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Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-02-24

re- The N. Y. Herald of Sunday
last says " It is rumored at Washington
that the Nebraska bill, like bull in a
china shop, is making terrible smash
up in the Presidential croekery--rumor-
ed that the T resident is in trouble, that
Marcy is i'll trouble, aud that the entire
Cabinet and especially the Kitchen
Cabinet is in great trouble. 1t is also
rumored that the trouble is manifesting
itself in the Senate and in the House,
and that God only knows where it will
all end. Some say that there will be a
new cast of the Cabinet, upon the hard
shell basis, and possibly new division
of the spoils all round. All this, how
ever, is the natural effect of great prin-
ciple when brought to bear upon the
discordant materials of Cabinet and
its party, whose only bond of cohesion
is the cohesive power of the public
plumber. We shall have rare sport be-
fore the fun is ended.
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ANOTHER Colossal HoTEL.--We
learn that Capt. De Groot, who has just
sold his interest in the Prescott House."
for 100000 dollars, (75,O0O dollars for
the Furniture and 25,000 dollars for
the good will,') is about to build new
Hotel of mammoth dimensions. twill
I've built in the castel ated style of arch
Observation-Disclosures with Ehzabethan
furniture, and will cost 100000 dollars.
To this must be added the price Of lot,
decorations, DC, &c, which will use up
some 100000 dollars more. This viii
make the whole cost of the edifice $780,
600 dollars. The architect is Mr. Rem
wick, The new hotel will be ready for
the reception of visitors in the spring of
1855. 1t is to be called The Great
West. ~ J. Mirror.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-02-24

WHAT They GAIN BY 1.-THE State
Bank of Indiana recently addressed cir
culars to the various banks of the coun-
try, to ascertain, as near as possible, the
gain. to banks of issue by the loss of cir
culating notes through series of years.
No very satisfactory returns were made
but ia two instances they elected the
following facts: a
"The Catskill Bank, in thirty years,
with an average circulation of 100000,
gained $4,000, as this amount has not
been returned in ten years. The Mer-
chants Bank of Baltimore, in AZ years,
with circulation ranging from $780,
900 to 100000, averages about S42,-
900. Bills issued between the years
1906 and 1889, have now outstanding
after a lapse of at least ten years, $780,
100, being an annual average of $500.
The large average, however, was caused
by the loss at one time of $4,000 in
notes"
The Banks of this city have also been
large gamers by this system of swear
and tear" The Farmers and Mechan-
les Bank, for instance, has made over
100000 by fires and sinkages within
Is years. This Bank; by the founder
ing Of a steamer on Lake Erie in 1880,
made $4,000. From these items it
will be seen that swear and tear" plays
quite an important part in the profits
connected with our extensive banking
institutions 1bany Express.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-02-24

Es- The London papers give glow
ing description of the screw steamer
Himalaya,' an iron ship, which cost
$4,000, which they call "the largest
ship in the world" Sheis built of iron,
and is to run between Southampton and
Alexandria-of $3.50 tons, and 372 feet
8 inches in length az feet longer than
the "Great Republic y. An English
paper says 1.-The Himalay will bring
Gibraltar within three days" distance,
Malta six days, and Egypt nine days.
She would take two thousand soldiers
a distance as far as the Cape of Good
Hope in about three weeks, and two
thousand emigrants to America in a
week. The cylingers of the engines are
of 81 inches diameter, with 3l2 feet
stroke, and the revolutions per minute
are from fifty to sixty. The screw is a
two bladed one, on the old principle, of
Is feet diameter with twenty feet
pitch, and weighs nearly seven tons.
The vessel is full ship rugged, and the
masts, spars and sails which have been
supplied are those suit able for clipper
sailing ship of 1900 or 1909 TONS"
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-02-24

CONVENTION OF VESSEL OWNERS
We have several times alluded to con-
yention of persons interested in Lake
commerce, which was to be held at De-
troit, on the 18th inst. We now learn,
from the Free Press, that the time of
holding that convention has been chang
cd to the Ist of March next, in conse-
qnence of the election in New York, up
on the canal question, taking place on
the former date.
Several of our vessel owners started
to attend this Convention and got as far
as Chicago before hearingof this change
of time.-Ina. Sent.
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Marble.

Marble is applied to those fine varie-
ties of granular and compact limestone,
which being Of closer grain, are sus-
ceptable of a superior polish, and are
remarkable for their whiteness, their
blackness, or the beauty and variety of
their colors. Blue and green marbles
frequently owe their tints TO minute
particles Of hornblende. The black var
ieties are colored by carbon, and some
times BY bitumen.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-02-24

constantly eounterrcting and more thar
counterbalancing the destructive waste Of
the earth's surface. This eounter-agent
is the Volcanic force We have been ac-
customed to look upon this with terror, as
a Judgment rather than as great neces-
sity in the economy of Nature. Butitis
absolutely necessary, and instead of being
the indication of an avenging power, is
among the highest manifestations of the
wisdom and goodness of God. He then
explained the causes of earthquakes and
.IzXcanos-how the action of the internal
nj the earth were necessary to its
y reservation from the outward pressure
of tbe atmosphere and gravitation-how
new islands were thrown up gradually or
suddenly, as was Graham's island, to the
heighth of six hundred feet in one night,
and how the immense mountain ran
ges of the earth were thus formed. He
maintained the. theory that the earth 9as
once heated liquid mass, and that the
shell of it had become crusted over by the
operation ofopposite forces, and instanced
the fact of burning lava from VOLCANOES, be-
coming crusted over, so that travellers
could walk upon the surface, and through
the holes and crevices could see the heat
ed lava. -..s..
The hypothesis of Astronomers that
the earth and the whole solar system were
once gaseous matter, before it became
heated he said had no such indubitable
evidence to support it, as the facts upon
which Geology rested to support all its
positions.
Mr.. Daniels is an easy and graceful
speaker and at times truly eloquent. He
throws charm and interest around his
subject. which make his lectures among
the most interesting we ever heard. =
THIRD. .....
The Lecture this evening was well at
tended. Mr. Daniels evidently designs to
have his audience thoroughly understand
his subject, and follow him in every step
he takes, and therefore briefly refreshed
their minds with reference to the lecture
Of the previous evening.
The subject this evening was upon the
primitive or first scratified rocks. called
in Geology. the Gneiss Mica Slate, Lime
stone, Hornblende, Quartz and Clay Slate.
He treated principally of the limestone
strata as this is the great basis rock of
our State, and exhibited to the audience
the numerous fossil remains that had been
found in this strata; it being the first or
lowest strata. of rock in which any signs
of animal or vegetable life were to be
found. Here were found the Triolite. the
lower type of the Star Fish, Marine Shells
and Marine Plants. Corals also abound
whose labor had built up most of this
rock, specimens of which were shown and
commented upon.
When we consider that this is the star
ting point of all animal and vegetable life
sometimes called the Silurian period, we
cannot fail to see the importance that
should be attached to it, by all who de-
sign to become thoroughly versed in this
subject
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-02-24

GE 1t is said that forty-eight hours
of total abstinence from liquids of all
sorts will kill a cold entirely; and he
who tries this remedy may 60 out into
the air, aud the more the better; for the
more he walks and creates exhalation
from the skin, the more he robs his
blood of water, and the more thoroughly
he breaks the bank on which the nose
and throat and lungs rely for the means
NJ making themselves Troublesome
Those who have occasion had better try
!,
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-02-24

New CoUNrERFEIT.-Thompson's
Bank Note Reporter, of Feb, 1st, gives
the following Is new counterfeit:-5s
on the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad
Bank, Michigan; altered vignette, a
steamboat; ships in the distance; an
anchor on the left corner; Taylor on the
right.
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StOiisiIty.

CoNsIsTENcY.-Afe few weeks since the
telegraph was out against measuring
wood or anything else. and was particu-
larly severe against the idea of buying
or selling wood by the cord. Now it is
advocating new system of weights and
measures. to be prescribed by law.-he-
noSh0 Tribune.
We are opposed to law compelling
people to buy or sell in any restricted
manner, with regard to price, quality, or
quantity. But that some standard of COM
mon measurement is necessary, all must
see. But it makes no difference whether
a cord be one hundred and twenty-eight,
or one numbered feet, excepting as the
one or the other will better adjust itself
to more general system. Man has ten
fingers and ten toes. This physical fact
has made ten the dividing pointin our sys-
TEN of enumeration. This same fact has
made all men. in all nations, number in
the same way. Ten tens make a hundred
in all spoken languages. Therefore as
the decimal is the universal system. it is
better that llminor ones should conform
to it; and the regulation would be better
to have the cord consist of one hundred
feet.
All we ask is to have the law prescribe
what a cord a ton, or buShel, &C., is. so
that when agree to sell "a cord" for a
certain sum, the buyer may know how
much to expect, when the article is not
before him for his own eyes to measure.
But if choose to sell without measuring,
and he chooses to buy, it is our right to
do so, and we deprecate law which pre-
vents it.
Can our neighbor understand the diff
ference between having a common system
merely declared by law, for people to use
or not as they choose. but which shall be
binding when it is used. and a law which
compeis people to adopt system which
circumstances often renders inconvenient
to both parties.
Weare bad hand at teaching children
but this is so plain, we are surprised that
even our neighbors cannot see it.-D.
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Es- The Dayton Gazette, of Tues
day last says the wife of a gentleman OF
that city has presented him with liv-
ing male infant, that at its birth Weigh
ed only one pound.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-02-24

NoAH's ARK.-William Skiddy in
the New York Hetald, that the ark was
450 feet long, rs feet beam, As feet
hold; equal to government tonnage, H.
$50.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-02-24

EF- A model of the Atmospheric
Telegraph, for the transmission of letters
and packages, is now on exhibition at
Washington.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-02-24

re- 1t is remarkable fact that the
letters. wrong, sre always pronounced
'0ron5.
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r@-The ACKNOWLEDGMENT from this dis

The Assemblyman from this dis
trict voted against the engrossment of
the resolutions Of instruction to our Sc
majors and Representatives in Congress
to oppose the Nebraska bill We know
little of the circumstances under which
the vote was taken, and therefore cannot
tell his motive. We have no hesitation
however in expressing the opinion, that
three out of four Of his constituents, on
the merits of the case, would have voted
differently.
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.ons alfcouma, six months, is 90
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KRNosHA TELEGRAPH.
Published every Friday mornin g. in the city Kenosha
sHoLEs & DENsMoRE.

. KseoasiH, BIZ 50 s3@ ~ j
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hAs larger circulation than any other paper in the
City, and affords excellent -dium for advertisers
"a TERMS: One Dollar and Hal. year. payable In al
vance. Two Dollarsi il not paid In advance. ~ .str
Any thing any body makes, or Is useful and needed,
will be received at cash prices, for all dues.
No one is asked buy Il, who does not think ftwoHh
voyng eo, Therefore 1t is longer wanted, let it
be ordered discontinued. O. ' H-s 4sq
WORK Of every description done cheaply and
In a style ,nsaSpa@s ed in the West. ~
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E@The man who held out an induce
ment has had a sore arm ever since.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-02-24

The election yesterday on the propo-
sed amendment to the Constitution pas
sed off well. IL wards heard from A
majority for the amendment of 1890
and only against. The returns indi-
cate large majority for the amendment.
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TO OFFICERS, SOLDIERS. sEAMEN,
&C., OF ALL WARS, THEIR WIDOWS
AND MINOR CHILDREN.


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R WASHINGTON, d. c.,
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Address 8. M. KNIGHT.
Washington City
March 17-1aw2m
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Dec l6-3tawif
YIALUABLE REAL ESTATE FOR

NALU B Il II X r. II ESTATE FOH
Y Sale.-The block of buildings known as
the Union Buildings and now occupied by the
Union newspaper establishment. They are situ-
ated on E street. between 18th and l4th streets,
and fronting directyon Pennsylvania avenue. The
lot 10 feet front by l59 feet deep The property is
susceptible of division and Encouragement, and
its position such as must rank it among the best
business stands on the avenue, and is yearly in.
creasing in value. The time of the present lessee
expires on the LIST September next, on which day
possession may had.
Also, that large three-story Brick House on 17th
street west Opposite the War Office, and three
doors south Of G street) ~
Also. that three-story House on 18th street west,
next door to the Government Building, at the
corner of F and 18th streets.
Should the above property not be sold at private
sale prior to the 18th Of May, it will be sold on
that day at public auction.
Terms will be made favorable 10 the purchaser.
Applyto CHI. H. WINDER,
Corner of 18th and G streets
March 2O-2awt1 5May
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! NEW LIVERY STABLE.

To tho Patrons OF Berkeley Springs.
THE undersigned begs leave to inform his
friends and the public generally, that he has
erected new and extensive Livery Stable, for
the accommodation Of those who may wish TO
keep their horses at the Springs during the ap-
preaching season. The building contains about
40 stalls Of extra width, and extensive Carriage
Sheds. Its location is clean, dry, and airy, and
convenient to Colonel Strother's Hotel, with
which il is connected by arrangement. Expe-
rienced and reliable persons will be in attendance
and no expense will be spared TO give every
satisfaction TO the visiting public. The proprietor
will also keep for hire, several pleasure carriages
and saddle horses. Having provided these ac
commodaiions, at considerable expense, the Pro
prietor hopes that he will be literally palronized
Terms 10 suit the times.
JAMES A. STORM.
BERKELEY SPRINGS,
Morgan County, Va, July L. 1855.
Iulv lS-tF
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T ATER YEARS. py the Author Of tn

IL Old House by the RIVER
Mr.. Rutherford's Children, second volume.
Pebbles from the Lake Shore, or Miscellaneous
Poems, by Charles Leland Potter, A. M.
General Notions Of Chemistry, translated from
the French, by Edmund G. Evans, M. ID.
The Land OF the Sarscens, by Bayard Tayler.
Brushwood picked up on the Continent; or
Lsst Summers Trip to the Old World, by OrviIle
Horwitx.
The above are selected from large arrival OF
new boo1s al TAYLOR & MAURY'S
Ttro Bookstore, near 9th VI.
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INTERESTING NEWs.--We have Ius

II INTERESTING NEWS.--We have just
il received large assortment of BOOTS and
SHOES for ladies', misses, and chdrens wear,
which we offer very low.
Ladies' Caters from 81 to $3
Misses Boots OF every kind, in proportion.
Of Children's Shoes have every color and
style, from 25 cents up.
The inquiry generally is, Where can we find a
good assortment of shoes for children? !? We can
answer all such querists TO their satisfaction if
:hey give CALL
We would also state that we are prepared 10
manufacture every style of boot or shoes usually
worn by gentlemen, ladies, misses, or children.
Also on hand, every description of boots and
shoes, which will be sold very low.
Call and examine for yourselves before pur-
chasing elsewhere as we are determined to SELL
8. G. MILLS & CO.,
Mar l-3t No 4S6 Seventh st.
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NEW MUSIC.-W. c. .ZANTZINGER has
IN Just received from the publishers, Firth
Pond & Co., New York, and George Wieg, jr.
Baltimore, an assortment of their latest puhica-
tions.
nas- Pianos tuned, warranted TO give salts
faction.
STATIONERS' HALL,
adjoining Kirkwood House.
Dec l6--3tawif sN ~
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store the largest and most reliable stock oI
Pianos offered in this city, from the justly re-
nowned manufactures of Hallet, Davis 81 Co.
Boston; Bacon IL Raven, New York; and Knabe
Gaehle Co., Baltimore; ranging in prices from
1925 10 $500.
In addition TO those in store, we have on exhi-
biton at the Metropolitan Mechanics Fair, at the
Smithsonian Institute, four superb Pianos, made
expressly 10 order for this Exhibition, any OF
which will dispose of on reasonable terms.
Also on hand, Guitars, Violins, Flutes, Accord
cons, Melodeons, Baujos, Strings, Music, sc.
Remember, at the Piano, Music, Stationery,
Perfumery, and Fancy Goods Store of
JOHN +. ELLIS,
3O6 Penn avenue near 10Th street