Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-20
VARIETIES.


The reason given for Jenny Linds return
70 The stage is that 'she finds private life
somewhat prison." Tired of little Otto2
The friends of General Fremont in ST.
Louis have started o subscription for the
purchase of a magnificent sword to be pre-
sented to him.
Nearly all of those who have recently adj
vocsted the policy of crushing out slavery
wherever our arms are carried have been
Oldrline Democrats. Hon. George Bancroft,
General Cochfane, General Butler aud Cen
eral Burnside are Of this stamp.
= The Martinsburg (va) Republican says
that three fast-saiIiug Northern vessels, re
Gently engaged in the slave- trade, have been
offered 70 JEFF Davis as privsteers, taking
their chances of getting to sea from North
ern port. Letters of marque were at once
granted. t.
One .tun Of donations, bestowed by the pa.
triotic ladies of Indiana, was recently shipped
to Paducah, Ky, for the troops. s'
"Don't want you any longer" said an en-
ployer to very tall clerk.
Fashionable people are not apt to starve
their happiness in order TO feed their vanity.
Experience of life-What fool I've been.
The woman who negleets her husband s
shirt front, is not the wife of his bosom.
A bad look. .out-Tbrought the loop. holes Of
Fort Laiay yette. lt..sa p
A patriotic convict-A life convict in the
Ohio PeDitentiary has subscribed $50 to the
National Loan.
'Your men ere inclined to be a little
noisy, observed gentleman to Colonel at
one of our camps. 'Yes," replied the
Co'one', "the Infantry tactics of their nurser-
les were very bad, fear"
The same uneasy feeling which pervaded
every class Of society toward the close of the
year which preceded the italian War, is said
to be again discernible in Paris. .....e
Stark, the new Senator from Oregon in
General Bakers place, is a native Of Con-
necticut, and the husband of New Haven
lady, well and favorably known-Eizaoeth,
daughter of the late Captain William E.
Moulthrop.
Judge William NJ. Taylor, an old and re-
spected citizen Of Madison, Ind died on Fri
day morning, after an illness of several weeks
Louisiana papers speak of sugar making
and cotton picking as in progress. Tue
accounts given respecting the sugar crop are
not very favorable. -..-
When Byron crossed the sea he sang: "My
native land, good night When Mason and
Slidell attempted to cross they woke up one
morning and made the salutation: "My
native land, good morning"
Letters have been reeeived-in New York
announcing the death at Jerusalem, on the
25th of September, of the independent. mis-
siopary, Albert Roberts. ....
General Hunter has sent letter to Cen
eral Price, by a flag of truce. repudiaing the
treaty between Generals Fremont and Price,
entered into November l, and addressed a
letter to Adjutant General Thomas, setting
forth his reasons therefor.
As things look now it is for Jeff Davis and
his Council of Ten to decide whether they
will sacrifice Virginia to save South Carolina
and Georgia, or. sacrifice these two cotton
States to save yet a little longer the Eastern
section of Virginia, for the Western section
has resolutely declared for the Union. Upon
either alternative this rebellion goes down.
The Indiana boys in Missouri recently
captured camp of rebel troops, nearly all of
whom were suffering with the ague. To use
the language OF the directions on quack med
icines, they were "well shaken before taken. !"
The Toronto Patriot says that "the number
of Americans arriving in Canada, because of
inability to pass from their pursuits in the
North to friends in the South, is daily aug
mented. 1t is larger relatively in Quebec
and Montreal than in Toronto; but even here
it is considerable, and with a certainty OF
increase"
The Governor of Florida has issued pro-
clamation forbidding the enlistment of oiti-
zens of that State to serve. in other portions
of the ConfedeTacy. %