Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-09
vARInr1E 3.

Scotch pig iron is 50 80 per tun lower at
present than it was year since. -
williams College has received $4,000
from wealthy citizen of Boston.
The last Congress did more to erect Terri
tories than to preserve States.
The small pox is raging in the vicinity of
Greencastle, KY.
There are six counties called Lincoln in the
United States, of which five are in the South
ern States.
The companion of an evening and the
companion for life require very different
qualifications.
There is, in the town of Avon, Me, gran
ite bowlder which measures 5000 cubic feet,
and weighs CAB tuns. ~
A distinguished Photographic artist, of
Boston, has been making huge glass neg
ative pictures five feet by four.
A boy in Hempfeld, Pa, was born, re-
Gently, with but one eye, and that in his
forehead, and no nose whatever.
The Mohawk River has again overfowed
its banks. On Thursday the Utica IN. ~
flats were submerged.
A French author of celebrity says truly
enough that men are the cause of womeknot
loving one another.
One hundred and four. ,.Musquakee Indians
have renounced their savage habits, and
settled at Tama County, Iowa, on farms.
Women, says La Bruyere, are always in
extremes; they are either better or worse
| than men.
Mrs. Frederick Shultz committed suicide
in New York the other evening, while in
| sane.
A cynical bachelor declares that advertis-
ing for wife is like paying premium to
| contract the smallpox.
A New Orleans paper very seusibly de-
clines publishing communication from
genius who signs himself Everthesame
/ Stupdass."
1t is q grand thought that no force on
earth can permanently set up liei and that
the combined energies of the world never
can pull down great truth.
The Philadelphia Pennsylvania, quite an
old journal with which James Gordon Ben
nett was once connected, is now detunct,
having lost money for some years.
More than half of the convicts in the Massa-
chusetts State Prison are under twenty Six
years. The youngest prisoner is htteen, and
the Oldest seventy years old.
| Inc DQullS T6C6uJlJ hSol
contained it is said, over 1000 applications
from office-seekers. "It's an ill wind that
blows nobody good"
Where two persons die of consumption
out of given population in England, three
persons die of that disease out of an equal
population in Massachusetts,.
! William Smith O'Brien has settled down
in his pretty country seat at Oahermoyle.
sa ;,oo from 1ondp6 nrAnnrtV amOutinO
to $45.000 annually.
La Bruyere says most women have little
or no principle; they are guided by the
heart, and depend for their morals on those
they love.
A woman who has but one lover does not
believe in coquetry and she who has a num-
Der of lovers believes in nothing but CO.
quetry.
John Strange was recently married in
Cincinnati to Mary Strange. Strange, in'
deed; but the next thing will be little
stranger.
The Southern Congress have most gra.
ciously permitted the United States coin to
be regarded as a legal tender within the Con
federacy.
Asparagus has made its appearance in tht
San Francisco (Cal.) market, and can be hac
at. frst-class restaurants at six and hal
cents stem.
There are 5,59s boats belonging to thu
Erie Canal, of which ,446 are of create
. tunnage than the vessel in which Columbu
discovered America.
James Riddle, a young man of good fam
ily, haying fallen into habits of dissipation
committed suicide with laudanum, on Thurs
day night, at Philadelphia.
A secret band of burglars and counter
feiteIs, of the most desperate character, wa
recently discovered and broken up in Ney
Orleans.
? ". A. Purdom, formerly editor of tn
Flag of the Union, published at jackson
I Miss, and more recently Mayor of that city
J. died at that place one day last week.
An opera by Rubenstein, Les E.fdnts q,
Landes, has been recently produced at VI
emma. An unpublished opera, by Fran
: Schubert, is announced for production
that city.
, The choice ballads and poems that hav
appeared in BentleyS MiseeIlaRg have bee
collected and published in one yolum
Among them are Longfellow's "Yillae
Blacksmith" and Excelsior"
The London pickpoekets have traine
dogs to such accurate operation that the
= Jump up at a gold watch, seize it, snap II
II chain, and bolt off where their master
, waiting.