Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-03
YARIETIEs

amount to upward Of 8l5,oOo, ($75,OO6.) l'l.
Somebody left pair of twins on a persons
door-steps, in Boston, Monday night
A Sleepy Integrity-one that requires
nap Of twenty-one days before it dreams of
danger. ..-.- ---- -.rr.r .--r
The defaulting Democratic State Treasurer
Of this State, John G. Breslin, is at present
living at Hamilton, @. W. |tIHI
Edward Everetts "Mount Vernon Papers"
in the Ledger will soon be published in book
form. -.. -.- .....' '.,r --4r
Frederick Douglass's autobiography has
been translated into German by Ottilie As
sing, and published at Hamburg. s
The Rev. 7. S. King will sail for California
on the 9th, to take charge of the Unitarian
Church in San Francisco.
The appropriations made by the Virginia
Legislature at its present session are ESTIMATED
to exceed five millions of dollars.
, The Rev. J. MeKim Duncan died last week
in Elkton, Md, Of dropsical affection, from
which he had suffered for some time.
The late Sir Robert Peel was the first to
throw open the British ports, and Gladstone
is about to open for us the French clarets.
The painters in New Bedford, Mass, have
obtained an advance Of wages. They now
receive 50 per day.
Of all the bills introduced into the Legisla-
ture to date two hundred and eighty-six re-
late to the city of New York or Brooklyn.
Twenty-Five thousand converts have been
added to Calvanistic Churches, in Wales, the
past year. pan ..'L.r
DR.. McNeely Du Bose, prominent citizen
of Clarendon District South Carolina, was
found murdered on his farm last week.
The Albany IN. W Statesman says the
omission to draw his mileage is another evi-
dence of the absence of mind of the late Sem
ator Linn. Hr n
Snow fell in Western New York on Sun
day, at Dunkirk, along the line Of the Erie
Railroad. The harbor of Dunkirk is re-
closed by the ice. ... .
Capt. Delvigne, the first inventor of per-
cussion locks, has had pension of six thou
sand francs conferred upon him by Napoleon
III.
James Holmes, formerly miniature painter
to George w." an artist of repute in that
generation, died at Chelsea, England, few
days ago. 2 f'f.H -.t-t' .
Rumsey and Newcombs Minstrels have re-
turned from Havana, and were disappointed
in their New Orleans concert, by the non-ar-
rival of instruments.
Hungarian grape vines are now imported
into New York by the quantity. 1t Is said
th- .exl D-emen steamer will bring some
10000. ..HrsIt '.f. -
A large number of the students at the col
legc in Brunswick, Me-, have been religiously
converted The fastest ofthe students came
in first.
Archbishop Hughes has given official no-
of the masons on the new Cathedral, accord
ing to the present contract.
1t is reported that lease, granted ninety
nine years ago of seventy acres of land in
Virginia, on part of which Richmond now
stands, expired on the first of january.
An officer ofthe Fifty-ffth Regiment, sta
toned in Dublin, has obtained verdict OF
flOo damages against brother officer, for
| slander. = ~ lE
The Emperor of the French has at last
given permission to Marshal Mcmahon to
accept the sword of honor from the people Of
| Ireland
The total expenditures of Muscatine, Iowa
during the last fiscal year, amounted to $i3,.
| 933 81, and the total debts and liabilities Of
the city, of every kind, to $60927 80.
The large saw-mill, owned by John Nc
Cam, at Nashville; Tenn, was destroyed by
fire day or two since. Loss between $l2,.
900 and $l3,o00.J rti.t
A freight car on the Nashville and Chat.
tanooga Railroad, with all its contents, was
| pnf fha NJ hafn he e.,
could be extinguished.
The Mayor of Fredericksburg, Va, re.
Gently resigned, because an obnoxious person
was appointed policeman; and that city i!
now without Mayor.
The number of persons driven out of thu
South as suspected parties upon the negro
question, since John Browns affair, is ovei
two hundred. -. ---.-. ~ ~ ~--
The receipts of the New York Tax Receiv.
er's Office last week were $l7520 80. There
still remains about $l000,000 due on las
years tax levy. e
A poem consisting of over thousand linei
has been written by VIM, p. Brannan, the
artist and poet of Chicago, called "Yandyk,
Brown; or the Vagaries of an Artist"
George Bugg dangerously shot his brothe
st. Joseph, Mo-. few days since in a fit o
delirium. 80 r, .r
The bark, Isla de Cuba, seized as slave
several months since, has been condemned by
Judge Sprague, of the U. S. District Court
at Boston, after a lengthy hearing. -- ,,
| Emery wheels are now made by mixin,
the emery with rubber and calling the mas
solid vulcanite, which is very durable anC
cheap. b. ..-. -. r--q r A
At protracted revival meeting in thl
South Baptist Church, New York, quite small
lads rise and speak, and ask the prayers TO
their school-ieliows. &ft - hst
There are .fllihusters in New Orleans yet
| On the receipt of the news of the capture o
the Spanish Mexican vessels, by COmmodor
Turner, the fillibusters fred salute of TWEEN
ty-one guns. rrt1 a-l o.
The Waterford (Ireland) Citizen of the q
| inst says; There are no criminal cases TO
| trial at the city assizes, and the Judge will
as usual, be presented with a pair of whit
| gloves. ..,-.,..-,.,..,rr t..-s..-,,r
! The town of Surry, N. H., did not vote 70
| State officers or elect q Representative thi
| year for the season that the warrant callet
| the meeting to open at ten P. M. instead o
ten A. NJ.
The Iowa Legislature has conferred upoi
the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Rail
road Company land grant of 100000 acres
recently reserved for the Iowa Central Com
i pany.- ~ sr q, rr Z Y n Flf 4.
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