The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-07
NEWS AND GOSSIP.


Gg-The Pacific annual conference was to
commence In San Francisco on the 2sth Of
September, Bishop Pierce to preside.
@g-The Irish citizens Of Sacramento, Cali
fornia, propose presenting sword to Marshal
Neil, of the French army.
! 4 @a- Hon. Samuel A. Smith, of Tennessee,
has accepted the appointment of Commissioner
Of the General Land-ofics, recently rendered
him by the President.
GTThe papers of Prussia complain that
great numbers Of young men leave that country
olandestinely for the United States to avoid
military service.
GSAdvices from st. Martins of September
10 state that very heavy rains had taken place
there, destroying 3OO, 900 bushels of salt at the
Great Bend.
Z as- On the 10th of August the cornerstone
Of the First Wesleyan Methodist Church was
laid at Victoria, in British Columbia, by Gov
ernor Douglass
GG-A statement was made at q late Con-
vention OF the Congregational olorgymen of
New Hampshire, that "not One pastor in the
whole Convention used tobacco"
&s-Mr. F. Robbins, lately connected with
the Jefferson Savings Institution, has been
appointed teller in the Northern Bank of
Kentucky.
Ga1- The Grand Trunk Railroad of Canada
is discarding all wooden bridges and substi-
tuting iron ones Of the most durable char
acter.
Gay- The Cambridge City Bulletin SAYS
that the Whitewater Canal is now in ex-
cellent boating condition, and the boats run
ming are receiving good supply of freight.
Gy-M Mr.. George Vandenhoff has volume
in press, entitled "Leaves from an Actors
Note Book, with "reminiscences and Chit Chat
Of the Green-Room and the Stage in England
and America"
GS>The Rev. DR.. Cummings, of London,
whose varied writings are woll-known in this
country, has written work, which is to be
published Immediately, entitled The Great
Tribulation Coming ON The Earth.
Gs- The New Haven Registcr relates that an
actor at one of the theaters was called out four
times.in one evening, not long sgo--twice by
sheriff, once by tailor, and once by an ire
sistible desire to imbibe. .11 ?
ES The inhabitants Of Paris have recently
presented the Empress Eugenie two superb
vases of gold weighing one hundred and eighty
ounces. They contain flowers Of gold, each
emitting an odor similar to the natural one of
the flower which its form represents.
@-"There's two ways of doing IT," said
Pat TO himself, as he stood musing and wait
ing for job on the State-street corner. "If
save me $4,000, must lay up $500 year
for twenty years, or can put away $40 a
year for two hundred years. Now which
way will I do?" o..
asrE Estimating the present population of Gin
cinnati at two hundred and thirty thousand;
the annual increase at ten per cent, in ten
years the population will be five hundred and
ninety.six thousand, Eve hundred and fifty
nine. During the last ten years, the ratio Of
increase was eleven per cent. rt
MS-The Austrian expedition around the
| globe, at the head of which was DR.. Scherzer,
Is at length completed. The Nouara, with oil
| the scientific collections on board, has safely
arrived at Trieste, and the Austrian Govern
ment will soon publish the results Of this i'm
portant ciroumnavigation. Several savans
took part in the expedition. a-.aaa
mg-The trade carried on between the Terri
tory of New Mexico, and the Northern States
of the Mexican Republic, and the United
States, through Kansas, is now very large,
amounting to nearly ten millions annually
and is yearly increasing. Formerly thet
trade was exclusively confined to Indepen-
dence, Missouri. ..s.ti
nB-Mr. Calvin Adams, Of Pittsburg, Penn,
has recently discovered that an important
electrical change takes place when molten
iron solidifes in cooling By insulating the
molds, and the man pouring in the liquid
metal, the castings from common iron came
out as white as silver and as hard as steel.
This is another evidence Of tho universally
Of this subtle force, and though it is not as
yet applied to any practical purpose, such
| phenomena can not fail eventually to pro-
duce useful effects,