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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-10
The Coatraband Question,

Mr.. Lincoln, in his Message to Congress,
contents himself with a single paragraph in
reference to any new policy on the contra
band question" He says:
Obeying the dictates of prudence as we'll as
the Obligations of law, instead of transcend
ing have adhered to the act of Congress to
'coDfiscRte property used for insurrectionary
purposes. If new law upon the same sub
ject shall De passed, it's propriety will be
duly considered. The Union must be pre-
served; and hence all disposable means must
be employed. We should not be in haste to
determine what radical and extreme mea
sures which may reach the loyal as we'll as
the disloyal are indispensable.
These express ions are not calculated to
arouse the gladdened enthusiasm of the rabid
Abolitionis:s. They, indeed, will examine
the message in vain for any such views as il
has been predicted the President would utter,
The dictates of prudence" are qualities that
find no lodging place in the ultra men of the
North, being invariably construed by them
into lack of backbone" We shall, there.
fore, expect to see Mr.. Lincoln assaiIed ia
all the negro-worshiping journals, and by
all the negro-worshiping speakers, as a man
devoid Of pluck, time-server, hesitating,
vacillating functionary who has undertaken
to dignity weakness and iDdecision with the
title of statesmanlike caution.
1t is quite evident to US that Mr.. Lincoln
has no new recommendations to make on the
subject Of dealing with slavery, in the war
certainly nothing assimilating to an indis-
criminate emancipation, or general arminc
of the negroes. He even hints at these a
radical and extreme measures, the effect O
which would be to reach loyal citizens a
well as traitors. There should be no hastt
to adopt means of this nature, but if Con
gress should undertake to pass any new Law
in reference to the matter Tits propriety will
be duly considered" which surely is as little
as any President could do with bill pre-
sented for his approval and signature.
Honest Old Abe, with all his roughnes
and all his unstudied and crude literar,
peculiarities, seems to have and hold a.
opinion of his own, which may respect, bu
will not be swerved by the radical notions
come by whom he is surrounded st. Lou
| RsnAbhran
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-10
TONerITU DISEASES
SEMINAL WEAKNESS,
IMPoTENoY Oh INABILITY,
Diseases of the URINARY ORGANS.
And IMPURE BLOOD.

How many thouSard ds of men and women are there
who are at this time suffering out miserable oxist.
ence from perDioious practice, self poutioni
Look at their pslid emaoiated and dss ured faces,
and their broken down constitutions, dsqualifying
them from the hsppiness Of marriage or the ENJOY.
ment Of life Ia this horrid situation thousands suf
fer until death closes the Let parents, guar
dians or frie-ds attend to those who are suffering
with any Of those horrible, life destroying maladies,
see that they cared for aud cured before be too
late. Send them Immediately to DR.. j. KATES,
No. I53 sycam ore street, first door below Fifth
street, Cincinnati, Ohio, physician who has made
private diseases his especial study for 30 years. aud
who is certain TO cure the most inVeterate cases,
without MERCURY OR ANY OTHER 1HJgRI-
Gus DRUGS. 1t is important to those aflif
90 those who are in ssrested in the welfare
friends, to be careful OF the many PRETESDIJ DC
TORS who infest all cities, publishing their great
skill in curing all diseases ia few days imposing
bpon the public by using the names Of eminent
physicians from Europe and other places, Be,
therefore careful, and make strict inquiry before
you risk your ie you may fall into the hands OF
these ehsrlatans.
N. B.-Dr.J. KATBS will attend his patients
personally and can be found in his efnce, No. 153
6yosnore street, FIRST door below Fifth, from
O'Clock in the morning until 10 the evening All
confidential. nol3-tf
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-10
NUMBER 88
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

Yale College has five hundred and ninety
nine students.
Illinois has furnished sixty thousand SOL
diers.
Garibaldi has been elected Grand Master
Of the Italian Freemasons.
The Eastern States are said to be actually
bristling with knitting needles.
The Springfield armory now turns out ten
thousand stand Of arms every month.
A great demand for American statistical
works exists just now in Europe.
There are said to be thirty thousand per-
sons employed about the court of st. Peters
burg.
Austria has quietly got together power
full squadron in the Adriatic, consisting of
fifty vessels in all.
The number Of persons sent to iail for debt
in Great Britain in 1860, was eleven thousand
and sixty eight men and six hundred and
eighty women.
A company of forty-fve colored colonists
are to leave Oberlin, Ohio next week, for
settlement in HsyG.
Louis Napoleon is going over to England
ne1t year to see the great exhibition, and
will be the guest Of the Queen.
Rich coal mines have been discovered re-
Gently in the township of Brookfield and
Hubbard, in Trumbull County, Ohio.
The total fighting men of the loyal States
is 4, 4,463, 900, of which $780, 800 are in service.
The total population is nearly 25,O0O,OO0.
The amount realized from the sale OF the
furniture belonging to the late Senator Doug
las, in Washington, was about So, 900.
1t is estimated that the entire number of
emigrants who have crossed the plains to
Oregon this season will not exceed one thou
sand.
Theodore Tiltou, of the New York Inie-
pendent has raised enough cotton in his back
yard at Brooklyn, this yesr, to make him
shirt.
Since the erection of the first Methodist
Church in America, in 1776, there have been
fourteen thousand erected-an average of
three a week.
The Chicago Tribune says that some New
| York capitalists are in that city preparing
to establish bank with a capital of million
dollars.
Petitions for the emancipation of all slaves,
those to be paid for only who belong to loyal
masters, are in circulation in New York.
The twelve hundred public teachers of
Philadelphia have not been paid their salaries
tor a long period, and many of them are
sadly perplexed and straitened.
London covers rs, O29 acres. The London
of 1861 is equal to three Londons of 160l
and nearly one million of population has
been added in the last ten years.
The King of Portugal died on the 18th
ult, aged twenty-five. HIS disease was
typhus fever. Prince Ferdinand, the Kings
brother, also died of the same complaint.
1t is said that 4, 1856 applicants for admis-
sion to the New York Inebriate Asylum are
on the file, from all the States, from all
classes of men, and some of them from foreign
countries.
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No Land warrants to Volunteers.

The Secretary of the Interior does not favor
the issuing of bounty land warrants to the
volunteers engaged in the present war, on the
ground that warrant for one hundred and
sixty acres to each volunteer would absorb
over one hundred millions of acres, which
would deprive the Government Of all income
from this source, and would afford but little
benefit to the volunteers. The warrants are
now sold in the market at about fifty cents per
acre, and if this large additional quantity was
thrown in the market the prices would be re
duced to a merely nominal sum. The bounty
of the Government, dispensed to the volunteers
In this form, would fail to realize to them the
advantages intended. All the best lands would
fall into the bands Of spectators, who would
be enabled to purchase them at a nominal
price and sell them to settlers at full prices as
fast as emigration to the West would require
them for settlement. If additional compsnsa-
ton to the volunteers, beyo ond the amount now
authorized by law, shall be deemed just and
proper, the Secretary suggests that it will be
better both for the Government and the volun-
teers to make such compensation by direc
appropriation of money, or of Government Sc
euriries. This would give them the full benefit
of the appropriations made, while the Govern
ment would, by keeping the lands until they
shall be demanded for settlement, realize theil
full value.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-10
A ResoIute south CaroIIniau.

The first Confederate court ever held in
Charleston, S. o., opened in rather singu-
lar manner. After the charge Of Judge Ma
grath to the Grand Jury, the venerable Judge
PetigTee, we'll known for his Union senti'
meuts, rose and read writ served upon him,
requiring certain answers in reference to
alien enemy's property. He began by say
ing that the objection he had to these inter-
rogatories was, that no human authority has
the right to put these questions to him or
any one in the same circumstances. He de-
MED the power Of the Confederate States to
set up such an 'inquisition,p and said the
proceedings of the confscatioh act were pre-
-isely like those of the English Star Cham
ber Referring to the plea of necessity he
said; slow can that be said to be necessary
which Is absolutely never kno wn to have been
done before? Was there any body" sarcasti-
cally asks he, "that ever fought before Gen.
| Beauregard? Was there ever a law like this
endured, practiced or heard of" He de-
clared that the act, Borrowed fIom the
darkest period of tyranny, was dug up from
the very quarters of despotism." With re.
gard to the apparently required violation OF
professional confidence, he said he must be
better instructed before making up his mind
as 10 his duty, for, said he, "There are cases
when 1t is either dishonor OF death, and
death will certainly be chosen by every man
who deserves the name" This was certainly
bold language for that locality. Nothing
probably, but the high standing and vener.
able age ofthe speaker secured his impuuity
unless it might have been the echoes of Com
Inodore Dupont's guns. The District Attorney
let fall the taunt, which seems quite signif
cant, that the remarks were made for thl
benefit of the audience attending the court
Who knows but thGt they awakened NOR
response than appeared on the surface2 A
| ant rata tha intraniditv Of anch n l0Var n
bis country is worthy. ofall honor. .sur
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-10
OCCASIONAL.
Something About skating Certain Things
Which should be Remembered. II

SOmething About skating Certain Things
Which Should be Remembered.
Ice will soon be abundant, and skating
will be fashionable pastime. Beginners in
the art may profit by the following hints
AS lives have been lost in connection with
skating, the following suggestions are made:
l. Avoid skates which are strapped on the
feet, as they prevent the circulation, and the
foot becom es frozen before the skater is aware
of it, because the tight strapping benumbs
the foot and deprives it of feeling. A young
lady at Boston lost a foot in this way; an
other, in New York, her life by endeavor-
ing to thsw her feet in warm water after
taking off her skates. The safest kind are
those which receive the fore part of the foot
in kind Of toe, and stout leather around
the heel, buckling in front of the ankle only,
thus keeping the heel in place without spikes
or screws, and aiding greatly in supporting
the ankle.
2. 1t is not the object SO much to skate
fast as to skate gracefully; and this is sooner
and more easily learned by skating with de.
liberation; while it prevents overheating,
and diminishes the chances of taking cold by
cooling off too soon afterward.
3. II the wind is blowing q veil should be
worn over the face, at least of ladies and
children; otherwise, fatal Inflammation OF
the lungs, pneumonia may take place.
4. Do not sit down to rest O single hall
minute, nor stand still, if there is any wind;
nor stop moment after the skates are taken
off but walk about, so as to restore the cir
culstion about the feet and toes, and to pre-
vent being chilled.
s. 1t is safer to walk home than to ride;
the latter is almost certain to give a cold.
6. Never carry any thing in the mouth
while skating, dor any hard substance in the
hand; nor throw any thing on the ice; none
but a careless, reckless ignoramus would thus
endspger fellow-skater. ,-.
7. If the thermometer is below thirty, and
the wind is blowing, no lady or child should
be skating.
g. Always keep your eyes about you, look.
| ing ahead and upward, not on the ice, that
| you may not run against some lady, child, oI
| learner.
9. Arrange to have an extra garment, thick
and heavy, to throw over your shoulders thc
moment you cease skating, aud then wall
home, or at least half mile, with your moutt
closed, so that the lungs may not be quickly
chilled, by the cold air dashing upon then
through the open mouth; if it passes through
the nose and head, it is warmed before i
| gets to the lungs.
| TO- II would be a safe rule for no child o.
lady to be on skates longer than an hour a
| time.
IL. The grace, exercise and healthfulnes
| of skating on the ice can be had, without AM
| of its dangers, by the use of skates witt
rollers attached, on common floors; better
! covered with oil cloth.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-10
Correspondence Of Philadelphia Pres5l
Letter from Occasional.
WASHINGTON, December 6, ;

nASHINGTON, UecemDer b, Ol.
1t is announced, in the Charleston papers
of the Both inst, that the patriotic planters
on the sesboard are daily applying the torch
to their crops, and that there is one sheet OF
smoke and flame along the whole coast"
From these two sentences, most instruct.
i've admonition can be drawn. When the
war broke out, the Southern people were
happy beyond all precedent. Their rich men
were never richer: their middle classes never
more comfortable; their slaves never more
contented. They had, indeed, lost the con-
troll of the Government; but every body was
so anxious to conciliate them, that if they
bad patiently submitted to an election, de-
Cided more by the ambition of their own
politicians than by the votes of the free
States, they would soon have recovered their
vantage ground as the masters and managers
of the political situation.
First, let us recolect that the war in which
we are now engaged was not only provoked
and precipitated by the Southern leaders,
but was brought on by them with deliber-
alton and preparation exhibited through
many years. As Judge Douglas expressed it
Immediately before his death, "there never
was time from the day Washington was
iuaugurated when the rights of the South
stood hrmer under the laws of the land than
they do now" and again: there never was
a time when the South had not as good a
cause Ior Dlsunlon as II mas today" But
the traitors filed the Southern mind with the
falsehood that it was right to attack the Fed
eral Government, and that the consequence
of that attack would confer upon the South :;
ern people certain innumerable and inde.
scIibable blessings. The two sentences at the
head of this letter give US but faint idea of
portion of the sutferiDgs Of the Southern
people in consequence of this war, and of the
utter failure of the promises of their leaders.
II has conferred no single real advantage
upon their character or their condition.
They have lost political power, moral power
and commercial power. The red heof of
war has mangled the bosom of the South
alone. 1t is not the Northern fields that
have been blasted by conhsgration, drained
by hungry armies desolated in the battle
storm, or turned into grayeyards. Northern
ports have not been closed to foreign trade,
Northern manufactures have not been de.
serted, Northern mechanics and laborers are
not starving-amidst the almost universal
scarcity of the necessares of life. But all
these things may be said of the South. u is
there that all the calamities of the conflict
have concentrated How long can rebel
lien maintain itself that stands upon lie
snd is surrounded by the just censures of the
civilized world and the complaints of a starv-
ing and betrayed people?
OCCASIONAL
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[From the New York Times of Saturday. !
An InOufrV.

"To the Editor Of he NetU York Times:
"President Lincoln, in his Message, men
tions JiDg that 'one bad general il better
than two good ones.' Can you tell me who
was the author Of it2 QUERIS T."
The saying was Napoleon's. During his
first campaign in Italy, after the battle Of
Lodi, when he had driven the Austrians be.
Sopd the Adige, and was preparing to folio "
them still further, the Directory saw &c to
direct change in his plans, and sent Keller
mann to take command Of one portion of the
army which was to advance toward Rome,
while the rest crossed the Adige. Napoleon
at once sent in his resignation, with letter
to Carnot, from which the following is an
extract:
"Kellermaun would command the army as
well as I; for no one is more convinced than
am of the courage and audacity of the sol
diers; but to unite us together would ruin
every thing. will not serve with a man who
considers himself the first General in Europe,
and Il is better to haze one bad General than ttOc
good ones War is, like government, decided In
great degree by tact"
In reply, Carnot wrote that the Directory
had maturely considered his arguments, snC
the confidence they felt in his talents and 70
publican zeal, had decided the matter in hi
| favor. 'Kellsrmann," said Carnot, "WilI re-
main at Chsmberry, and you may adjourn the
expedition to Rome as long as you please"
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How OUR GRANDMoTHERs DID PATRIOTIC
WoRK.-An anecdote in the Transcript, with
this title, recalls to mind one Of similar
nature, recorded by Madame Trumbull, in
Stuart's excellent life of Jonathan Trum-
bull, ST., Governor of Connecticut;
During the war, after divine service on a
Sunday or on a Thanksgiving Day, contri-
buttons we're often taken for the benefit of
the Continental Army. Cash, fnger-rings,
earrings, and other jewelry-coats,j jackets,
breeches, shirts, stockings, hats, shoes
every article in fact, Of male attire besides
groceries in great variety, were frequently
thus collected, in New England particu-
larly, in large quantities. Upon one such
occasion in Lebanon Westinghouse, Con.
necticut, after notice was given that col
lection would be taken up for the soldiers
Madame Faith Trumbull arose from her seat
near her husband, threw off from her shoul'
dsrs magnificent scarlet cloak presen
to her, we hear, from the Commander-in
chief of the French allied army, Count
Rochambeau himself-and, advancing neal
the pulpit, laid it on the altar as her offer
ing to those who, in the midst of ever
want and suffering, were fighting gallantly
| the great battle of freedom. The cloak wa
afterward taken, cut into narrow strips
and employed as red trimming, to stripe tn
dress of American soldiers.--BostoH Travel
| ler r.rr--, 80 o. .....sr.. .s .,
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ParEOn BFOWnJOW and hts Late Re-
ported Fight at MOrrlstOwn.

The following card from Parson BROwSLow,
Of Tennessee, we find in the Louisville Journal
of yesterday, which takes it from the Memphis
Avalanche of November 80:
In your issue of the 14th inst, there appears
an article upon 4hs subject of affairs in East
Tennessee, in which noticed this paragraph:
It is reported that Parson BrOwnlow had left Knox
the Union movement in that quarter.
As have no paper through Wnich to set my
self right, and as this statement does me great
injustice, ask Of you the favor of publishing
this brief card. have not at any time left
Knoxville with any guns, and have never had
any to furnish to any persons. Near three
weeks ago, left for Biount County Chancsry
Court, sixteen miles sOuCh OF Knoxville, 70 try
and collect some fees due me in that county for
Advertising and from there I went 70 SEWER
County on the same business, which facts are
known to Colonel Austin, Of your city, who
saw me in BIOunt.
] have no knowledge Of who are the guilty
parties in burning the railroad bridges, and
never heard Of any such purpose being enter
tanned until heard Of the burning the next
day. condemn the act in the most uuquad-
fed terms; and am not q sympathiEer In any
such movement. was one OF fifteen OF twenty
men who, weeks ago, addressed oomuuu.oa-
tion to General ZOllieOffeT, pied dging ourselves
to oppose q rebellion, and to counsel peace and
aeqDieEctncO on the part Of the Union men o.
East Tennessee. signed that document in
good faith, and have kept that faith. And
furthermore, as one Of the signsrS Of that doc
ument, which was published In all the Tsnnes'
see papers, II / had been pIacsd In possession
Of any such purpose, I should have felt myself
bound in honor, and in all good conscience, u
have informed tho officers Of the roads Of sucI
outrageous plot. W. G. BROWNIOW.
NoTembeT23 ASA. q s.'. 80 nd, .'. s''' 'r'"
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The DAILY CINc1NNATI PRESS is furnished resu.
larly and promptly by our carriers for TEN CENTS
a week.-mrs. WEEKS for fifty cents The other city
papers cost fifty cents FOR -FOUR WEEKS The Press
gives ALL the Regular Telegraph Dispatches; has
more City News than the others, and contains
digest Of all the current news Of the day-omittiDg
the long and dry details. In these times Of trial to
every body's pockets, the saving OF a weeks sub
Bcrption each month is an item we'll worth consid-
eriug. 1t ia our intention to make the Press the
Peoples Paper. ADVERTISEMENTS VERY Low.
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TIE local editor Of the Philadelphia Press
tells the following story illustrative Of the evils
Of misplaced suspicion;
Many poor girl holding the position of a
sesmstTess or saleswoman is discharged from
her place because ofsuspicion resting upon her
from the. fact that her humble station ini life
and psucity of means for Obtaining livelihood
Would,seem to indicate her as perhaps the par
~ on whom suspicion might reasonably be fixed.
The same Is true very often with clerks, porters,
salesmen, wOIkmen, errand boys, and those Of
like occupations
A case has Just come under our notice which,
we think, will go to bear US out in the above
taken premises. A gentleman, who shall be
nameless, has large ladies' shoe store ou
Eighth street. He commenced that basines,
some y ears ago, in very humble way, but
through enterprise, economy, and honesty, 500 O
increased his trade, and far exceeded his mos
sanguines anticipatioDs Of success. AS con
sequence, he concluded to remove his wife from
the position Of shop keeper to that properly oc
cupied by wives and mothers, and he employee
q young lady TO attend upon his customers, who
was person of good character, and one vel
recommended for honesty, but had been reared
iDdulgently-her parents giving her up t
mental improvement in her youth, and neglect
ing TO teach her how to earn living.
Months rolled on, and the shOp-keeper be
| came very successful IN business; but upon
| beautiful summer afternoon, in takipg an in
ventory of stock, box of 6ne gaiters was mis-
| sing, and there was NO evidence whatever o
sale. The goods had been stolen, and that re
Gently; and no one Ofs suspicious character ha,
visited the store, as only an expert could hav
removed so large package from behind th
counter without being seen. Some days pASss
but no clue was obtained of the thief. The aus
picIOnsof the employer soon settled irrevOcabl
upon the girl "Wbo stood iD the store" and q
last he Was so thoughtless as to observe ths
the Shoes must have been removed by some on
connected with the establishment. and intiml
ted that whoever had committed tbs theft Woul
be welcome TO twice the value Of the Shoes
they would only come forward, clear up th
mystery, and relieve his mind .tf.a m
| Al the end Of another week the girl was dil
chIgsa. ssof course she. asked tho oauS