Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-11-08

MELANCHOLY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. " t'sS ~
Pier-Last evening, between and o'clock,
two young men (brothers) named William and
John Benus, aged Is and 25 years, were drown
ed, by falling from the pier into the lake. They
belonged to family consisting of an aged father
and mother, two sisters grown, and four smaller
children, who came from Michigan to settle in
this State. They arrived here last evening on
the propeller Monticello. The family came up
TO the fremont House. leaving the two sons at
The boat to get ashore a team which they had
Its supposed that they walked off the pier, the
night being so excessively dark That hey conld
not discern its formation, which towards the out
or end is nearly, if not quite double in width,
and suddenly narroRs, and we are informed, is
withouta raiiing which we think, is highly cul-
pabe in some one. Their cries for help were
heard in the water, but they could not be seen or
sisted before their cries ceased, which too clear
| ly proved that their melancholy fate was beyond
all hope Wisconsin.
FUGrTIvE ARREsTED-On the 26th ult., a
Fugitive Slave, named Parker, was arrested in
! Brooklyn, New York. A party of butchers i'm
mediately rescued him from ths hands of the
officers, and he escaped to parts unknown
Who will say after this that there is no humanity
among butchers1
SERIOUS Acc1DENT.-We regret to learn
that Capt. Hazard, of the steamer Empire State,
met with serious accident on Saturday even
ing. AS he was standing near the windlass,
with which the hands were lowering flour into
the hold, the winch struck him on the head with
great force. At6rst it was feared that the skull
was fractured, but upon an examination of the
bruises, DIR. Hcrrick gave it as his opinion that
such was 10: the case, and that he would get a.
loDu we'll T5ooa,;l,nr YI.ib,,Do
REMoNsTRANcE AGAINST THE SToPPAGE OF
GRoG.-A despatch from Pittsburg, dated the
30th ult., says:-"A number of steamboat own
ers met last evening, to draw up memorial &c
Congress to reject the law passed by the House
of Representatives at their late session, forbid
ding the carrying of spirituous liquors on board
of steamers"
/ From PEMBINA-Tho u S. Deputy Marshal
who has been engaged in taking the census al
pembina, has arrived at St. Paul. He reports
the crops upon the Red river bottoms entirely
destroyed by the unusually high waters, and
many houses swept away. He reports the ed
ucational interests of Pembina not in fiatterino
state. The schoolmaster has gone abroad
Of l66 inhabitants, only twenty-six can read
and wre-iieen males and eleven females
When three days travel southwest of Pembna-
party of seven Sioux Indians were attacked by
sixty Chippewas, and six were killed and seal
: ped. These tribes are always at war.
The sugar on the Plaquamine has been great
" damaged, by frost. The cotton crop in north
ern Alabama although greatly damaged by
drought has been gatheredin good condition.
AT Grenada Miss. Gov. Quitman's procla
nation has been received with universal aston
ishment and Disappointment. The Southern
Rights meeting declared in favor ofestablishine
a Southern Commercial marine, in order to rem
der them independent of northern manufacture:
and ship-owners and that the repeal of the fu-
gtive slave-law or the abolition Of Slavery in thu
district of Columbia will justify and require Sc
cession.
JOHN p HALE IN VIRGIsIA-The Richmond
Times, noticing the arrival in Richmond of
number of members of Congress, says
"The distinguished champion of Free Soil
Senator n. H., was one of the passengers, ant
we believe is now in our city Southerner
: who have never seen him will be surprised Il
} find what pleasant and amiable countenance b.
has. We doubt not he will be treated every
where in Virginia with becoming hospitality, an,
we hope he will satisfy himself by ocular dem
onstration how abominabe his doctrines are"
i The Sandusky Mirrors of opinion that no on,
can be elected Senator by the next Legislature
Of Ohio, unless it be ]. NJ. Root, ]. r.. Gid
dings, or Jacob Brinkerhof
The PENNSYLVANIA DELEG ALTON -Contrar,
to expectation, the Democrats have carried The
Erie District, and have also triumphed in Ches
ter--hitherto strongly Whig--by about 70 ma
iority. With these results, and the Democratic
gains in other parts of the State, the delegation
in the next Congress will stand Is Democrats tt
8 Wings Before the death of Messrs Mes
and Butler, the delegation in the present Con
gress stood IA Wings to 10 Democrats.
The Chronotype contradcts the rumor that
Judson Hutchinson, one of the famous band Of
singers, had been made crazy by animal magnet
ism. He was deranged, but not from that cause
and is now recovered.
A ROUND TURN ON THE SLAVE CATcHERs.
w. ]. Knight, the Georgia slave catcher ir
Boston, was held to bail in $4,000 for Islander
in alleging that William Gratis was a fugitive
from slavery to the great detriment of his bust
ness. That's the way to meet the man-hunters
Give them law for law. till they get sick of The
J business.
So far, no attempts have been made to arrest
fugitive in that city, the warrants lying dead ir
the Marsha's office, nobody being found NEAR
enough TO attempt their execution.
RATHER POOR TAkE.--A slave hunter
who has been engaged for the last two weeks il
tracking out fugitives in this city, at last succee
} ded in 'nabbjng' colored woman, named Mitch
ell, and had taken her as far Bridgeport, where
he was waiting for the packet, when he was
overtaken by an armed deputation of our coloret
citizens, who rescued her. Chicago Trib.
PITTsBURG, Oct 3d.
i The Spirit of Washington reuaued IN one o
his Family.-Reed Washington, of the famil,
of George Washington, has resigned the office
of u. S. Commissioner, as he will not serve un
der the Fugitive Slave law.
BosToN, Oct. 81
BANK RoBBER SHoT.-During an attempt to
rob the Village Bank of Danvers, one of the rob
bers was shot dead by the watchman and proved
to be John C. Page, brother-in-law of the
Cashier. The other three escaped in a carriage
1t occurred about o'clock this morning.
The Directors had been forewarned of the at
tempt, and a watchman had been on guard for a
week past.
A CoINCIDENcE-Th ship Daniel Webster
which was launched at Boston or the 10Th inst.
glided from the ways easily and magnifcenty
but grounded upon the flats, about two lengths
from the shore.
THE HOUSE OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE Is HIS
/ CASrLE.-lt is understood that on inquiry of the