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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-01-04

Two drunken men came near being froze
to death on Sunday Dec. 23d, in Hartwell-
vile. They had hitched their horse to the
fence and laid down in the road to sleep off
their "weariness." When found they were
utterly helpless, and couldn't speak, and a
short time longer in such bed would have
ended their miserable days.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-01-04
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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-01-04

ID. E. PIERCE, Foreman.
Bellows Falls Jan. 2, 1861.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

A PALMETTO BULLY ON ,BuLLYNe.- Tho
following agreeable little paragraph con-
cludes long editorial article in the Charles
ton Mercury of the 29th January, the italics
being the Mereuys:
The bully programme, for it is nothing
more, will soon cure itself. Up TO the very
moment when our shot smote the Star of the
West in her cheeks, these scoundrelly asses
of the Northern press were telling the miser-
able moonlings whom they have gulled to
their ruin, that ours was the bullying game; !;
that we were not in earnest; thatall they had
to do was To hold on, and they would see us,
cap in hand, begging to be received to favor.
They judged of their people by themselves.
They have been playing the thimbLe rigging,
the Dragging and the Bullying game all their
lives, and as each beast measures his neigh
boris corn by his own false bushels, so these
people would measure ours. But there must
be finish some day to all games; and the
thimble. riggers are likely to fnd themselves
at last in the hands of the constable. We
shall play out our game honestly, as we
begun it, and fling our shot into the faces of
the bullies whenever they appear.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

A GHOST STORY AND Discovery OF MYs-
TERIoUs CRlME.-The Alexandria (Va.)
Gazette has the particulars of a curious ghost
story. The people living in the house No.
II Wolfstreet had long been annoyed by
mysterious knockings," and had concluded
that the house was haunted. One man, hav-
ing heard that old Mrs. Rye had died in the
house about year ago, thought that per-
haps she had hid some treasure during her
life, and that her spirit was uneasy about it,
and wanted some one to find il.
So he thought he might as well as not be
that some one, and went to work on Satur-
day morning. He made search and found
in one of the cuddy holes between the raft
ers, under the caves of the house, the
sewed-up leg of pair of black pantaloons,
upon seeing which an indescribable sensation
pervaded his whole frame, and he hastily re-
treated from the place. He thought he had
fortune sure, and went to get neighbor to
witness him taking possession.
The neighbor came, the pantaloon leg was
pulled out, also an old coat, sewed up into q
bundle. The packages were carefully opened
and found to contain-not a parcel of coin
and bills, but two dead bodies, carefully
packed in lime. A copy of the Charlestown
Free Press of February, 1860, was also
brought to light, showing that the horriC
murder of these two little innocents mus
have taken place year ago at least. There
was o "Crowner's quest" when the follow.
ing verdict was returned by the jury:
Efhat they are unable to find when, how
and by what means the infants came to theil
death; but. from the circumstances, they be
| fieve that death wes feloniously caused b.
some person or persons unknown" -s'-
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

SALE OF A RARE AND MAGNIFICENT CoLLEc-
TIoN OF CURIosITIEs.-A Paris correspondent
writes as follows:
Great interest has just been excited by the
announcement that the celebrated collection
of Prince Saltikoff, whose fame has doubtless
even reached America, is shortly to be dis
posed of, under the hammer. Some opinion
of the number and value of the curiosities
belonging to the museum of this Russian
nobleman (for many years q resident of
Paris), may be formed from the fact that the
sum Of !, 100000 1880, ,000) has been offered
for the collection, at private sale, and refused.
The principal rarities of this precious bazaar
are the arms, the chronometers. the clocks,
and the enamels.
In gathering these objects, Prince Saltkoff
has ransacked the entire world. His brother,
an intrepid traveller, brought him an i'm
mense quantity of curious treasures from
India, Persia and China, all of which now
form part of the collection. Among the
most valuable articles, are twenty suits OF
amor, any one of which is superior to all
the coats-of.mail belonging to the National
| French Museums. The watches are of the
rarest kind, many of them without a rival
| The ancient enamels of Byzantium and
Limoges, picked up in different parts of the
world, cost their purchaser enormous sums
| In single year Prince Ssltikoff expended
upon these curiosities alone no less than
| 100000.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11
" Ar he TIE ..

Passports are about to be abolished in
Switzerland.
The Scheldt has been frozen over at An
twerp for the frat time in forty years.
Gutta-percha is used by foreign dentists
for plugging teeth.
Purgative chocolate, containing magnesia,
is now sold by the Paris druggists.
The expense of setting up telegraph line
in England is from $500 to $3.50 per mile.
children in a fortnight, by diptheria at
Pawlet, vt.
Mrs. Burch died recently, in the town of
Junius, New York, aged liz years. She was
married so years ago.
There are companies in France formed to
secure exoneration from conscription by the
payment of money.
The Pioneer, steamer of 35O-horse power,
for the use of DR.. Livingstone, the African
traveller, has sailed for the Zambesi.
The st. Louis (Mo.) Bulletin has been tenn
porarily suspended, which is, we suppose,
equivalent to eternal death.
William H. Darnes, of Scott County, No.,
a noted politician of that State, died few
days ago.
A story circulating in our exchanges
states that Senator Benjamin, of louisiana,
was expelled in his youth from Yale College
for his repeated thefts.
Able-bodied paupers have been weeded
out from New London, Conn, by being in
troduced to a wood pile, saw and saw-horSe
when they applied for relief.
The Charleston Is. o. Courier says: "a
monkey over a powder-magazine would
represent the present position of the Presi-
dent of the once United States"
Ina fit of low spirits, induced by the loss
of her husband, Mrs. Emily Armstrong
hanged herself at Hartford, Ct., few days
ago.
Rufus W. Higgins, drowned at San Fran
cisco, last month, was highly respectable
officer of the California Steam Navigation
Company.
A vicious horse kicked John Adams in the
forehead and killed him, at Nottingham
Township, Penn, on Thursday while about
TO, give him hay.
Charcoal respirators or filters are pro.
posed to be placed in the grate-openings oi
street sewers, by which all unpleasant
smells are prevented. .ef
1t is probable that pneumatic dispatch
| on the plan of the one now existing in Lon
don, will shortly be established in Paris, fol
the more rapid transmission of letters.
The total exports from Philadelphia f9l
! 1860, exceeded in value those of any year
since 1854, and were greatly above the to
tails of 1853 and 1859.
The Westminster Palace Hotel Qondon
has adopted the plan of the Fifth-ayenut
Hotel, New York, of having lifting plat
form to raise luggage and guests to the up
per stories.
A map of Western Africa, by NJ. d.
Chaillu, now in New York, and lecturer
before the Geographical Society, has beer
added to the collection of the Royal Geo
graphical Society of London.
A westerly current and westerly winC
having almost constantly prevailed for two
months in the Straits of Gibraltar, 2,30I
vessels, of-all nations, were unable to get tt
sea until the 10th ult.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

CRY RAILWAYS IN PARIs-HOnor TO the
American 1Tain.-The success of Mr.. Trains
Birkenhead Railway, and the efforts now
making by capitalists to introduce city rail.
ways in London, find correspondent SYM
pathy in Paris, and pamphlet has recently
been published there, entitled Chemins de
Fer traction de chsvdl dts CheDlins AR1eri-
Gains. Considerations en- fdUear de Leur dp-
plicdtion generGle en- France sur les routes
dams les gTdndes Viiles ct lsurS JduboHrgs, par
W. Jones Valentine. The writer, after al
luding to the extent of our city railways in
America, proceeds with an almost amusing
solemnity to argue the advantage which
they would be to Paris. The style is French
and funny.
Mr.. Train is canonized as the apostle of
English railways (papotre des tramways en-
Angleterre). After discussing the matter
pretty thoroughly, Mr.. Jones adds an ap-
pendix, in which he gives extracts from the
reports of our street railroad companies, and
the testimony of various engineers and cap
italists on the matter. His pamphlet is,
moreover, embellished with photographic
views of the cars, and one fanciful sketch
represents Partisan boulevard with cars
passing thereon, to the huge delectation of
divers dressy French ladies and gentlemen,
who are gazing with delight at the well-filled
vehicles and running to get into them.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11
Parlker'E Spirit Opposed to Conn
nrnmiae In the Preaanf CriaIa.

Theodore Parker's spirit having been in
voked in New York the other evening, he
answered the call, and gave the "circle"
present to understand that he is decidedly
against compromise. He thinks that for the
man at the South who legitimately inherits
slaves and holds them as his only valuable
property there is some excuse "but when
men of the North who have no slave, men of
the North who inherit nothing but their
manhood and independence, and gain a sub
sistence unaided, who depend upon their in
dustry, and economy, and education, with
which to gain wealth, say, "Let us compro-
mise with slavery let us extend slavery"
i for them e there A is no excuse and no punish
"And now, is the North or the South to
perish7 Must this Union, this glorious coun-
try, this free America, this Christian organi-
ton, at last totter and fall into ruins2 If q
man builds up a beautiful temple, and decks
it with the most gorgeous architecture, puts
grace and symmetry, and perfection in every
form, but builds it upon a foundation that is
in itself rotten-a foundation which is not
firm, but must at some time fall-much as
we may regret that so much beauty should
perishJstill remembering that the foundation
is not secure, you would rather the structure
should fall at a seasonable time, when every
one is expecting it, than that some great
calamity and loss of life should occur because
no one is prepared for it. Rather let it fall
at once, or tear it down, take stone from
stone, bolt from bolt, joint from joint, corner
stone from cornerstone, until It is all ready
to build up again in security, than to prop
it up here and prop it up there, to compro-
mise here and compromise there, until at
last, from its very weight and its lack of
foundation, it falls, and masses are crushed
beneath its ruins"
The general tone, then, of Mr.. Parker s
opinions is, that if America is builded upon
slavery, the sooner America is no longer a
Union the better; and that if slavery has its
foundation in the Constitution, the sooner
that Constitution is not recognized the better;
or even if men pervert the Constitution so
as to make it lever of the power of error,
then, too, let it perish. .
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

MECHANICS RISING TO DIsTIEouoN.-0ne
of the best editors the Westminster ReView
could ever boast of and one of the most
brilliant writers of the passing hour, was an
Aberdeen cooper. One of the editors of the
London Daily Journal was an Elgin baker (;
perhaps one of the best reporters of the
London Times was an Edinburg weaver; the
editor of the Witness was Hugh Miller, g
stone. mason. One of the ablest ministers in
London was a Dundee blacksmith, and an
other was Banff matchmaker. The late
DR.. Milne, of China, was Rhyme herd-boy.
The principal of the London Missionary So
ciety's College, at Hong Kong was a Huntley
ssddler; and one of the best missionaries
that ever went 10 India was a Keith tailor
The leading machinist on the London and
Birmingham Railway, was q Glasgow me-
chanic, and perhaps the very richest iron
founder in England was a Moray working
man. Sir James Clark, Her Majesty
physician, was Banff druggist. Joseph
Hume was a sailor first and then a labOreI
at a mortar and pestle in Montrose. These
men, however, spent their leisure hours In
acquiring useful knowledge.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

A New ARTICLE OF OoMMERcE.-A Man
chester paper says that new article of COM
merce, introduced by the late French treaty,
is the "bois duree." This "bois duree,n or
hardened wood, which has been improperly
described as wood softened and then hard
ened, is made from a saw.dust, which, under
the influence of a high temperature and the
enormous pressure of 600 tuns, acquires a
hardness good deal exceeding that of wood.
ho 1t is Of very h9e grain and fears no at
merit is the adaptation of molding, and by
the most economical processes, forms and
impressions are given which would require,
in any way, considerable labor and work
manship,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

REIGN OF THE PETTIcoAT.-Iti is confidently
press Eugene honored England in 1860 will
be repeated in 1861. In anticipation of this
feliciteus event, the linen. drapers of En-
gland are organizing subscription with a
view to the presentation of testimonial to
Her Imperial Majesty, together with an ap-
propriate address, setting forth the gratitude
entertained by the trade toward the Empress
of the French and the fashions, for having
ordained the wearing of dresses which re-
quire, to make them, three times as many
yards as could possibly be allowed by any
regard to comfort, economy and elegance,
united with any sense of the ridiculous.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11
The London Times on the Solution of the
aeceaaiOn OueatiOn In tho Irnifed Sfnfea.


accession Question in the United States.
The London Times, Of late date observes:
In one way the question is working itself
out. Trade has already suffered considerable
interruption, people not quite knowing what
to be at. The most speculative genius will
hardly venture to guess the ups and downs
of cotton for the next year or two. Our own
SPECTATORS have been sending out millions
of gold to buy everything that is to be
bought and the only result is, that the
Americans are obtaining very high prices
for every thing they haYe to sell. Thus far
they have pocketed, we are afraid to say how
many million dollars, by the outbreak, and
if the Northern and Southern States were to
make it up to- morrow they would be able to
divide very handsome booty at the expense
of the British alarmist.
But Il is said that the present state of things
has its inconvenience at Charleston, where
everybody is arming, drilling, digging, and
doing everything rather than work to any
useful purpose, or pay wages or debts.
There is a complete suspension of trade, and
Charleston without trade is an animal under
an exhausted receiver. Trade is the very
breath it breathes.
The l2O stand of arms, such as they are,
which, thanks to Secretary Floyd, the South
Carolinians are busily practicing with, afford
the means of a very pretty amusement, but
luey Will uolJuOI CRUSH cane luJO sugar, NOT
coin into dollars, and while they are ham
died, every other tool must be idle, from the
pen of the cashier to the the pick of che
nayvie. So things must be going to be bad
at Charleston, and the Government at Wash
ington may find it the best course to let the
seceders find out for themselves the true ma
ture of the step they have taken.
1t is question of convenience, and per-
haps there is no harm in putting it to prac-
~ =
too fast even in an experiment. So we say
to South Carolina "Look before you take a
very dark leap. Unpleasant as your present
position may be- you may light on some-
thing worse, or on nothing at all. "Itis easy"
says some one, "to decide any day in the af-
rmative, the question whether to cut ones
throat or not but one has once come to that
decision and acted upon it, it is not SO easy
then to review the arguments leading to a
view of the casen
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

MARVELLOUS CASE OF MATERNITY-Doubls
cisco Herald says that lady In that city
became mother to a fine, healthy female
child, on the day after Christmas, and both
mother and child did we'll and progressed in
health and strength. But two weeks after
ward the same lady was again the mother OF
a child, fine boy, who is also flourishing,
as well as the double-taxed mother. This
circumstance, although of extreme rarity,
being probably the second well-ascertained
case of the kind ia the United States, is one
which is known to medical men as having
occurred before, and is accounted for upon
clearly y-ascertained physical grounds.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

THREE CHILDREN DESTROY THEMSELVES
WITH STRYcHNRE.-Mrs. Mott, worthy
widow, had occasion to go from home, in
Perry County, Miss, recently, leaving her
three little girls-the eldest about seven
years, the second five, and the youngest
about two years of age. While she was alb
sent, they found bottle with some strych-
the little ones poured water in the bottle and
drank it. When the mother returned she
found one of them already dead, and the
others speeches.. They all died within a few
minutes of each other, and were buried in
the same coffin.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

ENORMOUS PROFITS OF THE New YoRK
STREET RAILwAYs.-The World says the
profts-of the New York street railroads are
enormous. The Third.ayenue Road cost
about $465, 700. 1t is represented by stock
to the value of $l,250O00 which, not long
since, was quoted at l70per cent, or, in other
words, it returns 20 per cent. on five times
its original cost. The Sixth-avenue Road
cost about $3.50, 700, and is represented by a
stock worth $500, 900 which is valued at ITO
per cent. The Eighth-aYenue Road cost
about 100000, which is said to be worth 2Oe
per cent,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

THE IRON FRIeATE TO BE TEsTED.-The
iron. cssed frigate Warrior, lately launched
in London, is to be taken to Shoeburyness to
be tested with Whitworth and Armstrong
guns of ths largest calibre, and under every
possible circumstance to which she would
be subjected to in actual battle. If these
trials prove successful with this vessel, the
entire navy of England will be altered to
meet the new conditions of naval warfare
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

MODEL PoLIoEMEN.-A young girl was res
to the st. Louis House of the Good Shepherd.
There she remained till two weeks ago, when
she escaped in fit of indignation about some
small matter. Two detectives were employed
to find her, but instead of taking her to the
home, the scoundrels placed her in another
den, compelling her with threats to live with
both, until she was met with, on Sunday,
and again placed in the institution, which
she earnestly desired to re-enter.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

CooL PROCEDURE oP FALSE WIFR--A dis
reputable wife took passage with her hus-
band and four children, at Stockton, for San
Francisco, on New year's-day.s Just before
the steamboat started, she eoolly stepped
ashore, and walked off arm in arm with q
man who was waiting for her. Before the
thunderstruck husband could realize the
fact, he and his little ones were on their way
TO San Francisco
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

NEW PROPOSAL OF BRITIsH ARCHITECTS.
The Royal Institute Of British Architects
are considering proposal to establish an ex-
animation in architecture. The declared in
tention is 10 examine candidates for degree
only with reference to what is called the
Ipractical.n 1t does not demand that the
student shall have knowledge of the human
figure or that exquisitely ornamented work
which seems an indispensable part of the
profession. Would not an American lnsti-
tute of Architects further the interests OF
their profession by similar moyement2
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

ANOTHER French BROCHURE. - France
Without Pope, is brochure just published
in Paris by the author of the Pops and En-
psror. 1t maintains that the re-establish-
ment of a civil constitution Of the clery is
the only possible solution of the interests OF
religion and of France. This to be modified
in national council, and universal suffrage
to obtain in all clerical elections, by which
the lower orders of clergy will be emanci.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

IMPORTS OF THE FREE AND SLAVE STATES.
The value of the imports of the free States,
during the fiscal year 1889, were $l69, 162,- :
TIC, and the exports were $295, 8l2 879. The
imports of the slave States were $l87, 286, 1856,
and the exports $3l, ,9s5, $50. OF the ex-
elusive Southern products the exports from
the United States were as follows; Cotton,
$l6l, 434, ,943; tobacco, $2l, ,074, ,03S; sugar,
$674, 1863; molasses, $75,699; spirits from
molasses, $3.50, $50; tar, $i4l, ,06s; resin and
turpentine, $2,24s, 2sl rice, So, 2Oz,l4S
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

VALUABLE NAUTICAL DIsoovERY.-It is an
nounced as a discovery by Captain Denham,
who has been surveying Eastern Australia,
"that a ship from the southwark has only to
passage of l5O miles in width, free from cur
rent, with flowing southeast trade. wind
will lie before her for LOO miles, TO the
Raine-I Island entrance to Torres Straits"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

The BRITIsH CoNsUL's OouRsE AT CHARLES
ToN.-The British Consul at Charleston, s.
O., grants papers to vessels belonging Ia
English citizens, and to those vessels be-
their captains assure him that they will sail
under the stars and stripes, and not under
the Palmetto flag. s
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

A WOMAN FROZEN TO DEATH.-Angeline
Brown, of Wendhall, Mass, recently started
across lots TO neighbors house. one mile
distant, to be absent several days. She was
found, two days after, frozen to death, about
twenty ssds O@ baT sne .sS mouse s1s naG Ss'
she turned back on account of the cold, and
persisted before she could reach shelter.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

GREAT FALL OF SNow.-The late fall of
snow in Western New York and in Canada
West, is unprecedented. The Buffalo and
Lake Shore Railroad is blocked up. Four
near Stratford. On Friday night, passen-
ger-train stuck fast in a snow drift, and the
contractor and train-hands walked four
miles to Stratford to get food for the pas
sepgers, who, with the help of good fires,
passed the night comparatively comforta-
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-11

TIE LATE COUNT D'0RsAY AN ARTISTIC
SHAM.-A decided expose has recently taken
place, which will not increase the high
reputation of that once fashionable "artist,
the late Count D'0rsay, who enjoyed a great
name as q painter and sculptor. 1t leems
that he employed two aids dteLier, painter
and modeler, both highly skilled in their
professions. They worked in different
rooms, and retired upon the announcement
of visitors. Most of the Counts busts and
pictures which have given him distinction
were the work of these men.