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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28
From Hilton Head.

HuToN HEAD, s. O., December Ia, l96l.-
The Union troops now possess the sea coast
for eighty or ninety miles. Beaufort and
Port Royal Island is our first advance island,
and from Il the march to Savannah or
Charleston will be a short story when we get
ready. The new expedition down the coast
has been abandoned for the present. A few
stone ships In Charleston harbor will make
Sumter and Moultrie valueless, and shut out
the meet of treason from all commercial i'm
portance hereafter, and trade will 6ud a new
channel through Beaufort. Tybee Island is
ours, and from ii Pulaski can be reduced; sge
have already found the inside passage, and
our gunboats have been between the fort
and Savannah.
A Mr.. William Hsrding and his wife came
in to- day from Tybee Island, claiming the
protection Of the authorities as loyal citizens.
They rode through the camps, aud are the
first who have come out in the Union cause.
They represent Savannah as in deplorable
state the whole city completely demoral-
lied; great want of provisions, and all leAv-
ing who can get away. If the Government
really understands the Importance of our
success here, it will give us $4,000 men, and
then-as good as $4,000 more-lend us Gen.
eral Mcclellan for sixty days (no disrespect
to our general officers). | believe that the
rule of the traitors will be at an end, and
then the good and loyal men of the South
will dare to speak. The average OF our
weather is glorious, like our pleasant June
weather,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28

On Tuesday, December 81, the shadow Of
the Moon will pass over the Earth and cause,
to a narrow strip thereof, a total eclipse OF
the Sun. The width of the Moons shadow
on the Earth will not at any place exceed
forty miles, and the duration of total dark
ness minute and third. The center of the
shadow first touches the Earth at point in
the Caribbean Sea, about two degrees south
of Cape Antonio, Cuba, and leaves the Earth
near the ancient city of Corinth, having oc-
cupied in its passage across the Earth 3 h.
40 sec. ."i
The whole of the approaching eclipse will
be visible, as a partial one, in the British
Provinces of Prince Edward Island, New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland;
but at all places in the United States, except
Eastport, the Sun will not rise until after the
beginning. Throughout the Atlantic States,
however, it will rise before the greatest OBJ
scuration, and before the end, at all places
situated east of line drawn from the south
ern extremity of Texas to the middle of Lake
Superior; west of that line the eclipse will
end before the Sun rises.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28
The Cation Trnde with Mexico.

The editorial correspondent of the New
Orleans Picdyune writes as follows of late
visit to Braunfels, Texas;
was astonished to see the life and hustle
in New Braunfels-cotton coming in and
cotton going out; cotton here, cotton there,
everywhere. The enterprising house OF F.
Moreau is purchasing largely for the Mexi-
can market, making all payments in Mexi-
can dollars, and there is no lack of hard cur
reDcy in Comal County. Cotton is hauled
in American wagons and Mexican carts; the
roads are lively with the sharp cracks Of
drivers whips as they jog along toward the
Rio Grande.
A Frenchman in Mexico is also engaged
in the transportation on huge wagons, drawn
by twelve mules, and was told that he
loaded no less than tweuty-four bales on one
of his immense vehicles, and that he at.
tracted as much attention on the road as a
tray cling circus or menagerie. He has been
heretofore hauling cotton from Matamoras to
the interior of Mexico, but is now going
regularly into business from this section. II
the war is to go on, and the blockade con-
| tinues, king cotton must hold court for
awhile at New Braunfels, and Mr.. Moreau
will prove prompt and active first load OF
the treasury. He will disburse hundreds oil
thousands of dollars this year all in Mexican
castings.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28

believe that Halleck and Buell. in the West,
will accomplish it before many days are
over. Every thing, so far, tends to inspire
respect for General Halleck's abilities. He
is both silent and active; he has immense
material at his command, and he has it in
his power to strike one blow which must
tell more loudly against the morale Of the
insurrection than any one blow which can
be struck by land forces in the East.
The insurgents are now surrounded on all
sides. If they had an army ten times as
numerous as ours they could not defend
themselves at all the points where we are
steadily advancing upon them. They do
not attempt it, indeed; the seacoast they
leave almost bare; the forces now in South
Carolina can not oppose such an army as
General Mcclellan will gather there before
he advances toward Atlanta; and the lack
of means of transportation not only makes
it impossible for Davis to move his forces
quickly from point to point but it makes
more fatal to him the consequences of re-
treat, in which his army must inevitably
leave all its equipage.
Though our affairs advance slowly, it is
evident that they do not halt. The tide has
turned it sets in slowly at first, but it is as
irresistible now as when, by and by, it will
rush with the headlong speed of mill-race,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28

The PRESIDENT ON THE TRENT AFF6tR.-
We assign very little Importance to the cur.
rent rumors respecting the exciting topic of
the day, but the following, from an editorial
in the New York Commercial advertiser,
seems entitled to some notice on the score of
its source:
We know that within few hours of the
fact of the arrest of Mason and SIidell being
make known to the President, he entertained
and expressed the opinion that the prisoners
must be given up and few men could bring
to the examination of the subject clearer
head, purer patriotism and a keener sense
of what is right in the premises than Presi-
dent Lincoln.
The same difficulty probably presented
itself to his mind that has been raised by the
law officers of the English Crown, viz: that
it was Captain Wilkes duty to fulfill the
7rhole Lap and not to elect which part of it
he would obey and what part disobey, how
ever much he might shrink from the suspi-
ciops and the allegations which might in
consequence be directed against him. -
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28

Ex-MNIsTER Jones, now in Fort Lafayette,
for reasonable correspondence with JEFF
Davis, is Missourian by birth. He was first
prominently known as delegate to Congress
from the Territory of Michigan aud Wjscon-
sin: After Michigan was set off as State,
be was chosen delegate to Congress from the
Territory Of Wisconsin. He was next Clerk
of the Supreme Court of the same Territory,
under Chief Justice Dunn, and subsequently
wss appointed Surveyor General of the Ter.
ritory of lowe, very lucrative position. He
was then elected United States Senator from
the State of Iowa, to fill a vacancy, and was
afterward re elected, and occupied the posi-
tion of United States Senator until the win
ter of 1858, when President Buchanan ap-
pointed him Minister Resident at Bogots.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28

THE INSANITY OF GENERAL w. T. SHER-
MAN.-Assistant Adjutant General J. H.
Hammond, in letter to the Philadelphia
North American, dated ST. Louis, December
ls, denies the allegation that General W. T.
Sherman is insane. He says;
The statements that General Sherman tel
egrapbed three times in one day for permis-
sion to evacuate Kentucky; that he fright
eped the people of Louisville out of their
wits, ard that he said Louisville could not
be defended, are all maliciously false. AS to
his conduct at Sedaia, l say that he never
had a command of any kind whatever in this
department, and of course could have done
Iothipg of the kind mentioned and charged
against him. He WAS employed in matters
OF the utmost importance until the afternoon
of the Sd December, when he went home to
see bis family. Some malicious person
seized the occasion to circulate the above,
commencing in Chicago by telegraph from
St Louis. 1 send this communication en-
tirely on my own responsibility, assuring all
who may read this article, that | know more
of the position of General Sherman and his
career in Kentucky and Missouri than any
other person possibly can know. At the
moment of my leaving Louisville, several
of the most prominent men Of the city and
State expressed most earnest wishes that he
might he enabled TO take the field in Ken
lucky instead of Missouri. General Sher-
man will resume his duties in the Depart
ment of Missouri on the 23d inst. '''
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|EKSF1;XUK KlIAY
Look Outy Good News for ADII

THSHR NEVER =. FAILING MADAME
- bAPHAnLts the best. She succeedS When74n
others have failed. All who are In troube-all who
been disappoin ted, crushed and blasted by false
promises and deceit-All who have been deceived
and tTihed with all fly to her fol advice and salts.
those they love, consult her to relieve and SATISFY
IBLove Affairs She Never BaIIsI
She has the secret Of Winning the affection of the
opposite sex. She shows you the
likeness PF Your Future Wife or Husband
Or absent iIend She guides che eingle 70 hapRy
maSFrage MAJ sPS makes the %sSrisd happy Her sle
stances, and the result has always been the means
lof securing
Isit A Speedy and Happy MarriaGoI
She is therefore sure dependence. d
was the frst aud she Is the only person In tkia
Who can give entire Satisfaction on all the
sands both married and sngle, who daily and SS.
TO ALL In business her advice is invaIu.
the result Of all commercial and business trann.
Lottery Numbers given without estrS chArss. ( Z
4. .m.ApAM ,hAPHAELl u bona edS A.trolOGi =
that every one can depend upon She Is the grea T.
est Aatrologist Of the Nineteenth Century. some
ladies nay be little timid, though they need nc
isar, or She practices nothins but what ls recon-
satisfy the most fAstidous Of her rSspsotAbihtys
ISsntade and Of the purity OF her proaslsleA
g9Hd interviews are strictly private ana oOnhd'S,
Therefore, come onsI come ali 70 oss.aIs r' n..
Ne. SO Hast Fifth,strest,
Ipss'"eeA syeamore-Atrse'A ana proAdWay' oinsiA1
TkRMs Lsdiss. Fifty osnh Gentlemen: Ioa
Dollar. ut'5oa i..s.. HsW De1o-Ms MsW&fU
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28

THE CoTToN FROM PORT RoYAL.-The New
York World says that the value of the cot
ton brought by the Atlantic is about sixty
thousand dollars, The greater part Of the
staple was picked on the plantation of DR..
jenkins, the remainder on the adjacent plan
tations. The crop this year is pronounced
a fine one, yielding above the average mum.
ber of bales per acre. On account of the
great haste necessary, the cotton brought by
the Atlantic is packed in bales of various
sizes; about half of it ginned, and the other
half as it was picked from the bolls. 1t is
Sea Island cotton, and the samples of it
shown are of fine fibre and in good cohdi-
tion. The cargo is consigned to Colonel
TOmpkins, of the Qusttermaster's Depart
ment. Colonel Tompkins' orders are to store
the cotton until the arrival of the Govern.
ment agent from Port Royal to see to its
disposition. 1t will probably be sold soon.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28
NONsTITUTIONAL DISEASES
SEMINAL WEAKNESS, -.
IMPoTENCY OR INABILITY,
.-... Diseases of the URINARY ORGANS,
And IMPURE BLOOD.

How many thousands Of men and women are there
who are at this time suffering out miserable exist-
ence from at perDicods practice, selpoluttoni
Look at their palid emaoRted and disheursd FACES,
andtbeir broken down constitutions rdisqualiyiRg
them from the hsPpiDesP Of marriage or theenJoY-
msnt life, In this hOrrid situation THOUSAND
fer until death closes the scene Let parents, guar
dians or friends attend to pthose who are suffering
with any OF those horrible e,destroyipg maladieS,
see that they are cared for and cured before be too
late. Send them Immediately to DR.. ]. KATEs'
No. 1853 sycamore7street, first door below Fifth
street, Cincinnati Ohio Physiei9n who has made
private diseases his especial study Tor 30 years, and
who is certain to cure the most ipVeteTate cases,
without MERCURY Oh, ANY OTHER INJVRI-
OUs DRUGS. 1t is important to those afflicted, or
to those who are nIersstsd In the welfare Of their
friends, to be careful Of the many fAETENDED DOC
TORS, who iAest all cities, publishing their great
skn in curing all diseases iu few days, imposing
UPON the public By using the names Of eminent
physicians from Europe and other places, Be,
therefore, careful and make strict inquiry before
yOn risk your lte you may fall Into the hands Of
thsse chArIatans.
~ N. B.-Dr. J. KATKs wnI attend his patients
personally, aud can bs found in his erce, No. IS3
syosHore. street, hfst door below Fifth, from 8
O'clock in the nothing until sin the evening. All
cenfdentiai ~ ~ ' nol3-u
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There are amusing as we'll as serious do

There are amusing as we'll as serious do
ings in Richmond. A letter from there to
the Nashville Union says:
We have had recently a number of re-
markable matrimonial alliances. Last week,
the most beautiful girl in town married a
widower with eight children, some of them
grown. On the day this wedding took
place man of eighty carried to the altar a
Miss of seventeen summers. Mr.. "Back
Diamonds" Pollard, one of the editors of the
Examiner, is among the list of hymeneal
victims. Some of these marriages took
place IN emu anu Were T,sn
tions. 1t is said that when the old man
mentioned above saluted his bride, the
whole congregation shouted, and the boys
poured perfect hail storm of peanut hulls
at the bald scence of the aged groom.
Richmond is evidently rottening rapidly.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28

How PRICE SUBsIsTs HIS Army 1t has
been puzzle to many how Price, without
governmental resources, has managed to
most desolated. His system is not known
in the regulations" He never complains
of want of transportation, whether he is
about to move ten miles or hundred. He
pays for what he takes in Missouri State
scrip. His men go into the corn field, shuck
the corn, shell il, take it to mill and bring it
into camp ground into meal. Or should they
have no -four, they take the wheat from the
stack, thresh it themselves, or with horses
or oxen, and as with the corn, ask the aid Of
the miller to reduce it to -four. Such an
army can go where they please in an agricul-
turaI country.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28

CINCINNATI HORTICULTURAL SoCIErY.--
There was a fair attendance at the rooms of
the Society this morning. Among the visit
oTs present. we noticed W. Bateham, editor
of the Ohio CaltiUGtoT, at Columbus, and the
Messrs. Taylor, practical horticultuIists,
from the vicinity of Cleveland.
Vice President VIM. Orange occupied the
Chair, in the absence of President Gerard.
After the reading of the minutes of the
previous meeting a committee to name Off
GERS TO be voted for at the coming election,
was sappointed consisting of Messrs. Heavier,
PiersoD, and DR., John Taylor. .r. -'
Mr.. Bateham, In reply to a remark from
the Chair, stated that he had visited the
peach orchards in the neighborhood of
Cleveland, and had found a great quantity
of fruit, which was deserving of cultivation.
rather meager. He found other varieties
which were profitable. He found no late
peaches. n, D. ,..l. r.,,. ..g., 5f,op ts6
An estimate of the quantity Of peaches
raised between Milford and Deerheld, in the
little Miami Valley, was stated at fifty thou.
sand bushels during the past year. It was
stated that the apple crop in this vicinity
would be q failure. Our peach orchards
have suffered much from the severe weather
of the past two winters, and the peaches
| have been premature, 1.. Il. .r..g l.y3.. Z q.
Mr.. Orange refsryed to his experience in
peach raising, having in his orchard treas
which have borne fruit for fifteen years in
succession. Mr.. BatehAm referred TO Hole
early peach, cultivated lin the northern par
Of the Stste, which was considered the besl
grown there. Mr.. Taylor stated that he had
seen four hundred Of these trees planted Ii
his orchard, but theYsEete too young to re
IL Mr.. BAteham desired to know the senti-
ment of the society in regard 10 ""Hear
CherFiesp as 9 market crop. A menlbss 70
| piled that in his experiences the bshditR o
Tho "Hesrt Cherries low was q sure, pre-
VentiVe TO what be termed @sour scaldihg,'
Mr.. Taylor confirmed the remarks Of th
1 gentleman, in regard to the beading low Q
the Heart Cherry. It was the result Of hi
experiences that the lower branches Of tn
trees should be allowed 10 grow. He ha'
not seen single tree topped low but, Wha
II bad proved advantageous. y, 80 ~
Many other matters Of Interest were dis
cussed7 by the society, but the lateness of. th
hour at which they adjourned precludea th
possibility Of our giving the particulars.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28

SOLEMN ADVICE TO IRIsHMEN IN THE NORTH
AND SouTH The Dublin freeman, Of the
4th inst says that at meeting Of the Ma
tional brotherhood of st. Patrick, held at
their rooms, No. 2 Marlborough street, on
barrister in the chair, the following resolu-
ton was moved and carried by acclamation:
Resolusd, That we have viewed with the
deepest sorrow the fratricidsl war Ia which
the States of America have been engaged,
and that, in the presence Of the possibility
of war between Great Britain and the
United States, we implore our fellow. coun-
trymen on the American continent to re-
member the deep obligation under which
they lie to the friendly and compassionate
government of the United States, and the
dept they owe to the government which
permitted their homes in Ireland to be lev
elled-which drove them into exile by op.
preston.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28

The Nashville Banner of the 18th instant
says that as Kentucky has at last been made
a State of the Southern Confederacy, "no
qualms of conscience can now be urged"
against marching the Confederate armies
over her soil. We wonder whether such
''qualms" have given the rebel conscience
much uneasness hitherto.
Great Britain has always found US her best
customer, but if she forces quarrel with US
she will find us an ugly customer.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin says that an old
man in that neighborhood, "Wonderful for
his weather wisdom, stakes his reputation
upon the prediction that we are to have q
mild winter with the prevailing winds from
the South We don't expect much wind
from the South. 1t can't be raised in that
quarter.-LouisvilLe Journal.
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ENGLAND the Turnkey.

in reference to the difficulty of arranging
an exchange of prisoners during the war,
Forney's Press says that so many persons
pine in captivity in the North aud in the
South, is to be attributed to England. We
surely do not err in believing that not only
do the public desire to see this condition of
affairs changed, but that Congress, the Oabi-
net, and the President himself, also unite in
the desire to have an exchange of prisoners.
England, which talks so loudly of freedom, is
the real jsiler-th actual turnkey. Suppose
that by mutual arrangement an exchange of
prisoners were made, what would England do
and say2 Her words would be: "While you
treated the South as rebel, we could not ac-
knowledge it as independent. All we
could do was to ackno wledge it as belIig
erent Between nation and her revolted
territory, exchange of prisoners can not be
admitted, because the exchange would show
equality. The moment you do exchange
with the South we shall insist that you
thereby concede to it the status of national
independence, and we shall at once acknowl-
edge it by recognizing its flag, breaking the
blockade you have proclaimed, and sending
our merchantmen into its ports for cot
ton and tobacco, rice and turpentiEe, under
the escort if necessary, of our ships of war. u
This is hat England would say. She would
act upon it. even if the present difficulty had
not arisen, and thus England keeps, in North
and South, the prisoners who, but for her.
might just as we'll be restored to freedom
and home, to friends and relatives. If they
remain in prison, England holds the key.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28
PROBATE COURT.

Warts OF HABEAs CoRPUs-John Nc
Glashep, a volunteer in the First Regiment
Artillery, appearing, according to the testi-
mony, to be under eighteen years Of age aud
to have enlisted without the consent of his
father, was discharged from the service.
An application for the discharge of Jos.
Francel from the same regiment was laid
over, at the request of the recruiting officer,
purporting to have been signed by the mother
of the volunteer. Mrs. +. said it was written
by her sister, without her authority.
A young man named Bush was discharged
from his regiment, on proof of minority.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28

WHAT NExT2-They are building a rail.
way under ground through the city of Lon
don. Deep down, beneath gas pipes, and
water pipes, ard sewers, a large artery will
in future drain the overlooking surface Of
that mighty city. The first portion of this
great work, extending from Paddington to
the Victoria Station, will be opened by the
first of May next. 1t will be so wide and
we'll lit that it will seem more like we'll
kept street by night than subterranean
passage. 1t passes right under Fleet street
ditch, the fullest and foulest of the London
savers