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

lDe peIslOuS uOW pdlu ny Lu6 rTeuCu
Treasury amount to 72.27S,3S francs, dis
ttibuted among 1922 persons. The Duke
of Malakoff receives 100000 and 81, 263 old
soldiers of the Republic and the Empire re-
ceive 2,60l, ,040 francs.
Mr.. Ohas. Vassar, a prominent and wealthy
citizen Of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, died on the
goth ult. He was the founder aud patron Of
the new Vassar Female College.
A French inspector of prisons has arrived
in this country. He is engaged in visiting
the prisons of the United States, and went
through the Washington jails few days ago,
making careful observations.
Justice Burt, of Buffalo, a few days since,
settled a long disputed question in the most
emphatic manner, by sentencing q man
named Leonard Fuchs, to six months of i'm
prsonment at hard labor in the penitentiary
for stealing an umbrella.
When his cousin, Charlotte Dunno, was
married, Jones said: ut was Dunno beore
it was begun, Dunno while it was doing and
not Dunno when it was DONE"
J.H. Green, the reformed gambler, is get
ting up company in Indiana, to be called
the Dearborn Sharpshooters.
A sufficient evidence of the bad condition
of the rebel army may be found in an item
that ouer tOeIUe thousand soldiers are in the
hospital there.
The "sarkasticap and ''goaking" Artemus
Ward is in the lecture field. His acquaint-
ance can be made by addressing Charles f.
Brown, Vanity Fair Office, New York.
The war correspondents kill more rebel
Generals than do our warriors-being an
other illustration of the truth of old Richie
lieus saying that the "pen is mightier than
tine sword"
One of the Washington correspondents
says
The tide of regiments seen is very strong
toward the Capital just now. l suppose
twenty. five thousand troops got into Wash
ington last week, and they keep steadily
streaming in this week.
Wells, Fargo & Co., the expressmen, have
taken one hundred thousand dollars worth
of the national loan.
The title and good will of the New York
San were sold by auction on Tuesday, at the
! Merchants Exchange, for $35, 900, the
amount said to be on mortgage. Mr.. A. NJ.
! Morrison was the purchaser.
The road ambition tray els is too narrow
for friendship, too crooked for love, too
rugged for honesty, and too dark for science.
Ex-senator Shdell, lately appointed Con-
federate Special Envoy to Paris, arrived in
Richmond about the goth ultimo, and was
receiving bis instructions, according to the
latest dates. Ex NJ. @. Eusiis, of Louisiana,
is appointed his Secretary of Legation.
A life of full and constant employment is
the only safe and happy one.
Mr.. Ross Winans, wife and family, and
Mr.. Thomas Winans and family, are making
arrangements for the purpose of making q
visit to Europe, and will leave before the
close of the meDth.
There are about sixty vessels in New YORK
now loading with breadstuffs for Europe. Il
will require two million bushels of grain Of
an equivalent in -four to afford them car
goes.
The receipts of gold from the Frazer Rivel
mines al said to be- large.
The propriety of serving out tobacco will
soldiers rations is under consideration. Gen
eral Mcclellan is said to favor it, as a mean
of increasing the comfort and cheerfulness o
the troops.
The wooden manufacturers of Adams
Mass, are producing about six thousand fiyt
hundred yards per day of blue army clotl
for the defenders of oar Union.
Henry G. Lay, Missionary Bishop of tn
Protestant Episcopal Church in Arkansas
has cut himself loose from all connection
with the church in the North. He intimate
that he is now in another country and tina
! the presiding bishop of she United States Cal
not exercise any control over the bogus Con
federacy.
The Richmond (Va,) Dispatch says: "0f a
the mean, ignoble, plebeian, coarse, vulgar
low-minded, ungenerous, dishonorable, grow
cling, abject, vile, contemplate, despicable
dirty productions, morally and physically
the louisville Journal bears. off the palm.
The Dispatch was once quite a respectabl
little penny sheet, but Secessionism has turnet
1 il sour.
The United States Express Company will
transport over their express lines, free o
all charges, blankets donated to the Govern
ment, marked to any Quartermaster Of thu
United States Army.
A. Joy, who has the care of the town farm
in Deerheld, Mass, has turkey that com
7 menced laying on the 18th Of April, and ha
r since ia one hundred aud sixty. four eggI