The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-21
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next Presidency.
Senator Gwin and Hon. G. L. Scott, Of Cali
fornia we're at New Orleans on the 18th inst.
Wednesday, the 10Th, was the anniversary
Of the surrender of CORVALLIS.
P. T. Barnum, Esq, is doing the people OF
East Bridgeport great service in planting
shade trees on their streets. He has adGer-
tised for one thousand sugar naples for this
purpose Can't some one Of our public spirited
citizens, or our august and far r-seeing Council,
do something in the same line for Cincinnati;
The stockholders of the Covington and Lex
ington Railroad Company are moving with q
view to contest the sale of the property lately
made at Lexington. The Court will hold
session at Lexington on the 29th inst, to con-
firm tho sale.
Ticknor & Fields paid $40 900 for the Atlantic
Monthly. Francis II. Underwood, the former
editor of the magazine, has been nominated for
Clerk of the Criminal Courts in Boston.
Later advices from the Amoor River have
been received by an arrival at San Francisco.
The Russians are reported as showing the
greatest favor to Americans and their enter
prises. A small steamer, capable Of ascending
the river for great distance, had been landed
at Nicolauski by an American company.
The number of insurance companies in New
York and Brooklyn is one hundred and twenty
six, of which ninety are fire, eleven life,
and eighteen marine. Thompsoas Bank Note
Reporter aludes to the rapid increase Of these
institutions, and predicts that the next loss to
the stockholding portion of the community will
be with the fire insurance stockholders.
A runaway slave named York, who ran away
to Canada from Parksrsburg, Va, in January
last, has voluntarily returned to his old
"Missua." He represents the poor, deludcd
fugtives as much worse off than they were in
the South, and many of them anxious to get
back.
A train Of forty y-three cars on the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad, carrying one thousand seven
hundred and ffty-two bales of cotton, arrived
at Mobile on the 10th inst This, the Mobile
papers state, is the largest train that has ever
arrived in that city.
During the present Napoleon's reign the
French have constructed railways to the extent
Of more than four thousand five hundred miles.
A singular marriage recently took place in
Dudley, England, the bride being eighty-two,
and the bridegroom Cher fourteenth husband)
sixty. ...
The colonization packet, Mary Caroline
Steoens, will leave Baltimore on the LIST of No
vember for Monrovia, thus offering an oppor-
tunity for the transmission Of letters and
papers to the Liberian settlements and for the
African squadron.
A Washington correspondent says that
rumor is already supplying the place of Mr..
Mason, at Paris. Secretary Floyd will 80 to
Paris, and Mr.. Faulkner will come into the
Cabinet. This is the talk. .r....
We perceive by the correspondence Of the
New York Spirit Of the Times that the estab-
lishment of National Race Course is agitated
among the admirers of that sport. Tits stated
that Washington City is invariably selected as
the great central neutral ground near which it
should be located.
Two men named Filkins and Hall recently
clinohed in fight, in ballroom, in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, and in souf1e which fol-
lowed fell to the ground from three-story
window. Both are SO badly hurt that neither,
it is thought, can possibly recover.
Mr.. Green West, of Amherst, Maine, had
his leg broken below the knee several years
ago. On Monday last, as he was passing be-
hind his oxen, one Of them kicked him on the
spot of tho old fracture. He tainted imme-
diately, and, although receiving no other in
jury, died in few minutes.
Clement Marsh Esq, son Of Joseph W.
Marsh, of Greenland, N. H., has expended
$1O, 900 in paying the debts of his father, who
died fifteen years ago. The Portsmouth Jour.
nal says this is Ga shining example Of mag.
nanimity and flial respect"
A meeting of Germans was held in New
York on Sunday evening, for the purpose oi
giving expression to sentiment in favor Of
the observance of the Sabbath. There were
about fifteen hundred present. Addresses
were delivered by the Rev. DR.. Adams, in
English, and the Rev. j. D. Hullan and DR.
Phillip SchaH, in the vernacular, and sorie'
Of resolutions were adopted favoring qaie
observance Of the day.
Sands, Lent & Co.'s circus is among th'
things that were, in consequence Of the disso
luton Of copartnership, sad the retirement o
oil the members of the firm to private life
Two of the performing elephants, now in Cali
fornia, have been sold for $22, 900, and tw
Others to John E. Bacon, Of New York, 70
$4,000. The remaining six elephants an
the whole paraphernalia of the concern will b
sold in short time.
In Wellsburg, Va, potatoes are selling O
rs cts. per bushel. Apples are worth fror
81 so TO So per barrel, the barrel found. TIL
supply rather greater than the demand
Marketing generally is abundant and cheo T