Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1850-03-01

LOWER LAKE-The Steamer Arrow left De-
troit yesterday morning with freight and passen-
gers for Sandusky and Cleveland.
The ice in Sandusky bay is rapidly going out.
AZ Cleveland, on the Goth inst the ice had nearly
all disappeared. The bay and river at Toledo
were clear.
EsGLIsH EMIGRATION TO CALFoRNfA.-A
London correspondent of the Philadelphia North
American says: The ship John Calvin recently
left the Thames, bound to San Francisco. She
has upwards of one hundred passengers, and they
include merchants and mechanics. The carpen-
tiers, backsmiths, painters, and others, took with
Them large assortment of tools. Sir Henry
iuntlv, formerly Governor of Prince Edwards
Island, embarked in the John Calvin with thirty
miners. Iron dwelling houses, shops, warehouses
and tents, with a very large assortment of Brit
ish goods, form portion of her cargo Several
first class ships, now living in the London and st
katherine's docks, will soon leave London for
California.
Shakespcare's Will is preserved IN tho prero-
gative Office, England 1t is written on three
sheets of fooscap fastened together at the top 1t
Is hourly pershing, not from neglect or from ir-
reverence but from use. Every time it is exhi-
btod, each sheet is handled. 1t is proposed to
separate the sheets of paper and enclose them be-
tween sheets of plated glass.
FRIGHTFUL DEATH.-Ellen Bright, young
girl Of II years, attached to WombwelFs me-
nagcrie, known as the Lion Queen, was recently
torn TO pieces by tiger, into whose cage she
had been accustomed to enter for the purpose of
exhibiting her daring and ntrepidity. The ac-
ciiont occurred at Chatham, England.
SCIcrDE.-On the 30th ult, as we learn by the
nj,
committed suicide at the house OF john RABLIN,
in Elk Grove Lafayette Co., by shooting himself
with double-barreled gun. lie appeared to Be
a foreigner.
The following simple form for deed, is pre-
scribed by the new code of laws in Va:
This deed, made the-day Of, in
the year--between (here insert names OF
part - witnesseth that in consideration Of (here
stat; the consideration the said---doth (or
do) grant unto the said--all, etc, (here dts-
crl5' the property and insert covenants or any
other provisions,) witness the following sigma
turc and seal, Cor signatures and seals.'D
Tie New Hampshire Patriot has the follow
ing
Francis Prescott has been convicted, at Dover,
OF the crime of rape upon Betsey W Goldman, in
Durham, and sentenced to the State Prsoa for
life. Prescott is Is years old, and his victim is
sercRty-Seren
There is bliss in kiss, when You get such a
boon, as you go DER the snow, in the light of the
moon, says the Boston Bee, in very great glee j.:
and it's not a bad one, for the Editors had one.
] No UsURY LAWS IN HoLLANp.-IIolland is
thc only country in CArstendom where usury
laWe are unknown, and whore capitalists are al
lowed to demand and borrowers to paw any rate
Of interest. And vet it is an undouhted fact thu
the rate Of interest has been for very long Pc
Rod, over in Holland than in any other conn
try IL Europe. The average rate Of interest for
twenty years has been 81 TO per cent.