The Penny Press, 1859-11-07

$&k young and beautiful girl, daughter of a wealthy merchant In Albany, N. Y has become strongly and strangly addicted to drink, and one day last week was found nearly dead drunk in the street She was richly dressed, and party of rude boys were piling dry leaves upon her. Her parents are obliged to maintain a continual watch over her, but she occasionally evades the snrveillanoe,and is sure to gst intoxloated If she oan obtain the liquor. - - - - aAooounts from Havana state that on the 9th ult. twenty-one Asiatlcas, "free colonists," ran away from a plantation sailed La Mara Mara-ville, - ville, Mara-ville, near Matanias. They were apprehended and taken back the same day, and on the suc succeeding - ceeding succeeding one they murdered the owner of the estate, Don Angustin Valera, wifh their spades and other agricultural instrntients. John Chinaman will cause serious trouble some of these days in the island. " - volume entitled Krlnnr A. Pa nnd Ail unite wm snortiy oe puDluned, It is writ written - ten written by a lady whose prospective delation with the poet was Interrupted by his death. It Is a plea in favor of a man of genius, whom every one steps out of the' way to klok at, from the Bdinburg Reviewers) downward. ffltt-The following States have now set aside the 24th lost, for thanksgiving: North Carolina, Alabama, South Carolina, Connec Connecticut, - ticut, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachu Massachusetts, - setts, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsyl Pennsylvania, - vania, Pennsylvania, Kentuoky, Massachusetts, Indiana, Miohlgas, Minnesota, and Maryland. JEThe 1st of Ootober, 1859, occupies an important plaoe in the meteorological history of San Franoisco; its night was the first sultry one known to the oldest inhabitant. Never before had a night passed without' blankets being neeessary for a comfortable sleep.. . pB' Little Tommy T is five years old. He was in a musing mood the other day, and his mother asked him what he was thinking about. "Oh,said he, I was thinking ot old timet!" That child understood the ante-natal philosophy, and had a just Idea of the soul's immortality. 0fA little girl, agsd four years, daughter of Lorens Swakovsky, of the town of Newton, Wis., was burned to death on Tuesday last. The parents were absent from the hous at the time, and on their return the oharred remains of the little girl was the first sight that met their eyes. jar-There is said to exist a eonfederation of outlaws, whose headquarters are in New York, who came originally from Poland and Ger Germany, - many, Germany, and extend their travels to all portions of the United States. By daytime they operate as shoplifters and piekpookets, and by night as burglars.; .. ,, , , . J&La8t week Augustus Hipp was stabled and dangerously wounded by one Lawrence Snyder, in a barber-shop in Marietta, Ohio, about a dog. Snyder accused Hipp of steal stealing - ing stealing the dog, and the latter struck, Snyder with his fiat, whereupon Snyder drew his knife and cut Hipp's bowels out. Sf Of a Parisian aotress itt is related that, not having anything particular to do, being disengaged, she : has lately devoted herself' to malting, .money, and In pursuance of that object' went to Baden Baden-Baden - Baden Baden-Baden this season and won :three hnnired and fifty thousand francs. The Milan oorresoondent of the Jbrn- itijZ Pott says that a dog, of Afrioan breed, which belonged to General Espinasse, who fell at Magenta, still lurks about the spot where he shed his blood, and though often taken away, even to some distanoe, constantly re returns. - turns. returns. Mrs. Harriet Beeoher Stowe. who. with her husband, has been residing In London for the past three montha, is about to nrooeod to Switzerland, where she will remain during the winter with her daughter; her husband, Prof. Stowe, retorning to Amerioa forthwith. - aTNature has strange ways of doing the most beautiful things. Out of the oozy earth, the mud and rain of early spring, comes the most delicate flowers, their white leaves borne out of the dirt, as unsoiled and pure as if they had. bloomed in the garden of Pa Paradise. - radise. Paradise. ( , " "Itis not work that kills man, it is worry. Work is healthy; you oan hardly put more on a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolu revolution - tion revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. ' ; A State exchange says that a dilatory subscriber saw in the late aurora boreal is, traced in "lines of living light" upon the sky, pay ths printer! and fearing the indig indignation - nation indignation of Heaven , was about to be visited upon him, paid the bill forthwith. ; A book-peddler, named Carr, commit committed - ted committed suicide by hanging, at Vincent Station, on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad. His body was discovered on Friday in an old mill, suspended by the shreds of a linen ooat whioh he bad torn up for that purpose. Dr. Cable, long a resident physician of Bellbrook, Greene County, Ohio, was thrown from his horse, on Friday, on the pike, crush crushing - ing crushing his skull. : He died Boon after the accident. Miss Docia Boggs, of Mansfield, Ohio, reoently obtained, in the Belmont County Court, a verdiot of $800 against James R. MoMillan, for a breaoh of promise of mariago. ' ICST Isaao Morgan, an old oitiien of Soott County, Iowa, oommitted suicide on Tuesday evening, by hanging himself, on aooount of trouble in his financial affairs and domestic re relations. - lations. relations. , .... -0n Tuesday night last the dress of a servant girl in the house of Mr. Johnson, of Atonison, n. i., was set on nre irora lamp, and in a moment she was enveloped in flames and burnt to death. 1 sTXast week Officer Roan arrested a chicken thief near Gray's Ferry Bridge, in Philadelphia, and on the rogue's throwing stones at the policeman,' the latter shot him dead. 1 Hon. James Ourtlss, of Cbleago, formerly Mayor of that oity, died suddenly at Jollet on the 3d last. - , yS' It Is said the sale of Mr. Choate's library wul raaiits to his family about $16,000.

ff"There is paradox in fear he Is most likely to inspire it in others who hat none him him-ulfl - ulfl him-ulfl baohelor editor, who bad a very pretty titter, reoently wrote to another baob.eloreqn.ally fortunate, "Please exchange." J6Mrs. Rogers, wife of Geo. W. Rogers, of Craig County, Va., was thrown from a buggy last week, and only survived her in injuries - juries injuries about two hours. - 8The number of arrests In Baltimore during Ootober wan eight hundred and twelve twelve-It - It twelve-It should have been eight thousand, juding from the late outrages committed there. , Ex-President Van Buren, the New York Journal of Commerce says, is engaged on an important and elaborate work, which shall embrace a political history of the country down to the close of his administration. SThelate James N. Brown, of Iberville, Miss., who died a few days ago, at the age of fifty-four, left an estate at from $790,000 to $1,000,000, all aooumulated In sixteen years, from1 a small investment in sugar planting. It is stated by the Arkansas journals that Captain Albert Pike has petitioned the Counoil, now in session at Doaksville, to make him a naturalised oitizen of the Chootaw Na Nation. - tion. Nation. .' ; i ; ,- ( $&K couple were married in Ferdinand, Ind., on Tuesday evening of last week. The bride complained in a short time of feeling unwell, and In a few hours the happy, blush blushing - ing blushing bride was a cold, inanimate corpse. sjTThe entire armaments of all United States national vessels amount to 3,301 guns, divided thus: Liners 872; frigates 500; sloops 428; steamers 484; brigs 16; and all others 23 guns. : " S"k Memphis, last week, during a quar quarrel - rel quarrel between a negro drayman, Crockett, and a white man, Abe Lincoln, the latter shot the former through the heart, and escaped to the woods. moot the late acts of Geo. A. Wyatt, the aotor, half an hour before his death, was bis writing on the bills for the next and last performance, with his own band, "Latt NiyU," to him a prophetic reality. &"A fatal duel was fought reoently in the vioinity of Columbus , Miss., between Mr. Moore, a merchant of ureensboroogn, Ala., and a Dr. Wiley. The latter was shot through the head and killed Instantly. . ,, There is a new Swedish singer. M'lle Roesk. who is said to be saual to Jennv Lind. Scores of singers "are said" to be as great as the Swedish Nightingale; but none of them arose V John H. Molle, in Philadelphia, has a masculine eat of enormous size. It weighs thirty-one pounds, and measures thirty-seven inohes from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail, and twenty-eight inohes round the girth. The gin-house belonging; to . Dr. John D. Barnard, near Huntsville, Ala., was burnt on Friday morning last with fifty thousand pounds of seed cotton all that had been picked out this season. It is supposed tohavo been set on lire. get' At the tournament in conclusion of the Marshall County Fair, at Holly Springs, last week, a gentleman entering the ring on horse horseback - back horseback ran over a negro boy twelve or fifteen years old, inflioting injuries from whioh the lad died almost immediately. An affray occurred on Wednesday night near the depot, between Eli Cheshire and a German named Shoffor, in which the latter received a stab in the abdomen which may result in his death. . , ) STAn exohange says: , "Schamvl is in clover. The Czar has given hira a palace to live in, allows mm $9,uuv a year, and tnree Caucassian wives." In clover, indeed! Three wives what a malignantly-refined torture that must bel : 8tk widow, of Canadian Dutch descent, aged sixty-two years, starved herself, at Ros Ros-lin, - lin, Ros-lin, C. W., reoently,from a suptrstitlous belief that God required her to do so, in order to be saved. She expired on the 27th of Ootober, having been thirty days without food. A certain Sootohman, not a member of any temperance sooiety, being asked by a dealer to purchase some fine old Jamaica, dryly an answered, - swered, answered, " To tell the truth, Mr , I eanna say I'm very fond of rum ; for if I take mare than six tum'lers, it's very apt to gi'e me a hsadaohe. ' . . 3TLast week the youngest ohlld (two months old) of Mr. Jeremiah Swartsel, resid residing - ing residing two miles south-east of Germantown, 0., was left alone, tied in a ohalr before the fire fireplace, - place, fireplace, when its clothes .oaoght fire and the ohlld was so horribly burned before it was dis discovered - covered discovered that it expired in a few minutes. EtrThe foundery, furnace and saw-mill oc occupied - cupied occupied by j Messrs. Whltloe, Alcott & Co,., at Clarksvllle, Va., took fire Monday morning, and was totally burnt, together with a consid considerable - erable considerable quantity of lumber. The engine-house and shops belonging to the Roanoke Valley Railroad were frequently on lire, but were saved.; , .,!r,i,-,t.,. ' - ' et-Philip Dairing was instantly killed in Pomeroy's grain warehouse In Chicago on Thursday by attemptlmr to kick the belt off of a corn-sheller ; but making a miss,got his boot caught in the belt and was carried around the shaft, his head striking against a beam. .rf '.'' 'yii'fu'i flVThe Congregational Church in Lin Lincoln, - coln, Lincoln, Conn., was destroyed by fire last week. Nearly all the furniture, including the organ, was saved. The loss is estimated at from $3,000 to $4,000. Insurance $1,800. A re reward - ward reward of $i00 js offered by the selectmen for the conviction of the incendiary. ; , . 2sTThe Paris thieves have introduced a new trick Tor stealing the silver from the res. taurants. lOne operator goes in, calls for what he wauts. and while there, fastens spoons or forks with wax to the under side of tne table. After he has goneout aitonfederate mooes inand pockets the articles with impunity.

Fatal Affray in Mississippi A Planter Shoots a BvlltDkad. An old grudge having existed for some time between Mr. Sanderson, a planter in Marshal County, and Walter 0. Clarke, of Abbeville, they met at the University Hotel, in Oxford, on the 26th ult., when Clarke abused the other and tried to shoot him, but was prevented. After toa they met again, and Clarke beginning another assault. Sanderson drew a pistol and shot the bully dead. San derson was acquitted Deiore a legal tnbunai. ' ' PaosrioTivs Ducb Bktwisn Two Indiana Editors. Mr. Defrees, editor of the Indianap Indianapolis - olis Indianapolis A tlat, and Mr. Hellsoher, of the freePreu, having had a dlfflonlty concerning an editorial in the latter journal, followed by a long cor correspondence, - respondence, correspondence, it was rumored on Saturday that they had gone with thtlr seconds to Kentucky to fight a duel. It was said the meeting would take plaoe yesterday morning; but we presume the whole affair is bosh. . Child Kionapfid at Columsus. A little girl three years old, daughter of a widow named Martha Scott, employed upon a canal boat, was stolen at Cdumbus, Ohio, from the boat on the evening of the 4th, by a wretch who pretends to he a boarding-kouse-keeper in Gireleville. The man, in company with a negro, carried the child away about dusk, inoa whioh time it has not been heard of. . Eobbibt or a Wisconsin Bank. One night of last week the safe of tlie Bank at Eau Claire, Tomah, was blown open and robbed of about $7,000 in mortgages, land warrants and cash. Two persons, supposed to be the robbers, . were apprehended at that place while in the act of taking the cars to leave town; but none of the stolen property of we oan a. uus as yet peen recoverea. A Man's Bodt Cut Nsarlv in Two. At Hallowed, Me., last Thursday, Mr. Lewy Gllblalr aeoldentally foil nnon a revolving cir cular saw, by which his body, near the pit of the stomaob, was cut nearly In two, one arm severed near the elbow and one hand cut off near the wrist. ' He survived this shooklpg mutilation one hour and forty minutes. . Cold Wiatbcr at ths South. The Charles ton Courier learns that a killing frost, with lee of a considerable thickness, was observed at and near Summerville. S. C., last Sunday morning. There was also a heavy bladr frost at Santte, and the water buckets on the hur hurricane - ricane hurricane deok of the steamer General Clinch had loe formed In them.

A BoNAPiHTi About to Becoiii a Car dinal. Among the scions of the house of Bonaparte is a son of old Luoien, the Prince de Canlno. This young man is a priest of tne ttomisn vnurcn, ana being a personal protege and favorite relative of his Imperial ooutin at Parley has seen himself speedily raised from one olerlcal dignity to another, till at last the influential post of Private Sea Sea-retary - retary Sea-retary and Almoner to Plo Nono himself had to be aooorded to him. Nothing else stands between him and the purule of the Cardinal but the faot that hs is net yet thirty. . It is thought, however, that the law may be varied from to suit ths oase, and that on ths deoease of Pins IX. he may be made Pope, through tne influence or .napoleon ill, A Bstrothed Coupls Bdrhid to Diatn. A yonng oouple, in Hopewell County, N. J., sitting togetner, a day or two sinoe, by a warm store, nil ssieep, ana wnne asleep ins yonng lady's dress took fire. As soon as they awoke, the young man made every exertion to extinguish the fire, but without sueoess. She then ran out, but wherever she ran the flames continued to burn, until her olothlng was all consumed. She lived only a few hours afterward. The young man was seriously damaged, and will not recover. The parties were engaged to be married, and the lady had on the day of this sad affair purohaied some aruoies tor tne intenuea wsaaing. r: Two Msn SurvoOATin in a Grain Elrvator. A ' melancholy accident, kv which two men, named James Oallagher and John Hull, lost their lives, occurred on Wednesday, at a ware warehouse - house warehouse owned by Sturges, Buckingham & Co., in Chioago, on the Central Railroad Wharf. While engaged In loading the propeller trt Stab, from the warehouse, with new corn, the spouts beoame elogged, and it was found net eessary to send two msn down into the bin to dear them, not returning at tne usual time, alarm was excited, and a search made, whioh resulted In finding their dead bodies burled in thegraln. 1 " , , . The lata Mr, J.' K. Brunei, the engineer, was a rioh man. His personal property alone was worth $400,000.