Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-03-04
News and Miscellaneous Items.

NEWS anu IUlSCGuduGOUS xGS1lS.
a WONDERFUL WESTERN CITY.-The
assessed value Of real and personal estate in
st. Louis, is shown by a comparison of the
census reports of the different States with the
assessors returns of St. Louis, to exceed the
value of real and personal property of any
of the following six States, viz: Delaware,
Florida Arkansas, Iowa, Wisconsin or Cali
fornia. The whole property of every kind
in that city is valued at S38,947, 900.
Hon. Amos Tuck declines the Wing and
Free Soil nominations for Congress from the
First District of New Hampshire, from be-
lief that he cannot unite the whole of the
two parties in his support. We hope that
Hon. John p. Hale will be nominated by the
people, in his stead, and elected Portland
ADV.
The Now Postage Envelopes.
1t is said that Mr. Nesbitt of New York,
the contractor for the prepaid postrge enyel-
opes, has at length produced an embossed
stamp, which is satisfactory to the Post Mas
ter General and the manufacture of the envel-
opcs will commence Immediately.
1t is now said that the Pacific Railroad
project will be settled in the Senate this week.
1t is thought that the proposition to appro-
pirate 100000 for the survey of the route,
will be substituted for all other projects.
The last session of Congress lasted nine
months, and Chas. Sumner Senator from
Mass, was in his seat, in the Senate every
day of the session and voted every time
One person living on the Galena r. r.,
has sent to Chicago, this season, over l ? tons
of quailS and prairie chickens.
In consequence of the scarcity of small
change, the merchants of Portland Me-, have
resolved to receive and pay out United States
postage stamps.
"The Mclean County Bank is the name
of a new concern, established at Bloomfield,
ILL.,, nnder the general banking law of the
State, with capital of $4,000.
Each Member of Congress now receives
5000 worth Of books or their equivalent in
cash.
The military expenses of the United States
are over twenty millions year.
LARGE CATTLE.-A pair of cattle, weigh
ing nearly 1000 lbs, were recently exhibit
ed at Buffalo. They were raised in Chataque
Co.
The Young Mems Association of Buffalo
are considering the subject of leaning $780,
600 to construct building for their own
use the basement of which they would rent
for stores.
A SHEET OF PAPER.-An English pa
per gives a description Of an enormous web
or sheet Of paper, which was manufactured
in Stirling. The web is without break, be-
ing continuous sheet, three thousand yards
in length-withn little Of a mile and three
ouarters-fftv-fo inches broad, and weighs
400 pounds. This web was made, dried
and finished, ready to be dispatched, within
three hours. The cost of the sheet was a
little more than f10.
Twenty linc-ofbattIe ships Is frigatcs and Is
smaller ships Of war, fitted with the screw pro-
pellcr, are building in the French nsvv-yards.
The French government has before il proposals
for three lines Of transatlantic steamers, one to
Brazil, another to the Gulf of Mexico, and the
third to New York
The wealth of the list Of the corporators en-
bodied in the bill now before the \. Y Legislature
to incorporate the atlantic and Pacific railway is
estimated at sos, 100000.
A Young man in Boston has brought a suit
against the proprietors of n gambling house in
that CITY TO recover s. 500 which he has lost, at
various timcs, in gambling At theta establish
ment.
The congregation worshipping at the Broadway
Tabernacle, \. Y, have offered sos 900 for Mr..
Dewey's Church of the Messiah, which is about
to move up town, Not less, however, than $3.50, :
900 will be accepted. Fourteen years ago the
ground on which the church erected cost $780,
OOO and the building $50, 0O-making in all $780,
OOO
Gen Pierce has rented pew in Rev j. c.
Smiths New School Presbyterian Church in
Washington, which he attended when Senator.
DoDGE CoUxrY-In 1910 it numbered g. per-
sons in 1850 over 10000; at present "a, 600.
The next Fair of the New York State Agricul
tural Society is to take place at Saratoga Springs
Cass and Douglas-Old and Young America
had sharp encounter in the L. S Senate on the
l4th inst Douglas opposed the application Of
the Monroe doctrine 10 Cuba but would apply il
10 the English colony in the Bay Islands Contra
America He would buy Cuba, or annex her il
she asserted her independence take her by force
if any other power tried 10 get possession Ere.
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man is in prison in Chicago, for a deb; o. svc
dollars.