The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-04-14
THE PRESS.
THURsDAY............... IA

A little daughter of j. NJ. Adsih, banker of
Chicago, aged three years, was drowned in a
cistern on Friday.
The Fry divorce case was defeated in the
pennsylvania House of Representatives on
Friday by vote of II to 8.
Mr.. John Christy, living near Pittsburg, pre-
sented tho editor of the Dispatch on Saturday
two great eggs, which measure six by eight
inches in circumference.
Don Pedro de Angels, a leading character in
the history of Rosas and for many years editor
OF the Archivo Americana, died lately at
Buenos Ayres.
BY the last Australian mail in England,
| government was advised that gold to the value
OF $o,OgO,OOO was shipped in thirteen vessels
before the steamer started for Great Britain.
From Rio de Janeiro we received confirm
alton OF intelligence that the Paraguay diff q.
Guilty had been pacifioally settled. The bases
of arrangement were completed February 1.
The report of General Urquiza claiming all
the honor of intervention between the United
States and Paraguay was not received with a
very good grace at Rio Janeiro.
One hundred and fifty mules and large
amount of stores have been shipped from San
Francisco to British Columbia, to be used in
surveying route for the British Pacific Rail
road.
AT Buenos Ayres apprehensions were preva-
| lent that one consideration of Gen. Urauiza's s
services in mediating the North American
| quarrel, would be tho unlimited aid of Lopez
in an expedition against Buonos Ayres.
On Monday, in New York, young woman
named Anne Welch, being sorely afflicted with
a toothache, took quantity of chloroform to
relieve the pain, and accidentally killed her
| self. -r.. = I-I. -.
There arc now laid in Pittsburg one hundred
and thirty miles of railroad track, which will
| probably be increased in q few months to two
hundred miles. The fare upon all the lines is
| five cents. A ."
| In the case of the SLAYER Echo, the Grand
Jury of the United States Circuit Court at
Charleston have indicted the crew of the Echo,
| sixteen in number, and also the crew sent to
Africa on board the frigate Niagara.
A gentleman from the East, an invalid, died
on the Bellefontaine train on last Saturday,
from hemorrhage of the lungs. He was travel
ing alone toward st. Louis, but his name could
not be ascertained
Capt. Joe Parke, of the Shawnee tribe of
Indians, and for many years their head chief,
died at his residence in Kansas, about two
miles from Westport, Missouri, on the 4th
| instant.
The New Jersey, Camden and Amboy, Penn
sylvania Central, and the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroads have united in an arrangement for
running in competition with the New York
Central and Erie Railroads. . .....
Several copies of a religious tract were re-
Gently picked up at the capital, entitled, care
you honest?" They were distributed for the
benefit of members just before the adjournment
of Congress. Iu. Hstet.ugf. n. mi
There are now stationed at Porto Rico
1900 Spanish troops, 1900 of whom are quar-
tered in San Juan. The Spanish soldier en-
lists for seven years, and receives SO per month
out of which the clothing is to be deducted.
Quimbo Apo, the Chinaman who murdered
Mrs. Fletcher, at AZ Oliver street, New York,
on the Sth of March last, by stabbing her with
a dirk, was tried on Monday before Judge Da-
vies, and found guilty of murder, with a
recommendation to mercy by the jury.
| A movement has been set on foot in Boston
| for the establishment of an institution cor
responding somewhat in plan to the Conserva-
toire des Arts ct Meters in Paris, and com
prjsing museums of practical geology, metal
lurgy, agriculture and the mechanical arts.
Judge Read, of the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court, has decided that Gan orphan is father
less child" This is in opposition to the di-
rectors of the Girard College, who had refused
admission into their institution of q boy whose
mother was living. ....tt. ET'H
A colored girl of fifteen years, named Sarah
j. e. Manly, was arrested in St. Louis on
| Wednesday as runaway slave, but, on hear
ing being had before Justice Hequembourg,
there appearing no evidence that she was run
away, was discharged as free. ''' g3. q
The Univers (French paper) says of Walker
the Penitent: " Let William Walker devote ia
the defense Of truth the remarkable talents he
| h0a httharfn fa1 L.
unexpected conversion may become an import
ant event for religion"
The Central Committee of the Republican
party, in st. Louis, presented to G. L. Bernays,
| editor Of the Anzeiger des Westens, ON Mon
day, massive gold watch and chain, in con-
sideration of his efficient services in the late
municipal campaign. li a.F..
ii. W. Beecher says: The cares and infelici-
| ties of life, which are spoken of as "hindrance
to grace" may be hindrances, but they are the
only helps it has in the world. The voice of
provocation is the voice Of God calling us to
the practice of patience.
A bill is going through the New York Leg
islature for committing the sentence of death
passed on Mrs. Hartung, of Albany-the Gov
ernor having refused to pardon her. She gays
it was her paramour who poisoned her husband
against her will.
We learn that during service in the Church
of Weissenbern, near Ulm, in Germany, one OF
the pillars gave way, and in a moment the
whole building came down. Thirteen persons
lost their lives, and twenty others were more
or less injured.
The Grand Jury of Wayne County, Ind, re-
Gently indicted James Hope, Of Richmond, for
keeping billiard table for games. On the
case coming to trial, the prosecution failed Ia
prove that billiard table was gaming ap-
paratus, and Mr.. Hope was accordingly ac-
quilted. ,E7.H .tttl0'
company of twelve or fifteen hundred men
has been formed on the frontier of Texas for a
descent upon the Lower Indian Reserve, near
Belknap, which it is proposed to break up.
The people are indignant at the neglect of the
government to afford them adequate protection
against the outrageS of the savages.
Marshall Potter, of Lee, near Bangor, Maine,
charged with causing the death of his mother,
two brothers, and nephew, at Lee, has con-
fessed his guilt. He says that he murdered
them with a shingle maui, and was induced to
do so on account of a threat to turn him out Of
doors.
The Professors Of the Schools of Design, at
Berlin, Dusseldorf, Dresden and Munich, anx-
| to Ea he A o;,l lo1