Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-12-13

Detroit Dec. 7--5 P. NJ.
The Propeller Troy has just arrived at our
docks from the Upper Lakes. Her log from
Dec. lst to the 9th, five days, present series of
maratime disasters seldom if ever equaed, even
at this tickle period in most dangerous chan
nels. Commencing with Dec lst it says:
Left Port Washington, and discovered schr.
Emelia Leonard, sunk off Manitou-wind very
fresh eastward, and showing hard.
Dec. 2d--At Beaver Harbor; gale continues;
found Propeller Ohio ashore in the bay, and schr
Yankee on the rocks off the Island. Have en-
deavored to extricate the Ohio, but failed. Met
Captains Whitaker and Gardner on Lexington;
they report the steamer Patchn ashore in a new
berth on Skillagalee, after being pumped out
with steam apparatus. She is going to pieces
fast; they have abandoned her, and the gale con-
tinuing, cannot go to her.
Dec. 3d-Under the lee of Mackinaw, blow
ed very hard from the East.
Dec. 4th--Still at Macknaw; wind continu-
es. Found the wharves nearly destroyed by the
sea, and the wreck of the brig Gale. Schnr
Columbia has dragged ashore sprung aleak, dis
charged cargo, and is abandoned by crew, being
put in charge of William Scott, who takes her
to the Shows for winter quarters. Light ship
and schr. Madeline badly damaged. Brig Con-
stellation ran ashore without anchor, slightly
damaged. Schr. Miranda badly damaged while
riding at anchor, against the wharf; Brig Henry
Clay in south passage, abandoned, crew came
down passengers on the Troy
Dec. 4--Of False Presqueisle, found schnr
Buena Vista ashore; ew came down passengers
on Troy.
Dec. 5-In the River; brig F. c. Clark 10 the
Rapids, bound up. Schr. Ward and Excelsior
in tow bound up
MARINE DIsAsTERs.-We learn from the Mil
waukee papers of the 9th instant, that the briggs
Preble and Hutchinson were ashore near the
mouth Of the river at that point. They can both
be gotten off uninjured, and without difficulty.
The schooner Tempest parted her lines at Mil
waukee on the 9Th, and came in collision with
the Wing and Wing, carrying away some of
the rigging of the latter The schooner Speed
lost her anchor, chain and yawl, and bulwarks,
in the gale at Manistee.
The Janseville Gazette the 9Th instant, states
that over 5000 barrels of -four have been turned
out of Jackson & Smiths mill since the middle
ofAugust. This is exclusive of custom work.
The citizens of Waukesha. have taken the
preliminary steps to have it Incorporated.
Rev. Mr. Dolhear, other gentlemen, have
oiocu lhiee Wagon iodu VI pToVtSio1S ana clo-
thing. for the fugitives in Canada, and person
ally gone over, to see it distributed The arti-
cles were contributed in Lenawee county, Mich
Catholic Rejoicing in liverpool. On Sunday
two weeks since, TIE Denm was sung at all
the Catholic Churches and Chapels in Liverpool,
in thanksgiving for the restoration of the Cath
ole hierarchy in England.
The fine post-coaches we noticed the other
day, as having been shipped at Buffalo, for ].
Frink & Co., Chicago, were built at Concord,
N. H., and designed to go to California seating
four passengers each. They are specially ad-
aapted for going down the sleeps which 'pature
forgot to grade"