.
: DS-There was pleasant Cotillion Party
: at BARNErr's on Thursday evening. Mu-
sic by Herr Gabriel Won BalIee and the b.,
Jim.
For he Hfsconsia Herald.
Can any good thing come out of NaEa-
Teths
: Mr.. Error lit is probably known by