Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17
VOLUME V.
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A project is on foot to establish manufac.
tory for arms in Selma, Ala.
One of our Secession exchanges calls the
Rev. Captain Beecher pulpit demon"
The Rodofer House, at Abingdon. vir
ginia, was destroyed by fire on Sunday last.
Three thousand Syrian Christian girls
have been carried off and sold TO the Turks
during the late disturbances.
The Paris police will not permit women or
children under the age of fifteen years TO
drive carriage in the public streets.
A fine building, known as Granite Hall, in
Macon Georgia, was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday night, causing q loss of $2500
The Bank of North Carolina has declared
a dividend offour per cent, payable the first
Monday in June.
a percussion cap factory has been estab-
lished at Raleigh, N. O., under the charge of
Prof. Emmons and Mr.. Charles Keester.
D. H. Gordon has given $4,000 toward
equipping the military Of Fredericksburg,
Virginia.
1t is said that Richmond will be the Capi.
tai of the Southern Confederacy-if it lasts
long enough to want a Capital.
Ou6 VI Tue OIubbJ DdlbluB-uOuSeS III Alex :
andris, Va, has succumbed, in consequence
of Secession.
A second attempt to get up meeting Of
the Atlantic Telegraph Company has failed,
and it is now adjourned sine die.
They are getting up in Constantiuople
regiment Of eunochs. That will be q regi-
ment of armed Neuters.
We are sure TO be losers when we quarrel
with ourselves; it is civil war, and in all
such contentious triumphs are defeats.
Virginia boasts of being the mother of
Kentucky, but says the Louisville Journal,
Kentucky's mother will never know she's
out.
One hundred women, of Jackson, Tennes-
see, have offered their services to the South
e1n army to take care Of the sick and
wounded.
A company has been formed in Wise
County, Va, called the "Wise Yankee
Catchers:" They have asked permission to
go on with their own rifles
The trade in provisions between New
Albany and Louisville is resumed. We
suppose it is also between Louisville and
Jacksonville.
The recent destruction by FIRE of eight
steamboats, at the New Orleans Levee, caus-
ing loss Of S25000O, is now known to have
been caused by negro incendiary.
In General Beauregards official account of
the bombardment of Fort Sumter, we find
the statement that there were four persons
wounded, but none killed.
N. P. Willis, alluding to the promiscuous
display of bunting in New York, saws "It
seems as ifNature's entire stock of rainboWs
had been hung out to dry"
Thomas W. Brown, a respectable citizen
OF Columbus, Miss, was murdered and rob.
bed In the streets of that place a few days
ago.
Two sisters. in.law of Lincoln, residents of
Selma, Ala, are said to have presented a
Confederate flag to the Sulma cadets re-
Gently.
Every chaplain in the army and navy is
to be permitted hereafter to conduct public
worship according to the forms of the church
OF which he may be member.
The Americans use a great deal more
linen per head than any other nation, $l5.-
000,e0o being annually expended for import
alton of this article.
Somebody has improved Shakespeare, thus:
'Tbrice is he armed who hath his quarrel Just"
But six times armed is he who hath good re.
yolver."
Count Joannes, or George Jones, an actor
OF Boston, has just recovered damages to the
of 81, 800 from the AtlaS and Bee for calling
him a Soi-diSsant count.
Immense quantities of rain and snow have
recently fallen in the Holy Land The cs-
terms at Jerusalem have been filled, as thew
have not been before in two hundred years.
A citizen of Raleigh, N. G., has given
$4,000 in cash, and two thousand bushels of
corn, to aid in defending the rights of the
South.
Cambridge was the healthiest city in
Massachusetts last year, the deaths being one
to every sixty. eight inhabitants, and SPRING
field the most unhealthy, one to thirty-two.
James Malcolm, who fought at Corenha-
gen, the Nile, and Trafalgar, died at Ram
say, @. W, on Thursday night. The old
man was a sailor to the last.
j. B. Lips, citizen of st. Francis County,
Arkansas was shot and killed on last Sat
urday week, for expressing Union senti-
ments. No less than sixty balls were lodged
in his body.
The French army numbers six hundred
and eighty. seven thousand men with ten
marshals, one hundred and ninety-four gen.
erals of division, one hundred and sixty-two
brigadier- generals, one thousand three hun
dIed and seventy majors, and six thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one captains.
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