Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-25
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eiasllnl and TilIens are sInging in GenOa

OF what use is it that woman can pirate
about Bacon, Il she,can not cook pork.
MI. Russell, of the London Times, is in
Charleston, Is. q } and has visited Sumter.
Fort Sumter was 50 named BY General
Cass when he was Secretary of War in 1888.
Celibacy clubs are rife in New York now,
says the Home Journal, and companies TO
insure against matrimony are talked Of. ft
It is pretty saying of an ancient author,
blank leaves, namely, infancy andsenility.
&. VGnity Fair. calls old Abe Intactible. AT
first he was down on attack; now he is on
the other tack. He is fair tactician. ve~'
Ofenbachs latest opera, lie Poia les Sou
Mrs, has been quite as successful as his pre-
viously admired works..
Bennett, Of the New York Herald, SUBJ
scribed $3OOOto tho Patriotic Fund of New
York, t-l Ce tths.fJ. atN-.. .#H rr.T ~
About 100 free negroes are about to be
sold in Lynchburg, Va, for the non payment
of taxes. .l- afL ftial1 r1ALd
The Secession journals of Memphis, Tenn,
are proposing the erection Of batteries on the
river Immediately above that city.
,.Oiliwells continue to be discovered in
Kanawha County, Va, and the adjacent
counties.
A Virginia paper says that Henry A. Wise
is Sound to, the core" oh yes, sound TO the
core, hut that's rotten.
A crusty old bachelor says the talk of
women is usually about the men. Even their
laugh is but 'he, hel"l .l.,.-
The ''soldiers of the Mexican War" inC
Madison, Indiana, are organizing company
of volunteers for the defense of the border.
Lately during a drunken fight among
some laborers and steamboat hands, in New
Orleans, John Riley had his jugular vein cut,
and was instantly killed, by VIM. Gallagher.
Diptheris does not arise from any known
combination Of physical causes. 1t is COM
municable' but not highly contagious, and
attacks families. D2EAa ELHAl
The Germans and Irish of Nashville,
Tenn, have each organized fine company,
whose services have been rendered to the
Governor of Tennessee.
The residences of Bishops Polk and
Elliott, near University Place, Louisiana,
were destroyed by FIRE on the llth, the fami-
lies barely escaping with their lives.
All the printers in Cambridge City, Indi-
ana, have volunteered, and no paper will be
published there, likely, for some time to
come. ar 81 ettt E.T"..
The New York Herald, if we can. believe
its story, issued in one day, last week, the
enormous number of $4,000 copies of its
paper. E..- ''l d.
Five or six Of the most fashionable women
| of Chicago have profered their services to
the Governor to accompany the volunteers
to the South in the capacity OF nursesN
The people of Senatobia, Miss5 have been
scafedIby the discovery Of q slave plot. The
| trouble has been quieted by hanging and
shooting the ringleaders! a!F HE
The acrobat Magilton, formerly attached
| TO Spalding & Rogers's circus, fell, while
| performing the trdpese in London, at the
| Alhambrs, and broke his back. ssa,
A man in Norfolk, Va last week, on be
of q $25 coat, 'swollowed mouse" WHY
didn't they give him the bet, and kill th'
Wretch2 tA IS
The dragons teeth were sown at Charles
ton last May, and it has taken less thai
eleven months to produce rank and luxu
RANT crop of armed men.
South Carolina has furnished good dea
more than her proportion of troops. Nearl.
the whole Of "the white element of her pop
ulation" is in the army -fu.E ~
Rossini has written a concerto for tn
violoHcello, entitled Une Larme. It wa
played by Servais, at the house of the com
poser, who accompanied on the piano. ~
Webers Der Freischutz is to be 500
brought out at the Grand Opera, Parii
with new French recitations by Hectic
Berliz. ~ t''.''-
The season at the italian Opera in Londo
has been opened by performance Of Meyer
beers Phophete, in which Madame Csilla
sang Fides."
There were sixty. eight deaths in st. Loui
No., last week-forty white males, twenty
seven white females and one free Negro
Twenty seven were children under fiv
years.
The materials of the cotton States edifct
says the Louisville (Ky.) Journal, can nc
stand without cementing. Letit be their car
that they shall not be cemented with tn
blood of the builders. .s
Three grandsons of Ex-President Harriso
have entered in the service under the presen
call. Two Of them are sons of Col. w.
Taylor, and one son of Hon. Scott Harr
son. o..