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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07

Distorted View OF the Prince-or- Wales
Ball at Cincinnati Through a british
LOrguette .H.frr
The correspondent of the London Times
writes thus of the Prince-oE Wales Ball given
at our 0pera-house:
In the evening His Royal Highness and
party returned to the city, and passed from
grave to gay" by attending a ball in the
evening.
This fete was given in the Opera-house at
Cincinnati-a building which for hight,
space and richness of decoration, would do
honor to any of our large cities. In this,
however. regret to say have told all that
can be said in praise. There was huge
bowling mob outside the theater, while in
side there was scarcely any body. The
building accommodates an audience of some
$500 people. There were not more than
400 at the ball, including the royal suite,
officials, committee men, and every body.
and of this number nearly 100 men in the
boxes looking down into the psrterre, where
the ball took place. As, however, this 100
or so thus placed wore their hats, and were
in every variety of lounging costume, lust as
they had dropped in, perhaps from neighbor-
ing bar-rooms their presence from the salon
de danSe was, on the whole, taken rather in
good part than otherwise. Even of those
who stood up in the sets many were in
morning dress, and of the whole number
actually present, not more than 100 were in
a costume which would admit them to the
amphitheater stalls at Covent Garden. After
the brilliant and well-managed fetes of
Canada, this, the first of American balls, was
rather more than failure. The Republican,
ism which can only show itself in disre
gard of the rules by which gentlemen are
supposed to be bound on these occasions. is
not of an imposing kind; and if Americans
only knew it they would see that the prin-
ciple is to the full as strongly asserted by
the decent garbs as it is by thrusting them
selves into ballroom in attire which. if
worn at their own soirees, they would take
as an affront to themselves. Beyond these
Western drawbacks, however, and the unac-
countable absence of the elite of Cincinnati,
the fete passed off very well, for at a bali
His Lordship is invincible.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07
Proper Mode of Constructing Cellar Walls
and Floors,

Most cellars are built without adequate
provision being made for keeping moisture
from passing through the walls from the
outside, and up through the earthen floors
inside during rainy weather. The cellar of
a house should be dry, so as to render it COM
Portable and healthy, as moisture in the lower
part of a dwelling generally makes the up
per stories damp and chilly, and causes mil
dew in clothes, books, and all household
articles made of cloth and leather. Cellars
can be easily built so as to have dry walls,
and hard dry floors; and the latter are in-
valuable to prevent rats from burrowing, as
well as dampness from coming up from the
soil beneath. To render the cellar walls dry,
they should be coated on the outside with
hydraulic cement, mixed with sand Houses
in our cities have their cellar walls thus
treated in many instances, but their floors
are neglected. To make cement floor, the
surface should first be rammed down and
leveled; then by hydraulic cement, mixed
with sand, of about the consistency of thick
mortar, should be laid on to about one inch
in thickness, and its surface leveled with a
scraper made Of thick plank. In laying
down such a floor, sections of about eight
feet square should be marked off, anu finished
one after another. A coat of clean sand or
gravel, one inch thick, should be laid on the
top of the cement and LITER it has stood
about half an hour, the whole should be
| rammed down smooth with FOUNDER, when
| the work is complete, after the surplus sand
has been swept of. In few days, such a
floor becomes hard as a stone, and quite i'm
| pervious 10 water. ..-r. .- .-.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07
Fanny Fern on POlireness to women-Her

Opposition TO Showing the Courtesy.
/ don't think my worst enemy can say
that / am often betrayed into showing po-
liteness to females. ] trust / know my own
sex too WELL so miseTably to waste my time,
Once on my Journey, | waived this we'll
known article in my creed, in favor of an
unprotected female who was seated next me
at table. Every woman but herself had one
of the male species to stand between her
and the-"how not to do it'-landlord and
his satellites;-to have been more truthful |
should have put this last word in the singular
number. There was nothing prepossessing
about the woman; she was wiry and angu1
lar, and had horrible trick of snuffing; per-
haps it was all this that made me insane
enough to pity her, as she sat there gazing
into her empty plate, with sort of dumb
despair. III ft
What goodness may be enshrined in that
repulsiSe face and form, said to myself;
how tenderly she may, in happier days,
when younger and more attractive, have
been watched and cared for and how
wretched to have only the memory of such
things in this solitary place; so [ just snatched
some eggs that after unheard-of efforts to
obtain, Mr.. Fern had fondly hoped to re-
gale himself upon, and offered them to her.
Did that female thank me by a word, or
even glance2 Ye gods2 Didn't she take
these eggs as if she had laid them herself?
"Good enough for you, Fanny" muttered |,
zone would think you were old enough by
this time, to know better" Ididnt say any
wicked words. tits not my way. Shortly
after the damsel who waited ON u.s. and who
employed the intervals when the dishes were
preparing in running up stairs to attend to
her toilet-First course being, no hoop, and
bread-and-butter. Second course, crinoline
and poached eggs. Third course, esr-rings
and mutton-chop. Fourth course, ringlets
and -pie;-this girl, l say, sat before me
at my own private, personal request plate
of tea-biscuit. The unprotected female
looked at them-so did /. Presently she
poked me in the ribs and imperatively re-
quested "them biscuit"
Shade of Lindey Murray you should
have seen how civilly informed her they
were destined for my luncheon basket but
| that doubtless the damsel in waiting would
attend to of her orders for food, as she
had to mine. You should have seen 'the
unprotected female" at that moment She
was painting, panther-like, gasping monu-
ment of philanthropy ill-directed. Peace to
| her irate honest
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07

GENERAL SooTT's. ADVENTURE WITH
RATTLEsNAKE.-DuriD the Florida cam
paign, the General and his staff were quar-
tered for the night in a rough building con-
structed from the ground, and floor open at
various places, Scarcely had the prepara-
tions for the bivouac been completed, when
a noise from below of rafting told con-
clusively that rattlesnakes had their bivouac
on the ground under the fioor Indeed, they
were soon seen from above as a goodly
battalion. al went outside and measured
with my eye" said General Scott 'the hight
of the floor from the ground, and saw at once
was beyond reach, by about two inches, OF
the tallest rattlesnake ever known. l knew
as boy, from experiments, that the rattle
snake never jumped OF darted.. He stood up
as far as he could reach only, and then bit
| returned and told the officers that in
tended, nevertheless, to sleep on the floor
and pronounced it safe. Butthey left me in
my glory, with my martial cloak around
me-a temporary Sir John Moore-whilC
they camped outside. Indeed, rather en-
joyed the discontinue Of the snakes, us they
rattled me to sleep, and Vainly tried to reacl
| the holes in the hoor.n i
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07


Photograph of a Political PyrotechnIst-
journal.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Coryedsracy which
belongs to Senator Toombs's own party, has
the following description of the man.
Mr. Toombs, intellectually, is no ordinary
man; politically he astonishes his most init
mate friends, and astounds the world with his
remarkable and wonderful feats of hOcus
pOcuS.
Unfortunately for the country, Mr.. Toombs
is wholly devoid of moral frmness. He is
purely a man of impulse and passion. By
nature he is opposed to law and order, and
to every thing tends to restrain and compass
the passions, whims and prejudices of men.
He becomes reckless by disappointment, and
faratical from opposition.
He is governed by the present. and not by
the effects of existing causes or future results.
He is not nor never can be- a statesman,
in the true sense of the term (not from the
want of ability for the reason that he is
lacking in judgment, discretion, and that
moral stamina which is so necessary to attain
and maintain, intact, the great substrata of
principles which underlie all governments,
whether republican in form, or of limited
monarchy Mr.. Toombs is an. unsafe and
unreliable party leader, unless it is to lead
over precipice and he in the rear. He is a
gentleman who takes remarkably good care
of himself. He speaks largely and Justify,
but harms no one.
Mr.. Toombs is not, nor never can be, Dem
ocTat. Democracy, in any shape or form, is
revolving to one who, by nature, is endowed
with so much refinement and sensbility.
MIR. Toombs is much better suited to repre-
sent a constituency of Great Britain, in the
House of Lords, than Georgia constituency
in the Congress of the United States. 1t
would be more congenial to his feelings and
tastes. -'
Mr.. Toombs has a very poor opinion of the
people, He would prefer to look upon them
as subjects or tenants, to that of coequals OIL
soYereiPns. ~
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07
Dramatic SOmnambu uIist-An Actor Play
ing g MncheIh,, In Hia SIeen. "

Fridays Memphis (Tenn.) EOening argus
says;
The inmates of house, situated in South
Memphis, were alarmed last night by hear
ing a heavy football in several rooms sue
cessively, and one gentleman, more cOur-
ageous than his Acknowledges, rose, armed
himself with Colts revolver, and passed
boldly into an adjoining room, in which he
saw, with much indignation and surprise,
one of the boarders fully dressed and jeweled,
pacing the floor and spouting extracts from
Shakespeare.
On his entering, the speaker stopped an
instant, threw his head back, extended his
arms, and in deep, cultural, trembling tones
CALCULATED, "Avaunt and quit my sight--let
the-earth hide thee-thy bones are marrow
less-thOu hast no speculation in those eyes
with which thou d0st CLAY -ay -ay-rrre with
Nov, the visitor did glare, and with but little
speculation in his eyes for he thought there
| was no room for any coniectures as to the
state of that "Macbeth'so. mind. Being q
resolute man, however, he rushed on the
Thane and caught him by the collar, when
| 10 his utter astonishment he saw him yawn
rub his eyes, stretch himself and iBaily re
mark, "Q-n II I've beeR sleep-walkinl
] again, sii5i 81 .,s-s.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07

VALUABLE Discovery IN THE SCIENCE OF
ENGNEERING.-In France a discovery has
just been made by a poor priest of Vie
FeseDzac, which is likely to throw a new
element into the science of engineering,
both civil and military. The new inven-
tion consists in portable apparatus whereby
bridges can be thrown over rivers or ravines
with the shortest possible delay. They say
that after the success of the experiment made
on the Due de Rivieres estate at Beaulieu,
the Mayor ofVie Fesenzac made a journey to
London for the disposal of the patent, aud
+. that, having returned with the price GEO,
OOO) in his pocket, he has earned the fulfil
ment of the promise made by the worthy
cure of building handsome market-place al
Vie FesenEae, and hospital for cripples on
the outskirts of the town. f
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PrOsress of the African sIave.Trado.

PROGRESS of the African SIave.Trndc.
"South-street," q well-known merchant,
thus writes to the New York EUeniag Post !.
The list you published in:July lasthas done
immense good, and the trade, so far as the
ports of the United States are concerned,
has pretty well died out. II is true there
are great many of those already mentioned
biding their time in the African waters.
The Louisa returned lately things did not
work right at st. Jago di Cuba. She will
probably fit out directly from this port The
Erie, Weather Gitage, Kate, J. j. CotJ, aud
Thomas Achorn are all under custody of the
United States authorities. A small brig
cleared last month for Southern port, her
present owners were so scared that they
preferred taking the chances elsewhere
AT Norfolk, Va, we have the Triton and
Storm King under seizure, and the unlucky
Virginidn enjoying with impunity her freq
dom. The Falmouth sailed for Havana,
after (bhrd) changing hands; for further par
ticuars inquire of the Kate parties. At
Mobile the Cggnet was lately seized by the
authorities. The William is still there.
Captain Bowen, who landed 1900 slaves
from the SuLtdnd (credited to the Montauk(,
has managed to get out of this port as mas
ter and part owner of the ship Nightingale;
the rest Of the vessel is owned by Portu-
gese slave-trader doing business on Pearl
street. The vessel has since arrived at Liv-
erpool, and will, if not captured, land 1000.
A small brig lately sailed from Southern
port direct for a slave cargo, was formerly
schooner rugged. -...
To a gentleman engaged in the Cuban
trade am indebted for the following in-
formation; the letter is dated at Havana,
October q: "The SLAYER Wdnderer, cleared
on the lst ult., is still here; the City Of Nor
folk has been towed in; the brig Nancy has
sailed for q he A rcleDDes ic still hnra.
a schooner called the Byron ~ was captured
by Spanish war steamer and brought in by
her, having cargo of 81 souls. The SLAYER
Lyon, owned in your port by the Spaniard
RI, has been knowingly sold to parties
here. Most probably the United States Con-
sui will refuse her a clearance. Orders have
been forwarded to house in your place for
the purchase of a propeller and if consum-
mated the same game will take place as in the
case of the CSy of Norfolk. The stool
pigeon proclamation of our Captain General
does not amount to any thing" ,....
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07
The Tomb Of General Lafayette-Its Sim
plicity and SURROUNDINGS.

PhCtty ahu 5urFOuuulngss
I The Paris correspondent of the New York
Times, in late letter, has the following in
regard to the tomb of General Lafayette:
Nothing could be more cherries or coldly
aristocratic than this little hidden, out.ok
the-way cemetery. From the street the
place has the genuine shut-up, exclusive look
of all monastic establishments in France.
One must knock loudly at big, heavy door,
which only opens after long interval. An
uncleaR Cerberus receives you politely
enough at the door of his lodge aud after
hearing your request to see the tomb of
Lafayette, ventures blandly to surmise that
you are Americans and volunteers to inform
you that no strangers but Americans ever
pay them a visit. On the right and left of
you are the collection of detached and
mysterious looking buildings which con-
stituted the ancient monastic establishment,
the windows of the old cloisters still boarded
up in such way as to admit light, but not
the. gaze of curious eyes, from within or
without.
The Sisters Of the establishment are gliding
about, dressed in pure white from head to
foot, and throw but one furtve glance on
the strangers, and then disappear behind
shaded walls, or through unloOked-for trap
doors. Gon pass the chapel which stands
before you at the back of the court, and
enter the large and well cultivated garden.
mere you agaln meet the Wnlte sisters fitting
about under the long avenues of shade trees,
but here too they suddenly disappear from
sight, you have not time to see how. You
enter the cemetery by an opening in
the wall at the back of the garden. In the
corner where you enter stands the little
chapel of the cemetery, to which your guide
takes off his hat and crosses himself
The tombs, in order to distinguish them
from those of the bourgeoise in other ceme-
teries, are afiectedly simple Only three
have any pretensions to architecture-those
of the Duke de Montmorency, the Duke de
Larocheiocauld, and the Count de Kergolay.
The body of Lafayette, which lies in the
further corner of the little inclosure, is
covered like most of the others, with
simple slab, on which is inscribed the or
binary brief detail At his side there is
another slab, on the grave of Madame de
lafayette, a daughter of the Duke de
Noailles. Near these are other members Of
the Lafayette family--a Lasteyrie and
| Beaumont similarly buried. The cemetery,
| which does not contain more than the
| quarter of an acre of space, is surrounded
| by high stone wall, and there is not a
shrub, scarcely blade of grass, to give
relief to the chilling desolation of the place.
OF those cheerful crowns of immOrteLles
which decorate the graves of other ceme-
teries in such a profusion, there is not here
a single one. ~ ti..
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07
Unique Opinion of Charlotte Cushman'a
STYLE of Performances.

Unique Opinion of CHARLOTTE Cushman's
Style of Performance.
Though we by no means endorse the
opinion of the semi-vulgar semi-aippant
and excessively Smart 'Personne" Of the
New York Leader, we give his views of the
American Siddons, to show how much per-
sons may differ about a great artist:
Miss Cushman's performance is after the
Anatomical Museum style Her effects are
thrilling" and vulgar. Her poses are awk-
ward, and her pictures lack finish and deli
cacy of outline. The secret of her attraction
is that which made Forrest so famous in
Cdde and SpdrtdcuS-vigor; the masses like
vigor, and if they can have little art along
with it, very well. But vigor they must
have. Now Forrest has improved in all ar
tistc requirements while Miss Cushman has
stood still--perhaps retrograded. | should
not deem it necessary to reiterate this twice.
told tale were it not for the humbug care
fully put before the public about Miss Cush-
mans artistic associations and experiences
the refining influences to which she had
been subjected abroad, and how much the
drama was to be indebted to her for consent
ing to come back to the stage. All this and
more was given out by solemn old muifs
like II. T. Tuckerman-pumps, who do the
heavy society dodge; and then write about
it in the papers, in the Mutual Admiration
Society style, and yet, notwithstanding all
this, we find in Miss Cushman-the Miss
Cushman of twenty years ago--a little older,
no handsomeT, and no better. Did her artist
friends tell Miss Cushman to hold her arms
like the broken wings of turkey, with
pendant eagle claws2 Did they tell her that,
because Meg was an old woman, and a
gypsy, that all her attitudes should neces-
saIily be angular and awkward? Did she
never see some chefs d GuUreS of the Bohe-
mian race which are to be found in every
picture gallery in Europe, from the Louvre
TO the Pitt Palace? And ifso, why has she
not profited by them?
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07

DIGEITY OF TIE MILITIA IN OLD TINES. s.-ln
the early days Of the Massachusetts Colony
the honor to an Office in the militia was
much esteemed. John Hull, thriving Bos-
ton merchant chosen corporal in l648
praises cod in his diary for giving him sac
ceptanee ind favor in the eyes of the people,
his deserts. When, six years later, he was
promoted to be an ensign, be recorded his
prayer, "beseeching the good Lord, who only
can, would please to make me able and fit
for, aud faithful in, the place ! am called
unto that may, with a spirit Of wisdom
and humanity, love and faithfulness, obey
10y superiors, so also to be exemplary and
! faithful to my interiors"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07
A Painfully Thrilling Tale Distressins I'll
Brief.

The Portland (Me.) Transcript contains q
thrilling tale by Ethan Spike, from which,
out of consideration to the nerves of our
readers, we extract only the closing chapter:
CHAPTER V.
Ar that a ghost7-OLD PLAY.
We hev sed it was night. And onct for
all, we say agin-
1t was night.
In the fore room of Widder Tuttle's haouse
sat Widder Tuttles only darter, Serefeener.
To say that Sereteener Tuttle-sich was her
name-likewise her natur-was a lovely gal,
would be several rows of apple-trees away
from her case. Her raven tresses was redder
than her nose, expressible eyes, teeth--grnd-
ers, tothers being out-probably livery. Add
to these the form of a syrup, and you hey
one of them gals kalkerlated to make a man
strike his father and kick his grandmother,
break the ten commandments, and pretty
much every thing else.
Leastwise, so thought James Perkings, as
he melt at her feet that cold, cold, cold night.
"Fairest of the fair sects," implored the
youth, cheer me swar"
She said she would.
And he sword.
"May l be whitfield inter kindling wood u
swore Jemes, "may [ be used for stufine
ssrsiges, if l ever"
Here the strain caused by kneeling was
too much for Jemes's onmentionables. Thar
was rip, then tare, and James kerfum-
uxed.
A dedly paller surfused the classic couu-
tenance of the lovely Serefeener.
10 grashusl" she cried, and then swooned
Then, Jemes-He swooned too.
TheD-as if this had been the signal
thunder bellered lightning flashed, and the
wind rored in the chimbly.
"Jemes-Jemes," at length called Sere-
feener, in the gassamer tone of an expirin
tree-tUed, ''this are the lyin gale"
Eben's life once more returned to the dyin
youth. For single moment he sat on the
hairth; gracefully as a Roman seniter
! foldin his toggy did he gather his cote tail!
round his tored trowsis-sorrowfully did ht
gaze upon the face of his beloved-and sol.
emnly he replied:
at KANT be to-it's too airlyp
Hardly had hesseesed speekin'-or more
properly speakin, scasely had he dried up
when the door opened, and! ! #'%
@is-
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07

The BIAoKGUARD TENNESSEE PARsoS.
Parson Brownlow says a certain false friend
of his recently emigrated from Tennessee to
Texas, and from the latter place, ''Went TO
hell, where he proposes ITO leave him for
the present"
Ifthere be any such place as he'll, it won't
be long before the coarse old ''parsonn joins
his false friend there, N''a
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RAILWAY MATTERS.


1880 A. M, 10 A. M. and N P. M, Columbus As-
Sopmodation, p. M. xenia Accommodation, Q
OINoINNAT1, HAMILToN AND DAYroE-[7 minutes
foster than CITY time, . A. NJ, 1850 A. NJ, 2;30
$3.50 A. M. and $3.50 P. M,
ONO AND MIss1ssIPPI-lI9 minutes slower than
City time,l 4s25 A. M; and $685. P. M. LOuiaVills
Accommodation, P. M.
lNDIANAPOLIs AND OrHoTENATI SHORT LUNE-I2
minutes slower than Oity time,1 $40 A. M, 11i5O
A. M and q p. NJ.
MARIErTA AND OuNoINEATIy-t7 minutes faster than
OIty time ds1 D A. M. and $50 p. M.
OovINeFoE ASp LHxINGTON-I City time,1 5s45 A.
m. and 2t25 P. M.
GINCINNATI, RIoHMONB AND INBIANAPoLIH-B A,
M, 2s30 P. NJ, 9 P. m.
CINoINEATI. AND LoGANsPoRT-From Sixth street
Depot-B A. NJ and g P. M.
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TRAINS ARhIYH.

nd 4.10P. M,
oHIO AND MIss1ssrPI-9,3O A. NJ, 19l2S P. M.
and $3.50 P. M.
CIScINsAT1, II HkEnToE AND DArroH-S,d5 A. NJ,
11iOS A. NJ, 2:1O P. NJ, 5;3O P. M, 5;19 p.
ISDIANAPoLIs AND UIsoENATT-1Os1B A. n,
P. NJ. and 12 p. NJ.
-MiRlETTG AND OIEomEArI-IO,39 A. M. and
5:13 P. NJ. |I-| :
CoyINGToE AND LExIEsToE-1O,35 A. NJ. and
ai5S P. NJ.
CINClENATI, BICBMoED AND IEDIANAPoEe-7s46
A. M, 2;1O P. n, 500 p. NJ.
CINCINNATI AND LoGANsPORT-From Sixth street
Depot-7tA5 A. NJ. ar q S:12 M. -I