The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-21
Editorial and selected Melange.

To-day Is 81. Matthew'S day. Friday and
Saturday are Ember days.
There Is passage opened along the walls
IN each side of Smith & ,,Nixons' Hall, which
ia an arrangement long needed.
Rev. G. X. Marshall, of Miss, has patented
.n invention to address newspapers eight
thouaand an hour--whlch Is pronounced to be a
success, and cheap.
The eleventh annual fair o! the Clermont
County Agricultural Society opens next Tues
day, the eth inst, at Olive Branch, in Cler-
mont County, and continues during the week.
ID Mr.. Faran, our Postmaster, has received in
'losed to his address, photograph of child and
mother. The only direction lnclossd is to do
liver it only to the husband Of the lady. a
psguerreotype was previously RENTED, without
address, and 1t was called for BY gentleman
stopping at the Burne. House.
awe, BELL" Is CLBvRR.--BsN's Life Ia Lon
don says: at Is something for America 60 say
With truth, ave have Paul Morphy, boy Of
twenty-five, who can give pawn and move to
every other player in the world" and lnrge as
IA. world is, this we, Bell, honestly believe
The boy can do.
There were three Vice Presidents Of the
United States Agricultural Society present at
Chicago, who had never partaken Of ardent
pirits, or had been addicted to use Of tobacco.
One Of them was Freeman q. Cary, editor of
the Gacinnatats, an agricultural periodical of
interest, published in this county. at College
Hill.
Mr.. Everett delivered an eloquent address on
Webster, at the Inauguration Of the Webster
Statue In Boston on the 18th of September, the
occasion of great celebrations in that city.
The present one was the two hundred and
twenty-ninth anniversary Of the settlement Of
Boston.
The editor Of the NoblesviIle (Ind,) Rtrio'
had to dispatch from Indianapolis to bis own
yDlage, distance of twenty miles, and waits
IL, return, for marriage license, His happy
bcde and joyous company all assembled to
attest with well-known ceremonies, tho inter-
osting ovont, had to walt tho due course OF
mail. Editors must be posted.
Lstta, of our city, will exhibit, tomorrow,
a. Evansville, Indiana, one of his steam Fire
Engines, with expectation of selling the same
Tho Daytonians have peep at it to-day. We
trust Day ton will find 1t to her interest to secure
enc of these reformatory institutions They
save great deal of decentralization Of youth
attendant on the independent fire engine orga
oization.
The collections at Postofices for the Wash
iugton Monument is not extraordinarily
heavy: Wheeling, Virginia, sent Sls, ant
Putnam, Ohio, $40; few cities sent more
Ihs present generation will all be in thei
graves before this ill-desisned stone structure
will be erected. The only instrumentalit.
that can consummste tho work will be that o
american women.
The Illinois Central Railroad, appreciatinl
the merits or Faukeo' potent Steam Plow
and their own interests, have ordered sil
machines, to pillow the lands they sell t
small farmers. The Company propose t
break up for these new beginners their prai
ne lands at sixty cents per acre. That is
noble incident Of corporation character.
An important direes trade is expected to b
carried on with the interior Of the Unite'
States, from England, through the Dayton aB'
Michigan Railroad to Detroit, and over th
Grand Turk Railroad Of Canada and the Mon
treal and Liverpool line of steamers. Goods Il
reach inland markets in bond, the Govern nmen
duties to be prepaid by railroad company, au'
follow shipment as eharges-CinciDnati to be
prominent center for this direct trade.
The terms on which the eleven Bnglisl
cricketers visit this country are: tho paymen
Of all their expenses from starting to return
ing, and $500 besides. These noted cricketer
tlo hpordiy ouPPoitou Wy hohhoo'o VA uAai"
nent and other gentlemen. The N. Y. Tribml
calls the expected professional players 9TH
eleven Apostles" on q proselytiog mission o
the utmost Importance, perhaps not thought 9
by them. 1t cordially recommends the gam
rs more material to our national necessite
than the game Of chess.
Two SuRyIvoRs,--Mr. David s. Hunt, 0
this city, has q sister, Mrs, Mary Van Vech
ten, born at Albany, and still residing a
Louisville, Ky., which has been her hom
since 1918, who was passenger on tn
Germont, on her trial trip from New York t
| Albany. The Albany journal, in annOunc
ing the death ofthe Dean of Rippon, Of Eng
land, says, that there now resides in Alban,
the only surviving cabin passenger VIII
made the first trip with Robert Fulton b.
ste m on the North River. As that paper
mistaken, and there are at least two sur
vivors, allow us to introduce Hon. John 9
Wilson to Mrs. Mary Van Vechten.
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