The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-04-23
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Kansas, to meet at Big Springs, on the ID OF
May.
Mr.. John L. Kirk, the assistant of the late
WIN. H. Prescott, is preparing life of the
bill to prohibit the marriage Of Uhite and |
black persons has passed the Wisconsin Legis-
lature.
man was taken off the cars at Columbus, |
on Tuesday, sick with the smallpox. Hewas
conveyed to the Pest-house.
A law, recently passed in Maine, establishes
the annual salary of the members of the Legis-
lature at $3.50. They can sit twelve months, if
they please, for this princely sum.
A young woman in Arkansas recently mar
ried one of three brothers who are in Jail for
murder and sentenced to be hanged. She ex-
poets shortly to be a widow.
In Coshocton Common Pleas the cases of
George Bell aud William White, charged with
robbing the treasury of that county, have been
continued to the next term Of court.
The Pennsylvania State tax next year will
be two mills on the dollar, and provision is
made to meet all State liabilities, and pay of
million of the State debt.
A gay young French teacher in Buffalo,
named Louis Dion, was convicted the other day
of stealing coat and sent to the penitentiary
four months.
Twenty cases of smallpox are reported in
the village of Columbia, Henry County, Ala,
and the disease was increasing in violence and
spreading rapidly through other counties.
Gov. McWillie, of Mississippi, has appointed
a delegation of three hundred and seven to
represent that State in the Convention which
assemblies at Vicksburg on the 9th of May.
It is rumored that the President anticipates
the necessity of making war on Nicaragua,
and that the returning Paraguay feet will be
ordered to the Caribbean Sea.
A company of 200 miners is at the Kansas
gold mines, but some fifty only are at work.
Most of the party are engaged in building
houses on the various town-sites.
Within the last year, card d-playing among
the steamboat travellers in the West had dimin-
shed fully one-half, and chess had taken its
place.
Washington Irving was visited on the Sd
inst, his seventy sixth birthday, by his neigh
bors, who greeted thevenerable man with honOrs
and congratulations
An Bnglishman named John Thompson was
killed at his own residence, No. IS Sixth
avenue, New York, on Saturday last, by lit is
alleged) his wife, during drunken quarrel.
Negotiations are understood to be pending
| between the Erie and New York Central Rail-
roads, with view to a new Compact" con-
tcmplating higher rates of freight.
| On Friday last n negro named Cicero was
shot on Hog Island, Va, and his body thrown
into a fire and burned by his murderer. The
murderer is unknown.
| A Cuban flag was displayed on the corner OF
| Walnut and Second streets, in Philadelphia, or
| Wednesday, in consequence of the announce
ment that Cuba was on the eve of freedom.
4 A man named Robbins was found guilty Of
! bigamy at Raleigh, n. c., a few days since
and branded in open Court with the letter
on his right cheek-a mark which he will carry
to his grave.
Four hundred firms engaged in the shoe anC
leather trade in Boston and its vicinity, held
public meeting in Boston on the tn, to TAX
measures for establishing uniform inspection
of leather.
Nebraska paper says that slavery is al
ready established in the Pixies Peak region
that the Mexicans are there with poems, an
that Southerners are on their way there wit
slaves, from every Southern State.
Mr.. W. e. McLaren, of Allegheny City, Pa
a former member of the editorial corps of th
Cleveland Plain Dealer, is preparing for voy
age and residence to Japan as q Christian Mis-
sionary.
William II. Newly, colored man, for man
years a resident of st. Louis, and formerl
editor of the Mirror of the Times, pape
published by the colored population of Sal
Francisco, died on Sunday last, in st. Louis
Mr.. Alexander 7. Donagho, of Frederick
town, Washington County, Pa, has in his pos
session copy of Queen Elizabeth's Bible
dating baok to l495. 1t would be valuabl
: addition to any public or private library.
Since the commencement of the Russia
\ War, in 1854, no less than six hundred patent
have been taken out in England for militar
. inventions. This is more than double tn
O number that was given between 1923 and 1885,
. u period of two hundred and thirty years.
t Thirteen hundred dollars being still due fl
: the Napier Ball at Washington, the Messr
+ Willard hold the tickets as vouchers again
the parties who used them for $40. The Penn
n sylvania Inquirer proposes that the names
Q published.
1t is reported that Mr.. Kimball, eldest SO
of Heber c., and Jos. Young, son of Brigham
have apostatized, and are about leaving for Il
d States with their first wives, leaving the
"spirituals" behind At least 5000 aposta
! Mormons will leave for California early in IL
N spring.
% The Cleveland Herald states that U. S. Di
y trict Attorney Belden, by striking of eve
u Republican included among the forty nam
. selected from which to make a jury in the We
~ lingt .0berlin rescue case, has given it as
10 opinion that Republicans can not be trust
- with the execution of the Federal laws.
In the report of the Sickles trial rs pu
A lished in the Herald, the name of ohm Graha
N is uniformly stricken out, and "cOunsel
At the defense" substituted. The reason Of Il
e, is found in the fact that some years sin
l. Mr.. Graham and the editor of the Hera
e. had personal difficulty in Broadway.
to Says the Portsmouth (o.) Tribune: Some
r the papers are agitating the question wheth
r. politics and religion ought to be in any W
49, connected. It's of no use to argue that poll
he man who has any religion will carry it in
all the relations of life; and a man who b
&c &C none will be pretty sure not to exhibit any
ID his politics.
~ A farmer named VIM. Greenwood, living
Of what is known rs "Frenoh Settlement" pla
u u some twelve miles west of Davenport, low
la left homo about the first of April, on busn
We in some other part of the State. He left
~, homo his wife and two children. Last Sund
nd night she elOped with Frenchman nam