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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07
Terrible Railway Accident In England
Right Persons Killed and Many More
Wounded,

Terrible Railway Accident In England
Right Persons Killed and Many More
Wounded.
A late London letter says:
A terrible railway accident has just oc-
Cured. Eight poor fellows, chiefly cattle
drovers, with the fireman of the mail-train,
were killed and many injured. The Duke
and Duchess OF MontrOse, who were in one
of the carriages, and your fellow-conntry-
man, G. T. Train, escaped. 1t was collision
between mail and cattle-train, at Ather-
stone, on the Trent Valley Line, l02 miles
from London. The following is Mr.. Train s
brief and graphic account of this disaster.
He must have fancied himself back in
America for time. He writes
"The first two shocks, as we were running
at forty miles an hour, resembled the con-
cussion of ship in a head sea; the blaze
from the fires lighted the whole distance
the bleating of the bullocks lying in the ditch,
some on their backs, some on their heads,
and some literally appeared to be cut in two
the loud blowing off of the steam, the engine
trying in vain to push through the embank-
ment, then the uncertainty of who was alive,
the body of the poor fireman was distinctly
seen in the blaze, and the cattle in vain try
| ing to extricate themselves, formed picture
that none who witnessed it will ever forget
! In the first compartment of the first carriage
were the man and maid-servant of the
Duchess of Montrose, Her Grace occupying
the adjoining one; and James Arthur, Esq.
of Glasgow; @. B. Brown, of London, and
H. Jackson, of Brighton, occupied the other
l was with Mr.. j. Paul in the last carriage
but one."
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07
Unfavorable Opinion of slavery in France


AS specimen of convictions which seem
to be general, says the New York EVening
Post, we translate from speech of NJ.
Guyho, made on the Sd of November before
the Court of Cessation, in which he consid-
cred 'the relations of that court to the de-
velopment of great social principles" After
dwelling upon its other merits, he spoke of
its effects on the slavery question, as one
of its most glorious movements. He said;
We may safely say that if this old plague
of slavery, which the ancient world had be-
queathed to the modern, has now disap-
peared from the French possessions, it is in
great part owing to the liberal spirit of
your DEGREES. Indeed, gentlemen, it is
curious spectacle which your jurisprudence
offers in this respect. Slavery is assuredly
something monstrous. 1t violates both Di-
vine and human laws. Nature religion,
morality and philosophy condemn it. But
when it has existed for centuries, and has
become part of the customs, feelings and
| civil transactions of numerous generations,
| and it involves multiplied interests, anti
| quity appears to impart to it an appearance
! of right, which opposes its immediate sup
| preston, and often maHes even justice and
| philanthropy hesitate.
1t will be readily understood, therefore,
| that legislation, IN arriving at the annlhlla-
ton of the great iniquity, has nevertheless
| proceeded with slowness, and by measures
partial and successive; not like those ignor-
ant empires who kill the patient in extract
ing abruptly bullet from the body; but like
the skillful and prudent surgeon who oper-
ates with care so as to hurt no organ essen
tial to life.
The mission of the Court of Cessation, al
though parallel to that of a legislator, differs
in its nature and object. Limited by law
which it has not made and can not modify,
it must confiRe itself to modifying severity
by generous Interpretation. 1t was to this
limited but beautiful task that it has devoted
itself with admirable perseverance as long
as slavery had a legal existence. Let any
one read its DEGREES during that period ant
he will there see how it has known to har
monize obedience to the law with profound
respect for man as reviewed by Christianity
and with what ingenious sagacity it sough
in natural law, in the Roman law and th
old French laws, liberal maxims, by the ait
of which it threw few CLEANS of the ligh
of humanity among the dark shadows of tha
frightful COdeNoir-the very name of whicl
suggests some thing sinister.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07
Vandalism In EurOpe-Devastation of the
Tombs of Mighty MOnnrcha.


A correspondent writes thus of the search
among the tombs of the Abbey in centuries
gone by:
And now they come upon corpse in
remarkable state of preservation, the body
of that mad king for whose recreation,
during his insanity, cards are said to have
been invented, the celebrated Charles the
Sixth. This was the same king who held
his baccbanel revels in honor of his eleva-
tion to the throne so close to the vaults of
the Royal dead, that the merry feet of the
dancers beat time to the music on the mar
BILE floor of the Abbey Church itself; and
as the old Chronicler most quantity says of
it: when the night came, it was true per
Vigihum veneris, walker of venus, where
many a damse forgot herself, and many a
husband suffered" 1t was certainly mad
revel and could some of the deVout abbots,
pious monks and kings have been aroused
from the depths of their sepulchral vaults by
the uproar of the festival, they would have
been dszzled certainly, but as cruelty sur
prised The superstition of the times very
naturally attributed the insanity of the
king to his PROCLAMATION of this holy place;
but the sad story of his endless and varied
debaucheries is enough to aecount for this
weakness of the brain. Now after centu-
ries of silence, be lays exposed to an age as
mad as he was, and whose madmen are hold
ing different kind of revel, though not a
whit less sacrilegious than that with which
he desecrated the sacred pile.
As they gazed on the quiet face, whose
features the art of the embalmer had so we'll
preserved, one of the workmen declared
that he saw one of the eyes open and wink
at him, which was the signal to tear it from
| its resting place of centuries, and hurl it
among the CHASTITY rows that were piled up
all around them.
At the dead of night, and by the light of
myriads of torches, the sacrilegous searchers
stumbled on the sealed stone-vault, which
had for centuries walled in the founder of
the church, the Solomon of the Franks, the
mighty Dagobert. 1t was strange that, as
in the German legend concerning Charlie
magne, SO here the corpse of the buried
monarch had not started from his cofined
sleep, and rebuked the sacrilegious wretches
with the living majesty of his presence. But
he seemed to have brooked the intrusion
and they made no longer pause ovel
what remained over the body Of the church'i
founder, than such as was required to make
the ghastly heap of corpses still higher, by
the addition of his own.
And thus the search went on, nigh
and day, until every bone, and every heal
of dust that had been bone, and every EN-
balmed body, was tossed upon the ghastly
pile. And then, for days, from that gath
ered heap, they wheeled these relics of poo
humanity to common ditch, and mingled
them in one undistinguishable mass. Wha
a fearful and impressive lesson upon tn
vanity of pomp and power!
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07

CuTTING-ANT OF TEXAS AND It's DWELLING.
The cutting-ant of Texas builds subterranean
habitations, consisting of cells, sometimes
filling an area of ground twenty-five feet
square, to the depth of sixteen feet. Their
cells are from six to twelve inches in hight,
and are connected by passages from one to
three or four inches in diameter. From
these caverns, where they dwell in myriads,
they have been known to dig passage
under stream in order to get at garden on
the opposite side. Their food is both animal
and vegetable, consisting Of insects, berries,
grain and the leaves of trees. They will
sometimes entirely strip tree in a single
night. In Western and Central Texas, they
are regarded as a terrible scourge, and many
efforts have been made to exterminate them,
but their immense number has made it inn
possible. They appear to be divided into
classes, some building and repairing the
cells, some procuring food, some tending the
sick-and all having peculiar duties to per-
| form.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07
Extraordinary Dream Of n Bank Tel
Ier-An Omitted Payment Revealed in

Extraordinary Dream of n Bank Tel
Ier-An Omitted Payment Revealed in
Sleep.
A gentleman connected with one of the
principal banks in Glasgow, Scotland was
at his place at the tellers table where money
is paid, when person entered, demanding
payment Of a sum of &c.
There we're several persons waiting, who
were in turn entitled to be served before
him. but he was extremely impatient and
rather noisy, and being besides remarkable
stammerer, he became so annoying that au-
other gentleman requested my friend to pay
him his money 8nd get rid of him. He did so,
accordingly, but with an expression of i'm
patience Rt being obliged to at end to him be.
fore his turn; and he thought no more of the
transaction. AT the end of the year, which
was eight or nine months after, the books of
the bank could not be made to balance--the
deficiency being exactly &c. Several days
and nights had been spent in endeavOring to
discover the error, but without success
when at last my friend returned home much
fatigued and went to bed. He dreamed of
being at his place in the bank, and the whole
transaction with the stammerer, as now de-
tailed, passed before him, in all its particu-
lars.
He awoke under a full impression that
the dream was to lead him to the discovery
of what be was go anxiously in search of;
and, on investigation, he soon discovered
that the sum paid to this person in the man.
ner now mentioned, had been neglected to
be inserted in the book of interests, aud that
it exactly accounted for the error IL the
| balance.
Commenting on this case, Abercrombie
says: "The fact upon which the Importance
of the case rested, was not his having paid
the money, but having neglected to insert
the payment. Now, of this there was nc
impression made upon his mind at the time
and we can scarcely conceive upon what
principle it could be recalled. The de.
fciency being f6, we may indeed sup.
pose the gentleman endeavoring TO recol
lect whether there could have been a pay.
ment of this sum made in any irregular man
ner, that might have led to an omission oil
an error but in the transactions of an extens
i've bank in a great commercial city, pay
ment of f6, at distance of eight or nint
months, could have made but very fain
impression. And, upon the whole, the east
presents, perhaps, one of the most remarkable
mental phenomena connected with this Gu
rous subject"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07

A DAGUERREoTYPE OF BURoH, THE CHICAGO
BAKKER.-The following picture of Burch,
the Chicago banker, is drawn by corre-
spondent of the Albany IN. " atlas and
Argus:
Mr. Burch appears in Court day after day,
and prompts his counsel and takes notes in
very calm, systematic manner. Indeed, Mr..
Bufch appears to be constitutions calm
and systematic gentleman. His appearance
can not be called prepossessingly, think, by
the most interested Of his friends. He has a
smooth face-a sleek look-light brown hair
light eyes--a thin, tight mouth, and long
nose. His manner is very impassive, and it
is evident that religion, of which he is a
prominent professor, has enabled him to steel
his heart against the weaknesses of this sim
full world, and TO bear suffering with calm
ness that leaves the pulse cold and the diges-
ton undisturbed. OF course, Mr.. Burch is a
gentleman of excellent character and very
shrewed and successful banker; but the
ehurchman predominstes in his looks over
the broker. A lady might regard him as .
trihe too cold and Dombey-like for the idea
Of a lover but no person would hesitate for
a moment TO declare him highly respectable
gentleman, and to assign him seat on {
Missionary Board of Sabbath school Com
mittee, of which, to his honor be it said, he l
prominent patron.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07

=, PLEASURES OF Social LIFE IN CALIFORNIA.
AT Pine Alto, Arizona, recently, William
Dick was shot by one Taylor. They. met at
bar, and, having had previous difficulties,
friends also firing, but with eight balls in
his body, Dick shot Taylor in the thigh and
fell instantly dead. Charles Hampton fired
two balls into Dick after he was dead, and,
being accused by one Thatcher of the
murder, fred at the latter but hit Mr..
Wright of Texas, in the mouth, and was
himself Immediately shot down. Wright
was not seriously injured, but Taylor and
Hampton are supposed 10 be mortally
wounded
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07

The Corpse of the Late CzarinA of Russia
Lying in Stnte-AnecdOte of the En-.
PerOr NichOlas's Love for his WIFE.
A London correspondent writes to the
New York Times:
Yonder, in the Alexander Palace, at
Czarsko Selo, lies the "proudn corpse
ridiculous expression-ofA Alexander Teodor-
ovna, the naughty but exemplary and suita-
BILE partner Of the late Gar Nicholas, the
jack-booted, six-feet-two-inches-h high, grena-
dier Emperor of all the Russias, whose ILL
weaved ambition to be lord gilmore territory
cost humanity so much in the shape of the
sanguinary Crimean drama-the great
'tragedy of errors" now some five or six
years passed away. A corpse in white satin,
closked in purple velvet, with diadem en-
circling the sunken temples. Behold I'm
perial majesty living, and weeping too, steps
forward with imperial brethren at his side,
and reverently arranges the last cloak
around the clay-cold form in the gorgeous
coffin, as if she who lay silent there were
about to go forth into a still colder atmos-
phere in the pale regions of the unknown
shore.
Then come in the grand Duchesses and
ladies in "back mourning dresses, with
double wells flowing to their feet" copschs
of the guard, crimson imperial soldiers, the
archpriest with printing of q saint lowered
from pole the hearse and eight horses, and
all the concomitants living and dead of a
procession which would dogood to the heart
Of Bond-street undertaker-all this moves
through flakes of falling snow seven miles
across wintry landscape to the Church of
St. Nicholas, at Tchesme. Kneelng serfs or
Monjicks line the road.
Then there are prayers all night, and
watching and praying for don't how many
other nights and days, and mourning, first
all black as a raven for so many weeks, and
then magpie-like for so many more, and
then gray; and at last all will be finished,
and one more empress fairly buried and dis
posed of in this world.
OF this lady a pretty anecdote is told,
which would furnish nice story for Rey-
noldS Miscellany or the Family Herald.
| When very young, she had a governess,
Madame Wildermott, who gave her a ring.
| The Grand Duke Nicholas came courting the
| young beauty, and asked her for this ring at
| the Royal dinner table of Russia. She gave
| it to him in a piece Of bread. In it, it is
said, he found the inscription, in French, OF
Empress of Russia" He wore it all his
life, &c. &C., and doubtless had it on when
he received the news of the burning of Cir.
cassian villages, and massacre of all the
| women and children. He must have dan
gled that charming toy from his watch
guard when the nuns of Minsk were fogged
and when the news arrived of the news o
the sinking of his feet at Sebastopol.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07

A REMARKABLY Wet SUMNER. During
the remarkably wet summer of the current
year, according to the English journals, rain
fell on sixty one days out of ninety-two,
fog prevailed during forty-one days. hail
fell on thirteen days. In some places grass
was left unknown until the middle of Sep
tember; wheat ripened very irregularlyl
some being cut early in August, while much
was left until October, and some was still
standing on the 4th of November Apples,
in the middle of England, did not ripen
until the middle of September. The tenn
perature reached 800 in many places. Al
the London Royal Observatory it only at
tanned 75o, at York 730, at Ventnor (th'
English NiceJ70o
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07

A SURGEON PARTIALLY CooKED.-Of all
the stories told of surgeons, who have grown
fat at the expense of the public the best is
the following one, for which Mr.. Alexander
Kellett, who died at his lodgings in Bath, in
the year 1888, is our authority. A certain
French surgeon, residing in Georgia, was
taken prisoner byIsome Indians, who, hav-
ing acquired from the French the art OF
lafding their provisions, determined to lard
this particular Frenchman, and then roast
him alive. During the culinary process,
when the man was half-larded, the operators
were surprised by the enemy, and their vic
tim, making his escape, lived many days In
the woods on the bacon he had in his skin.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07
A Modern Sd. Peter In CalIfOrnia- walI.-

A Modern st. Peter In California Walk
ing on the Water Success.
The San Francisco (Oal.) alta California
of late date observes:
Last evening, Henry R. Roland accom-
plished the remarkable feat of walking half
a mile out into the bay, from North Beach,
with his newly-invented and curious water
shoes, and will tomorrow repeat the expert
ment
These shoes consist of couple Of boat
like looking affairs, decked over, and sharp
at each end, like surf or whale-bota They
are about eight feet long, by eighteen inches
in width, and about six inches deep. Near
the center of each is hole, as for a mast,
large enough for mans foot aud leg to
enter, and with canvass bootleg extending
upwards. The place for the feet below,
through these holes, is like any moderate
sized shoe or boot The two shoes are placed
parallel to each other, and are connected by
sliding runners, which travel along the
edges or gunwales of the shoes, thus allow
ing them to slip back and forth past each
other, but always in perfect parallel line,
the two being about six inches apart. 1t is
easy to see that without some contrivance
beneath the water to prevent the backward
motion of one foot as the other was being
advanced the walker would make no pro-
gress at all, any more than company would
IN marking tlne.
To obviate this difficulty, Mr.. Roland has
invented a new series of "paddles," or
rather Feathers" as he calls them, like the
blades of an oar, which can be dropped or
gathered up like ducks legs, at pleasure.
Thus, when the right foot is being sided
! forward, those feathers are snugly gathered
| up under the bottom of the shoe, while those
of the left foot drop like center-boards
/ placed athwartships, and prevent that foot
| from slipping backward. Then when the
left foot is to be advanced the walker holds
water with his right, and so on. His progress
is about at the rate of four miles an hour,
and the motion is not only regular, but per-
| fectly secure.
Each shoe has little rudder of which the
tiller-ropes pass up to the hands of the
| walker, thus enabling him to go in any d.
rection he may choose. Out of the center OF
each shoe rises an iron stancheon, between
which stretches a light wooden seat used
when in q fair wind; and if the water
walker wishes to change leg-power for that
of Holus, he hoists O sail about eight feet
square" (or wide) and about three feet
high.
Mr. Roland is Indifferent as to the kind Of
weather in which his experiments are made
make good headway. All he wants is plenty
of sea-room, and not very bad surf 80 q
break over and wash him off his pins. II,
intends soon to cross over from North Beacl
to Alcatraz Island and, being quite a sports
man, he will henceforth walk about the bay
from place to place, in search of his game.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07
Ls,tsr fron, JOHN NJ. nOtta

RICHMOND, VA, December 6.-John NJ.
Bolts has written a letter which will soon
appear, presenting his views as to the policy
best calculated to preserve the Union.
He suggests the passage of law by
Congress, making it treason for any indi-
vidual, in the Northern States, having nulli-
fication laws on their statute-baoks, to aid
ia rescuing slave under the Fugitiye-slaye
Law, and compelling any State refusing TO
surrender a fugitive slave TO make full in
demnity for such slave to his owner.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07

TIE LATE BISHOP OF WoRoEsTER-The
Bishop of Worcester Right Rev. Henry De-
poys, d. D., who died at Hartleburg Castle,
England, on the 18th, aged seyenty-seyen
years, has long been superannuated. He
was formerly Bishop of Sodor and Man, and
was translated to the See of Worcester on
the death of Bishop Parr, some twenty years
ago. His salary was as large as that OF the
RlesiGelt Of tho United StaLes, and hs Wai
I the patron Of ffty-slx hviDgs.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07

WASHINGTON ON THE CAPITOL.-In 1892,
Washington wrote concerning plan for a
new Capitol: "There is the same defect, how
ever, in this plan, as there is in all the plans
which have been presented to you, namely
the want of an Executive Department, which
ought, if possible, to be obtained In the
recent additions to the Capitol this want
has been supplied, and there is now an apart
uent where The President may attend on the
l.s, t4y apd Lisht cf lie Ihs session, TO sisa
bills without delay.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07
VIM. Sumner & Co.
ljal7-ayl
SINGERS SEWING
COMMERCIAL BUILDING,
Corner of Fourth and Raoe-sts.s
CINCINNATI. OHIO.

How is it Singers Sewing machines univers-
ally used for manufacturing purposes. The plain
reason why is: Because they better, more durn-
BILE, reliable, capable Of doing much greater
variety ofwork, and earning more money than any
other Machine,
The public respectfully invited to call and OK
anime Singers new Transverse shuttle Machine, Sor
family
PRICE $50.
This Machine is highly ornamented, easy to opog-
ate, and is the very best and cheapest Machine Ia
the market. JAMES SKARD0N,
Western Agent for Singers Sewing machine.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07

New York, December 6.-The long talked
King, which was 10 decide the superiority of
those two members of the prize-ring, took
place yesterday morning, in the neighbor-
hood Of Bulls Ferry, and resulted in the
defeat of King, ON account of football on
his part, after hard fought contest Of fifty
five rounds. Wood was ARRESTED yesteIda J
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07

SCHOOLS IN NORTH CARoLNA.-The present
school system of North Carolina was estab-
lished in 1910, and the amount distributed to
the several counties to sustain it has been
for the last two years $lsO,s5O os annually.
TIE number of colleges and schools has in
creased since 1910, from TT to 1853, and the
number of scholars from 1851 to III, AGO.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07

A CALIFORNIA MYsTBRY.-A few days
since, the bones of man were discovered
by some miners, in the rear of Middleworth'
Brewery at Sonora, Cal. The remains had
fragments of clothing, together with silk
sash about them, but the whole matter is
mystery.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07

A PAINFULLY VIRTUoUs RUFFIAE.-An
exceedingly virtuous man, named Joseph
Holiday, who had been away from home
(Albany, N. Y.,) five months, and had just
returned spent Thanksgiving day in break lax
and abusing his family, because he was told
that one of the boarders was in the habit OF
kissing the servant girl.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07

EGG.sHELLs USED AS BEAUTIFIER.-Oyer
100000 pounds weight of egg shells, reduced
to an impalpable powder, and commonly
called eascarilla de huevo, are used, it is esti-
n.ated, by the Cuban ladies annually. as
"liy-white," for the face, neck and arms.