The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-05-09
THE PR e s s.
CINCINNATI, MONDAY, MAY ..

CINCINNATI, MONDAY, MAY y ~
The city of Vincennes is out of debt, has
no delinquent tax payers, and surplus Of
$4,000 in the Treasury. Good for Nincennes.
correspondent writing from beavonworth,
Kansas, abreviates the name Of that town
thus; all worth"
notice Of recent steamboat explosion
ends as follows: "The Captain swan ashore.
SO did the chambormaid; she was insured for
$4,000 and loaded with iron."
Punch says, "Kinder is the looking glass
than the wine glass, for the former reveals
our defects to ourselves only, the latter to our
friends"
An old Dutch proverb says: "Stealing never
makes a man rich" The simple old Dutch
man who got up that proverb knew little Of
the exploits or ofico holders.
We are tired of hearing Mr. Douglass called
the little giant.-M. Journal.
Call him the big pigmy, then.-LOuispiRe
Journal.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is taking
passengers from the West to the Atlantic cities
at one dollar less than is charged by rival lines,
but its time is slower than that Of tho others.
The propeller olesn, on her passage from
Dunkirk to Cleveland, on Tuesday, caught up
n submarine cable, which disabled her not
H'los luz 'p'S WuS OOllOu opNtAhA blnOS
round the propeller.
On Tuesday morning passenger train on
the Belefontaine Railroad ran into some empty
cars at Anderson. The first passenger oar was
smashed, and one or two passengers somewhat
injured. ....
Jasper Rousor, a person held In custody
| under charge Of murder, escaped recently
from the Dtilledgeville Jail, Lincoln county,
KY. A reward Of 5000 is offered for his ap-
prehension.
The brig Eusebia N. Roye, which has iust
arrived at the port of New York, is the frat
vessel that has crossed the Atlantic ocean un
| der the Liberiau Gag. She left Monrovia on
the 18th of March.
Mexico, since its establishment as Repub-
lic, which is thirty-s seven years ago, has had
| Gfty-six Presidents, an average Of one and a
half Presidents annually.
Hon. Linn Boyd, who Is the democratic
candidate for Lieutenont Governor of Ken
lucky, was Speaker of the United States
House of Representatives for four years during
the Thirty second and Thirty third Congresses,
| from Dec. 1851, to March 1855.
John Schmidt, German, poisoned himself
| on Wednesday, in New York. Before taking
The fatal draught he wrote letter, which was
found in his Bible, setting forth that he had
no desire to live, as his wife had left him and
was leading an abandoned life at a house in
| Baxter street.
Senator Douglas, says the N. Y. Times Of
Saturday, who has been stopping at the Everett
House the past few days, left to- day for Illinois
| The distinguished Senator has received many
marks of attention during his stay, and even
| some of the Federal Office holders have ven
tured to pay him their respects.
| Mr.. Black, U. S. Consul at the city of Mex
leo, who, according to report, has been ordered
70 leave the country, by Gen. Miramon, has
acted as Consul in that city for more than
twenty wears. He is now an old man, and
very infrm.
On Tuesday evening last, Geo. Anderson ar
rived in Dayton, o., from Cincinnati, and on
Wednesday stole coat and cloak from the
porch Of Jonathan Harshman's dwelling, in
tending to convert the Same into low. priced
whisky. He was caught, and on pleading
guilty, was sentenced to Jail ten days, on bread
l Ind water.
| A. MISERABLE PRosPEoT.-The st. Louis
Democrat of Wednesday has an editorial or
| the "Great rise in the river" which close,
thus When the lower Mississippi, already a
IN immense height and devastating the countr,
1t Wholesale rate, shall have received the i'm.
nense food lately created in the Ohio, and bt
further swollen by the rise from the Missouri
i
New Orleans entirely drowned out.
Matt Peel, the celebrated bone player and
lelineator of negro eccentricities, died at Buff
alo on Tuesday night. He had been ill fol
everal months, but continued to perform
whenever his health would permit. He wal
announced to appear on the evening before
MS death, but was too unwell. Tho real name
If the deceased was Matthew Flannery. He
was born in Brooklyn in 1929, and commenced
his career as a public performer about the
year 1847.
On Friday last arrangements were made al
Wheeling, Va, for hoisting new bell weigh
ing $3.50 pounds, cast at Cincinnati, into its
place in the steeple of the Catholic Cathedral
| When the bell had risen to the height Of one
| hundred feet or 80, the wheels broke and down
anne the bell with terrible speed, and up went
the man who hold the rope below, and who had
not time to let go, until he was caught by ths
projecting beam, l25 feet from the ground
whence whence he had slid down to the win.
dow, and was taken in. The man was no
killed.
| HALF ANALGAMATIoN.-The Louisiana Cen.
trail Organ of the 26th, says: Quite an excite
ment has been created among the denizens Of
the Bayou Bruf section of country by the
sudden elopement of the son of wealthy
and highly respectable planter, with his moth.
/ ot bulaAu-ooifoh1I o'o'Ct oO hVcI WullcJ Us u
have been taken, at times, for a daughter oi
the house. They are supposed to have gone
to Texas, with the intention, as learned from
an intercepted note of the young man, of con.
Summating matrimony.
An exchange says, that the excitement /.
quite natural, "the daughter of the house" i,
the daughter of the planter, consequently the
young runaways are half brother and sister.
How 1T WAS FOUND oUT.-The way in which
our Millerite friends arrived at their conclu.
sion that the world was to come to an end on
Sunday last, ia said to have been by the fol.
lowing mathematical formula: The souar,
root of the cost of Ezekiels chariot was S,563
From this extract "prophetic value of tn,
Scarlet lady of Babylon, 1882" and we hav,
1921. Take from this cube of the ram men
toned BY the prophet as gushing westward, ,
4,757, and we find remainder Of 2,525. De
duct from this the number Of beasts mentioned
in the Apocalypse, 667 and we get at the result
1850, the year in which Time is to 60 into fina
idation.--Erchange.
AN OHIO SEA CAPTAM.-The master ian,
owner) of the brig Eusobia N Roye, which ar
rived in New York on Wednesday, is Nh
Edward j. Roye, who was born at Newark
Ohio, and received his education at the Obi