Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1853-04-28

in some part Of Illinois, Nil. Sent.
Iuoasy on Rand-The T. S sub Treasury &C
count, March 2Sth, footed up =
Net amount subject to draft SI8.054,297
of which there were IN
New York 6,127,29O
Philadelphia Mint 5,698,s2o
San Francisco l,y7369S
Boston 1,S82,l59
Spanish Land Grant in Iotca.--We learn from
the Keokuk Dispatch that the supreme courts OF
the United States has decided that Rudiclls heirs
or those claiming under them, are entitled to the
area of one mile square, where Mon5rose in that
state now stands, by virtue of a Spanish grant
The Dispatch had not learned the particulars.
ArrLIcr1xa--Stddea Deah-We learn by tel
egraph from Waukesha, that Mrs. Griffith, wife OF
Rev. T s. Griffith, late Pastor of the Baptist
Church in this city, died at Waukesha very sud
denly last evening OF disease of the heart. She
took tea apparently well as usual: and died at
niue o'clock Free Dem
The " Y Worlds Fur-On the 9th inst the
packet ship Northumberland arrived in New York
from Liverpool, with I59 packages for the Indus
trial exhibition. The Constitution also brought
from Havre, III packages, and the Helvetia from
Bremen 50 do, for the fair. The Barque Rhodes
from Savannah, also brought number of packa-
ges.
Canadia, Counterfeit No,es-The Sherbrooke
Gazette says, "We would cautonthe public against
taking bank notes of the agricultural Bank Of
Montreal, which is a fraud, no such bank being in
existence in Canada. Several notes of the above
spurious bank, of the denomination OF IS and S
are in circulation in Sherbrooke"
4 FIeet-Between thirty and forty vessels were
in sight yesterday looking like flock of sea-guIls
lar out upon the Lake They composed the lum
Der fleet which had been detained in port day OF
two, and were destined for the wooden country
across the Lake y Chicago Jour.
.fgriclltsrai-A morning paper in mentioning
the sinking Of the canal boat Mokena, enumerates
among her freight, about % IONS of hoes, pitch
forks and scythe snathes, shipped from Jackson
Mich, and bound to Keokuk Iowa. Chicago
Jour.
II 1t is stated in letters from Havana, that full
.hree thousand negroes have been landed since the
18th of February. on the island of Cuba from the
slave ships, notwithstanding the pretended vig
lance of the authorities and the watch whlca the
English armed vessels kept up
Profifc-AIatthew Janes aud wife, a most est
| mable couple, living in Hollis prairie Perry com
county. H., have now living one hundred grand
children and seventy great grand children. They
| have buried thirteen children, and been married
| dayfye years
4 Rule ,ri,bo,a an Er,epfi0n "A young gentle
man, feeling restless in church, leaned forward anc
addressed an old gentleman thus: Pray. Sir, car
/ YOU tell me rule without an exception g. Yes
SIR" ne replied, "a gentleman always behaves
we'll in church"
/ Lieut. " Kiustry-The Buffalo Republic learn:
1 that ] P NJ Kinstry, formerly Lieutenant Of the
T [. 5. Steamer Michigan, the lakes has been aP
pointed 10 the command of the mail steamship
! Philadelphia running between AspinwaIl and New
I Orleans.
/ Drosvned On the night of the Stu inst, in til,
\ town OF Lewiston. about five miles north of thi:
I place Mr. Gushing, while attempting 10 cross tht
Big Slough on log, slipped of into the water anc
+ was drowned Il Portage City Republic.
4 Re,asrue5-J. :. Wright editor Of the Chicago
/ Prairie Farmer, has returned 10 that city from
F.. London, where he has been since last December
introducing a valuable improvement in grain cut
tiers to the English farmers.
From -9sia.-Heavy commercial failures are re
ported at Smyrna, in Asiatic Turkey
! II was rumored that Persia had sought the pro
lection of Russia against England
+ Rangoon had been nearly destroyed by fire.
The Free Democratic State Convention Of Il