Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1850-03-22

The following anecdote of Julia Dean in re-
lated by the New Orleans correspondent of the
st. Louis ReUeille:
81 must tie You touching little story, in con-
nection with the recent performances of Miss
Julia Dean at the st. Charles. Nightly an elder
ly gentleman, in deepmourning, was observed in
in the boxes, his eyes fixed sadly and intently
upon the young actress and occasionally giving
way to bursts ofteeling as certain passages more
especially challenged sympathy. One day this
gentleman called on Miss d.. at the hotel, with
the request that she would name some hour when
he might be permitted to introduce her to his wife
To be brief, the old gentleman and lady, most re-
spectacle people, had an interview; wheNNwhat
was Miss Julia's establishment to see her female
vi,iler approach, and after a fearful gaze, threw
herself sobbing upon her bosom. The old people
had just lost daughter about Jnlia's age. her
equal in beauty, and singularly Ike her in fca-
turc. The father had heard of the resemblance
bad nightly INDUCED in his sad luxury at the
thcatre,--and finally, had begged for his bereaved
partner the same privilege in private.
THE NASHVILLE CONFERENCE.-The the Legis-
iature ct Alabama, which has Just ended It's scs-
sion, no Joint Legislator took place on the slavery
s1hicct, Each House passed resolutions coAcer-
ming il, but neither House would agree TO the
9th RS resolutions. Delegates to the proposed
Nashville convention were app( inted by the mem
b r the Legislature, but not under any lcgisisa-
ton in any OF the States on the subject ofth% Con-
vcntion, il we eXpccpt Georgia, South Carolina
and Mississippi, which States have appointed /
eGatcS.
IL MINNESOTA, a white man is not allowed to
buy an Indians horse
The Watertown Journal says that 200 emicrants
for California will b. furnished by jefferson
County. \. Y, this spring.
Block FROM WIsCoNsIN.--A gentleman" of
Madison, Wisconsin, has been selected to pro-
cure prepare block for the Washir g,on mon
umont, authorize by resolution of the last leg
siaturc. The Richmond marble is the kind Of
stone selected.
BABIES Different Crst0mS.-In Italy they
hang them against the wall. In Bosom they tas-
ten them into baby jumper" and 'in the coun-
try they set them On the floor and let them
aquall.-- Boston Museum
In this city, they place them in basket, and
leave them on the stops Detroit paper
Here they generally keep them in the house,
and take good care of them Mil Wis.
Her. If they have the hopping cough ad,their
parents take them to lectures and frighten the
audience half to death by their fits Of coughing
and ga~ping stranguatons.
ERIE CANAL EALARG EMENT,-ltis stated that
the work on the enlargement of the Erie Canal
botwcah Buffalo and Black r ok has lie n sus-
pended, and will be abandon ID until next winter,
on account Of the "strike' among the llborers.
STEAK NOT LIGHTLY or WoMAN-We find
the following in late number OF lae Richmond
Republican,. 1t deserves to be intellectually i'm
pressed on lhe memory Of all
OF all acknowledged puppies, the Young
man who speaks lightly Of female character and
female virtue, deserves the highest place in the
congregation of moral lepcrs. tn, re is no
more certain indication Of a weak brain or a rot
ten hcart,tran thctonguc which would d.sparage
+ male virue--wlich would tors ct it, mother or
its father or its sister, in casting its foul ven IN
upon purity which it can never hope to attain.
NAPOLEON OUrwGTrED. Napoleon sort for
Fouchc, one day in great rage. and told lin
that he was a fool, was not fit to b head of the
police, and was quite ignorant of what was as
sing.
pardon me, Sire" said Fouche." know that
your Majesty has my dsmiso~l ready signed in
your pocket
Napoleon changed his mind, ard kept lis Min
ist'r.
M. CALHouN.-A Washington corrcspon-
dent Of the Baltimore Patriot says-"Mr Cal
houn, as learn, will resign his seat, and return
To his homestead in South Carolina, with view
to prepare himself to meet. in the BOSOM Of his
family, the crisis which his waning health seems
to warn him is not far off
SUBSTITUTE FOR TIE ATo-The rect dis
covered in South America, by an eminent French
Naturalist, and thought TO be an excellent sub
Stitute for the potato, contains, out Of 100 parts
G72l Of alimentary iarinaccous matter. Three
or tonr hundred bushels are raised upon an acre
II is time that we bad some cheap substitute for
the potato, for they are now selling in this city
at s 90 per busheI, and have been for the past
two years. Spirit of the Age.
New PArER.-EIla A. Chapel, lady well
known as sound and excellent writer, Las is
sued a prospectus for newspaper called the
No1mf5jn BHgle to be started the ensuing spring
at Counci. Bluffs, Nebraska Territory. 1t is to
be neutral in politics, and an advocate Of tempe
rance and reform.
a. The Population of the Sandwich Islands
is said to be, Native 1851; foreign. 1887.
Total 80,G4I.