Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-03
XARIETIHS

He is a strong man who can hold down his
opinion. ...,
He who can not keep his own secret,
ought not to complain if another tells it,
The beggars in France are licensed. Any
begging without license is punished.
Brigadier- General Schaeffer died at Read
ing, Pa, recently. r
The smallpox has very materially abated
at Columbia, S. G.
Minnie Price, the wholesale counterfeiter
of Philadelphia, has been convicted.
Duke Paul, of Wurtemburg, the well
known traveller, is dead.
Passion, though bad regulator, is pow.
erful spring.
There is no moral deformity but is a good
passion out of place.
Heaven deals with us on no representative
system. Souls are not saved in bundles.
There are 1O9, $50 Methodists in New Jer-
sey.
The cannon South Carolina expects to de-
stroy the Union with-Buchanan.
Sixty bushels Of wheat to the acre were
raised at Aroostook, Me-, this season.
The silver mines in Arizona were worked
by the Mexicans until they were extermi-
mated by the ferocious Apaches.
A Portuguese giant, represented to be up
ward of eight feet high, has arrived at
Madrid, and is about to be exhibited.
Society is masked ball. where every
one hides his real character, and reveals it
by hiding.
Observation of University Tailor--It is
not always the gent who takes the highest
honors that gets the most credit
Col. Daniel NJ. Riggs, of Selma, Ala, was
thrown from his buggy and killed, one day
lastweek.
Charlotte Cushman, the trGgedienne, not
yet forty-fve years old, is said to be worth
$780, 1000. .t
The Charleston Mercury extra was printed
on satin, on the goth ult, containing the
| secession act.
The whole number of horses taxed in
| the State of Virginia, is 352, 900, and their
value is estimated at $24, 900.
The other morning a tenement-hous in
| New Haven, Conn, was destroyed by fire,
and family of six persons named Colbert,
perished in the flames. r,rtl. ..sr .
On Saturday evening gentleman, whose
name is not given, was shot in the side in q
duel with Mr.. A. Fleming, in New Orleans,
The woand is severe.
John Leighton, one of the constructors Of
the celebrated Fairmount Water-works in
Philadelphia, died recently, aged eighty
Two. ....a
Another of the New Orleans Picayune ed.
| iforo I orap1o T. latham diad in JaffarSnn.
vile ON Friday last. He was q native O.
Massachusetts,, and aged forty-eight.
Beauty without expression tires. Abb'
Menage said Of the President lie Bailleul
''That he was fit for nothing but to sit fo
his portrait"
The population of "New York and its be
longings" was, by the recent census returns
ascertained to be upward of million and
half
The other night in Louisville KY, a chill
was killed by having an overdose of lAuda
mum given to it by its mother, in fit o
drunkenness. .a.
A panper boy in the Londonderry Aims
house, N. H., motherless, and with shiftles
father, has had about $4,000 left him b.
English relatives on his mothers side. T
The monarch tree of the Sierra Navada
known as the Miners Cabin, was blow
down by a recent hurricane, 1T was thirt.
feet in diameter, and supposed to be 800
years old. Z q g3dl gass.EI
A person in Boston has executed a re
markable specimen of fine ypenpanship, EN-
hracine biographical sketch of the Mayor
elect, the whole written within the letter
forming his name. 'i . f.'f
Nj The California mountain land appears EN-
} inently qualified for growth of tobacco;
plant has recently been exhibited at Colun
bia, more thasl six feet high; leaves two fee
long; and stem five inches in circnmfeT
enee.
! What free people of any color can do,
fairly left al,ne, appears from the fact thi
from the single port Of Monrovia, Liberl
the excess of exports over Imports for ii
loyear 1859 is $465ll %. d 'at 800 ha /
A new opera-house is to be built in Ne
York-some thing small and cozy, where 70
can loaf in, chat with the ladies', and he'
a stave or two, without paying fortuH
tor II. uI NEEAu
Grant Thorburn, Laurie Tedd,) now
the eighty, eighth ySV of his age, is still +
, siding at New Have in good health; an
coneidering his many cares, in excellsl
! spirits. ( ia u aF.g A8EtlS 4
!. A reward Of $4,000 is offered for the al
Z ,pEehension and conyiction ofthe murdef
n ef Horace B. Sargent, which was comhittC
}, in Troy, New York, on the evening Of D
eember "a. lI-tt 100 lbst
n Mrs. Orr administered to herself little 81
. and babe, teaspoonful Of crotoh-oil eae
&, in mistake for castor-oil, at Syracuse, N.
: on Sunday; prompt medical aidsaved the
lives. i " -ait rlie sf1ff Ht f3 a Il
? Ten years ago, Sisriyol County, Cal,
: that section Of the State now called so, wa'
. savage mountain wilderness, Where mol
= white man disturbed the sway Of the Indii
I Digger. Now its eoqpsry town Of twelve
!. fifteen hundred inhabitants contains q chuf
" which is lighted with gas,