The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-03-22
TIE NEW POSTMASTER GESERAL.-Tho ac-

THE NEW POSTMASTER GENERAL.-The .ao-
cession Of Mr.. Holt to the Cabinet was resisted
by all his present colleagues. Hence 1t Will re-
quiro some contact TO wear of the sharp edges
Of such an association. The President decided
upon him at the outset, though no went through
the cheap ceremony Of apparent consultation.
Mr.. Holt had impressed Mr. Buchanan with his
abilities aud character last simmer, and has
frequently been called into confidential counsel
since then, and sometimes to the annoyance OF
Mr. Buchanan's regular adviser. He has no
political aspirations, and is incapable Of any
DETECTION from what he regards the line of duty.
The man most urged in competition with him
was Mr.. Stanton, an eminent lawyer, formerly
of Ohio, but who has practced for years back
mostly at the Pittsburg bar, and before tho
Court of Claims and Supreme Court here. He
is the principal counsel for Mr.. Sickles. The
President objected to him as quasi Pennsyl-
vanian, and Judge Black was willing TO retire
to relieve that difficulty. But, of course, such
an arrangement would have destroyed the
boasted unity ofthe Cabinet, andit was promptly
rejected. After that, these enterprising gentle
men tried their hands on Mr.. Branch, of North
Carolina, but with no better success Washing
ten Correspondence ". Y. Tribune.
HEAR Born SIDEs.-Says the New York
Freeman's Journal, Roman Catholic paper:
can act of extreme and arbitrary power has
recently boen exercised In Rome, whose recital
makes us thank God for living in land where
ha6eas corpus is recognized, and liberty Of con-
science respected. A young Englishwoman,
nineteen years Of age, daughter Of Admiral
Cavendish, while sojourning in Rome with her
father and his family, saw fit to carry into
effect the purpose entertained by her for two
years past, Of changing her religion. To this
end she visited the female Convent Of Trinito
al Monte, and was there received into the Cath
olic Church. The Admiral, on hearing of the
- AIon koaE hta 1oro
home, and, the Romans said and believed,
kept her n close prisoner in her room-even to
depriving her of her clothing, so that she
should not leave her bed till he got himself
ready to leave for England, to try the effect of
its insular fogs on her convictions. In the
United States a British Admiral who would
undertake to imprison young lady and use
her so barbarously for exercising her rights
of conscience, would be jerked up with uncom-
Portable roughness, and taught better manners
and more reason"
SURGICAL MIsDEMEAHoR.-In the Louisville
Courier Of Friday we find the following:
yesterday, about eleven o'clock A. NJ, a
man discovered q barrel floating in the river.
He brought it ashore and knocked in head.
1t contained two dead bodies, male and fe-
male, the legs and heads cut of, and the arms
tied across the breast. The barrel was suffered
to Hoat over the falls"
Later in the day the barrel was dis
covered floating in the river at the foot of
Sixth street, Nashville, Tenn, but the parties
who made this second discovery pushed it into
the river as in the former instance. 1t was,
however, subsequently found by party Of
boys, near the mouth of the canal, and ar
rangements were forthwith made by some of the
inhabitants to give the mangled remains
decent burial. The Nashville Patriot de-
nounces the act as gross outrage upon public
feeling, adding that if surgeons must hav,
"subjeets" they should not dispose of them il
so offensive and revolving manner.
COUNTERFEIT NoTEs.-On Thursday last
great haul of counterfeit notes was made a
Pittsburg, with the arrest Of a man namet
John Hudgins, alias John Martin, in who's
possession they were found. Over 81 500 in ex
cellentiy executed counterfeit bank-notes wer
found on him. The amounts and names of th
banks are as follows: $3.50 in fve-dollar bill
on the Bank of York, Pa, finely executed, ant
very close limitations of the genuine bills; on
50 bill State Script, Bank of Middletown, Pa.
$3.50 in ten-dollar bills, on the Western Banl
of Virginia, Jefferson branch, a very close an,
dangerous imitation; $500 in three-dollar bill
on the Bank of New Jersey, branch at NeN
Brunswick, a close imitation; $50 in ten -dolla
bills on the State Bank of Ohio, Cuyahog
branch, close and excellent counterfeit, an,
one dollar bill on the Iron Bank of Iron
ton, Ohio. The whole batch were evidentl
just from the press, as they were all new an
unrumpled.
The CHESS GAME.-The game between Clevt
land and Detroit has resulted in favor of th
latter city. The concluding session was hel
on Wednesday evening, when the game wi
continued from the 41st move.
RUY LOPEZ.