Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-08-03


AMERICAN INsTITUTE.-At the last fair of
the American Institute. the managers awar-
ded 50 gold medals, 298 silver medals. 81 sill
yer cups, $40 diplomas, SI2O so in money.
premiums to apprentices, and 80 volumes OF
agricultural books.
FEARFUL MORTALITY on SHIPBoARD.-
/ The packet-ship Guy Mannering, Capt. Ed
wards. recently arrived at New York from
Liverpool, which port she left with 779 steer
age. and six cabin passengers. Thirtyfive
died with the cholera during the passage.
PASAsiA RAILRoAD.-The books for this
noble enterprise, we're lately opened in New
Y ork. and .O0O 0OO, the amount needed. was
at once taken up. The road will be forty six
miles long. and connect the Atlantic and Pa
cific oceans.
New 1oRK PosT OFFICE.--On the 2Gth
of May, over "a. 900 city letters were assorted.
delivered to their owners in New York. and
more than the same number sent to other
parts the country: nearly so, 900 letters de-
livered in one day!
Between April , and July
i, over Ice 900 passengers arrived in New
York; or an everage of more than 900 each
day, at single port
INLAND NAVIGATION IN OHro-The en-
tire length OF the various canals and slack
water navigation Improvements in Ohio. made
since 1925. is So miles. at cost of 5 is, $50
999. OF railroads, there are now in Ohio pa
miles completed, and 463 in progress.
PANORAMA OF THE MIssIssIPPI.-A new
panorama Of the Mississippi has been painted
by n Mr.. Lewis, of CINCINNATI, extending TO
the falls of st. Anthony. 1t covers $4,000
feet of canvas, and has occupied the artists
twelve months, at a cost of $4,000.
EXPENSIVE RENr.-Gen. Persifer Smith,
who went as governor of California. had a
small frame house offered him at San Fran
cisco at the annual rent of Sl8. 900. His wife
has returned to the Atlantic states.
OVERLAND EMIGRATION No less than
three thousand three hundred and tjffy-sir wag
Ons bad been registered at fort Kearney, be-
longing to CALIFORNIA emigrants. The aver
age number of men to a team is four, making
thirteen thousand four hundred and tlcentv-eight
and much greater crowd is yet anticipated.
DAVID B. OGDES a distinguished member
of the New York Bar died at Staten Island
on Sunday.
There are living $50 British officers who
were at the battle CT w aterioo.
Mr.. Bakewell's Copying Telegraph writes
four hundred letters minute.
We regret to learn that Thurlow Weed,
Of the Albany Evening Journal, has been Sc
vereiy Ill from attack of the cholera.
YELLOW FEVER AT HAvASA-Late ac-
counts from Havana represent the yellow fe-
yer as raging violently there. The deaths a
mount to 40per cent. There was no Cholera.
Capt. Elnathan Perry, 90 years of age, died
at Rush, Monroe county, New York. on the
18th Of June. He was a venerable relict of
:he revolutionary era, having entered the ar
my at fifteen, and fought at Bennington, Sar-
atoga, Monmouth, Eutaw, Yorktown, and on
many other fields OF the same struggle.
THAHKsGivING.-The Governor of New
Hampshire has appointed Thursday, the 5,
OF November to be observed as day Of thanks
giving in that state.
CAPITAL PUSIsHMENT.-TheN New Hamp-
shire Legislature has so changed the law in
flctiDg the punishment ofdeath, that the pris-
oner who Is convicted ola capital offence shall
not be executed until year after he is con-
VIcted; and then his punishment may be COM
rnuted by the Governor and Council.
An exchange paper says, Mr.. Duncan. who |
has plantation the Mississippi, has lost / /
negroes by cholera. His other sscattIe" were !
ia usual health.
Plaster Of Paris.-Professor J. p. Kirkland /
Of Cleveland, considers Plaster of Paris far /
more efficient and valuable than lime, as /
agent.
What is that which. if a man has, he would |
not wish to Ioose1 Ifhe has not. he would |
not wish to havel And which. when he has 4
gained he has it no longer7 Dye CUB it up 1
\ Lawsuit
At the list dates. tilc cholera had almost
entirely disappeared at Independence.