The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-03-18
THE PRESS.
A PRornrsY Marprb.-No one bat a Frenc


of carcaturing Europe by map but Paris
ian map-maker has lately published and offered
for sale a map bearing the title of Europe in
the Year $780," with cross bearing the motto,
"In hoe sgno Uinces"-in this sign you shall con-
quer. The idea is division Of the Territory
of Europe in the most extraordinary manner.
The old boundaries arc almost lost in the
labyrinth of lines and new complications Ac-
cording to this map, the Island of Cyprus, near
the Syrian Coast, and the region Of the Eu-
pirates, affording the shortest road to India, is
to become English territory. France remains
in its old limits; Russia gets Gallacia; Prussia
gives its territory on the left border of the |
Rhine to Holland, and is indemni6ed by Hnn-
over, Mecklenburgh, Brunswick, the Electorate |
of Uesso, and some small German Principsli- |
ties; Austria is to receive Egypt, Servia and
Ionia, but gives Gallacia to Russia, and its |
Italian possession to Victor Emmanuel, King |
of Sardinia, who, under the title of King Of
Italy, shall rule over all Northern Italy and
| the possessions of the Pope. The latter one
receives the Provinces CT the hbruzzi ct Naples;
! the Island Of Sicily is to indemnify the Duke
of Parma, and the King of Naples to become
the ruler of Tunis. Sweden is to receive Den
mark; the King of Hanover shall be made King
of Constantinople; the Grand Duke of Meek
lenburgh, King of the Danubian Principalities.
Spain gets Morocco, and the Sultan of Turkey
must renounce his European possessions and
go Dhck 10 MS ASlhllC pTONlnOess
PEDESTRIAN SM1TH.-About the lst Of this
month the Wheeling Times had paragraph
announcing the arrival in that city of an old
man named John Smith, who had walked ESQ
he said) all the way from Cincinnati, where his
wife had died, leaving him in possession ofa
child, which ho had hauled all that distance in q
willow basket wagon. He stated that he was en-
route for New York city, whore he had brother
residing. The paragraph enlisted the sympa-
thies of some of the good people of Wheeling,
who generously gave him temporary relief, and
then had him passed over the Pennsylvania
Railroad. A few days after, the old man was
heard from--the Baltimore papers having pub
lshed an affecting account Of the arrival in
that city Of a man forty years Of age, who
forthwith applied at the guard-house for shelter
for himself and his child, girl three years old.
In this instance the localities are changed,
while the l-stirring tale is the same. On
s this occasion he said his wife died in New
> York, and his brother was living in st. Louis,
adding, that as he had walked all the way from
New York to Baltimore, dragging his child in
the little wagon, so he hoped to be able to ac-
=, complish the journey to St. Louis in like man
ner.
A POPULAR LADIES' MAN.-The gay Lotha-
q rio, Meyers, the bgamist-the wrecker of sew
!; eral ladies' happness-arrived in Pittsburg on
i. Wednesday morning. His arrival caused
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his levee in the ch-house, during the day
/. was we'll attended. Though deJarred from
u shaking hands, by the want of space, yet he
stood the scrutiny and gaze of the fair ones ad.
mirably, VINO nearly all declared he was good
looking fellow. But his Pittsburg wife CANT
'r at last, and delivered him an eloquent ant
highly pepperish lecture, which affected him II
<: tears He was committed on charge of bigam!
N and larceny. Another account says he wa
ic visited that day by about one hundred German
~ ladies, who seemed to regard him as physica
r., wonder and an object of admiration. AS tn
hero of five living wives, he was regarded wit
intense curiosity.
n WATER FROM LIBER1A.-The purity Of tn
on water of Liberia is mentioned by several writer
BY who have been there, and by DR.. james Hal
of Baltimore, the founder and superintendent
of the settlement at Cape Palmas, for severe
y years, who says in his late address, 'no on
can suffer for want of good water in Liberia. y
Tho U. S. frigato Niagara, lately returne
a, from Monrovia, and now at the Brooklyn Nav
Nv Yard has water on board which was brougl
from Monrovia. 1t is perfectly sweet and pur
and as pleasant to drink as our own Croton wa
49, ter, and when taken from the iron tanks of tn
~ ~ ship, is as cold as though it had been iced
He would not be colder if it had just issued frol
ay under the glaciers of the Alps. The Niagar
io' sent her boats and obtained it in Mesurado RiN
er, a small river behind Monrovia.-N. T. JoU
Of Commerce.
md md RAT SKIN CLoTHING.-An ingenious indiv
It's, dual, Of Liskeard, Cornwall, England, has fl
nc mo some time past been exhibiting himself in
Ia dress composed from top to toe OF rat skin
raj which he has been collecting for three yea
no and half. The dress was made entirely
inc himself; it consists of hat, handkerchief, Goa
gle waiscoat, trowsers, tpPet, CATERS and shoe
ion The number of rats that were required to cor
plete the suit was six hundred and sevent
an AZ and the individual, when thus dressed, appea
.ses exactly like one of the Esquimaax, describ
pc. in the travels of Parry and Ross. The tipp
20 1' or boa, is composed of the pieces of skin il
- mediately around the tails of the rats, and IL
,n very curious part Of the dress, containing abe
W. ak hundred tails-and those none of the sho
est.
BUSINESS IN THE NEW ENGLAND STATES
The New York Times says n gentleman &C
wiss nected with one of the leading Coal Compan
fer has returned from tour of business and {
me ,nas servation through the New England Stat
rfu He reports the manufacturing establishmel
VIII VIII all alive again, and most of them, in ma
rice cases, running full time, on orders in advaI
II is of production. The same information is &C
cor veyed through other channels, and the gene
II. prosperity Of the mills and factories of C'
ssed necttcut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts,,
no confirmed by the improved local traffic W
" their RAILWAYS, and by tho continual hes
purchase of cotton in New York market, q
TT contracts in advance for wool at the West.
GOING NoRrHwARD.-Last week, says
Davenport Gazette of Monday, we mott
many Hocks of geese and ducks flying MOI
and q few Aocks of wild pigeons. This
pretty sure indication, if the birds are mete
ologically inclined to prophecy, that We
not going to have any more cold worth grow
M M 10 10 ill-humored over.
J use 1t was only few days since we copied Fl
es a,, no a Wisconsin paper paragraph, stating
! pun the pigeons were passing Southwark, VIII
ati. according to the opinion of the "oldest inh
- itant," indicated approaching cold weather.
ALMOST TRAGEDY.-It has been going
AIN round of the press (though we fancy the 81
is the concoction of some witless fellow,
a married couple, residing in Peoria Cou
Illinois, recently became "religiously"
ranged at the same time, and that, in t
other frenzy, they resolved to sacrifice one OF
children, and were actually making prep
tons to that end, whom they were detected I
, has of course, prevented, by their neighbors. ;.
lmost said that the unfortunate couple are now II
1sgIb sd BY insane hospital. That portion OF the s
3Si rather dubious, is the sacrifice part.