Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-22

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During the past week the total number of
deaths in Brooklyn, N. Y, was seventy-fve.
F, A Spanish squadron, with three thousand
troops, has sailed for st, Domingo. - n
V Wilson's Zouaves are called, with sArdonie
humor Lincoln's Pet Lambs. ssihr,.a cd.
Dickenson's steam gun turns, out 20 be
worthless the barrel having been retained
{ by The inventor. l $50 p ..ri rlt p
The San Francisco Herald says that live
oak in abundance has just been discovered in
: california. 9 ,.'mo --i7 itl sNt =
A poor poet, rather than continue to scrib-
/ bic, should hang his harp, on the limb of
tree, with his neck eaughtin the strings.
Colonel Ellsworth has had q present of a
one.ihousand-dollar horse from Saratoga,
NY. 55.s ,0.,I :
One hundred American ships are now en-
gagtd in the whale. fishery in the Indian
Ocean. .'''.t ~, -'
The beer exported from Great Britain dur
ing the year ending LIST of October last, In
barrels, was 574,S72. EErsr-
h A Memphis paper states that Beaufegard
is to have command of the Tennessee and
Mississippi troops. --
An Israelite, of the name of rTeissL has
heen made Professor In the University of
Vienna. This is the first instance of the kind.
The Liverpool Coroner reports that during
the past year ninety nine infants have come
TO their death by ''overlsying."
James Sheeny was arrested in Washington,
on Saturday, for uttering Secession senti-
ments.
The Legislature OF North Carolina has
passed bill to organize regular army Of
ten thousand men. Ia.f
Dion Bourcicault and his pretty wife,
Agnes Robertson, have made England their
permanent residence.
A spy was detected in rife company at
Hartford, ct, a few days since, when he was
stripped of his uniform and driven out of the
lines. Y III t'e
According tor statement in the New York
Times, General Scott, who is about seventy
five years of age, works from eight o'clock
in the morning, till twelve at night.
There are now employed by the Govern
ment sixty seven ste9m transports, at an
average expense of $4,000 per week, exclu-
siVe of keeping them in commission.
The Charleston Mercury has been shown
specimens Of percussion caps manufactured
there equal, it claims, to those made for the
Federal Government, ,-..
1t is stated that two nephews OF General
Scott are serving with the Second Mississippi
Regiment, now stationed at hgnchburg,
Va,
In Franklin County, Maine, there is wo-
man six feet eight inches tall, weighing three
hundred and fifty pounds. She wears No.
IL shoe. ..r..r ...a 1rl
A new projectile has been invented in
France, weighing ninety pounds, which, fall
ing in column of troops, is expected to kill
hundred men. a .- I. liI7I I.t.
A new projectile has been invented in
France, weighing ninety pounds which,
falling in a column of troops, is expected to
kill hundred men.
Colonel Pratt, of the New York State
Militia, reports his men guarding the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad, and all we'll and
contented. -
The transfer of General Butler to Fortress
Monroe, and sending there large quantities
Of ammunition and stores, is believed to in
dicate important movements.
The Common Council of Rochester, N. Y.
has appropriated $4,000 to meet the ex.
penses of the volunteers before they were
mustered into service.