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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09

GENERAL CIALDINI's ANTEOEDENTs.-He is
a native of Modena, soldier of fortune, and
has risen almost from the ranks to the COM
mand of the Fourth Division in the Sandman
army, being promoted to the grade of Lieu
tenant General on the field of battle. Be-
ing compelled to leave his native country
from political causes, he went to Spain,
where he espoused the cause of the liberals.
He commenced as lieutenant, and was
there for seven years, and fought so bravely
that he was promoted to the rank of colonel,
and received from the Queen the order of
isabella, the Catholic" In lS4S, returning
to his own country, he engaged in the
struggle against Austria in the quality of a
colonel. He was dangerously wounded at
Vicenza, in battle with Austrians, and for
a time his life was in great danger. In l849,
at Mortara, at La SpOrzesca, and at NoVara,
he covered himself with glory, charging at
the head of his regiment though still suffer-
ing from his wound.
On the breaking out of the Crimean war,
his services were again called into requisi-
tion, and again he distinguished himself,
first as Brigadier-C Colonel and then as Major
General of Division, TO which rank he was
promoted by Victor Emanuel for the bravery
displayed in the several encounters of his di-
vision.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09

Sketch Of S. 8. Prentiss, the Southern Ora
tor-His Heart Superior TO His INTEL
Iect.
Though this sketch does not seem de-
signed to eulogize s. S. Prentiss, it does so
proving him the truest here-a hero of the
heart:
Prentiss was a citizen whose brain filled
all his head, and whose heart filled all his
bosom. But witty, wise, learned as he was,
he had more heart than head. mean to
say that his grand desires were grander than
his grand talents. Such was his nature.
His abilities did not equal his susceptible
ties; what he could think did not have in it
so much genius ms what he could feel; his
soul was more seraphic than cherubic; he
therefore had the geniality of genius but not
the heroism.
For after all, what is a hero? What is a
hero but worker of extraordinary good
work; the greatest and best citizen. But
Prentiss was not hero. He was not monu-
mental, not historic So far as he worked
for the peoples good, the world, when he
was lowered into his grave, was as misera-
BILE as the world when he was lifted into his
cradle. He thus did nothing of which his
tory can take note. he did not render with
his precepts less the sum of human wretch
edness. He developed no new truth, no new
principle, no new invention, no new irstitu-
tion, no new enterprise, no new improve
ment he rectifed no public wrong he made
no change in State affairs.
The reason is he was lawyer. He ought
to have been statesman and done a states
mans good. He should in sublime devotion
have toiled to better the peoples lot, to
make the poor less poor, the rich more
happy, the ignorant more learned, the weak
more strong the sick more healthy, the
rufians more orderly. AS great educated,
unpreiudiced, devoted and dispassionate
statesman, Prentiss might have done some
thing of that blessed sort, some such arch
angels business. But as it was, the torrent
of his eloquence turned no wheel to serve
the peoples veal.
Prentiss, the lawyer, was an embarrassed
Niagara. But Prentiss, as statesman,
! journalist, inventor, author, sayan, or public
improver, would have been the cataract at
work, the torrent in sublime sweat an
| organized avalanche, an unfailing, steady
and tremendous SURGE whirling most mag
nifcent machinery to the glory Of God and
the relief of mans estate.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09

Romance in ROme-A Young Italian En-
nmOred OF the Voice of an Earthly Ma
donna.
A correspondent thus writes from Flor
ence Of his attendance OF a church in that
city;
This church, you may know, belongs to a
convent of nuns, and they have a school for
young ladies in the building. The church
was dimly lighted by a few lamps, and there
are few if any ornaments on the walls; there
are also pews as in our churches in America.
The congregation-not a large one-seemed
to be engaged in silent prayer. In few
minutes the organ began to play very SIM
pie air; it was the Litany of the Virgin the
nuns and young girls responded. At last, in
one part was heard single sweet voice. it
seemed to belong to something more than
mortal. seem to hear it now. The Words
mater Del, ora pro aobis." l have been led
away before and since by sweet, silvery
voices, but never did hear such an holy
one. There is grating dividing the nuns
from the body of the church, so l could not
see the person to whom the voice belonged.
was speaking of this wonderful music to
friend of mine, who had been some time in
Rome, and he informed me that there was
young lawyer, Roman, who, like myself
had gone to that church to hear the chant
ing. When he left the church that voice
seemed to follow him; in his dreams. in his
studies--every- where he felt the echo of it.
He returned every Sunday to hear the
reality.
At length, through the influence of an
uncle of his, who was priest of high rank
he obtained permission to visit the convent.
He begged the Lady Abbess to point out the
one who sang the solo. She pointed to one
Of the young ladies' of whose face he could
only see part. She was looking down. but
such sweetness, such sadness, such holiness !
Was it the Madonna herself2 His mind was
made upin amoment. Had she taken the vail2
Yes, only the white one; but she had nearly
made up her mind to take the black vail in
about a month. He hurried out of the
school, paid q visit to her father, and declared
his desire to make her his own. His wealth
and family were equal any other young
mans in Rome.
The father consented readily to an inter-
view with the young lady herself We can
imagine he used all the arguments possible
to induce his dear one net to become nun.
At length she told him that inasmuch as it
was matter on which her future happiness
depended, she must have time to reflect. She
would give him an answer in one month
from that time. | left Rome few days be-
fore that important event was made known
to the young lawyer, and have not found
out if that sweet voice is yet heard in the
church of the Convent of Trinita del Monti
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09
TBy the Pony Express |
Iafer from CaIifornfu


ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, October 8-The Pony
Express, with California dates to the oath
ult., arrived here last night.
San Francisco, September PA fire at
Pacheco Contra, Costa County, on the oath,
destroyed nearly twenty thousand dollars
worth Of property.
There is no new feature in tha political
canvass r
The State Agricultural Fair at Sacramento
has proved q great success. Over thou
sand head of blooded stock were placed in
competition for premiums.
The mining accounts from Carson Valley,
as well as from the New Cozo silver mines,
near Owens Lake, are encouraging.
The latest accounts from Oregon state that
the Legislature continued adjourning from
day to day, without quorum. A report
was circulated of contemplated compromise
between the Douglas and Breckenridge Demo-
Gratis, giving each party one Senator, on con-
dition that the seeding Breckenridge Senat-
ors would return and give the Senate legal
organization. The Lower House passed a
resolution, on the Goth ult., inviting the Sem
ate, in its disorganized condition, to meet in
joint convention the next day, and proceed
at once to the election of Senators.
The Douglas and Breckenridge parties in
Oregon had each held conventions and nom
mated Electoral Tickets. The Breckenridge
ticket is as follows; Delazon Smith, James
O'Meara and l.. W. Doughitt. Douglas
ticket-Wm. H. Farrar, Benjamin Harding
and VIM. Hoffman.
The mining news from Oregon and British
Columbia is encouraging.
The census returns give Washington Ter
ritory 5000 population.
Advices from China state that the Chinese
would make great resistance to the French
and English, and desperate fighting was ex-
pected.
Russian war-steamers had been very active,
moving about with large bodies Of troops on
board.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09
An English Manufacturing Clty-A Dark
Picture of Birminghnm.


Birmingham is a town of extraordinary
contrasts: one or two good streets and a
pleasant suburb, with an overwhelming mass
of ugliness, so dingy, black and squally in
places, that q strangers heart aches, and his
eye grows painfully weary at the sight.
Smoke darkens the sky and obscures the
landscape for miles around, and the dead
gloom contrasts strangely with the strong,
eager life of the whole neighborhood.
Here are congregated nearly 100000 in
habitants, comprising the busiest and most
ingenious handicraftsmen that the kingdom
can produce; and of all the contrast here
apparent the greatest is, perhaps, that be-
tween the ingenuity and its environment.
In miserable workshops, and grimmy holes
and corners results of industry are accom-
plished which seem little less than wonder
full. The noise of hammer and file, of stamp
ing-machines, of swift rollers and laboring
wheels, and mighty steam-engines, is heard
in every quarter but that of Edgbaston,
which is the Bayswater of Birmingham; and
tall chimneys pouring forth their clouds of
blackness, ca tch the travellers eyes from afar.
1t is for the most part a town of work.
shops, and you may walkfrom street to street
noting the change of aspect with change of
trade. The iewelers's quarter looks clean
and respectable; but 20 among the pearl
button makers, who have been somewhat
"put about" by the introduction Of vegetable
ivory, and you see less of cleanliness, and
suspicion of makeshift, while in the quarter
where the ring of the anvil most prevails,
you look in vain for cleanliness, and find
nothing to admire except mechanical con-
trivances.
A grouping of trades is noticeable; in one
quarter the renters Of steam-power, with
their noisy and heavy operations; in another
stampers and piercers, gilt-toy makers
makers of studs, swivels, and sleeve-links
then Dd ms snd gbss
little farther, and there are the makers o
coffee-pots, knobs and handles, dram-Aask
game-bags, shot-belts, lamps, bookcases
watch hands, and so forth, trade after trade
in what seems endless variety. You wonder
| how they all live.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09
Remaius OF Governor yyIIInrd.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, October s.-The COM
mittee of citizens from this city, with the
remains of Gov. Willard, arrived here yes
terday morning on a special train, from Chi
cago, accompanied by Gov. Ramsey, Ex-
United States Senator Rice, Maj. Cullen, Mr..
Cochran, and Hon. VIM. A. Bowles. They
were met at the depot by the military COM
panies of the city and large number of citi-
zens, who received the remains, conveyed
them to the Executive Mansion, where they
remained during yesterday, and will be taken
to the Senate Chamber this afternoon, where
they win lie in state in charge of the military
until Wednesday morning, from whence the
final funeral ceremonies in this city will take
place, and the remains will be taken TO New
Albany under an escort of military and elti,
zens, for interment. Minute guns were fired
on the arrival of the cars yesterday morning,
and during the procession to the Executive
Mansion,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
AddItIonnl br enc Northcrn I.Irht

NEW YoRK, October 8.-The Northern
Light which arrived here last evening,
brought Panama Star and Herald, of the
29th ult.
An attack had been made by an armed
body of rebels against the Government of
the city of Panama. but they were repulsed,
with a loss Of five or six killed, and fifteen
taken prisoners. Five soldiers of the Gov
eminent forces were killed. The ring-lead-
ers are supposed TO be Correoza and Blanco,
both ofwhom escaped. The skirmish lasted
three ehours-commencing about six o'clock
in the morning of Thursday, the 10th, when
some shots were fred at the rebels by some
persons from the inside. The rebels occu-
pied Santa Anna Square, and were armed
with rifles, muskets, lances, &c. The Gov
ernment forces numbered about 200 COM
prising soldiers, police and volunteers. The
shets were Immediately returned, and the
firing was kept up by both parties-the
troops and militia gradually making their
way toward the landing, on reaching
which they found it deserted. The rebels
had retreated TO the woods having been
made aware of the landing of forces from
the British man-of-war Clio, and the U. S.
sloop-of-war 81. MdryS.
The Star says the landing of the forces
from the vessels undoubtedly settled con-
fiict which looked dubious for the Govern
ment. The force from the St. MdT5iS took
possession OF Jne ROAD SJaJlOn, Dut no attack
was made upon them by the insurgents
There " as still a great deal of excitement
among the natives of Panama on the 10th,
as it was supposed the insurgents were en-
camped within a mile or two of the city.
A strong Government force was still un-
der arms. The foreign population took no
part in the affair. The trouble, it was
thought, originated in the attempt of the
General Government to force recruits into
the army, aided, perhaps, by politicians and
their endeavor to obtain this end and by in
citing revolution. ....
The British returned to the Clio on the
2sth, considering that there was no further
necessity for their services.
A revolution in favor of Ex-President
Mora had broken out in Costa Rica, with a
great chance of success, as the people were
hocking to his standard.
The treaty between Great Britain and
Nicaragua had been ratified. 1t is said to
contain a provision making San Juan a free
port, but entirely subject to the laws of
Nicaragua.
Dates from Valparaiso to September /,
| and Callao to the 14th, are received. The
| news is of no importance.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09
General Walkers Resemblance to n War
riOF of the Dark Ages-His Ambition n and
RELIGION.

General Walkers Resemblance TO War
rior of the Dark Ages-His Ambition and
RELIGION.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin says
AS death drew near General Walker, he
became quite a devotee. AS soon as he con-
cluded that his end had come, all the tides
the full, flushing f1ood-tides of his soul-roll
back to the point of lowest ebb. There wkere
the gallant barks of his imagination had
fOated, nought was TO be seen but the bare
oozing mud of stern reality. All his bright
dreams of conquest and a kingdom had
vanished. He had no doubt walked about
among men with what he thought was
consciousness of greatness upon him. He
was to be the Napoleon of the Western Hem
isphere, therefore
"His soul was like a star and dwelt apart"
But now he found to a certainty that he had
read his horoscope amiss. Up to the moment
when from that British steamer embarked
British and Hondurean troops aud marched
toward him, he believed in General William
Walker and his high destiny. But now the
revulsion came upon him with tropical fury;
and that tropical soul of his wilted before it.
He saw the truth at last if never before;
saw that the idea that he was born to con-
troll the destinies of nations was not Gods
truth, but the DEVILS lie; saw that he, the
would-be hero, was nOught but foolish i'm
postor, and, like Manfred" he
"Cesscd to justify his deeds unto himself,
The last extremity Of evil"
Through all these years small thought was
there in his feYerish soul, but of the pomp
and circumstance of war, of earthly great
ness; but now, when he found himself like
the old man in Coles Voyage of life, float
ing out in broken pinnace on an unknown
ocean, he looked about for something OF
hope. Yonder stood the gray old cathedral;
ah, there now was glimmer of light. "He
sent for the chaplain of the port, and, pro-
testing his faith as Roman Catholic, was
seen thereafter almost constantly kneeliug
| at the feet of the priest in front of a small
| altar, on which, by the dim light of the
] tapers, the image of Jesus was distinguished" !"
| Long years, perhaps, were blotted out, and
| childhood had returned. Priests, a,tars,
and he was kneeling beside his mother. And
/ now dead and barren as he marched forth to
| execution. "He walked with crucifx in
| his hand, upon which he bent all his regards
looking neither to the right hand nor to the
left, but listening TO the psalms which the
| priest recited in his ear"
| Wherein, after all, does he differ from that
class of men Of the Dark Ages of which we
have said he is an antitype2 Thus in ambi-
tious broils they spent their lives, with an
occasional skin-deep variation of their sensa-
tions as they stood in the church or the con.
fessional. And then, when the last houl
came, they rushed to the other extreme
they had been tolerably successful in storm
ing the citadels of earth, now would they
spend a few hours in storming that O
| Heaven.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09
New York Items.

NEW YORK, October s.-General Elijah
Ward, candidate for Congress in the Sew
enth District, was assaulted on Saturday
afternoon, on Broadway, by E. B. Hart, Sur
veyor of the port, with bludgeon, but was
not seriously hurt.
Col. V. o. Halsted, President of the Metro
politan Bank, died yesterday.
The corvette Pdienee, with Minister Nc
Lane, sailed from Pensacola on the 9Th inst,
for Vera Cruz.
John Cochrane has received the Breckin-
ridge nomination for Congress in the Sixth
District P. Bradley declining. Cochrane
had previously been nominated by the Mo-
zart-hall Convention.
The Bell and Everett men of the Third
District have nominated Mr.. Hewitt for Con-
gress.
The Ganzevoort stamping mill, on Wash
ington-street, was burned on Saturday night
Loss $4,000; partly insured.
Francis Duffy, Deputy-Sheriff, is under
arrest for the attempted murder of Jas. L.
Dorland, of Brooklyn.
Peter Hosbrook was dangerously burned,
in attempting to extinguish fire in Light.
body's ink mandatory, on Sixty-frst street
on Sunday,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09
Sale of a Nothern RaiIway-The Detroit
- aud MIlMnukie DispOsed of.

sale oil a N0thefn hallWay-The DetFOit
aud Milwaukee Disposed of.
The Detroit (Mich.) Tribune of the 9Th, in
forms us:
At twelve o'clock, noon, to-day, this inn
portant railway, with all its rolling stock,
was sold at the-ofice of the company, in this
city, by VIM. D. Wilkins, Master in Chancery
of the United States Circuit Court, pursu-
ant to the decreed order of that court.
The sale did not attract much notice, ii
being understood that the proceeding was
had with the concurrence of shareholders,
bond-holders and creditors, with view to
the reorganization Of the Company upon a
basis satisfactory to all.
The property was bid off by William Gray,
as Trustee for the holders of the third and
fourth m ortgage bonds (the Great Western
of Canada at 81, ,Oo0 0000, subject, of course,
to prior mortgages, which amount to about
$4,000,O00. r-...-. ...
There being some liens anterior to these
mortgages for duties on iron and other ex-
penses of equipping and running the road,
we understand these prior bondholders are
to allow the earnings to be applied to the
payment of them, and with this view to
postpone the payment oftheir coupons, upon
which, however, interest is to be paid from
the day of their maturity. Ultimately this
will make their bonds better and more avail
able, and the arrangement is therefore bene-
fetal to them.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09

THE MYSTERY OF LIFE.-It is wonderful
thing-Life-ever growing old, yet ever
young; ever dying, ever being born; cut
down and destroyed by accident by violence,
by pestilence, by famine, preying remorse-
lessly and insatiably upon ITSELF yet multi
plying and extending. still, and filling every
ing; so delicate, so feeble, so dependent upon
fostering circumstances and the kindly care
of nature, yet so invincible; endowed as if
with supernatural power, like spirits of the
air, which yield TO every touch and seem to
elude our force; subsisting by means impal-
pable to our proper senses, yet welding
powers which the mightiest agencies obey.
Weakest and strongest of the things that
God has made, Life is the heir of Death, aud
vet his conqueror; victim at once and victor.
All living things succumb to Death ASSAULT
Life smiles at his impotence and makes the
grave her cradle.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09

THE WESTERN MAN SEEN BY A TRAVELLER.
Bayard Taylor drew this unjust sketch of
the so-called Western Man:
'He has no especial characteristics except
a certain restlessness in his manner, and an
expansive use of adjectives in his talk. He
has great habit of saying, That's soP and
his location is denoted by the use of peculiar
words and phrases rather than any distinct
popularity of accent. He has a rampant
pride in his own peculiar city, and county,
and State, and our Atlantic communities
seem slow to him. He is the most demon
strative of Americans and you need never
ask second time for his opinion. He, as
well as the Southerners, is apt to chew to-
bacco, and he prefers Bourbon to Verzenay.
He does not object to community of towel
and hair-brush in hotels-in fact, he is easily
satisfied, and generally of very cheerful
and iovial temperament"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09
PrO1igate Dukes Trick to Obtain n
Large Loan - AdrOit Deception of n


PrOHignte Dukes Trick to Obtain n
Large Loan = AdrOit Deception of n
Princess. ....
A good story has been told of character
istic trick performed upon his sister, the
Princess Amelia, by that rogue; Duke of
Cumberland:
His sister one day took him to task, ar
raigned his dissipated conduct and said she
would never be instrumental to il. He as
sured her that the money he then solicited he
wanted to complete an improvement in
Windsor Park, where it was well laid out in
employing the surrounding poor; and to
convince her Of the truth of the statement,
he proposed to take her down to inspect the
works. He had at that time nearly 500
men digging canal. She went to the
lodge, and he drove her round lthe Park
in a one-horse chaise, and had so contrived
it with the manager, that as she passed from
one place to another, the same set of men, as
in theater, removed to another spot, which,
when she was brought to them, were seen
planting trees; at another 500 men (the
same) were found grubbing hedges.
"Well, bro her. said she, / had no con-
ception of this. You must employ nearly
1000 people"
"True," said the noble Duke, "and if
were to go to the other side of the Park, l
could show you as many more.P
at is not necessary" said the Princess
| am satisfied that your money is better ex-
pended than | had apprehended"
And the unsuspecting Princess lent him
the 100000 he wanted. ...r
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09

THE INvINoIBILITY OF LovE.-The follow
ing passage we find in Tupper's Crock of
Gold;
Love is the weapon which omnipotence
reserved to conquer rebel man when all else
had failed. Reason he parties; fear he an
swers blow to blow; but love, that sun
against whose melting beams winter can not
stand, that soft subduing slumber which
wTestles down the giant-there is not one
human creature in million, not thousand
men in all earth's large quintillion, whose
clay heart is hardened against love.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09

A CLERGYMAN WITH AN EYE TO THE MAIN
preacher in one of the Oldest towns in Con-
necticut, was one summer day preaching to
his flock, when he discovered signs of ap-
preaching rain. Stopping in the midst of
his sermon, he said: "My friends, we should
not slight the gifts of the Lord by neglecting
to take care of them; and as have little
piece of grain out that is likely to get wet, if
you will rise I'll pronounce the benedic-
tion." Having given this, the old gentle
man went to look after his grain, leaving his
sermon for the next far day.