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

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miscellaneous Items.
Twenty thousand dollars in bills of the Tren-
ton Bank of New Jersey, were destroyed at San
Francisco, by the recent FIFE So much clear
gain TO the bank.
USixty-threc persons were killed and forty
wounded, by the late explosion, in Hague street
N. T., of steam boiler, which destroyed the
building in which it was placed, burying these
persons in lis ruins.
a schooner broke the ice, and worked her way
ont of Chicago harbor, on the 2lst inst The
Democrat thinks she anticipated free navigation
only a day or two.
Jesse B. Thomas, distinguished citizen of
Chicago, died IN that city, on the 2lst.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of the cit-
zens Of Chicago, was held on the 2lst, for the
purpose ofrasolving against the further extension
of slavery.
CooL.-The Milwaukee Wisconsin, which
was recently fined $25 for publishing lottery ad-
Vertisemcnts, says =" The moral tore Of our
community, as evidenced by the recent course of
the Grand Jury and the Court, is certainly most
creditable to our city The Wisconsin may be
permitted to judgcin the matter, and when it tells
US that the morals Of the community are mani
Tested by its punishment, we shall not deny it.
The Chicago Democrat of the 23rd says: 1--WE
understand the health Of the city has not been so
poor for son.o months, as at present The num-
Der Of deaths is larger daily than at any time since
the decline Of the cholera"
~ Jenny Land, it is said, has accepted the Of
fer OF BaFnum Of the New York Museum, and
will embark from Earope for this country, in the
month Of September next An excitement in
the musical world may be looked for
y young woman, in the habit of exhibiting
herself in cages Of lions, tigers, &c. was killed
By tiger, during az exhibition al Chatham, En-
gland"
Il has been decided in the Supreme Court Of
Louisiana, that boats not starting at their adver-
t;scd time, are liable for all damages which may
accrue TO their cargo, in consequence Of such
neglect in starting.
The steamer Rhode Island, which left New
\ ork for Panama, recently, was lost at sea when
three days out. Speaking of the beat, the \.
Y, Mirror, says,
so we'll was the unseaworthihess OF the boat
known, that not dollar of insurance OH the boat
or cargo could be had in Wall street. and vet
some twenty poor deluded victims have lost their
lives through the criminal cupidity of the own
ers.
a California correspondent of the Milwaukee
Wisconsin, says that there were thirty-fve hun.
dred people who wanted tickets to return on the
steamer then leaving San Francisco, more than
could get them.
BY the last Oshkosh True Democrat, we per-
ceiVe its editor, Mr.. Densmore has taken leave
of his readers Mr. Densmore was fast and
fearless friend of all liberal measures, and we
are glad to learn that we may soon expect him,
in some other place, TO be again at work in the
harness.
tits said that six Senators and some forty Re-
personalities, have signed the call fora southern
convention to meet at Nashville, TO take measures
for the dissolution of the Union, in case the Will
mot proviso is enacted.
We should look for benefits from our national
and local legislatures, rather in what they do not
than in what they do Legislation at best is but
a necessary evil, and when we get more than
merely enough, ii is an unnecessary evil. Most
Legislation now days is Of this latter character
and we need not therefore be unthankful that
our present Congress is quarreling away its
time and accomplishing little.
Milwaukee appears to be waking up on the
subject of gambling generally. Q. R. Cole,
(King Cole) John S. Belanger, and several 9TH
ers have just been fined over 5000 each, for
keeping faro.
Lewis Cass for President and Sam Houston
for Vice President, are the candidates of the
Advocate.
\ law exompting property to the amount of
$500 has passed the New Jersey Legisture.
Mrs. Farnam, who it will be recollected, was
left on shore in some place on the coast of South
America, by the Captain of the vessel in which
she had embarked for California her children re-
naming on board, has since reached San Fran
cisco and rejoned her children. She writes that
women are in demand there, and no woman who |
respects herself need entertain any fear of want
Of proper respect from the other sex.
The largest hotel in America has just been /
completed at Cincinnati at a cost of S225,000. /
Il will accommodate 500 persons.
1t is estimated that the amount of gold in the |
lands of the gamblers of San Francisco. i four
eer millions of dollars