The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-04-21
JINNATI, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1869.

Kingston, already reported in the "Press,"
reached its climax, in the shape Of an armed
outbreak, on the 23d March. The village Of
Savannah was the first scene of their stupid
revolt, where they destroyed some property.
Several of the ringeaders were arrested by the
police; but this did not check the spirit of re-
volt, for body Of the Insurgents assailed the
City Hall, threatening to destroy it If their
leaders were not liberated. The Governor
sent body of military, 500 strong, to dlsperse
them, who, on their route, were intercepted by
barricado, which led to q conflict, to the dis
may of the insurgents. Soulouque, looking
from his window, exclaimed, "0h, the whites
at last begin to understand how negroes must
be treatedj sweet words are not for them; they
need blows and knocks" Probably he included
himself among the blacks who needed kicks
and cuffs to keep them right.
Capt. John 7. Hutchinson, while walking
on the bank of the Allegheny River at Pitts.
burg, on Saturday, accidentally fell in and was
drowned. The Press says Deceased was
native of ireland, and emigrated to Baltimore,
when quite young man. He served in the
War of 1872, and fought under General jack
son at the battle of New Orleans. He unfor-
tunately received a saber wound upon the
head, which produced IL fracture resulting in
partial insanity. He had made his home in
Pittsburg for perhaps twenty years, and latterly
resided in poverty and wretchedness, In a hovel
on Penn street, in the Ninth Ward, which he
styled "Fort Jackson"
A Toronto correspondent of tho Montreal
Gazette says there is rumor that, on the ex-
piration of the present Governor Generals
term of office, Sir Edward Bulwer Lyttou will
be sent out.
lin our opinion, Mr.. Hincks, Governor Gen.
eral Of the Wipdward Islands, is the looming
man.
Barnum has met with civil treatment in
every city he visited in England, except Ok
ford. Let him not bo dispirited at that we
have seen the "gentlemanly blackguards" of
that University pelt lecturers; in short, such
pastime is in their opinion one of the aristo-
cratic privileges of the students of that Uni
versity.
The jury in the recent case of the people
against James Green, at Warrenton, va. for
the killing of Carver, at the Fauquier Springs
last September, did not leave the box, but an
nounced that, as they were agreed to a verdict
of acquittal, they did not wish legal argu-
ment, nor the privilege of retiring to discuss
the evidence.
Racket-playing is much practiced in Eng
land and Ireland. Mitchell (English) chal.
lenges any American player to meet him in a
game for $4,000 a side; the choice of place to
be decided by toss, and an allowance of $500
to be made for the travelling expenses of the
party who "draws" to cross the ocean.
Lopez is to apologize for the Water Witch
affair, by salute of twenty-one guns to the
United States flag; to pay $40 900 for the killing
Of s. CLANCY; to ratify the treaty of 1852; to
open up the navigation of the Paraguay and
Parana, and to settle the claims of the Nayi-
CATION Company by commission.
On Tuesday, young man, named Daniel
Noble, residing about four miles from Wells
vile, hung himself on the limb of an apple
tree He had been low spirited and meian-
choly for some time previous; a young. lady,
| to whom he was engaged, having married
another.
Says the Springfield Journal: The trial of
Sickles at Washington is the greatest specimen n
| of low comedy which has occurred for years,
| and it is accompanied by more "side- -shows'
than any circus that travels. There is not
the slightest spice of tragedy in the whole
affair.
Mr.. Perry, Ex-secretary of the United States
Legation at Madrid, who is married to Span
iSh lady and settled in Spain, has proposed to
the government to lay down a telegraphic
cable between Spain and Cuba; and he proposes
that it shall touch at Canaries, Porto Rico, and
some other places.
The Paris correspondent of the N. Y. Times
says that Mr.. Preston, the new Minister to
Spain, although rigid Presbyterian himself,
has placed his two grown daughters in the 0on.
vent of the Saere Coer at Paris, to continue
their education. ......
Mr.. M 'Anally just returned to Austin, Texas
from Mexico, reports that much indifference
prevails on the other side of the Rio Grande
in regard to the contending political factions
The people are robbed by both as they may
come into power.
An Evansville paper ventures the assertion
| that the wicked inhabitants of Washington
| City have not heard 80 much of the Scriptures
read before in twelve month, as Mr.. Grab am
5ickles' counsel, read for them in his speech
for the defense.
deputation of British residents In New
York waited on Lord Napier, on Friday, and
presented him with an address signed BY up
ward of two hundred names. His Lordship's
reply was considered inimitable for tact and
propriety.
DIR. Stenhouse oontroverts the doctrine of
the anti-septic qualities of charcoal, as pro-
pounded in many chemical publications. He
asserts that animals long buried in charcoal
have been found in a fur advanced stage of
decay. .r.
The New Yerk Court of Appeals decided,
on Friday last, in the celebrated anti-rent
cases, that the title of the Van Rensselaer, and
the validity of the rent-charge stipulated in
their leases should be unanimously upheld.
During the gale, last week, in Detroit, the
cupola of a church was blown off, which struck
Mr. lsadore Begheim, who was passing. His
injuries proved fatal. The spire of another
church was blown out of the perpendicular.
The experiments in producing oil from resin
have proved eminently successful in Texas.
The Southern Oil Company is in successful
operation, and other companies are about being
formed.
CALIFORNIA ITEMs.-The Gila mines are en-