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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

The WINE YIELD IN FRANCE WORSE THAN
EVER BEFoRE-A Bad Time Coming for the
GoUernment-From all the wine districts of
France, says late Paris letter, the reports
are of the most unsatisfactory kind. The
wine will be worse than in any year of this
century. In Champagne the grapes are yet
quite green and hard, and will scarcely be
worth gathering. The failure of the vintage,
combined as it Is with the failure of the corn
harvest and the failure of the potato crop,
must exercise powerful influence ON the
internal state of the country; it is sure there
is bad time coming for the Government,
which until now has been reaping the fruits
of national prosperity. The Emperor, has,
at every opportunity, declared himself the
author of the prosperity which France has
enjoyed since 1850. He can not blame the
people if they now make him responsible
for the calamities they are suffering under.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31
PEcKsNrFFIAN IppAs OF A-BAp MA

PEcKsHIFFIAN IDEAS OF BAD MAN
Charles Lamb Condemned-We once heard
a man, whose supercilious eyebrows met,
and who intoned his dry, hard talk about
"the days that are few and evil" say that
Charles Lamb was bad man, and admira-
ton of him should not be encouraged
81 am wedded," said Lamb to Ooleridge;
81 am welded to the fortunes of my sister
and my poor old father. Oh, my friend, I
think sometimes could l recall the days that
are past, which among them should choose.
Not those merrier days, not the pleasant
days of hope, not those wandering with a
fair-haired maid, which l have so often and
so feelingly regretted-but the days, Coler-
idge, of mothers fondness for her school,
boy. What would l give to call her back to
earth for one day, that l might, on my
knees, ask her pardon for all those little
asperities of temper, which, from time to
time, have given her gentle spirit pain
And the day, my friend, trust may come,
when there will be time enough for kind
offices of love, if heavens eternal years be
ours. Oh, my friends, cultivate the filial
feeling Let no man think himself released
from the kind charities of relationship.
These are the best foundations of every spe-
cies of benevolence."
If happiness were thing of chance at all,
we would prefer the chances of the queer
clerk in the "India House" to those Of the
man who talked SO good about a world
30 bad.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

DELIGHTS OF DOMESTIC LIFE-A Dis
trGetsd Husband Hangs Himself Nineteen
Times.-A newspaper published in town of
Western Missouri says;
On Tuesday last, news came to this city
that man was seen hanging between Inde-
pendence and Maxwel's Landing. The
Coroner was promptly notified of the fact,
and he, in the discharge of his duty, as
promptly repaired to the scene but, to his
surprise, found the man alive, kicking, and
walking about as other men do, with no rope
around his neck-where the rope ought to
be. He (the Coroner) made some inquiries
about his victim, and the old woman-that
is, Mrs. Elliott the wife of the hung man
replied that he was down, but not dead; and
further remarked, that it was about the
nineteenth time he had attempted to hang
himself, and hadn't yet succeeded, but she d
be totally darned If he mightnt hang the
next time until he was good dead-that she
would never cut the cord again to let him
breathe easy. Elliott is in the habit of hang
ing himself every time he has family jar;
and although he has made so many attempts,
has never yet got without sight of the house,
where his wife would not fail to cut him
down before his wind shortened.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31
A vegetarian Drama in ParIs-A5 Intensely
SpiritueIle Heroine.

SpiriIueIle Heroine.
The Paris correspondent of the New Or
leans Delta gives this sketch of new veg
etaIian drama recently produced at the
French capital by NJ, de Pene;
1t is called la CampGigne, and, of course,
les Angldi5es pour Rire figure in it. The
scene is laid at the chateau of the Count and
Countess Penmarck, in the south of France,
and we are informed that the highly senti-
mental, greatly beautiful, rather nlGigre
mademoiselle, named Laura, is the daughter
of an English MILFORD, who has left her there
on visit The young lady is a raver of
poetry sentiment and the ideal-quite she
Byron-without the catawauling. MOI she
is much too pure for any thing but the moon,
the stars, lilies, white satin, and shroud She
can not live on the coarse food of other NOR
tails, and is q - vegetarian.
The Count is bon ViVdRt and roast-beef
eater for half dozen; but horrible to re-
late, he falls in love with Laura, to the dis
tress of the Countess, his wife, who, to save
the honor of self, husband, Lord and daugh-
ter, hurries the girl away, just in time-not
to prevent mischief-no, to prevent the
Count starving, for he has, to please the
miss, half starved himself and been trying
to live on mustard and cress. The Joke OF
I the piece is in this bit of fun, and il would
tell well in the hands of good comic actor.
No sooner is the Countess gone with Laura
than the famished Count determines on re-
venge, and has dinner served for dozen; he
has lust got into the thick of it, with his
napkin tucked under his chin, like true
gourmand, and his face quarter of an inch
thick in natural and artificial grease, hall
consequent on exertion, half on Immersion,
when Laura returns--she had forgotten
something's faded forget-me-not, on which
favorite lady-bird expired--when horror
of horrors, she discovers the Count at his
pleasure, and finds the man of sentiment
a sensualist The love-rising is crushed
and she bids him farewell forever-and vir-
tue is triumphant, which is necessity.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31


New KIND OF FoRTUNE-TELLINe-P Physi-
ognomy of the Hand.-A London correspond
ent says of person who is now making
money by manual physiognomy:
The manipulation is clever fellow, and
makes, through confederacy or ability, most
extraordinary guesses. A velvet curtain is
drawn across the room, in your own house.
There is only small hole through which
the hand is introduced, and without having
seen the company, he proceeds to read off,
by the aid solely of the lines and infectious
variations of surface and texture, and genial
form, the character, temperament, appear
ance, abilities--nay, the chances of fortune
which will fall to your future lot as influ-
enced by your character. 1t is ably done,
and is general pastime, of course, leading
to many exciting scenes behind the curtain.
Well, there may be something, perhaps must
be something in this science, which teaches
him to distinguish the soldier, the politician,
musician and artist with happy truthful
ness.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31
One of Lady nIOrsnn's Love AGairs-Ths

One of Lady mOrERn's Love A6airs-Ths
Usual PeridJ of the Sex Displayed.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick, the author of a memoir of
the late Lady Morgan, recently published,
tells the following story, as told to him by
the celebrated authoress:
When she was very young, Mr.. Crossley,
who was younger still, became so attached to
her as to offer marriage. She told him that
she would have accepted him at once, but
that neither of them could boast of possess
ing single shilling, and the result was a
prospective engagement, to be realized only
so soon as means were apparent for their
subsistence. To devise this, she suggested
as a career that an application should be
made to the Marquis of Hartford for cadet
ship in the Indian army and, as Crossley's
family had some local claims their request
was successful, and he was speedily ap-
pointed to regiment in the Presidency of
Madras.
The correspondence continued for some
years, though so intsrruptedly that consid-
erable suspension took place, during which
the lady S position and prospects had been
uniformly rising, and her marriage at length
solemnized with Sir Charles Morgan, the
ceremony having taken place at Barons-
court, the seat Of Lord Abercorn, in the
county Tyrone. On the morning Of the
wedding, the post arrived before the process
sion to the church, and the sister ofthe bride
took Miss Owenson's letters. These she
opened on her return to the house, and
among them was one from Crossley, account
ing for his long silence by the anxieties of a
period ofanxiety which had now ended by
receiving some promotion in the army, and
staff appointed in the service of the Nizam.
This was the long-looked- for point in his
career, and having at last attained inde-
pendance, he wrote to claim the perform
ance of their early engagement, and pro-
posed an Immediate union.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31
Particulars of the Wreck Of the Schooner
Humming. Bird, with Less of Life.

The telegraph has mentioned the loss ofthe
Humming- Bird, a British schooner, and the
Quebec (Can.) Chronicle gives these particu-
lars:
The schooner Huniming- Bird. Richard
Shelnut, master. bound from Labrador to
Halifax, while lying to off the east-end of
the Island of Anticosti on the 7th instant
was struck by heavy sea, thrown on her
beam ends, and instantly dismasted. When
she righted, the crew, seven in number.
clung to the wreck, but the captain, James
Calaghan, steward, and Martin Henebry,
COOPER perished in a few hours. The four
survivors, Thos. Martin, owner Ofthe cargo
Edward Strum, mate, Timothy Moorish and
Charles Borgal, seamen, remained on the
wreck for four days
Being but O few miles from the island
they managed to construct a raft on which
Strum and Borgal made for the shore, and
landed about mile to the eastward Of the
lighthouse. Two days later the wreck was
seen from the lighthouse, and the two men
still moving about ON IL. The keeper aud
his men immediately went off to their res
cue, and happily succeeded in bringing them
safe on shore. These two poor fellows were
on the wreck six days without food and
drink Of any kind Most fortunately the
steamer Napoleon III. called at that sta
tion on the very day the two latter were
saved, and the. four were Immediately taken
on board AID taken to Gaspe, from whence
they proceeded to Picton in the steamer
Lady Head on their way to Halifax, where
they all reside. The Napoleon was out in
the same terrific gale about forty miles to
the westward of the schooner.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

SUCCESSFUL LANDING OF SUBMARINE
CABLE.-The submarine cable from Algiers
has been successfully landed at the island OF
Minorce, and messages are in course of per-
feet transmission both ways. The distance
is 250 miles, and some portion is 1000 faith
oms deep-approaching the general depth Of
the route of the unsuccessful Atlantic line
The portion from Minorce to Toulon, in
France, will be about another 25O miles, and
this is expected to be laid during tbs present
month, should the weather prove favorable.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

A SHARP-wITTED RURALIsT.-Jones was
riding up in Westchester County, N. Y, and
saw board nailed up ON post in the yard
Of a farmhouse, with the sign painted on it
"This farm for SAIL" Always ready for q
little pleasantly, and seeing a woman in
checked sun-bonnet picking up an apronful
SScaPT of at the TS S in R front Ehs Tds
when the farm was to sails She went on
with her work, but replied to his question
instanteC, "Just as soon as the man comes
along that can raise The Wind.n
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

EXTENT OF THE CUBA CooLIE TRADE.-Up
to the 3Oth ultimo there had arrived in Cuba,
vessels with "Asiatico's Free Colonists" as
our Spanish friends term them. The total
numbers embarked in China have been 5s,-
763, of whom only 40, 73O have been landed
-e,9sl having been passed over the sides Of
the vessel having either died from disease or
the over-dosing themselves with opium, or
having been killed in fights among them
selves, or in vain attempts to obtain their
freedom by taking possession of the ships
in which they were passengers.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

The WEALTH OF LoUIsIANA-An Average
of Over One thousand Dollars for EUery
Resident Of the State.-The New Orleans
Piedyune of late date says: The assessed
wealth of Louisiana averages considerably
more than 81, 900 head for every free white
man, woman and child in the State. The
assessment for 1860 shows valuation of
$500, 450, 747 and white population of 3ls,-
337, or an average of more than 81, $50 per
head for the whole State. Tensas shows an
average of $ll,OsO for every white man,
woman and child. The average in Cancordia
is $lO,8l2 in Madison, trifle less than So, 900.
The adjoining parish of Carroll shows an
average of $3,75O-and coming down among
the sugar parishes, West Feliciana, Pointe
Coupee, st. Mary and st. Charles, show
averages above $3,OO9-the frs'-aamed being
above $4, 200, and nearly all of them running
up beyond the King George standard.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

A CALIFORNIA CONFIDENCE MAN FoILED.-
A well-dressed man called at the house of a
property holder in San Francisco, recently,
and displayingpla ofcity lots and other doc
uments, demanded, with an official air, the
assessed taxes on his real estate. The gen
tlemsn, thinking all was not right, said he
had never seen Jonathan Hunt do business
that way, and was not aware that the itin-
Grant system of collection had been inau-
gurated 1t the Tax-Collector's Office; and
finally that all his taxes had been paid and
receipted for. The confidence Jeremy Diddler
retired in disgust.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

METTEREIoH HARD -woRKER.-0ld Met
ternich was a severe worker, says a London
correspondent of the New Orleans Delta,
and had a singular fashion of cleaning in
thoughts of the world as well as its doings.
His system would have fitted him for a first
rate editor. AT an early hour in the morn
ing as soon as home and foreign posts had
delivered their packages for him, he entered
his cabinet and remained five hours at in
cessant work. This was mostly the reading
of newspapers in all languages and of all
principles, and taking notes Of their views
and statements. His son Richard, now En-
bassador at Paris, was brought up by his
apprenticeship. .s ZOO. rra-
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

TALLEYRAND A HUMRUe IN EVERYTHING
correspondent of the New Orleans Delta, but
he was an arrant old humbug in everything
and led the world to believe that he was
above the rule that binds every man; and as
he scoffed and squibbed at all these princi-
pies, SO he wished il. to be believed that he
was emancipated from the mighty dietunl
which imposes itself on all alike. But had
he been little more of a philosopher, or had
he perhaps acknowledged what his own ex-
perience taught him, he would have said
that even to be first in fashion, the elegant
lounger, and the man of taste, work is nee
essary, and hard work, too.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

A FEMALE SwISDLNG FRENCH BIsHoPs.-
A number of French Bishops have recently
been vietimized by letters from London, un-
der female names, representing a young
French woman Of good family and educa-
ton, who was exposed in London, not only
to attempts upon her virtue, but upon her
faith in the Catholic religion, and who
needed only small sum to enable her to re-
turn TO Paris and safety. Inquiries have led
to the arrest of the swindler, who was not
even female, but former porter on the
the country after plundering his employers.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT FROM HEATED IRON

HORRIBLE ACCIDENT FROM HEATED IRoN.-
A horrible accident befel Henry Hatton at
Birmingham, Ct, Iron-works, on Saturday,
while rolling a fve-eighth bar, twenty five
feet long, at a white heat, of course, fifteen
feet of it ran through his thigh, before il
was arrested, severing the femoral artery.
The poor fellow would soon have bled to
death, when the bar was withdrawn, but for
the prompt action of a fellow-workman,
who at once corded the limb above the
wound and stopped the hemorrhage, till the
doctors came and tied the artery. Hatton is
in a very low condition.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

STRANGE CAUSE OF A RUNAwAY.-A huge
vat of liquid lime, standing before a church
in process of erection in Philadelphia, burst
ON Monday evening, and the lime gushed
out in a torrent, whitening the street for
some distance. A car was passing just at
the instant, and the horses were so frightened
that they broke away spite of all the efforts
of the driver and conductor, and ran till one
of them dasl ed his brains out against a tree.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

LOUIS NAPoLEoNs LIFE OF julius Cesar
Nor WRITTTN BY HIMsELF.-In the course of
this month, says the Paris correspondent of
the New Orleans Delta, will appear here
literary curiosity-the Life of Cesar, written
by our Emperor. That is to say, our En-
peror gives only his name and one of his
ideas, viz: "At the time of Caesar, old Gaul
reached as far as the Rhine, consequently
modern France, under Napoleon III, must
reach to the Rhine" The literary part is
got up by Mr.. La Gueronniere, the chief of
pamphleters, and the scientific researches
have been made by two rather obscure sa-
wants, Messrs. Maury and Regnan.
To deGend the theory of natural frontiers
in a scientific manner is now the more nee
sssary, as the Germans have begun to work
that theory in their own interes t., and to
direct its point against France. will only
mention the new map of Europe which was
lately published in Hanover, and on which
France is shorn of all those provinces that
formerly belonged to the German Empire
and other States. On their map France has
but third Of her present possessions, with
Orleans as a capital. Paris is free city,
with ADD -el-Kader as its first Lord Mayor.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

A SENSIBLE Act BY DUMAS, THE NOVELIST.
One of Dumas's first acts when appointed to
the Directorship Of the National Galleries at
Naples, was to reopen the secret cabinet Of
the museunh TO which so many examples OF
classic art were condemned by the hypo.
critical modesty of the Bourbon regime.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

The GREAT EASTERN A FIxTURE.-A Wells
Board of Trade has been obliged to suspend
the certificate of the Great Eastern, and she
will not be allowed to proceed on her con-
templated voyage to America or elsewhere.
It is reported that the main axle of her screw
has sunk, and there are other serious defects,
which viii require considerable outlay OF
money to make good, and there is every
probability of the great ship wintering on
the Pridiron.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

RAILWAY Economy IN ENGLAED.+Mr. Hol-
ley in communication to the New York
Times, states that the "cost of hauliug pas
senger or tun of goods mile on an En-
glish railroad is about one-half only of what
Il is in America" The reason Of this is that
English roads are better constructed and re-
uuire less power to do the work.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

DAMAGES Recovered BY AN ABUSED SHIF
PAssRNaER.-DennisD Donoyan has obtained
81, 900 damages at San Francisco, from the
bark CarI6tia. Having paid for a cabin
passage from Guaymas, he was excluded the
cabin, compelled to sleep in the hold, and
otherWise abused
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31
From the New York Saturday Press.1
FASCINATION OF THE LAMIA,
BY THOMAS BA1LEY A1DRrcn.

. BY THOMAS BAILEY ALDRIcH.
Go on your way, and let me pass,
You stop wild despair.
would that were turned to brass
Like that grim dragon there,
(Which, couchant by the groined gate,
In weather foul or fair,
Looks down serenely desolate
And nothing does but starel
What care for the burgeoned year,
The sad leaf or the gayl
Let Launcelot and Guinevere
Their falcons fly this day.
"'Twin be as royal sport, pardie,
As falconers have tried
At Astolat-but let me bel
would that had died.
81 met woman in the glade:
Her hair was soft and brown,
And long bent silken lashes weighed
Her ivory eyelids down,
"I kissed her hand, 1 called her blest,
| held her true and fair
She turned to shadow on my breast,
And melted in the air.
"And lol about me, fold on fold
golden serpent hung
An eye of jet, skin Of gold,
garnet for a tonguel
90 let the petted falcons hy
Right merry in the sun;
But let me bel for shall die
Before the year is DONE"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

ANTICIPATING CoERUBIAL CONSTITUENCIES
One day last week gentleman and lady
went shopping in LOckport, N. VI on ieav-
ing, the salesman wanted the lady to pnr-
chase one or more of his tasteful hats "for
boys He was strucls dumb by the lady re-
plying; "Sir, have been married about
twenty minutes. have no boys yet"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

A SHOWER OF French ALMAEAos.-A
shower of almanacs for 1861 has just been
poured in upon Paris. Almanaes for the
'Drawing-room and Kitchen" for Cooks
and Historians" for Dancers and Card
players" for "Farceprs and Bonapartists;"
for Smokers and uff-takers," are to be
had, each costing but a few sous. Perhaps
the most remarkable of these almanaes is
''The Almanac of the National Glories."
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

A GIFTED ENGLIsHwOMAN.-Mrs. Theo-
dosia Trollope, the gifted wife of T. A.
TTollope, the novelist, is the writer of the
admirable Florentine letters in the London
AtheHeUm. This lady is a poet, musician
and artist of no common talents. Her
sparkling, graphic, and, better than all, pa
triotic letters on Italy and its great men,
show that she has a thorough knowledge Of
the subjects she discusses, and appreciates
the popular movements in Southern Europe.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

AN OLD Couple IN EEsLAND.-Mr. Thomas
Fieldworth and Mrs. Grace Pickles were
married at Otley, England, lately. The
united ages of the parties amount to l5l
years, the bridegroom being seventy-six and
the bride seventy-iye. 1t is a remarkable
fact in connection with the venerable couple,
that in early life they were sweethearts, and
thus by strange destiny, after OUTLYING
their respective partners, they now, in the
winter Of life, become husband and wife.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

Kavanagh's average in the innings was
thirty-one and a-half, the greatness of which
our readers may Judge Of from the fact that
Phe4an's average in his great match with
Seereiter was not over fourteen.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

RAILWAY EXPERIMENT. - Arrangements
are now in progress for testing on the Erie
Railroad, Professor Vergnes's patent for ap-
plying electromagnetic TO increase the ad-
hesive power of the wheels of locomotive
engines.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31
MAeNIr1oENr STYLE OF WEppINss IN LoN.

MAGMFIcENT STYLE OF WEDDINGS IN LON
DoE.-The style of weddings in London is
getting to be most magnificent, and at the
best weddings there are sometimes sixteen
bridesmaids, all wearing walls, and looking
like procession of nuns, though perhaps
fashion to make each a costly present of a
diamond locket of no less value than fl00,
the money amounts up with the increase Of
this unusual item ofmarriage expenses.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31

Since the erection Of the first Methodist
Church In America. in 1850. there have been
$4,000 erected-an average Of three week.