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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24
Washington Irving's sunnyside Home
Its Pleasant Proprietor.
writes Of SunnYside. and visit there;


writes ofSunnyside, and visit there;
That Sunnyside Home was too inviting to
those who were privileged there to allow
any proper opportunity for n visit to pass
unimproved Indeed, It became so attractive
to strangers and lion-hunters, that some of
those whose entree was quite legitimate and
acceptable refrained, especially during the
las two years, from adding to the heavy tax
which casual visitors began to levy upon the
quiet hours of the host. Ten years ago, when
Mr.. Irving was in his best estate of health
and spirits, when his mood was OF the sun
niest, and Wolferts ROost was in the spring
time of its charms, it was my fortune to pass
a few days there with my wife. Mr.. Irving
himself drove snug pair of ponies down to
the steamboat TO meet us-tor, even then,
Thackersy's zone old horse" was not the
only resource in the Sunnyside stables. The
drive of two miles from TarrytowR to that
delicious lane which leads to the Roost-
who does not know all that, and how charm
ing it is. Five hundred descriptions Of the
TappaR Sea and the region round about
have not exhausted it. The modest cottage,
almost buried under the luxuriant MelrOse
ivy, was then just made what it is--a pictur-
esque and comfortable retreat for man of
taste and habits like those of Geofrey
Crayon-snug and modest, but yet, with all
its surroundings fit residence for gentle
tudu WuO huu medus 10 Uldk6 every J0l0g
suitable as well as handsome about him. Of
this word anon.
do not presume to write Of the home-de-
tails of Sunnyside, further than to say that
this delightful visit of three or four days gave
| US the impression that Mr.. Irving's element
seemed to be at home, as head of the family.
He took us for stroll over the grounds
| some twenty acres of wood and dell, with
| babbling brooks--pOinting out innumerable
! trees which he had planted with his own
hands, and telling us anecdotes and remi-
niscences OF his early life; of his being taken
in the Mediterranean by pirates; of his stand
ing ON the pier at Messina, in Sicily, and
! looking at Nelson's feet sweeping by on its
way to the Battle of Trafalgar of his failure
to see the interior Of Milan Cathedral, be-
cause it was being decorated for the coro-
nation of the first Napoleon; of his adj
| ventures in Rome with Allston, and how
near Geofrey Crayon came to be an artist
| of Talleyrand, and many other celebrities
and of incidents which seemed to take us
back to former generation. Often at this,
and subsequent visits, ventured to suggest
| (not Professionally after some of these
"reminiscences, 81 hope you have taken time
to make q note of these;" but the oracle
nodded-a sort of humorous No. A drive to
Sleepy -Hollow-Mr. Irving again managing
the ponies himselE-crowned our visit; and
with such coachman and guide, in such re-
gions, we were not altogether unable to ap-
| preciate the excursion.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24

HoRRBLE MURDER IN PEESsYLvANIA@-A
Girl ButcheTed and TITO Other Females
Severely Wounded-A day or two ago. Jas.
Murtough was arrested and lodged in Jail at
Erie, Penn, on charge of numbering girl
named Annie Flack, and attempting to MUIR
der two other females. The accused is an
Irishman, stone-mason by trade, and of
unprepossessing appearance, and Of hard
ened and sensual character. For some days
previous to the perpetration Of this crime he
had been on a drunken spree at the house of
one Flack, who kept a grog-shop. After
some nine or ten days constant spreeing he
left the house and went to work. On Friday
morning he abandoned his work and pro-
ceeded to the house of Flack, where whisky
was denied him by the females in attendance.
At this he became enraged, and immediately
made an attack upon Annie, the daughter,
aged eight years, with large knife, dividing
the entire flesh and muscle Of the neck TO the
bone. She died almost instantly. He then
attacked Mrs. Flack and the hired girl, max
ing several severe and dangerous wounds
with the knife upon various parts Of their
bodies but before he could complete his de-
mon-like butchery he was arrested. '-+
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24

Gossip About WashinRtOn Irving His
Personal HbIts md Genial Humor.TE1
George P. Punan, the publisher of Wash
ingtpn Irving, communicates some interest
ing feminisceres of this author to the At
lGntic MonthlHEor Noyember from which we
extract:
When sal. that Mr.. Irving could not
speak in pubic, had forgotten that he did
once get thtugh with a very nice little
speech on suh ON occasion as that Just al
luied to. ItKas at an entertainment given
in 1887, at tis old City Hotel, in New York,
by the New Y ork booksellers to American
authors. Many of "the trade will remem-
ber the good things said on that evening,
and among hem Mr.. Irvings speech about
Hallsck, and about Rogers, the poet, as the
'friehd of American genius AT my re-
quest he aterward wrote out his remarks
Probably this was his last, if not his best
effort in this line; for the Dickens-dinner re-
marls were not complete.
In 1876, Mr. Irving came to London from
bis post at Madrid, on short visit to his
friend Mr.. McLane, then American Minister
to England Il was my privilege at that
time to know him more dOmestically than
before. II was pleasant to have him at my
tableI lat "Knickerbocker Cottage" With
DIS perUlS5lOn, quiet party OI lOur was
tnsdeup; the others being DR.. Beattie, the
friend and biographer of Campbell; Samuel
Carter Hall the litterdteuT, and editor of the
Art Journal; and William Hewitt
Irving was much interested in what DR..
Beattis had to tell about Campbell, and es-
pecia1ly so in Carter Halls stories of Moore
and hib patron, Lord Lansdowne. Moore,
at this time, was in ill-health and shut up
from the world. l need not attempt to quote
the conversation. Irving had been some
whatintimate with Moore in former days,
and hund him, doubtless, an entertaining and
livelt eompanion--but his replies to Hall
about the patronage of my Lord Lans-
dowae, &c, indicated pretty clearly that he
| hadno sympathy with the small traits and
paresitical tendencies of Moore's character.
| If there was any thing specially detestable
to Irving, and at variance with his very ma
tuH, it was that selEseeking Difference to
| wealth and station which was so character
istic of the Irish poet.
/ had limited to one of my guests that Mr..
| IFting was some times Caught mapping"
even at the dinner table, so that such an
event should not occasion surprise. The
| c9nTersation proved sointeresting that had
almost claimed victory, when, lol slight
| lRIl in the talk disclosed the fact that our
| inspected guest was nodding. believe il
vas habit with him for many years, thus
70 take "forty winks' at the dinner table
| Still the conversation of that evening was 8
| rich treat, and my English friends frequently
thanked me afterward for the opportunity
of meeting ''the man of all others whom
| they desired to know"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24
American WOmen's Manners Worse than
Whose Of nlen.

One thing is determined by the recent
visits to this country of Princes from the,
East and from the West of the old world
American women have worse manners than
the men. 1t was the women, who at WASH,
ington intruded upon diplomatic receptions,
and sat upon the mantleS in the Presidents
mansion; it was the women who insisted upon
going to q ball at Gen. Casss house, so thai
the venerable Secretary of State declared Lib
dared not give dinner, or matinee; it was
the women who thrust their notes upon
Tommy. So, also, it was the women WHO
jostled and crowded upon the Prince, at the
ball at the Academy; It was the women vho
get upon the seats at Trinity Cifufeh,S 70
look at him, notwithstanding the clergymen
had first requested them not TO do so. These
are women of all grades; not only such as
might be supposed ignorant of good breed
ing, but such as would be invited to the
balls of the Secretary of State, or could get
access to the Academy of Music, last Friday.
They were alike in Washington and New
York; they have displayed this behavior
before now, at the crowded operatic matt
ness they do so in the omnibuses and in the
railway cars, where they demand the places
of the men, and never dream of thanking
them. At the North and South, at the East
and West, the rule is, that American women
are rude-the contrary is an exception.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24
Funeral OF the Lnte Colonel Lumsden In
70 New Orleans. ''
- Fr;dav,s DeIfo otServes. .lt

tIlOtil ,Dtttu OuotIfSos
Yesterday the funeral of the late lamented
Francis Asbury Lumsden, took place in this
city. The corfege formed at the late residence
of the deceased, No. 20 Rampart-street, and
proceeded to the American Cemetery. The
herse was preceded by an escort of the Con-
tinental Guards, under the command of Cap
tain George Clark; also, the following Ma
sonic Lodges: The officers and members of
Polar Star Lodge. The Grand Consistory of
S.'.PP.' Of the RS 32d degree A.'.A.' b.,
in and for the State of Louisiana--S.' p p.
S.'G.'.I'.G.'. members, active and honorary,
Of the Sup. Council at Charleston, under the
ntfisdietiOa Of the Grand Consistory, and also
members Of the A.. and AR. Of other juris-
dictions.
On each side of the herse was an equal
number of pall-bearers, members of the Con-
tinental Guards, Masonic Lodges, and citi-
zens. Then came the relatives and friends
of the deceased; the editorial staff and en-
gloyeS Of the TicGyune newspaper, and mem
bers of the city press. Following these, were
the officers and members of the New Orleans
Typographical Union, of which estimable
body the deceased was an honorary member.
Then came the officers and members of the
Southwestern Lodge l. o. o. F., followed by
a number of private citizens who were desir-
GUS of paying their tribute to the memory of
one whose traits of character endeared him
to all whose pleasure it was to know him in
the social walks of life.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24
saturdays New Orleans Crescent save

The HepublicRp Party Destined to De-
structiOn-A Southern View of lie Early
Demise.
Saturdays New Orleans Crescent says: .
0nemistake which the people of the South
make, and which, in fact, is made by the
conservatives of both sections, is in suppos-
ing that the Black Republican party is a
permanent institution" of the country.
Most persons think that this party, when it
once obtains possession Of the Federal Gov
ernment--if perchance that event occur
win retain possession Of it perpetually, and
will continue to hold the control OF affairs
for all time TO come.
With no purpose of abating the Just re-
sentiment of national men against this party,
we may say that we think this is an error.
The Black Republican party would not, and
could not, survive one-half the period Of a
Black Republican Administration. The
party will exhaust every element of the un-
natural and feverish vitality that il possesses
in the attempt to carry the present Presiden-
tial election, and, whether successful or not
it will tumble to pieces in less than two
years, and be swept out CT the way as old
and useless rubbish.
II is impossible that such party can long
exist. II is no reply to point to its steady
growth in numberS and power up to this
time. The party has attained its extraordi-
nary strength from combination of causes
that can never again occur. Its leaders have
so deceived and betrayed the people with
regard to the South and Southern institu-
tiOns, that, when the truth is found out and
the reaction takes place, they will be over
whelmed beneath the condemnatory indig-
nation of the masses. Intent upon the
spoils and power of the Administration, they
have educated the people, by systematic
Misrepresentation, up to their present senti-
ment of hostility to the South. But when
the people find out the selfish aims and de-
tect the hypocritical professions of such po-
litical swindlers as Seward, Greeley, Sum-
ner and Wilson, the tide will turn-and the
dissolution of the Back-Republican party
will be quicker even than its wonderful for
nation and growth.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24

A WHOLE FAMILY PoIsoSED BY EATING
FIsE.--We learn that the family of Widow
Barge, residing near Clyde, were poisoned
by eating a fish, on Saturday last. The fish
was bought at Litchfeld, on Friday, and
cooked for breakfast the next morning, the
whole family partaking of it, with the ex-
ception Of one young man, who complained
of being unwel. All who ate of It, some
five or six in number, were immediateiy
taken violently i'll, vomiting, &e. one died
on Saturday, and two or three more are not
expected to recover. IL Is said that persons
entering the house were seized with yomit-
ing, and dogs who ate pieces Of the fish died
the same lot, without injury carliBvillO
(Lk) Free DemoerdL As-t k.'-i4 - "
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24

A SENSIBLE VIEW OF THE UNION BY NEW
ORLEANS JoURNAL.-The New Orleans Cres-
cent says, in late issue; .- s.-
We are not advocates of untimely or pro-
fuse protestations of devotion to the Union,
nor do we make them. We are not for the
Union at any prioe-but equally opposed are
we to a Union which is to be held together
by threats. If the Northern people are to
be kept from embracing Black Republican
doctrines only by perpetual threats and mem
aces from the South, it seems 10 us that a
Union thus preserved is simply a hollow
mockery. II is an arrangement by which
neither the North nor South is likely TO be
satisfied. If the Black Republicans aban-
don their position, not from any conviction
that it is wrong, but because constantly
frightened by prospect Of disunion, the
Union will be preserved, it is true; but 1t
viii be a sort of dog-and-cat association,
with mutual distrust and hatred. 1t is bet
ter to dissolve at once than to be threaten
ing all the time and doing nothing. h.o9
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24


Powerful Coalition In Europe against
Frnnce-The Grent Powers Resolved on
Peace. H1
A Paris correspondent writes in late
letter;
1t is now certain that powerful efforts are
being made to form coalition against
France. Russia and Austria have drawn
closer together, and are encouraged to avow
themselves the opposers of French policy by
the secret intrigues of England, or rather of
q party in England. The Grand Duke
Michel is now in London, where he has Just
arrived, dispatched by the Russian Govern
ment to ascertain the exact intention of
England's Governmental fact hard to dis
cover. Lord John Russell has Just COM
mitted himself by sending a strange circular
to Count Cavour, in which he informs him
| that England has taken care to prevent Sar-
| dinia from having an ally in case she attacks
| Austria. The Minister Of the ally of France
| thus plainly threatens that Power of a coali-
tien against her: 'The only hope left Sar-
| dinia, were she to attack Austria, is that she
! might again draw France into the battle-
| field Let not Count Cavour indulge in that
pernicious delusion.
"The great Powers ARE resolved to main
tain peace, and Great Britain has interests
| in the Adriatic which she watches with
careful attention. What those interests
may be, it were difficult to say; but here we
have British Minister openly espousine
the cause Of despotism and ranging his Gov
eminent against policy that has up to the
present time received the open encourage
ment of all classes in England. All this
| proceeds from a contemplate JEALOUSY. of
the increasing power of France and from
fear that owes its origin to the conscious
ness of deserved punishment. The circu-
lar was not needed, for the Sandman Par
lament has just sanctioned unanimously
Count Cavour's determination of not at
tacking Venetia, and it was easily to be un-
derstood, from the fact ofVictor Emmanuel's
interposing against Garibaldfs attacking
Venetia, that he did not intend so doing.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24
The DANGER OF A LOAN ON CALL.-The

The DANGER OF A LOAN ON CALL.--The
New York Journal Of Commerce says:
We know of no trap so dangerous to men
in business as that technically known by the
name Of "a loan on call" 1t has a very
tempting bait, and is sure during every sea-
SON of catching large number of the un-
wary. If the borrower obtains a loan on
time he is likely to exercise some forecast
about the method of payment; if the time be
only ten days and he hes some hopes of re-
newal, he win still look out for the date of
maturity. But a demand loan, like the
sword Of Damocles, hangs impending over
its victims head. If he be ready to meet it,
it does him no good; if he is not ready to
meet it, it will surely do him mischief Far
ther than this, the day of payment, if that
be fixed by the lender, is certain to be an in-
convenient occasion. The very pressure
which win induce the owner to can for il,
will make the return of il more difficult, aud
this difficulty increases in even greater
ratio than the pressure, because il is certain
also to contribute 10 1t.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24
CITY. ApVERTIsEMENTs
NOTICE 10 ALL WHOM IN MAY con.

'NOTICE TO ALLWHOM 1T MAY CON.
|lN CERN.-Hotice is hereby given, that there
re pending before tho City Council of the City Of
'Iincinnati, the following ordinances TO wit: Z
To establish the grade Of Aianthus-alley, from
Il clearwater street to Central-avenue.
To regrade and pave, with bowlder. stone, L HON.
nedieu-siley, from Plum-street TO Central-ayenue
Illey, from Eighth. street to Ninth-street.
To grade and pave, with brick, the unpaved side
vslks onClsrk street, from Johnsstreetto Cutter
4 To grade and pave with brick, the unpayed side
galks on Third-street, from Butler-street to the
diami Canal. ETTCbr - ELLM tt ~
To grade DaytOn.ailey, from Freeman-street to
. In pursuance Of the law, said Ordinances were
vice read, laid on the table, and the Clerk in
trncted TO give four weeks notice OF the pendency
Il 4 the same. IT. T. pa
The law requires all claims for damages, that may
ccrue from said Improvement to be filed In writin
With tho City Glsrk, setting forth the amount Of
aamages claimed, within two weeks after the expi-
alton oE the time required for the publication OF
uch notice, when the same will be taken up for
eel ec5.x %S'''"' SAM. L. ooRwINE, City Clerk.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24

AN AMERICAN BRINDIsG.
BY BLANCHE D'ARTots.

Hail to the roses, enclrcling the chaliceI
Hail to the ivy All hail to the vine
Abuse has peryerted-then whispered to malice,
There's woe in the goblet, and poison in wine.
With brows all encircled with garlands of vine
leaves, an
And lips we'll impurpled with kisses of wine
And fingers incarnedined- -blushing Of wine lees,
We twine new dance to the god Of the vine.
Hail to the god Of the thrysus and chalicei
We pledge him in blood that is almost divine
For who can believe such slander-but malice
, There's love in the goblet and poison in wine
Hail to tho god Of the vineyard we're singing
The rich breath Of Autumn's aroma of wine;
And while through the valley tho echo ia ringing
WON pledge new bowl to the god of the vine.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24

The PRIEoR OF WALEs's VISIT INDUCED BY
SENATOR SEwARD.--The New York Post
says that il is not generally known that to
Senator Seward more than TO any one else,
probably, does Lord Renfrew owe whatever
pleasure he has received from his present
visit to. this country, for it was mainly at
its general method Of prosecution, that the
Queens Government was Induced to make
the experiment, which has proved SO grati-
-fyilg to both nations, and which promises
such Important results. Vl
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24
GroRqH Law DroLARnD NuIsANOn.--Tho

New York WorId, the religious daily, says;
Ar. George Law is public nuisance.
Right or wrong land we don't at present
mean to say which, he is always doing
in Nicaragua, and vexes the souls of good
people who own stock in transit companies.
He embroils New York upon his gridifon of
railways. He deranges political parties by
being willing-as willing as Barkis-to be
President. He is the bSls nOir Of the Staten
Islanders. He uses the city lands and the
city waterfront, and don't pay q dollar for
either. Perhaps this is all as it should be;
but, perhaps, also, itisn't. At last, however,
Mr. Comptroller Haws has fenced in Mr.,
Law This Is web, As far az i goes but L is
Mr.. Law altogether. Eefss i u
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24
pen.pOrtrRit of the IFrepressible Adoh

Pen-pOrtrhit of the Irrepressible Adah
---a Isaaes HHOaKtm.
Mrs. Benicia Boy Menken, or Adah Isaacs
is quite well known here; but as her ad-
mirers may like to see how she appears to
others we give pen-portrait of her, taken
by New York journalist during her attend
ance at Court in the prosecution of her suit
against her selfdeclared husband, Heenan:
The lady, who was subpenaed as a wit
ness, was in Court at ten o'clock, and as soon
as she entered attracted as muchattention as
would the Prince of Wales. Every eye was
turned to where she sat, in company with a
gentleman connected with a leading morn
ing cotemporary, who soon retired, however
and she then, by invitation, took a seat near
the reporters table. She is a woman of most
prepossessing appearance, is taller than
ladies usually are, and has q countenanee
which is not easily forgotten after having
been once seen. Her features are finely
chiseled, and are almost of classic beauty,
with an expression of retiring mildness,
which is very pleasing. Her forehead is
high and very fair, and over it hangs clus-
ter of dark brown curls. Her eyes are gray,
and when she smiles her cheeks display two
dimples, which give beautiful expression
to the whole face. She was dressed in deep
morning, wore black vail, which she sell
dom raised, with a sort of military jacket,
having a double row of brass buttons a
turned-down shirt collar and frill, a black
Grape bonnet and black skirt. 1t is under
stood that she is in mourning for her mother,
who is recently deceased, and for whom she
entertained a deep affection, as evinced by
her writings.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24
RAILWAY MATTERS.


LrTrrz MAINLY minutes faster than OIty tInne,J
$3.50 A. M, 10 A. III. and II p. M. Columbus As.
eommodation, p. NJ. Xenia Accommodation, 8
p. NJ.
OINuISNATI, HAMILTON AND DArroE--I7 minutes
faster than City time,l A. M, 1880 A. M, 2;3O
Z. M and ?. M. Hamilton Accommodation,
9i3O A. NJ. and $3.50 p. NJ.
ONO AND MIssIHsIPrI-t12 minutes slower than
Qity time, 4.25 a, M. and 5i35 P. NJ. Louisville
Accommodation, = p. M.
IHDIANAP0L1s AND CINCINNATI SHORT LENR-12
minutes slower than CITY time,l 5i4O A. NJ, 11i9O
MABIETTG AND uTv sISEATF-I7 minutes faster than
City tme,l 6i15 y. N. and $3.50 p. M.
-OovIsGToE AND lEKISaToN-toity time,l ai49 A.
eiECrSSxTi, RIoamorp AND IEpIANAroL1s--6 A.
M, 2:3O P. M, q p. nj.
CINCINNATI AND LoGANsPoRr-From Sixth-street
pepot-6 A. nj. and p. M.
.. TRAINS ARRIvH.
LTTTIha I aMrAMsI-3i5O 4 Y A, NJ, 8 A. NJ, 11,04 A. N.
OHIO AsP MHS1ssPPr-s,3OA A. NJ, Ea,2S P. NJ.
C1sciSSATI, HAHilTos AND pAYroN-z,45 A. NJ,
I1iOS A. N, 2,1O P. NJ, $50 P. NJ, 7:19 P.
.ISDIASiFcIIs, AND, OnorENArr-1O,15 A. M,
4 p. NJ. and IL P. M.
MARIEETA GHD OINoIEEATI-IOi32 A. n. and
5s13 p. NJ.
.CoyINe!oN AND LExHaroS-1O.35 A. n. and
ABS p. NJ.
C1NcIHNATI, RIeHMoED AND INDIANkPoLls-9,A5
A, M, 2s1OP P. M, 500 p. M.
CINCINNATI AND LOGANsP0RT-From Sixth street
Depot-7s45 A. M. and Ss19 P NJ.