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Cincinnati Daily Press, 1860-03-19

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It lias licon cyniniHy puid tlmt of nil tlio virtues, gratitude lnu tho shortest memory. Tlie Cliinose nnvy Is very forrairlulilp; it t'onsutf 'of two vcisclB, oiio bcow mid nvo guns. A firemen's tiuirnnincutj open to nil engines South of the Poloiimc, is to take! plncc in I'oluinhin,, S. C, on tho lUth dny of Mny next. Jnnies Uolih, the well-known hntikcr of New Orleans, was nuirricd nenr Alliens, Ga., rcrcnUy, to Miss Klizuheth Church Craig. A nun nnined lloutright ' recently mnr mnr-ried - ried mnr-ried In Cooper County, Missouri, to his tenth wife. Certainly he was not a-bout-right. A blacksmith in the employ of the Overland Mail Company, was killed nenr Fort Chad Chad-burn, - burn, Chad-burn, recently, by the Camanches. A Constantinople dispatch says that the typhus fever is tarrying oil' the fugitive Cir Circassians - cassians Circassians at the rate of one hundred per dny. The London Timet announc es that the cir circulation - culation circulation of that paper has bcon suppressed throughout the Austrian empire. ' Friendship is possible onlv between wise and good men; others are but companions. No marvel, then, tho rarity of friendship. Wm. Lloyd Garrison's Liberator has nn article denouncing the late speec h of .Senator Hewnrd in the most violent terms. There are ten or twelve murder cases now pending in the Casey Circuit Court of Ken Kentucky. - tucky. Kentucky. A little daughter of Mr. Letcher was burnt to death, by her clothes taking lire, in New. Albany, nut., n any or two since. A steivm fire-engine, nlmost completed In Richmond, Vn., is for the city of St. Peters Petersburg - burg Petersburg per order of the Cr.nr. There nro two thousand five hundred nnd sixty-two students in the vnrious mcdicnl colleges in the United States. Charles Warner, Trensurcr of Dnn Rice's great show, was lately married, in Philadel Philadelphia, - phia, Philadelphia, to Ella Zoyara, the famous cqucstricne. John Mitchcl, the "Irish patriot," who has returned from his visit to Paris, is about to lecture in New York on tho subject of "Na "Napoleon," - poleon," "Napoleon," Thomas J. Anderson, a citizen of Fayctte Fayctte-ville, - ville, Fayctte-ville, N. C- died on Friday from the effects of n brutal nttnek made upon him by Isnac liletchcr. A little boy named Thrcdgall, of Allen County, Iiid., died from the elici ts of eating wild pnrsnnps last week. Two other boys were sick from the same cause. A committee, nt Auburn, N. V., consider resin gas at Sti per thousand feet, cheaper than coal gas at $8 60, and so the resin and the price have been agreed upon. The Courtlnnd County (X. V.) Rqiuhlican published '2,000 extra copies of the sheet con containing - taining containing Gov. .Seward's speech, for gratuitous circulation. Van!; Fair, the new play of Dion Rourci Rourci-cault, - cault, Rourci-cault, thcCollcy fibber of the time, is pro pronounced - nounced pronounced n stage success by the New York papers. . i . ; . John Reynolds, of Southampton Township, Penn., one day lost week, effected the whole wholesale - sale wholesale destruction of fourteen foxes by two jbots from his gun.--- ;. Air. Bowdenj Sheriff of Monroe Countv, (in., was shot and killeil, on Monday, by 'a iiihu named llineslcy, upon whom ho was attempting to servo a writ. John Ford, a revolutionary soldier, died in Bibb County, On., some days since, in the one hundred nnd fifth year ot his age. Ho was married fivo times. . An agriculturist in London, on the first of April, goes to the Zoological Gardens, with n recommendation to be shown the twn.hnrnorl ! Dilemma. Negotiations nro progressing favorably for the extension of the Grand Trunk ltoad to Boston, by a broad gunge truck, on the lino j oi tno r.nsicrn jiuilroau Horn 1'ortlunil. i The Imnerial Library at St. Petersburg ' coutuins twenty-nine thousand live hundred j and sixty-lour volumes, written by foreigners, ubout Russia. . j A Western Chess Congress will be held in St. Louis, commencing April 11, at which Morphy, Paulsen, and othor great players will be present. Tho swiftest horse ever known was "Flying Childers," which performed four miles, three hundred and eighty yards, in seven minutes Mid a-half, which is atthurateofoverthirty atthurateofoverthirty-three - three atthurateofoverthirty-three miles per hour. In a church in Norfolk, Vu., last Sunday, a loaded pistol in the pocket of a boy went off, penetrating tho leg of a boy named Ilenry lirown, just below the kneo. Good place and time to carry weapons. A snilor, James Fletcher, n resident of Pb Pb-ducah, - ducah, Pb-ducah, Ky., committed suicide on board tho steamer Uncle Sam, betweon Cairo and the former place, on Sunday night, by cutting his throat. It is now believed that tho yellow fever, having broken out with great virulence at Havana, it may not be entirely safe for North Northerners - erners Northerners to go to Charleston on the 23d of April next. . .. , v . ' . ' ' A petition, numerously- signed by citizens of Clay Oounty, Mo., was recently presented to David R. Atchison, requesting hiui to be become - come become a candidate for Governor an honor ho declined, . . , An old negro, supposed to bo dead, having been thrown oat ot the hearse in which he was going to the grave, near Cleveland, Ohio, the other day, came to life again, greutly to the terror of tho "mourners."

Selling Goons, not I'uixciplks. New Yore merchants havo not yet forgotten the sensa sensation - tion sensation produced in mercantile circles, during" tho Castle Garden excitement, by the public announcement nindo by Mr. Henry C. Bowcn, (of the well-known silk-house of Bowcu & McNamcc.) that tlio firm had re resolved - solved resolved to "sell their goods, not their princl-' pies." A few days ago n slavcholding Ken Ken-tuckiun, - tuckiun, Ken-tuckiun, after buying a bill of goods at this same establishment, (now Dowcu, Holmes & Co.,) went into tho private ottico for a con conversation - versation conversation with tlio leading members of the firm, on certain subjects connected with the saving of the Union. Tho Kentuckinn main maintained - tained maintained his side of tho question with some earnestness, until lie wild interrupted by the sudden ent rance of a western man, a stranger to both parties, who, without wailing to in introduce - troduce introduce liimself, said to Mr. B., "'I have come to get a silk dress for my wife." "We don't sell nt retail," was the reply. "I can't help that," said the stranger, "I am in from the West, nnd I want to buy my wife a dress from the mnn who soils his goods, and not his principles." Mr. B. called one of bis clerks, and directed him to show the gentk gentk-mau - mau gentk-mau the finest silks in tho cstablisniront. The Kentuckinn put on a look of ln-diorou surprise, and, on resuming his conversation, changed the topic of discourse. . Z z T . r, y A Fkmale Fashionable TniEr. LnslwceK,,! in New Orleans, a young huly of respectable connection, aud wealthy, was detected ill the act ot stealing a gold portc-moiiuaie from jewelry store. A bill for tho article was sent to the hotei where she was living, when she denied hnving bought nnything of the kind, and even assumed an air of indignation.,. The proprietor of the store then called upon gentleman relation of the lady's, under whose protection she was, nud explained the cir circumstances - cumstances circumstances of the nll'air. Ho went up to the lady's room, nnd quito a scene followed, re resulting - sulting resulting in her confessing not only this hot also a number of other similar pecndilloesk returning all the stolen nrticles nnd stating from whom each was taken. They wore all returned to their proper owners. i : A Man Dyinii on His Own GnAVK.w-Aa old nnd respected citizen, John Marsohalky died suddenly nt the Cemetery of the Ever- : oH..,.i.i.,n xr r J.... Lfruens, in JMuwfwju, ... i ., ioid uiiidi ,T v- 11U lllld Ull U Vlftlb il UIO I'UUII-IUIJ- lll!U grandson, and, seating liimself on n tomlv. stone to the plot owned by himself, tell book nnd expired. He hud bitterly beon treated for dropsy nnd disease of the heart, nud it supposed he died of the latter disease, A Royal Marriaua CoNTRAiiinTKD.-sJriTe-T Court Journal says that tbero is not-the slightest foundation for the announcement. copied from tho Dutch papers, of the np-.H proacmng marriage oi ine rrmce oi urtuge with an illustrious British Princess. . A Pair or Stage-Struck Beauties. Two. very pretty stage-struck "daughters, of weal thy parents," in Washington, D. C, were ar arrested - rested arrested on Saturday iu u elopement to1 icvi York to obtain engagements at the theaters, there. , . ' ......... i 1 m I

be ai il the in by the it Decrease ok Slaves in Delaware. Dela Delaware - ware Delaware is rapidly getting rid of her s1.ivcj. She had eight thousand at the first census, and but two thousand two hundred at the last one. Their owners find it inoie profit profitable - able profitable to sell them at the South than to keep them.- Suffolk County alone ships to the South, on an average, six per week, or two hundred and twelve a year. Every census shows a decrease of ten per cent, in t lie slave population. Pi:nso.XAL Descrii'tion ok Kit Carson. A Western letter says ot'Kit L'arsou: When on his feet.'MrrCarsnn hns n somewhat dumpy look the result of what the Iloosier girl doscribed in Mr. Donglan ns nn "iu-'-nite small chance of legs;" but he sils upon a horse like u. king. I never saw a man pre presenting - senting presenting a mure regal aspect than this veteran mountaineer, when upon his favorite animal, dashing along like the wind. A DounEimy's Mistake. A droll little af affair - fair affair happened iu Montgomery, Ala., a few days since. A n officer had arrested alruukcu man, and was on his way to the lock-up, when tho prisoner violently assaulted him. A gcn!)cu'iuu happening by thought it was a "set-to," nnd attempted to separate them, when another oflicer arrived on the scene of coiubut and arrested him fur attempting to rescue I lie prisoner. Stbaniie Situation for a Heart. An actor, culugir.ing his mistress one day, . indicated by bis manner n somewhat dilfcr'cnt position of the heart. He went on thus: "The angel I have her picture here I always wear it next my heart!" And here he produced the precious Daguerreotype, not from his bosom, but from a pocket iu the tnil of his coat! The Massachusetts Cattle Distemper, The distemper now prevalent among the cat cattle - tle cattle in Massachusetts, to which wo have al alluded, - luded, alluded, is whnt is called the jiU uro hici-.-mi. The disease has liecn known abroad for some time, whence it has been imported here. Inoculation to prevent the spread of it has long been practiced there with success. Delicacy ok Parisian Speculators. second unsuccessful attempt has been made, at Pnris, to sell, nt auction, Luniartinc'sestnte at Mcaux. Nobody would bid, lieenusc no nobody - body nobody wished to be looked upon as tho disin herited of tlio poet. Such delicacy nnd po politeness - liteness politeness nre not found iu real estate specula speculators - tors speculators outsido of France.

Mb. Fl,Ano, of. Hamilton Cottnty nas damned tho Constitution of Ohio. The doed was done In the House, on Thursday. A bill to build a new deaf and UumB asylum was under consideration, , A Mniber raised a constitutional objection. Upon this, the evil spirit entered into Mr. Flags;, And he ejacula ejaculated" - ted" ejaculated" Damn the Constitution I" We art de determined - termined determined not to be carried away by our feel feelings, - ings, feelings, but to relate this ralmrjr. t We would ask Mr. Fingg if his constituents sent him to tho Legislature to "damn the Constitution;" nnd if it is just to represent the pious people of Cincinnati to the assembled wisdom of the State ns a Constitution-damning: constitu constituency? - ency? constituency? ' .. ' Wo would inquire, more in sorrow than in anger, whcthcr,when he took the oath of office as a legislator, to support the Constitution, ho meant to "damn tho Constitution.' To be sure, Mr. Flagg said he meant damn In apious sense; but if we understand what damning in pious sense is, and we think a pious educa education - tion education warrants us in saying that we do, we can not sec how that helps the Constitntion or relieves M r. Fingg. Damning in a pious sense is the warmest yet discovered. ' ' 1 We are shocked and grieved that a repre representative - sentative representative of this city of churches and sabbath schools, where religious Instruction Is cried about the streets, where the Oatetle is the defender of the faith without reason, and tho Sunday Enquirer expounds the exact bound bounding - ing bounding between faith and reason, should, in the Council of the State "dnmn the Constitution," that precious work which bottled tip, corked and scaled the entire wisdom of theHUito. : Mr. Hughes, of Butler, ould hardly believe his oars, when ho hoard this "pions"' pro-, fanity; yet Mr. Hughes, of flutler, ought to have confidence in his ears. ; So inquired if he heard, nright, Mr. Flngtf damn Ihe Coa stitution. "Doubtless you did,"Baid the dan mer, "in a decent sense." , Kr. Hughes, of Butler, subsided, faintly ejaculating "It's worse than Lloyd Garrison.'! Infinitely worsej yet, of nil the assembled wisdom of the State, which is consecrated every morn ing with prayer, not ono seemed to care a "damn" for the Constitution, except Mr. Hughes, of Butler. 1 '

The bill (.Judge Key's) to authorize the Commissioners of Hamilton County to tako the boarding of prisonors out of the hands of the Sheriff passed tho House on Friday, and now that the responsibility is on the Commissioners, to cut off the perquisites, they must expect to be looked .after. Sharp. The people of Hamilton County will not stand a mere transfer of profits from one party to another, but the cost of the support of prisoners will be watched, and WrH-be used in the clcctiou of Commissioners. 1 - The bill to change the compensation ,of County Auditors from fees -to" salaries; Was killed in the House. This was a bull-headed; .measure, jiiining jo. 4-tvealwe--tffOab5' but without the capacity or indnstrr to re revise - vise revise the fees nnd reduce them, therefore pro proposing - posing proposing to sncrifice the system of payment by fees, which is indispensable to the adminis tration of the ofHce, and substitnto that of salaries, graduated liy the population or tue counties, with salaried clerks at the discretion Of the Commissioners. Tlio Honse did well to kill it, and ono would bo tempted to think that one who would load his retrenchment bill with a measure so utterly uncalled for as a change in the system of payment, from definite fees to salaries indefinite in number, could not havo been very anxious for its passage. - A bill was introduced in tiio House', Fri Friday, - day, Friday, to lease the entire public works for ten years, to Messrs. Nugent, .Miller and Robin Robinson, - son, Robinson, who oiler to keep them in repair and pay $200,000 bonus for the revennos. On Saturday a bill was introduced in the Senate to provide for purchasing and distrib distributing - uting distributing tho fourth volume of CurwiTVs Re Revised - vised Revised Statutes, and the general appropriation bill was engrossed. The House passed a bill to provide for levying a tax to build bridges on turnpike roads, ami indulged in consider able miscellaneous legislation. ,

. Thr Pops's Tbmioral Power. Henry V. (the Count do Chnmbonrd), has issued n pro pro-nunciamenta, - nunciamenta, pro-nunciamenta, dated Venice, January 25, 1800, Oitonsibly addressed to .M. Villcinnine, in compliment to his recent work in favor of the temporal power of the Pope, but actually intended as n challenge to Napoleon III. Henry V characterizes the abrogation of the Pope s temporal authority as tho death-knell of monarchy and of- the l'tbman Catholic re religion. - ligion. religion. ' ' Suicide fiiom Waht. James Webb com committed - mitted committed suicide in Buffalo, N. V., on Sunday, by cutting his throat with a bread-kniie for luck of food and employment. Ho had mode several previous ineffectual attempts by jump jumping - ing jumping into the canal and hiftking his throat with a knife. Ax AhatjYsis ok Onn Mines. The Norwich (Conn.) Hi-orasnys an analysis of the ore mines nt vvnwccus mil, in mat town, snows a result oftd 80 of gold, mid 1U 80 of silver to the tun; making, in nil, $'20 66 per tun about equul to the value of hay, A CiTr FoncKD to Pav i or a Woman's Fall. Boston is mulcted in $1,000 for dam damages - ages damages done to Mrs. Henry H. Morse, by slip, inng on the icy' sidewafks in January, 1839. She claimed $ri',00i, it being shown tlu.t the lameness was likely to ho permanent, 1 Small-Pox Communicated by Blankets. A Mr. Boot, of Huutsville, Conn., purchased a couple of bed-blankets at auction, and soon ufter carrying them home, one of his children broke out with the small-pox, caught, it was thought, from those blankets. . .'

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