Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-06-24

Languages.
From the Mobile paper we learn that the
steamboa, II. Kenny, Capt. Miller, explod-
ed on the Tonbigbee river last Sunday; and
thirty Of the passengers and crew were eth
err killed or missing, twelve badly manned,
and two severely scaIded. The boat sunk
soon after the explosion. The wounded
were conveyed to the Marine Hospital,
where the best medical advice was provi-
ded.
/ A man was killed on the Utica and Sche-
nectady Railroad on Thursday. 1t seems
that he was crossing the track in buggy,
Just ahead Of the train, when the engine
struck the wagon, throwing the man con-
siderable distance, and causing injnries of
which he died in a short time.
The negro Boy Briscoe, barber of the
steamer Magnolia, who was. committed to
prison in Natchez, Miss, a short time since
on the charge Of numbering a German girl,
passenger, has been discharged, the grand
jury, from the evidence before them, being
unable to find a true bill.
The Albany Evening Journal, Of the Cd
inst. :, says that James c. Null, the young
man who was shot and stabbed on Saturday
last; by Kelly, Of Dubuque, died this morn
ing about 10 O'Clock. In spite of the un-
ceasing efforts of our most sklful surgeons,
modification ensued from the wound. The
unfortunate man, by whose hand the
fatal wounds were inflicted, remains per-
fectly Indifferent TO the consequences of his
act.
The Cholera has retreated 10 Its caves in
Asia, seeing that Revolution was likely %
do its work throughout Europe. On this
side of the Atlantic, war has yielded in its
turn to robbery, murder, mad dogs, and pol
iiics. The signs Of the times are porten-
tous. --Reveille.
The Albany Atlas gives the names of
Ihirty-fve Loco Foco papers in the State
of New York, which do not support the
Baltimore nominations for the Presidency.
A great many Canal Boats are already
laid up at Rochester and Buffalo, because
there is not freight enough for the tonnage;
but they anticipate very busy fall.
The European Times, in speaking of the
American loan, says,-s'Amidst the gener-
al wreck Of funded property on the contin-
ent, and the unfathomable uncertainty which
hangs over the future, we cannot but con-
slider that American investments must have
Just now an increased value and stability in
the opinion of capitalists. The satisfactory
intelligence brought by late mail, that the
new constitution, providing for a rateable
charge upon the tax payers, in order to pay
off their long rrpuliated debts, has no, been
lost upon The English press, rs our Ameri-
can brethren wished il should not be.
IL will be perceived from the Congression-
al reports, that Senator CAss has resigned
his seat in the Senate.
Never since our remembrance has the ar
ticlc of sugar been so cheap as at the pres
ent time. No satisfactory reason can be
given by us for the diminution, unless it is
the great risk in sending the article abroad,
owing To the unsettled condition Of affairs
in Europe.
The Baltimoreans have struck n coal
mine, so they think, IN digging well at the
corner of Union and Ross streets. The
Sun of that city INDUCES in Utopan visions
of,he prospective greatness of Baltimore, &
the monopoly of the coal trade, the down
fall Of Philadelphia, Sc, on the strength of
these few worthless pieces Of coal.
\ The New York Sun tells remarkable
story ofthe arrival at that port of S2i 100000
10 specie, guilders, brought by some IS
German emigrants who arrived at that port
on Saturday last in the Swedish barque
Scandal from Amsterdam. Mirabile dic,u.
I Western coal lands seem 10 he looking up.
II is said that company of eastern capital
it, are negotiating for the purchase of the
coal lands on the Big Muddy river, in llli-
nois, and Tor the supply Of depot by a
raibNad OF some twelve. niles in length,
near theHand tower on tho Mississippi.
The Chicago Journal says, that the COM
hination has gone to smash.-We had the
America, Sultana, and Superior in port yes
terday, all upon their own hook. Prices
are reduced aud impositionS femedied.
Several letters in the Cologne Gazette are
filed with apprehensions of an approach
ing conflict with Russia. The declaration
.oiIhe Viceroy of Poland, Prince Paskewiteh,
to the polish noblemen is indeed fraughl