Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1848-01-21
GLERKINGS.

[LFThe value Of property in Great
Britain is $50 100000, 600. and if equally d.
vidad would give each family of five, $1,000
The value of property in the United States,
is S6,O0O,0O0 600, and equally divided, would
give every five persons SI,0CO.
[[POnc hundred Germans on the
New York and Erie railroad, near Big Eddy
beat their foreman, stole several hundred
dollars, and destroyed a house by fire last
week. Sixty were arrested and about twenty
lodged in Jail.
John Derby of Ware, Mass. &,
advertised for a wife, and received IS aplica-
tons.
TRIBUTE TO THE ESGLIsH LANGUAGE
At the New England Society celebration in
New ork, tn the course Of the Grafton, Mr.
Hall said:-
Who that is here wonld not rather have
first spoken its accents than, as DIR. johnson
eX presses 1t, to have been trained to .'hab-
Dtc Frencni' Who would change it for
the soft voice Of Italy or the sonOrous dla-
lect Of Spain ! 1t is the language OF Shaks-
peare and Milton; it IS the language of the
Pilgrims and having sounded alarms in the
cause Of freedom through the tongues Of
| Burke and Chatham, it has come TO dis
charge the same office in the voices of
Clay and Webster. Loud applause 1t
|
spread out over hilltop and valley, nor will il
cease to vibrate till Liberty shall cease to have
an abode upon the earth. (Applause.)
L-EA la-ge body of Carbonate of
Zinc, (calumne,) has been discovered by DIR.
VIM. 3. Fahnestock, near the lead mine of
Mr. Shenk, in Lancaster Co., Pa. The ore,
which had been pronounced lime, has been
ascertained to contain 90 per cent. Of zinc.
QPIhe poPu alton Of New Iork
IS now estimated at nearly half million
Philadelphia and suburbs, 35J, 600. Cilc:n-
natl 100000. New Orleans, $4,000. BuI-
faIo, $4,000.
&C. The Philadelphia News stat cs,
authorlgatively, that Mr., Adams is not in ia
vor Of the occupation of Mexico, but thinks
that she has offered Us what we ought to be
content with and what we ought to take.
[LPA number of genteel looking
scamps it is said, now ride in The omnibuses
in New ork, and live by picking the ladies'
pockets.
CLPThe spotted fever recently
swept out OF the town OF Kalamazoo, in Mich.
igan, ii persons, i'll the space Of eleven days
Almost as bad as the plague.
The Montgomery county (Ohio)
Democrats recently met, and 'deplored the
folly aud wickeduess Of man, whence wars o.
T3Iuatc.3 \ more severe bacA-huldod hit
Mr.. Polk never got
The Queens last speech was tele-
graphed from London to different parts Of the
kingdom over 1900 miles at the same mo
mcut.
CAPT. PELTz.-The conduct Of this
officer in decoying the friendly Pawnecs into
Fort Mann and then falling upon them uu-
armed, deserves the most condign punish
ment.
We learn that Mr.. Petit, the member of
Congress from Indiana, recently fell and
broke his leg.
The question was recently started
in one of our courts whether marriage con
tracts entered into on Sunday were valid. The
Judge and counsel all agreed, however that
they would be valid. as coming under the
head OF works Of necessity or charity. -
Boston Journal.
The Washington correspondent of
the Albany Argus writes, that Mr.. Adams
viii sustain the Administration in its views
Of territorial indemnity from Mexico.
Indigo has been superseded in the
useful arts Mr. Rydui Of BOras, near Got
tenberg IN Germany, has discovered a sub
stance that dyes blue, a. a price one-siXlh of
that Of indigo, and that gives a color which
no solvent or motieut cam affect.
Inc W ashLngtOn Union talks about
adopting measures for relieving the treas
Ury. The luuctlouaries al Washington are
the very fellows TO do thar. They viii relieve
the treasury just Is f1orpads relieve mems
OcAets.-Loulsri.le Journal.
Mr.. CLAY. in a letter to a gentle
man 10 Virginia, expresses his satisfaction
that Mr.. Gallatin should take the ground
which he took respecting Mexican war. and
sfsA gv d -irar- NF-
he charged with design upon the Presidea-