The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-21
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

% Ex- President Van Buren, is writing his
Life aud Times.
~ 1t is estimated that the telegraph cuts
OIL million per year Of postage receipts.
DT Plus the Ninth was very i'll, and con-
fined to the palace from erysipess.
r Professor Aga,siz embarked at Liver.
pool on the 10th inst, and will arrive in Dos.
ton to-day.
yy Mrs. Stowe is in England, preparing
her last work, "The Minister'S Wodinq," for
publication 1t will appear in October.
SsS~ Col. Bruno Won Natzmer, of aIibuster
nOtoriety, has been offered commission 10 the
Liberal army of Mexico.
2fS- Delaxon Smith, late United States Sem
ator from Oregon, is about to start newspapar
to bo called the Oregon Democrat
Private letters from Taacany sneak Of
the alarming illness of Elizabeth Barrett Drcwn.
ing, the greatest living poeess in England.
R@- All departments Of the Government of
Canada have been removed to Quebec, tho
future seat of the Government.
SB- The new opera. house at 81, Louis was
opened on Thursday evening b., tho Pared
troupe. with II Troeators.
Ssa- The gentleman who stood upon cere.
moDy has lost his footing, and DOW 'fuds that
he has slipped out Of very pleasant ciroIe.
Ss- Doctor smethurss. WHO was convicted
OF poisoning Miss Bankes, near London. and
sentenced to be hung, has been rsspited by
the Queen.
Ga>" Haven't you anished scaling that fish
yet, Samf" "Nt, mister, it's a yery largo
one" "Why, you have had time to soalo a
CS@Two trothers named Matterd, residing
IN aanovey County, Va, had bloody Eight; on
SaturdaJ. They shot and cut each other 30
despsrateiy that neither Is expected to reoo yer.
SG- The eighth annual fair Of tho Ipdi-
ana State Agricultural Association c,m-
mences at New Albany next Monday, ind
continues throughout the week.
&S-The Rev. John Edgar, D. D.. one of
the most distin guiahed cergypen in the PREF l.
byterian Church, in Ireland, ia on his way o
visit this country.
ak- Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Matthews a,
about to take q trip to the United States,
where they are SO popular. They will come
by the Great Eastern.
@g- Ex- President Fillmore, it il stated. is
about to mako tour of the New England
States, and while in New Hampsllir will be
the guest of Ex-President Pierce.
The New Orleans Poaypns SAYS that. all
along the railroads completed in Texas, Ian ds
have been enhanced in value one hundrtsl
per cent, while production b as been stimlr.
lated to still greater increas g.
9S~ A new iron passenger car for the Bos-
ton and Worcester Railr roe will soon be
placed upon that road, 1t is lighter than the
wooden cars, and will stand O. smash with
less injury.
GE-The artesian we'll at Columbus is now
two thousand two ',undred and fifteen feet
deep, and progressing downward at the rate Of
six feet per day. The auger has be en- in lime.
stone rock for the last one hundred feet.
aEis- The Dayton Journal says tho recent
rains have done wonders for thu, corn. The
most despondent, heretofore, ct .eerfllly tes-
tify TO the fine prospect that IL so general.
1t will all be right yet.
alS' Bowes / Cushing's United states Cir
Gus Company are perfor ming under tent in
Ireland, travelling through the country, and
compelled, for the wap of tavern accomnoda-
tons, to encamp at every plsos where they
show.
g@-rn an article upon diamonds, in Harper.
Nogastns, 1t is yVLted that the best quality Of
alex which enlers into the composition of the
admirable irAitations of diamonds made In
Paris, ia fo'and in Rhode Island, and is e,;.
ported to France for that purpose.
3sa1- Hotels in New York are doing rush.
ing business. The St. Nicholas, for three
weeks past, averaged in daily arrivals some
thing BIKE 200 guests; tue Metropolitan 500
or 600; the Lafarge, say 800; the Neg York
Hotel 400 or 500.
@S-A man named Wilson slcc esstully
crossed the bottom rof the Schtylkill River
from the east to the west bank, nesr Phila
delpha, on Thursdgy =, in a submarine armor
The exhibition attr acted an inma nse con
course Of spectators, ten thousand, probably
being present.
~" It is said IN at the first time hors
ever trotted in p'it'lic in Ameri ca for stalk
was in 1918, when match was made 70
81 900 that no h ,rse could be p oduced whcl
could trot miEe tn Hrcs Rttn Rta. A hors
named "Bosto Blue" won t ne stake, con
trary to gener' Al expectation, by trotti,g tn
mile in few seconds less than the pres cribe
time.
aS"The London Tines say ys tho d Selma
System OF England is TO remain in abeyar ce fI
the present, but new coinage s to be i huet
The metal to be employed is of q bronze, cor
sisting OF ninety-fve paris copper, four p.r
tin, and one part zinc; and the wei,,ht of III
new col n will hardly exoeed ne-thitd that
the OH. Upon recoining one-fourth ef th
copper now in circulation proht oil 4oA,oo
will 90 realized.
Hs-From all parts Of the southsr lotion
growing region wo have the pre- nit
another large crop, even larger than th at
the year closing 3lst August, which vie Ids
1881 ADJ bales. The weather in ne arly a
the sections Of the country is favora BILE, IN
appearances now indicate A. yield e1:ceed IN
four millions Of a]es, which b, at fifty doll y
bale average, ill yield two hund red m i
lions of dollars. The increase of ciinsum
tion seems to outrun the l,wge inc rease
ny nj L. ell To-, ~