The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-16
Various items.

We learn from the Galena, Iowa, papers
that cattle are dying in that county of hydro
phobia. At Council Hill fourteen had died.
They are supposed to have been bitten by mad
dogs. H Ii .. '..
The local fare between Cleveland and Buff
falo, on the Cleveland and Erie Railroad, has
been reduced from S. to 81, first class, and to
w second class. This reduction will of course
please travellers over the road.
The failure Of VIM. Crane, the extensive dis
tller and produce dealer at Dresden, Ohio, is
announced, and it is supposed by his creditors
that he has absconded. His liabilities are es-
timated at from $50, 900 to $85,OOO.
Quite fever has broken out in regard TO the
alleged discovery Of rich gold placers at Ply
mouth, Vermont. 1t is said that there are
now on the ground from three to four hundred
miners, who average from S4 to S. per day.
Mr.. Henry Dexter, the we'll known sculptor,
has received an order from a number of Mr..
Buchanan's friends, in Boston, to make mar
Bile bust of the President, and has gone to
Washington to execute the commission.
The Evening Post says that the collections
| for the fund in aid Of the families of italian
soldiers in the present war are making favora-
bic progress. The total amount already sub
scribed cannot fall short of $1,000.
The Market street Baptist Church of Zancs-
vile, Ohio, day or two since, expelled Dep
| uty U. S. Marshal Ezekiel T. Cox, who had
long been one of its Deacons, for his compile
ity with the late fugitive slave case.
| The Catholic Mirror announces the CONVEX
sion to catholioity of Mrs. Blount, of George
town, daughter of Mr.. G. Key, author of the
| Star Spangled Banner, and father of Philip
Barton Key. Mrs. Blount is q niece of Chief
Justice Taney.
The iron temple, ordered by the State of
| Virginia, to be erected over the grave of Presi-
dent Monroe, has been completed by Phila-
delphia manufacturer. 1t is Gothic structure,
twenty-one feet high, eleven feet long, and
| eight feet wide.
According to last accounts from Mexico,
| that unhappy country is fast relapsing into
| barbarisln; and SO many have taken to brig
andage that even that business does not pay
the robbers being more numerous than
those left to be robbed.
| The high water in the st. Lawrence, this
season, has SO impedod tho work on the re-
naming piers of the Victoria bridge, Montreal,
| that 1T is feared the immense structure can not
be completed in time for the proposed inaugu-
raj celebration the coming autumn. ....
Last week, in Lawrence, Mass, child was
| born, perfect in all its proportions, and weigh
| ing ten pounds, but with a remarkable malfor-
nation, the head being formed in every partic.
| ular like the head of cat. It lived but q
moment after birth.
a surprising discovery has Just been made
in Berlin. DIR. Pertz, of the ROYAL Library,
has ferretted out the manuscript journal OF
two Genoese navigators, Teodosia Dora and
ugolino Vivaldi, who succeeded in sailing
| round the Cape of Good Hope in 129O-that
is 2O7 years before Vasco de Cana.
Tho trial of Felix Sanchez in New York, for
| tho Inurdnr of HornaO g. D.,
father, terminated on Saturday in the Court of
General Sessions, with verdict of guilty.
| Sanchez was sentenced to be executed on the
22d of July, the same day that Shepherd,
Stephens and Apo are sentenced to be hung.
A few days since, German, who is only
known by the name of 'Stephe," while en-
gagged at Hudson City, N. Y, in dressing q
COW which had died from disease, accidentally
cut his arm with a knife which he was using.
His arm shortly after became infiamed and
growing gradually worse, finally resulted in
his death on Thursday.
On the evening of the Sth, a young lady of
Harrisburg, Penn, named Mary Queen, who
has been ill for some time, sent for and received
q prescription from her physician, which was
filled at one of the drug stores. She partook
OF spoonful, and was corpse in fifteen min
utes. Corrosive sublimate was put up through
mistake.
The English papers announce the arrival at
home of Capt. Burton, the famous Arabian and
African traveller, who has made some wonder
full discoveries in the interior of Africa, and
who is the only European who ever visited
Mecca, the sacred city of the Mohammedans
without Disgusting his religious faith, and es.
capped with his life.
General Dodge, late Minister to Spain, j,
not very sanguine as to the acquisition o
hU ntIF terNxr IL Ill A..
view with the President on Saturday. The
General speaks highly of the Spanish people
and of the Queen Mother. He also expresses
the opinion that the new Minister from this
country will be quite popular in Madrid.
A Boston paper states that of 953 clergymcn
attending the late anniversaries in that city,
but 73 wore the professional badge, the white
cravat. The growth of hair on the faces of
many of the divines, was another sign that
they are willing to stand as men among men;
and to find their appropriate distinctions in
something of more consequence than peculiar
| tiles of costume. . ...........- O.. r.......
| The celebrated Chinese mandarin Yeh died
at Calcutta on the evening Of the 9th April.
He had been ailing, and became subject to
sudden collapse, from which he rallied for a
time, but subsequently, succumbed. The only
| regret that he expressed was on account of his
having been unable to destroy all the Chinese
rebels and all their kindred.
The trade of England continues active, and
the excitement with reference to the war is
cooling down: The opinion gains ground,
among all classes, that the. victory claimed by
the French is nothing to boast of, and that
when all the facts are known, the satisfaction
expressed by the Austrians rs TO the result of
the battle of Montebcllo will be proved to be
reasonable.
| 1t is announced in the Augsburg Gazette
that the Austrian Government is about to i'm
pose on the large towns Of Lombardy tho
heavy chastisement of forced loan, amount
ing to seventy five millions Of florins. This
Is done as punishment, not for tho words or
acts Of those people, but for thoir "sympa-
thios" Such act is like the old man who
whipped his son for thinking "damn.'
Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, who is occu-
pied in pathological pursuits, at his retreat in
Bayswater, has just issued a new translation Of
| the New Testament in the Irish of the prov
ince Of Munsterj also a new translation Of tho
Song Of Solomon in the Transylvanian dialect
of the German, and the same done into the
dialect of Craven, in the West Riding of York.
| shire, from the authorized English version, by
Henry Antony Littledale. The last mentioned
is very eurious performances. '