The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-21
Various items.

prisons of Illipois. She is making a general |
tour through the South and West.
Lorenzo Dow-The "Voice of Masonry" |
a Masonic paper, published at Louisville, says |
that Lorenzo Dow was at one time High Priest |
of the Chapter at Vincennes, Indiana.
Illinois papers speak of immense depreda-
tions committed by rats on the growing corn
crop. They dig into the hill and cat the seed
ere tho stalk has fairly rooted.
The Speaker of the Connecticut House of
Representatives has given handsome gold
pen to each of the reporters Of the HARTFORD
papers, who acknowledge its receipt in card.
Archbishop Hughes has recently returned
from fishing tour among the Thousand Is
lands, during which he succeeded in capturing
a muscaloDge Weighing thirty lone pounds.
E "A "second Morphy" has been discovered in
the senior class Of the Free Academy in New
York City. He goes it blind, the same as
Morphy No. l.
A BIG BUTTERFLY.-Professor Agassiz has
received from Brazil butterfly that meas
ures ten feet from the tip of one wing to the
other.
The revenue of the French Government from
tobacco monopoly for the present year is esti-
mated to reach $36, 800, 900. In Russia, the
revenue derived from duties on tobacco ex-
ceeds $36,60O,O00. In Austria it amounts to
$14,0OO,O00.
The New York Examiner reiterates a state
ment, that to get dollar into the hands of
missionary or oolporteur, through the treasures
of the American Baptist Publication Society
and the American Baptist Home Mission Soci-
ETY., costs fifty cents.
A little girl, about two and half years old,
seeing the elephant attached to the circus pass
by the house, asked her mother who was stand
ing by, "what that great India-rubber thing
was that was walking in the street with two
tails"
A correspondent in Greece (says the Pays)
assures us that a farewell dinner given at
Athens to the Grand Duke Constantine, two
tOasts excited the loudest applause. They
were: "To the success Of the allied armies!"
and, "TO the alliance of France and Russia!"
1t is said that Captain Blakcly is the gen.
tleman now acting as correspondent for the
London Times with the Austrian army. He
has served in both the English and Austrian
services, and was the Times correspondent
during the last war in Lombardy.
7. B. Reeds portrait of LongfeIlow is on
exhibition in Boston. The poet is represented
standing near corner of his library. On one
| side of the figure in the background, portion
| of large oldfasbioned clock is visible. On
the other desk is seen, where stands a stat.
uette of Goethe.
The Committee appointed by the Artists of
Boston to obtain funds for the erection, in Bos-
ton, of. Balls Equestrian Statue of Washing
ton, to be cast in bronze in Massachusetts,, an g.
nOunce that a Ladies' Fair will be held in
Boston, some time in November next, to aid in
the collection of the requisite funds.
1t is stated that Mrs. Belts, of Naugatuck
Ct, who left home some time since suddenly
| has returned. AT the time she disappeared il
was thought that she had eloped with one Tom
linson. She denies this, and says that she
left home because she wanted to, and came
back because she wanted to.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says: Rembrandt
Peale and Thomas Sully, the eminent Phila-
delphia artists, are engaged in painting each
others portrait. Mr.. Joseph Harrison, q
wealthy and liberal gentleman of this city
originated this enterprise, and has commits.
stoned each of the venerable artists to do this
service for the other. Mr.. Peale has recently
entered upon his SD year, and next June Mr.
Sully will be 76.
A case is recorded in tho London Medica
Times, of recovery after apparent death from
chloroform, in which artificial respiration wa,
kept up for half an hour before any voluntary
respiratory action was perceived. During tn,
latter portion of this time tho pulse could b,
felt at the wrist, but previously there had no
been the slightest sign Of life. No other means
OF restoration was used except an enema o
brandy.
JEWISH SoLDIERs.-A Silcsian rabbi havinl
petitiOncd the Ministers of War to relcas
Jewish soldiers on festivals from military ser
vice, was answered that military commander
had been previously instructed to dispense, o
far as practicable, with the military services O
jews on their festivals, and not oblige them I
attend the customary divine service in th
churches. An unconditional release from scr
vice, however, on festivals was impracticabl,
PosT OFFICE PATENTs.-The absurd stor
that the General Post Office Department wa
losing million of dollars per annum from tn
use Of counterfeited postage stamps has awak
encd lively interest to secure the Genera
Government against such frauds. The De
partment is in receipt of numerous offers O
patent cOntrivances, each very simple, and, il
the opinion of the inventor, infallible to pre-
vent such abuses.
The New York Board of Education, afte
full debate, resolved on Wednesday night, b.
a vote of IS to 16, TO adopt the report of tn
Committee appointed sometime since to conside
the propriety of drafting by law asserting tn
authority Of the Board TO insist on making al
the Public Schools in the City assume, as
part of the daily routine, the reading Of tn
scriptures. Hencetorth, therefore, tho teacher
in the Public Schools must either read til
Bible to their scholars, or 60 without thei
salaries.
WOMEN's RIGHTs.-Dr. A. Bastian, who ha
just published book in Bremen, on his visi
in 1857 to San Salvador, the capitol of Congo
says that the princesses of the Royal famil
enjoy remarkable privileges. They may max
their selection of husbands from the mobiles @
the realm, and the happy men have to prepar
themselves for their duties and their honors b.
several months of solitude. To insure cOnju
gal fidelity--not on the part of the wife, VIII
enjoys the greatest freedom--but on the part O
the husband, whenever he leaves tho house
tomtoms are beaten before him, and at tn
sound ofthem, all women must hasten out O
the way. This is the lot of the prince consor
in Africa.
In private letter addressed to tho editor O
the Worcester Spy, Senator Sumner says of hi
health: At last feel happy in health, which
if not entirely assured, yet is such as to allo,
me to walk naturally, unconsciously and with
out pain, unless wnen strike into my old gait
which, you may remember, was always tn
fastest of the fast. l hope have not lost thi
so that can not get it back again. One mus
have been for three years an invalid to kno,
the happiness in my new found strength. M,
Sumner speaks as follows of the present war i
I Italy: This is great historic moment Their