Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-05
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This wsIrd fragment, from Goethe's Faust is full
Of a1tisticailT conceived horrors'
The raven sits
Aha his biseh wing Rit nv sope;
I aud fro, as the night VINES Now
=, The carcass Of he 9ssussin sSmgei
The rnStn flaps biz sgss, .bSnl,1bsaI,t
Crosks 10 the close q che heltow sound
And ne 4 !be !a9 'e,b By d Ss9 sg gSsi 2f r tS9 pO0n'
MefIi5. mefrly, thaeriy choerily,
The dad il tSSsiI roPds, ard The demons in clouds,
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.FnsiIsE Abuse Of the Londoa Times-The
writer's for the Thnpderer and Their
Duties.
A correspondent of the London Star and
Dial says ofthe London zimes's writers; q
First on. The. list stands the name Of John
g1 Tbsdeeus DelaDo, who may be called the
W. si editor-in. chief, and, therefore, the suggester
or approyer OF al the subtle baseness and
scandalous personalities that degrade and
disgrace the Times. He it is who selects,
H moves ard instructs the mechanical intellect
oftbe Times -directs the trained shirt to the
'u mark-apd ~counsels the exact force, weight,
size aud quality of the malignant matter to
be msnufactufed for each special case!
The rest have neither power. volitibn nor
free agency Of any kind in discriminating
the principles, policy, purpose or persons TO
be served or scathed by their instrumental
-ity. They are ordered to their post, aud
i.F whether the work be to shield or assassinate,
they must do it or depart. They take their
fee and 90 their way-send upa shower OF
6reworbs TO gloIify some favorite notability-
or poise, with cool aim, the deadly rifle TO
main or murder the marked man..
~. u - ILL ooo,YNatihn pf tho caaraf
Council of Ten presided over by the D0ge of
e 81 Printing House-square, There is a corporate
responsibility for the results, though it may
be impossible to say which of these hands
held the rife or dealt the blow. as.
The Rev. Thomas MoZeley is supposed 10
be tile surest hand for a well-poised aim and
q raking fire. George Webb Dasent, DC.
h., is couiectured to have a ready pen for
loose subjects, and occasionally to do q very
ill-u atured thing in q very good natured
way-while Alexander Knox does double
duty 10 the State and Times by distributing
police court justice as q metropolitan sti.
pendiary, and serving as one of the Times
sbiTri 10 his leisure hours. ~.
-1oa The Right Honorable Robert Lowe, pro-
- nounced TO be one Of the most CONSPICUOUS
. failures in the Houseof Commons, is another
10 n of the fash writers of the Times, willing and
ready enough at call toserve the interests of
his masters by any amount of abuse that he
4f may be instructed to shower upon any one
of the political friends or colleagues he has
lust shaken bands with in the lobby of the
" House Of Commons.
Pa s--s Ailthese men are members of the Reform
. 8 Club, ard, of course, from casual contact OF
occasional intercourse, come not unfre-
quently into possession of small scraps Of
information that serve as sparks of fact to
FIRE a whole blazing column of unscrupulous
invective or Misrepresentation, whenever il
serves the policy Of the Times to dtsparage
or b'acken q public man.
o r, Romance of European TraveI-Highway-
E 1854 'r. p men in Italy. a
"A eoachload of travellers who lately arrived
q 70 n at Turin from Florence, Vid Perugia, was
81 n stopped and robbed between Borghetto and
-ui Civiia Castellsns, just within the present
e. Il frontier of the Papal States. They were
p m-, made to lie on the ground, and one Of them,
who did not promptly obey, was struck, but
e r" not seTiously hurt.
. The baggage was heavy, and we'll secured
upon the vehicle, SO it escaped pillage, but
zoe ca the travellers were robbed of many watches
aE and trinkets, with the exception of an En-
r.5s lisbmsn, who managed to secrete his watch
~ and a few Napoleons. The robbers were
four in number, had walls over their faces,
and were armed with towing pieces. There
was no reason to suspect the U~sttUrino OF
completely with them he is a man of good
cav reputation, and was robbed like the rest.
4a The interior Of the carriage was ransacked,
90 and some food and small articles carried off,
= the rob s behaving with much elaboration
Q 'o and d~epsrting with a leisurely step down a
valley on the right Of the road. -a"
i-- The affair occurred at half past ten o'clock
on a bright morning, on the high-road, and
f'i within sight and five minutes walk of a post
of Papal gendarmes. To these the travellers
reported their misfortunes, but the gendIrRles
Of whom there were but two tout of fve) to
be seen, were longing at the door in their
ID. 'shirt-sleeves, and seemed to think the mat
ter Of little importance, and still less inter
est. Uivia Castellana was but three miles
from the scene Of the robbery. There the
. I'll 81 EpHT oh in OaFriSOu ond oharn no1soo
duty with the Papal ge~ndarmes. The travel
es bad to give their evidence as to what
had taken place, and this was taken down
in both Italian and French-a formality
which gives them very little chance Of re-
-" 3 dress, but the delay subsequent upon which
Q compelled them to sleep that night at Reg
nano, instead Of getting on to Rome. 1t IS,
perhaps, considered to be nobody's duty to
watch over the security of the strip of land
ll :. between the Sandman and Papal outposts.
Two or three patrols, of a couple Of gen.
daTn'es each, would be all that is necessary
The Late Ring of Bohemia and his Works.
4iL A Paris correspondent says of Henri
Murger;
l The disease to which Murger fell a victim,
was e~rysipelas. On the night of his death
there was a grand ball, given by the Protect
announced, in the hearing of a group OF
o. dancers, that the author of the Pans Latin
would not probably live more than q few
hosIs' 'nlurger IS dying" said a young
l LADY, 10 her partner in the waltz, which
'Straus Orchestra had Just commenced play
ing; y SHAH not dance again tonight"
Murgers works have not, / believe, been
translated into English and | do not think
the best possible translation would do them
p g justice; He was the Hood of France. Many
OF his ballads are written in the same tone OF
b. ironieal kindness Characteristic of his En-,
glish prototype.
Mliger wrote several novels, the two mos
-H. notaoie oil which | have mentioned, the VI
de BoheMe, and the Pays Latin. In both o
-y THESE, me sort Of life led by hair Drained
students and literary men of light purses, il
Paris, Is c~ha1ningly depicted. Murger wa;
4. DO hlmkeH an arch Bohemian generous, i'm.
ia ProYldentl fond of pleasure, tboughtless o
aal .r Ihe morrow which he always left to tax,
se'isa care OF ITSELF warm friend, and without al
tg ~ enemy
43 ne wopd perhaps have died in restitution
CI m0 IVY loI ihe KIND interest of the Minister o
Ls-5S1 ctatel Count Wslewskl, who sent money K
,-Fl iPAy hLs hospital expenses and, at his death
-aa9.l gsIe oIuefs that he should be buried in
manner betting a gentleman. An immens,
tnrong OF authors, artists, students AM
80 9as oshsis followed his remains to the cemetery
raI " noHtusrue, where ~oratioRs oyer poo
muIgers grave were pronounced by NJ. N
fhielryi DeslaRdes and Wire. Itis interde(
-l 70 erect q monument to his memory, anC
-a nearly 1000 francs have already been sub