Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-23
VARIETIES.

lucy 0hu bUTe6 luCutb VI SuOW up III Wht-
ren, Penn, last week.
Seventeen years ago the Gospel was intro
duced into China. .". ..'.
Iowa has furnished $4,000 men to the ar
mics of the Union.
Diamonds to the value of $3,25O,00O are
annually sent from Bahia.
II is proposed to erect monument to Lord
Byron at Missolonghi.
Forty-one millions of 100 Treasury-notes
have been sent to subscribers.
Mr.. Rarey, the horse tanner, is in Lyons,
France, explaining the mysteries of his art.
The boring of the Alps by atmospheric
pressure is said to be more and more sue
Cessful.
Queen Victoria now reigns over l76, ,0O0 900
people. Of this number, British India has
l35,000,000. .r .ar.
The Douglas monument, at Chicago, is to
cost from one hundred to one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. ,...'
The acting Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of Minnesota is an Irish American
Lieutenant Governor Donnelly.
Only one box of candles in. Galveston,
Texas, and the gas-works stopped for want
| OF coal, was the last report.
The Union majority in Maryland will
| aggregate 10000. The vote was quite as
large, some say larger, than usual.
1t is supposed that within thirty years that
one hundred thousand Karens have been
brought TO the light and liberty of the truth
A letter from General Viele states that
eavnral Of tho rifnd 20 vunn talon from PORT
Royal were lately imported from England.
A second crop of tobacco is growing at
Enfield, Conn, crop that has shot up from
the old stalks, cut more than month ago.
1t is figured up that at least FIVE thousand
persons are engaged in Hartford, Conu., at
present. on work for the United States Gov
eminent.
The shipments of wheat from Milwaukee
| for twenty four hours, the other day, reached
the enormous amount of 100000 bushels.
There are now in China eighty Protestant
missionaries, some fourteen hundred commu-
nioants, and three thousand Chinese Chris.
tians. ..s ~ 40 .fr ..-4..'
The Worlds Washington dispatches say
! that if General Fremont desires a court mar
tial, the Government will grant it imme-
diately.
Thomas H. Clay, eldest son of Henry
Clay, is spoken of as the probable successor
of the traitor Breckinridge in the United
States Senate. ,. iec-' cd .yt.
The destruction of the cotton crop by the
extraordinary hight Of, the waters of the Nile
amounts to one. third Of the whole years
produce. "'"
The eight sloops-o war and twenty-thre
gun.boats ordered by the Navy Department
about four months since are nearly all fin
ished. .r,'...
Sarah H., widow of Major Sullivan Ballou
of Rhode Island Volunteers, mortally wound
ed at Bull Run, has been granted $35 pei
month. .- .s
Since the interruption of trade with thi
| United States, the proprietors of the guam
islands in the Pacific are sending cargoes Il
I Australia.
The growth of business on the Erie Cana
is immense. In 1869 the tolls amounted t
$l,Sl4, 1852; in 1860 to So, 38l ,30l; and il
1861 to $3,353 l6s.
Trade on the Connecticut River is nov
largely carried on by sailing vessels, th
Government having bought or chartere
most Of the steam crafts.
An iron steamer, built on the plan {
WinaDs' cigar boat has been made at S
Petersburg by Americans, who intend t
offer it TO the United States Government.