Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-07-27

CLEAR AS MUD.-The act of Congress ex.
tends the franking privilege TO all persons who
'have been or may be President of the United
States" Now since, under our republican IN
situations, it may be said of every man. lie may
be President of the United States" is he no,
therefore, entitled to the ranking privilege! To
this effect argues the Boston Advertiser.
VoTE IN PALFREY's DisTRIcT.-At the third
trial to elect congressman in this district, Pal
FREY, (Frce Soil.) had 3 $3.50 votes; Thompson,
(Whig,) 1910; Robinson, Dcm.) 1925, and
there were scattering votes. Pafrcy lacks
373 votes OF majority.
HOTEL AT ST.. PAUL.--It is understood that
on the lst of July fine hotel, called the Rice
House" was to be opened at st. Paul, Mime
sofa. 1t is calculated to accommodate 70 or 50
persons.
The Evening Journal says that Ex-President
Van Buren, is at present engaged in supernten-
ding the enlargement of his residence at Linden
waId. The additions are to be spacious and ell
egant.
Senator Cooper, Of Pennsylvania, in a letter
to Mr. Gddings, intimates disposition to be any
thing but an Administration senator.
The st. Lonis Revee says; that the whole
number of wagons on the routes across the
PLANES to California, evil make a train 80 miles
in length" The same paper estimates the NUM-
Der of men now on their way to California, by
the route, at $4,000.
From the 25th to the last of June, says the
St Louis Union, the deaths have been on an av-
erage of 1870 per day, and then says: Taking
this estimate and the actual number reported
Il, -
thousand one hundred and thirty-sx deaths in
st. Louis during the months of May and June. ="
MARINE Academia Young man named
Field, of Waukegan, was lost overheard from
the T.. p. Handy' while coming into port sat
urday evening about two miles ont. The wind
was blowing gale at the time. and all efforts to
rescue him were unayaiGng. lie was engaged
in clearing away the lib, when a heavy sea was
shipped, which swept him into the lake.
A new application of steam has been made in
Paris, which is explained as follows: water bols
and gives otisteam at 100 degrees, (Freuch SCALE
Heat the boiler to 700 degrees, and the same
quantity of water will give off steam with cxpan-
sve power perhaps fifty times as great. The
heat should be kept at a point just below that
at which water takes the spherical state. and
gives off no steam at all. A French mechanic
has made small boiler, which under the great
heat above mentioned runs, powerful machn-
cry. The boiler and engine occupy about one
twentieth part of the space usually occupied by
a common boiler of the same power.
A WHoPPER.-The National Partisan news
paper, contains the following laconic and awful
obituary notice;
New Orleans, in the United States, has been
'ubmurged and abandoned.
CLOSING THE PUBLIC ScHooLs.--The authori-
les of Detroit have closed the public schools in
hat city four weeks, on account of the preva-
ence of the cholera.
The entire consumption of wheat in the Brit |
sh Empire is about 100000 of quarters in a
rear.
The public bebt of France is rapidly increas-
ne. 1t is already fifteen hundred millions
That of England is four thousand millions of
dollars,
The only son of Horace Greeley, Esq, died of
he prevailing epidemic, in the city of New
York, few days since.
ARRIVAL OF ExILEs.-Four.een French exiles
rom the island of Martinique, arrived at Louis
lille one day last week They are formed into
everal families, and design settling down in the
Of Louisville.