Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-21

welding the sheets of iron together. |
Green peas are selling in Charleston, s. G.,
at 81 20 per half gallon.
Alexandria, in Egypt, is in telegraphic
communication with Bombay, in India
There is pear-orchard in Mississippi con-
tanning fifteen thousand trees.
D.. Next to ''twenty-four grains" there is
nothing like q mean mans pocket TO make a
penny wait.
; Thaxter Prouty committed suicide by hang
ing, at North Brookfeld Mass, a day OF two
since.
The New York papers state that the value
of street dirt produced annually in that city
is over 100000.
to oleave Springfield and Jacksonville, ILL.,, for
Liberia.
President Fillmore, it is said, earnestly ad-
viscs aunion of the whole Opposition, in or
der to defeat the Democracy.
A little boy has been arrested in New York
for setting fire to his fathers house three
times, in order to see the fre-engines play.
Seven hundred and nineteen is the full
number proposed for the Philadelphia police
bill now before the Legislature.
The City Commissioners of New York ap-
pointed fourteen hundred policemen to pro-
tect that city on Saturday last.
Charles Goodwin was killed in Phladel-
phia the other afternoon, by the falling of
flagstaff, which he, with others, was raising.
The wife of Summer Whpple, of Solong,
No. has recentlygiven birth to two daughters
and one son. Doubtless he hopes she will do
| so-long: .-
The National Era, at Washington, is to be
discontinued. Mrs. Bailey, the proprietress,
is forced to this step in consequence of the
paper not being paying concern.
Charlotte Cushman intends to visit her ma
tive land in June next, not for professional
purposes, but to see her friends. She is now
in Rome.
They are talking seriously, at Washington,
of impeaching Postmaster-G General Holt, for
allowing his Deputy Postmasters to Graham
ize the mails.
| Mrs. Sarah Cowan, residing near Vicksburg,
| Miss, made narrow escape from death by
poisoning, last week, by one of her own negro
| slaves.
| Miss Bateman, daughter of Mr.. H. L. Bate
man, authoress of the new play of Eudnge-
line, appeared on Monday evening in that
play.
The end of a wharf in Charleston, S. c.,
caved in Il few days since, carrying with the
ruiNs fifty-eight hogsheads and four terces of
molasses.
The VirginiR delegates to the Charleston
Convention propose to go by steamship, and
to board and lodge on the vessel while in
that city. @
A valuable bed of iron ore has Just been
discovered near the track of the New York
and Harlem Railroad, between Copake Sta
ton and Boston Corners.
Jane Peters, maiden of forty-eight de-
stroyed herself near Norfolk, Virginia, re-
Gently, on account ofa love affair witha youth
of eighteen
The japanese look with favor upon billiards
us understood in America. A japanese house
in Elakodadi has had two billiard tables made
in San Francisco for shipment.
A company of Pixies Peakers, from Web
ster County, Wisconsin, were overtaken and
stopped in Page County last week. Their
teams and goods were seized to setisfy claim
of $4,000. -.
A Turin letter states that Poerio, who has
lately been very i'll, but is now quite recov-
cred, will probably be II candidate for the
representation of Milan in the National Par
Lament.
A man named Dempsey has been sent to- Jail,
in Edwardsville, ILL.,, for stabbing his wife
with pair of scissors. She had probably
given him scissors so often, he wished in
some degree to reciprocate.
Bayard Taylor has lectured one hundred
and forty-two times in six months, and
George Sumner one hundred and ten. The
former is an excellent, and the latter very
ordinary lecturer.
Rembrandt Peale, now eighty-three years
old, was recently carried in an easy chair, on
the shoulders of sixteen men Of wealth and
position, in Stonington, Connecticut, from
his hotel to the boat bound for New York.
The Senate ofIowa has expelled Mr.. L. D.
Ingersoll from n Reporters seat in the Senate
chamber because he used indecorous Ian
guage toward some. of the Senators in his cor
respondence to the Burlington Hdwkeye.
Over 5000 was donated to the Washington
Monument Fund in San Francisco, on the
22d ult., principally in small sums dropped
in the box placed for that purpose at the
Postoffice .....
The Republican majority in New Hamp-
shire will prObablyr reach 5000, gain of about
1900 from last year, The total vote will ex-
ceed 10000, and is the largest ever cast in the
State.
1t is said that the French Emperor is about
to confer the decoration of the Legion Of
Honor upon Major Phillip Kearney, of New
York, for his services during the recent ltal-
ian campaign.
Thackerays magazine has had fabulous
success. The sale of the February number
had gone up to ninety-fve thousand two
weeks ago. 1t probably reached hundred
thousand before the number of March ap'
peared. - -.. ....
William H. Russell, so widely known al
''the correspondent of the Times" has started
a new weekly paper called The Army dnt
Nduy Gazette, which is the highest unofficia
authority on military and naval matters il
England.
ONE OF ABBOTT LAwRENcE's LEGAcIEs.-A