Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-11
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Gen. Scott and Mr.. Lincoln have, il is said
become very warm friends.
1t has been estimated that there are 5000.
600 horses in the United States.
Kindness Is language the dumb can
speak and the deaf can understand.
What occupation has the SUM- That Of a
tanner to. be sure. .E
The Empress of Austria, now at Madeira,
has recovered her health.
Why is an indolent dog like gradual
ascent2 Because he is a slow pup (slope up. J
| Clark Truly, planter, was murdered in
Chicot, Ark, recently for his money
The excavations at Pompeii have been re-
commenced With some success.
Steam tugs are now used on the Grand
Trunk Canal in England. I
The French Emperor has caused Long
wood and the tomb of Napoleon, at St He.
lena, TO be restored to their former condition.
Red noses are lighthouses, to warn voya-
gers on the sea of life Off the coasts of Mala-
ga, Jamaica, Santa Cruz and Holland.
A great poet says, that mountains stand
fixed forever" We know, however that
it is no uncommon thing for them to slope.
The people of the Seeding States stamp
on the United States laws and put United
States stamps on their letters. .
The new British Bankruptcy Bill. to 90
into operation in October next, contains 256
clauses. -TT
General Mollard, a Sandman officer of
Savoy, has been appointed aid-de camp to
the French Emperor.
English manufactured cigars are shutting
out Of Portugal the usual supplies from
Brazil.
George Washington Dixon, notorious and
an eccentric character, died in New Orleans
last week.
Vanity Fair has cut representing Bu.
ehanan as an iceberg, melting away before
Abraham Lincoln as the sun.
A pictorial pocket Bible, finely illustrated.
has been published in London, at 8715 cents
OF our money.
The Congress just expired passed ll5 bills
OF public and private character, and eight
cen joint resolutions.
A duel is on the tapis at indianapolis. be .
tween councilman and merchant of that
city. 1t will never be anywhere else.
Mr.. Gurney, the English member of Par
lament whose wife eloped with her footman,
has obtained verdict in his divorce suit.
Opium, rice, tin, iron and long cloths
find good market in the Peiho since the
late treaty.
Grisi Giulietta, the famous pyfma donna
positively retires from the stage in April
next.
The Sons of Malta in New Orleans have
expelled General TTiggs from their associa-
ton.
S. S. Galley was drawn into the machinery
of the Planters Oil Works, in Memphis,
Tenn, the other day, and crushed to death.
Richard H. Champion, treasurer of Lyons
Township, Mich, is defaulter to the extent
of $4,000. -- -r.- &c.,
The ghost of the Duchess d'Alba walks, it
is said, and is frightening the Empress Eu-
genie into her grave. Masses and vigils
. seem powerless against the phantom.
The pay of Major General in the United
States Army is equivalent to something
more than So, 800 year; a Brigadier- Gem
erals to a little over 81, 100 year.
The Mobile (Ala J Mercury one of che first
papers in Alabama, if not the first, to come
out as an open advocate of Secession, has
recently dled OF starvation.
A Mississippi editor says the man in that
State who is for the Union, is traitor to
the Confederate States. What an induce
ment to be traitor
Adelina Patti appeared for the second
time in Meyerbeer's new comic opera, The
Pardon of Ploermel on Thursday evening,
in New Orleans, and with much success.
Rosa Bonheur has been adding to her fame
by executing beautiful statuettes of animals
in bronze, "recalling the first antiques aud
medieval sculptures"
The trip from London to Constantinople
is made by the Danube route and Kustendjie
Railway in seven days, with but twenty
hours OF sea voyage.
The stage leaving Harrodsburg for Frank
fort, KY. the other day, upset, injuring
several persons, and breaking Gov. Magofin's
arm. -
Gov. Moore, of Alabama, it is stated, will
shortly tender TO President Davis of the Con-
federate States, 1000 men armed and equip
ped. r.-
Thomas p Judy, who murdered Thomas
Greer, in Montgomery County, and was inn
prisoned at Paris, KY, has escaped, and is
still at large.
Peter 10, an Indian from Tobique, Canada,
returned recently from hunt with five
moose, two deer and one caribou, also five
sable skins.
The other night Mr.. Raymond, of Rich
moDd, Virginia, was stabbed by his wife,
who afterward attempted to commit suicide,
all for jealousy.
The number of convicts in the Indiana
Penitentiary, at JeffersonVille, at present, is
Ala, and the number in the Northern Peni-
tentiary is 1877.
A new postoffice has been established at
Ducker, KY, on the Lexington and Frank
fort Railroad, and Mr.. Disbman has been
appointed postmaster. o.
Two young men were badly injured in
TeIre Haute, Ind, the other day, by the
premature discharge of an anvil, which they
were firing in honor of the Inauguration.
Browne, late of the Washington C0astittt-
hOh, bas accepted the Assistant Secretary
ship Of State Of the Montgomery Confed-
eraoy. .a r.r ...s STD
A Russian Colonel named Leutche, having
in fit of passion killed several of his serfs,
has, at the demand of the Emperor, been
sentenced to prison for several years.
Gen. Wheat, of Nicaragua ,notoriety, who
went TO Italy to help Gsribaldi but arrived
there little too late, has returned to New
York. 81 -.- ...-.. -...
The wine raised in Portugal the last sea-
SON has fallen OF in quantity eighty per
cent, and the loss of money consequent is
stated to be enormous. d'|-.i |.7 t.'
The Rev. Charles Webb lie BAs, Preben-
Diary of Lincoln Cathedral and biographer of
Bishop Middleton, of Calcutta, has recently
died.
"Awl how do you like my mustache,
20, very much. 1t looks like the fuz on the
back Of caterpillar"
James Taunton, about ffty-two years of
age, died from an overdose of morphine at