Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-12-31
MisecIIancous ana General News Items

CITY EXTRAvAGANCE-Th extravaganza the
city and the people Of the city are going into cx
ceedS anything IN our previous history Costly
houses of $4,000 and SIOO, 600 with furnitur:
mirrors, Competing, pictures frcscoes &c. to match
are not uncommOn-5ut there arc dinners, sotrees
tttcE, dresses &C., to match.
We hear OF balls the past week, in which da.
monds and emcraldS were worn worth $50 900. on
the person. Thousand dollar dresses are not I'M.
common. Dinner parties are spoken of, when Ia
dies appear in cloakS embroidered with pearls &C.
What are we coming to " y Etp,ess, 18th
inst.
CHINESE IN CUBA.-It may be news to most
OF our readers 70 hear that men are engaged in i'm
porting Chinese into Cuba as IaborcrS and as sub
stltutcs for African slaves. Two thousand ofthcm
are already i'll Cuba and give general sati,factiou
Ihcy cost ~l35 each 10 get them there, and the
planters pay them five dollars a month for two
years Six thousand more are said to be on the
road, and eight thousand more have been subscri-
bod for. This may be an important business III
its effects on slavery.
EoR ACsTEALIA.-ThcS Ship Scargo. of the Pi-
onccr line Of Australia packets, sailed from New
York on Tuesday, for Melbourne, Port Phi,io, SC.
with about one hundred and tf,y passengers, and
full freight. The .ScaJyo will be succeeded by
the ship Baltimore, torInerlya Hayre packet
DEATH or FANNY WRrGur.-Frances Wright
DarIsmont, better known as Fanny Wright. died
in Cincinnati, OH Monday. She had been conf
ned to her room for many months, having never
recovered from severe fall which occurred to her
last ". inter.
Hoes FOR Nrw YoRK,-On an average. about
seven car load, Of drcS ,cd hogs az. aiIy sent from
Columbus, Ohio, to NV York, where they are cut
up and packed. The "trip is about four or five
days.
During the prcscn; year the receipts Of the Anne
rcan Board Of Commissioners for foreign missions
amounted TO 1920 7o3.
a bill is before the Ohio legislature to prevent
the circulation Of foreign bank bills in that state
without providing for their redemption in the state
An Ohio Yankee has invented a lath cutting ma
chine and has sold for $50 900 three fourths OF his
patent for the eastern states alone rcserving the
Western. They say it Will cut a large log up i'll
to lath in the space of three minutes.
Judge Warden, of the Hamilton county. (Ohiol
Probate Court during week before last issued live
hundred and twcnty-cisht marriage licenses.
Charlotte Williams, Of ~ y, has recovered
$4,000 from the Harlem railroad company for the
loss OF her husband who died from injuries received
on the track.
ST. Louis AND BALTINoRE.-Th Cincinnati
Enquirer says the steamer james Aliiin9ar brought
round from 81. LOUIS one hundred tlerccs Of new
picked hams destined for the Baltimore market
via Pitt,burg This we believe is the first ship
mcnt OF this article in that direction, this season
DELEGt rE FROM NLBEAsKA-Ahc!ard Ciutb
rio, Esq, formerly resident Of TIL, city and now
the delegate to Congress from Nebraska territory.
intend, taking his Indian wife with him to Wash
lngton. She viii create q Sensation" at the Cap
ital,--D1Htaa Journal,
LARGE BoATs.-Two steamers are bniliinr at
Buffalo, tor the Sandusky line, to be altogether
the largest and strongest ever built on the lakes
IAcy are 10 be traced with network q; heavy iron
bars, similar to the ocean steamers One Of these
boats has already been mentioned as building by
Capt. Hazard
Three vessels have recently arrived in the river
Thames from Australia, with the extraordinary
quantity ofupwards ofseven tons ofgoId on board
A committee Of tradcsmcn has Just been form
ed with view Of presenting to Louis Napoleon
sword Of honor, and a diadein enriched with dia-
mouds
Several Fugitive Slaves passed through this CT
Y last week, on their way to Canada They loo
ked weary and worn, but happy in the prospect of
soon treading on the Canadian shore. PRAY Won
fee softly, that the blind mole may not hear a foot
fall "-CIevs. p. =.
The splendid steamer Mayfower left last even
ing for Buffalo, with fine load Of freight and
passengers. Navigation open on the goth OF
Deccmbsr-think Of that !-D.lroa Free Press