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

The Australian exploring expedition has |
proved q failure. Several of its members |
died from disease and exhaustion, while the |
leader and three of his companions, who |
pushed forward, have not been heard of
since.
Since the capture Of Fort Hatteras and |
Fort Clark, we have not heard of single |
new privateer; we have heard only of one
vessel running the blockade; we have had no |
intelligence of one American ship captured,
or of an arrival of any important kind in
the Southern waters.
Treasury notes are beginning to be circu.
lated freely in the ordinary transactions of
business, and in many cases are sought for
as great convenience
The latest news from England shows that
great number of the larger cotton manu-
factories are running about two-thirds time,
owing, it is stated, to the scarcity of cotton.
Madison, Ind, is regularly guarded at
night by the citizen soldiery.
The Detroit Free Press says the Michigan
State Fair held at Detroit was failure.
The Boston Advertiser and the Boston
Journal, the two leading Republican papers
of Massachusetts,, oppose the ideas of Senator
Sumner, that this war should be waged for
the abolition of slavery.
Southern troubles accumulate. The last
news is that the price Of whisky is going up.
In the vicinity of Fairfax it is held as high as
81 80 per pint. Chewing tobacco, too, is
growing scarce and dear.
"NoT AT HOME" WITH DIFFERENCE
Gentleman: as Mrs. NJ. in?n "No, sir; she
is not at home" Gentleman: "Well, | am
sorry, as | owe her some money, and have
called to pay it," Voice from over the bal
ustrades: 'Oh, am into be sure am.
Why, Sally, didn't you know that2 Ask the
gentleman in"
The Prince of Wales is reported to be en-
gagged to the Princess Alexandria, daughter
of Prince Christian, of Holstein Giucksburg.
They were to be presented to each other as
guests of the Prussian King 1t is said,
"there are but five marriageable Protestant
| Pripcesses in Europe" and that "this affi-
ance augurs well in personal as well as
! political view"
Randolph Hall, the American cornet-
! player, is performing in London with great
| success.
A soldier, at Paducah, who had been paid
| off, and squandered his money, nailed board
to tree, and chalked on it in large letters:
There was time when men without
brains died, now they go to war"
This has been an excellent season in Con-
necticut for tobacco, and the crop will amount
to more than half million of dollars in
Hartford County alone. The crop is already
| gathered in most admirable condition, and
the leaf free from injury by hail or fierce
| winds, presents an evenness and perfection
not often witnessed. This years crop will
be favorite one with the manufacturers on
account of its perfection in every respect.
A Scotch paper speaks of fox having
been seen trying to spring a steel trap by
means of stick that he carried in his mouth.
| We knew fox once that took a well-pole
from well and pushed turkey off the lower
| limb of a tree with it. At least, he got the
turkey, and the pole was found all right in
the morning.
Miss Hinckley was visiting an artists stu.
dio, lately, and the painter pointed ont to her
| change he had been making in his picture,
converting a male into female figure; all
he had to do was to turn jacket into q
| shawl, and trowsers into q petticoat. "That'e
all the difference" son canvas" said the
witty prima donna.
A TRAP.-The recent proclamation of JEFF
Davis, ordering those who are unwilling tc
support the Southern Confederacy to leave
| it, is represented to be trap for the Union
men of the South, and all who attempt tc
avail themselves of the order are seized and
their property conhscated.
The Southern papers continue their com.
plants against the shinplaster currency, an6
the Richmond (Va) Dispatch says if prompt
measures are not Immediately taken to sup.
press the circulation of such illegal issues
the South will be flooded with them, as every
individual who chooses will force his worth
less due bills on the community. Matters are
evidently getting worse in Secessia.
Two young people in Albany, who had
loved, perhaps wisely, but not according tt
last week to choke themselves with charcoa
smoke. The fumes of the charcoal reused {
young man in the room above, who found
the young man and woman below in stat
of insensibility, locked in each others arms
They were restored to consciousness, and
after much headache and depression of spirits
got married.