Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09
VARIETIES.

1t is said that the Secretary of War is be-
coming impatient with the expense of bands
of music for the army, as it already amounts
to sum that will make this single item of
expenditure $4,000000 year.
The Tenth Congressional District of Indi-
ana has now about twenty five hundred in
the United States service, and in few
weeks another thousand will be sent in.
Pretty well-very well
The Indiana regiments in Missouri under
General Davis occupy the advance outposts,
and are nearest to the enemy.
1t is considered cowardly act by men of
chivalric temperament, to strike or njure a
man who has been cast down, or who may
be under cloud.
The tomato season ends with the first part
of Autumn. If the plants are pulled up be-
fore the frost comes, and hung up in we'll
ventilated cellar, with the tomatoes on them,
the fruit will continue ripening until Christ
mas. The cellar should not be too dry nor
too warm.
The United States Government were issu-
iug two hundred and fifty thousand rations
daily for the troops and attendants in front
of the Potomac last week.
Contractors and political aspirauts are do
| ing more to retard the efficiency and ag-
| gTessive movem of the Federal Army
than all the other difficulties combined.
Hon. John ]. Crittenden has had an inter-
view at Louisville with General Anderson,
preparatory to tour Of the mountain coun-
! ties Of Kentucky to rally Kentuckians to
| home defense and to repel invasion.
A Washington letter writer, since the
| general orders TO observe throughout the
army the usual formalities in respect of the
memory of General Gibson, inquiries why no
| official notice has been taken of the death OF
| General Lyon.
The privateer business seems to have got
death blow by the taking Of Hatteras. II
is rare now to hear any thing of it.
Governor Pierpoint, of Western Virginia
made a speech in Wheeling, the other day, in
which he said;
There is work for all, and he who hang
back and does nothing, is no better than {
traitor.
He also told the people of Wheeling:
Stay at home, count your money, and you'll
all 20 TO the devil in six months. Ap
plause If fund can be raised, the Firs
Virginia Regiment will be full in three days
If that is not done, the city does not deserve
to be defended.
There are now one hundred and eighty
six Paymasters in the army, large numbe
ofwhom are stationed in Washington. Somt
of their disbursements amount to $200,00I
per week. The salary of Paymaster, in
Guiding rations, &C., averages about $3,5OC
per year.
A curious relic, in the form Of a ston,
statue of human being, was recently dul
up by some laborers on a farm near Cham
bersburg, Penn. 1t is about half foot il
length, very creditably executed and is sup
posed to have been the work of some India
sculptor.
TIE famous new Partisan pamphlet o.
Italy may we'll cause anxiety regarding tn
peace of Europe, in the minds of those VIII
believe it was inspired by Napoleon III
Imagine the suggestiveness of this sentences
which occurs in il: "Venitia is as necessary I
Italy as Belgium TO France"
Lutheran emigration to the West, by tn
Michigan Central Railroad, is said to
very large Just how. More than twenty-6V
hundred Norwegians, passing through Lily
erpool and Quebec, to the Northwest, tra'
eled over the road named during the la
two weeks.
, The prevailing idea in Richmond Is tn
i the rebel army will winter in PHILADELPHIA
Q not even stopping in Washington or bali
pore,