Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-16
VANITY FAIR-IsMs.


as usual, but we clip from its pages the fol-
lowing: fe. f..
Logic and Epaulettes- Chase's, plan Of
taking Fort Pickens by stratagem-ln Illicit
process Of the Major. a.
The Beau Ideal--A Washington CORE
spondent writes: "The tall dark form OF Mr..
Lincoln appeared against the illuminated
par!or window of the hotel, the ta'get Of
every eye" That is, b1w ideal was in
every peeper.
A Carp. pet Shaken 0ut-The Euening Post
relates story Of a carp that was caught the
other day, near Calais, with ring fastened
IN it, bearing the date l704. Our illiterate
contributor says that this proof Of the ten
acity of life in the carp makes it obvious that
this fish can not be alluded to in the we'll
known Latin phrase cdrpe diem.
Invisible PlaDet-Our reporter, notffuding
his own name recorded in the papers, among
the distinguished guests at the recent leUee
at the Astor House, congratulates himself
lbaving barely escaped from the crowd with
his lite,) that his name is not more publicly
associated with an Astor-risk.
March 4th--The Patriots last worried to
jamie; Good Byel .r
A Query for the Southern Congresy-
Whether a standing army ought to be pro-
%. .
Light and Darkpess.-We learn from the
shipping. lists that the ship Daylight has lust
arrived at this port from HonpsKopp. AS
the Southern Confederaies appear to be sadly
in want of ship of state, Just now, it might
be advisable for them to charter the vessel
referred to- and commission her in that
capacity. In their existing state of darkness,
bow cheering it would be for them to see the
DayEgh how daylightful the change from
their present gloomy "look out for Nox'
Such One to Pronounce-Wb should
the Border States remain in the Union
Because Missouri loves company
Good Little City7-If proof were wanting
that Philadelphia was the most virtuous
little place in the world, the following ad-
yertisement, which has appeared in the
Bulletin of that city for the last two or three
months, would prove it:
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE AIRS,
.L- "THE FIRST sIN,"
A beautiful Marble Statuette, by ANGELINE, on ex-
hibition, for short time.
. Visitors ,rill please bring their opera glasses
If the first sin is so small that il reouires
an opera-glass to see it, why, solar-micro-
scopes, let alone spy. glasses, couldn't see the
other sins. Great are the Cosmopolites.
Theatrical-The dramatic critic of the
Atlas, in a notice of Mr. Frank Goodrich's
lately published play, Filtration, And What
Comes Of IT says that, so far as regards plot,
the play is "a sad miss" Now, if the
dramatic critic of the Atlas had been man
Of the World, Instead, he would have known
that, without "sad miss" filtration is no
where.
South Carolina OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
is nine points of the law. .
Latest from California-By Pony Express.
we learn, under the head of Shipping INTEL
hgence, ship Busted, up for Cork We can't
see what busted vessel wants with Cork.
It's all very well for poets and lovers to
talk OF mistfetoe boughs, and all that sort of
thing, but when the lover makes a hasty
descent down the steps, and the missile toe
comes after him, it isn't usually supposed to
be quite SO agreeable.
Successive generations have boosted of
their golden, their silver, or their iron ape.
but il has remained for the people of the
United States, in these days of Floyd and of
negro slavery, to possess the right to mark
this as their Bondage. .'I
Vanity Fair to Virginia
vlTsi1iS ,sI has as @ voted she would not seCOde.
That the who the States as the foremost did lead.
Can't now by six others be led.s III
"Take any other shape but this r-When
are you authorized IN judging that man
can notkeep his head above water?
When he has sunken cheeks, of course.
Musings on the Morning Papers-'Pres-
dent Buchanan thinking that Captain Pope
referred disrespectfully to the President of
the United States, and thus violated the
fourth article of war, has ordered him to be
court martialed."
This is the old question of 'Pope or Presi-
dent" again revived. ~,
Galveston advices state that Captain Hill
refused to evacuate Fort Brown, or to sur
render the Government property"
Evidently that Hill is a mountain on Gen.
eral Twiggs's shoulders.
"a collision between the Federal and State
troops in Texas is imminent"
Certainly it is a mathematical tact that
two bodies can not occupy the same space at
the same time.
''Hail, gentle Springp ...
No, DON'T please don't. Reign, if you
will, oh vernal season, but don't hail, par
ticuarly.
blessed Is he who dies in the flower of
his youth; it is as if he had risen from the
midst of a feast before he was intoxicated"
Blessed is he who dies in the -four of his
youth; it is as if he had risen from the midst
of meal before his cravings of hunger were
sated.
"The sweepings of the Harpers's establish
ment are worth S, 500 year"
The sweepings of the cross-walks cost
more than they are worth. u
"Many politicians claim to stand upon
the Constitution"
Yes: as men do on kindling- wood-onIy
to break it. E#
''His Ninceln's) speech can not be read
without the conviction that he means what
he says, and where we miss the politician,
we find the honest man."
Would that an honest man were found
wherever we miss politician.
"Andrew johnson, of Tennessee, has been
styled second Jackson"
There is small difference between Jack
and John.
"What would old Uncle Sam say to the
mint seizers at New Orleans?"
What's funds to you may be death to me.
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