Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-11
VARIETIES.

III lelCnnOuui u
The debt of the city of Philadelphia
amounts to 1852, 400.
About $4OO, 900 has been subscribed to the
national loan in California.
Sweetening ones coffee is generally the
first stirring event of the day.
There are thirty million acres of Govern
ment land in Kansas unsurveyed.
The Democracy of New Hampshire have
called their State Convention for Jan. 8.
W. N. jerks, of Pennsylvania has been
appointed Land Agent at Brownsville, Ne
braska
Joseph ]. Henry, of Pennsylvania, has
been appointed Consul at Port Mahon, Mi
norca Islands.
Out of ID, ,3Os members Of Divisions of Sons
of Temperance in Maine, 596 have enlisted
in the volunteer army.
Negroes confined in the st. Louis iail, who
are slaves of Secessionists, are to be set to
work for Government
I.V. Fowler, once Postmaster of New
York, is carrying on a tobacco msnufactory
in Tepec, Mexico, and is said to be making
money.
A line of telegraph is to be laid from
Washington to Fortress Monroe, and poss-
bly, from that point to Hatteras, Port Royal,
ard points further South.
The term currency, as used by Bankers,
means par funds, according to recent de-
cision Of Judge Drummond, United States
District Judge at Chicago.
That was patriot wife of Maine volun-
teer who begged of her husband to keen out
of battle if he could. Probably his life
was not insured.-Bath Times.
ARMS FROM EURoPE.-The steamer BavGriq,
which arrived at New York a few days apo
brought 5000 stand Of arms for the Federal
Government, purchased in Belgium.
The New York marine underwriters have
reconsidered their action, ard have reduced
the rates for vessels hereafter to sail, from
five TO two per cent. for the war risk.
Until lately the Southern papers were ac-
customed to speak of the Northern soldiers as
the "cowardly Hessans." Now they call
them the fierce and cruel Hessians."
Brisk as is the recruiting for the navy, it
is not equal to the demand. One hundred
and thirteen United States vessels are now
fitting out, and 6000 seamen are wanted to
man them.
A.P. Stone, Treasurer Of State, has pur-
chased the former residence of Governor
Chase, corner of State and Sixth.streets, and
has entered upon its occupaucy.- Ohio
Statesman.
In the case of Catbarine N. Forrest against
| Edwin Forrest a full bench of the Superior
! Court has decided against the motion of de.
| ftndant for new trial, and confirmed the
award of $4,000 year alimony.
The colored people of Philadelphia are Pc
! titioniDg the several atreet railway compa.
: MES 10 be admitted to their cars. They claim
| that fifty of their number pay annually over
! $4,000 into the tax collectors office.
DOUBTFUL is said the officers of the
blockading fleet at New Orleans receive late
news from Secessia in bottles hoated down
| the Mississippi River, which some of their
| Union friends in New Orleans or up the
river send down to them sealed.
A worthy clergy man of New Bedford, in
one of his sermons quite recently, dwelling
upon the depravity OF the human heart, and
| its exhibitions in buman conduct, remarked
that the night before it was evinced in the
meanest of all possible phases By the robbery
Of his hen-roost.
Henry Hendrick, great grandson of the
celebrated Captain Hendrick, of Revolutions
ary memory, has been authorized by the
Governor of Wisconsin to raise an Indian
regiment for the war. Mr.. Hendrick is ol
the Stockbridge tribe, formerly of the Mo-
hicans He pledges SAG, 900 from the Indians
toward the equipment Of the regiment.
The aggregate dry goods imports fol
the month of November shows large de-
crease from 1860, over so per cent, aud still
more from 1859 A large portion of the ion
ports were of woolens for army use. For the
eleven months ending the Both of November
the falling off of $55, 900, 000ss ompared with
1860, and $63, 100000 as compared with 1859
The P's AND B's.-Tbe Boston Traveller
remarks "P is almost as good al initial let
ter for us as B has been for the rebels. We
have Pickens, Phillippi, Piketon, and Port
Royal The Perry, we believe, took the frs
prize in the war, and we have prevented the
enemy from crossing the Potomac. Their
we hold Paducah, and the Panhandle con
tinues in our possession.
BULLY FOR THE BoYs.-The young gentle
men around town under eighteen years o
age, have formed a Wood saving Associa
lion, and devote every Saturday to saving
wood for the families of volunteers, They
make merry job of it, and have no troub,
at all in keeping the women folks in wood
We commend their example to the lads o
neighboripg towns.-AShlGnd Times.
In Alexandria gallant young artiller,
officer was spit upon by two young ladies,
few days before the battle of Bull Run. II
Immediately inquired their names and as
certained their residences, and on that sam
evening, with a number of his comrades
sert naded them for three hours, singing tn
most sentimental songs in praise of the love
illness and gentleness of women.