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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11
singular Relic Of PompeII.

The Academic des Sciences at Paris has been
much interested during its last sittings, by
the examination of more singular relic Of
Pompeii than any which has yet been brought
to light. This vestige of ancient days con-
sists of branch of cypress wood proceeding
from the trunk of cypress tree still stand
ing firm upon its roots. II is to Baron Saw
arese we are indebted for this valuable and
unique discovery. The Neapolitan Govern.
ment having commenced digging q canal in
the environs of Pompeii, Baron Savarese
happening to be passing where the workmer
were busy, became attracted by the difficulty
experienced by the men to pull out tht
stumps in the bed of the canal which they
declared must be piles driven in for the
foundation of some building long since per
ished from the surface of the earth. The
savant, however, thought otherwise; he made
the workmen isolate the stumps, and discov-
cred roots of vegetation which had struck
into the soil during the first century of the
Christian era. The savant, upon further ex.
animation, pronounces the trees to have beer
Expresses, the extremity Of the trunk ant
roots of which have been buried in gravel
and has been thereby preserved intact, whil'
every other portion Of the tree has been dc
stroyod.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11
ARoId Juvenile Trnmneter.

A letter from Madrid says: In the triumphal
entrance of the troops here, the heroes of the
day with the exception of General Prim,
who was so greeted that he had to deliver
half dozen speeches rs he went through the
streets, were trumpeter and dog. Their
glory obscured that of all the army, and they
obtained an ovation which will disturb the
repose Of Espartero at Logrono. The trum-
peter belongs to the Bourbon regiment; he is
only fourteen years, and is of short stature.
When in Africa he happened one day, while
in the advanced post with his company, to be
excessively hungry, and he could not get any
food. At last he perceived a number of oak
trees, and said to himself, "Where there are
oak trees there are acorns, and acorns at a
pinch can be eaten.n
He accordingly slipped away, and passing
unobserved by the sentinels, climed up the
tree and began eating. He was suddenly in
terrupted by strange noise, and to his dis
may he perceived that the tree was surrounded
by ferocious-looking Moors. Flight was i'm.
possible and resistance out of the question
but bright idea struck him--he seized his
trumpet aud sounded the charge. The Moors
thinking that they had fallen into an ambush,
took TO flight. This exploit of the trumpe-
ter excited great admiration at the time and
on the entrance of the, troops the crowds not
only greeted him with enthusiasm, but he
was borne in triumph on mems shoulders
and crowned with laufell From time to time,
at the request of the people, he sounded the
charge which had struck terror into the
breasts ofthe Moors.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

IMPROVEMENT OF AUTHORS FoRTuEEs-For
several years past the literary men of Eng
land have been in luck in the matter of gov
sPnmsnt appointments; or rather the guild
Of letters has become 80 potent an ESTATE
that its claims can no longer be denied. If
Burns were alive now he would command
some thing better than gaugership. Even
so small a literary light as James, the story
writer, has been for many years a comfort
able placeman of the fifth magnitude, as is
BETTING. D'Israeli has been Premier; Bull
wer has been appointed to handsome Office;
Thackeray has promising aspirations, and, u
few days ago, Charles Kingsley, poet and now
elist, was called to the Chair Of Modern His
tory, at Cambridge; though this is rather q
scholastic than political appointment.
Our own Government, beginning with
Paulding and Bancroft has occasionally
shown its appreciation Of scholars and men
of genius President Pierce, in the whole
course of his Administration, among many
noble deeds, did nothing more creditable to
his head and heart than the appointment of
Nathaniel Hawthorne to the Consulate at
Liverpool, over host of clnmorous poll
ticians. The result justified the deed and the
great novelist proved as faithful and compe-
tent an officer as if he had been innocent Of
| authorship.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

The GREAT FAIR AT LEIPsIc.-The annual
Fair at Leipsic is looked for throughout Con-
tinental Europe with great anxiety by traders
in general, as it is usually a monster mart OF
every known marketable commodity. This
glut, the Northern manufacturers crowding
the sale with articles far beyond the want Of
purchasers. The usual American, Italian,
Polish and Greek buyers were not in force,
and depreciation of from ten to twelve pei
cent. on cloths of all qualities was the conse-
quence. Delaines, cottons and silks, though
Of elegant design and finish, found no great
favor; the only thing that reminded specta-
tors Of the former glory of the Leipsic Fairs
was tanned leather, of which there was an
enormous amount, and sales were extensively
made for some unknown European govern
ment.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11
Great Outrage In Missouri-A White Girl
Stolen and Reduced to Slavery.

Great Outrage In Missouri-A White Girl
Stolen and Reduced TO Slavery.
A correspondent Of the New York Tribune
writes from Wathena, Kansas Territory, on
the oath ult:
One Of those outrageous occurrences that
disgrace humanity, occurred at ST. Joseph,
No, on the 10th llt. The facts in the case
are these: Miss Mary Jane Robinson, an Or
phan girl about eighteen or twenty years of
age, light auburn hair, light blue eyes, light,
fair complexion, has been living at the Bel
mont House, in Belmont, Kansas Territory,
for the last ten months, doing work as a free
white servant girl. On the 18th ult. with a
portion of her hard earnings, she crossed the
ferry to st. Joseph to do some trading. Soon
after landing she was watched by two men
who knew her, and who had often seen her
at Belmont. They went before an officer and
made affidavit that she was the slave ana be-
longed to one Mr.. Trott, of Lexington, Mo.
A warrant was issued but the officer, after
seeing and talking with Mary, was convinced
that she was not slave, and refused TO make
the arrest. The Marshal was then sent for,
who performed the humiliating and degra-
ding act, and she was lodged in Jail. Mr..
Trott was telegraphed to and came on, and
claimed that she was a slave, and belonged
to the estate of one Mr.. Counsellor, of Lex
ington, Mo-, of which he was administrator
He then paid Messrs. Toole and Evans foI
their services, and, without trial, save the af-
| fidav1 of these two men, he started with her
for the interior of the lnnd of whips and
| chains.
In answer to inquiries made of her respect
| ing her parents, she stated that she was born
in the State of Kentucky; that her parents
died when she was quite young, that she lived
with her sister until she was nine years old
and was then sent to the State of illinois tc
live with her brother and aunt that with
them she wentto st. Louis, NO., and remained
there until the Spring of 1859 when her broth
er, fearing that she would marry young
man whom he disapproved, gave her money
and sent her to St. Joseph, NO., where sht
lived several months prior to going to Bel
mont. She said she had received letters from
her brother, informing her that he started Il
| California this spring.
Those who were acquainted with her sa,
that she was industrious, intelligent and res
| pected by all who knew her, and that no on
could ever suspect that there was drop o
African blood in her veins. The probability
is that she is free, aud that the men VIII
swore she was a slave are perjured kidnap
| pers.
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Disturbance at Paris Thoater-An In
dignnnt Duke.

The Paris correspondent Of the New Or
leans Delta in his last letter says:
There was disturbance at the Ambigu
Comique, a few nights ago, which has given
rise to great deal of talk. The Duke de
Grammont Caderousse (by the way, the un-
luckiest family in France) was in stage-box
with Mile Schneider the pretty actress of
the Palais Royal She was looking at the
audience-he was reading Regolboche's s
memoirs In the next box to them was an
actress and her mother. As the two boxes
were separated by partition, some four feet
from the floor, they seemed from the body
of the theater to form one box. The actress
and mother were busily engaged munching
candy and their friends and made great
deal of noise both when they were eating
sugar and when they we're biting their
friends. The pit became annoyed at this
constant interruption, and mistaking the
innocent parties for the guilty ones-the way
Of the world-cried out, ITO the door with
the gdndinP You know gdndin is in the
vocabulary of the day the offensive term for
dandy. The popular storm lasted five min
utes, increasing in fury each second. AT
last the Duke de Grammont Caderousse rose
in his seat, leaned over to the pit, and said;
"lf ye wish to put me out, come and do it u
This increased the violence of the storm to
such degree 1t was impossible to hear what
was said on the stage. The police came and
ordered the Duke and actress out of the
house; and they, Of course, made their dis
appearance amid the pits laundering ap-
pause.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11
Particulars Of the Faiiure Of the Great
Mexican Bankers. Jeoker & Co,

The opening mail, says the New Orleans
Pcayune, places us in possession OF still fur
ther particulars of the failure of Jecker & Co.,
the great bankers of Mexico. ..
In making this statement TO their creditors,
Jecker & Co. ask an extension Of five years,
promising to abandon 10 them each year
twenty per cent. Of their entire capital, and
to pay on the remainder per cent. interest.
They are unable, however, to offer any guar
antees Of their ability to 60 on successfully
any longer and at the first meeting the prop
osition was not accepted. Another meeting,
however, was to be held on or about the 2sth.
The failure of this great house, the real
supporter of the Reactionary Government,
has Of course been received with great re-
joicing by the Liberals, but not unmingled
with regrets. Mr.. j. B. Jecker the princi-
pal was gentleman Of pleasing manners
and great Kindness of heart, and was sur
rounded by large circle Of devoted friends.
As to the immediate cause of the difficulty,
we learn it was the failure Of the house 10
realize any thing in ready money, from the
immense amount of Government bonds, which
they held in return for the large advances
they found themselves compelled to make in
support of Miramon's worthless Government,
and expensive but fruitless, expeditions.
They are also out in the sum Of probably
not less than million of dollars for surveys
ON the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and in the
State of Sonora, under various contracts, for
which they have as yet received no return
whatever. Nor is il probable that in the
present unsettled state of the country, they
will for years be able to realize any thing
from the immense tracts of land which have
thus come nominally into their possession.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11
Four Murdorers Garroted I'm HavauR-An.
other CarRo of SIaveR CAPTURED.

A Havana correspondent Of the New Or
leans Delta writes on the I'd inst;
This morning we had the Just but disagree
able performance Of the garrote of the muir
derers Of the Senior Agueros, who was killed
upon the Pareo, few weeks since. One OF
the party of five was sentenced to preside
for life, Don Domingo Palma, u white man;
the others, three negroes and one white man,
took the fatal chair, which had been placed
upon the spot where they committed the deed.
The first was calm; the second was shaking
with fear, and died all the way from his cell
to the platform" the only leveler we have
lhere the third went laughing to his fate,
having improved upon every action, trait
and feature, murder in the heart, although
he refused the graces of Christian at the
close of q bad life, composed good negro po-
etry--a sonnet in commemoration of the day
| SO eventful for him and eternity. The last
q white man, seemed to be properly COM
posed, and met his fate with Christian resig-
nation. There was an immense crowd O.
persons to witness this close of justice in
their case, but they seemed TO have as much
as they wanted for one show--the murderoui
partl
AT Key West they have another cargo o.
negroes, four hundred taken on an American
schooner-making two thousand or more fol
the administration Of Abolitionism.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

PLEASANT PRELUDE TO PIcNIc.-Some
people in Milwaukee, Wis, met at private
house, preparatory to starting on picnic.
Two of the gentlemen got to quarrelling
about one of the ladies, and finally fought in
good earnest. The ladies also pitched in, and
sandwiches and doughnuts were hurled in
profusion at antagonistic heads. Bonnets
were mashed and white dresses ruined, and
biliments. When the excitement was over
it was decided to adjourn the picnic, fight
and pleasure party being considered rather
too much for one day, and that day the Sab
bath.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

DEATH OF AN OLD PARTISAN EDIToR.-The
Paris press has just lost one of its oldest mem
bers N. Hyppolite Lamarche, the editor and
the navy in his youth, and signalized himself
in an engagement with the Danes. He sub
sequently went into the army and attained
the rank of Captain, when he resigned. He
then devoted himself to literature, and
brought out in 1927, at the 0deon, metrical
version of Shakspeare's Merchant Of Venice,
in three acts, which obtained considerable
success. His speciality in the Steele Office
was foreign politics,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

AxTI-AusrRIAS FEELING IN HuSeARy.--
The Emperor Francis Joseph inte7ded assist
Archduke Joseph, former Palatine of Hun
gary, whose memory is cherished there; but
such is the state Of popular feeling that he
has been prevailed upon to abandon this de-
sign. They talk in Vienna of celebrating the
fiftieth anniversary of the Magyr rising
against France, when, in 1870 Napoleon
urged the Hungarians to help him overthrow
the Hapsburgs. It's doubtful, however, that
this project will meet with much enthusiasm
anY where in Hungary.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11
Melancholy Result Of . Romantic Mar.
riage-The Eject Of Parental Interfer-
ence with Tive Loving Natures.

riaHo-Th0 Enect OF Parental Interior
ence with Tive Loving Natures.
A few years ago young girl left her home
and went TO Rochester, N. Y, there becom-
ing the inmate Of a school. When less than
fifteen years old she felt schoolgirls fancy
for boy two or three years older than her
self, who was fiercely in love with her, and
the two were secretly married. the wife re-
turning 10 her school, the husband to his, for
he also was in the carly stages Of an educa-
ton. When in course of time the marriage
was made public, there was great outcry.
The parties were sent from their schools, and
the Indignation of the principals was hot.
The boy took his wife home to house where
rich step-father and naughty mother di-
vided the rule. At first they were reconciled
to the loving pair, for they supposed the girl
was an heiress and the money appeased the
step-father while the idea of the "gentility"
which money brings soothed the mother.
But when II was found that the son had
brought home penniless bride, their indig-
nant virtue burst its prudent bonds.
The young wife was cast adrift, and the
husband was sent to kind Indiana to gain a
divorce. She returned to Rochester, the in
hospitable parents living in another county,
and there found employment in shop. He
could not obtain his divorce-perhaps did not
wish II. AT any rate, he came also back to
Rochester, and held clandestine intercourse
with his wife. Undoubtedly reprehenSible
as it was, no one can wonder that he took 70
| drink, being weak-minded and disappointed.
His Incorporate habits destroyed the little
manliness originally in him, and he became a
burden to himself and source of shame to
his friends The wife, disheartened by the
treatment she had received for contracting a
legal marriage and trying to support herself,
and being unused to labor, and in danger oi
breaking quite down under it, forsook vir-
tuous life and sold herself 1t was not long
however before the disgrace attaching to her
position made life insupportable, and she
determined to end it. Accordingly, she at.
sistance All of which has happened before
she has arrived at the summer Of her TWEEN.
tieth wear
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

The OLD SERAGLIo AT CoNsTANTINopLE.
A foreign correspondent says, we paid visit
periaI residence and harem having been @ re- re-
moved to new palace ON the opposite side
of the Golden Horn. The old establishment,
however, is still kept up, and some additions
| saw were in progress. We found the apart
ments spacious, highly decorated, and alto
gether Of luxurious cast. do not think
we have seen anything in their line more
really beautiful than were the arms of the
Sultan, sparkling as they were with diamonds
and Jewels.
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The ToMBs OF TURKISH SuLrAN.--A
Constantinople correspondent says in late
family. The building containing them is ex-
ceedingly ornamental, and is adjoined by 9
beautiful garden. The tombs are seven in
number, the Sultans being the largest. His
is surmounted by tdrbush, ornamented with
a star of diamonds. All of them are covered
with colored velvet, and the inscriptions are
worked upon it, in gold, and over all cash.
mere shawls were thrown as kind of loose
outer covering,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11
The Pope and the italian Bishops-The
Holy Fathers Secret Note.


A Paris letter in the Independence Beige
says: ...
A document of considerable interest has
been communicated to me--a secret note,
addressed in the name of the Pope to the
Bishops of Italy, tracing the line of conduct
to be followed by them under present cir
cumstances. 1t begins by an allusion to the
Archbishop of Florence, who, it says, from
fear of menaces made to him, had ''the culpa-
BILE weakness to receive the Prince in his
church. II then says that it is true the pre-
late has repented, but that the scandal in the
eyes of the Christian world is not diminished.
In the midst of the disorders of the times the
clergy must, it declares, know how to suffer,
and if need be encounter martyrdom. The
church, in the exercise of its sacred ministry,
ought it continues, to enjoy entire liberty,
and never to recede before the violence of the
| civil power; but liberty no longer exists in
the States Of the King of Piedmont. The
numerous deplorable and criminal attacks oi
which the clergy are the victims, (the ex-
| pressions used are stronger than these, cause
| (the note says) the Holy Father to request
the prelates who do not feel that they possess
the moral force of resisting the violence to
which they are every day subjected, to retire
to Rome to await better times. The interests
of the Church and of religion, will, it de-
| clares, suffer less by their absence from their
sees than the forced attendance of the clergy
| at ceremonies, against which they ought
| loudly to protest. Such is the substance ot
the document, which fills no fewer than si1
pages of small text.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

GIRLS CELEBRATION IN SAvoY.-The girls
of st. Maurice, in Savoy, are about to cele-
brate the annexation of their country to
France, because of the benefit which the le-
gislation of their future country will afford
them, namely: girls and boys have there the
same rights and the same advantages. Ac.
cordingly, every manageable lass in the
town is to repair to the Place Charles Albert
dressed in her best apparel, bearing a tri.
colored cockade, and parade the principal
streets, with flags and music at their head
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

Strike AMONG 0vER-THE-PLAIEs MULE
TEBRs.--The Kansas papers state that there
has been a revolt among these pilgrims Of
the plains for higher wages. At their meet
ing, held in Atchison, they struck for $40 pei
or $26 per month for the round trip. An
agent was appointed to visit the principal
starting points upon the Missouri River.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

The DURATION OF LIFE IN AMERICA AND
EuRoPr.--The experience of fourteen life in-
surance companies, recently represented at a
convention in New York. was equal to
about fifty thousand years of life, and it
proved that life in this country, at ages
between thirty-one and thirty-6ve, was not
subject to as high q rate of mortality as
similar returns proved it to be in Great
Britain and Germany
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

MILITARY~DuTY TAX IN FRANcE.-A tax Of
$500 has been heretofore levied on young
men in France who sought exemption from
military duty; but so many were able to pro-
cure substitutes-increasing from l6 per
cent. of the recruitments in 1867 to more
than 27 per cent last year-that the govern
ment, to make exoneration difficult, and to
prevent the evil influence accruing there
from, has raised the tax to $3.50. This ad-
ditional sum goes into the treasury.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

PRoGREss OF PARIs.-Many are of the opin-
ion that the population of Paris has long been
at stand-still; but work has recently been
published by order of the Prefect of the Seine
satisfactorily demonstrates that it has, ON the
contrary, steadily augmented during the last
twenty years, excepting in 1851, when, ow-
ing to the political disturbances of that pc
riod, decline in numbers occurred.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

SANauINARY AFFRAY IN KENTuoKY.--A
fight took place last Sunday evening some
Eve miles from Harrodsburg, Ky, in which
four men were engaged-S. Hatchell, John
Carrier, Crow Carrier, and Isaac Saunders.
Saunders, who Immediately made his escape
and has not yet been arrested. ~
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

AMERICAN FURs-Four hundred and fifty
thousand muskrat skins have been bought by
the Northwestern Fur Company since last
fall. They have been gathered from Wis
consin, Minnesota, and a small portion ofIowa,
and have been shipped direct to London.
During the season Just closed, this company
has paid out $500, 900 for furs.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

The SOURCE OF THE OH SpRINGs.--The
Scientific american says the oil springs are
probably the result Of the decomposition Of
vegetable substances by the internal heat Of
the earth. 1t is not likely any Of them are
inexhaustible, and their extent will no doubt
vary like that of coal beds and other geolo-
gical deposits. lI T"IaGr. s'rIIOHryE
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11

EARNINGS OF A FRENCH AUTHoR.-Alexan-
der Dumas pere earns $40, 900 per annum by
his indefatigable pen, and yet he is and has
been for years up to his eyes in debt--so
much so that most of his income goes to his
creditors He recently disposed OF his right
to his published works for $4,000 year;
vance, he has undertaken the long-meditated
trip to the Mediterranean in his little yacht
Monte Crtsto, IAtl- =
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VEsUvIus ATTRACTING STRANGERs.-Str
ers are arriving in large numbers at Naples
to enjoy the spectacles of the eruptions OF
Vesuvius, which have lasted for three weeks,
and are daily becoming more intense. A
new gap has opened at the southeast base OF
the great cone, toward the little village Of
Terre Greco, so often destroyed by the vol
canO