Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-11
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Monroe.
Five more regiments have been drawn from
Mississippi for the rebel army.
Two good powder mills are in operation in
Pickens District, South Carolina.
The Irish National Petition for the repeal
of the Union is stated to weigh three cwt.
A Garibaldan newspaper has been estab-
lished in Naples, call the Red Shirt. o. 80
One hundred persons Joined the Rev. DR..
Hawes's Church, in Hartford, Connecticut,
on Sunday.
notwithstanding reports to the contrary,
the New York State Fair will be held at the
usual time.
Snow has not disappeared from Maine yet
there is bank fifteen feet deep in a ravine
near Phillips Village.
The Athens (Ala.) Herald has suspended.
Every day or two Secession journal gives
up the ghost.
General Scott says be will put down the
rebellion in Virginia by the 4th day of July.
Like Metamora, General Scott "never lies"
Governor Pickens of South Carolina, has
forbidden all communication with the block
aiding squadron at Charleston.
Beauregard will advance on Alexandria,
it is thought if he finds he has sufficient
force.
The subscriptions in Chill, for the sufferers
of Mendoza have been large. In Valparaiso
alone $24,0O0 were collected.
Nine negroes simultaneously escaped from
their owner, Colonel B. p, Chester, in Lewis
Vile, South Carolina, some nights ago.
Three negroes who evinced an insurrec-
tionary spirit, in Richmond County, N. O.,
last week, were shot dead by their master.
The New Orleans papers say that about
eight thousand soldiers have left that city
for Pensacola, Virginia and Cairo.
The receipts of wheat on the 4th inst, at
Milwaukee, Wis, was the largest ever known
there in one day, amounting to one hundred
and sixty thousand bushels.
The injury to the growing wheat of Logan
County, Kyp by the worms, has been but
slight and the yield promises to be the finest
and largest ever known in the county.
The steamer Rana,Ohd Valley, which left
Memphis for White River Tuesday evening,
took round two six-pound cannon for Jack
sonport, at the head of White River.
The prevalence of patriotism at the North,
in its entire ignoring of partisanship and
politics, suggests the coining of a new word
for its proper expression, viz: UNIoNIMGTY.
General Prentiss, in answer to a letter
from Collector Howard, of st. Louis, Mo-,
writes that nothing which Is destined to a
seeded State is allowed to pass Cairo.
F. Y. Carlisle, formerly editor of the
Evansville lind Journal, was driven out of
that city recently for alleged abusive articles
in the Memphis (Tenn.) papers.
Two Danes went to the telegraph Office at
marlborough, Australia, in March last, and
requested the operator to send small bag of
gold to Copenhagen.
Every four years Charleston, S. O., is WIS.,
tied with the yellow fever in the most malg-
nant type, and the present year is the season
for the recurrence of this pestilence.
Ramsey George and Patrick Hoale had
quarrel in New Orleans, on the 4th inst,
and the latter was fatally stabbed in the side
with dirk.
Stanley Mix committed suicide in Mobile,
Alabama, on the 9Th inst, in consequence of
a fear of becoming bankrupt; his estate
having greatly declined during the past two
weeks.
Many of the cannon at Norfolk, Virginia,
have been removed by rail, for fear of their
falling into the hands of Federal troops,
when Norfolk shall be taken.
DR.. Holiness "Army Hymn" to the tune
OF "Old Hundred" has been sung in many
churches, to the great acceptance Of the con.
gregations.
The Secretary of War of the Southern
Confederacy has determined to accept no
more troops, except those who enlist for
during the war" E .e..t
Great coats for soldiers, going to Washing
ton, are strongly deprecated as being cum.
brous inptlities. A good, serviceable blanket
instead, is warmly advocated.
George Peters was thrown from wagon
with which his horses were running away
in Union County, s. O., recently, and in-
stantly killed.
The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch has an ad-
vertisement requesting all free men of color;
who are willing to act as protectors to the
city, to give in their names.
1t is reported upon high official authority
that JEFF. Davis anticipates the first sanguin-
AIRY conflict at Harper's Ferry, and that he
will head the troops in person. M ~
Large quantities of bunting and home
spun, besides a number of Enfield rifles,
bave been shipped to Boston from ST. Johns,
NeWtoundland, for the use of the Federal
troops.
A man of the name of jackson was hanged
by Vigilence committee in Phillips County,
Arkansas, on last Monday, for tampering
with slaves. rH ENNFf IL
FIoTTIoUs BArTLEs.-The newspapers all
over the country are interested in putting
stop to the false reports Of battles which are
sent by reckless or untruthful persons over
the telegfaph for publication, and many of
the journals are demanding That more care
and supervision of such dispatches shall be
exercised by those who report them to the
press. When 1t is 80 very easy TO verify a
report of a battle by sending dispatch, by
telegraph, to the place where the fight is said
to have occurred, or where the report pur-,
ports TO have originated, In order that the
account shall be confirmed before publiea- I
tion, there is no apology at ali for sending
false statements to newspapers, and having
them not only deceive their readers, but
produce great deal Of unnecessary anxiety
and distress among the thousapds Of persons
who have their friends and relations in the
army. Every flying Eumor should not be
seized upon as fact or be reported at all,
until proper pains are taken TO ascertain Its
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