Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-07-13

ELECTIoNEEIHNG,-T following good
hit at the practice of candidates for office
playing the agreeable to the families of
those they visit when or electioneoring tours
is from the Vicksburg Wing: "A few of the
candidates for district attorney met at the
house of planter in Kinds county not long
since. Crabb nursed three of the children
and did the agreeable to one OF the grown
girls and the old lady at the same time,
while Hooker talked in an agonzing, allec
tonate manner TO the sovereign. Buck in the
meantime, was making himself useful by
helping one Of the small boys to get his dog
over the fence. Duflield, it is said, twisted
the cats tail, with perseverance which
would have done credit TO the bad boy in
the primer, and pleased the baby so prodi
Cious!v that it came very near going off in
spasm of laughter, when all the Candidates
rashed to its rescue and made such hela-
balo with their kind exertlons that sitting
| hen under the house was scarf oil her nest,
has never returned from that day 10 this. AT
! latest accounts ten of the eggs were spoiled.
the Old lady was as "hufy as wet hem
and the sovereign" had determined not to
cast his vote for district attorney"
SrAruRE.-M. Quclelet gives the medi.
um height of the French as feet inches.
The English average is said TO be 5 feet,
| II inches.-Medic Times.
SUPERLATIvE UNcoNCERN-Sc Scotch cool
ness.-The tranquility and phIegm of the
Scotch in the most extraordinary circum-
, stances, bring to mind" says CoIman, in
| his random Records, "lhe incredible tale
| of the Scotchman's tumble from one Of the
| loftest houses in TIE old town Edinburgh.
| He slipped, says the legend, of the roof OF
a habilation sixteen stories high; and when
| midway in his descent through the air, he
arrived at lodger looking out at a window
Of the eighth floor, to whom(as he was an
acquaintance he observed, en- PEASANT, Eth.
Sandy, man, sic ia as shall han
The UGLINEss OF OUR FoRERUNNERs.
Cicero relates that the uglest and most
stupid slaves in Rome came from England!
| Moreover, he urges his friend Aticus mot
to buy slaves from Britain, on account OF
| their stupidity and their inapttude to learn
music and other accomplishments" Caesar
also, describes the Britons generally as a
nation Of very barharoas manners. Most
of the people Of the Interior" lie says,
"never see corn, but live upon milk and flesh
] and are clothed with skins. - London
Dispatch.
A STEAMBOAT RAcE.-IHs RoH Road
! Crack Bout Gem.-The Steamer Empire
: State came in sight of the Atlantic about 80
miles East of Detroit, bound up, and about
three miles ahead of us, when we first saw
her, and the Empire State was not in any
trim for running, as she had 200 tons oil
coal on board, and 500 passengers. The
Atlantic WAS entirely highland in good trim
for race as they always are when they
leave Buffalo, so as to take the advantage
of the upper lake boats, wien they are LOADED
down, but this Time she catched the wrong
boat. The Empire State beat her into
Detroit ten minutes We leave the public tc
Judge whether the atlantic was beat bad OF
not. BY A PAsSENGENGER ON BOARD
Friday, July 9Th,
Old Genesee is out again in all its G ory
and never exhibited more f1atterIng pros
pect for an abundat harvest OF every agricul
tural production than at present. There vii
be an extraordinary crop OF Grass anu as &c
Wheat, the only fear is thai there will be
an overgrowth of Straw. All other crops
look remarkably WE'LL and such we learn
is the case all over the Country, East, West
North and Soulh.-Baf0Ciu Times
! ~ The St Louis ReveIIc, neutral
paper though the editors voted for Taylor
gets off the following democratic sentiment:
THAT the unfettered energies of the citizen
regulated by the natural laws Of trade only
will accomplish more for the advancement
! Of society, and the prosperity of every de-
partment of business, than all the wisdom oI
every legislative body under the sun combi-
ned is a maxim in which we are devOut be-
levers and we look forward to the era OF
! coming freedom with hope and confidence.
The London Times expresses the appre-
! hension that all the better class of small far
/ mers in Ireland are about emigrating TO This
country, leaving behind only the impover-
ished land owners and the pauper lnhabi-
tants of the various work houses.