Southport American (Newspaper) - March 2, 1844, South Port, Wisconsin WISCONSIN SATURDAY MARCH 2 1844 24 virtue of n issued out the of the district ul tho County W T to me directed arid chattels lands mid of seph tho right title and interest or claim either in Inw or which the said defendant on thp of July in and lo the following bf land with the appurtenances situate being in iho town of Rochester in the county aforesaid to south west tion number five in township four 4 north of number nineteen 1 shall offer for public aa tho law the Gth day of April next at 2 I M at the house of McKoy dict in the county Doted 1844 M Shff SHERIFF'S Dy of Fieri Facias out of tlie Court in and for the County of to directed hnd delivered I have seized nnd taken the Brick School House with lot on which stands School District number ono town of Burlington in the county i for sale il public ns tho directs on tho ith day of April at M at tho house of McKoy tho village of Southport county Dated Feb M MYERS S Uy virtue of a writ of Fieri issued out of District in nnd for the County of Racine W T to me di- and delivered the and Lands nnd tenements of Marston nnd John Coffin 1 have levied upon nnd taken nil the right interest claim or demand cither hi law or equity which the snid defendants or either of them on iho day of November AD or atony time in and to the owing described lots of land situate lying and be- ing in the town of Paris and County aforesaid to The southeast quarter of suction no teen iii township number two north of range No twenty one tho west hull of the south east of section number 3 township number? range number 20 cast also tho southeast of section number 19 township number 8 21 cast which T offer for at pub lie us law directs on ith tiny of April next at 2 o'clock T M at the house of McKoy ifc in the village of Dalud Kcb 17 M MYERS Slid SHERIFF'S of nn alias execution issued out of of iho Clerk bf the District Court in hml county of cine VV T to me and against goods nnd hinds ririd of Demon Davis 1 havu nnd nil certain dwelling rouso lot in iho village of Rochester in snid county lying 10 or 50 rods west of Campbell's in said village nnd now in the occupancy ol said I shall offer for nt public nw ihc di- rects on ihc day of April next o'clock P M the house of McKoy in the of ted Feb 1.7 M execu tion out of the of ihr clerk District Court in and ihu Bounty of I to me directed tho nnd nnd H V J u and taken nil the right or claim in law or c said had on of ly last nt J o'clock J M to tho of I nnd in of county ot lirK west hull of the west tor of sectii'ii Ko township which I s law oh of v I V house i i IMC iti 1C liy nu out i ho of the Court in and tlm of W T 10 me nnd the mid of Elijah A and F levied upon nil the right title or in Inw or equity which or oi ther of them have in to following bed lot of land situate ly nnd being in of W T to the South east quarter iff thirty two township number four of number nineteen onsi which I for salu nt public auction as tho law directs on Saturday the day of March next nt I clock J M nt the house of ami dict in of connly aforesaid ShK virtue of un tion issued out of the of tho Clerk of District Court In and for county of W T lo nie delivered against the goods nud chattels nnd of son levied upon nnd taken the foi lowing described property to lot number in block number eighty north of the village of in county with the appurtenances tinto excepting from levy 41 feet from the south cud of lieh T pose for sale tit public as the law directs on Saturday iho day of Mm eh next at I o'clock M at the house of McKoy nnd dict in iho village February 10 M ShU virtue of n writ of Fieri out of the Court in nud for tho to me directed delivered f have seized taken the lot of land lying in the town of Pike in ho county aforesaid to southwest Quarter of number twenty-three town north of number twen ty two east which for stile public vendue ns the law directs on the day of noVt nt 12 o'clock M nt the house of Benedict in village of Southport in the county ary 1844 M MYERS Shff SIJ IS RIFF'S S A LK of nn tion out of District Court in arid foi the county of W T to mo directed and delivered against tho goods nnd chattels tenements of Daniels I have levied upon and taken all that certain and lot in the eolith ward of iho Village uf Southport now occupied by E IJ nnd known und 19 being lot number two in fifty six I shall offer for sale nt lic vendue as the law directa on Saturday the day of next at 2 P M nt the bouse of McKoy in the bf and county Southport of an the iho Clock tho District Com tin nnd for the county of to me nnd delivered the arid arid tenements of I seized nnd the following The west Block number in the Inid out on the fractional quarter of thirty one in town two of range twenty three in the District in of in the slid county ol I shall offer for nt public aa tho law on tho dny of March next 11 o'clock A M nt the hauae of McKoy in the of Janury 27 1814 M BIRTHDAY OF WASHING TOST BY OBO Why swell n million da one Wilh of the fast Ami why lings OLt thai gun Upon the ill hiag hold the beautiful the bravo The It id it chy that gave Qm We offer hero a sacrifice Ol to lum who came To young With sword of living To him who on war's lin in a cloud A halo of the storm A hundred yours all their trains Of by name remains A sound die TIs graven on the the And on the mountain And on every sounding gale And looping No on his Its sculptured column roara But his is lot A OUt tipie thift tho marble bow each laurel loaf That blooms upon Of our immortal chief His deeds wore ours but through the world That mighty chief will be glory's banner Is The prophet of free J And cut they bend their eagle eyes On Victory's burning sun will echo to tho God and From the Courier and Enquirer CANAL ACROSS THE ISTHMUS QF PANAMA Wo spoke some days since of the rious propositions that had made For the construction of n ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama to and Pacific oceans nnd alluded to the great importance of such a1 work in the interests of ami America We see by the article in the last number of the that the enterprise been undertaken in earnest that the work has been already contracted and tho stops taken fur its completion The writer of the article quotes from a I printed and privately in Great the following sage si decree promulgated at Bogota of May 1838 a privilege was by ihu of New opening a communication between the and Pacific Oceans across the Isthmus of Panama rights under this decree belong solely and ex- to the house of mon Co of Panama the government and they have the right over all such lands shall be found necessary for the a canal That it ia to be eight years hut may be extended if it be found that the work has ul ready com- which is actually the ease srs Solomon Co having caused a vey to bo made of the whole line from to Panama The same pamphlet states that an able French engineer named Morel has the line the ing That the width of the Isthmus of Panama in a direct line exv coed thirty-three miles 2 That the mountains this point and forms a valley merom 3 That besides these three iiveis can be made available the and 1 which flow into tho Atlantic and the Parian in the im- vicinity ol Panama 4 That deep at its tho 5 and 3 That the highest point m tho lino of the canil is 33 teot and the length of the lino not more th in twenty lour miles And it it added that about four sand have been led It will bp that some weeks since a was copied IVom some London papei stating that Bit ing had made with tho Republic of foi the of the This statement was find it contained in a cently made to the Academy of Science by the distinguished savan M Arago who added that had ded to the tho line with acies of land on the two banks and acres more m the m- It ib not impossible nor the even tiie Baling aro connected with the Panama House of Solomon Cp in this gi eat work thp cost of which is by the at and the of late ot about twenty-two pet cent Though statements do not afford positive evidence that the woik has been actually taken giye room for tho reasonable presumption that an of tho has been commenced in financial and commercial circles and that stepa have lead to seething SENATOR PORTER Mr it is said pronounced a feeling tribute to the of Mr in the Senate Jn seconding after the announcement of his death the tomary motion to adjourn lie met Mr when fin emigrant boy on the of the land in Tennessee lead law in the same a friendship only by faith Their law licences ed young Porter went to the Lower and young to tho Upper Years after they met again in the ate of the United in but the same ardent nijd devoted personal friends Mr B thus closed his And here me 1 sny it with pride and deceased brother and admired a Idve arid increasing with his with his better of the and after he bad fortune in this country he returned on a visit to his native land and to the continent Europe 1.1 df l honest for the emigrant boy to to the land of his fathers in the goods of this and clothed the the American visit was a one His soul sickened at the state of his fellow men in the old had it from arid he returned from that a Stronger feeling than ever of his try New honors awaited him that of a second to the But he not mitted and proceedings of tnis day announce his second brief tion to this body and his departure from the gloomy portals of arid the radiant of enduring fame DR ORATORY In an lately pronounced by for G of Philadelphia before Societies of Dickinson lego Pennsylvania we a ly dealing with gt cat political aons of the day is highly ble to its eloquent author A passage or will be our GAMBLING IN New Y of the relates the following The life stock besides being little else than a scene of ment is attended with a variety of madness of poetry without its if the be Allow me to give you o brief sketch of a passage in the life ol one of the many of the in Wall street Many years ago a young Scotch gentleman arrived in this country an bringing with him as passports to a good and and prudence and an indefatigable in- dustry he accumulated v princely for- tune In the during the of he touched a little in the stocks and con- sequently went on till be became deeply all slock gambling In revulsion came he caught and the lapse of a few him a ruined be dabbled in the stocks now and freak of good luck and at opening of the year 42 had about one hundred thou his lost At that time Haarlem Railroad stock liad ed to a share was said to be worthless that The gentleman of whom 1 am writing launched into when it was sold the he purchased aM he could get at When it gfive and he was going civil He was declared a riatic put and bundled off the Insane at him arid pitied him was crazed He several In the stock forty doll a splendid foi tune by his ciazy and soon said he was a man ot the most ment of and his opinions on woie entitled lo the most I the has now fiom tho Stock FOREIGN or AMERICA Boston Ch A couple ol who had enjoyed tho of a sleigh to indulge in that amusement while sojo the awhile ago A wis Singly and asked if they woald e one or two said one of them very innocently as not used to this I think one buffalo will be as muc h as we can un- less they bo THE RESPECT DUC TO THOSE wno UT- TLR ment is emphatically one of experiment Theie has never been one like it on the and few ptccise precedents can be for its rules Not a few fair have boon by the test of tice proved to be false Not a few haie been and true Not a few remain yet to be ded u pon in the p rag ress of e v is the case with every practical inquiry there must be failure's mistakes ly How that a thorough searching of public question and that all light be it by the reasoning of every mind 1 Instead of those their of safe beneficial or should be grateful to them for adding tiny to of all that concerns country Be who has the fore- sight and courage to lift a warning voice against clangers hidden in some specious seducing the hearts of peer with the promise of rapid prosperity can penetrate through the veil present circumstances throw over to the few simple laws imp by band upon civil economy and present them to light as axioms no expediency should disregard or oppose deserves more than a warrior's for his is more happy and Honorable than to die for Alas what mischiefs upon us through the by of such Is it wisie is it brave is it eyes and ears to what may he truth before we have heard its reasons or pondered its i IMPROVEMENT OF Are we to make no advance in the ence of when every other science ia striding Did reach its acma fathers we reject novel doctrine as Shall we fling away that common sense for which our are remarkable over Europeans those arrogant Islanders who are ever under the prejudices of long usage and think of a no tion crowns and commons nor im- agine a judge without a wig nor dream of Christianity nor dare to replace abeam in their rotten fabric test whole mass topple down upon their our left us Free let us live the right cussion fulls beneath the sleel of factious tyranny let us fold our Tabes in our mantles and die with it Foi then will all our liberties be the prey of the gambler the gladiator and the usurer do not say unite yourselves with -no By mere individual isolated action will throw away all your influence It is Quixotism ride forth a and think to carry nil by your own lance It is folly than folly to re- fuse a carry great public ures with those who from us in mi- nor particulars cheerfully to compromise in the less that may at- tarn the greater Neither confine your regards for to what is by its shore Study deeply of past wealths Mark the rocks upon which the republics Greece and the Netherlands have struck Search out the of then Make acquainted with Political which despite he th it has upon it as a meie c ict tun urn's next lo itself foi thf ol Liy fast hold of the laws God elf h given to the commerce and of nations and which -like his other laws can be violated without a of ty And then stand foith as as men uid ind the into osts of tho people to tnp American mind and heart This is youi office let it be yoi t and THE OF Whore is the for the ation of if bhe desired denounce even if there was no violation of al en if she not d I ask ing necessity which generates a power hot given by the Constitution nor anl bp its is territory that we our wide unoccupied main stretches from the Mississippi to the Pacific we have more land llian we are able to defend savage ion or British usurpation We want more slave States to the fanatical free States Let the it you admit sir that we want Texas to extend shivery men Unutterable emotions I ask tho charter of mv liberty I call upon the of American Independence upon which it is founded I invoke spirit of freedom which in the day of fering and threatened despair inspired its utterance most unholy scheme Shall we not blush to draw the veil us from the contempt and of mankind liberty and practising servitude shall we no longer gull them by the plea of tho sole defence of Anew we incur the guilt of slavery and are ready to do bailie even unto death for its expunge from your annals the declaration of repeal which makes the slave the bet and bind iho laurel upon the brow of the suspended vour fleet the coast uf Britain and the world that you have been solemn farce when you talked so loudly of that tyranny is the best government and slavery iho truest now at lust you gin lobe in years con- straint wearies the impassive muscles of the most wooden give it now you hold slavery sacred at home and like ihc oriental prophet of Medina you are ready by fire and sword iho that henceforth and forever your word shall be slavery or death I care not for the the past I declare that the're is no power iii the Constitution by wind a can be admitted into the Union Slavery cannot exist by the law of it not exist by of Congress did exist by tho laws of the sovereign States in the formation of the tion that far retained their ty denying it lo extent to the ture of their united they vested in Congress the power lo make a slave then they at the same yielded the power him If then the Con- gress can make a slave State they can unmake a slavo Slate and if she that power it is her duty not to add new slave Stales to the Union but to purge it immediately of this fatal disease death to the liberties of the whole M Clay AT Till Com let and here ate now fifteen cotton mills in of which have been established within the last it is on good that the five years of that time wh oh business of all thete has no instance of in any one of these to duce fan for capital invested where the business was ed to A asked the men all in love Ills an- i swei was If men do not in luve beautiful women must be un- becomes dable to his competitors 01 subordinates the illiterate labble and puny scribbler generally seek to deceive imputation or D EXERCISE -4.11 nations which us and have been notable for then bodily strength and ability to wese those who themselves to bold and The and nations ol antiquity winch are and had then and which daily in The ancient paid as much at- tention to physical at we now do to il education and they of accomplishing ana most anything within scope of phys ical and endurance j THE COMIC j This is not only one of the most ful but most amusing almanacs that is annually published It is an old favorite j arid it affords us pleasure o be to speak or the present lion in our usual terms of We i give the following extract as a FACTS In on tho fire in- lo and that is the best policy it will not be available in case of fire on the 7th Dr but as we do not know how to pronounce an opinion on this Maskelyne it is better for us to remain neuter In March That the month is a at sea causing leaks in ships and that on the being -St David's are worn in the hut by men In the pa pers are delivered early in the month and that riot even vainest of u's is then disposed to overrate himself In on the 14th tion was first used in 1.796 and that while it saved many from being pitted with the small pox the invention itself pitted against any other sun is before the clock oii 7th which may be by clock before he sun Will do it no good to place it before decrease in the month and that on the 5th 1880 Algiers lost a Dey Napoleon was born on the 15th and Andrew Marvel on the the former was really 1 greater than the latteri grapes will now be- gin to want looking after If you do not Bag thorn yourself and your vine happens in an exposed situation you may expect that some one will come ami bag you That melons can only be raised in hoi beds and of course the holler bed the better the Some fruit gardeners rec layer cinders but red hot ashes enclosed in a warming pan will heat your bed er than anything It is usual to cover tho bed over a panes of glass in ii a good would be more That 5th is Guy day which te of aii attempted blow tip rind 9th is Lord Mayor's day which is tod to an annual blow the close of is the proper time to begin a system df keeping accounts for will havr ty of accounts sent in to enable you to commence editorial the ton from Washington thus speech in the Mouse of a few days Mr King of great credit for the handsome and noble defence of Mr Adams which ho made in yesterday lo the assertions of Mr When asked by Giliner in a very and one that is only too com- in the present great petition had not been ed by a slave Mr King turned upon and gave him noble we know no slave There every being made in tho image of his Maker owes allegiance arid homage only to Creator This of made a great sensation among ihc less than half a hundred rose in all to call him lo A Journal gives the following account of a remarkable child with kers The Child which now four weeks old healthy and likely to Jive not only whiskers on both sides its face under the chin and as as as any dandy would ho proud c f having iis forehead and aro completely ed hair as thick as lamb's wool As remarkable as may seem tho facts aro as wo have The child is to bo christened said a Tippecanoe of eighteen hundred and forty yesterday ono who was ul that period fellow of his why is it fact you have lo nc knowledge his political said is fri nd what could have been your motive My said Oil it was A of course New Picayune FOR young lawyer being very assiduous in his attentions to a young lady i wil hat he never heard of making love by Vory replied the other but you should re- member that all Cupid's votaries nre soli AN ACT to ascertain the indebtedness and he taxable property of tho tory Be U enacted by the Council and House of of the Territory of Wisconsin 1 That all persons having in their possession any evidences of debt against shall present the same to tho Auditor of the Territory at for record who shall record in a book to be kept by for thut of the claims ol the indebtedness by the Territory by whom signed and countersigned when several amounts and o whom payable 2 The Auditor shall place on all vouch ers so recorded such mark devices us will prevent a second registration 3 The Secretary of tho Territory shall cause to be published a correct y of this act in all the weekly journals of this Territory and all proper charges for publishing Uie same shall be paid out of any money appropriated by Congress to pay for printing laws of the tory 4 The auditor shall receive for the services contemplated by this act sum as may think just and proper i 5 The holders of demands then ed shall have preference in payment over any who may refuse or neglect to with of this act oti pr bo- fore the tenth day of January G The clerks of the board of county commissioners and the clerks Towns m this Territory shall after tho assessment rolls of their respective counties and shall completed and equalized transmit to the Auditor an thereof designating the number of acres of land assessed in such county the assessed thereof far can the merit for buildings and improvements and assessment for land exclusive improvements also the assessment on personal property arid total amount of assessments in their respective tics and it shall duty of Auditor within the time required for submit his anual reports to report said abstract to iho Legislative sembly Approved January 31 gratified by letter from ton Feb Mill that the Committee on have agreed lo tha foi lowing for Harbor Grand Uiver 000 and for repairs of bors f U Hi