The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-05-10

Mr.. Warden English committed suicide, by
shooting himself with a pistol, in Jefferson
vile, on Saturday last
Our exchanges from all parts of the State
are complaining that the weather is uncomfort
ably hot.
On Saturday n German jumped from
ferry boat into the river at Louisville, and
was drowned.
The quantity of gold now in existence in the
world is estimated to be three thousand mil
lions of dollars. .........
The last run made by Seereiter, at his great
game of Billiards with Phelan, was to run his
hand in his pocket for the tim"
The warlike news by the Niagara, on Thurs
day, caused an advance of 25@5O cents per
barrel on Flour, in the Chicago market.
1t is said that Sir E. Bulwer Lytton will
make about $4,000 out of his last novel.
"What will he do with it?" Give it to his
wife, of course.
Nearly one hundred whaling ships are re-
ported to be on their way to New Bedford,
Mass, with oil and whalebone to the value of
nearly three millions of dollars.
The difficulties between our government and
that of Paraguay, which it was supposed would
lead to a war, have been amicably adjusted BY
our Ambassador and President Lopez.
Billy Bowlegs, the old leader and Chief of
tho Seminoles, died on the 1Ith ult. Thus has
passed away one who has been terror to tho
settlers Of Florida, and one of the greatest
chiefs and Indian warriors of the present day.
The famous anti-rent cases have finally been
decided by the New York Court of Appeals in
favor Of the landlords. Tens of thousands of
dollars, and many human lives, have thus been
vainly sacrificed
Saturday afternoon n freight car loaded
with hemp took fire on the Frankfort rail.
road, near Jericho, from a spark from the
locomotive, and burnt to the ground. The
woodwork Of the road near it was consumed.
Solouque, the ex-emperor of Hayti, has
been swindled out of all his ill-gotten wealth,
by his prime minister and favorite, and is thus
reduced to poverty while the false minister is
living gaily at Paris.
All the political prophets of Europe seem to
be unanimously agreed that war between
France and Austria, which will, of course,
spread indefinitely, can not be delayed longer
than till July next.
The king Of Bonny, (Africa,) who is now
travelling in England, is said to look with long
ing eyes upon the fat, plump and rosy children
Of that country They fairly make his canni-
balistic mouth water.
a Wool growers and Manufacturers' Con-
vention is called to meet in Cleveland, on the
4th day Of August next, for the purpose of ex-
hibiting the different styles and grades of wool
and for mutual interchange of opinions and
practical hints.
The following scene occurred at theatre in
Boston: First actor firing a pistol): Unnat-
ural son, die by my handP (The pistol mis-
ses.) Second actor, calling on the stage): ait
is true the pistol missed fire, o, my father, but
l die in obedience to your paternal wish"
The Tndependent," published at Pine
Bluff, Arkansas, says that give men were
recently hung by the citizens of Brownsville.
Ark near that place. No particulars given. .
This paragraph must have peculiar interest for
persons who have friends in that region.
A letter from India, published in the Bel
GUM Independent, (at Brussels gives an ac-
count of a Dutch family that was lately de-
voured-parents, children and seryants-by a
lion, lioness and two whelps, that broke into
] the house at night.
The editor of the Louisville Courier, in dis
coursing upon the clergy, says "they are moi
more addicted to dissipation than the men Of
other professions. A few of the Kalloch tyne
take gin toddies and liberties with females, buI
the great majority of them are as good as law.
yers and doctors. If you want a true Chris
tian, marry an editor"
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the Southern Pacific Railroad. He congratu
lates the stockholders on the Frightening pros
poets of the enterprise. They looked gloomy
enough for time, but the fondest hopes are
so far realized, thanks to the indomitabe en-.
ergy of DR.. Fowlkes. There are no hostile in.
terests now. All parties are agreed to pu
their shoulders to the wheel. This is just as il
ought to be. The road will be built. Thu
crisis it has passed through will be benef
| ,-,,k kooI nC f.,s,, l.
miles more will be built this year.-LouisviM
Democrat.
A PIKE's PEAKER's OUTFIT.-A gentleman
who has "traveled all the way" assures III
that the following is all that is necessary Il
secure a safe arrival at the new FL Dorado
Pixies Peak: 600 lbs. of -four, bbls. o
whisky; 80 lbs. of bacon, 40 gallons of whisky
100 lbs. Of venison, IS demijo Of whisky
2 boxes of dried herrings, l bril- of whisky;
brl. of pickles, 4 bril- of whisky; IL quar-
mugs. little more whisky may be necessary
but the other articles will hold out if the maj
is not tremendous gutton. Exchange.
Another gentleman (?) who has "travelIet
all the way" writes to friend that all tb
outfit necessary is a revolver and a tooth pick
The Toledo Blade encouragngly refers +
] the future as follows: "The manufacturin
interests of the country are generally pros
porous, and there is demand for the pro
ductions of all the mills and shops, whicl
makes our cities lively with the music of tn
spindles, and the chorus of the ponderou
machinery, as with heavy clang it shape
the crude substance into varied forms {
beauty and utility. The signs of war in Er
rope are regarded as favorable to 4he pros
perity Of this country. Should that wa
progress, and the promise Of the crops her
be realized, the next two years may wei
be looked TO as period fraught with rich
est store for our people. Havoc, blood
shed, rapine and disaster there - terribl
as they are and much as they are to be dc
70 plored W would in innumerable ways ten
G to our advantage. If the multtudes of Euror
nt are called off from the active duties of pre-
s. ducers, marched to the battle fields and mad
G. consumers of the productions of others, ii
~ harvest will be ours. The United States wi
s. be the only neutral granary from which
Is draw the supplies for the immense forces whiC
" are marshalled in European wars. And shoul
the war prove protracted one, its effect wi
IN be to destroy confidence in the security of proI
e. erty in that quarter of the world, the result
i, which would be to induce capitalists there
IA. send their surplus here for Investment.
Il. looking over the whole ground we are led
the conclusion that new era of prosperity HI
~ fairly dawned-that the day Of business d