Oshkosh Democrat (Newspaper) - August 30, 1850, Oshkosh, Wisconsin THE DEMOCRAT FRIDAY AUGUST 30 1850 County Convention Pursuant to notice a County Convention held here on Saturday last Clayton and Utica were not represented all and and only partially Judge Bruwn was appointed to W H Weed anti A H Cronkhite Were to attend o Judicial Convention I Men ai this piace day Thursday tne go to press before the Judicial Convention closes its sitting we cannot give its proceedings till next week celebrated Mr Winchell en- our on Thursday and evenings of last week with delineations bf character on Monday evening last Mr S W gave an exhibition of singing and performances A good house was in attendance much pleased A Dr T S Dickinson is delivering a course of lectures upon anatomy at the Court We have not had time yet to at tend but they are very tive Pail Factory Mr of Menasha has presented us a his and it is due to our readers who are to our paper for tho evidences of the improvement this country that we make note of it our gress Here is a town started but yesterday and amongst other improvements it boasts a Tub and Fail in ful operation Mr Beck with a firm from know he meet the merits Death by Tremens A M Randall who baat Wea a citizen o our town since last been much to Intemperance last night went te the jai ler and requested to be taken in to keep off the ghosts Indiana anc reptiles which he imagined were pursuing him The jailer into one of the cells to remove everything to prevent his injuring himself fie continued raving in a state far gone with the when his death The Cabinet After long delay ie completed by the of T M T McKennan of Pennsylvania of the and Charles M Conrad of ana to the War Department The Cabinet n full is df aniel Webster of the Treasury Secretary the Interior T M T Secretary of WaT harles Secretary of the Navy Postmaster General N i Attorney General J J Crittenden Letter from Washington AUGUST 14 What I wrote you last is fulfilling ry day that Governor Doty's plan for ing the national difficulties would be the o le has proved correct The Senate has already passed three bf the Omnibus notables Utall and the Boundary the balance of them nre f lowing fast The first and these bills are now in the House which thay will most undoubtedly be passed It may have been yet be asked jy some why adopted Tor the of these questions called the Plan if Gov D has allowed them to in the bouse pass the a very sensible question in justice to For the Democrat Mn hie to say a wor about this town It situated on River ten miles above Osh koah and ten'below Strong's Landing is five milea of the Wolf a road to which place is alread open It is eight miles Powa gan settlement twelve from Willow Creek at the head of Lake and but twen from Plover Portage on the Wiscon sin road to which place has jus been laid out passes through a countr equal to any in Wisconsin The to passing arid Omro and thence to Ce'resco i of the most im e answered thoroughfares in State I have it will TSe remembered that the minutely described its situation and the entire session thus fir by reference to show e can tell the Sentinel that the ex- for tha pardon of Smith imprisoned in our jail fur sufficient tie was a pauper the crime under the ue com- the punishment having dune the good it could and he was Ox rU the of by the exercise fresh air No wrong been done jail is doubtless as common but a cell ten feet square with a hole two feet square in any other ever would be to any occupant the man placed in it would die We the reason was ai sufficient We are it the receipt of Holden's and No 1 of Home Gazette Mr Magazine contains as good reading ter as any of the monthlies its low price it within the reach of Every body knows T S Arthur so that word us is a large weekly a year Address T S Arthur Co Philadelphia No 5 Franklin Place Business Changes The firm of Eastman Powers ie dissolved and Mr Cottrill continued the business at the old stand lot's of everything that the people want Messrs W A Knapp Co have sold out to Messrs Weed Si who come again to our town to supply their customers Vith thing -in fhe Business on To show our readers abroad something of amount of business done on our little ikke and how our people the ahead we give the result of the first of the i three steamboat Receipts Cost of running Nett receipts This boat was built by a joint stock wilh a capital of the estimated tost of the boat When the boat was ished together with the necessary repairs Tor the first months running the cost Was found to reach for the of which company was fecT At the time the accounts were there were two or three hundred dollars in the Clerk's hands not audited So that the three months the boat paid all and paid off the debt of The under the of Capti Estes has commenced laying the keel bf another at Neenah the timber For ie now on the ground Besides there are the State and the D B Whitacre both doing all the they are able to The Badger State runs up Fox River to twice a week and up Wolf River to a week laden down every trip A New The Green Bayr says hat the people of the Upper Peninsula of gan are agitating the project of separation from the State and the formation of a new State at Ste Marie favors the plan This is a good project and will doubtless eventually succeed It is lous to hitch the Lake Superior country to the State of Michigan Information Of Michael an Irishman posed be at present residing in Texas Mr D was living in Kentucky when last heard from some three years since From thence he went to Texas in which State it is believed he now resides Any tion in regard to him will be thankfully re- by his distressed sister Address Bridget Donahoe Fort consin Wisconsin and Texas papers will confer favor by this no- tice insertion The Kilbourn President of the waukee and Mississippi Railroad Company has effected a purchase of locomotives for 55 miles of the be ered before are under many obligations to the Sentinel and feel that it means to do us justice will it please read a little er and items to other sources that appear several than in our paper It is in the habit of doing this our article noticing on Wolf River it copied and gave a wrong credit to it Short Hand Magazines We have received from Longly er Cincinnati the first the to ed in Phonography or Short Hand We have also numbers of the An- glo revived by Charles M Lord New York one half of which is printed in Phonography If any of our readers desire to obtain a knowledge of the Spelling Re- form or of the most art df Short Hand writing they should take one or both of papers The Supplement is published monthly in quarto form at f a year for the Supplement and the weekly Phonetic Advocate Address Longly Brother The Anglo is published during las been discussing the whole question in a the bet n engaged upon the fell In tie louse the discussion to the art was not needed while the Senate the upon this Pla i was untouched By Seriate o take these several bills up and pass then months of time has been saved and the tri e interests of the Again bad Gov Doty introduced original bills into the House they must under the rules have gone to tha Committee of Whole and when they If passed would have been again de- in the Senate under a discussion yet completed As it is the bills have been passed by the Seriate ere now upon the Speaker's table in the House from which they may at any time be taken up and past ed Thus it will be seen spirit and an ingenious stroke of he Governor has succeeded in tig fii's a shorter than i lad reported bills original to the House But there is still another good reason fee his course It has ever been doubted or system sures which should pass the Senate lass the House For this reason lo J any to the just of the questions before the representatives of the people he and his friends determine 1 to forego their first chanee of the modes cf settling the difficulty Governor Doty's course has been opei and patriotic in this desire to the fhe point With regard to beauty location few towns Artd in any new try Veat object to seel after tn this respect this town led The high and dry of the this gradually rises presenting not only a guaranty for health but a scenery the led The watered by sian wells They to bore only forty feet to obtain these fountains and the water is sweet cool beautifully clear and The State Improvement is rapidly and Omro being situated tral place is destined to become a cial point of consequence It on both sides vef The with a thickly settled flourishing country of great extent which must mart for the sale and exchange of its produce And although the town is but a year old already preparations storehouses for ihr folio form at M year Address FErst Avenue N Y Scientific American This is a weekly publication devoted to improvements in the arts and sciences For its and scope we refer our readers to the hi this of our papen In addition to this prospectus we wish simply to say that the paper is every way equal to It is conducted with ability and is a perfect dium of all the in the several arts sciences in and the mechanic and to the philosopher and the man of study it is an invaluable work To the first in a cheap comprehensible form is presented all improvements which enhance the value of their labor and their work more effective To the second the tion the suggestions and speculations of men of thought and genius the world over IB brought compendiously before them and they are thud enabled to commune with the Inventive Mind of the Let every one able subscribe for a copy Senator Walker has made a very able speech on Land Reform which is re- praise from all We will publish it next week eral good NORTHMAN Judicial Candidate Ex-Governor writes the lowing relative to the Circuit ship by which it will be seen that he is candidate for the FOND DU LAC Aug 15 1850 Dear have received your letter of the 14th written at the request of citizens desiring to know whether I will my be ing election as a candidate fur the office of Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit have received many applications from othe parts of the Circuit of the same purport with you that it is not a political of fice and that influence our action in selecting a suitable person to fill it this is the design of constitution Hence the election of Judge cannot be held at a general election no days either before or after such election Between political supposed to he a difference of political ciples It is on this account of the respective of carrying out those principles But the principles carried out by Judiciary are common to all anil therefore the people without distinction party should have the opportunity of select irig unbiassed by party influen cest and political s I informed by Chief that de clines a re-election the question therefore as to the choice of his successor is entirely In answer then to your inquiry I have only to say that those citizens who are favorable to my election are at liberty to use my name for that office in any way they deem proper If elect ed 1 Discharge its duties according to the beet of my a til eb T another chosen I shall submit the utmost cheerfulness to the decision o the great popular tribunal in the hope anc that its choice has fallen upor one more discharge the jmpor tant duties of that high arid responsible sla tion your TALLMADGE To F DAVIS Esq Strong's This town contains a population of 700 A year ago it was not over 200 There art there 7 stores S hard ware 5 ceries 2 drug stores 3 smith shops 2 on shops and 2 cabinet This tellt the best story of its progress On the 9th instant Gul made a communication to the Senate -in writing which he wanted the reporters to engraft as if it had in which he says thai bn a Memorial froth f G Page appropriated to en- and of produce stage route has from Oshkosh to Fort Winnebago passing directly through this town which adds yet more to the importance of the point A bridge acros the river has just been and the travel to the is every day converging To show the progress of the town will just state that in June of there one where the town now stands On the first day of May last the town contained between eighty a persons Now thr 24th bf August it contains over six hundred and two steam saw in liod two large public houses an extensive cabinet chair factory a anr sash four blacksmith shops five stores one boot and shoe establishment Stc You may think Mr speak in too high ternis of praise I admit that I but I think the place rants the feeling If orie I gay too much just let him visit the place and be convinced I warrant no one regret his trip or impeach my description The Saturday This is one of the largest Family Newspapers published in the try It is an old and well established tind as it deserves a vast lation Wo should rejoice to see just such 4 paper in every family in the land TERMS The terms of the Post are if paid in advance if not paid in advance For one copy is sent three years In order lo accommodate that large ber of persons who wish to take a first class paper but they cannot ford ft we continue the following low terms for clubs to be sent to one A I I 4 copies year 8 13 20 10 13 20 One copy of the Post one of either Graham's Magazine ley's Lady's Book or Magazine for Pour Dollars The money for clubs must always tie sent n advance Subscriptions may be osir risk When the sum is large a draft should be procured if cost of may be deducted from Address always post paid DEAN St PETERSON South Philadelphia VV of the iee died lately at the of his father in Divisions of the Sons Massachusetts New lampshire divisions have the National Di- excluding persons from At prize match in one woman drank 16 cups state that has been in Texas and also in the Lake Superior country Pottsville Miner's ial says that a young mare in that vicinity eing bitten By a tool fright and in er flight leaped a bridge which was not clearing feel been he enlarged N Y canal It runs 7 miles n hour Tts pipe reconstructed so as to be under bridges The steamer Pacific made 326 miles i one day on her lasf trip home The dav's run Electro Motive PoWer able to make experiments iu a reference to using it as a tive power the American we glean that the river Sacramento falls feet in 20 feet to the mile the river Jordan falls 100 feet from the Lake Tiberias to the Dead miles in a di- motive power are that Dr sky's he can duce power at a than steam With the consumption of two and a half ziric he horse power hours The advantages of mates as incalculable Its in moneyed cost in the saving of human life as it is subject to no in its omy navigation no rodia feeing necessary for the apparatus and the weight of being unnecessary and in land carriage no stoppages fbr wood and wa- no in entering towns from the use of steam Stc making its ty beyond estimate Col Benton announces appropriation to a ship of war for tlie of testing this power his intention to WELCH lias taken the charge of the Wisconsin Statesman Where the Chattanooga and ville Railroad crosses the TennesSee River a manufacturing town is to be A tory of spindles is about Behig ed Coal is plenty iii that experiments made at Paris on telegraphic lines on an iron wire of an inch in diameter electricity is but 200 by the tortuous course of ted miles a second in a copper wire the feet to the and that the inch in diameter it is propagated Mohawk River falls 4 feet to the a The delegation that went to Minesota It is fn to buil j a ridge across Lake A e has been the Lake near the anada line with reference to that object The Rochester Democrat brags of being presented with made from wheat which was standing in the field ibe day previous Cf hag two hundred lars for a song lor Jenny Lind to sing on the first night of her appearance iri this country to be approved of by two persons lie names A railroad is constructing the Milwaukee papers that ii is rapidly progressing that it will be completed by the of October The citizens of Charleston S C contemplate supplying the with water from the Edisto river SO miles distant cost A machine has been invented for carving wood by steam Every possible riety ot letters and other carving is done by it with extreme beauty and rapidity contains 2400 Sheboygan Falls 1045 Power's statue of Calhoun which With the brig has been recovered f i Chesapeake and Ohio Canal will soon be completed say Baltimore papers has -a thanks and eulogy to Cass for his speech on ry i call attention to the card of WM H Byron Co another column Our readers have Occasion to deal in Milwaukee will find it to their interest to call upon them Railroad is contemplated from Fox River Illinois to the Mississippi at Rock Island The Mississippi can be bridged n that point and it is thought to have the road continued lo intercept the contemplated Road at the mouth of Kansas River Again there is no choice in the 4th District Massachusetts was 18 trial We tender our thanks to Messrs Doty and Buell for Congressional The celebrated of Schlosser memory has petitioned the Canada bly for pay for his detention in this country on the charge of burning the Caroline The Atlantic Her last passage Voin Liverpool to New York in ten fifteen hours 13 Mr Hale anti-slavery petitions Laid on the table The Hill granting lands and right of war for the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad engrossed for a third reading On motion of Mr Douglas the California was taken up and passed a third reading August 13 HOUSE The early portion of the daj was consumed on the Report of the Com- on Rules The Committee reported amendments so as to facilitate tha business of the House and prevent a factious ty from thwarting the majority by a resort to tactics Postponed till to-morrow when The House went into Committee of the whole and took up the General tion Private claims The Senate took up the special order the to cede the public lands to the States iu which they lie on condition that they be granted to actual settlers in limited ties free of Upon Mr Walker addressed the Senate at length Postponed till to-morrow The California was then passed 34 to 18 August 14 Report of the on Rules was adopted The discussion of the Civil and Diplomatic was continued til the House adjourned Ten Senators Mason ter Butler Barnwell Soule Davit Morton and Yulee presented a Protest against the admission of California and requested that it be entered on the nal A long discussion followed when the subject was postponed till tomorrow Mexico was then taken up Mr Chase moved an amendment that be prohibited in the Territory Lost 20 to 2.5 The was then engrossed 15 the discussion of the Civil and Diplomatic continued No action The protest of Southern against the admission being before the Senate for its reception tha whole subject was laid on tl e to 19 The establishing ment for New Mexico was then passed 27 to 10 August 16 Discussion of the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation continued 17 HOUSE Discussion of the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation continued August 19 HOUSE House returned and continued the discussion on the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation on Committee of the whoie j SENATE After the consideration of private bills and resolutions the Fugitive was taken up discussed generally and pos i 20 A lengthy discussion upon the rights of Delegates from The discussion ot the Civil Diplomatic Appropriation was then continued throughout the day this village on the in the 21st year of her age MARIE NETTE wife of Dr J L lenders and daughter of the late John Bailey of Illinois STOCKHOLDERS and Road Company will meet at Burroughs Hotel in on Monday the day of September next for pf organizing said Company By order of v HARRISON REED DOTY LAW CORNELIUS NORTHRUP Aug 30 A and at Law Of- fice with L P Crury in Ang he entire Spanish Navy is cruising about the Island of Cuba Thirty-five thousand California grants hid passed Ft tije 21 st Jube fast F H having bought out the interest of Edward Eastman and F M Powers will continue the business of the late firm at old stand where he will be ready to customers as of old cheap for cash or barter August 20 House and Lot for Sate SMALL HOUSE 16 Uy 23 well finV ished situated about reds Ferry street Inquire of the Aug L Ii COTTRILL Sheriff's Sale Y virtue of as execution issued out of the Clerk of the County Court ot the County of Winnebago and to me directed and delivered against the goods and chattels and lands and tenements of John E Jones in my bailiwick in favor of Albert F Wilcox I have seized tho lands and ses situated in said lot number four in block tho village of Rapids and the dwelling erected thereon which J expose for aale at public auction to the highest der for cash on the promisee on Saturday 5th day of October next at two 2 rtt the afternoon of that day all the title of the said in and the foregoing described to satisfy and tha costs of luit Wis Aug M N MOULTHROP Sheriff By G T VISIKO Under Sheriff
