The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-03-01

Cincinnati, Tuesday, March /, 1859.
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

That romantic lady, Miss Judson, who mar
! ried an African at Pontiac while since, has
! returned from Indiana, whore she had been with |
her brother, having got decree of divorce.
h The Inauguration of Judge McCandless to |
/ the seat made vacant by tho resignation of |
Judge Irwin, took place at Pittsburg, on Tues
day last.
4 The Greene County 70. y Agricultural Society
have determined to make three dollars, instead |
\ Of one, the conditions Of membership.
Tho number of miles of Railroad now open |
I in Texas, is 1873 besides which there are 113
miles more graded, and Al under contract.
Recently, at st. Paul, Minnesota, a young
1 lady, said to have become insane from religious
! excitement, attempted to destroy herself by
Z drinking boiling water from a teakette. No
hope is entertained Of her recovery.
Commissioner Reed left Hong Kong on the
Sth of December, in the steamer Minnesota,
bound for India, en- route for America. The
. American legation was in charge of the Chinese
Secretary, d. S. Wells Williams.
y A meeting Of the stockholders of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad will
be held March 10, to consider the proposed
contract with the Michigan Railroad Com
pany, by which they agree to take $500, 900 Of
the bonds Of the latter road.
Illinois Legislators receive 81 por day at the
present time, being 81 week less thnn their
I board costs. Short sessions will be the result
Gold has been discovered, it is reported at
s Chievala, 1sthmus Of Tehuantepec.
Lake Erie Is so clear of ice that the shipping
interest Is already beginning to 1ook up" at
Sandusky, Toledo, Cleveland, &c.
An"American Indian Association" has been
formed in New York.
Ohio has 2,728 miles of railroad in opera
tion, the construction Of which cost over $110,-
1000.
The Columbus, Piqua and Indiana Railroad
is nearly completed, there being only ten miles
Of the track now to lay.
At the close of Professor Mitchells lectures,
on Astronomy, in New York, a Provisional
Board was appointed for the purpose Of taking
the necessary steps for the erection of an As
Economical Observatory in the Central Park
The Empress Eugenie is collecting auto
graphs of the Bonaparte family; she collects
every thing they wrote, and every thing be-
longing to their history. Twenty-Five octave
volumes, In elegant binding, as the result of
her industry, now enrich her library.
The second-best poem sent in for the Burns
prize was by an American boy named Myers,
and the performance is said to be as oxtraord-
mary for his age as any thing Chatterton wrote.
The authoress Of the poem which carried off
the prize ($25O) was poor sowing girl, TWEEN
ty-fve years old. She Is now the Assistant
Secretary of the "National Association of So
cial Science" got up in London by Lord
Brougham. With reference to the "Prize
Poem, 'the "Times' asks: "If this is the cream, h,
what nust the skim-milk beP"
Il An American in Paris, writing to his friends
in New York, says, under date of February 2,
"Here the sentiment is almost universal that
war must come; that the Emperor is determined
upon it; that it may be delayed little while,
but that 1t Is the only termination to existing
troubles -. .
The State Of Wisconsin paid for the public
printing, during the last three years, the sum
of $7l,000, viz: $27 900 for English, 100000
for German, and $14 900 for Norwegian. It il
questionable If 1t be good policy for govern
languages In the same State.
Many families are literally starving at Beloit
Wisconsin. Some days ago poor man begged
liver at one of the stanes he was followed
to his home, where his wife a9d children were
found devouring the liver row, there being nc
fire nor any means of cooking it. In CRATIC
county, Michigan, there has also been grea
suffering, fdhs6e relief of which the Legislature
recently passed bill granting assistance, and
as first installment, 900 worth of bread
stufs has been hastily sent on to the sufferers
One Of the Michigan County Treasurers,
few days since, left his home, telling his wifi
he would not be back until the next day. Tha
night no returned to rob his own house o
$4,000 he had collected, but travelling ped
dler, who happened to be stopping there tha
night, fred at and killed him.
AN EDITOR WANTING SUGAR.--We give, say
the Randolph und.) "Journal," our unequiv
ocal consent to every man in this county, VIII
has camp Of sugar-trees, to pitch in ant
make all the sugar he can; and then, for twelv
pounds of it, we will give copy Of the "Jour
nal" for one year.
THB INDIANA SENATORIAL FIGHT.-If Heffre
and Gooding (who recently fought on the foo
of the Senate), had not been a couple Of COW
ards, they would have come together in tn
street or some back yard, instead of seekin
their encounter in the midst of crowded hal
where they knew they could not fail to &c
themselves separated before the occurrence
any serious damage. 1t seems they had bee
contemplating the fight several weeks, and pre-
pairing for it.-LouisuiUe Journal
The expenses attending the examination
witnesses, etc., on tho investigation Of tn
above disgraceful proceeding, cost somewht
oVer 5000.
CAUTION TO MAsoNs.-Clark Lodge, No l,
Of Springfield, Ohio, thus advertises scoun
drel: "0ne Charles NJ. Lawler came to ou
city and obtained money under false prefer
sions. We therefore proclaim him an tmposto
having received communication from 'Wayn
Lodge (Fort Wayne, Indiana,) stating tht
said Lawler had been expelled from all th
rights and privileges Of Masonry on tho lst
Of January, 1885,"
0REGON.-In the Constitution of this Stat
there is a provision forbidding colored pei
sons from suing in courts of Justice. 1t
moreover provided that "No free negro or mt
latto, not residing in the State at the time {
the adoption Of the Constitution, shall ev'
come, reside, or be, within this State, or hO
any real estate, or make any contract,
maintain any suit therein; and the LegislatiN
Assembly shall provide by penal laws for IL
removal by public officers Of all such free N
groes and mulattoes, and fer their effoctu
exclusion from the State, and for the punisl
ment of persons who shall bring them into IL
State, or employ or harbor them therein"
RBCIPRocITY.-A motion was made in IL
Canadian Legislature, on Monday, for "a
correspondence that has taken place betwe,
the Imperial Government and the Governmel
at Washington, and the local authorities of III
State of the American Union, on the subje
of securing for ships built in Canada the san
privileges, on becoming the property of Anne
tonn a;figana which 0ranta1 In AmArc;