The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-08-26
Editorial and Selected Melange.

OLD KENTUCK.-kentucky prizes her puohc
men. She honors the ofice and respects thein-
cumbeut. Next Monday the official certificates
will be issued to the Congressman and State
officers elect, and If there be any contests,
thirty days are given for contestation. On
Tuesday next the beauty and chivalry Of Ken
lucky will be represented at Frankfort, the
capital, when Governor Morehead will yacato
tho Gubernatorial chair, and Governor Magof-
fin be inaugurated with imposing ceremony.
Two thousand cards of invitation to the In
auguration Ball have been issued to the ladies,
and the gallants of Kentucky are astir. Men,
ter's Band is engaged. On Wednesday the
retiring Governor will DO escorted on horse
back tow ard Louisville by large troop of
friends.
The Marshals of this State will soon have,
by their deputies, to take the decennial census
of Ohio for 1860.
Iron spires for church steeples are erected in
the Eastern cities.
The death of Moses D. Phillips, of the firm
of Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston, is an
nounced.
The tragedian McCready is at his homo in
sherburne, England, devoting his leisure hours
in promoting education in the community in
which he lives. He has retired from the
stage. ...
Monsieur Julien, the monster concert man
ager, has been q Gagged bird recently. A test
was made by one of his creditors in Paris
whether his taking out papers of naturaliza-
tion in 1852, in England, denatiOnalized him
as Frenchman. The Tribunal of Commerce
decided that he was no longer a Frenchman,
and Julian was put to prison as debtor, but
he was released by the decision of the Impe-
rial Court Of Paris, which reversed the deci-
sion, and declared that such oaths Of allegiance
were not binding except in England. Julien
was released and snapped his fingers at the
creditor.
The steamer Great Eastern is called the
"foating furlong." She is constructed on the
wave principle" Scott Russell is the con-
triver of the plan. Her full deck length is six
hundred and ninety-one feet; breadth, eighty
three feet; ffty-eight feet hold. She has ca
pacity for twenty-four thousand tuns, has six
masts, and four oscillating cylinder engines,
each seventy-four inches in diameter, and four
teen feet stroke, which unitedly have ten thou
sand-horse-power. The small boats hang on
the quarters or davits, and two steamers,
one hundred by sixteen feet each, for jolly
boats, are slowed upon deck in case of need
She is expected to reach Calcutta in thirty
three days, or the United States in six or seven.
Many will rccollect the conversational phi.
losopher, DR.. William Alcott, who held econ.
versations" few times the past few years, to
q select Cincinnati audience; before his death
he had concluded the manuscript of an inter-
esting book, entitled "Forty years in the will
derness of pills and powders, or the cogitations
and confessions Of an aged physician"
The wife of DeMarbais was known in New
York, at her residence in Lombard-street, as
Blanche Franklin. She was married to Eugene
in 1858, by Alderman Swift, of New York
City.
Two editors, formerly Of Cleveland, are en-
gagged on New York dailies. ]. B. Bouton on
the Journa1cf Commerce, and Charles F. Briggs,
on the New York Times.
Mr.. George B. Reed has presented to the
Young Mems Mercantile Library Association,
of this city, duly framed, an autograph sigma
ture Of General Ethan Allen, of Vermont, who
bolted into the English garrison at Ticonde-
roga, with his green mountain boys, in l775,
and in the name Of the Great Jehovah and the
Continental Congress demanded the post of
"0ld Ty," which he obtained forthwith. He
was subsequently captured in assailing Canada,
slowed away in the cable-tier of British ves-
sci and sent as prisoner to England. He was
exchanged in 177s. Great Britain, or her
officers, attempted to bribe Ethan to unite
Vermont to Canada. His genius was not in
that line. He died in 1889, aged 81 years.
The autograph is dated 176l. The frame con-
tains also the autograph Of Ira Allen, his
brother, tho first Secretary Of the State of Ver-
mont.
The Pttsburg Post has humorous article on
| proposed excursion tour Of the Cincinnati
Council to Salt Lake City. Provision depot
and rendezvous az Pixies 0pera-aouse until
the 10th Of September.
Kentucky people honor the Bledsoe family,
as, by its powerful intellect, the Bledsoes
have honored the State. One of the SONS Of
Judge Bledsoe; of Kentucky, Albert T.
Bledsoe, L. L. D., now Professor of Mathe-
matics in University of Virginia, and once Of
Kenyon College, of this State, was, on the
2Sd inst, elected President of Missouri Uni
versity.
Nas- Morris Liston's Tree, which has beer
for many years landmark for pilots and mar.
| iners on the Delaware, is now dead. 1t die