Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30
VOLUME VI.
w AR BUDGET.
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SHIPMENT OF CoNTRABAND GOODS.
Information has Just been received by the
Government that large quantities of contra
band goods are constantly being shipped at
st. John, New Brunswick, and Quebec, for
the Southern coast, to run the blockade, IL
is also asserted and believed that some of the
goods leave several of the loyal ports in the
North, and that prominent persons are en-
gaged in this unlawful enterprise.
INSANITY or A PRISONER AT FORT LAFAYETTE.
Yesterday information reached the Secre-
tary of State that James NJ. Haig, who was
arrested in Baltimore some time since for
engaging in shipping contraband goods to
the South and sent TO Fort Lafayette, is
raving maniac. Orders have been sent for
his release, and to be handed over to his
friends, or to be placed in some lunatc
asylum.
RoNNEY, VA,
Is situated in bowl of mountains. There
are rich fertile valleys running along their
bases. The country surrounding is produc
tive of the cereals. The town itself is one of
the most thriving in that part of Virginia.
Many of the inhabitants still long for a resto-
ration of the old Union.
1t can be easily fortified and held. But its
possession, except as point to guard the
rear of an advancing column, is of little mill
itary Importance. Winchester is the strategic
| point of that region.
Colonel Wallsce's Indiana Zouaves, early
in June last, while stationed at Cumberland,
mace dash upon a party of Confederate
troops stationed at this point, and took all
their camp equipage and large number of
arms, routing them completely.
THE BLOCKADE OF THE POTOMAC.
The rebel batteries between Shipping and
| Freestone Points are believed to command
the river for space of five miles. At Evans
port is new battery. The Assistant Secre-
tary found the population of the section of
Mary land through which he passed hostile,
and the country very poor and wretched,
The story that five hundred rebels crossed
| to Maryland in the George Paige is untrue.
| A few ventured over and celebrated their
| captures of oyster boats at one Posey's man
sion.
DEPOT FOR PRISONERS OF WAR.
Secretary Cameron has authorized the es-
tablishment of depot for prisoners of war
at Johnson's Island in Sandusky Bay, Lake
| Erie. An experienced builder of Sandusky
| has contracted to erect seventeen buildings,
| capable of accommodating one thousand
prisoners. They are to be finished by De-
cember 10, at total cost not to exceed
$4,000 First Lieutenant e. w. Il. Reade,
| of The Eighth Infantry, now on parole, is to
| be Acting Assistant Quartermaster and Com
missary of Subsistence for the depot. One
hundred and fifty men will be detailed as q
guard.
| DEATHS OF SOLDIERS.
The following soldiers died yesterday:
Corporal John Ray, Company A, Thirty
third Pennsylvania Regiment, at General
| Porter's head quarters.
James Cooper, Indiana Cavalry, at the
Patent Office.
W. Mcbride, Company D, Fourth Pennsyl-
| vania Reserve, at the Union Hotel
John Stewart, Company F, First Pennsyl-
vania Reserve, was killed by the bursting of
a she'll at Prospect Hill, Va.
Edward Bennett, u private of the Fourth
Regiment McOalls division, died at the U.
S. General Hospital (Circlel at two o'clock
p. NJ, yesterday.
Private Clinton Hoyt Company F, Har.
lsn's Pennsylvania Cavalry, died yesterday
of typhoid fever, at the Columbian College
Hospital Washington Star, 26th.
ENDURANCE OF THE MARCH.
A great deal has been said as to the hard.
ships of our troops in the way of marching
on the march to Bull Run, it will be remem-
bered, General Mcdowell found that the very
first days march of six miles told heavily or
his men, while the necessity of marching OF
the morning of the 2lst from Centerville tc
Bull Run has been assigned as an important
cause of defeat. This was simply because
bnO ILOOp5 WclO IhWt duO uob bCShuoO tuO ulo
tsDce was any thing that ought to trouble {
we'll trained soldier or any body else. We
hope the army knows the use of its legs bet
ter now than it did then.
AS an example of what troops are some
times expected to do, and what they have &C
tually done in the way of marching, there il
a striking illustratonin the history of Napo
Icons Italian campaign of 1897. 1t was his
desire to effect junction with Joubert anC
defeat the Austrlans at Rivoli. He therefore
took Msssena's division, which had been fight
ing at Verona on the 18th of January, and
marched that night to Rivoli, atilesst fifteeI
miles distant. They fought and conquered
the Austrisns at Rivoli on the l4th, MRsse
mas division doing some of the hardest o
the fighting. The battle lasted nearly al
day, and at night Napoleon set out with tn
same men for a still longer march to Mantua
"These brave soldiers" says Theirs, swift
joyful faces and reckoning upon fresh victo
ries, seemed not 10 feel fatigue. They flew
rather than marched, to cover Mantus
They were fourteen leagues from that cityl
To march all night, to fight all day, and the
to march for another night, did not seem t
be hardship to the men into whom Napo
leon had infused his spirit. Is the spiri
which animates our troops to day less in
spring than that which filled the follower
of Napoleon?- Boston Advertiser.
FIFTY THOUSAND sRAMEN.
1t is estimated that in the respectiv
squadrons of the great naval expedition
nearly all of which has sailed, or is about
| sail there are ffty thOusand hardy seameI