The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-12-21
News Summary.

B9A. A patriotic citizen of Cincinnati
named Pike, is proceeding quietly and with
little ostentation to build an Opera House
that will rival, lift does not excel, the Acade-
my of Music in New York 1t will cost no
less than four hundred thousand dollars. The
house has frontage Of l45 feet by depth
Of l90feet and will be inaugurated on the
22d of February, with an immense ball, af-
ter which it win be dedicated to operate
and dramatic purposes. The front is of blue
sandstone FIVE stories high, and is rich
in medallions, bpsis, colossal statues and or
namental scroll work. The design of the
interior-by Trimble, OF New. Y ork-is ella
borate and costly in the extreme; to which
Gondicini and a corps of italian artists, also
OF New York, add a most lavish amount of
decorations, particularly upon the pros
ceniums which are % feet wide by so feet
high. The management is in the hands of
Charles NJ. Barras, of Cincinnati.
E6"The Nicaraguan Company have made
arrangements to. partially repay the passen-
gers who returned in the steamer Washing
ton in the following manner: They are to
be offered $25 each in cash, and also ticket
which will entitle them to passage to CAL
ifornia free, in one of the steamers of the
Company, next Summer this ticket, if not
months. - - A
pG- Mrs. Cunningham of Burdell murder
notoriety, and her two daughters, are living
in an elegant mansion in Twenty-third St, N.
Y, and are apparently in easy circumstances.
They give parties occasionally, and the
head of the. family, it is said, was visible at
the opera the other evening. Augusta was
married recently to a yonng Southern plan
ter, and Helen, is is understood, is in fair
way to follow the example. s,s.ec.st, sSs
nSAsMr. Slidell declares that Mr. Douglas
in New Orleans was in the hands of the
Thugs, as Americans are termed there
Genuine Democrats are said to have kept
aloof from him.
Ea5Just as an auctioneer in Hartford,
= Conn.,, was saying sgoue," a few evenings
since,F his audience went through the floor
into the cellar, but happily without hurting
one of them. The auctioneer, as soon
as he found his legs, remarked that the aeei-
dent would enable him TO sell Iotoer than be-
fore, and called for "bid," and they q bid
him good night" This will balance Tho
case of shop lifting of the day before. Sc G
neA, Some 81 900 bonds of Lawrence
county, PENN issued for railroad objects,
were sold recently, in Philadelphia, at &c
per cent. The county repudiatcs, refuses Il
lay taxes to pay the interest, and, like AL
legheny and Washington counties, lets the
whole thing slide. The conduct of the lat
ter county is especially infamous. Thu
Hempfeld Railroad, for which her bond
were issued, is in operation to Wheeling
and her citizens are reaping the benefits ii
reduced cost oc freights and travel. Ye
they, too, let principal and interest Slide
This wholesale reputation is foul bio
on the integrity Of Western Pennsylva
MIA, and buyers should fight shy of all coun
ty bonds. - =. o. - -.--s---
BE A correspondent of the New Yorl
Evening Post, writing from Paris, says =
"Mr. Sumner leaves here this week for som,
quiet town in the South of France. He haC
a consultation of physicians last week
They assured him thatahe would recover
but it might not be for six months more
and that in any case he must abandon al
hope of returning home for this session o