Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-12
Al TIE 9.

Elder Farley Pratt, the Mormon preacher,
is dead.
Two bundled Illinoisians have joined the
Tennessee troops.
The system ofpassports Is apparently about
to be abolished in Bremen.
Il is more than probable that the Great
Eastern will be sold to pay her debts.
Colonel John g. P. Hove and ]. W. Worth,
of Louisville, Ky. fought duel near there
on Saturday, but neither was hurt.
England exports annually from the United
States hard India rubber to the amount in
value Of $l25,000. e.
Z The Pharmaceutical Society of Great
Britain has agross income of more than fifty
thousand dollars per annum. ..fg e.'.
Irish pixies have been manufactured per
order of Mayor Baugh, of Memphis Tenn,
for company soon to be organized.
The Pope having blessed two rifled can
non, afterwBrd attended an experiment
made to. try their range and destructive force.
Seventy peasants have been shot at Kasan,
in Russia, for having engaged in an insur.
rection occasioned by religious imposter.
A person can not change his surname in
England without the Queens especial license
and an expenditure of $780,. I'D
Admiral Mundy of the English navy, is
said to be the first person of that rank who
has ever visited Jerusalem.
Shakespeare evidently was speaking for
General Butler when he said "Norfolk we
must have ) hal must we not Z"
1t is lost labor, says Quesnel, to consult the
taste of the world. They will never approve
of our conduct unless we approve of theirs.
The Cecil (Md.) Whig hears complaints
from all sections of the county, of the raw
ages of the cut worm.
A new work called American Legends is
announced in Paris, in three volumes fFeIn
the pen of Spaniard y "--'' '0'0 oue''ey
Rpnfn
Grisi is announced in the first of farewell
series of performances, in Norma. She had
been creating quite .tttrore in concerts at
the Crystal Palace.
Tie Royal Society of Musicians gave the
annual performance of the Messiah at st.
Jsmess Hall, London, under direction of
Professor Sterndale Bennett.
Mr.. Dayton, our Minister to France, was
escorted to the palace by Master of Gere-
monies in an imperial carriage. He was
also presented to the Empress.
The Spanish treasury is said to be over
flowing with money. The slave trade at
Cuba has probably paid well the last few
years.
Immense quantities of fine and full-roed
mackeTel have been recently taken off
Brighton, EDgland-sometimes bringing the
catchers one thousand dollars per day.
jackson, the assassin of Colonel Ellsworth,
is ranked in the South with "0ld Hickory"
"a rala 4t,.A L, l.. k
worthy of all Grecian, of all Roman fame"
Hon. John Young Brown made speech
| at Hodgenville, Ky, last week, in which he
took strong ground in favor of the Southern
| Oonfederacy.
The population of England and Wales in
1860 was but twenty millions. The number
of paupers in Great Britain, the same year,
was about one million.
The ice in the River Neva has broken up,
and navigation is resumed for the season.
Many vessels were cut to pieces by the float
ing cakes.
Several loads of Republican documents,
seized in Lynchburg, Va, by Superintend.
ent Gill, were publicly burned in that city
on Thursday.
Important events impending, the bulletins
freduently say. What is most desired is the
announcement that some of the rebels are
depending, as they deserve to be.
The rebels offer $25 for every prisoner
captured by privateers. They can not, il
would seem, get over their propensity fol
buying human beings.
Elias Howe, jr, of New York, the sewing
machine millionaire, has presented eacf
officer of the Massachusetts Fifth Regiment
with stallion fully equipped.
Turning Over a New Leaf--Jeff. Davil
ordering the Federal troops to Iedve Virginia
1t win prove blank leaf in the page o
history.
"Drawing the Long Bow."-Southerner
reporting Beau regard as simultaneously a
Richmond, Manassas Junction, Harper
Ferry, and Memphis.
Edwin James, the celebrated English bar
rister, who failed for about $450, 900, and fiet
to the Continent, has been coaxed back bl
his creditors to resume his profession.
The st. Louis (Mo.) Epening NetOs consid
eTs it probable that the rebels of the MissOur
Legislature will repudiate the debts Of tn,
7 State. slt Igcitt ~ ~
The men who make the most money out Q
the present crisis are the holders of plug 70
bacco. Richmond, Va, being closed, tn
article has gone up immensely, g..
A sailor, Hugh Watson, jumped from til
third story of his boarding. house. in Buffalo
MY, while asleep, the other night, an
killed himcelf.
Miss Fannie Burch, of Little Falls, N. Y
one Of the principal witnesses in the Burc
divorce case, was married in that village II
Gently, TO Edward lsham, of Chicago.
Thomas L. Fortune, of Mount Pleasan
Kansas, has invented steam wagon, 10
used in hauling freight across the Wester
During the past week the total number
deaths in Brooklyn, N. n, was eighty-thre
the principal diseases being, consumption
fourteen; conYulsions, ninei dropsH seven
, feVers, eighti smallpox, six. f.fH 1sgr 4
There are setArical poets in Constantine
pie, who are just now amusing themselv
by abusing their Sultan, who has becon
very unpopular. They neither spare hi
. nor their own eountrymen. =. ..
It is reported that no less than nine hu
: dTed and twenty nine companies, or ninetl
I two thousand men, have been rendered
Governor DennisoR since the frst call
troops, aiaa ~ oiss