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candidate Tor Assistant Clerk Of the se'ats q Tennessee.
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We horized to announce JOHN MecLARIN, es Sur
county, candidate for Assistant Clerk ef the Senate
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large Fire in VIcksburg.

nees Of eight War-teaseH sailed south ysste
dsv from Fortress Monroe.
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Confederate treasury Notes.

NAsHVILhB, (EDGEFELD) AND KENTUCKY
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-07
Municipal Elections.


Troy, N. Y, March 5.-Geo. B. Warren.
jr., Union candidate, was elected Mayor of
this city to-day. The Union men also elect
Assessor, Justice, and a majority of the
Council.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, March 5.-Johu G.
Nash, Republican, has about 600 maiority
for Mayor. All the Republican city ticket
is elected, except Police Justice. -
The Republicans elect eight Aldermen,
apd the Democrats four, which makes the
Common Council fifteen Republicans and
nine Democrats =
The City Supervisors will stand about the
same as Aldermen, possibly FIVE Democrats
10 seven Republicans.
The Inaugural was anxiously waited for
here, and was received with almost uniyer-
sal satisfaction.
The Daily Democrat which has opposed
compromise warmly, indorses, while the
Democratic organ gives it a qualified ap-
proval. I.
PoUGHKEEPsH, N. Y, March 5.-James
Browne, Republican, was elected Mayor of
Poughkeepsie to day. ....'
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The Power of Mental Combination.

The Power of Mental Combination.
Pycroft relates the following in his last
volume:
Paul Morphy, the American chess-player,
who won eight games at the same time,
though contending blihdfolded against the
best players in Europe, is an astonishing ex-
ample of the degree TO which the power Of
mental combination may be developed
Other instances have come under notice,
and with them knowledge of the means by
which the wonderful result was obtained.
Being struck with the acuteness and general
Intelligence of some twenty pupils belonging
to one school, he ascertained that the master
laid great stress on mental arithmetic as a
means of sharpening the faculties. There
were few pupils In the school who were not
quite equal 70 the task of mentally multiply
ing OF dividing by one figure number rep
resented by ten figures. fla H...
Some of the clever pupils could do the
same thing with fourteen or fifteen figures,
some even with row Of from twenty to
twenty-five, and one Of them, who was after
ward the second Wrangler Of his year, had
operated correctly upon a row Of no less
than thirty-f figures. All this marvellous
facility had been acquired by little daily
practice continued during the years of edu-
cation, the exercise beginning with two or
three figures, and gradually increasing in
eomplexity. $500. =
Il is quite conceivable that by means Of
analogous exercises, any man of average ca
pacity might acquire power like that pos
posed by one whom the reviewer of Lord
Broug gham's Lives of Men of Letters speaks of
as one of the two most graceful prose works
on large scale in our own time, adding that
he had SO extraordinary a memory that he
could finish chapter during a ride, and
then set it down SO hardly to need revision.
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HOW the Tnou.ur,I h. Beo.,,,,,

PETERSBURG, Va, March 5.-Thers was
intense excitement on the receDtionj of the
Inaugural. Hundreds hitherto for the Union
avowed openly for revolution, if tho con-
venton does not Immediately pass the Sc
cessiOn Ordinance.
WILMINGTON, N. O., March $50 far as
known, most Of the contents are satisacto.
rlly received, especially that portion relatlng
to the forts and the collection of the reve-
nues, because it is in favor of coercion.
GoLDsBoRO', N. O., March 6.-The Tuauou-
raj was received at this place, and through
out this section, with indignation.
RALEIGH, N. O., March 5.-The Inaugural
was received favorably by the Unionists.
They think it does we'll for Lincoln, though
they dc not approve of all Of it. The Disuu-
ionists are satisfied with it. 0..
CHARLESTON, S. O., March 5.--Our com.
munity has not been disappointed, and ex-
hibited very little feeling on the subject
They are content TO leave Mr.. Lincoln and
the Inaugural in the hands of JEFF. Davis
and the Confederate States.
RICHMOND, March 5.-The Who (Conserv-
ative) says the policy indicated toward the
seeding States will meet the stern and un-
yielding resistance of the united South,
The Enquirer (Secessionist) says no action
OF our Convention can now maintain peace,
Virginia must fight.
The Dispatch says every Border State
ought to go out of the Union in twenty four
hours. ..' .
Dispatches from Staunton state that the
Inaugural was received with universal dis
satisfaction. Resistance to coercion is the
feeling of all parties. The Inaugural creates
intense excitement.
The Secessionists regard it as declara-
tion of war. The Union men say but little.
but evidently are disappointed.
ALEXANDRIA, March 5.-The Gazefts
(Union) says the Inaugural is not such a one
as it wished, nor such as will conciliate or
satisfy those who Mr.. Lincoln speaks of as
dissatisfied in the South.
The Sentinel (Secession) says the position
taken is declaration of war, laying down
doctrines which would procure for the North
ern section the unquestioned dominion, as a
section. =
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, March 5.-The Re-
publicans, of all shades, are delighted with
President Lincoln's Inaugural. 1t satisfies
the Independent Union men of all parties,
and few or none were found to object to its
temper or positions. ..g
DETROIT, March Cat Lansing, Michigan.
yesterday, on receipt of the Inaugural, the
Legislature took recess to hear it read and
100 guns were fred in honor of the senti-
ments ennuciated.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-07

CRUEL TREATMENT OF A GIRL BURNING
TO DEATH.-At "a coroner's inquest, held on
the body Of a girl who was recently burned
to death in New York City, the physician
before she died she told him that a young
man named George Spader, who resided in
the house, on hearing her screams, came
down stairs, when she begged him to save
her from burning to death. Instead of at
tempting to extinguish the flames he ordered
her out of the house; but as she did not
obey him at once, he Immediately seized her
and roughly elected her into the yard, when
she lay upon the grass plot until her clothes
We're almost entirely burned off of her.
Another of the servants came down stairs
and not seeing her, went into the yard,
where she found the poor girl trying 70
screen her nakedness behind the eistern, 1t
was also stated that the girl had called the
attention Of her mistress 70 the unsafe con-
dition of the lamp.
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A SNOW srorm on the AIps.

In the Glaciers Of the Alps, avolume re-
Gently written out by John Tyndall, F. R,
s., we have the following description of
snow storm upon Mount Rosa, at an eleva-
tion of more than Is, 900 feet above the level
of the sea:
The fall Of snow was, in fact, a shower of
frozen flowers. All of them were six leayed.
some of the leaves throw out lateral ribs like
ferns, some were rounded, others arrowy and
serratedi some were close, others reticuiated,
but there was no deviation from the six
leaved type. Nature seemed determined to
make us some compensation for the loss of
all prospects, and thus showered down upon
us those lovely blossoms of the frost; and
had spirit of the mountain inquired NV
choice, the view, or the frozen Flowers, I
should have hesitated before giving up that
exquisite vegetation. d ~ 80
1t was wonderful to think of, as we'll as
beautiful to behold. Let us imagine the
eye gifted with microscopic power sufficient
TO enable 1t TO see the molecules which conn
posed these starry crystals; to observe the
solid nucleus formed and floating in the air;
TO see 1t drawing toward it its allied atoms,
and these arranging themselves as if they
moved TO music, and ended by rendering
that music concrete. Surely such an exhi-
bition Of power, such an apparent demon-l
strau0n OF resident intelligence in what
we are accustomed to call "brute matter,n
would appear perfectly miraculous. And
yet the reality would, if we could see it,
transcend the fancy. III 3
If the Houses of Parliament were built up
of the forces resident in their own bricks
and lithologic blocks, and without the aid
Of bodman or mason, there would be nothing
iltIinsically more wonderful in the process
than in the molecular architecture which
delighted us on the summit of Mount Rosa.
And thus prodigal Nature rained down
beauty, and had done so for ages unseen by
man. And yet some flatter themselves with
theideathat this world was planned with strict
reference to human use that the lilies and
the field exist simply to appeal to the sense
of the beautiful In man. True, this result i
secured, but it is one Of thousand all
| equally important in the eyes Of Nature.
Whence those frozen blossoms? Why for
Kenas wasted2 The question reminds one
Of the poets answer, when asked whence
the Rhodora: 9
| 'Why vert thon there, o, rival Of the rose
| never thought to ask, i never knew; wv l 4 G.
But, in my simple ignorance, suppose r.
The sell same power that brought me there, brough
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nIissonri Cnnren,inn

ST. LOUIS, March 6.-The Convention met
at ten O'Clock. Various resolutions, decIin-
ing cooperation with Georgia, were referred
to the Committee of Seven, appointed yes-
terday to report communication to Com
missioner Glenn. 80.
Resolutions in reference to coercion, Sc.
cession and corporation of the Border free
and slave States, were referred to the Com
mittee on Federal Relations. Among the
resolutions was one from ex- Governor Stew
art, that no overt act has been committed by
the Federal Government to Justify nullifca-
ton, Secession or revolution; also, one by
Judge Orr, that we have the best govern
ment in the world, and intend to keep it.
A resolution looking to the amendment of
the State Constitution was tabled. =
resolution to refer the Presidents In
augural to the Committee of the Whole, after
debate, was withdrawn. -s9 r
The Convention then adjourned until ten
o'clock to. morrow. II
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The French Empress-PIeasant Incident In
Paris-The Empress and the Boy.

a Farls correspondent writes:
Strange reports are current about the
''vexed spirit that haunts the Empress. It
is, | believe, certain that she suffers most
unwonted degree of depression. The En-
peror's attention and solicitude are said to be
unbounded. But there is no doubt that her
mind does at times display weakness that
is very distressing TO those near her. There
is always one striking charm in her char
acter which, even in its decay, is still pre-
dominant-its unfeigned and unfailing benz
evidence. t&g
Only two days ago, under my own eye l
witnessed very genial scene. On the lake
in the BOis de BOulogne, little fellow, clad
much after the fashion of little children of
the higher order in the neighborhOod of the
Pyrenees, was skating. He was only nine
years old, and no one else had the hardi-
hood to. venture on the undulating ice.
The Empress, who had been watching for
some time his motions, with his scarlet cap,
picturesque gaberdne, and scarlet trowsers,
suddenly desired one of the equerries to
beckon to the lad and invite him to come to
her: Who are you, mon efydRtS" said she,
as she lifted up his sunny face, from which
the long curly hair fell back in ringlets
'Je suis Granton Barbe, Madam" said the
little fellow, without blanching. "And where
do you live y "No IL Avenue de PImper-
atrice." "Ah, have often seen you and
your petite .tTere in your half Spanish dress,
trundling your hoops, as passed down the
avenue. What is your father mon cher s''
~ e,tkomas deS lettreS, Madam !" "And do
you often go to the Pyrenees, my child f''
"Once a year, Madam" "Then when YOU
go again you must ask papa to bring you to
Biarritz.n "But who are you, Madam ~
said the little fellow. The Empress smiled,
took off brooch from her collar, fastened ii
on his shirt, and replied, ~ am Madam
Eugenie, my dear, and live in the Rue
Rivoli, whereupon she kissed him and re-
lieved him from the carriage. 1t so happens
house as myself and l was keeping an eve
to him, as good neighbor, when the scene
above described occurred; therefore re-
late thus literally. .-- --- -
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Don,t Want Them.

1t would seem as if the double dealing of
the Border slave States was rendering them
unpalatable to the straightout Secession
South, as theyare becoming to the sober and
Union. loving South. The Selma (Ala.) J
Weekly Issue, a leading Secession Journal
reasons as follows upon the policy of receiv-
ing these elements of discord into the South
ern Confederacy:a .r. .
ave do not want such elements in our
new Confederacy. We desire no associations
with unwilling States, who, forgetful of
every obligation of political consanguinity,
and governed only by q cancerous selfish
ness, come to us for shelter when they can
go nowhere else; who seek association with
their erring Southern sisters only when ex-
lied from the companionship of what they
aIe pleased to regard their more reputable
Northern relatives. mol We have two
potent reasons for esteemiDg the accession of
the Border States to our ranks serious
misfortune, under existing circumstances.
First, they would be continually hankering
after the flesh.p pots of Egypt, and impeding
our advance by propositions TO return.
Reconstruction in a thousand insidious
forms, would creep into our councils aud
entWine itself around every effort at perma-
nent organizations; would paralyze every
struggle for progress, and make the history
Of our Contederacy an endless alienation of
imbecile dynasties. AT every session of
Congress this subject would be renewed.
Our people would be divided, and the col
lision Of parties upon this issue become as
fierce and rsncOrous as it ever was upon
slavery between the South and the North"
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AMUSING PIECE OF PLEAsAETRY.-In a
chateau not far from Paris, some private
theatricals were recently represented. at
which all the neighboring gentry were pres
ent. After the performance, NJ. O., rich
land owner of the vicinity, who has been
named the last bourgeois gentilhomme, was
passing in his carriage through wood Of
considerable extent, when a troop of bandits,
armed to the teeth, masked, and in costumes
of the time of Louis XIII, high boots,
plumed hats, &C., surrounded the carriage,
forced the servants and master to lie, face
downward, by the side of the road, and then
proceeded to rummage the vehicle. Boxes
were opened, the portmanteau Of the gentle
man searched, every article examined, even
the cushions were sounded. At length,
yexed at finding nothing, they lifted up the
terrified millionaire. 'lp. .-'N I.
"Doyou wish to save your life2" asked the
chief of the band"
Take every thing posssssl" cried the
unfortunate, offering his purse, his watch
and jewels.
"Bahi keep your money we are richer
than you are"
"What is it you wish then % asked the
captive, in mournful voice.
"You must give us, instantly, the secret of
your hair dyeN r'rE a. -
One can judge of the burst of laughter
which accompanied the demand. This pleas
antry had been plotted by the young men
who had been singing the chorus Of the
comic opera, in hats and yellow boots hired
from the theaters. .-t- TT
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NUMBER 1N

These have all been paid. Yesterday the
accounts were stated in expectation Of Mr..
Chase's entrance on his duties, and they
show balances in the Treasury aud disburs-
ing officers, applicable to the current ex-
penses of the Government, exceeding 81
100000. -
These, with the carrent receipts from the
Customs, amountingto about $50, 600 per day
in coin, it is believed will enable the in
coming Administration TO sustain itself
without calling for fngther loans,. for con-
siderable length of time.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-07

THE COUNTERPART OF THE EMPRESS EUaE-
NR.-"Trovatoren writes to Delights Jour
nal of Music about one of the audience at
the OPERA on the night of the first produe-
ton of the BalLO IN Maseherd:
There was one lady in left hand prosce-
mum box, who attracted great attention
from her resemblance to the Empress Euge-
ME. She was tall and slender, had queenly
bearing, an arehing neck and wore her hair
brushed back, while her head was adorned
with a magnificent gold crown-head-dre
it could not be called-on which were clus.
ters and flowers of emeralds and rubies,
spangled with dew. drops of diamonds. An
elderly lady in the same box, dressed in deep
black, and wearing white cap, served as a
contrast TO the gorgeousness Of the Crowned
Lady. The entire party were strangers and
during the intermission between the acts
attracted the attention of thousands of
curious admirers.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-07

A Mysterious CoRPsE.-The head and
arms of corpse, recently buried, were ex-
posed to view by the flood washing the bank
Of rivulet at Wheeling, Va, last week.
The body was that of well. dressed, hand
some young man, name unknown. and sup
posed to have been murdered for his money,
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NEW York CONSUMPTION OF PINE WOOD
Two hundred thousand cords of pine wood
are annually brought to the New York mar
ket, of which 10000 cords are used by
kindliDg-wood companies. In the trans
portation of this material, about 100 schoon-
ers are employed. The number has fallen
off somewhat lately through contraction
of the business. or this Immense supply Of
pine wood, New Jersey furnishes one eighth,
and Virginia the remainder.
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Governor Pickens and George Washing.
ton.

Governor Pickens of South Carolina on
late occasion related the following:
remember, while in q distant court of
Europe, and at the most despotic of all gov.
ernments, that on a memorable occasion
visited the magnificent gardens that sur
round Peterhoff, near st. Petersburg. The
gardens and grounds were dedicated to the en-
joyment and peaceful pursuits of the greatest
and most brilliant of courts. On a remote
island fthese magnificent grounds, that had
been set aside for the private enjoyment and
private walks of the Emperor and Empress,
tree was pointed out to me in that garden,
cultivated by particular and devoted hands,
surrounded by wire wicket work, and flow
ers fourishing all around it. There stood on
one branch of the tree a large brass plate, and
on one side of that plate, in German, aud on
the other in Sclavonic, was written:
"Thistree was planted in 1889, by Nicholas,
from an acorn that grew near the tomb of
the great Washington" This was the in
scription upon that tree, placed there by one
OF the most absolute rulers that ever swayed
the scepter of empire. And yet, in his pri-
vate, secluded gardens, he paid this deep and
heartfelt tribute to the memory of the great
est and purest man the world ever saw. He
did not take an acorn from near the tomb
of the great Elizabeth, nor did he take it
from the garden of the Tuileries, grown in
tne Time OF Louis AlR nor did he take 1t
from the tomb of the great Napoleon; nor
did he take it from the garden Of the Casars
near Rome; but he took an acorn from the
tomb Of pure and mighty man, in the wilds
of America, who had planted the seeds of a
government consecrated to the freedom and
independence of nations, whose every prin-
ciple was directly at war with the principle
of its own government; and yet SO great
was the virtue and integrity of Washing
ton that even this mighty monarch, in pri-
vate and secret, paid to him his heartfelt
and deep tribute.
The tree was watered and cultivated with
more care than any of the trees in that gar
den. 1t was hourishing and green, and |
trust in God it will continue to flourish
green and fresh until its branches shall over
spread the civilized world. have also seen
the Cossack of the Don and the Volga; i
have seen the Lancers of Russia, and have
seen the Tartar and the Arab in the wilds of
the interior, and yet, notwithstanding their
semi. barbarian life, even they converse ofthe
mighty Washington in their tents at night.
There is no portion of the world thathas not
heard of his name, and love and admire his
great and manly truthfulness and yirtua
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ONE OF THE GEORGIA SEIZED VEssELs.--
One Of the vessels seized by Gov. Brown, of
Georgia, in reprisal for the detention of
Georgia guns by the New York police, is
the bark AdjusteT, which has aboard cargo
OF 800 bales of cotton belonging to an En-
glishman, who has gone TO Washington to
make complaint TO Lord Lyons, the British
before the General Government, and render
some action necessary.
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SINGULAR STATRMEAT.-The Espaad, of
Madrid makes singular statement, to the
effect that the peeuniary resources Of which
Don Juan dispOses have been supplied by the
Bible resources of London, and that in re-
turn, he has undertaken to establish liberty
Of worship, in the event of his becoming
Sovereign Of Spaini ~ %. ~. :
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SuIolDE OF A CosvicrED MURDERER.-John
Cathcart, the wife murderer, who was con
fined in the jail OF Clearlield County, Penna,
under sentence Of death, and whose execu-
ton had been ordered to take place on the
18th Of April next committed suicide on
Sunday night by hanging himself with a
handkerchief to the cell door.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-07

BRITIsH RAILWAY RECEPTs.-The total
receipts on the 10000 miles Of railway in
Great Britain, amounted to $50 Q00, ,OO0 for
the half year ending December 81, 1859. The
number Of passengers amounted to 92,-
627,694.
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r HART, THE SoULPToR.-The distinguished
American sculptor Mr.. Hart, whose statue
of Henry Clay and other works have been
so much admired, is now in Paris, on
his way from the United States 70 FLOR
enee, whittier he is taking back several i'm
portant and valuable orders.
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PALMER's COSMETIC LOTION
NJOTIoB.-soL0mON HRss rs HRRI

NI0TICE:-S0LSlhION HESS Is HERE
~ BY notified that Lisse Hess did, on the 18th
day Of January, A. D.. 1861, file her petition In
the office Of the Clerk Of the Court Of Common Pleas
within and for the county Of Hamilton and state on
Ohio, charging the said Solomon Hess with willfa
absence and neglect Of duty and asking that she
may be divorced from the said Solomon Hess, aud
be restored to her maiden name Of Iisse Kaufman,
which petition will stand for hearing said Court
OF any time after the 10th day Of March, 1861,
BYE o. HILL, her Attorney. feT-fThs
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i HkEsELMAN, Justice off Il tie Peace, Z Of oincip:
natl Township, Hamilton County, Ohio. Muller &
Of Ohio, vs.. Mooney Bark sStope, defendants : On
the Slst day Of January 1851 said Justice issued an
said defendants, for the sum Of one hundred and
seventy three dollars and sixtY-ive cents and that
said cause IL set for hearing on the 22d day OF
March, at o'clock A. NJ before said Justice,
Dated February 8, 1851, feli-cM
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MEDICAL.

n X. NEWTON, M. D.-OFFICE, NO.
SVS 30 West Seventh st, between Vine and
aaegdsnoe d0S %st s !, at between
20 2k P. M, to P. M