Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-04
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VIM. G. Gray, man eighty. FIVE years of
age, enlisted in the army at Bangor, Me.
The expenses of the British Museum are
$600,000 per annum.
The United States use one-third Of all the
coffee grown. f't --ft
The British Government is about fortify.
ing the lower banks of the Thames on
large scale. a4 1HItG- q s4lFs ~
The telegraph will soon connect the camps
with the War Department, and each other,
and follow the advance column. r.,
Msior Yelverton has been put on hslEpay
and removed from the effective strength of
Bottesina's opera, u Asssdio di FTTence,
has been produced in Florence with entire
success.
The Illustrated Nsscs ofthe 'World( London)
has passed into the hands of Ewing Ritchie,
editor of the National Hqguzine. n
- Don Isidoro Avanjo de Lyra, editor of the
Diario de Ia Mariana, of Havana, was re-
Gently killed in duel. --,.....-,- '.
There is fighting blood in the Beeehers.
Adjutant of a Brooklyn (N.Y, } Regiment.
It's reported that General Scott remarked
the other day: "This is my last campaign
ard it shall be my best" TN
"Wild Cat" RED Dog" "Blue Pup
ETC., are the terms applied to the present cur
reucy of Chicago and Illinois generally.
General Doniphap, who figured in the
Mexican War, is in Missouri advocating Sc
cession.
Farini, the rival of Blondin here last sea.
son, has commenced his rope walking ex-
hibitiops in Canada.
A woman of Alexandria, Va, has a hus-
band in Fairfax cavalry, and son in the
Federal army. ;tl
The Canton (Ky.) Union Democrat says
that the rust has began to attack the wheat
in that section. l-t Nt-E
Robert Peters fell cut of q. balloon in
Portsmouth, EngiandS Sdn the 5tlt inst, and
The loaded coal cars stopped at Harper's
Ferry have been switched off and ranged in
line for bsrricades.
N. P. Willis has gone to Washington for
the purpose of writing "War Sketchesn for
the Home Journal. 81 -fr1s
Miss Agnes Baillie, the sister and life. long
companion Of Joanna Baillie, the dramatist,
is dead, at the age of one hundred
At Elmira, N. Y, now occupied as mill.
taTy rendezvous, there are over nine thous-
and troops ready for service.
The old Catholic Church at Fort Wayne
Ind, in the rear of the new Cathedral, wal
destroyed by fire the other morning. l
The wheat crop of England, in 1860, wa:
the poorest known in twenty five years
Not much better is expected for the yeal
1861.
A steam-whistle has been fitted up at the
light house on Partridge Island, near st
John, in the Bay of Funday, which can bg
heard eight miles to windward. a.
John Flowers, the only man in Dinwiddie
County, Virginia, who voted against the Sc
cession ordinance, has been requested tC
leave. a .rH
The French Minister Thouvenal hai
written to the French consuls in the Unitei
States to observe the strictest neutrality in
their conduct.
Peter Cornelius, celebrated painter o
religious and mythical subjects, has, in hi
seventy fourth year, married Roman girl
of low extraction, aged twenty, one. 'a.F
A female violinist, Mademoiselle Boulay
is astonishing the Parisians by her elegan
performances, which please alike the eyt
and ear,
The New York Sixty. ninth Regiment have
christened their position on Arlington
| Hights Camp Seward, in compliment to the
Secretary OF State.
At Camp Scoot, near Freepert, Illinois
recently, Charles Morris was drowned, Will,
bathing, and VIM. La Darr was killed b.
| lightning. Osa
r, V. Grinter, of Canton, KY, authorize
Governor MagOffin to check on him for hi
whole estate, valued at 100000, and to us
his credit in arming the State.
The drum now in nse by Captain Hannah
Company, of Polk County, Tenn, isa reli
Of the Revolutionary War, having beer
beaten at the charge on Yorktown.
A poor Irishman was ridden on a rail an,
otherwise abused At Hsys's Springs, KY,
few days ago, fol. expressing Union senti
ments. a ga
Minor Craig, a volunteer in the Secession
| army, accidentally shot himself through tn
head, ataRichmond, the other day, and die
IN two hours tG15TBd & no
"A few days since the Stars and Stripe
were raised on the flag staff at Middle Had
dam, Conn, by Jacob Hurd, one of the fel
survivors Of the Revelation.
AtNoFfoIk, beef is worth $50 per barre
and pork $50; there is none of the fOrmsJ
but little Of the latter, and not pound {
salt, as5 .a'.a7s's l.h'I'4 -rs ,.t.s .
| ~ Taylor, the soldier who killed Lieutenau
Davidson Yof q Tennessee regiment in Vii
ginia, was tried by 8 eourt-martial, in Rich
mond, and shot. GGFI
| The United States Zouave Cadets a
.Coekeysville, Maryland, now cheer thui
Zone, two, three-red, white and blue
EHScOrth and revenge ~
A Washington dispatch states that nearl
two hundred regiments Of volunteers ar
now accepted for the war from the differen
States. ~ Is5R ae ,Iltifli4.d.r .-' ~
In 1873, Alexandria, near Washington
was taken by the troops Of Great Britain
Near half rentury has since elapsed, an
now 1t is taken by troops Of the Unite
States. q f.l tsf KY
The Confederate postage stamp has hea
Of Washington in its center. Were th
Father Of his Country now living the Cor
1 federated Would take his head AZ that of