The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-04-01
THE PRESS.
CINCINNATI, FRIDAY, APRIL 1

"Who Is President to.day2" is said 10 be the
usual salutation among Mexioens.
The smallpox has carried of sepcral thou
sand victims at the Cape Of Good Hope.
Several vessels are to sail from Cleveland,
Detroit and Milwaukee, in tho course Of the |
spring, for Europe and California.
A correspondent from Cuba says 1t is easier |
to land a cargo Of negroes from Africa on that |
island than barrel of -four.
The canal, from Toledo to Cincinnati, Is now
open. The superintendents report the repairs
all completed.
The bill restoring capital punishment, which
passed the Wisconsin Senate with little trouble,
was capitally executed ntho Assembly.
Colt, one of the wealthiest men in New Eng
land, twelve years ago mortgaged lathe and
some machinery to secure debt Of $3.50.
The initials P. P. P. stand for Pixies Peak
Pickpockets--a class Of gentlemen who have
commenced operations on large scale in st.
Louis.
On the 9th ult. the Jury in the Doy case
failed to agree, after being out twenty-fou
hours, and were discharged in the forenoon by
Judge Morton.
A match race, four mile heats, has been made
between "Nicholas" and "Tar River" for
$40, 900 side, to como off this spring over the
EhsnlOu OOursoJ Now AOTks
Mad'lle Piccolomini has been unable to pro-
duce any sensation 10 New Orleans. Indeed,
her concerts have been pronounced failure in
the Crescent City.
The Grand Jury of Baltimore have reported
that large portion Of the crime in that city is
directly attributable to the sale of drugged
and poisoned liquors. ..
The propeller, Lady Of the Lake, exploded
n6 rds, Iaaf
The cook and one fireman wero lost, and full
| cargo, consisting of -four and provisions.
Two men, Conrad Coiner and Jacob Bishop,
had quarrel In New York on Saturday, when
| the former stabbed the latter In the head,
which, It is believed, will cause his death.
A novelty In the grain trade will soon be
of wheat from France, for which orders have
been sent out.
| A bill for preventing and Furnishing the SELL
Of the Louisiana Legislature, and will become
/ a law.
Bayard Taylor, II Is said, has refused an offe,
Of $1,000 year to write exclusively for thu
columns Of one Of the New York Sunday
papers.
Another person has fallen victim to th
poisoning at Mrs. Beetham's, New York, a
announced in the Press, few days since. Hi
name Is Fayette Robinson.
wo learn by dispatches from vicksburg
Saturday, that the levee along the line Of tn
Vieksburg Railroad had cavsd In, and the traol
was washed away.
Charles Smith, nook auotionesr at No.
Chatham street, New York, has been sent 1
the City Prison and looked up, without th
| privilege of admission to bail-the nrst instalo
Of the kind for several years.
John Pfromsr, the keeper Of beer saloon
New York, shot one Charles ]. sturges,
"shouldsr-hitter," few days since, In sell
defense. Sturges died on Sunday morning
Pfromsr IL in jail. -."eL
Two of tho New York police are In prisoi
charged with having caused the death Of
young man, named Bernard Ksrrigan, by DRAG
ging him violently through the streets on
punching him with his gun.
The practice and principle Of insurance are
) great antiquity, and were well known in II
i time Of Claudius Cesar, A. D. 43. 1t Is certai
i that insurance of ships at sea was practiced
e early as tho year 45, A. D.
: We are told that Prof. Hines, of Indinnap
oils, has received intelligence of the decease
\ a relative in England, by which he becom
the possessor of an estate worth hundred al
= fifty thousand dollars.
A post-office has been established at Cor
vile, in the Pixies Penk region, post-mast
), appointed, and q contract let to Ben MoCu
i Tough to carry the mail from Leavenworth
d the Pixies Peak poSt-ofnoe.
5 Two youths employed in a leather-goo
!; manufactory in New York, had difficulty,
II the 18th ult., when one stabbed the other wi
t., an awl In the region Of the heart, from t
effects of which he died a few days afterwar
At the late election in the town of Aubur
N. H., there were eight ballots for town cler
, the rival candidates being father and son, R
publican and Democrat. The father was
length elected by one vote.
The Norfolk (Va.) Argus puts in mourni
part of its sheet, containing an extract frC
the Herald of the same city, in which it is s
serted that "Virginia will one day be Fl
State, and the sooner the better"
On Friday last, at Nashville, Tenn, Char
4 Kelly and Hugh Mcdowell were fully Co
mitted for trial on charge of having
tempted the assassination of Captain D
mukes.
Two young children, named Camille and !
% fred LIE Roy, were found in the cars of
Hudson River Railroad, IN. ~, on Thursd
evening. They said that they had come fir
nd Madison County, Wisconsin, in search Of tn
ID mother, who resides in New York City.
The citizens of Montreal have presented
10. Sir William Logan, Provisional Geologist,
elegant silver fountain, the basins of which
carved to represent the coal formations.
testimonial ia of London manufaeturs, cost
q 4200.
= The London Critic is at length enabled
state, upon evidence Of the highest authO
that the author Of the celebrated "Vsstiger
the Natural History Of Creation" first p1
4. lished in 1874, and which has since g,
through several editions, was the late DR..
Combe, who died about year ago.
About two months since, the wife of ia
, Abbott, in Golconda, @. W., presented her h
he band with eight pledges Of affection at
md birth. These children survived until six we
bic old, when two Of them sickehed and died.
aG cSl remaining six are still living and thriv
ent finely.
To 70 1t Is said that the notorious Abijah Jenh
ur- has fed from Boston to parts unknown. II
ian ian under bonds Of $1,000 To answer four ind
lliV rnents against him as receiver Of stolen goo