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The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-05-30

GHOE BUSINESS AND FACTORIES, GAN BE
carried on preftably s.s Hammonton. See ad-
Tertisement Of Hanmonion Lands p ;. > 6m2e
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22
Immense Wealth of the old Romans.

According to Cicero the debts of A. Milo
amounted to above $2S, 900, 900; Julius Caesar
when setting out for Spain, is reported to
have said himself that he was $4,000, 900
worse than nothing. When he first entered
Rome, after crossing the Rubicm, he took
from the public treasury S., SOC, 900, but at
the end of the civil war put over $24, 200, 900
in it. He purchased the friendship of Curio
with bribe of over $2,5O0, 900, and of the
Consul L. Paulus with half that amount.
Crassus was worth, in real estate, over SS,-
$1,000, and about as much in money, furni-
ture and slaves. Seneca was worth over
twenty millions; Lentulus, the augur, over
sixteen. Augustus raised by the testaments
of his friends nearly 6l,O0O,O0O Tiberius
left at his death nearly 100000, 900, which
Caligula spent in one year; and Vespasian,
at his succession, said that he required for the
support of the State over 81, GAO 900. New
crtheless, though greatly enriched by her con-
quests, imperial Rome never came into the
full inheritance of the chief wealth of the
East, and the larger quantity of the precious
metals must have remained excluded from
the calculations of ancient historians.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

DEATH OF FEMALE MIsER IN CoYNEc-
TIcUT.-Sarah Haldridge, maiden lady, died
in Ledyard Conn, on Thursday the sth inst,
at the age of siXty-eight years. She had al
ways represented herself to be very poor and
needy, and consequently was the recipient of
many charitable gifts and favors from those
who took compassion upon her apparent
needy circumstances. She had lived alone
for many years in an old one-story house, in
fore she died expressed fears that she might
have to go to the poor-house. After her
death, her friends thinking it highly probable
that she had money concealed in the house,
commenced searching the premises, and found
in various places about $1,000. This ac-
cumulaton is supposed to have extended over
a period of nearly fifty years.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22
Outrases In nniy-The ReisN Of Iferfor IN
VAnptia.

The accounts from Venice and its territory
assume deeper hue daily, and the cry of
vengeance to Heaven for atrocities unparal-
iieled even in the Egyptian bondage Of Israel
becomes louder each hoNr. Flight from tho
Nandal' wrath is the sole resource of despair
and nll the issues are guarded in vain. When
1t is recollected that Venice itself owes its
origin to the fugitives who sought on the
Lagunes refuge from Alaric and Attiln,
there seems doom on this hand devoted to
the ferocity of Northern hordes. A new
Governor, called Taggenborg has been sent
from Vienna to lash the poor remnant of We
netians with scorpions. Those who escape
NIL all Milan with their reports of cruelty and
oppression. Count Morosini and his family,
Macheli and Capello, with host of others Of
every rank and class, continue this exodus of
whole people. Counts Zuccareda and Ri
naldi, from Treviso, Calvi, of Padua, Patri,
OF Udine, give the same accounts. Very
many clergymen who have refused to sign
addresses either to Pope or Emperor, fly from
the consequences. At Verona Countess Cat
terinetta, town Councillor Ruffoni, the bank
ers Basilea and Polacco the lawyers Malenza
and Gaia, the priests Trezza and Franco, the
civil engineers Murari, Gagliahi, Chambrusa
and Storari, have been incarcerated. Hum
dreds are hurried off by rail and sent to pris-
ons in Bohemia. At Vienna the same reign
of terror is the order of the day. As exports
must be counterbalanced by imports, new
troops are poured into the country from the
remotest barracks of Austria.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING HAZLETT. The
New York EveniRg Post, speaking of the ex-
ecution of Stevens and Hazlett, says The
body of Stevens was claimed, we are told, by
his sister and young lady to whom he had
been betrothed, and his family is well-known;
but it is remarkable that no one has come for
ward yet to claim a relationship to Hazlett
He was arrested alone, it will be remembered,
after the other parties to the affair had been
seized, was never recognized by any of them,
patton in the deed or to say who he was.
The name Hazlett was undoubtedly assumed,
as in his private letters to persons here he
used another, and otherwise showed a dis
position to conceal his connections. His
body together with that of Stevens, was
brought to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and
there buried on Sunday, after the perform
ance of religious ceremony .-..a
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

ARREST OF AN ORGANIZED BAND OF THIEVES
AND RoBBERs IN INDIANA.-The citizens of
Calumet Ind, have for the last eighteen
months, suspected that they had among them
an organized band of thieves, and have been
on the alert. Recent Developments pointed
out some of them, who were dogged to their
hiding places in the woods, and more recently
the purpose of catching them in some act
and knowing who the whole company were
The names of the six who have been arrested
are, two Cooleys, two Disbraus one Reid and
Brown. Among the goods found at their
hiding places were some $50 worth of the
Michigan City guns, any quantity of skeleton
keys, and other burglars tools. They were
to have entered Mr.. Thomas's store on the
evening after their arrest, and spirited away
the safe, but their arrest prevented it. Their
organization is perfect, having officers, pass
words and signs
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22
From Washiu gtOn.

WASHINGTON, March 2l.-The news from
Mexico has created a profound sensation
here. Particulars relative to the capture
of the two Spanish steamers, are awaited
with great interest. 1t was supposed they
were captured as pirates, and the act on
the part Of our naval force is fully sustained.
Loud and open Indignation is expressed
against the Spanish authorities in Cuba for
fitting out this expedition to act against the
Constitutional government OF Mexico, which
we recognize. 1t is believed by some that
the two steamers were fitted out by the au-
thority of Spain and sustained by France.
Aremarkable change has taken place within
the last forty-cight hours in the minds of
those legislators who have opposed the Mica
ragua and Mexican treaties. The Democratic
Senators held caucus this morning, to dis
cuss the propriety of ceasing all efforts to
make any treaty with any Spanish American
country, since the Republicans have brought
matters to dead lock. The Republican Sem
ators also held caucus on the same subject,
and the discussion was warm. The result
was that Senator Dixon, of Connecticut, and
several Others joined Senator Wilson in the
policy indicated by his vote on the Nicaragua
treaty, and, if practicable, will resuscitate
the Nicaragua treaty and pass it. ..H".
DR.. D. o. Peters has been accepted as Con-
tract Surgeon to the Army, and is to report
Lieut.. Upton, third artillery, is ordered to
report at Fort Columbus, to proceed with re-
cruits to Fort Brown. .
Information received at the War Depart
ment contradicts the dispatch concerning the
rumored assassination of Indians on Eel River
by the whites.
The Judiciary Committee met to-day and
determined to investigate the charges against
Judge Watrons, and notice has been issued to
him to that effect.
Judge Simonds, of New York, and Hon
l.. b. Evans of Texas, appear as counsel fol
the memorialists. a'' .
Senator Wilson designs pressing upon Com
gress his propositions for the suppression o.
the African slave trade and intends, if pos
sible, to secure action upon them. The Dem
ocrats express cheerful concurrence in thu
first two but question the propriety of thu
third, in view Of the difference in the Navie
ofthis and the European Governments, ant
our national repugnance to the right o
search. liza l. .a.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

A HUSBAND SUPPOSED TO BE POISONED ny
HIS WIFE AND HER PARAMoUR.-The Man
chester IN. H.)papers state that the body of
Stephen Healy who died quite suddenly in
Auburn, last week, has been disinterred for
death by poison. 1t appears that Healy died
without a physician having been sent for or
any notice to the ncighbors, only Mrs. Healey
and Richardson being present. They have
been for some time suspected of too great an
intimacy, they being chief mourners a month
before at Richardson's wife's funeral, 1t has
been ascertained by the Selectmen of Auburn
that Richardson purchased twenty grains of
strychnine at drug store in Manchester on
the day previous to Healey's death. In fact
he admits the purchase, but says he boughtit
for his niece. There are otherfacts that give
a suspicious look to the transaction.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22
Queer Picture Of Free Ncaro Society

Queer Picture Of Free NEGRO Society.
A correspondent Of the New York Herald
furnishes the following picture Of Aspinwall
and its inhabitantsi N.a'' u a.
The through passenger to California secs OF
Aspinwall merely one street along the rail-
road track, the houses being wooden and all
terhating rs follows, A drug store, tavern,
several stores having bad rum and worse
fruit for sale, several tayerns clustered to-
gcther, fronting the steamboat wharf, and
poiLd, Aspinwall. ..H
Bat tliis is only the show portion of the
city. .t ......... =
There are living here also upward of one
thousand Jamaica negroes, who roost in all
sorts of tumble down shanties back of the
aristocratic B. street. The men are, some of
them, employed by the railroad company,
while the rest live by what they can pick up,
atermsynonymousw with roguery Ofevery kind.
BUTT is to the ladies of color that wish to
call your attention. r .H.f ....
The first thing deserving notice is their
dress. The material-calico, of bright red
or flaming yellow ground, the pattern being
bouquets, consisting apparently of cabbages,
pot lids, sunilowers, and broom handles.
The dress is made long and trailing very
convenient in this country, where Il rains
six days in the week, and is cloudy on the
seventh; as after one days wear beautiful
mud fringe embellishes the bottom, and after
a week it is magnifcently scolloped by
tearing against splinters, nails &c. -.
The manner of wearing the dress is not the
least funny portion of the affair; on ordinary
occasions the body and sleeves are not put on,
but hang dangling down in front, leaving the
person from the waist upward free and un-
trammeled. But on steamer days the dress
is put on differently; being destitute of hook
and eyes, it is fastened either by a single pin
near the waist or else by the same method
about the neck. The chaussure consists of a
pair Of satin slippers invariably down at the
heel, while the native wool luxuriates uncon-
fined by fashionable cap or bonnet. To see
these persons in all their glory you must no.
tice them on steamer days, when they sud-
denly become dealers in fruits and cakes, en-
deavorng to obtain customers by vaunting
the cheapness Of their wares. When night
closes in the town is kept awake by the noise
of drums fifes and fiddles, discoursng most
execrable music, and the scenes within their
dance-houses far surpass those formerly ex-
hibited on the Five Points.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22
NirRinln TnNed TO Denth.

The lawmakers of Virginia appear to be
as much embarrassed with the question Of
taxation as the English Chancellor of the
Exchequer. The Baltimore American says.
In the good old Commonwealth everything
is already taxed so that the legislators cftn
not find any means Of drawing d retehue TO
satisfy the many heavy claims against it. The
House of Delegates, ON Wednesday, intro
.duced q new featire into the tax bill which
Is IN effect 10 IMPOSE tax Of one per cent.
upon the sales of merchants, except articles
Of direct importation to the ports of Virginia
from foreign ports and articles manufactured
within the State. The movement has created
quite sensation in Richmond. In the mat
ter of sugar, molasses and rum the Southern
States would be Disseminated against, while
the same articles from the West Indies would
be exempt from tax. ..t O..
The Richmond Wing says; .r
II will be observed that this tax is isimposed
not upon the profits, but upon the actual sales
whether there be any returns of profits or
not. Thus, merchant in Virginia who sells
in the course of year $40, 1000 worth of goods
has to pay 800 tax, whether his profits be
large, small or nothing. And the man who
sells 100000 worth has to pay tax of ST.
600, and so on. Under the provision of the
bill there is one large importing firm in Rich
mond who will have to pay tax of over
$4,000. s
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

INCONVENIENCE OF BEING Too Much
FATHER.-A lawyer of Boston has been ex-
communicated from his church because, by q
singular freak of nature, both his wife and
servant became mothers at the same time.
There was scene between the two women
something like this; "Girl," said the wife,
Indignantly, "you are like to become a
mother" "The same to you, marm," replied
the girl, with admirable independence. "But
am married, and my husband will support
me and my child" replied the lady. "Faith,
amt married, but your husband will sup
port me and my child, also, or I'll know the
reason why" replied the servant, and there
upon there was so much excitement in the
house that both parties were suddenly taken
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

A House BURNT AND FoUR CHILDREN
DESTROYED Is THE FLAMEs.-The Clarion
PENN Banner of late date says the dwelling
house of VIM. Rhodes, on the Lucinda, Fur
mace road, was burnt during Monday night,
and four of his boys, one aged about twenty
years, perishedin the flames. Rhodes was
not at home, being engaged working some
distance away. Four Of the children were
sleeping in the loft, and FIVE down stairs with
the mother. When Mrs. Rhodes awakened,
she ran to the kitchen and discovered that
the stairs were burned away, and as matter
of course all chance of escape for her chill
dren in the loft was cut off.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

The EGG TRADE IN FRANoE.-The following
statistics relating to the egg trade of France
the number of eggs exported from France
was 100000; in 1916, it rose to 100000.
Six years later in 1892, the number was 55,-
600, 900, and 99 500, 900 in 1924. In 1880, the
number declined to 55,OOOOOO, then gradually
increased until ls45, when it was 8S, 200, 900,
for which an export duty of ll40O0 francs
was paid. Nearly all these eggs go to Eng
land. The yearly consumption of eggs in
Paris is estimated at l65,0OO,00O, and the
total consumption of all France at 9,000 Oo0,-
600, so that reckoning eggs at sou, this
single article represents 465,OOO, 600 francs.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22
Addit.ionnI ,TcxIcnn News,

New ORLEANS, March 2l.-Miramon paid
500, 900 for the two steamers. The steamers
passed by all the foreign squadrons and the
Castle without hoisting flag, although ordered
to do so by a shot from the Castle and other
signals. The English, French, and Spanish
vessels of war did not notice the fact. The
engagement took place bvmoonlight. The
prisoners corroborated the report in relation
to the steamers that they cleared from Ha-
vana as merchantmen, and hoisted the Mex-
can flag only after they left that port, and
subsequently mounted guns. ....r,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22
uFrnm AIhnnr.

ALBANY, March 81 1.-The Governor has We
toed the bill to prohibit Sunday amusements
in New York. Considerable excitement was
created about the capital by II fracas in the
Hall. igugllg f. i.J e'-I N '--aa 1al t.H'N9oi
One Brooklyn representative was met by
% young man as he Was leaving the House,
and knocked down by a severe blow. The
trigue between the member aud tn, wife Of
tbe ossoiIont a=zaHa---
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

A FACE THAT WOULD FRlGHTEN THE DEVIL.
In Duxbury, Massachusetts,, lived Bin Hoe
boy, as he was called, the ugliest-looking
loafer that the town ever had. Bill got
awakened in a time of great religious ex-
element and one day Mt a crowded meeting,
when the people were standing around the
windows, unable to get in the house, was
Bill, "for fifty years have carried the devil
on my shoulders" At this voice in the
window cried out: ''lf he had looked you in
the face he would have dropped off in a
hurry" Bill was bothered, and reserved his
speech for another occasion.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

HNDOo Works AND THEIR LANGUAGE
DR.. Scudder, who was for many years in the
East Indies as n missionary, says that the
Hindoo Holy Books date back as far as l,400
years before Chris. The immensity of their
compilations on almost every imaginable sub
ject is marvellous. They write with great
rapidity; even with their raw materials he
had known school-boys to report sermon as
fast as the missionary could deliYerit Their
language is very melodous; some of the
poetry rhymes at both ends of the lines.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

A DEAF MUTE ON TRIAL FOR MURDER.-A
deaf mute has been put upon his trial, on a
charge of murder, atOxford, N. c. The pre-
liminary question was, as to whether he was
OF sufficient mind to understand the nature of
the trial and his own rights. A special ver-
dict for the prisoner was agreed upon, and
the State. If the Supreme Court grants a
new trial, the whole issue win have to be
gone through with again. If new trial is
refused, the prisoners life is saved, but he
will have to be placed in the lunatic asylum.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

A NEw AND VGLUABLE CoMpAss.-There
has been lately Invented a compass which is
so constructed and operated upon as to give
at all times the specific eewily of 4 vessel.
Itmay be placed on table in the captains
cabin, and will inform him of the least devil
alton from the course to which the vessel
may be heading. 1t is claimed that il will
work perfectly correct no matter how much
ngltatsa by the melton Of the vessel,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

New York STATE PRIsoNs.--The Auburn
Prison, which in the year 1908 was a drain
upon the State to the amount of over $50,000
exhibited a surplus for the last year of more
than $4,000; and for the first month of the
present year the earnings of the same insti-
tuition have exceeded the expenses by $4,000.
The general result in the other two prisons
at Sing Sing and Clinton indicate that their
management has been entrusted to good
hands. There is no reason why our prisons
should not yield the State a large revenue.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

NOBLE LADIES ENGAGED IN THE CAUSE OF
FREEDoM.-Some ladies of Ancona--among
others the Countesses Aessandri Rappi, Gio-
vannelli Bosdari, and Marchioness Trionfi--
recently opened subscription to aid emf
grants and political prisoners. This subscrip-
yielded 1000 crowns. The delegate of the
police, informed of the affair, wished to ar
rest the noble patronesses, and had already
issued his orders to that effect, when the fear
of the tumult such measure would occasion
induced him to fOrego it.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

UTAH DEPREDATIoNs INCREAsING.-An ex-
change says: They steal worse than ever out
in Utah, and the great Apostle Brigham
no revelation in regard to the stealing that is
going on in this territory. When the Lord
wants it stopped He will stop It'll | believe
that man can steal and be justified in the
act. r-t .-s
1t is certainly high time that Congress, now
in session, should put their veto ON such de-
testable doctrines, and convince the people
that the stealings and other rascalities of Nor
monism are not to be justified, maugre the
decision of the high priest of the Latter Day
Saints. 7 t. .r.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

PRESBYTERIAN VS.. BAPTIST. The Pres
byterian Witness wants to know if baptize
means only to dip or immerse, where Baptists
find authority for raising the subject out of
the water after plunging him I'M; whereupon
the Mississippi Baptist answers by asking,
Pedo-Baptists to stop pouring when they
have beganp a., ..r--...rrgrs
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

AN IMAGE STRUoK ny LTGHTNING,-An
immense wooden image, which had been
placed on the top of house in Syracuse, N
Y, wNs.struck by lightning few days since
and torn to pieces. Some of the fragmnts
were thrown into a church-yard two hundred
feet distant. ...- l|..
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

A Cow KILLED BY A NEEDLE.-0ne of the
cows of VIM. Deaton, of Roanoke County,
Va, having suddenly died, post mortem ex-
animation exhibited the fact that the heart
was transfixed by large sewing needle. The
flesh Immediately around was in highly fes-
tered condition and the needle itself entirely
lackened-showing that il must have found
its singular lodgment some time previously
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

SAINT PATRICK MYTH.-A New York
paper is informed by a dispatch from the
Governor of Coney Island, that his librarian
has discovered an ancient manuscript, in
which the history Of that remarkable Saint
is given in full. 1t shows conclusively, ac-
cording to the Governor--frst, that Saint
Patrick was not an Irishman; secondly, that
he was nota Catholic; and thirdly, that he
never existed. $3.50 ftt =
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF A MAGISTRATE
A justice in village near Cleveland, Ohio,
discovered his own daughter among some
girls brought before him from IA house of i'll
fame. He grew pale and adjourned the court.
The girl had eloped from a female seminary
at the East several years before, since which
her father had not heard from her.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

EXPERIMENT ON RAILWAY TRAcKs.-We
find the following statement in the Toronto
Globe: Mr.. w. II. Barlow has whitewashed
a line of rails for a mile, and observed the
passage over them of fast train of twelve
carriages. Where there were yielding joints,
or imPertecttionss in the line spaces FIVE inches
touched the rails
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22
WASHINGTON City CR1rIcIsM--A PoErAsrER

AT LARGE.-Our Washington D. G. exchanges
contain notice of "poem" entitled "Hazel
Valley" recently delivered in that city by
one I. Hurlbert Underwood, and give a few
extracts from the production, which they call
one of "power and beauty" The extracts
are of the most ordinary kind of verse, and
if 'T. Hurlbert' can not do better, we would
advise him to hang his harp on a willow tree
and hire himself te an itinerant side-show as
poet-laureate to the comic-song man.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22

No PREMIUM FOR GHosT SToRIEs-Robert
Dale Owen denies the report that in prepar-
ing new edition of his "Footfalls on the
Boundary of Another World" he has pub
licly advertised for well authentic ghost-sto-
res, and says the difficulty is rather to select
from the number of such phenomena con-
stantly Offering themselves.