Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-06
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Extensive salt springs have been dis
covered at Nebraska.
The expectation Of saltpeter and gun.
powder has been prohibited at Boston.
Two hundred and sixty-five boats per day
are now locked through the Erie canal.
The Beaufort correspondent of the N. Y.
Herald writes the strongest kind Of aboli-
tionisml
1t is understood that France has opened
negotiations with Austria for oession Of
Venetia.
A larger number Of ships arrived at New
York on Monday week than ever before
known in one day.
One thousand pumpkin pies were pre-
sented the Seventy-ifth N. Y. regiment by
the ladies Of 0wasco recently.
The Buffalo Courier says that six pro-
pellers are to be built in that city, this win
ter, for the lake trade.
Twelve steel rihed cannon have been or
dered for Ohio batteries, making eighty
four being manufactured for Ohio.
The London Times, in an editorial on
Russian affairs, anticipates exciting times
in that country ere long.
A farmer came to this city last week
with six squashes to sell, that number be-
ing all his wagon would hold
Captain Semmes, late of the rebel steamer
Sumter, is lecturing in Liverpool-of course,
in behalf of treason.
The California papers express the belief
that several millions of the National Loan
will be taken in that State.
teen cannon mounted and in position on
the Bluffs of the river at Columbus, Ky.
Twenty-three contrabands, in single
day, last week, crossed the Potomac, and
such arrivals are daily more numerous.
DR.. RUSSELL in his last letter to the Lon
don Times, asserts that England and the
| United States were all but at war three
months since.
Hog cholera is carrying off thousands of
swine in Central Illinois. In Platt County
alone, fifteen thousand are said to have
died recently.
Ship-building on the Northern lakes is
remarkably brisk. At Cleveland, Ohio,
more than dozen vessels are in progress,
ten of them barks,
The house plasterers of San Francisco
have struck for an increase of pay, which
was conceded, and they now receive five
dollars per day.
It's stated that seventeen mills, employed
by the Government in the manufacture Of
army cloth and blankets, have been de-
stroyed by fire since July l.
The eldest of ballet company Of fifty
girls dancing at Drury Lane Theater, Lon.
don, is only nine years of age.
Seventy-fve family connections celebra,
ted Thanksgiving Day at the farm house o.
jeremiah Crowley, in Lewiston, Mo.
The volcano of Chilian, in the Andes
has recently broken out. The explosion
and streams of lava can be seen with th'
naked eye at a distance of ninety miles.
The debt of the city of Philadelphia
amounts to $18,552,4OO
A mass of copper weighing six Thousand
six hundred pounds, from the Evergreen
Bluff mines, arrived at Detroit on the 23C
ult.
Mr. McDermot, sixty-fve years old, killet
himself in Canada East, because his daugh
ter married against his wishes. This wa
better than cursing her and turning he
out of doors to starve, but he was very un
wise.
Most persons have q mortal antipathy t
a snake, and he is said to be very charm
ing animal.
} One of the finest pearls in the world ha
recently been found in the Bay of Panama
1t is of perfect pear shape and of tn
finest water.
, The 9th ofNovember Guy Fawkes day
was celebrated by some six hundred pei
, sons taking tea together at Hull. Wonde
if it was ganpoa0der tea?
t At Brussels the greatest quantity {
beer is consumed, at Stockholm the mos
| brandy, at Madrid the most chocolate q
Paris the most absinthe, at Constantinopl
the most coffee, and at London the create:
= quantity of strong wines.
: The late Lord Chancellor Campbell,
I few days before his death, met a barriste
who had grown very stout of late, and re
marked, "Why, Mr., you are gettin
, as fat as a porpoise." "Fit company, m
: lord, for the great seal" was the ready re
partee.