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THE PR n s s
CINCINNATI, WEDNESDAY, MAY a.

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LIST June. 3. '.,l3.-
The Springfield 1o9 News informs us that
Mr.. Charles Rooney, Of the Springfield POST
office, has removed to this city.
The "0pposition" convention ofYork County,
Pa, has unanimously recommended General
Simeon Cameron for the next Presidency.
Mr.. Richard Golden was the guest of Presi-
dent Buchanan on Thursday and Friday last,
and probably is so still.
The report of De Tocquevilos death is con-
tradicted. He was, however, at last accounts,
lying very low in the Isle d'Hieres.
Mile Piccolomini has taken passages for
herself and suite, on the Vanderbilt, which
sails June 4th, for Southampton and Havre.
The carpenters of New York have formed q
new protective organization against what Is
known among them as the "lump trade"
The report that Mr.. John F. Carter, the
financial agent Of Mr.. Allen, the late Clerk Of
the House of Representatives, was q defaulter,
is contradicted. s.
We learn from the New York Post that Una,
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Hawthorne, was
lying at the point of death, at Rome, at last
accounts.
little girl in New York, on Friday, while
playing near n bonfire, went so near that her
clothes caught FIRE. She received such severe
injuries that death ensued in few hours.
The well-known banking house of Winslow,
Lanier & Co., New York, is dissolved, Mr.. R.
II. WiDslow retiring from business after labo-
rious but successful servitude of thirty years.
A letter, by woman, on the Sickles case,
which first made its appearance in the North
Iowa Times, is not by sister of Mrs. Sigour-
ney, as Mrs. 8. has neither a sister nor brother
Mrs. Martha Woodward, of Ohio made last
year three hundred and fifty gallons of wine
from an acre of ground. That speaks well for
the productiveness of "Martha's Vineyard"
On Thursday last, in New York. master
mechanic of the Brooklyn Navy Yard soundly
logged police captain for undue attention
to his, the said mechanics wife. 1t occur
red in Thompson's Saloon, Broadway.
Prof. Casses, of Cleveland, has certified that
on analyzing the stomach of Mrs. Ann Curtis,
supposed to have been poisoned on the Ohio
River by her husband, a citizen of Huron
county, no poison was found.
The free-lovers at Berlin Heights, Ohio,
publish monthly paper, called The Good
Time Coming, the motto of which is =" For
in Heaven they neither marry, nor are given
in marriage" .H.
A correspondent of the Pittsburg True Press
says: am neither prophet nor the son of
prophet, but will state this fact, haze neuer
kno,on The fruit crop materially injured ttco gears
in succession.
A daughter of Thomas H., grand daughter
of Henry Clay, was married a few days since
to Mr.. VIM. G. P. Breckinridge, son of the
Rev. r. j. Breckinridge--a relative of Vice
President Breckenridge.
Margaret Burke, the servant girl suspected
of poisoning Mrs. Emily Beetham and her
boarders, in Fourteenth street, New York, was
arrested on Friday and lodged in Jail, though
previously acquitted by Coroner's jury.
The body of DR.. Mason, who has been miss
ing from his residence in Morgan street, Jer-
sey City, since the middle of March, was found
ON Friday last, forenoon, in the North River,
near the front of the dock of the American
Coal Company. ......
The New York Post asserts that the original
manuscript of Mrs. Sckes' confession was
given to the editor of Harper's Weekly by Mr..
Sickles himself, although he and his counsel
have since asserted that it was made public
against his wishes.
The telegraph in India has many special
disturbing influences which the lines in the
United States are not subjected to. The ele-
plants there use the poles for scratching their
sides, and the monkeys curl their tails upon
the wires. The lines are down more than half
the time.
james Redpath, of Maiden, Mass, warns
the free persons of color in Missouri and the
North not to be in haste in accepting Geffrard's
invitation. He says they should not 20 to
Hayti unless Gefrard gives them official
pledges of exemption from military duty for
long term of years, protection from his soldiery,
and liberty to go or come at pleasure.
The case of Atherton, teller of the Southern
orly n,,a = b L. -.
aostrncting $4,000, reminds tho Democrat of
the mysterious fire at the Missouri State Bank,
above year ago. Atherton was then engaged
there, and was left writing at late hour in
the office. The origin of the fire was never
satisfactorily explained.
The two most remarkable women in the
British dOminions during the last century were
the Countess of Blessington and Lady Nor
gan-both natives of Ireland, and both sprung,
not as their titles would seem to indicate, from
the nobility, but from the people. Both of
humble birth, they won for themselves high
position and literary distinction.
The Nashville Patriot of Saturday reports
desperate attempt to assassinate Miles Ii. Mays,
Esq, of Columbia, the previous Thursday. The
villains first stabbed Mr.. Mays "Jack Ma.
poleon ILL.,, (Which caused the animals death
the next morning;) they then entered the sleep
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tempt upon his life, inficting a wound on
his neck with knife, and choking him till be
was insensibe. The screams of his wife
aroused gentleman who was sleeping in an
adjoining room, but the assassins fed.
DIVORCED FROM A BURGLAR.-The Columbus
Journal informs us that on Wednesday
young woman, whose husband is in the pen
itentiary, applied for a divorce to Judge
Bates. 1t was proven that the husband, who
was sent to the penitentiary from GAINESVILLE,
last winter, for burglary, was very cruel to
his wife before his Incarceration, and as the
lady wished divorce, the Judge granted it.
BARTER.-We are informed by the Evans
vile Ind.) Journal that the editor of the
Valley Times, at Worthington, is in distress
and offers to tako pay in rags, feathers,
chickens, geese, corn, potatoes, quaiIs, prairie
chickens, eggs, butter, wood, chips, bark,
splinters, chunks, saw-logs, barrels, tubs,
churns, brooms, turpips, cabbage, greens, hoop
skirts, ginseng, wheat, -four, pumpkins, hominy,
sausage, houses, farms, horses, cattle, hogs,
tallOw, lard, hOop-poles, beef, fish, veal, hay,
timothy seed, mouse traps, jay birds, hawks,
turtles, coats, pants, shirts, bustles-and he
won't refuse money.
NEW YORK QUARARTINE.-All the sick con-
fined in the temporary buildings at Quarantine
were on Thursday last, by orders of the Com
missioners of Emigration, removed to Wards
Island. IIenceforth, until other provision is