Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-07
VABlE'fIES.

The Artesian we'll at Fort McHenry is said
to be a success the workmeu having struck
a vein of good water at the depth of one hun
dred and forty-two feet, in a bed of gravel
There are now at Camp Chase, Columbus,
Ohio, one hundred and sixty prisoners,
John B. Russell, of this city, has been
clerk in the Pension Bureau, and has recently
been promoted to position of more import
ance by the death of Judge Williams, who
has filed an important cerkship in the PEN
sion Office for many years.
The Qusrtermaster- General of Ohio has,
since April last, issued an order for use of the
military force, forty-fve thousand muskets
and nearly three and one-half millions of
cartridges.
Bullet making is to be carried on at Co.
lumbus with vigor. Peter Hayden, a heavy
machinist, has ordered one hundred tuns of
lead for bullets for the Ohio Arsenal.
Forty cases of English guns for the State
of Ohio have just reached Columbus.
Henry D. Cooke, Esq, formerly of the
Ohio State Journal, now the travelling Sub
| Treasury Agent under Chase, is in this city
| assisting in facilitating subscriptions to the
United States Loan.
George Thompson, the "Greenhorn" of
yellow covered literature, ended his earthly
career last Thursday night by hanging him
self in his cell at the Boston House Of Cor
rection, where he was serving sentence of
six months as a common drunkard.
"Burleigh" writes to the Boston Journal
! from New York that ''a new feature has been
introduced into our city, and that's clapplng
and stamping applause in the churches when
a good thing is said"
Isaiah Thomas, now of Springfield, Ohio,
previously of Columbus, has been appointed
! Consul to LaguayIa, in South America. He
will he specially instructed to prevent any
coffee from going into the Southern ports.
Twenty Thousand muskets sold by Prussia
to the United States of America have been
supplied from the depot of Stettin, and were
beiD 2 removed to Hamburg for shipment on
the l7Ih ult.
Tent canvas is in such great demand since
the commencement of the war, that the
price is said to have advanced over one hun
dred per cent.
Thurlow Weed promises, if regiment or
brigade of printers can be raised, that he
will shoulder his masket and march away to
the war along with his bretheru of the craft.
public meeting in Westmoreland County,
Va, has invited the Hon John G Breckin
ridge TO take up his residence in the South
appreciated and cherished"
A very religious old lady, when asked her
opinion of the organ of q church, the first
time she had seen or heard one replied at
is very pretty box of Whistles but, oh! it is
an awful way of spending the Sabbath y
Madame Boileau, daughter of the late Hon
Thomas ii Benton and sister to Jessie Ere
mont, sailed for Europe with her husband
on Wednesday.
In the Theater Royal, Greenock, the othel
evening (says an English paper( an uuex
pected interest was given 10 the burlesque o
Aladdin, by seaman of the feet leaplng or
the stage and knocking down two of the
characters who, he thought, were taking az
unfair advantage of one of the drdmatis per
soma in a combat.
London Times Russell, arrested in a West
!. ern village, aud fined $50 for shooting o.
Sunday, near a country church, has returne
TO Washington, incensed at that treatment
J and generally sulky on the common Court
At Pittsburg, the Custom-house officer
overhaul baggage and personal effects (
. persons leaving that city for the South c
West.
John G. Breckenridge is found to have bee
Z a X. G. Q. When Paducah was seized, th
> records of a Castle of these Knights wei
T found to contain letters from him, an
q from prominent members of Buchanan
Cabinet; that a reasonable league was mad
of such to break up the Charleston ConveI
ton. While in Office, two members of tt
Y Cabinet communicated through Burnett, D
Z @. of the Bowling Green District, the numbt
. and kind of arms which would be in th
) Southern States at the expiration OF the
! term of office.