The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-13
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French agents have come to this country for
the purpose of buying, for their Government,
new American vessels to bo used in the French
navy.
The Administration decided not to issue
circular to our Minister at France, concerning
neutral rights, but each case arising will be
considered upon its own merits.
Sugar has fallen in the New York market
two cents per pound within the last ninety
days. The stock on hand is more than double
what it was last year.
Washington Taylor, the celebrated counter
feiter, escaped from Jail at Camden, N. j., on
Tuesday night. Three other prisoners escaped
at the same time.
The late frost extended over wide region
country--Northern Kentucky, Indiana, West
ern Virginia. all Ohio, Western New York and
Pennsylvania--and the destruction will reach
millions ofdollars, and will be severely felt.
Two hundred and twenty-nine cadets at
West Point have addressed an eloquent letter
to Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham, regent Of
the Mt. Vernon Association, at Richmond,
| Va, inolosiug S45s, being two dollars each, as
contribution to the Mt. Vernon Fund.
Among the host of singers who ave lately
appeared in London, ii is curious that 30 few of
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has sterner work on her han-ls, just now, than
the training of singers; and opera may, proba-
bly,, for the future, have to rely on singers out
of Italy.
When the President visited the University
| of North Carolina Chapel Hill, the other
| day, he was dubbed L. L. D. 1t is said that
the handsomest women of the South were
present on the occasion, it was Commence
ment" time.
An old printer died recently in Pendleton,
Sc, who, it is said, was personally acquainted
with "Junius," about whom so much was
written. The old man (Miller) never di-
vulged the name Of the author Of those cele-
brated letters.
| A petition TO Congress is now circulating
among the army officers asking for the re-
tirement from active service of such officers
| as have become from any cause, not dishon-
orable in itself, unable to meet all the requi-
sitions of such service.
| The Brown County Democrat says that on
| Saturday week the wife of F. H. Bartlett
was shot dead, in her own house, about 9
| o'clock at night. There is the strongest cir
cumstantial evidence that she was murdered
| by her husband.
A telegram from Lancaster, June 10, says:
| Wise the @ronaut leaves here for st. Louis,
ria Chicago, on Wednesday next, with his mon
ster balloon, to prepare there for an ascension.
He expects to land between Philadelphia and
| New York. He will mako an ascension here
on Tuesday.
A bill has been introduced into the Connee-
ticut House Of Representatives, to prohibit all
theatrical exhibitions, Ethiopian concerts, men
ageries, and other matters of kindred character
in the State, unless the same shall be of a
strictly moral character, under penalty of 800
for each violation of the law.
| The authorities of San Francisco had the
| proprietors of the Evening Bulletin, of that
city, arrested on charge of violating the
law against obscene publications, in having
| spread before their readers the reports they
| found in the eastern papers of the Sickles
trial. They escaped punishment by proving
that the reports were put into the paper by
| the assistant without being read, in the hurry
| Of making up the news at the last moment.
WARNING Fo CHILDREY.-We clip the follow
ing from the Zanesville Courier: Two little
daughters of DR.. Stanton, of Warsaw, Coshoc-
ton county, aged respectively four and five
| years, died suddenly on Thursday of last week,
with such symptol-s, rs led to the belief that
they were poisoned. They had been playing
in the field near the house, where, it is sup.
posed, they had eat of the ivy, or deadly
| night-sbade.
MoBs - THEIR IMPORTANCE. Tho True
Southern has the following: "The New
Orleans Picayune is sadly exercised because
northern collector was recently driven out
of Holly Springs and ordered not to return
We are as much opposed TO mob law as the
Picayune; but let it not be forgotten, that il
was a mob that threw the tea overheard in
the Boston Harbor; it was n mob who met
the trained bands Of England at Lexington
| Concord and Bunker Hill. 1t was q mob
who resisted the laws of England, and it was
a body of rebels who declared the thirteen
colonies free and Independent! With Their
examples before them, the people of the
South are not likely to be frightened by the
| parrot cry of traitor"
SUICIDEs.-The Cleveland papers record
case of suicide, at Bath Summit County, or
the 7th inst. Mr.. E. Kent, very respectabl,
citizen, a man of good habits, in very comfort
able circumstances, surrounded by very inter
esting family-wife and five children--just il
the primo of manhood-aged 34-and in thu
enjoyment of good health, committed suicide
on the evening Of the 7th inst, about sunset
by hanging himself in his own barn, near hi
dwelling. His dying struggles were heard a
the house, but before assistance could reacl
him he was dead. The cause of so rash an 40
is wrapped in the most profound mystery.
On the same day, in another part of thi
State-Washington Highland County, Lac
| IL years old, named Jesse Trader, in the EN-
ploy of Mr.. Mankar, farmer, in the absenc
of the family, shot himself through tho brain
and died instantly. He had been discontente,
with his lot, and no doubt, in a fit of despond
cncy, "shuihed of this mortal coil"
A young man in Wisconsin recently commit
ted suicide because he coHld not get his raj
through yellow river. He told his friend
that "f he couldn't run a raft through YelloV
river, without getting stuck, he would han
himself" lie stuck, and then kept his word
NAPoLEoN's PHYsIoGNoMY.-A German cor
respondent of the Boston Traveller, a gentle
man who knew Napoleon personally when i
Switzerland, says of him "I had various op
portunities to see Louis Napoleon thirtee
years ago, at the time he lived an exile 1
Switzerland; have dined at the same tabl
with him number Of times, and have take
great pains to study his features, and hav
discovered many striking facial resemblance
TO the first Napoleon, his uncle. / have see
him in a most debauched condition In th
streets Of Geneva, with a notorious woman,
French singer. have seen him on other OF
casions faoe to face, but could not discover
his features the least indication of champio
Of liberty. cold, 10y, shy look marks h
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