Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1850-08-02

$4,000 per month, or $4,000 per year. The
shameless effort is made TO increase it TO $4,000,
per month, or 100000 per annum.
| Two Printers were recently fined 1000. francs
each, by the Police court of Paris. for having
printed two songs without putting their names to
them. Such is the liberty of the Press in Repub-
| lican France.
The rust is injuring the wheat in som e
counties in Indiana.
~ There are still % warriors in the
wilds of Florida who refuse - emigrate to Ar
kansas.
~ During the year ending May 81, 1850,
SS8 Patents were taken out by citizens of
Free States, and onley e3 by citizens of Slave
States.
STAGE OF WATER.-The Avalanche has laid
up. Three and half feet water on the prin-
cipal bars in the Illinois riyeer, and falling
CHI. Jour.
A New ARTICLE OF EXPORT FROM M1cHI-
GAN.-Oyer nine tons Of Slippery Elm bark
have been sent east from Hillsdale by one
house this season.
VIM. b. Astor, the heir of John Jacob AS
tor, has been fined S25 by the city of New
York, for not removing filth from the rear of
one of his houses.
1t is said that there is a large portion of the
bank at Niagara Falls in a condition, which
indicates that it will soon follow the example
of the Table Rock.
The CABISEr.-The Cabinet have made
tender of their resignation to President
Fillmore. They will, however, continue to
hold office for the present.
Mr.. Willet, of Lcdyard, N v has shear
ed from two merino bucks 29pounds of wool.
The sheep are three years old, and were brot'
from Vermont couple of years ago.
~ The Wheat Crop of Ohio will be an
unusually heavy one. Ditto of Indiana
The Crop in Michigan, Will be fair, not ex-
ira, the rust having done some damage.
PowDEn Mill ExpIosIoN.-Whipple's
Powder Mills, at Exeter, \. H., exploded Ju-
ly 10th, killing instantly Chas. r. Smith
blowing his body into fragments. The ex-
plosion was heard for thirty miles.
The GREAT GEOGRAPHICALLY letters from
Fort Laramie, 1t appears that up to June 18th
the number of emigrants to California which
had passed amounted to 8I,9lI ! One letter
gives a sad account of the number of deaths
on the way.
oRMAT1oS-PERHAPs.-T authorities
of New York are clearing out the degraded
inhabitants of the Five Points to make way
for Honest tenants. The task of Hercules,
in cleansing the Augean stables was nothing
to this.
~ Gen. Santa Anna is still at Carthagena,
occupied with cock-fghting, an old and a ru-
ling passion with him; and by way of diver
styling his amusements, he writes for the
newspapers. So says a Jamaica correspon-
dent of the New \ ork Courier des Etats-L,tiS.
a meteor, resembling ball Of fire the size
of four pound shot, was seen at Portland,
Me-, few days since, to issue from cloud
in the northwest; it passed rapidly over the
city, entered another cloud, and exploded, and
the report was heard almost instantly.
FIRE AT WAUKEGAN, Vision the morn
ing of the 18th inst, the steam Touring mills
beIoning to w. Munger were destroyed by
fire, together with 5000 bushels Of wheat
and quantity of flour. Also dwelling be-
longing to f. Sunderlin. Loss Sl2,500.-
Insured in the Illinois Mutual for $4,000.
DEATHS ON THE PLAINs.-A correspondent
of the St. Louis Republican, writing from FIT.
Laramie gives a long list of names of persons
chiefly from Missouri, whose graves have
been passed on the way to that post. Among
them we notice the name of Harry Gibson, of
Shullsburg, in this state.-.HiilUGukee Senti
nell
printer in Concord, n. II. and tn publis her
of the Abolitionist, the first Abolition pa per
ever published in that State, was chief Sec
rotary of the late Disunion Convention at
Nashville. He had passed through a clerk
ship in Washington under President Polk.
r. An amusing and pleasing incident con-
nected with the trip of the Nominee up the
Minnesota last week, wa the firing of salu ties
by the Indians at most of their villages the
boat passed. We confess, however, that
some of their balls whistled too near for com
fort One was lodged in the engine ROOM
Min. Chronicle.
The returns of the Assessors of Massachu-
sets, as far as completed, shows a marked
increase, in population since 1910. The
w orcester Hgis publishes a list of thirty
eight towns, in all Of which except one the
increase has been considerable. The town of
Lowell, which in 1910 numbered 2O,792 in
habitants, has now a population of 30, go be-
ING an increase of IL ,S29. The next highest
increase has been in RoXbury, which now has
a population of 1921 more than 1t had in 49,
80. The total excess of population of thirty
eight towns over that Of 1910 is 81 ,499.
| CALIFORNIA AND THE WASHINGTON MoNU-
MENT.-Calitornia has made her contribution
to the Monument, in the shape of a block of
uold bearing quartz, with the shining ore
sparkling through it. The block is in the OBJ
long form, Is inches in length, by an average
of 10 in breadth and about six inches thick
Accompanying it are five or more very rich
quartz specimens of golden ore and one of
cinnabar-all to be presented by Hon. J. Bid
we'll and Mr.. II. A. Schoolcraft in behalf Of
the State. These specimens are 20 be inser-
ted in the block. The expense to the State
will be near three thousand dollars.
The Boston Atlas of the 2Oth instant,
learns with regret that the Hon. d. 2,
KING, member of Congress from the I'd
District of Massachusetts, is seriously i'll
at his residence in Danyers
u VIM. Flanagan was examined be
fore V. Tichenor Esq, on the 10th inst
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