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Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01
An Irish Letter.

DUBLIN, swhte lreiahu, octoDsr ue tNo
DEAR NEFFA-I hedn't sent We a
ether since the last time wrote to We,
because we have moved from the former
place of living and ] didn't know where
a lether would find ye; but now with
pleasure take up my pen to inform we of
the deth of yer own Twin uncle, Kilpat-
rick, who died very suddenly last wake
afther lingerin' illness of sex wakes.--
The poor man was in violint commissions
the whole time of his illness, lying per-
fectly quiet all the while, and spachless
i"tirely, talking incoherently, and cryin'
for warther. | had no opportunity of
informin ye in his deth, sooner, exceptI
wrote to We be the last post, which whit
two days before his deth, and thin ye'd
had the postage to pay. I'm at great
loss to tell what his deth was occasioned
by: but l fear it was by his last sickness.
He niver was well in tin days together
in the whole time of his confinement,
but be that asst will, as soon as he breath
ed his last the docther give up all hopes
of his recovery. needn't tell We any
thing about his age, for We will know
that in May next he would have been
twenty-five years ouldlacking tinmonths,
and had he lived till that time he would
have been sex months dead. His pro-
perty is very considerable: it devolves
upon his next kin, who is dead some time
since, so that / expect it will be equally
divided between us, and thin my dear
Larry yell get two thirds Of the whole;
and we know that he had a fine estate,
which was sold to pay his debts, and the
remainder he lost on the horse race
But it was the opinion of all the ladies
present that he would have won the race
| if the horse he ran against hadn't bin
too fast for him-bad luck to the haste.
But,poor soul, he will niver ate or dhrink
more. And now Larry, my dear boy,ye
havn't relashun in the wide world ex-
cept meself and yer two cousens that
were kilt in the last war; But / can't
dwell upon this mournful subject, but
will sale this lether with black sailing wax,
and put on yer uncle's coat OF arms
SO / beg We not to brake the sale when
ye open the lether, and don't open the
lether until three or four days after We
resave it-be that time We will be pre-
pared for the mournful tidings.
Yer ould sweetheart, Mary, sinds her
love to We unbeknownst to me. When
the bearer of this arrives in Hamilton,
AK him for this lether, and if he doesn't
know which one it is, tell him that it is
the one that speaks of yer uncle's deth
and is sailed in black.
Yer afectshunate aunt,
JUDY O'HALLIGAN.
| To 11ppv O'HAYrrc,~
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01
Great Explosion at Rhodes.

The PreuSss a. Orient publishes a let
ter which gives some of the details of
the destruction of part of the town of
Rhodes, by the explosion of the powder
magazine:--'In the afternoon fthe 10th
OF November, Rhodes was visited by
most violent thunderstorm, and several
houses were struck by lightning and
more or less injured. Suddenly, a tre-
mendous explosion was heard, the
ground shook as from the effect of an
earthquake, and windows were smashed
IN every direction. The explosion was
followed by two others, and dense
black smoke arose. 1t was after time
aseertained that the lightning had fallen
on the church of St. John, and had pen
etrated into the subterranean vaults I'M
derneath, used as depot for gunpowder,
and in which an immense quantity of
hatcommodity hadrecently been placed.
1t is impossible to depict the horror of
the scene. Not house was left stand
ing in the whole quarter of the city near
the church, and that building itself was
completely levelled with the ground
The quarter was the richest and hand
soonest in the town, and not vestige of
it now remains. Disfgured bodies were
lying about on the ground, and the
groans of the dying were heard on eve-
ry side. Had prompt and immediate as
slstance beech given, there is no doubt
that many lives might have been saved;
but every ono was thrown into such con-
sternation by the suddenness Of the ca
Itastrophe, that but few had presence of
mind enough to undertake the painful
task. Night soon arrived, and from
strange motives of safety, which are in
applicable under such circumstances,
the gates were closed, and the opera
tons for assistance were for time sus-
Ipended. Mr.. Campbell, the English
| Consul, having assembled some work
men, had the gates again opened, and
proceeded to the scene of the disaster,
and, as well as he could, cleared away
| the ruins, particularly at the placeswhere
the groans of persons still living were
the most distinctly heard. This work
was one of great difficulty, for the rain
fell in such torrents that it was impossi-
BILE to keep torch burning.
| AT daylight next morning, more eff
, cient means were organized. Several
dead bodies were got out, and two young
girls of Is, and child of seven, were al
forwards extricated alive. These and
three or four others, who were saved on
the previous night, are all that survived
Of population of between 400 or 500
who were in the quarter at the time of
the explosion. Only about one hundred
and fifty of the bodies have yet been
found, as they are all SO deeply buried
under the ruins. Only two Christians
were killed, the quarter being inhabited
by Turks.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01
To LARRY O'HALLIGAy.

Ev The white population of North
Carolina, over twenty years of age, is
$4,000, of whom 10000 or thirty per
cent, cannot read or write. Its average
vote is $4,000, of whom 80 per cent,
cannot read nor write. The population
Of the State has increased only at the
rate of about 10 per cent, in every ten
years, from 1880, while the average in
crease of the Union was thirty-three per
cent. The four counties Of Ashtabula,
Cuyahoga. Geauga and Lake, in the pros
porous Western Reserve Of Ohio, con-
tanned, in 1850, population of 10000
whites over twenty years Of age, of whom,
all but SIS could read and write, and
these were nearly all in the city Of Cleve-
land. %
Since 1920. Ohio has creased ,420,-
900 persons, or nearly double the whole
population of North Carolina. The pop
ulation of Ohio, is 40 per square mile;
that of North Carolina but seven per
square mile.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01
Voyage from Lake Champlain to New
Orleans via. the Lakes, Canals, &c.

The New Orleans papers of the second
Of December record the arrival at that
port of two sloops-the W. H. wilkins
aud NJ Contietd-from the port ofEssex,
Lake Champlain, in New York. They
started from Essex, a town on the west
shore of Lake Champaign, one hundred
and thirty miles Northeast of Albany.
The voyagers then proceeded up the lake
and passed through the Chambly Canal
and entered the St. Lawrence near Lake
st. Peter. Thence they sailed to Mon
trcal, and passing onward through the
Lachine and Cornwall canals, and enter
ing Lake Ontario, assembled the Wei
land canal into Lake Erie. Crossing
this lake to Erie, Pen, they entered the
Beaver canal, and passing down to the
town of that name, reached the Ohio riy-
er, following it to its junction with the
Mississippi, and SO to New Orleans-in
all distance Of about twenty eight hun
dred miles. From Wheeling the sloops
were towed to New Orleans by the
steamer Lotus. The sloops are suppos-
ed to have been constructed for the SUI
gar trade on the coast of Attakapas.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01

MoDEsTY.-The Editors of the Cleve,
land Plain Dealer suggests himself foI
the Office of Postmaster General in Mr.
Buchanan's Cabinet Nobodyelse would
ever have thought ofsuch an absurdity,
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For the Tribune & Telegraph.

for tue IrlOQHe y
Sisterlessi
HAD sister whose brow,
Ekereli summers smiled,
When angels bending from on high,
Erhsld the sinless child;
And thinking her too pure for earth;
Her smile too sad and sweet;
They bore her from our home away,
Where they In pleasure meet.
They loved that little fau'tless form,
That speaking, love-lit eye;
And deemed heart pure and warm,
Well fitted for the sky
They knew she loved the precious flowers,
The wild birds gentle tone,
And promised her some, sweeter far
That she Nigh call her own
Z" Perennial flowers, and coudess skies"
They said made fair their home,
sand birds made sweeter music too,
Beneath hetF azure dome"
sand crystal streams meander there,
Clear waveless oceans slept,
And countless fairy, snowy hands
Across sweet haTp-strings swept"
They won that precious sister mine,
From our sad home away,
just the orient hl-tops caught
fair bright morn in May.
Waworth, Wis, Dec. 9th HEB.
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JON B. JILSCS.

ATTONEY AND COUNSELLOR At LAW Solicitor in
CInncery, and County Judge win attend TO all legal
business agencies entrusted 10 his
OFFCE-DURKEE BLOCK, MAIN STREET.
htUuEa, WIS. I-,l6. 36-*
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Re- \ bill abolishing all urury laws,
has passed the lower House of the Iowa
Legislature, and the Davenport Gazette
thinks viii pass the Senate.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01

ET y young lady in Boston, spir.
itual medium, predicted her death, which
took place at the hour stated. 4 post
morton examination detected twenty
grains Of anthony in her stomach, and
more in a tumbler of water in her sink
She evidently committed suicide.
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For the Tribune & Telegraph
A Desire of the Heart.

For the Tribune Telegraph.
A Desire of the Heart.
Great God, We look to Thee
For strength TO bear us up;
Amid the stormy, raging sea,
We drain lifes bitter cup
For sorrow and for sadness,
Which here SO Oft appears;
Oh, Ill our hearts with gadness,
And give us smiles for tears
And as journey onward,
Though the world seem dark and drear
We hope TO reach that golden land,
Where wen shed no Borrowing tear,
When earthly friends forsake ms,
BY falsehood, wrong spite;
wilt Thou in mercy aid US.
To that world of endless light
And where all hearts with one accord
In Thy rich love blest
1Nhere the wicked cease from troubling,
And the weary at rest.
Kenosha Dec. q. DIANA.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01

HGNGOPATHIST-W ould respectfully tender his
Ir1fcs-.ona services in its various branches 10 the
Citizens Jf kcuosla, and its vicinity. .syO Office
and residence ON Main ST, nearly opposite City 10
tel. nj Vic. kENOsHA, Wis.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01

IL A late investigation in Louisville
shows that last year one third of the fam
lies in that city We're destitute of the
Bible.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01

sB A Southern paper says that, after
the horse is nine years old, a wrinkle
comes on the eyelid at the upper corner
of the lower lid, and every year there
after he has one well defined wrinkle for
each year of his age over nine: If, for
instance, horse has three wrinkles, he
is twelve; if four, he is thirteen. Add
the number of wrinkles to nine and you
have it.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01

In 1852, 100000 squirrel skin were
exported from Russia to China, in ex.
change for tea.
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RE- \ blind hand organist in RQch-
ester, \. \. who went about the streets
OF the city with puny and pale little
daughter,h has just fallen heir to an estate
in Wales estimated to be worth mil
lion dollars. y prominent legal firm on
Rochester is now engaged in making
out the necessary papers.
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JOSIAH ROND.

ATTORNEY at Law, and Pension and Bounty Land
Agent Is agent also for several Of the best eastern
Insurance Companies, ~ See advertisements.
u39yi5 vi
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01

LAWYER. y Office, KENosHA CITY, Wis. Re
sdenee, WILLOW Brook FARM, Somers. - Sc
rerai ImProred and LfalmProred Farms tor sale
uIvl6
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01

e. The Scarlet Fever is prevented,
by Hom@opathists, by administering a
cIobule OF Bsladonno, every morning,
to each and every member Of family
adults, children, servants and all inmates.
This will almost certainly prevent the
spread Of this dreadful disease in every
household that may adopt it, as certainly
as vaccination will prevent the small pox
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01

NSURANCE-Iei is d cent for various companies
of uudoubted credit, and is prepared 10 issue pol
cics CA Life and Property, ON favorable terms
- Sec advertisements.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-01-01

ATTORNEY g. COUNSELLOR AT LAW, and
Solicitor III ChGncery. Office, Main Street.
EEcHos fsn, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ~ iscoEsIn
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MORRILL, q GILLIs.

ARCHITECTS AND BUILDEBS-PlaRs given for Public
BdGliug City aud Country Residences. Buildings put "
aud finished VA the most thorough manner aud in the la
test and most improved style.
k3 OFFicg SH0PCorucr of Main and Market streets
CItNs. MORRILL,, ArchHsR S. l.. GtLLis, BRadsr.
fui9ttl
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SFy,AS AJES.
w. =. EIOYT, NJ. ID.

SELAS AUES,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Office next door
north of E. T. Francis clothing store. u4S
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!. Z. IINMIIROOk

SASH. DOOR AND WINDOW BLIND MANUFACTURED
and House Ioacr. tar Shop Park Street, first doc
east of tl,e Guy lsauk. EeHoslai Wis. Is
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XTTiEN we meet with o posi- ion in one thing,
w we are-bouhd to evc,i j, I'D est in keeping the
best and parcst quality Of Drugs and Mep!cines in
the market We have been i-d.t aud havo select
ed tie Best from the New York Market
Oct 9, so STARKWEATHER & co.
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DRANT,s PULMONARY BAAsAra 81
3 , PURIFYING EXTRACT just received NJ the
Drug Store IF STARKWEAFHER x co.
D inn hard and soft Soap: constantly on hand, at
STARKWEATIIER & Co.'S
The Kanzas news., 1857-10-31
onr Present position

We find the following paragraph IN an
article on the late Kanzas election In the
editorial columns of that able friend of free
dom, the Wisconsin, Free. Democrat. The
editor. like all radical thinkers on the sub
ject of Slavery, fully cOmprehends the mag
nitude of our struggle, and broadly asserts
that which we have so often expressed, viz:
.eThat going into this election would not
make Kanzas free any sooner than adherence
to the old policy of non.recognition.''
..If this question of slavery were confined
entirely TO Kanzas, we should attach more
| importance TO this election; but 1t IS a no
tioasaE matter. in which the 'taid and COM
FORT of the nation in practical and effi-
cient point of view is arrayed against this
vote. Congress is against it, and If pro-
| slavery constitution is submitted to 1t, wheth-
er passed upon by the people or not, 1t viii
ratify it and admit the State. This election
| by no means takes the power from pro-
slavery hands to make Kanzas what they
please 1t shows the sentiment OF the peo-
| pie unmistakably, and Is worth whatever
effect such knowledge may be supposed to
at least, has not been much.
The Territorial government we looked
upon as useless, for all practical purposes,
the moment that the Constitutional Conven-
| ton was alloaced to organize. Our Terrific
rial Legislature does not meet till the first
week in january, and Congress assemblies
in December and no matter how objection
able may be the document presented by the
usurpers, it ariH doubtless be received By Con-
gress, and Kanzas admitted as State under
it, before our Legislature meets. How much
nearer shall we be to our liberty than we
should be if we had stood on the high and
noble platform of principle in place of ex-
pediency? If the "plug-ugly" Conven-
ton consummate their task of framing q
constitution, we have got the old battle to fight
over again, and with disadvantage of hay-
ing two scoundrels in the o. S. Senate mis-
representing us, and sent there by minori
ty Our safety consists alone, it seems tc
us, in putting into operation State Govern
ment before their constitution can be adopt
ed by Congress. Shall we do it, citizens o
Kanzas? Will you faint at the eleventh
hour, when few more bold strokes, such
as made the country ring in days "not o'e1
distant, viii gain a glorious victory? We
cannot believe it, and yet if something is moi
done, and that soon, the struggle viii have
again TO be fought, with less chances thai
hitherto of winning.
The Kanzas news., 1857-10-31
The Darien Expedition.

Congress, at its last session, appropriated
some twenty-five thousand dollars for the
purpose of making explorations and verify
ing surveys which have already been made,
of ship canal near the Isthmus of Darien,
to connect the waters of the Pacific and At
lantic oceans by the Atrato and Truando
rivers. The Secretaries of War and Navy
were authorized by the same act to employ,
under the direction of the President, such
officers of the army and navy as might be
necessary for the purpose. This important
work is abont to be undertaken by Lieut..
Craven, of the navy, and Lieut.. Bradford
and DR.. O'Hara, as his assistants. An
officer of the army and some FIVE or six en-
gineers are to be added, and the party is
expected to sail in few days. From the
intelligence recently received from the 18th
mus. there is good reason to believe that the
project of ship canal between the two
oceans is practicable.
The Kanzas news., 1857-10-31
Minnesota Politics

Are Republicans aware of the extent of
the money power now employed agaipst
them 1t is. impossible to state definite
sums, but is safe to say they are of such
magnitude as to carry the elections for slave.
.ry if anything can do 1t. Large sums are
drawn from Washington, and we understand
that one aspirant to the q. s. Senate saws he
has $50, 600 TO be used to reach that sta.
ton. And how much may come as toll
from the great Fort Smelling swindle is not
known. Every man for sale viii be bought
up; and how mighty convenient Just now
for many TO get a good lift IN paying for
their lands, or feeding their families through
the winter, or buying cow? 1t is safe to
say that hundreds of thousands of dollars
are to be employed, or would be if money
was not SO tight. to carry our elections in
favor of a set of ambitious doughfaces for
Office. The census canvassers are now all
over the Territory doing faithful work for
their patrons. And the utmost efforts will
be required to defeat these forces. The ques-
ton is-whether money shall control the
election of Minnesota-iSt. PauE Times, 98.
The Kanzas news., 1857-10-31
Suspension of ali the New York City
Banks.
New YoRK. Oct. IA.


The meeting of the Bank officers last
evening passed the following preamble and
resolutions
!. Whereas, in view of the excitement pre-
vailing in the community, and the actual
suspension of a number of banks of this
city,
ResolUed, That it is expedient that the
banks of this city should suspend specie
payments tomorrow, Wednesday,
ResotUed, That committee of three be
appointed to proceed to Albany and request
the Governor to convene the Legislature, to
consider the necessity of enacting some law
to give relief in the present financial emer-
gency.
Resol0ed, That the most energetic exer-
tons be made to secure an early resumption
of specie payments, and that it be recon-
mended that the banks make no dividends
to their stockholders until such resumption
of specie payments.
The struggle being over, the public breathe
more freely.
The State banks viii suspend; the East
ern banks will also stop; paper currency
will then again become general, and trade
will be resumed.
Stocks are already higher. Sterling ex-
change par to 102.
The Kanzas news., 1857-10-31
Yankees at SehastopoI.

The Yankees who are at work upon the
sunken ships at Sebastopol have made a
very good beginning and are pushing for
ward with true American energy. They
have erected store-houses, machine and
blacksmith shops, dwelling houses &c., and
Sebastopol has all the life, activity and ap-
pearance of New England ship yard
The company has about hundred superior
American mechanics, any quantity of Rus
sian laborers, and two gangs of divers at
work clearing away the vessels before at
tempting to raise them. In doing this they
have recovered large number of cannon,
great many anchors and chains, copper
sheathing. bolts, rigging de-, all of great
value The iron steamers and new ships
have not received any material damage
from the worms, but the old ships are not
worth repairing. -
The Kanzas news., 1857-10-31
TO the People of Kanzas.

{ We have, at the late election, carried eve
ry countyfn Kanzas by the legal vote
Every scheme that malignant ingenuity
could invent, has been resorted to by our
opponents to defeat the expressed wish of the
people. Fraudulent returns have been man
ufactured at different points and returned to
the Secretary's Office, so glaring that the
authors of the vile forgery dare not openly
sustain Them Governor Walker and Sec
retary Stanton have refused to allow them
certificates. although corrupt Judiciary has
endeayored, by writ of nadisdazaus, to COM
pel them to do so. If these officers stand
firm, as we have every assurance they will,
in the position they have taken, you viii
have the Delegate to Congress and a major
ity of both branches of the Territorial Leg
islature.
But this victory. great as it is, does not
free kanzas. The battle is not yet fought,
nor is the victory won. A body of usurp-
ers are now assembled at Lecompton, under
the guard of the q. S. army, concocting a
scheme to perpetuate the slavery oligarchy
in Kanzas. To their action we respectfully
call your attention. Hold meetings in eve
~ locality and denounce them; persevere
and perfect your military organization at
every point; be prepared TO march at a mo-
ment's warning, that when your cause and
your country calls you may promptly re-
spond. By participating in the late election,
you have shown to the world your earnest
desire to settle the Kanzas difficulties peace
ably; by that vote you have proven that the
Free State party are in the ascendency in
every county in Kanzas. The election
frauds, actually perpetrated to defeat the
wishes of that majority-the hellish scheme
now being concocted at Lecompton, evidenc-
ing that a resort to force may be necessary,
and having exhausted every peaceable meas
ure, it is believed that the world viii justify
you in resorting to arms. Be ready, then,
fellow-freemen of Kanzas you will not be
called upon until that call is absolutely in
dispensable, and when made, let all, withou
regard to age, respond. that the enemies O.
American institutions may know and fee
that an American people, when once aroused
are as irresistible as the great ocean when
moved by the mighty storm.
| By order of the Territorial Executive
| Committee. G. W. SMITH, Pres.
| G. w. HUTCHINsoN, Sec.
Lawrence, Oct. %, 1857.