The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-17

GB>Senator Gwinn and Hon. Charles Scott
have arrived at New York from California.
g@-M. Liebig has discovered an artificial
means OF forming tartaric acid, novelty in
chemistry.
J9- John Van Buren, of New York, and
Hon. Ira Harris, Of Albany, came homo from
Europe on Friday last, in the Fulton.
Gg-"Hope on, hope ever" Norman, the
daugher Of Enoch, was five ehundred and eighty
years old when she uas married.
E3-A contract has just been signed for the
completion ofthe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
to the Tennessee liue The work is to be fin.
ished by the 3lst Of December, 1859.
gg- Lemuel showles, ESQ.,, Of Worcester
County, Maryland, died on the 4th inst. He
is said to have been the wealthiest man in the
county, and worth 100000.
u.s. Another installment of $4,000 has
been paid to Mr.. Washington, within o few
days, past toward the purchase of Mount
Vernon. t
+ G9- Leavenworth city is to be lighted with
gas, on or about the LIST of November. The
charter of the Company restricts the price of
gas to thirty-five cents per hundred feet.
GS-Henry Ward Beecher lectured to o very
meagre audience in Providence recently, only
q few people attending, because everybody ex-
pected to be crowded out.
G9-Major Ellis, of Cuban and Nigaraguan
fame, died on the 9TH, in New Orleans, of
lingering consumption, at the very early age
of thirty years.
u.s. On the 18th ult. another fatal duel was
fought with rifles, at forty PAGES, near San
Andreas. The parties were DR.. Peterson and
Col. VIM. A. Gatewood. The former fell NOR
tally wounded and died in two hours.
G8- M. Kossuth, the distinguished Hun
garian chief, returned to England at the be-
ginning Of the week. He intends remaining
here with his family, to watch the proceedings
of events abroad.-London Times, of the 2Sih
ultimo.
@g-Among the distinguished arrivals at
New York by one Of the recent steamers from
Europe, is Madame Omar Pacha, wife of the
celebrated Turkish commander who won so
many laurels in SiliStria. She comes to make
this country her residence. ..I....-
ls-There is plant in the Island of su-
matra, the circumference of whose fully ex-
Ipanded flower is nine feet; its nectarium is
calculated to hold nine pints; the pistils are
as large as q cows horns, and the whole
weight of the blossom is computed to be if
teen pounds.
l@ The track-laying on the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, will, with good weather,
be finished in all, next week. It is expected
that the passenger and freight trains between
the two cities will be regularly running on and
after the lst Of November.
@-we learn that D. McLavan, ESQ.,, the
proprietor Of "Dan Rice's Great Show has
purchased from MI. e. P. Christy the extern
sive property on Walnut street, Philadelphia,
known as Welch's National Theater, with ali
its scenery, wardrobe and appointments, for
the sum Of $4,000, and that the "Great Show"
will locate there permanently, forthwith.
N| There is we'll authenticated rumor
that Thomas F. Meagher has gone to Costa
Rica as an agent Of President Mora, and will
make an effort to assist him with his Irish
countrymen in regaining supreme power.
His scheme may not be utterly abortive, as
Government availed itself of his offer to take
dispatches to Mr.. Dimitry, which will afford
him the protection of diplomatic character.
@s- There are four Shaker Societies in
Ohio, numbering 1859; one in Connecticut,
numbering 200; two in Maine, numbering
$50; two in New Hampshire, numbering 500;
four In Massachusetts, numbering 700; two in
Kentucky, numbering 900; three in New
York, numbering 1850 making in all
eighteen societies.
Gs- There is mourning in the Spanish
bull-ring. Cuchares, the first motador of the
day, well known and much renowned in all
the famous arenas Of Spain, has met at last
the fate which befalls so many of the pro-
fessors of his dangerous and barbarious art.
In the bull-fght at Alicante he has been so
dangerously wounded that, should he re-
cover, it is said he will never be able to enter
the circus again.
ms Mr.. Sloan, of Point Abino, the owner
of the land on which the last prise fight was
fought, was in Buffalo on Friday. He repre-.
sents the conduct Of the parties present toward
himpelf and his family as most outrageous.
They trsmpled down his fields, stole his hay
and fed it freely to their horses, entered his
house and insulted his family, and took every
liberty with his property and about his prcmi-
ses that their lawless inolinatiops prompted,
replying to all remonstrances with insolent
Language and threats, and by their numbers
making 1t impossibleto to resist any of their pro-
ceodings. Before the fight came off, when the
principals were waiting in the vicinity, Mr..
Sloan applied to the Justice ct Fort Erie for
their arrest: but the latter refu sed In taka anv