The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-24

sS' ine LlttIs N0ck (hrkansas) Gazette
anuounces the death Of Judge Thomas Halli-
burton, formerly Of North Carolina.
rs General Wool left Troy, N. Y, for
Harper's Forry, on the 18th inst, as soon as he
heard OF the insurrection.
Hs- We know very ugly and nenurious
man who works in his own fields in tho summer
months to save tho cxponse ol scareorow.
!, 20" Archbishop Hughes and most of the
Gsthollc clergy of Washington dined with
the FfcslGonto on Tuesday.
nE~ Bsyard Taylor's lectures in San Fran
cRco produced q profit of $500 to the Mer-
camille Library Association.
&ST- No less than ono hundred different
patents for crinolne and steel hoops have been
registered, since this fashion came into favor, in
France alone.
8aT Mr.. Robert Chambers is engaged upon
o volume refutiug the antiquity Of the Scot
tish Historical Ballads. He considers them
TO nave been written in tho carly part Of the
eighteenth century.
rs" A New hustle has been introduced in
New York, inflated with air, which, conse-
quently has the effect Of rendering crinoline
llrger than ever--a contamination to be dreaded.
Skirts are mado, therefore, longer and fuller
than before,
'- 5ss' A pretty woman is like great truth
or great happiness, and has no moro right to
bundle herself under green vail or any SINH
lar sbominatiOn, than the sun has to put on
green apectacles. ..-----
&S> A firm in Portsmouth, Va, has re.
ceived consignment of two tiercss Of sugar
and two ticrces Of molasses from Liberia. The
consignment was from Chas. Cooper, colored
man, who left that city in 1856, and was the
prodaet of his farm. t.
9S- The Dubuque Herald says that clergy
man in that city stated in his sermon last Sum
day, that if some of our rich men were to arise
from their burying places and see the epitaphs
upon their tombs, "Mey 'oouM @sear they ,oere
stuck IN the wrong grares." -
G@~M Mr.. Paul Tarnum died on Tuesday
night, at his late residence in Beverly, N. j.
The .deceased was the founder of tho Farnum
School at Beverly, and was for long time one
Of the most respectable merchants Of Phila-
delphia.
Gs- An eminent author well known ia Eng
has Just cast aside his mortal coil. The Rev.
who has oflioiated at Carr 's-lane Ohappel, Bir-
mingham, for nearly half century.
8sS-An Illinois court has recognized the
legal character of tho jewish Sabbath, which
begins at o'clock, P. NJ, on Friday, and
lasts for twenty-fOur hours. How many Sab.
baths have we? More than are observed, Ger.
tainly.
GG"A New Orleans editor thinks the inyoI.
untary landing Of La Mountain, the balloon
ist, in the wilds of Canada, and his failure to
find the oasterly current, goes to prove the
scriptural saying that "The wind bloweth
whore il listeth,"
5af5~ The New Orleans Pcayune says vigil.
auce committees ara increasing in number in
tho parishes. Tho officers of justice are widely
ignored by the citizens, who have taken the
administration Of justice into their own hands.
Where is this 10 ond.
GSs~ Governor Weller, Of California, has Just
transmitted 81 900 to the Washington National
Monument Society, being the amount the State,
through its Legislature, has resolved to con-
tribute annually until tho monument 10 finished.
The voters of " Horsetcwn," in California, also
contributed $72 on election day.
n,s-"FolIow- citizens" said O. candidate,
addressing his constituents, "thero are three
topics which now agitate the public mind in
ihiu great State, viz: Slavery, Retrenchment,
rtnd the Penitentiary. I shall pass over the
two. first briefly, rs my sentiments are already
we'll known, and coma at once to the peniten,
tiary, whero shnll dwell for some time"
TSr-Tho single ratio Of letter postage be-.
tween the United States and the Grand Duohy
Of Baden, vla Bremen, will hereafter DO fifteen
cents instead of twenty-five cents--prepay-
ment optional. This reduction is the result Of
y reduced rsto Of German postage to five cents
the single letter on American correspondence
transmitted ria Bremen, which went inio
operation on tho 18th October instant.
A couple wero married in Gallatin,
Tom, on Monday last, who had walked 100
miles for that purpose. They wore from Ken
lucky, and when they arrived at Gallatin were
out of money and perfectly destitute, not hav-
ing cent to pay for their license. The magis-
trate married them gratis, and the young men
of Gallatin gave them sufficient sum to pay
their expenses home.