The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-04-30


sets will be vacated by recent act of the
Legislature, after the 10th of May next.
By a recent law of Iowa, paper maturing on
Sunday, or a holiday, in that State, is due and
payable on tho succeeding day.
Senator Seward is making preparations for a
voyage to Europe. He will be absent until
late in the fall
Bishop Doane, of Now Jersey, died at his
residence in Burlington on Wednesday. His
age was sixty.
Coal has been found in lone and Buckeye
Valleys, Ell Dorado County, California, the bed
being from twelve to fifteen feet in thickness.
Two of the 0berlin rescuers have been dis
charged, because of an informality in tho in
| dictment Us to their names.
The Hon. John Sherman and wife, of Mans
| field, sailed from New York for Liverpool on
| Saturday. Mr.. S. will make the tour of Eu-
rope.
At Miamisville, Ohio, on Friday last, Be-
! linda Buckingham, a girl thirteen years of
| age, took arsenic on her way from school, and
was found dead in the road.
Mr. Robert Kennicutt, an ardent young
naturalist, left Chicago on Monday, and en-
tered on a journey overland to the polar sea.
| He expects to return in 1851.
| The I. o. o. L. numbers about 200 900 men,
hers in the United States. Last year $3.50, 900
was paid for the relief of the SICK and Sl2 900
| for the education of orphans.
In the libel suit brought by Father Chiniquy
against Father Trench, in the Kinkakee (Ill.)
Circuit Court, the verdict for the plaintiff was
$4,825.
The Paris Steele suggests the propriety of an
immediate removal of the Pope and his cardi-
nails to Jerusalem, and the total abolition of
| his temporal power.
The steamer Eolian, from St. Louis, bound
to st. Paul, Minnesota, sunk in Lake Pepin
| last Friday. Four persons, whose names are
unknown, were drowned.
The war continues between Ecuador and Peru,
and the blockade of Guayaquil is so strictly
kept up that the trade of that port is totally
destroyed.
A son of Ex-Secretary GiImer, of Tyler's
Cabinet, committed suicide on Monday, by
throwing himself under the wheels of loco
motive. at the Washington Depot.
Michael Phean, the champion billiard
player, was honored by a serenade in New
York, on Wednesday night, from some of his
friends and admirers.
The Judson girl, whose elopement from Pom
tiac with the negro Joe some time since caused
considerable talk, is now in Canada living with
him, having again deserted her home and
friends.
person writing from Pixies Peak says that
ga gun will kill further here pixies Peak
than any place l ever saw" He adds, "sick-
ness, sorrow, pain and death are strangers
here"
The Sheriff of Lorain County, O., is watch
ing Messrs. Jennings and Mitchell, the wit
nesses against the Oberlners, to nab them on
a charge of kidnapping. They keep themselves
close under the care Of the Federal officers.
One of Jeffrard's emigration agents is in
Chicago, through whose exertions public
meeting Of colored citizens met on Monday
evening, and passed resolutions in favor of
the project.
The loss of life by the explosion of the
steamboat St. Nicholas, as far as ascertained,
amounts to ffty-twenty- cabin passen-
gers and twenty-three deck passengers. Sew
eral others of the scalded will probably die.
At late meeting of the Society of Antioua-
rians in England, the Hon. Robert Charles
Winthrop, President of the Massachusetts His
torical Society, was elected an Honorary Fell
| low.
The New York Tribune says:
Tue bill which restored corporeal punish
ments in the government of our State Prisons,
was killed in the Senate. So, cruel infections
are still forbidden in the prisons of New York.
The Louisville Democrat declares that Lou
isville is in the midst of general rush of pros
perity. On every side we have abundant evil
dences of thrift, and all the material interests
of the city are advancing rapidly.
The Hon. Nathan Dayton, formerly Judge
of the Eighth Judicial District, New York,
died suddenly of apoplexy, at his residence in
Lockport, N. Y, on Tuesday morning, while
in the act of dressing. His age was sixty -four
years.
The Canadian cents, which have been lately
thrown off at the British Mint, possess q re-
markable popularity. They are not only to-
kens of value, but also standards of weight and
measure. One hundred cents weigh exactly
one pound, and one cent measures one inch.
The English-born citizens of Cleveland
celebrated the anniversary of the patron
Saint of England, st. George, on Thursday
evening last. Very many Americans Joined
in friendly conviviality with their brethren
Of merry England.
A writer from Pixies Peak says: This is
a great country only one white unmarried
woman here and over thousand men. There
are five gambling houses in active operation
two race courses, and string band in full
Hast every night.
A wind wagon has been constructed by
Mr., Thomas, for use in crossing the Kansas
plains. This reminds us of the kite carriages
of DR.. Pococke of Bristol, England, some fifteen
or sixteen years ago, and wonder if the former
will prove as great failure as the latter.
doctor Keyser, of Pittsburg, processes to
have discovered a substitute for those who use
: tobacco, and who wish to abandon it. Tht
tobacco disease, as we all know, has a wonder
full hold on some persons, and no doubt, ir
many instances, to the great injury of thei
health.
The Supreme Court at Cleveland, on Thurs.
day morning, rendered its decision in the mat
ter of the application for writ of haJeas corpus
to bring up Bushnell and The 0berlin rescuers
now in custody of the United States officers
The Court unanimously declined to interfere
refusing to allow the writ.
Nathaniel j. Bird, alias DR.. Hunter, con
yicted in October, 1853, at the Camden Count,
. IN. J.) Court, Of the crime of bigamy, anC
: sentenced TO ten years imprisonment, wa
] liberated from the State prison on Monda,
t last, having been pardoned by the Court o
> Pardons in November last. Birds case ex
: cited much interest at the time of trial.
8 The great Water Celebration at BROOKLYN
l. N. Y, came of on Wednesday. The day wa
$ ushered in by the firing of cannon and the ring
u ing of bells next n prand nrocaasion of an