Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-05-12
Thoughts and Facts From the State
Press.

the extreme of righteousness. The best
the receiver can do is to throw the COM
mission into the fire, as an acquaintance
of its did with his. 1t says, in time of
war; the holders are the last ones thought
of for the position. The practice of grant
ing them so indiscriminatingly has redu
ced even lceH-ed17led titles into nothing
] ness, as witness the election Of General
Pierce, who tried to be General and
couldn't. over Gen. Scott. who has richly
earned his title. 1t concludes thus:
g In the South, Military titles are truly
appreciated, since most every negro boasts
that he is Caesar, Pompey, or Cato;
Colonel, Major, or Captain"
What does brother COLONEL Paul
think of this?
1t says the organization of the State
Historical Society was gotten up to leech
upon the State Treasury-that nobody
expects it will be worth to the people of
the State one per cent. of the $500 year
of its appropriation-tha if some one
will gather materials and write good
History of the State, it will sell-and that
There never was a book gotten up by
authority and State pay, that was worth
tinker's c1tSs The Census Report, cost
ing over a million or more, would have
been gotten up more perfect for half what
it cost. Make the State an aid and you
sink into demerit the object, and the au-
| thor into fool.-That's what we think
of all such enterprises. We think about
the same of all internal improvements"
1t contains glowing accounts of the
prosperity of miners and every body else
in that vicinity.
1t says that locality is suffering for the
want of rain.
The Hudson Journal, mentioning the
receipt of a marriage notice, unaccompa-
MED with fec, says: consequently we
cannotpublishit unless the bride presents
herself and pays US with a kiss, or the
husband with dollar
The Morning Nelrs has leader in
which our State Administration and the
late Democratic Legislature are charged
with every political corruption in the cal
lender. We see, by extracts, that the
charges of the Ners are copied by high
journals in the Eastern States.
1t contains characteristic letter from
L. II. (Levi Hubbell?) in defence of Sem
ator Douglass youthful career, and eu-
logizing him to the highest point
The Madison journal says it was some
times impossible for friends of local leg
islation last winter to get their wants,
from the malfeasance of the officers
that bill might pass in one house, but
in the othor the clerks would some how
always keep if at the bottom of the file
that if it passed, it stood great chance
o. being lost or altered while in the hands
OF the enrolling clerks. or in getting to
and from them-and that when finally
enrolled and sent to the Governors
Room, they were often never heard of
more. And it broadly intimates that
this last was the fate of bill authoriz-
/ ing the formation Of new County out
of parts of Marquette and Adams; and
clenches the insinuation by saying that
the bill passed both houses, was enrolled
and sent to the Governor.--but that
Gov. Barstow is interested pccuniarily
in Monticello, village on Fox River in
Marquette County, which he hopes some
day to make the County Seat of that
| County, and which this bill would entire
" defeat, and the bill is somehow lost
and cannot be found.
The Free Democrat in an article head
cd Blind of one Eye" says Judge Hub
bell steps out of his way to charge the
Grand Jury upon the Rescue Case. but
said never worl about the riots which
occurred in that City on election day. in
which voters were openly driven from
the polls, although he was present and
witnessed the fact.
Thew atertown REGISTER establishment
is offered for sale-price $500. This is
an event which has been expected.
The Madison Journal daily comes to
us now enlarged to a six column sheet
As newspaper, it is the best paper pub
lished at the Capitol, Is spiritedly edited,
and is a readable paper.
The Elkhorn Reporter says the work
on the Racine Railroad is progressing
that it is under work both ways from that
place.
We observe that the State Temperance
League, of Milwaukee, is now edited by
J. FoRD, instead of Rev. Mr.. WILSON, We
do not say it is more ably edited; but it
certainly is more of a newspaper and
much moro adapted to the wants of
reading public.
The Jefersoaian at Jefferson has COM
pleted the first year of its existence, and
speaks encouragingly of its prospects.
1t says repeated burglarieS have been
committed in that village and thinks it
is by persons of that vicinity.
The Watertown Chronicle devotes a
large space to exposing the imposition of
Professor Comstock who is exciting the
people in the vicinity Of Lake Mills, Wa
tertown, and about, by pretending to teach,