Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-27
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Ex Governor A. H. Reeder has declined
the tender of Brigadier. Generalship.
The Grpud Jury of Pittsburg has indicted
the clotbi 6 contractors Of Pennsylvania for
swindling.
A fearful tornado passed over Champaign
County, Ill, on Wednesday, accompanied by
q destructive hail storm.
Six hundred thousand men are deemed
necessary by the French Government, for
the defense of the empire.
A Philadelphia merchant who talked Sc
cession on the street and got the boys after
him, has been put into an insane asylum by
his friends.
The Commissioners of Lorain County have
levied tax of one-half mill on the dollar
for the ben, fit of families of volunteers who
may Iced assistance. -...
The Board of Supervisors of Macon County,
in this State, have voted to appropriate
$1,000 to the support Of families of volunteers
from that county, during the war.
The Circleville Herald gives a glowing ac-
count of the crop prospects in the garden
county of Pickaway. The wheat never
looked better, corn is growing finely, and
oats look well. ,r lr ~ n
The New Orleans Delta, in noticing the
evacuation of Harper's Ferry, significantly
says: THE temper of our people and of our
armies is decidedly hostile to these retro
grade movements.
Tho Rnstnn la1lri1r snnaks of Rrigadier-
General Schenck as "the soldier who con-
Quoted the Ohio volunteers into the enemy's
country in railway train-using the cow
catcher of the locomotive as o scouting
party"
For voting for Lincoln, John johnson was
hung in Crittenden County, Ark, on the
Tenn, on the same. day, simply because he
declared himself opposed to slavery.
The old Pittsburg Gazette urges that in the
elections this fall in Pennsylvania all party
lines be dropped, and good Union men, half
| Republicans and half Democrats, be put in
nomination and elected.
Two deaf and dumb men were killed while
walking together upon the track of the West
Chester (Penna) Railroad on Wednesday:
| They were struck by the cow-catcher and
! instantly killed. The men were supposed to
! be brothers, from Philadelphia.
Dr. R. H. Cobell, long resident of Rich
| mond (brother-in-law of General Winfield
Scott has obtained pass to leave the State,
intending, as he said, to go to Wisconsin.
He has landed property there, and it is not
known that he will return.
There have been five hundred and seventy
five thousand volunteers rendered TO the
President by responsible parties; and it is
believed the War Department can put one
hundred thousand men, Lt9 the field in
thirty days if it chooses. =
Here is the perfection of treacle and brim
stone, in the preacher who, after "a warn
description of the glories of Heaven, suddenly
exclaimed, Now, my brethren, let us take
off the lid of the bottomless cauldron and SEE
what is going on in hell
Hon. D. s. Dickinson made a speech. a
Elmira, few days ago, in which he said tha
"Jeff. Davis was like the boy who wanted {
horse, but could not get one, so he took thu
next best thing, broken stick. JEFF. coulC
not be President, so he wanted TO get up
country to be President over"
Garibaldi's daughter was married May q
to Major Canzio, in Garibaldi's plain farm
house at Caprera. The happy pair sailed fo
Geneva the next day, and on landing tn
bride was crowned with flowers by th,
young girls of the city. D ----. u. q.
The Paris correspondent of the New Yorl
Advertiser states that regiment of volun
teers is being organized in Germany, who's
services are to be offered to the GoVernmen
of the United States. Several French AM
Prussian officers have determined to leav
for America to enter the United State
service.
The Worcester Spy says the Rev. Gilber
Cummings pastor of the Unitarian Church a
WestborO, who has been chosen commando
OF the company in that town, is the seyent
clergyman from this vicinity who has &C
cepted similar post of duty the presen
season.