Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-12-24

hTSt CLASS propeller frlgateS, and the same humble
or sloopS OF war, with few smaller steamships
adapted TO quick despatch and coast navigation
lie also proposes the equipping for the use of tho
government of one of the first class mail steamer.
IN order that the question be decided as TO the
availability of these vessels as to ships of war -
lie also recommends the increase of the NAVY b,
not less than fifteen hundred men over and abov,
the present force, amounting ty only seven thou
sand five hundred.
a Toronto correspondent of the N Y. CONNER
clal, says: The weather has been exceedingl,
mild for some time past. The ports are vet al
open. A good deal of business is still done on the
lakes. Large quantities of pork are being bought
III this city for the New York market The de.
mand Is likely TO continue during the winter The
price given is much in advance of that of last year
1t is now from 81, so to Sc per 100 lbs The pros
pect of reciprocity with the United States is rap
IDLY Frightening which tends TO keep up the pri-
ces of all kinds of Canadian produce.
Chloroform is being nsed to remove bees from
the honey-comb The hive is placed above a cham
Dor, having glass window ON one side, and a
small hole pierced at the other. The chloroform
Is put into a small bottle, having two tubes through
It's cork only one of which is allowed TO come into
immediate contact with the chloroform. The tube
which does not come into immediate contact with
the chOrofonm is inserted into Al small hole in the
side of the box, and by blowing into the other the
out into box below.
The Syracuse Journal states that about 1000
acres of tobacco were grown in Onondaga county
the past season. and that the average crop is about
400 lbs per acre though 2 900 lbs are often pro-
duced. The entire crop of the county is estimated
at 2,24O,0OO lbs, which at ten cents makes the
snug of 224, 900 gained by the cultvators. but
totally lost, wasted, and worse than thrown away
by the consumers Last year, the best quality,
lV,gN .aA tapf 49,, l.. =
At present rates, or even at six or seven cents it
is considered profitable crop.
PERPETUAL MOTIoN.--At the last meeting of
the French Academy ofScience, letter was read
from the American Consul Mr.. Goodrich, reaues-
formation relative to prize said to have been pro-
posed by the Academy for the discovery of perpc-
tual motion. 1t was unanimously
"O,dered, That Mr.. Goodrich be informed that
the Academy has not only proposed no such prize
but it has adopted a rule that no communication
relative to such subject, be taken into considera-
ton"
4 building in Orange street, New York occupi-
ed by colored family named Nandvck was des-
troyed by fire on Tuesday evening, and two chill
drcn burned TO death. The mother had gone out
to buy bread. She left the children i'll room
where there was a stove and pile of shavings.-
1t is supposed the children in playing set fire to
the shavings. A fireman named Philip Farrell, at
the risk of his own life, saved 4 child in another
part of the building.
SOMETHING FOR MARKsMEN TO Practice on
Last week, Mr.. Henry Hollenbeck, of this city,
having seen statement in the papers of the won
dcrful performance Of an English Inarksman con-
cluded to try his hand. He accordingly took his
gun, loaded and laid it upon the ground he then
took up potatoc, threw up into the air, turned
| somerset, took up the gun, fired and hit the po-
tatoe before it reached the ground This feat he
performed four times.-Hudson Gazette
The New York Observer states that the grave
yard at Princeton, New Jersey in which reposc
the remains of Aaron Burr, were recently visited
by stranger and after inquiring to the local-
ty of his grave which had been heretofore unmark-
ed by any memorial before he left had neat mar
bic monument, with brief inscription erected
He left no name or clue as to who he was, or the
motives prompting his act.
A child in Frcdericktown New Brunswick, a
few days ago, burned its legs against stove The
mother immediate applied lnsecd oil and cotton
wool, with a tight bandage over all In short
time the screams of the child induced the mother
to remove the bandagc, when it was discovered
that the cotton wool had taken fire by spontaneous
combustion, and had considerably increased the
size of the burn.
HEAVY DAMAGEs.-The jury in the case of
Van Nance rs. the Hudson River Railroad, yes
terday brought in a verdict of s., 100 for the plain
tiff Mr.. V. n. was injured by collision of the
Hudson RR. near Yonkcrs about a year ago
| Some others of our citizens were injured at the
same time, but none we believe SO seriously as Mr..
V. N.-ADdny atlas.
A Bill of Barbarity has been introduced into the
Ohio Legislature. to compel all present colored
residents of that State to register their names in
the Recorders office of the CONTEMPLATING all
colOred persons from moving into and becoming
residents of the State, and not permitting them TO
hold real estate, &c, &c.
| A week ago last Friday, the conductor of one
of the trains on the Lake Shore Railroad, in Ohio
discovered an obstruction lying on the track near
Conncaut. The train stopped and the imped-
| iment removed. 1t proved to be a box, which be-
| ing opened, contained pretty babe The little
unfortunate was taken TO the County Almshouse.
| The Scientific American saws that CamphOr
has been discovered to be antidote to that terri
| bic poison, strychnine. a man who has been
thrown into convulsiOns by two doses of the poison
one sixth grain each, administered for the rhcu-
matism-was relieved 10y twenty grains ofcamphor
taken in SIX grains of almond mixture. DIR. Sud
dock, in letter TO the London Lancet, claims to
have made the discovery.
The number Of miles which the mails have been
carried on railroads in this country, during the
past wear seems almost incredible, when put down
in figures; but a still more striking idea of the
vastness Of the distance may be conceived by sim
pie calculation, which will show that it is equal to
twenty -four journeys from the Earth to the Moon
and back.
For viyidness of imagery, We do not believe the
following sentence from Mr.. Wcbstcrs address in
commemoraton ofthc landing Of the pilgrims, was
ever eXcclled:-'' We hear the whispcrings of
youthful impatience and we see chilled and shiv-
ering childhood, houselcss but for a mothers arms,
couchless but for mothers breast till own
| blood almost freezes
While we hear Of an unusual influx Of foreign
immigrants into northern ports, the sOuthel n
papers inform us that the upward bound steamboat
on the Mississippi are swarning with Germans,
bound for the Western States and territories At
the latest dates 5000 of them were awaiting pas
sage up the river at New Orleans.
4 large party was in attendance on Wednesday
evening, at the Rev Mr., Watcrstons church, Bos-
ton, to see the marriage of niece of the President
elect. The parties were Mr. Henry Henshaw, Of
Newton, and Miss jameson daughter of Hugh
Jameson, Esq. Mr.. Pierce and his lady were pre-
| sent at the ceremony.
! A fossil elephant has been exhumed near Zanes-
vie Ohio. 1t is the third of the species which has
| been discovered in the same bank The last spe-
cimen is said to be nearly twice as large as any
known Asiatic or African elephant