The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-25

The advice is unsound, as well as impracti.
cable, which recommends that our time be al
ways occupied with somo industrious, or at
least specific pursuit. After laborious mental
efforts, the attention should be diverted to the
hghtest subjects possible; and as general
rule, it is best to leave tho intellect free to its
own operations, and the entrance of casual re.
Elections. Hobbies attributed his superiority
to the moderation of his reading, affirming that
ii he had read as much as the philosophers, he
should have been as ignorant. The fact is, he
read less than he medtated. This, the great
secret of all vigorous, creative thought, is a
primo requisite in constructing the durable
monuments of genius.- OlHLow. .. ..t
Mr.. John Scarborough, gentleman known
to some of our citizens as being perfectly relia
BILE, arrived in this city on the steamer D. A
January, Friday evening, just from the mines
having made the entire trip by water, in tn,
almost incredible short space of time of only
fourteen days! Mr.. Scarborough states tha'
the recent reports of the large amounts beins
made in the Gregory diggings, have been very
much exaggerated. He knew of one compan
who were making, with sluice, as much u,
$40 per day to the man; but there were hun,
dreds of others who were not making board
81. Joseph Journal Of 2Oh.
The labors of the Mount Vernon Association
are nearly closed, as we learn by dispatct
from our Washington Correspondent. The en-
tire amount necessary for the purchase 81 tn,
property has already been subscribed, and only
thirty thousand dollars still remain unpaid
but it is understood that the subscription list
will not be closed until sufficient sum shal
be secured to prosecute the necessary improve
ments upon the property, which is now in tn
most neglected condition.
In New York, on the 23d, Thomas ant
Charles Mackey, the former 10 years old, anr
the latter only years of age, got to quarrel
ling at or near the residence of their mother, 81
Washington street, near York, about an excur
sion ticket. A fight grew up, when they wer,
soon surrounded by a group Of little boys. Du
ring the fight, Charles, tho youngest, stabbed
his elder brother with pen-knife, inhicting
wound which proved fatal.
The New Orleans Crescent says: The columns
Of about four-ffths of the one hundred or 8,
exchange papers which daily reach us, presen
the same weary monotony of war intelligence
the same thing in each in continual repeti
tion. The subject is thoroughly written I,
pieces-written over, up and down, around
about, and in every conceivable manner an,
direction.
A man in Alabama slid from a hay NOV
and struck upon pitehfork, whereby he re
ceived most dangerous wound. The physi
clan not only dressed tho wound, but ais
applied medicinal preparations to the pitchfork
and had it carefully wrapped up and deposite
in flannel, to aid in healing the injury by wha
is called -'sympathetic action"
A gentleman rode up to public house i
the country, and asked, "Who is the master @
this house?" ~ am, sir, replied tho landlord
"my wife has been dead about three weeks"
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as
hold either to forget or overcome them. 1t !
well to be able to do so-most people say the
can't afford it. .a ~ ..7. f-."
Excuse me, madam, but would like to as
why you look at me SO very savagely? Oh
beg pardon, sir--I took you for my husbandl
A boy was asked what meekness was? II
thought moment, and said: Meekncss give
smooth answers to rough questions.
This is what they call fellow feeling for
man, said a loafer, as a watchman was gropin,
for him in the dark. al.f
To resort to intoxieation for the ease of one
mind, is to cure melancholy by madness. Isl
not moral suicide?
Keep out of bad company, for the chance is
that when the devil fires into flock, no will
hit somebody.
In private, we must watch our thoughts; i
the family, our tempcrs; In company, GU
tongues. '.'ug' wrii frt.U