The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-04-21
THE PRESS.
MAIL ITEMS.

"Ie"the, IL now on exhibition at Buffalo.
The prices Of slaves have advanced consider
ably OF late, and the tendency is still upward
The railroads have beon tho principal suffer-
ers by the late rains.
Railroad cars, constructed of iron, have been
introduced on some of the Eastern lines
The rates to be paid for legal advertisements,
In New York State, have been considerably
augmented by the present Legislature.
The old stuyvesant pear-tree, in New York,
is beginning to blossom and bud for the two
hundredth time.
The Austin (Texas) Gazette says: The COM
plexion of the next House of Representatives
will be Black Republican.
The Mississippi, at vicksburg, is higher now
than at any time of the food Of last yoar or
at that of 1850.
The Lexington and Big Sandy railroad, Ky.,
Is advertised to bo sold for the benefit of cred-
itors. -
Thirty thousand dollars have been appro-
Prlated Tor the rebuilding and completion of
the State Arsenal In the city of New York.
The next trial for rescue at Cleveland, will
DC That OF Y. IL. Lsngston. All the negro
rescuers are now in Jail.
Advices from Caraccns indicate the spread of
very injurious instruction all over the coun-
try.
Governor Medary, of Kansas, departed from
Leavenworth, for Ohio, on Monday, the 18th
instant.
The Cincinnati mails now reach Louisville by
the roundabout way of Mitchell and the New
Albany and Salem Railroad
woman left Bangor recently, for Oregon,
to marry person there whom he had not
seen for eighteen years.
Veterinary surgeons down East have begun
the practice of administering chloroform to
horses.
Henry Ward Beecher will preach for Theo-
dore Parker's congregation some Sunday this
summer.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company have
declared n semi-annua dividend of three per
cent, payable on and after the 18th of May.
Petitions are being signed in Vicksburg, to
oe presented the Council, praying for the re-
establishment of Sunday morning Market.
girl of thirteen years of age, Miss Belindy
buckingham, took arsenic, from the effects of
which she died, in Miamisville, on the 10th
instant.
Hereafter the members of the New York
legislature are to receive 81, 90 per day for one
hundred days. If they extend the sessions
over that time, it will be at their own expense.
Miss Harriet X. Hunt, NJ. D., of Boston,
whose successful practice of medicine and val
liant resistance of tax gatherers are well known,
has commenced preaching the gospel.
At GAINESVILLE the Muskingum has receded
| sufficiently to permit tho passage of boats
| through the locks, and the packets have re-
sumed their regular trips.
An exchange says: Don't say word against
the weather. An old farmer told us this
morning that it was highly favorable to the
| srowing-wheat.
A clothes'line is now in use-a patent article,
| Of course-consisting of a galvanized wire,
which will not soil the clothes, and is not af-
| ,ected by the changes of weather.
Counterfeit twenty cent pieces of the new
canadian coinage have made their appearance
tlready, not only in Canada, but along the
border cities of the Union.
The amount of gold plate and leaf used in
the United States for the replacing and repair
Of defective teeth has been estimated at
| S2,350, 900.
citizen Of HagerStown, Nd, has in his
possession three Easter eggs, inscribed 1885,
1889 and 1893, which have been in the family
since those dates.
Edward Everett's Grafton on Washington, at
Wilmington, N. c., was listened to by the
iargest audience ever assembled in that city.
Receipts $1,000.
The Bostonians are illingup the subscription
| tor Agassiz's Museum with noble liberality
| Already $4,000 is subscribed, besides the
| $4,000 of Mr.. Gray.
The schooner Belle, of Manitowoc, has been
'hartered by some parties in Chicago, to take
| load of slaves to the West Indies. fJhe will
cave in few days.
During the past winter there have been
orty-one steamships plying between New York
EurOnaan nd nulu ftun Nf fhn,,n
nave been American.
A fight lately occurred between Louisiana
'tock-raiser and a Durham bull. The Lousi.
lnian used his bowie-knife and the bull his
aorns. Both the combatants are dead.
During the storm of Friday last, FIVE fisher
| nen were in boat in Maumee Bay. The boat
vas capsized, and four of the fishermen were
lrowned. One clung to the boat until it drifted
ashore, and was saved. .. ....
On Friday last, the body of young man,
| apparently about twenty years of age
was found floating in the Ohio River at Hamil-
ton, Va, opposite Wellsville. No bruises or
marks of violence were found on the body.
The new Postmaster General has determined
to put final end to the practice of giving free
passes over railroads to persons who are not
| really travelling upon the business of tho De-
| partment.
A DR.. Coon has been held to bail, by the
Grand Jury of the Madison (Wis.) Circuit
Court, for trial on the charge of attempt al
seduction of young girl, pupil in the Albion
seminary. 1t ia said that Coon threatened to
kill tho girl if she disclosed, and the matter
was found out by intsrception of letters be-
tween the two parties.
| AUNT LETTY.-A lady medium visited the
river at Davenport, Iowa, on Wednesday last,
1t the request of one of the citizens, "who has
the interest of steamboats, at heart" with the
view of pointing out where the leaks in the
bottom of the Aunt Lefty, now sunk, were
located Capt. Morrison, having no "faith, (" re-
fused to allow the deck to be cut at the place
aamed, but during his absence, other parties
,ut hole, removed the sacks of corn, and
found water in the holl, but precious little
leak. The Aunt Lefty yet remains on the
bottom, and neither steam nor spiritualism ap-
| pears able to raise her.
On Saturday evening last, Mexican, while
| passing n fashionable millinery store, in st.
Louis, in the window of which a large wax
| igure of lady is constantly revolving, fort
display of dry goods, was seized with the idea
hat the figure was a representation of a saint;
accordingly he dropped on his knees before the
window and forthwith commenced a prayer.
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