The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-04-07

The steeple on q church in North Oxford,
Mass, was blown down by the high wind on
Friday last.
The receipts of the Burns festival in Chicago
were $2,3SO 61, and the expenses precisely the
same sum.
One of the liquor dealers in GAINESVILLE, few
days ago, threw all his liquor into the gutter
and Joined the Sons of Temperance.
Geo. E. Taylor, formerly clergyman, but
lately very Incorporate, died in the police Office
in st. Louis on Saturday last. ...
Logan Mcknight, son of Virgil Mcknight,
president of the Bank Of Kentucky, died in
Now Orleans on Saturday.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has been
indicted before the Belmont County (0hio)
Court, for ferrying passengers and freight
across the river at Bellair. ...
John Pender, who was shot at Louisville, as
reported elsewhere, was from Pittsburg. His
friends will have tho body brought to "tho
grave of his fathers"
Capt. Bently, of Monongabela City, Pa,
who was shot by his deranged wife, some days |
ago, is improving. Hopes arc entertained of |
his recovery.
At an estate sale in Charleston, S. c., last |
week, Washington Anston's famous painting of
"Spslatro, or the Bloody Hand" was sold for
$3,011.
F. G. Smith, on Friday last, in Boston, mas
ter of the whaleship John and Edward, pleaded
guilty to an indictment fer abandoning Warren
Epps, the cook, on St. PauPs Island.
The remains Of Lord Howe, who was killed
at the Battle of Lake George, ON the 9th Of
July, 1858, have been discovered in Albany,
N. Y, in a double coffin.
There is quiet but strong movement now
in progress, designed to make James Guthrie,
r T II. II a..
candidate for President.
The spirits in Maine have an eye to chastity
as we'll as free love. A smart breeze is going
on in family in Bangor, Me-, where the wife
has been accused by the spirits of infdelity to
her husband.
On Monday morning son of Mr.. KiIgore,
Of Louisville, KY, was run over by hack at
the corner of Brook and Main streets. He
was injured internally, though no bones were
broken.
The oldest and probably largest liquor dealer
in Bristol County, Mass, one Horatio Field, of
Taunton, has been sent to the House of Cor
rection for ninety days, for violation Of the
liquor law.
Trinity Church, New York, instead of pos
sessing that endless wealth which some, both
friends and foes, seem to imagine, is in fact at
this moment spending far beyond its means,
and is almost at the point of bankruptcy.
A vein of iron ore has been found in the
yard of the Clinton IN. W Prison. 1t ap-
| parently runs in the direction of State lands
outside the Prison stockade, in which case it
will be available for use in the Prison, furnish
ing ore for the forges and labor for the convicts.
At Louisville, on Monday, the two deck
hands on the David Tatum, Ed. Wall and Robt.
Jones, who had been in arrest on the charge of
killing Jas. Phillips, deck passenger on the
boat, were yesterday discharged from Gus
tody. There was no testimony adduced against
them.
One Of the 'grindstones, two tuns in weight,
used in the Wheeling Belmont MILL bursted on
Friday last, one of the pieces striking boy
named Morrison, injuring him considerably.
The stone was running at the rate of about 200
revolutions per minute, when bed-kDife fell
between it and the timbers, causing the acci-
dent.
Three weeks agU, says the Courier, last Fri
day, James Mulcahy, his wife and three chill
dren, arrived at Louisville, on steamboat
from Pittsburg. His wife left the boat to come
up into the city, and becoming bewildered was
unable to find it again, and up to this time she
has been unable to hear any thing of her hus-
band and children.
Mr.. Tom Trollope, son of the well-known
Mrs. Trollope, and who resides at Florence
|
: don a work entitled ga Decade of Italian
Women" His brother, Mr.. Anthony Trollope
is in India, in the Post Office service. 1t wal
on the voyage thither that his last novel, "Doc
tor Thorne," was written.
Lieut.. Mullan's expedition to Oregon, for th,
establishment of the wagon road from For
Bent to Walla Walla, will start in a few days
7 This expedition is of very important char
acter, and its progress will doubtless be watched
n s..ko
!. try at large. The party will be escorted
through the Indian country by large body o.
United States dragons.
One of the Neapolitan exiles, writing from
Cork, March II, says: How pleasant it is to b.
free, perfectly free, after ten years of close i'm
prisonment in the dungeon of King Bomba
The world looks so bright againi During tel
. years we have known but little Of what wa
T going on out of the dreadful walls of our darl
and damp dungeons yet we never gave up tn
hope of better days for Italy; and now the!
seem to be at hand. This prospect makes u
forget our past sufferings, though moro horribl
% than you can imagine.
\, Cincinnati has quite number of policemen
II of the like character as described by the NeI
Z York Tribune: policeman Burns, of til
. Third Precinct, was examined before Justic
Is Voorhies on Saturday, on the complaint Q
assault and indecent proposals, on the evenin
Nj of the 23d ult. She came out Of grocery o
tho corner of Hoyt and Wyckoff streets, an
was proceeding homeward, when she was fol
lowed by the accused, and assaulted. He
, cries induced him to let her CO."
oe Senator Douglas was compelled, by Sicknei
,d in his family, to forego his intention Of vistin
" Connecticut during the late canvass. In
10 letter upon the subject to the Hartford Post,
ii uses the opportunity to say that "The Demo
. cratic party is the only political organizatio
w. which can preserve the peace and harmony {
= the Union and the integrity and ascendenc
of the Democratic party can only be maintaine
by an explicit and unequivocal recognition
" the fundamental principles of popular sov'
y reignty and non-intervention by Congress wit
slavery in the Territories as we'll as in th
States, as it was explained and understood
the great contest of 1854 and 1885,"
The discovery, at a railroad depot at Alban!
N. Y, of a soap-box containing human n
op mains, has given rise to the supposition thI
a clue to the mysterious disappearance of Mr.
:, Captain Brennan, in July last, from State
W. Island, has been found. The affair is now
D course Of Investigation. Mrs. Brennan, it wi
- ha recollected Was traced 10 the Staten IBlaI