Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1854-09-13
Dangerous Counterfeit.

Dangerous Counterfeit
We were shown yesterday by Mr.. Ilsley bill
purporting to be a dollar note of the Columbia
County Bank, at Portage City, in this State. 1t is
a dangerous counterieit,-not because it is like the
genuine, for it is entirely unlike the genuine-but
because the Bank is one. and countereits
are not looked for.
The genuine bill shows the capital of iae binl,
to be $4,000, and the notes are signed by Sam /
Marshall Prest, and H. s Haskell, Cash'r and
countersigned by A. Menges, Dep Comptroller
A figure IS large, and printed in red is seen
length-wise OF the genuine bill.
The counterfeit was sent here in a package of
money from Chicago, and appears to be altered
from bills issued at Washington A line at the
top represents lis issues 10 be secured by 100000
Pennsylvania bonds, and it is signed by G. c.
King, Cash r, and B. O. Stone, Prest and counter
signed +. +. Horton, Ireasurer.-( Mil Sen.
Light Houses for Hisconsiat- following are
all the appropriations for our State.
For small! beacon-light on or near the pier at
Port Uao, in lieu of the appropriation for light
house at that port, approved September twenty
eight eighteen hundred and 6ity one thousand dol
lars.
For small beacon-light, to be placed on the
new pier at Milwaukee, known as the 'North
Cut when it shall be completed, one thousand
dollars
:
Lake WinuebagO, ten thousand dollars
S,,spicio1s-The n Y Tribune Of Friday relates
in its money article, the following:
An acquaintance of ours applied to one of our
large Banks for loan OF $4,000 payable on de-
mand, proposing to leave as collateral $4,000
North Carolina State Bonds. The President look
ed the bonds, read one OF them through, counted
the coupons, and handed the lot back said hs
couldn't make the loan. The bonds he said might
I he all 81 he l-yo. hat
siness North Carolina had to issue bonds any way,
and he had never heard before that she had any
debt.
CuJa-The disappointment of Concha as Gov
ornor General OF Cuba Is an event-because he is
ne of the abiest Spaniards thai ever ruled over
Cuba. When such men as Co5cha are sent out as
NIceroys. the annexa ton OF Cuba TO our Republic
looks far distant Events are daily proving
that the recent revolution in Spain is likely TO
toreciose all prospect of peacable annexation of
that Island.--[All Wisconsin.
Igdians IN Nebraska The fremont Iowa, Ga
zette says that the condition of the Cttoe and Mis-
souri, Indians is indeed deplorabe at the present
time. Government having neglected to comply
with treaty stipulations. these tribes are suffering
the cravings OF hunger, and have commenced raw
aging the gardens and plunderlng the whites, so
journing in Nebraska, Of everything they can put
their hands upon.
administration Party"-One hundred parts
slavery, fifty parts doughfaced lunkeyism, twenty
five parts "drugged liquor" fifteen parts boiled
eggs - Indiana Democrat
'sRepu5lcaa Parfy"-One hundred parts wing
gerry fifty parts abolitionism. twenty-five parts
Maine Lavish, and one part ti-Nebraskasm-
is the Vermont receipt for making a Republican
party-LUni Democrat
KH0tg- Nothing Paper.-The prospectus Of pa
per called the american Organ" has been issued
oft Wash Il
the establishment of the paper is contained m the
following extract: The perpetuation of Amer,
lean freedom is our object American rights our
motto and the American party our cognomen.
II A report at the land Office shows that Ne
braska covers an area of 342,438 square miles
equal to l9,l60,320 acres of land. To large
portions Of this land the Indian title has not been
extinguished, but enough is open for settlement TO
satisfy the most eager enterprise for years to come
In so large extent there must be every variety
ofsoi.
Engine House B1unt,-The Engine House of
the 6. & c. U. r. r. Co, at Rockford, Ill was
burnt down on the night Of the 3Oth ut together
with two engines that were within at the time
The fire was supposed to be the work of an incen-
diary. Loss estimated at about $4,000.
Deserted Senteaca-Wm Uxford, convicted of
assault on Richard II. Dana, Esq one of the coun-
SCI for Anthony Burns was. on the 24th inst, sen
fenced 10 10 months EaTd IaDOf IN the House OF
Correction at Boston.
IL Fifty thousand dollars are said TO have been
offered by the Afessrs. Appleton ofNeyv York. for
the copyright of BentOn's Thirty Years View" in
the u. S. Senate
,4opropriatioas-7h Difference South Carroll
ma gets appropriations to the amount of $4,000
for public works from Congress How much does
Illinois and Wisconsin get?-[Gal. Advertiser.
II Oliver Craig, notorious land warrant for
ger, has been arrested at Cincinnati and is now in
Jail there
n The Geneva Courier of the 23d announces
the death Of Charles Cook, President Of the Bank
of Geneva, after protracted illness.
VahaB7e Cqpt'ge--Three Russian ships laden
with Circassian girls have been captured by the
allied fleets in the Black Sea, and taken into Yarna
Ne,y Ba,lk-The Dodge County Bank is soon
to be opened by Neberg < Frentz in Beaver Dam
with a capital Of $4,000
For Kansas.-Some 80 or so families in Ash
tabula Co, Ohio, are preparing to migrate to
Kansas
False-The reported destruction of the Cattskill
Mountain House Is false
PLATTEVILLE ACADEMY
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