Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-05-11

THE Com! TuE GoLD No gold from Cali
fornia vet, or scarcely any Norlh mentioning -
Some three millions OF coin sent forward To The
Pacific; a few tens of thousands returned in native
dust The American people are beginning to he
impatient at tie slowness with which the golden
'lnd which fills the upper halt of the great hour
alass-.he Western contineat-rnns through the
neck of the lshmus. They won,l jostle the tardy
instrument; and in their extreme impotence would
upset II altogether!
But if California sends us rothing the eastern
continent is filing our Golfers. The last steamship
brought us 100000. more than the aggregate OF
I'll tie receipts from the mines of the Pacific This
il the price of our agricultural exports. 1t Iells
where the true Dorado s-the real gold mines Of
America In the golden products oil the dairy, in
The yellow conn the whsat that bends lis ears to
listen pitilully to the voice OF famine on distant
horcs, the root crop (War"nted twenty carrots
fncl aud in the beeves that Ilteu on the rich pas
,ures OF our river sides THIS is the true Sacra
lntnto. and it the pre-. eut stock companies and as
,ocatlons would but direct here the energies that
they propose 10 hazard on distant enterprise they
would find that with patience, the soil OF our val
eys would WELD as full per Ceutage of wealth as
the ores which washed from the giiGed chain OF Ne
ada, is gathered IN the sparkling sands at lis base
-lAIb Atlas.
STATISTICS or MourALIrY.-Nearly sixteen
thousand persons (lj9l9) died in New YORK City
in lSlS according To the report of the Inspector of
,nat city, Just published Comparing the total
number OF deaths nom disease with the estimated
population of tie city-l5u, uUu-the annual per
- rcntage is under > IL The adults amounted to
1920, and the children SS2q. a table which &C.
companies tie report gives the months most uu>
fortunate to health, from which appears that the
'proportionae mortality betAeCn adults and chill
Wren in the winter months * about cqual--lu the
summer months ii is twice as great against chill.
Gren. August IS the most fatal month about one
hundred more deaths being recorded in that month
than in July, the next most unayorabIe monIh.--
February, March and January are the winter months
in which the greatest number OF deaths occur-i
The two most fatal malddeS according To the IA.
bes were consumption ard convulsions The
deaths by the first were 1865 by conyulSioas
1893. Dysen,ary carried off 739, the chief NOR
tally being il July and August, and typhus fever
carried of 30 and small pox 5i4 The tables
bear out the statement that in the first twenty OF
the last iortythree years, scarlet fever was nearly
extinct in New York, while measles and small pex
were OF rare occurrences whereas in the last twenty
three years all these diseases have prevailed to an
extent and IN a mode which characterize epidem.
les Buff Express.
THE NATIONAL ERA-Thc publishers Of this
sterling paper propose to commence toe issue OF
daily on the first oil December In point o; abli
w tact and elevation OF character, (says the Boston
Republican, the Era need lear comparison with
no paper in the Union and rom the Sc NJ of govern
ment il exers a wide ami heNJhlul influence. We
hope it will receive ample encouragement in its
new enierp prise
81 wonder what makes my eyes so weak" said
loafer to gentenn. Way, they are in weak