The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-08-25

MODERN JACK SHEPpARD.--Ths Worcester
(Mass.) Spy relates the criminal adventures Of
boy twelve years Of age, whose precocious
rogueries and cunning escapes would form an
interesting character in the Old Bailey Chron-
icle Of the Police Ga=ette. This young rogue,
Isaac b. Patch, by name, commenced his
career in Worcester by stealing from his uncle,
Mr.. s. F. Towne, $3.50, with which he went to
Boston. There he fell into the hands of o
police officer, and was sent home in charge Of
the conductor. He eluded tho vigilance Of his
guardian, however, and left the train at Groton
junction. After various hairbread!h escapes
and willy stratsgems, he stole horse, wagon
and harness, belonging to Isaac Gross of Ash
burnham, and made his way to Bellows Falls,
where. he was overtaken by the owner of the
team, and brought back to Fitchburg, and
committed for trial at the next Criminal Court
for Worcester County.
A ROUND ABOUT ARRrvAL-The Charleston
Courier announces remarkable andnoteworthy
arrival at that port, all the way from Milwau-
kie. The schooner Adria, Captain Chase, was
Opposite Milwaukie). She passed through
Lake Michigan, the Straits of Mackinac, Lake
Huron, the st. Clair River, and the Welland
Canal, and the lake route, into the st. Law,
renee River, and through the Gulf Of st. Law
renee and Cut of Canso into the "Salt Pond"
known as the Atlantic. She left St. Joseph's
on the 2Sth of May, and reached Providence,
Rhode Island, on the 18th of July, after o
route of three thousand two hundred miles.
From New York to Charleston she made eight
hundred miles, in all four thousand miles.
CRUELTY TO SAILoRs.--For the three years,
ending August, 1858, says the New York En-
press, an average of one hundred and fifty
complaints pe- day year have been made by
sailors for cruel treatment at sea before the
United States Commissioner in this city. Two
thirds were made against mates, and one-third
against captains, for cruel and unusual pun
ishment. For the past year the number of
complaints have been only fifty.one, and TAX
ing the results of last year as criterion out of
the hundreds Of cases Of maltreatment that &C.
cur every year on American vessels trading to
this port, only forty got before the examining
magistrate, and but one in forty Of the accused
was convicted. a
A DISADVANTAGE OF Hoops.-Iti is suggested
by an eastern medical journal that the use of
hoops in the dress of small sirls, by keeping
the body cooler than they had formerly been
accustomed to, renders them more liable to
bowel disorders. Of this we of course know
nothing, but we do know that in majority Of
cases the use of hoops by little girls Is abso-
lutely promotive Of ndelicacy, as any mother
can easily convince herself Of, who will note the
almost universal habit little girls who wear them
have fallen into, Of striking the hoops so as to
make the clothing fly off from the body, or the
still worse habit Of lifting the dress, which
they encourage. If grown people want to wear
hoops let them do it, but don't Danish the ma
tive delicaey Of little girls by putting hoops
upon them.
INDIANA DIVORCES WORTH NOTHING IN New
YoRK.-The case of Julia E. Clark against Al
vim B. Clark, which was tried before Judge Ba-
con, at the last term of tho Supreme Court, in
June last, in Lewis County, N. Y, has been
decided in favor of the plaintiff upon all the
issues OF tho case. The action was brought
against the defendant on the ground of adult.
ery The Court held that divorce obtained
in the State Of Indiana, when the party goes
, there for the purpose Of procuring such di-
vorce, and then returns to the State Of New
York, is wholly imperative and void.
DEATH OF A VETERAN OF Two WARs.-John
Lindsey, soldier who fought in the war Of
1872, and also in the Florida War, died in
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, on the 10th in
stant, at the advanced ago of seventy years.
lie was in the battle of Lundy's Lane, and re-
ceived several wounds which disabled him from
service for time. He also took part in the
Florida War, and was one of General Scott's
body-guard. He saw Black Hawk, 0sceola
and large number Of the other famous Indian
Chiefs who figured conspicuousy in that In
l dian War. At the close Of the strife between
! the whites and Indians in Florida, he returned
to Pennsylvania.
! TESTIMONY OF A DREAM.-The Hon. A. II
, Banscom, prominent politician Of Michigan
, and Speaker of the Assembly Of that State il
1847, died at Marquette, Lake Superior, on th'
4th instant, of hemorrhage of the lungs. HI
was one of the most genial men in the State
and his death, in the prime of manhood, viii
, cause very many heavy hearts, 1t is an
nounced, as a singular fact, that his wife Ia
. that time long distance from him) dreamed
} during the night of his death, that he had died
) and related the dream to her friends o day o.
two before the intelligence of his death reached
them.
/ STREET RAILROADS IN WASHINGTON th
meeting of Congress is only little over thre
i. months distant, the subject Of railroads OF
Pennsylvania-avenue, in Washington, is agail
, beginning to excite attention. There will
doubtless be active competition, for the priz
! is valuable, and the Htelligencer has heard i
!. stated that responsible persons are ready u
offer to construct the Metropolitan Railroad
from Georgetown to the Point Of Rocks, il
consideration of the grant Of railroad priv
Q ilege through the two cities.
: ANOTHER YANKEE SETTLEMENr.-In addition
!. 10 Eli Thayer's Yankee settlement in Virginia