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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

CHARACTER AND PEcuLIARrTY OF SALT
LAKE.-Every reader has heard of Salt Lake,
but very few persons know any thing of its
extent and peculiar nature. A writer speaks
thus -.-
That this lake should be all salt is no anom-
ally. All large bodies of water into which
streams discharge themselves, while they
have severally no outlet are or should be
salt. If one such is fresh, that is an anomaly
indeed. Lake Utah, probably, receives as
much saline matter as Salt Lake, but she dis
charges it through the Jordan and remains
herself fresh; while Salt Lake, having no
issue, save by evaporation, is, probably, the
safest body of water on earth. The ocean is
comparatively fresh; even the Mediterranean,
at Leghorn, Is not half SO salt
am told that three barrels of this water
yield barrel of salt that seems rather
strong, yet its intense saltness, no one who
has not had it in his eyes, his mouth, his snos-
trils, can realize. You can no more sink in
1t than in clay bank; but very little Of it
in your lungs would suffice TO strangle you
You make your way in from a hot, rocky
beach, over a chaos of volcanic basalt that is
trying TO the feet but at the depth Of d yard
or more you have q fine sand bottom, and
here the bathing is delightful. The water Is
of light green color for about ten or twenty
rods, then 1'decply, darkly, beautifully blue p
No fish can live in 1t; no frogs abide in it;
few birds are ever seen dipping in IL.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

ANINDIAN WOMAN ADDRESSES AN ENGLISH
SocIETY.-The annual meeting of the Abo-
rigines Protection Society was held in Lon
don, May 20, Mr.. S. Gurley, NJ. p, in the
Chair. The proceedings had reference prin-
cipally to the unjust treatment of the Katfirs
at the Cape, and the condition of the Indians
of Canada and the Hudson's Bay Territories.
Mr.. Robert Alston introduced an Indian lady
to the meeting.
Nah-nu- Vohive-Gun, the Indian lady in
question, then came forward and addressed
the meeting in very good English. This she
did in a very touching and plaintive manner.
In tones low and tremulous, but remarkably
clear and audible, she stated briefly the
wrongs under which the "poor Indian" suf-
fered at the hands of the "Indian Depart
ment.' When the white people first went
over they spoke to the poor Indians of their
great mother, the Queen, and she had been
sent over to make their grievances known to
her. But she found it very hard to get near
her great mother, and where the door was to
see her she did not know Then again, she
had been told that Queen Victoria had very
little power. Whom to apply to she did not
know. Her heart was drawn after her people,
and, thoughshe might lose her home and her
all, she could not quench the feeling in her
breast. She had rather suffer with her peo-
pie than enjoy the pleasures Of this life. The
address produced a marked effect upon the
audience, and Mr.. Gurley said he should be
happy to do his best to aid their Indian friend
in accomplishing the object she had in view
in visiting this country.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

BEAUTIFUL AND WORTHY TRIBUTE TO OLD
MAIDs.-There is nothing more in conso-
nance with our notions and sympathies, when
an "old maid" is the topic of our meditation,
than the apostrophe of Jean Paul, who thus
expresses his sentiments:
Forsaken and patient onel misknown and
mistreated Think not of the times when
thou hadst hopes far better than the present
are, and repent the noble pride of thy heart
never. It is not always our duty to marry,
but IL is always our duty to abideby right,
not to purchase happiness by the loss OF
honor, not to avoid unweddedness by un-
truthfnlness. Lonely, unadmired heroinel
In thy last hour, when all life and the by
gone possessions and bulwarks of life shall
crumble in pieces, ready to fall down-in
that hour wilt thou look back on thy unten-
anted existence-no husband, no children, no
wet eyes will be there-but one high, pure,
smiling, angelic, beaming figure, God-like,
and mounting to the God-like, will hover
over and beckon thee to mount with her
the figure is thy virtue.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

SINGULAR AND PAINFUL AFFArR-A Sup
POSED WHITE MAN RETURNS TO SLAVERY
The Lewisburg tva.) Chronicle relates this
singular story; ,l.ers5.u.r ..r .. F.
Some six years ago, a man came to this
place, or rather its vicinity, calling himself
Heriff, and has since then worked for nume-
rous gentlemen in the county, as a day
laborer. Although of rather dark COM
plexion, no one ever supposed him to be akin
to the descendants of Ham. After living here
some time, he won the affections of quite q
pretty girl, whom he married. Things went
on quite prosperously for some time, two
children gladdening the happy fathers heart,
when, alas his felicitous existence was un-
expectedly terminated. r.eN
A negro man, in town, seems to have con-
ceived the idea that all was not right with
Herif, and that he bore the indications of
being more closely connected to the sons OF
Africs burning sands than is cOuntenanced
on Southern soil, and communicated this
idea to q gentleman, who, upon seeing him,
Immediately recognized him as the same in
dividual once belonging TO gentleman at or
near the Hot Springs, in Bath County, and
from whom he had run off. The gentleman
was informed of the fact and on the I'd inst.
he arrived here, in company with some one
who could substantiate his claims. He met
Herif in one of our stores, and informed
him that he had come for him as his servant.
He seemed rather indignant upon receiving
this unpleasant piece of information, but
after few words he acknowledged his true
character, and accompanied his master home.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

The Paris correspondent of the Boston
Ttdcelter presents new phase of life in that
city-the kind of religious services which
for the moment attract the attention of the
fashionable butterflies of that gay capital
After describing favorite preacher, who al
tracts great numbers, especially ladies' by his
sermons and who is in great request especi-
ally in private pulpits, the writer proceeds
! dare say you do not clearly understand
what mean by apIriivate pulpit, You are to
know that fashionable people who do not find
private theatricals or private concerts suiting
with their tastes, give private sermons. A
pulpit is erected in the drawing-room, and
the hostess or beddLess (call her by which
name you please) takes a great deal Of pains
to secure Interesting preachers. It has be-
come point of pride with them (for Satan
is ever mingling his tares with Heavens
wheat) TO secure eloquent preachers, that
they may not be outdOne by their neighbors.
II Is tendency of the day to reduce every
thing to drawing-room dimensions: we hear
of drawing-room operas, drawing-room cCm-
edies, and drawing-room sermons. 10.
" You must not imagine the persons who
indulge in this luxury convert their drawing
rooms into chapels of ease to the parish
church, and propose any such object as the
regeneration OF the world. They do not go
out into the highways and bitches in search
of an audience. They'd be lost sooner than
go to Heaven with people who were not on
their visiting-list for tickets are issued in
viting guests of these mdtinees reiigieuses
with as exclusive attention to the quality of
the guests as il the object of the assembly
was to degustate wines and discuss cooking.
There is no such thing as being saved in
this company unless one can prove possession
of two-and-thirty quarters of nobility. |
am sure you know the world SO well as to
make it unnecessary for me to say that the
sermons are not served up dry.
The soul is taken care of but the body is
not lost sight of; one is committed to the
parson, the other is in keeping of the but
Ter, and the strict regard have for the truth
compels me to say, the latter sometimes dis
charges his duty great deal more efficiently
than the former. The sermon may be
musty; the baodroises are always fresh. Gus
tom has established one invariable order of
proceedings at these places they open with
the news Of the day, and then refreshments
are handed around. The sermon is next in
order. Refreshments compliments to the
preacher, and small-talk end the matinee.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18
Joyous Meeting of n Distinguished Artist
and a Successful Merchant,


One of those incidents that we always find
in story books, and that sometimes occur in
our own experience, says the Boston TraU-
eller, took place short time since in the pic
ture gallery of the Athen9um. While Geo.
II. Brown, the artist was putting the finish
ing touch to recently-purchased picture, q
gentleman approached him with no little as
tonishment in his face.
"Mr. Brown, do you remember me2"
Captain Howes, by all that's memorable"
Away went palette, brushes and null
stick, and the two gentlemen were in each
others arms. 1t seems that when but six
teen years old, Brown was possessed with
the idea that he was to be great artist, and
that the quickest way of becoming SO was to
visit Rubens, Rembrandt and the great Eu-
ropean masters; so, with but $40 in his pocket
he got on board the brig Hebe, bound for
Antwerp. Forty-eight hours after the vessel
had touched the pier in that noble old city,
her Captain found Brown orouched behind n
hogshead, sobbing most dolefully, and with
out a franc in his pocket. The generous
hearted sailor placed the boy on to his feet,
showed some gold pieces into his hand, gave
him some good advice, and God speed
little thinking ever to see him again. ID
Twenty-eight years have passed since then.
They find the Captain of the Hebe at the
head of iourishing mercantile house in
this city, and Brown one of the most justly
celebrated of American landscape artists.
1t is easy to imagine the mutual 'congratula-
tions that succeeded the recognition, after so
long and adventurous separation.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

METTERNIcH's OPINION ON INsANITY.-In a
conversation related by writer in the last
number of FFaserIs Magazine, Prince Meter
mich gave his experience of lunatic asylums,
which he had visited with Gall, the founder
of phrenology. He mentioned the details OF
some romantic cases, and one of mathema-
tician, whose arrangement consisted in his
installing the number fye for cypher in all
politics to be the principal causes of insanity,
and, by way of a characteristic suggestion,
expressed belief that minds frequently be-
came unhinged by attending debates--rather
ominous for the Yankee nation.
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The Trials, Tribulations and Periis of tn,
Derby-The Troubles of "Thormanby's'

Derby-The Troubles of "Thormanby's"
Owner. ..5l'. .l--
Wilkess Spirit, of this week, has the fol-
lowing: -- a
All our readers now know that "Thorman-
by' has won the Derby, and that "Umpire"
has been beaten, but we rather think that
some, of them hardly yet appreciate the mag
nitude of the achievement to win the Derby,
or the sleepless vigilance necessary to that
end. Take the case of Mr.. Merry, the owner
of ''Thormanby." With an immense fortune
and a stable Of racers as good as money can
get, this gentleman has been above twenty
years upon the turf, and never before won
the "Blue Ribbon" He has had very
famous racers (such as "Chanticleer''l J, and
he won the st. Leger, but the Derby had
hitherto eluded his grasp. This year he had
a colt, in whom he reposed every confidence,
and that of his trainer Matt Dawson, equaled
it. Nevertheless, they found that the horse
was going backward In the betting, and that
some book-makers were laying against him,
in way to indicate that they thought they
could "make him safe.n AS "Thormanby'
had won both his trials with great ease,
giving ten pounds, Mr.. Merry, Dawson and q
confidential friend whom they took into their
counsels, concluded that there was screw
loose. -.,.... +. .
1t had all along bes., believed that Gus
JttilCO WIS w IluO ulilj dlAu bucy
ded the lay was. They did not at all suspect
bad faith on the part Of the jockey, but were
satisfied that there was "plant " to hocus
him, or get him out of the way in some other
manner. In this emergency, it was resolved
that Mr.. Buchanan, the confidential friend,
| should start for Russia to bring Jack Sharp
to ride the horse. He set out on the Thurs
| day before the race, at half-past eight in the
evening, and reached EPSON with Sharp at
FIVE o'clock on the morning of the race
During this time he travelled 1000 miles
| Sharp, however, was three pounds over
weight, and, as Custance was found to be all
right, he had the mount and won the race
| together with about $3.50, 900 in bets for Mr.
Merry, 100000 for Mr.. Buchanan, and q
handsome stake for the trainer, Matt Daw.
son, The book,mskers have been hit very
Thormanby, for he was backed by the people
at large as well as by those friends of his
owner and trainer who were "put on"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

PUMPKIN SEEDS AS RAT PoIsoN,-The best
food with which to mix poison for killing
rats, is pumpkin seeds Wet them, and sprin-
kle on nalittle arsenic, which will adheret to the
seeds, They will be eaten by rats and mice,
while cats, fowls, &C., not being fond of such
food, will not meddle with them. Wherever
poison is put for these troublesome pests of
thoy may eat, drink, and die, outside of their
holes and hiding-places. Musk-rats, which
are often troublesome pests upon some farms
bordering upon creeks or ponds may be
poisoned with arsenic upon pieces Of parsnip
or sweet apples 10 Etl'.-
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

A COLONEL KILLED DURING MILITARY
REvIEw.-The first regiment of Warwick
shire Militia was reviewed at Warwick,
England, recently, and the review termin-
ated in fatal accident to Colonel Boultbee.
The Colonel was riding at the head Of the
regiment on an Arabian charger, when it
started and struck against the horse of Lord
Leigh, the Lord-Lieutenant. The Colonel
lost his stirrup, and the horse dashed away
with him toward Stratford and threw him.
BY the fall he sustained conclusion of the
brain, and died the same afternoon on which
the accident occurred.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

DEATH OF SWEDISH PRoFEssoR,--Th re-
cent death of Prof. Retzius, of Stockholm,
seems to have been passed over quite un-
who occupy themselves with race-studies as
an enthusiastic and indefatigable ethnologist,
especially in that branch of ethnology re-
lating to the consideration and classification
Of human skulls. His division of the cranial
forms is the simplest and best of the many
(and, SO far, very unsatisfactory )classifications
of the skulls of races, and carries ON the
science far beyond the point where Morton
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

A Car WITH SrRoNa DOMESTIC INSTINCTS
Last week, Capt. Elijah Crockerof Barnstable,
Mass, sent cat and two of her kittens TO
Boston, by the sloop s. p. Cole The cat and
kittens were taken on board the ship Ashbar-
ton, soon to sail for Calcutta. But on Tues
day morning II was found she had escaped,
and on Saturday night at 10 o'clock, she ar
rived home, at the residence Of Ebenezer
Smith of that village. -i arlL 4 g4f-
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

ORIGlNAL SUIT AGAINST HUsBASD.---A
woman in Detroit has brought an action
against her husband to recover wages as a
domestic. 1t seems he procured a divorce
from her eight months ago. She knew moth
ing about 1t, and lived with him performing
domestic duties, &C. One bright plorning he
told her of the divorce, and much exagperated,
she seeks to punish him. og Tsd3 1i'
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

THrLArEsT FASHION ABLE 6 a soSIns. isli The
latest Cloves of things" that have appeared
in New York, are the Arab mantle and the
Soiihrino cape. They are elegant The first
Is rather baggy and so unpopular with short
ladies. The second is rose color and rather tries
the epmplekien, but with whlts flowers and
blonde, inaksl \ pretty relief
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

MORBID SENsIBnITY RESULTING IN DEATH.
A single woman, Electa Thayer, who had
resided in North Haven, Conn, for many
years, committed suicide, by drowning her
self in the river, on Wednesday morning
Miss Thayer was about fifty-fve years old,
of a natural malformation, and the fact always
preying upon her mind at last rendered life
insupportable.. ..Ha sltl A-
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

FoUR OARp.PLAYHRs KILLED. AT 0xcr BY
LIeHTEiEd.-The Davenport Qowa) Demoerat
and Neios says that when the tornado struck
Camanche, four men were engaged Ia playing
s,sSs.d ssESs sS one Of, e ssS ssIdings sGis AZ
the cards In thVir hands,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

? AN ESTIRE FAMILY BEsorrED by LIoUOR.-
The other evening an entire family named
Shanahan, consisting of mother and four
little children, the eldest child less than
thirteen, were lodged in the Columbus Sta
tion-house in a beastly state of intoxication.
The children were stupefed with whisky, but
the mother raYed like maniac.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18

RAILWAYS IN CUBA.--There are now I'm
ished and In the course of construction
throughout the island of Cuba, twenty-seven
railroads, comprising IN aggregate OF about
three hundred and 9lghtssn miles, ~ . cos.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18
The Uncertainty and Danger of Medicine.
Physician,s Biunders..,

DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in lecture
upon physicians, gives the following account
of some mistakes which have been made in
medicine: r-
Sooner or later, every body is tripped up
in forming a diagnosis. | saw Velpeau tie
one of the carotid arteries for supposed
aneurism, which was only little harmless
tumor, and kill his,patient. Mr.. Dease, of
Dublin, was more fortunate in case he
boldly declared an absoess while others
thought it was an aneurism. He thrust a
lancet into it, and proved himself in the
right. Soon after he made similar diagno-
sis. He thrust in his lancet, as before and
out gushed the patients blood, and his life
with it. The next morning Mr. Dease was
found dead, and floating in his blood. He
had divided the femoral artery. l have
doomed people, and seen others doom them,
over and over again, on the strength of ply
sical signs, and they have lived in the most
contumacious and scientifically unjustifiable
manner as long as they lived, and some are
living still. ! see two men in the street very
often, who were both as good as dead in the
opinion of all who saw them in their extrem-
ity. People will insist on living sometimes
though manifestly moribund.
In DR.. Elders Life of Kane you will find a
story Of this sort told by Kane himself The
Shpthih vi u sup was uJlub vi bCuENgt UuL
the crew mutinied, and he gave up dying for
the present TO take care of them. An old
lady in this city, near her end, got little
yexed about a proposed change in her will (;
ordered coach; was driven twenty miles to
the house of relative, and lived for four
years longer. Cotton Mather tells some good
stories which he picked up in his experience,
or out of his books, showing the unstable
equilibrium of prognosis. Simon Stone was
shot in nine places, and as he lay for dead the
Indians made two hacks with hatchet to
cut his head of He got well, however, and
was a lusty fellow in Cotton Mather's time.
Jabez Musgrave was shot with bullet that
went in his ear and came out of his eye on
the other side. A couple Of bullets went
through his body also. Jabez got WELL how
ever, and lived many years. Per contra,
Col. Rossiter, cracking plum stone with
his teeth, broke tooth, and lost his life
We have seen physicians dying, like Spig-
gelus, from scratch; and man who had q
crowbar shot through his head is alive and
well. These extreme cases are warnings
But you can never be too cautious in your
prognosis, in the view of great uncertainty
of the course Of any disease not long watched
and the many unexpected turns it may take
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18
MENTER'S O BAND.

UAURING THE ABSENCE OF MEN.
~ TERs BAND, (attending the Baltimore don-
yentiou all orders for pqsic for pcnics, parades,
BY leaving orders with FERD. RINEB0LD, at Men,
ter's Band Office, National Hsll yine,street, be-
1S7 Columbia -street, between Elm and Plum.
.l, ,r~4f jel6-aw /, TT ~
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EHOOmplImentary FeslIdnonIaI.

49, - - -, CINouENhrI, June1b 1860
pRQF. J.. w. M SON DEAR SIR
,lhe undersigned belieys thg sQ much interest
vi aseonnpanying Mythologled regtesentations with
that we believe but expressing earnest and
very general desire in soliciting at your hands q
lepetiton Of the entertainment. We trust thorar
iOto, that, at period carly possible, yoi viii
idYor tho pub 10 with its reproduction.
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.... - q - -.g.. CINCINNATI, June 12 1860.
"} Hos. r. NJ. B1sHoP, Hon. b. sToRkR, RUrus kINe
AND oTHERs -GENrLEMEN: Ypnr favor, containing q
efeQuest for the reproducton Of the Floral Concert
Of last Friday evening, Is received. That desire
iattering that OF which youBpeak should exist Is
y very gratifying 70 me- am more than Pleased II
OF tho city to musical emulation and Improvement
have secured tho kind regards Of my friends the
friends Of public schools in Cincinnati. ~
As to the reproduction Of the entertainment,
shall be most happy to accede to request, and
and attraction It. will, however, be- eminently
proper that IL should occur OF or nearly pos
sibe to the closing Of the public schools, to take
am, gentlemen, with high regards,
- Very truly yours, -
jel3 taf# ~; L. W. MASON.
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Picnic at Beech Grove.

FNu5E MEMBERS OF THE FIRST UNI
~ VERSALfST CHURCH CHOIR will give Pic
mic at the sbovs beautiful Grove, % on "WEDNESDAY,
Mslnut.stree az ~ O'clock A. Ma the ipot 81 Fitth-
The number Of tickets issued being lim.tea' viii
Them previous ST 70 she day Of the Peic The can be
had AZ the store Of Mr.; solon Palmer, No; 80 West
Fourthtreet at the drug stores Of Mr. Albert Ross,
corner Of Eighth and 0entralayenlei Of Mssars.
Orowther q brother, corner Of Seventh and Mound,
and Richmond and Baymjller, and of members OF
the Choir. Price so cents. .flf lc - o..
.Warwoods Quadrille Band will furnish music on
the occasion. Jel6-s
GUNNER GARDEN = VINE STREET,
- between Fourth and Fifth-The cheapest and
coolest place of amusement In the city . eI lliV
OPEN EVERY EVENING"
ADMISSION ONLY TEN CENTS .
Do' Dancing, Singing, Pantomimes, Farees Mig
gerisms, &C., and the Summer Brass Band.-E-.
.1Change Of performance every eyenine. q jel6-u
NOTICE.-THE NATIONAL THEATER
N H. now for rent for the Summer SEASON. for The
atrcal Performances, Italian, German or Burlesque
Operas, &C., &C., and may be had reasonable ters,
by the night or week. For psSticnRsTTsr paS r9gPy to
TE.a.B ~ National TheatSr Bailding,
my20-tfP II AA -bycamore-street.