Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-07-01

which met last night in Faneul Hall, to res
pond with a loud and heartfelt acclaim to
the nomination of Taylor and Fillmore.
The Baltimore Sun reiferates the state
ment thar General Scott he Hero of Cerro
Gordo is TO be tried on charges preferred
by Gen. Pillow.
Isaac Toucey has been appointed by the
President, Attorney General, in place of
Mr.. Clifford, gone to Mexico.
On the 10th instant, the Senate ratified
the Treaty with New Grenada. The right
of way across the Isthmus Of Panama is Sc
cured.
Mr.. Webster has returned to Washing
ton, after an absence Of nearly two months.
children.
Thomas Ewing, the old salt boiler, is
stumping it in Ohio for :. Old Jack" He
spoke three quarters of an hour at the Mass
Convention 10 respond to the nominations,
~ tAoi, ~ tHut III q iHbSb tnNlNifO
manner. Ohio is all right.
A cake of native silver, dug from the
works of the Lake Superior company he'd
of Eagle river, has just been assayed at the
U. s. Mint, with the following result:
Weights lbs 10 oz avordupos.
Assay-95 per cent silver, 5 per ct earth
~ matter.
There is but one Wing paper in New
England, (he Boston Courier,) that rafu-
SEES to run up the Taylor and Fillmore flag.
The Chicago Journal says:--ss Mr.. Ben
ton, in advocating the grant of land TO con-
struet the Cairo Railroad to this city before
the Senate, said, +" the canal now completed
between the waters of Lake Michigan and
those emptying into the Mississippi, has
converted the whole Union east of the Mis-
sislppi, including part Of the British pos
sessions, into an Island. The u. States
are now an Island, sir, we live, on great
island. The canal making it so had accom-
plished great results, and this work also
promised great results. He should, there
fore, 90 cheerfully for this BILL"
telegraphic despatch, received at Liv-
erpool just before the sailing of the Acadia,
says that the vote Of Punishment of the Roy
al family of France, passed the National
Assembly by vote of $40 to 6S.
The National Intelligencer says" We
learn with regret, that Gen. Scott is serious
ly i'll at Frederick
Hon. Abbott Lawrence is said to have
given to Harvard University another sum
OF $4,000 for the use of the Scientific
School, which bears his name.
The Galena Gazette says:-ss The Whig
Convention, composed of delegates from
the counties of Stephenson, Carroll, White
sides and 10 Davess, which met at Mount
Carroll last Saturday, nominated as the
Wing candidate for Senator in the district
composed of the above counties, Martin P.
Sweet, Esq, of Stephenson county
Efforts are making at New Orleans to
receive aud accommodate the sick soldiers
of the army upon their return from Mexi-
CO, about $500 being now in the hospitals.
During recent fre>het, the Mississippi
River made g bolt" through its banks at
Racceurci, where there was considerable
turn, and took a straight course for the
nearest point Of the stream, cutting off TWEEN
ty-eight miles in the length of the stream.
The largest class of steamboats, pass through
up and down, without any difficulty. 1t is
about four hundred feet wide, and the banks
constantly caving in.
The Galena Gazette says" The Loco
foco papers charge Gen. Taylor with being
in favor of extending Slavery. They not
only have no evidence of this, but they
know it to be false. He has pledged him
self TO leave all national questions with
Congress; while Gen. CaSs is pledged to
veto any bill to secure Free labor upon Free
soils