The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-05-05
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CINCINNATI, THURSDAY, MAY s.

| lucky State Flag, published at Paris Bourbon
County, Kentucky, and will at once occupy the
editorial chair of that journal.
Basil Sims and James Bidwiok are the names
of the boys who found the body of the late
| Mr.. Yeager, of Eaton, Penn, for the recovery
of which we learn large reward has been of
fered.
Mrs. Catharine Zellers, of Lancaster, Penn,
previous to opening a lager beer saloon, ap-
peared before the Court of Common Pleas, on
| Saturday, and was sworn and admitted citt-
zen of the United States.
Mushroom hunters are every where busy.
They had better be careful, for there is
| species of toad-stool, of poisoning qualities,
and resembling the mushroom, rather com
mon. Many persons have suffered from
eating it.
The first vessel that broke through the ice
this season, in Lake Pepn, was the Key
West, for which piece of good luck she is
| exempt from the payment of wharfage at
st. Paul, during the entire season, which will
bo saving to her owners of some $500.
Among those talked of MS likely to succeed
the late Bishop Doane, are the Rev. DR..
Mahan, DR.. Odenheim, of Philadelphia;
Bishop Southgate and the Rev. Samuel A.
Clark, Rector Of ST Johns, Elizabeth, New
Jersey.
We are told by the Maysville (Ky.) Eagle,
that the negro boy Carey, who murdered his
master, MIR. Frank Hampton, near Orange
burg, on Monday last, was captured in the
same neighborhood on Friday evening, by
Mr.. NJ. Davis, assisted by two of his negroes.
The murderer was lodged in Maysville Jail.
The following from the Salt Lake City Valley
Tau can not, we apprehend, be true of Gov.
Cumming: He has Joined himself heart and
hand with Brigham Young and his bishops,
to endeavor, even by force, perhaps, to prevent
the investigation Of the dreadful, inhuman
butcheries by the Mormon Church.
According to one of tho N. Y. Tribunes
Washington correspondents, the Administra-
ton has determined to relieve itself from the
present Utah embarrassment, and postpone the
solution of the horror problem yet little lon
ger by removing Judge Cradlebaugh, who is
| said to have acted even worse than has here
tofore been reported.
Mr.. 8. w. swiggett, editor and proprietor
of the Sioux City Eagle, and Postmaster
Smith, Of that city, having had a difficulty
of no great account, the latter revenges him
self by refusing to distribute the Eagle to box
renters. Such a magnanimous fellow as ia
this same Smith, should be promoted forth
with.
Horace Greeley is to start from New York
on the 10th inst, on a Western tour He
intends going through Kansas and the alleged
Gold Regions at the Eastern base of the Rocky
Mountains, thence through Utah and the
Great Basin to California, returning across
the continent or by the Isthmus, as crcum-
stances shall dictate. He expects to return
sometime i'll September next.
The Winona Republican, of the 9th ult.,
says that the steamer Eolian was sunk in
Lake Pepin on Friday morning, by the closing
in of the ice around her, when nearly oppo-
site Lake City. Four deck passengers were
drowned. They were, man named Welch,
with his wife and child, from Canada, and
John Felch, from Erie County, New York.
All other persons ON board escaped.
The Hon. w. E. Wheeler, of Beloit Wis,
while on shooting excursion, last Thurs
day, came near losing his life. When taking
his gun from the buggy, with the muzzle
toward him, the triggers caught on the
wheel, discharging the contents of both bar
rels into his right side. His wounds, though
very dangerous, it is hoped, will not prove
fatal.
The Bonapartes, says Harriet Martineau,
are not men Of character, of political wisdom,
of patriotic temper, of philosophical sagacity.
They are low in aim, vulgar in quality of intel
lect, and consequently in manners, and by no
prepossessions inclined to rescue Italy for the
advantage of the Italians. They are regarded
as selfish adventurers, rather than ns emanci-
patOrs OF nations.
Two sons of the late Bishop Doane-the one
an Episcopal Minister, the other a Catholic
Priest-met at the grave of their departed
father, and both shed tears of sincere sorrow
as they witnessed the lowering Of his remains
into their final resting place. Such scene as
this, says contemporary, is seldom Witnessed
two brothers meeting at the grave of a beloved
father, who professed religious opinions of an
entirely opposite nature to each other.
The Toledo Blade says that the new ap-
pointee to the Detroit Postofficeship, Mr.
Henry N. Walker, has not occupied a very
decided position as between the two factions
of the party, but has been supposed to be
favorable to the Douglas interest. Ifso, his
appointment may be the first advance on the
part of the Administration toward the recon-
ciliation which Mr.. Douglas and his sup
porters are anxious to bring about.
The Moline Independent tells the following
story: Last fall the wife of an old Scotch
farmer ian inhabitant of Moline), fell heir to
100000. She started for the old country, and
while on her way, q brother died, leaving her
S50,0OO more. Soon after her arrival home
her father died, leaving her heir to a still larger
sum. Finally, her old husband sold out and
set off for the land of his birth. Now all this
comes, says an exchange, from marrying the
Thomas Lett, of La Sale County, Illinois,
and brother of the famous Ben. Lett, has ad-
dressed a pamphlet to the people of New York.
vindicating the name of his brother from the
charges of burning the steamboat Great
Britain, blowing up Brooks monument, and
various outrages connected with the Canadian
rebellion, aud refuting the statements of the
newspapers that his family were rebels, his
father hung, etc. He furnishes history of his
family from the time of William III. Ben.
Lett, it will be remembered, died in Deem
ber last, in Milwaukee, from the effects of poi
son administered to him by persons unknown.
CIeUe. Democrat.
SINGULAL AFFAIR.-0n Thursday afternoon
last, man and his wife, named Barlow, arrived
at Hudson from New York city. In the after
noon, they started on foot on the track of the
Hudson and Boston Railroad. AS train ap-
preached, the engineer observed them sitting
upon the track, and blew the usual signal Of
danger, which was unnoticed. As the train
approached nearer, however, the man arose
quietly and stepped from the track, leaving the
woman still sitting there. The next instant
the train had passed over the legs of the un-
fortunate woman, nearly severing the limbs
from the body. She died in great agony at
seven o'clock tho same evening n was no