Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-17
SOUTHERN ITFMs.

per pOun0j Hour at SlO per barrel; bacon AT |
twenty-seven cents; butter at forty cents;
goods and groceries at just what a man has |
the face to ask, and other things in proper
tion. Truly, the poor man with wife aud |
children depending on him hes many incen-
tives to Join the militia and leave his family |
to the tender meroies of the community.
The Atlanta Southern Confederdcy, in view |
of the scarcity of guns left in the hands Of
private parties, urges that every man have
pike made for himself. The pike would be
an effective weapon in charge.
The Atlanta InteIljgencer says:
Commissary- General Whitaker has seized,
during the present week, l,540 sacks of salt,
for which he paid rs heretofore directed by
Governor Brown. r.p..
A gentleman, who is lately from Nashville,
states that there is no little excitement there
about drafting the militia many declaring
that Tennessee is disgTaced in the attempt to
take from her the proud title of the "Volun-
teer State" Several difficulties had occurred,
and more than one shot, growing out of the
call
The Nashville Gazette severely censures
Governor Harris for calling out the militia.
The whereabouts of distinguished per-
sonage is thus disclosed by the New Orleans
Picdyune of December 8:
Governor @. + Jackson, of Missouri, has
been invited, with his suite, by the Recep.
ton Committee, to attend the exhibition of
tableaux vivants, next Tuesday evening, at
the Opera house, for the benefit of the soldiers
in that State.
The Savannah Republican recommends as
successors to MessIs. Sliden and Mason, the
captured ministers, VIM. @. Rives, of Vir-
ginia, and John G. Wood, of Georgia.
The Virginia State Convention, now in
session at Richmond, on The 23d ult., rejected
proposition to amend the Constitution 30
as to provide that the Governor shall be
elected by the General Assembly instead of
by the people. The vote resulted-yeas,
forty ont; nays, sixty.
A duel took place near Manassas, on the
2lst ult., between William S. Courtney, Esq.,.
correspondent of the Charleston Mer cury,
and Captain Cuthbert, of the Palmetto
Guards. The cause of the difficulty was
recent publication by the Palmetto Guards,
rejecting iDjuriousy upon Mr.. Courtney.
After an exchange of shots the matter was
honoraby settled.
The Memphis Avalanche of the 4th inst
has exciting rumors from Bowling Green
and Columbus. 1t says:
There are indications that the Federals
will soon attack Bowling Green. The tim.
Der has heen cut away for several miles
around that place to give our boys an open
| field for fight. The force of the enemy Is
estimated at fifty thousand, between Bow
/ ling Green and Louisville. Generals john
ston and ,BuckDer are prepared for them.
| The Courier, complains that spies are per-
mitted to pass our lines too freely. II says
that number of ''good Southern men" have
Just found that it is necessary for them to
return to Louisville, doubtless to give the
enemy full information. All such Southern
! men" should be hung as high as Haman. 1t
| is the opinion in military circles at Bowling
Green that battle there is not far off.
Hon. John Forsyth was lately candidate
for Mayor of New Orleans, but was defeated
by R. H. Slough.
The rebel Congress, on November 25, re-
solved to pass law authorizing an advance
| to be made to planters on their crops in
Treasury notes or Confederate bonds, end
much surprise is expressed at the absurdity
of the proposition.
Sixty-seven prisoners of war died in Rich
mond between August l and November 10
The City Council of Savannah has ordered
| all bars where liquor is sold to be closed a
five o'clock P. NJ. daily.
The Louisville Nashville Courier of Dec.
says:
There have been some splendid cavalry
companies passing through our city during
the past two days from Louisiana and Missis
sippi. They looked like they had a good dea
of hard fighting in them. .
Captain James D. Bulloch, who lately sue
cessfully ran the blockade while in command
! So Al hao ok oh
mond., He thinks there is likelihood o
Lord Palmerston's proving indifferent to tn
question involved in the seizure, by Captain
Wilkes, on the high seas, from British YES
sci, of Messrs. Mason and Slidell.
The Nashville Banner urges the passage 0
an act by the Legislature, providing for tn
pay yment of Tennessee's proportion of tn
Confederate tax by the State itself, -withou
calling on the tax payers to meet it, at thi
crisis of general financial difficulty. 1t
proposed to raise the means by an issue Q
paper by the Bank of tennessee, which, in
dorsed by the State, would pass current.
Attorney. General Benjamin has not sue
ceeded in bis. Senatorial aspirations. Th
Louisiana Legislature has just turned tn
cold shoulder upon him by the followin
vote; Declonet, 40 votes; Benjamin, 81
Semmes, 48. "+
A dispatch from Savannah, quoting tn
Republican, Gays that John Chaplain, who wa
| released from Hilton Head, reports the Fed
eral forces at Fort Welles as numberin
twenty-five thousand men and sixty-thre
vessels and that an expedition under Butle
is under way to seize Charleston, anotht
under Burnside TO seize Savannah.
The Bowling Green Courier has an articl
from the Nashville Patriot in answer to th