Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-05-18

Bishop Doane, of New Jersey,
has failed for $3.50, 900, and is said to be able
to pay only a trifing portion of his vast liza
bllitIes. Most of this money is said to have
been spent IN building churches and chapels.
The fortune of Mrs. Doane, formerly Mrs.
Perkins of Boston, is not involved in this
crash. Her income is said to be 81 ?, 900 per
annum.
DECIDEDLY TEMPERATE.-We learn from
the Easton (Md.i Star, that the citizens of
1F!ghman's Island, following the example in
Bayside, have resolved to resist any attempt
to Introduce rumselling on the island, and
pledge themselves not topurchase any article
of merchandise from those dealing in intoxi-
eating drinks, weak or strong.-Good.
Specie is flowing into New Y ork from the
West In considerable amounts. The receipts
are not less than half million per week. A
large proportion of this specie is in foreign
coin. including considerable silver.
| LocoFoco ToorHAcHE.-The Locofoco pa
pers say that Gen. Taylor will be doing them
service if he will turn out of Office every
mothers son of them, but growl terribly when
it is done. 1t aches badly, but they hate to
have it pulled. Thrust come out boys, so
| hold your ja1g.-.3lbany Ere. Jour.
| Yrrof,,fc Ekection.-The Richmond Enqui-
rer claims the election of IL Democrats and l
Wing to Congress. with two districts to hear
from. Flournoy, (,ehig) has been beaten by
only votes,
/ Another despatch from Baltimore, of May
/ End. saws Virginia delegation to Congress IA
democrats to l whig! The wings gain
| member of the Legislature in Wood and Ritch-
/ lie counties and Senator in the Wood dis
] triet-
| WASHINGTON, April %, I649.
The Discovery IF Spurious Coin.-A Mr.
I Brown. one of the n. Y. Police, is in this city
on some business respecting the manufac ture
of large quantities of spurious coin, and err
porting the same to California for currency.
The Government Jelcehy.-Jim Webb was
committed to prison to-day, on an affidavit of
George Wilkes, of the Police Gazette, charg-
ed with being concerned in the robbery of the
government jewels.
The managers of the late grand ball, in hon
or of the Inauguration of Gen. Taylor, have d.
vided -, 500 of the proceeds between the Cath
Ole and Protestant sylums of this city.
The death of Mrs. Maria Smith, wife of the
Hon. Truman Smith, L. S. Senator of Con-,
is announced in the Philadelphia papers, as
Charles Treichel, Esq, near that city. Mrs.
5. had been long i'll of pulmonary affection.
We learn from the Chicago Democrat of the
26th, that the schooner John Lille, Captain
Leaho, was capsized during a recent heavy
gale between the Great Traverse and the n.
Manitou, and all on board are supposed to have
persisted. Eight dead bodies are reported to
I have been found, out Of twelve or fifteen per-
sons on board.
pfsitors tothe West Point .Rcademy.-The
President has appointed the following Visit
ors to West Point Academy. Wis:
Hon. John S. Abbot. of Maine; Hon. Ho.
race Manu. Of Mas; Capt. Daniel TYLER, of
CT; Jerome Fuller. Esq, of n. Y; John L..
Cow, Esq, of Pa; Capt. John FL. Latrobe,
of Nd; Capt. Patrick M. Henry, of n. C. !;
Gen. Duncan l.. Clinch. of Ga; Col. r. w.
Burnett, of Ohio; Gen J. McCaleb Wiley,
of Alabama; Henry J. Ballard, Esq. of La.
Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Miss; Col. VIM.
Stocton, of Florida DR.. Fl. Houghton, of l.
oWa; Gen. Rufus King of Wisconsin.
Mr.. s. Cummings has left at our Office
piece of native copper. weighing 3 pounds,
which was found on the farm of Baily Web
ster, IN the town of Vernon in this county,
Other specimens, Were fornd in digging well
on the same farm. The copper is very pure,
and we should iudg would not lose more than
one per cont, in smelting.-W aukesha Dem.
Ne,c Grenada.-Advices from Santa Mar
4 tina of the 18th, state that Gen. Lopez has been
elected President of New Granada. Savanil-
la had been made port of entry.
I The New Orleans Delta publishes a letter
dated Acapulco, Mexico, March 8, which says
that al accounts from San Francisco concur
that thousands of persons in the vicinity of
no Dla have no nfe
from cold and hunger.
A young man in Weston, Missouri. by the
name of Dertz, recently killed himself by
drinking brandy a wager. He swallowed
pint, fell back, and died.
Returned CdkforniGns.-Geo. G.. Rice, w.
B. Rice, VIM. Whitman, James Freeman and
Thomas Ennor. have returned after going from
this place-California bound-from St. Jos.
Mo. Mr.. G. c. Rice had a severe attack of
cholera at St. Joseph, which has reduced him
from the athletic man he was When he left
Mr.. j. Freeman has also been sick, but not
from cholera, and is much debilitated this
was the cause of their returning. We learn
from Mr.. Rice that there is not less than g.
600 teams in and about ST. Josephs, double
that number at independence, and about 1000
at " eston, all on their way to the gold region,
and that the average number of persons with
each team was at least three. This would
make total of 10000 going to California by
the northern route, and when he left, were
still coming as thick as ever.
But few spoke of returning. A good deal
of mixed sickness prevailed among the emf
grants-the cholera and small pox among it.
This IS rather dreary prospect to start from
the settlements for the ocean plains.-Galena
JIfefsoniGn.
ST. PAUL, MINSEsoTA.-The tide of emigration