The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-05
News and Gossip.

Franco was married on the 9th ult., 10 Paris,
to Mr. Archer Anderson, Of Virginia, Among
those present were Mrs. General Winfield Scott,
Mrs. Commodore Stewart, Hon. Mr.. Eustis and |
his bride, late Miss Corcoran; Mrs. j. Ridg-
way, Mrs. Riggs, of Washington; Colonel
Crittenden, of Kentucky; Lieutenant Pegram,
of Virginia; Lieutenant Kelton, of Pennsyl-
vana; DR.. Spencer, U. S. Consul at Paris and
Messrs. Calhoun and Wilbor, Secretaries of the
United States Legation.
REWARD OF THE BRAvE.--The French Minis
ter of War has, by command of the Emperor,
decided that each wounded and invalid soldier
Of the army of Italy shall receive an allowance
of franc day, payable every month until
their pensions shall be regulated. Those SOL
dies whose period of service do not entile
them to a retiring pension are to receive a
gratuity Of 2O5f. year for the non-com-
missioned officers, and 90f for private soldiers,
as long as their infrmires prevent them from
elfaing their bread.
Gsf5- The eccentric Englishman, who joined
Garibaldi's corps from pure love of shooting at
such high game as Austrians always took out
his memorandum book and made note ont,
every time he brought down one of the enemy.
The result of his season of shooting counted up
twenty five head killed certainly, and ten more
under the head of "uncertian Am ing others,
Garibaldi bad two Frenchmen, members of the
Paris Jockey Club, five Americans, o few Ger
mans, and one Chinaman.
G5- There is a caricaturc privately crcu-
lating in Paris, representing the Emperor Ma
poleon putting cat, q dog, a monkey, par
rot, woman and q servant all into one bag.
The Emperor Francis Joseph looks OH in
some surprise, and inquiries "Que taites vous
Ia" can Italian Confederation" replies
Napoleon, "and you will be so good as to put
one of your arms into it," every willingly"
replies the Austrian, EARNED with my 100000
claws"
GS-Within the limits of New York and
Kings Counties there are four hundred and
two churches, seating comfortably three hun
dred and thirty-f thousand persons. The
aggregate salaries of the pastors Of these
churches amount to six hundred and twenty
thousand dollars, or an average of about one
thousand seven hundred and sixty-nne dol
lars per annum each.
~ 1t is reported that the Russians have
condemned to banishment forty thousand fam
lilies of Circassians, who live on Territory they
udNo CUuuueteuI giving theh luou ouolCo
between Siberia and Turkey. Most of them
will bo prepared to fight tho Russians again,
when they are on their way to C0nstantinople.
GsB" In the Theological Seminary connected
with the Illinois State University are fourteen
Scandinavian young men, preparing for the
Lutheran Ministry, viz: one Dane, five Swedes
and eight Norwegians. They are under the
charge of Pastor Ebsorn, Professor of The
ology and Scandinavian languages and lit
erature.
NS-Tho Hon. L. X. Xollicoffer, of Ten :
ncssce, in letter to the Baltimore american,
denies being Jew. lie says: "I am not q
Jew, and am not aware that any one bearing
my name is Of Jewish faith. This error may
seem scarcely worth correction, yet | prefer
that it should be removed, and beg that you
will correct it,"
G5"C Charles Dickens has given mortal Of
fensc to the Dublin people, by publishing an
article in his new serial, entitled "IIer Ma
jesty's Irish Mail" A correspondent in
Saunders's Necs Letter threatens to have Mr..
D. tarred and feathered, or worse, should he
return to give any more of his readings in
Ireland.
ID"The ruins of "Irainstan," the once
princely abode of =. T. Barnum--where he
was always glad to see his friends, in the
days Of his prosperity-are being leveled off,
preparatory to q new residence for the pres
ent owner, which will be placed considerably
in the rear of his old site.
GS- The twelve cricket players who will
represent England in the great National con-
test which is to come off will leave for the
United States on the 7th Of September. Their
names ars Parr, Jackson, Diver, j. Caesar,
Hayward, Daft, Wisden, Lillewhite, Coffin,
Lockyer, Grundy and Carpenter.
Gds" The St. Johns Ncws says that the mis-
understanding between the Nova Scotia Tele-
graph Company and the Associated Press has
been corrected; and in tho future the foreign
news dispatches will come through as they
formerly did, without interruption.
GfS-A Berlin letter of the latest date says
"The strength of the King is becoming gradu.
ally exhausted; his Majesty has almost en-.
'irely lost his intellectual faculties, and hii
death would be happy release, both for him
self and the Queen.'
GJ-The Philadelphia Prcsssays that ifth'
Great Eastern makes successful passage
across the Atlantic, Mr.. Lever, the head o
the Galway line of steamers to New York
will have four such steamers constructed al
soon as possible.
M3-The vote of Texas, at the late election
for Governor, was about sixty-three thousand
In 1850, when Texas came into the Union, sh,
only polled about eight thousand. This show
an astounding increase in the population o
tho State.
ls- Nothing has yet been discovered re
specting the mysterious Disappearance of Mr.
Patton, of Lafayette, since he left the Massa
soft House, Chicago. His friends are making
the most vigorous search for him, There is n
assignable cause for his voluntary disappear
ance.
ses- The Tallahassee (Fla.) Sentinel speak
of fheavy rains in the holo cotton region, an,
of complaints that in all quarters cotton i
shedding its fruit, and the bol-worm at it
! work Of destruction.
FAILURE OF LOCOMOTIVE WORKS. TIL
. failure of the Boston Locomotive Works i
announced, for six hundred thousand dollars
The company had sold work in the West an
other parts of the country to railroad com
panies, &C., taking in pay bonds, which prove
worthless.
; Gg The London Field says it is calculated
, in tho Ring that Mr.. Ten Brock is a richie
i man by forty thousand pounds than whom h
landed on tho hospitable shores Of England
in 1867.
@f5~ According to the Keokuk Journal