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

Latest Oregon news states that the question
OF dividing Oregon, and organizing a new terri
tory North Of the Columbia river, to be called
Northern, is agitated. Oregon, as now bounded,
contains more than five times as much as Hin.
OILS, seven times as much.as all of of the New
England States, together with $50 miles of coast
on the largest ocean.
SINGULAR ACCIDESr.-In the U. g. Senate
on the 3 inst, while the ballotng for committees
was proceeding parasol fell from the hands of a
lady in the gallery, and struck Senator PEARcE
OF Maryland on the head, inficting q severe cut
and obiigng him TO leave the Senate Chamber
BOGUS MoxEY.-Oficer Neuman arrested
about noon to-day, two boys, between l and Is
years of age, for passing counterfeit half dol
lars, at Nazro's hardware store on East Water
street The coin had doubtless boen manufac-
tured by older and more experienced hands than
those who tried TO palm it off.-Free Dem.
BIENNIAL SEssIoSs.-Ohio is trying the ex-
pertinent OF Biennial Sessions, and the Free Dem
0crat concludes that they are "humbug," and
recommends annual sessions, limited te 90 days
as the proper substitute for them.
The Baltimore American says one concern in
the oyster trade in that city, forwards to the west
daily, by Railroad, eight tons of oysters in cans
One hundred persons are constantly employed
in opening the shells.
Two men, with their wives, met on the side
walk, in Newark, N. j., on the 9th inst, and
both refused to Weld and allow the other to pass
a struggle ensued for superiority, during which
one of the men had his nose almost bitten off -
All the while the wives were examining the cut
of each others mantilla.
One of the family of Lennon slaves made his
escape two years since. He is now in Canada
and on hearing of the freedom of his friends, he
has forwarded, for tder relief, his savings during
his two years of freedom.
The action against the captain of the Inflated
steamer Henry Clay. for compensation for lug
gage destroyed, which has been pending for
some time, has been finally settled by the Capt
paying the demands in full.
1t is computed that Presidential election. il
GLIDING all expenditures, legitimate and illegiti-
mate from the nomination TO the Inauguration,
! costs not less than a half million Of dollars per
state.
N. P. Willis in his letters on Cuba, says ::
''whatever Republican love there may be for us
among the Creoles in other parts of the Island,
there is no trace of it to be found in the scornfu
lean A coffee house in the suburb, the walls
Of which are pal ted with caricatures of ms,
gives key to the feeling most prevalent in the
Metropolis"
! SUIT FOR LIBEL.-The editor fthe Cleve-
land PlaindeaIer has been sued for libel by the
| Conductor of the Little Miami Railway. The
PlaindeaIcr stated that recent collision was oc-
| casinned by the conductors pnrposeIy running
I II OH r
rel.
PRICE OF FRENCH NEwsPAPER.-The Con-
stlntoncl, newspaper OF considerable stand
ing III Paris, but rather opposed to the late ag,
gresslons OF Louis Napoleon, was bought by the
p+oprictors of n cotemporary named lie Pans for
100000 francs, or about $380,000.
1t is said that Stewart, Broadway, NJ. Y, sells
S8,O0o,000 worth of dry goods a year, at profit
Of 5000, 1000.
FIRE,-We learn from Mr. Merrel, conduc-
tor of the freight train on the NJ. & NJ r. R..
that Pew's Tavern stand, miles this side of the
Forest House, was on fire as the train passed yes.
erday morning, the flames breaking through
the rool.-.Ml. Sent.
The ARMY IN TExAs-Over ? 900 men are
kept in service on the borders OF Texas station
CI IL LiIItItit IoStS, 'AIlu mostly occupied IN
securing the country between them, to keep the
Indians in order.
NEBRAsKA.-This proposed new territory ex-
tends from the 40th To the 43d degree of North
latitude, and from the Missouri river to the Rocky
Mts including an area Of 10000 square miles
The Platte river runs through The centre. There
arc settlements now at Bellevue, Namahaw A.
gency, Fl. Leavcnworth, and St. Mary's Mis-
sion.
GRoG Tile New York Tribune SAYS that in
the 500 hotels and dram shops of that city, an
average of ten thousand ,lIars per day is OK
2eddcd, making total of over $40, O00, 900 per
annum
A Concord correspondent of the journal Of
Commercial Christianity has it that General
Pierce, lie Mr.. Webster has deep reverence
for God and sense Of the vanity cf all worldly
things without His favor, and the hope ofimmor-
tai life" We think it about time to be done with
all this cant.
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