Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1852-12-09

that port two months in consequence Of a
Raw in her shaft.
A meeting has been called in this city
TO instruct the members of the Virginia
Legislature to vote in favor Of the estab
lishment of steam navigation between
here and England
Cuba not IN Market-The Washing
ton Intelligencer of the 23d inst, pub.
fishes six columns, part of the CORES
pondence between James Buchanan. when
Secretary Of State under President Polk
and r. NJ. Saunders, our Minister to
Spain, authorizing him-Saunders-o
the part of President Polk, to offer a
hundred millions of dollars to the Gov.
eminent of Spain for the purchase of the
Island of Cuba
The proposition was promptly, courte-
ously, but positively declined.
OFFICIAL CANVASS .-The official can
vass for the State, shows the following re-
sult-Chippewa, La Point and Oconoto
not in
Whole number of votes, 64,645
For Pierce, $500
For Scott. %. SO
For Hale, 1872
Scattering
Pierce's mai over Scott lI.441
Over Scott and Hale 2,797
CANAL ToLLs-The tolls received at
the Canal Collectors Office. in Chicago.
for the past three months, sum up as fol
lows
Sept.------------SlI,8 22 Sc
Oct 1921 06
1858 20
Total -S4O,3O2 60
THE Posi- OFFIcE.-It is reported from
Washington, that over thirty-nine millions
ofletters passed through the Post Offices
of the United States during the last fiscal
year, and that the revenue, under the re
duced rates Of postage, has fallen off near
ly million of dollors
We learn from the Pioneer that the In
dams have repUdiated to a considerable
degree their old debts, and VIII not pay
them. In this they act very wrong as all
must admit, but they only follow the per
nicious example of too many whites with
whom they must have come in contact
lIi71uesotian.
EERNoNT.-The Legislature of this
State adjourned on Wednesday morning,
oath ult Among the acts of the session
was liquor law, similar to the one now
in opertion in the State of Maine The
measure is to be submitted to a direct
vote of the people, for their adoption or
rejection, in March next
Franklin Pierce is the youngest man
who has ever been elected President of
the United States He is 48 years of
age Washington, John Adams, Jeffer-
son, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Ad-
ans, and Van Buren, were each So; Jack
son, 62 Harrison, 68 Taylor Go, and
Polk, 40
THE WEsr-What constitute the States
of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. hav.
ing twenty three Representatives and six
Senators in Congress. was not many years
ago, one Congressional district and the
Delegate who then represented all tLis
territory, is yet living.
The Government of China, up to Au-
gust 9TH, had not been able to suppress the
rebellion. A horrible story is related OF
the murder Of fifty thousand persons
men, women and children-by the rebels
at Chuncow but it is not authenticated
The New York Journal of Commerce
states that the British and North Amer.
lean Steamship Company (the Cunard
line,) have reduced the rate of passage
from Boston to Liverpool to 500 The
price heretofore has been 1920.
The number of miles over which the
different telegraphphic lines extend in the
United States, are as follows Morse
$685.. Houses $500, Bain's LIP miles
In Austria over ,O53; Tuscany over $50;
France over 758; Prussia over ,483.
LrAD.-The New York Tribune of the
9th says
Two hundred tons Spanish sold at 81
06 to S4,l24, cash, in bond short price -
Galena is held at 20, and Spanish So.
The tendency is upward
From CALIFoRNIA-S3 .OOO.O 900 in Gold.
The steamers Prometheus, Northern
Light and Georgia have arrived at n Y
with two weeks later news from California,
and three millions OF dollars in gold
The steamer Dan Converse, sunk near
Pittsburgh on the 18th inst She had on
board a full and valuable cargo, which
is total loss. The crew escaped IN
harmed.
The Michigan Central Railroad Com
pany give notice of an application to be
made to the next Legislature of Michi-
gan, for Railroad from Detroit to Mon
roe.
The new wing of the Patent Office at
Washington is nearly completed. 1t will
contain room go #. long, 20 feet wide
aud 80 feet high, for the exhibition of
models