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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08

Another Conformation Of Ben. MoCullOch's
Death.

The st. Louis Republican has received q
letter from a well-informed gentleman at
Rolla. which states there is reliable news
there that General Ben. McCulloch did die at
Fayetteville of the wound he received at the
battle of Springfield. He neglected proper
medical treatment, saying that no Dutchman
could kill him. This news comes from sew
eral sources in the Southwest, and is also
brought by men who have Just arrived from
Arkansas. The report is current and believed
at Springfield.
The Secessionists at Springfield, after the
receipt Of the news of the attack Of 0sceola
and its burning by Colonel Montgomery,
were in great fright, and loaded their wag
ons for fight, as it was there reported that
Montgomery was on his march from 0sceola
to attack Springfield.
But few if any troops from Arkansas are
now in Missouri. They were generally re-
ceiyed for three months, and when their
term of service expired, they returned to
their homes.
Colonel Churchill, Of that State, with his
regiment and other troops, were recently at
Camp Walker, near Maysville, Arkansas
We learn that there are about five thousand
troops at that camp.
A letter writer from Rolla, to the Demo
crat, under date of October 4, says:
from JnlS point OF view, we see constant
indications that the enemy are becoming en-
veloped in the embraces of Fremonts boa.
The following straw shows which way the
wind is blowing. give it with an assurance
Of its authenticity A letter has been received
by Mrs. Crawford, of Mount Vernon, Law
renee County, from her husband, Colonel
Robert Crawford, of Prices army, stating
that the latter were hemmed in, and theil
position was critical. The writer concludes
by urging that no exertions must be spared
in moving his property Immediately to the
southward. Colonel Crawford is said to be
the person who ordered Glenn. Davis, the
Sheriff of Stone County, and John Cox, an.
other citizen of the same county, to be shot,
few weeks since, on the prairie near Cur
rams Post-ofice. The bodies lay fostering
and blackening in the suns rays some foul
! OF five days before they were discovered by
| the Union men and buried.
The news in the Southwest that Fremon
has taken the field in person has caused ap
parent shaking in rebel shoes.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08
COVTNGTON NEWS.

3 PERSONAL. bon. John w. Fisk, Speaker
in the Lower House of the Kentucky Legis-
lature, has returned to his home in this city.
D1scoNTIEURD.-The monthly meetings Of
the Medical Society Of Oovington and New
port have been discontinued until further
notice.
To WHOM IT MAY CoNoERN.-The Surveyor
of Customs gives notice that no goods will
be allowed TO leave this city hereafter with
out permit from him. Shippers and mer-
chants will do well to bear this fact in mind.
CoNv1oTED.-Wm. Nichols, charged with
cutting, with intent to kill, Geo. Duffy aud
Geo. Reffard, was convicted in the Criminal
Court yesterday, and sentenced to three
years imprisonment in the State Peniten-
tiary.
A TRoPHY.-Mr. Harvey R. Rrown, Of
Lexington, KY, has the bugle which sum-
moned Zollicoffers men to action. 1t was
presented to him at Camp Robinson on Fri
day by Colonel Woolford, it having been
taken by one of his men, ]. P. Speer upon
killing of the bugler Iva detachment of his
men, at the encounter near Barboursvile
on Saturday evening week. Seven men were
killed at the fire, one of whom was the bu.
gler, and the whole force, numbering ABOUT
twenty-five hundred men, then precipitately
fed.
HoNoBs TO DECEASED SOLDIER The
various fire companies of Newport and Gov
ington will turn out this afternoon for the
purpose of attending the funeral of the late
John Terrell, who was murdered in Charles
ton, Va. .....
OPENED.-The Public Schools of this city
were opened yesterday, under very favora-
BILE auspices, we are glad to learn.
F1NED.-John Jenkins, for breach of the
peace, was fined "a and costs this morning
by Mayor Goodson.
Sworn IN.-Si1teen recruits, for Captain
JIG Foy's Company, raised in the vicinity
of Burlington, Boone County, were sworn
in this morning at the Newport Barracks
Captain Foy only requires a few more men
to complete his company.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08

THE celebrated Rev. @. H. Spurgeon has
been the hero of "scene." The reverend
gentleman had been invited to preach at
Bristol, and on his arrival there found the
completely filed. Having made his way
with difficulty to the pulpit, be became
exceedingly nervous at the crowd which
was growing denser every minute both in-
side and out; the outsiders threw brckbats
and stones at the windows, and made such q
noise that he could hardly be heard inside.
The police were sent for, and it required a
strong body of men to disperse the rioters
meantime the preacher was kept alive by the
application of smelling-salts to his nose and
cold water to his forehead, the ladies being
tenderly anxious about their hero. After the
lapse of considerable time, order was restored,
and "Richard was himself again"
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EenernI Mcclellan.

The Gazette seems to be fond of making
filings at General Mcclellan, and to attribute
to him the state of inertia that prevails at
Washington. We suspect that thisis unjust.
Under the immediate eye of the Govern
ment, and in daily communication with its
officers, it is probable that the general policy
by v hich the Army of the Potomac is con-
trolled is of its direction. It can hardly be
supposed that young officer, who has his
reputation as a great commander yet to
make, and who is thought to possess all the
qualities that entitle men to distinction in a
military career, with large and we'll
appointed army, would willingly lie supine
before the Capital, amusing himself with re.
views, and content with merely defending
the approaches to city which the enemy
exhibits little disposition to attack. II must
be that he feels the pressure of the circum-
stances under which he is placed, and longs
to enter upon that career of activity in which
alone, to a military man, true fame can be
acquired. Until it is known that he is
which is very improbable-the director, in
part, or in whole, of the policy of the Gov
ernment in respect to the army under his
command, it is hardly fair, by insinuation or
otherwise, to lay the charge of ineficiency
upon his shO ulders.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08

RECRUITING IN IRELAND FOR THE FEDERAL
ARMY.-The Dublin EDening Post, of the
18th ullimo, asserts that there are persons at
present in that country, agents from Amer
lea, who are endeaVoring to enlist men for
the Federal service, ana adds:
"How far this may be in accordance with
international law, we shall not now under
take to determine but it is certain that there
are many persons belonging to the disbanded
ployed, who, we believe, would not object to
any tempting offers that might be made them
in order to secure their assistance for the
Government of the Union in the deadly
struggle which it is now waging with the
Southern Confederacy."
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08

THAT excellent old gentleman, our late
President, has written a letter to somebody,
in which he comes out strongly for the
Union. He says:
"Ihis is the moment for action-for
prompt, energetic and united action-and not
for the discussion of peace propositions
These, we must know, would be rejected by
the States that have seeded, unless we
should offer to recognize their independence,
which is entirely out of the question"
Just like the blessed old patriot If he
were only few years younger we should
doubtless see him, armed with that nail with
which he threatened to let out every drop Of
democratic blood he had in his veins, his
warlike front surrounded with that dried
deer's head and horns which was once looked
upon as 60 emblematic of his warlike and
statesmanlike qualities, and ready to deal
dire vengeance on the enemies of that Union
which be did so much to preserve.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08

ALMOST FISH SToRY.-Saturday' Phila-
delphia Press is responsible for the follow
ing:
Yesterday afternoon, while some men were
at work in quarry on Hamilton-street be-
tween Thirty. first and Thirty-second, West
Philadelphia, they discovered young frog,
alive and kicking, imbedded in stratum of
rock, which, as far as known, had never be-
fore been disturbed by pick or crowbar. The
rock was very friable, and might easily be
broken with the fingers. Nevertheless, it
seemed almost Impossible that his frogship
could have voluntarily, and Of himself as
sumed the singular position in which he was
found. He was of light flesh color, and
when exhumed, danced and wriggled around
prodigio usly. After wonderment had ex.
hausted itself in speculating upon him, he
was lifted up tenderly between two chips
and thrown away as a monstrous anomaly of
nature. An impression of his corpus was
left in the sandy rock after his removal. We
have frequently heard Of petrifed frogs
being discovered in rocky excavations, but
this is the first instance that has come to our
individual knowledge Of the discovery Of the
genuine live animal under such circum-
stances. The story, we admit, has rather a
piscatorial aspect, but we can, nevertheless,
Vouch for its entire correctness.
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Garibnldi and tho American Proposal.

Gnribnldi and the American PrOnOsnl.
In the London Daily NetoS, of the 18th
ult, we find another contradictory report
regarding the vexed question of Garibaldi
and the overtures of the American Minister.
The italian correspondent Of the Netos,
writing under date of the l4th ult. from
Turin, says, with an air of authority:
The Minister of the United States of North
America has retured from Caprera. He went
there officially to offer General Gsribaldi the
command of a Federal Army, and also to
treat for an Italian Legion, which would
likewise be under his command. The an.
swer, il may believe persons we'll informed,
has been in the negative, but by no means so
decidedly as 10 deprive the American Minister
of all hopes. II appears the General wished
FIRST of all to obtain more exact information,
so as to understand the political question
fully, OF what the military resources of the
States really are. So he asked for time,
that be might reflect and consutt--it may
be the King, or it may be the chiefs who
serve under him. This is most probably the
reason why some persons are already an.
nouncing GaTibaldi's refusal, and Others his
probable departure. In the.mean time there
Is going on about the Generala a cross-fire of
opinions and counsels, for one party wish
him to stay, so as to be on hand for some
bold but unreasonable blow to be struck
sooner or later and another party would
fain see him again defending noble cause in
those distant regions that formed the first
theater of his heroic exploits-so heroic, in
deed, that since the days of Columbus no
Italian has ever been more popular in Amer
lea than he. But there are others again who
advise Garibaldi to remain at Caprera, to
turn deaf ear to all seductive offers, and
calmly wait for the time when the King may
call the whole of the Italians to arms. 1t is
these last who most assuredly are rendering
the wisest counsel
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08
NEWPORT NE wS.

FINED.--James Gibson, whose arrest we
noticed yesterday, for abusing his wife, was
fued $l5 and costs, by Mayor Hawkins, and
held to bail in the sum of $lOO to keep the
peace.
County OoURT.-The regular monthly
term of the Campbell County Court was in
session at Alexandria on yesterday. No
business of an important character was
transacted.
WOULDN'T PAY.-The drivers Of teams
who pay their ferriage by the month refused
to fork over yesterday, in consequence OF
the miserable condition of the wharf on the
Cincinnati side, where the terry boat lands.
ANOTHER CoMPANY.-We understand that
Morris Broomwell is engaged in recruiting a
company for Gus. Artzman's Regiment
Success to him.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08
General nIcCIeiInn,s Horae

n. P. Willis describes the horse of General
McClellan-probably, from the description,
the one presented to him by his friends of
the railway persuasion in this city-as fol-
lows:
saw General McClellan's horse standing
in the shade Of large tree, after the review;
and Craving just been kindly introduced to
the gallant rider, by General Mccall, at his
tent, went up to complete my acquaintance
with the Centauresque picture | had been
studyiDg-it being natural, moreover, lis it
not p to wish to pat on the neck the horse of
a man we admire. There may be salvation
for our country, too. in one quality of this
horse-he is afraid Of nothingl The proof of
it was in the fact, that (besides all the can
nonadpg and trumpetingl he stood for q
half hour, during the latter part of the re-
view, with the large and snowy flag, which
indicated the commanding officers position
on the field, faring directly across his eyes
and touching his muzzle at every puff of the
wind, without finching an inch. Every
other horse cavalry and artillery, SHE'D in
passing this snowy object. The immovabe-
ness of McClellans horse, standing nearest
to it, was remarked by all around me. l
venture to promise (after considerable study
of him) that the honest and brave chestnut t.
sorrel, as long as he has life in him, on the
battlefield, will do well by his riderl
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08

THE NAPOLEON FETE AT JERUsALEM.-
There has been much lately to interest spec
ulators upon prophesy in the Emperor Ma
poleon's attitude respecting Jerusalem.
That his Imperial Highness does occupy a
relation to the Holy City altogether peculiar
is unquestionsbe. This may be significant.
The ytsts of the Emperor was lately celebrated
in Jerusalem with great solemnity, advices
from there stating that all the civil, military
and religious authorities waited upon the
French Consul, to offer their congratulations.
The heads OF the Christian clergy expressed
to Syria, and the Latin Catholic clergy also
begged the Consul to convey to the Empe.
ror their gratitude for some magnificent sac
redotal ornaments, which he had sent TO
them, the elegance and richness of which
are said to be the admiration Of all Jeru-
salem
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08
Letter Of Ex-Presrdent Buchanan.

WEsTCHESTER, PBNNA, October a.
At the great Union meeting at Hayesville,
Chester County, on the lst inst, the follow
ing letter from Ex. President Buchanan was
read:
"WHEATLAND, NEAR LANCASTER, PEENA /
September 29, 1861.
"Dear Sir have heen honored by your
kind invitation as Chairman of the appropri-
ate Committee to attend and address U nion
meeting of the citizens of Chester and Ian
caster Counties, to be held at Hayesville on
the lst of October. This l should gladly ac-
cept, proceeding, as it does, from a much
valued portion Of my old Congressional Dis
trict, but advancing years and the present
state of my health render it impossible. You
correctly estimate the deep interest l feel, in
common with the citizens who will there be
assembled, in the present condition of our
country. This is, indeed, serious; but our
recent military reverses so far from produc-
ing dependency in the minds of loyal and
powerful people, will only animate them to
more mighty exertions in sustaining a war
which has become inevitable by the assault
of the Confederate States upon Fort Sumter
Fer this reason, were it possible, waving all
other topics, l should confne myself to a
solemn and earnest appeal to my country
men, and especially those without families,
to volunteer for the war, and join the many
thousands of brave and patriotic vol
unteers who are already in the field.
This is the moment f sction-for prompt,
| energetic and united action-and not for the
discussion of peace propositions. These we
must know would be rejected by the States
that have seeded, unless we should offer to
recognize their independence, which is en-
tirely out of the question.
"Bet er counsels may hereafter prevail,
when these people shall be convinced that
the war is conducted, not for their conquest
or subiugation, but solely for the purpose. oi
bringing them back to their original position
| in the Union, without impairing in the
slightest degree any of their constitutional
! rights.
"While, therefore, we shall cordially hail
| their return under our common glorious flag
and welcome them as brothers, yet until thai
happy day shall arrive it will be our duty tC
support the President with all the men RnG
means at the command of the country, in 6
vigorous and successful prosecution of the
| war. Yours, very respectfully,
'[Signedl JAMES BUCHANAN"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08

The Navy yard, at Portsmouth, N. H, is
one of the busiest hives in all New England.
The muster-roll there includes about seven
teen hundred men, and the monthly payroll
amounts to about S35, ,OOO-the total outlay
per month being from 100000 to $ll5OOO.
There are four new vessels now on the stocks,
two third. class sloops, the Kearsage and Os-
sippee, steam propellers, nearly completed;
and two side wheel steamers, Just COM
meuced, to be called the PaVtucka,oay and
Modadnock. The Rearsdge, one thousand
tuns, will carry seven heavy guns, and is in
the dry dock, and will probably be ready for
sea in November. The Ossippes of one
thousand FIVE hundred tuns, is on the stocks
where the jSdntee was built, and is expected
TO be launched in about twenty days. The
side-wheel steamers are seven hundred and
fifty tuns burden. They are very fat-bo
toned, and will draw only six feet of water.
Four others are ordered for repairs; and
several of the gun-boats now going up in
private yards will fit out at the Portsmouth
Navy ysrd.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08

ARMS AND EQUIPMENTS OF THE ILLINOIS
TRooPs.-The Chicago correspondent of the
New York EUening Post says:
The arms issued to the troops in Illinois
have been of various qualities, most of them
being the old 1874 musket altered from flint
locks. The rife regiments are mostly armed
with the Enfield and Hall rifle, with sword
bayonet. The Nineteenth Zouaves, the Sew
enteenth, Colonel Ross and the Twentieth,
are armed with the MIME musket Of the best
quality. The Seventh, Colonel Cook, are
armed with the Springfield musket Smooth
bore of 1855. The cavalry are well equipped
with the carbine and the saber, and are also
provided with pistols-some of the old dra-
goon pattern, others the Colt navy revolver
The field artillery is furnished with brass six
FOUNDERS and hangers, the officers having
navy revolvers. A new battery of rifled
six-pounders of steel is being furnished for
Buell's battery, and there is a talk of furnish
ing two Dahlgren howitzers to each regiment
of infantry. Being light and serviceable,
these guns are admirably adapted for shrap-
mel shot, to fire down ravines, and can be
easily transported by the men, as their
weight is only nine hundred and fifty pounds
each. They can be transported by drag
ropes over almost any surface of ground, and
are invaluable for military purposes.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08

WHILE our citizens, impelled by an irresist-
ible determination to save the country are
pressing to the fields Of prospective victory,
it appears to be SO contrived that the rebels
outnumber the loyalists in every place of
active operations. Generals Floyd and Wise
in Western Virginia have been re. enforced
from some quarter, and Generals Rosecrans
and Cox have been driven back from Sewall
Mountain, and must be strengthened before
they can advance.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08
Our weSteru states and Frontier.

The Gazette calls attention to the great
and important interest on our Western from
tier" intending thereby the States and Ter.
litories of California, New Mexico, Arizon
and Nevada, with an area of four hundred
and eighty-three thousand square miles, and
population of four hundred and eighty
seven thousand. Says the Gazette:
"This is territory larger than the fifteen
States " hich make the territory whose inde-
pendence we acquired by the Revolution. 1t
has already halfa million of people, and
contributes fifty millions in gold to the au-
nual available income of the nation. We
hazard nothing in saying that the income of
this mining region is worth more to the
country than the cotton crop ever was, or, if
peace be restored, ever can be. But the past
roducts of that country are nothing to what
he future may be-"
This is the way that statisticians tumble
things. That the mineral and other pro-
ducts of this region amount in gross to some
thing like fifty millions annually, is proba.
bic; but that they add fifty millions to the
income of the nation, is absurd. These ter
ritOries, like all landed acquisitions, cost the
nation all and more than the nation gets fo
them. They add nothing to speak Of, TO thu
wealth Of the nation; nothing, except il
mere commercial point of view, to the
wealth of the people of the nation outside
themselves. The fifty millions which they
produce inure to the benefit of the people
who inhabit them, just as the products Of
corn, wheat pork, &C., produced in thii
State do to the people of Ohio; and il Is a,
rational to place our potatoes sad cabbage
to the credit of the "annual available incOm
of the nation" as the metals that are ther
discovered.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08

How TO KNOW TRAIToR.-An Eastern
paper gives the following recipe of "How to
know a traitor"
The man who continually prates about
"coercion" and ''subjugstion" is a traitor.
The man who says he is 'Union man."
but cries ''peace," even to the surrender of
the Government to JEFF Davis, is traitor.
horrors of war when the rebels are shot
down, and chuckles inwsrdly when the de-
Tenders of the Union are killed, is traitor.
The man who shows a morbid sensitive
ness TO the peril of the Constitution but
lively interest in Southern rights" is a
traitor.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08
DestItu.ion In the sixth Ohio Regiment.

DestItuIiOn In the Sixth Ohio Regiment.
Aprivate Of the Sixth Ohio Regiment, now
at Camp Elkwater, in Virginia, writing to q
brother in this city, describes a destitution
of clothing in his regiment which is dis
graceful to the parties by whom it is per-
mitted. In speaking of a proposed expedi.
tion, he says:
"The advance post was offered to us, but
our regiment was reported unfit for duty, fol-
want Of clothing; and our rLieutenant-C Colonel,
commanding, refused to go. | hate to COM
plain, but can not hold in longer. Since
we have been in camp, have had but one
shirt, one pair of drawers, one pair of shoes
and one blouse to wear. My shirt and pants
fell from my body, entirely worn out. Nc
socks since we left Camp Dennison, where
we drew two pair; and for three weeks had
to wear one pair without washing, as | had
no other pair to put on"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-08

REV. DR.. GURLEY, who in his Fast-day SER
mon in Washington stated that the abolition
of capital punishment in some of the States
was the cause of the rebellion, has been
called to the pulpit in Chicago lately oocu-
pied by DR.. Rice. If he had pursued his afs
finities, DR.. Gurley would have gone South,
where, if accounts are true, they hang with
out judge or jury.