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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14
The DanGer Of Poetry Quetatioas
Ground ror Breach OF Promise.

The Daneer Of Poetry Quetatioas q
Ground FOR reach OF Promise.
English Lotharios, who want to make
love, but do not want to &c sued for breach
o. Promise, must beware of too freely using
the amorous strains Of Kit Marlowe at d
Kindred sonesters. Here is a case in point,
fom he London Queens Bench reports;
Susauuah Judd ps. William Giby.-Tn
1858, oeft ndant dated q good many letters
to Dear Susie.' In one Of these letters he
iuclosed a copy Of the "Mukmaid's Song"
from Izadk WaitoH's Complete Angler, be-
ginning,
ONE live with me and be my love-"
and concluding,
"lf thee delights thy soul may move.
Gene live with me, aud be my love-
And adding postscript, "You will, won't
The jury hat defendant had omitted to COPY
out the Mothers answer" to the milk
maids Song" which ran thus:
"Tbe flowers do faie, and wavton fields
A hone,. tougue, a heart If gall,
Is Fancy's Spring. but Sorrows 'ftl.'"
Matters went on in this strain till November
"a, 1859, when defendant wrote to plaintiff
to say that he should be glad when the time
cRme to make her his forever; for, said he,
"You and u small cot, that ia all / require
In December, 1859, bis letters sumed
chiefly a poetical shape, particularly toward
the latter part of the month, when he in
closed q Sonnet" which began thus:
Give ne a cottage on some Cam brian wild.
hhere far from cities 1 may spend my days"
AT last advices it was thought that these
verses contain q much deeper significance
than Pick wick's "chOps and tomato %sauce,'
and that the defendant would be mulcted in
corresponding damages.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14
A G~TudRrind LsssOn-The Advantage of
PicbiuE Up a Pin,

PicBiuE Up a Pin,
A young man once went with letters of
accommodation to a large banking estab.
lisbmeBt. He called on the gentleman who
was at the head of il, full of hope and conf
dence that be should obtain employment.
The gentleman heard what he had to SAY,
looked over his letters hastily, and then
banded them back to him, saying: We
have nothing for you 10 do. sir" The young
man felt his heart sink within him. lie was
ready to burst into tears. But there was no
be p for it, so he made his bow and retired.
As be was passing in front of the building,
there was a pin lying on the pavement. lie
stopped down, picked it up, aud then stuck
il carefully under the bosom Of his coat. The
gentleman with whom he had just been
speaking vas standing at the window, and
saw what took place.
In an instant the thought occurred to him
that the young mar who had such habits of
carelulness as to stop in such a moment of
sad disappointment and pick up a pin, would
make a useful business man. He sent i'm
medialely and called him back. He gave
him an humble situation in his establish
ment. From that he rose by degrees, till he
became principal partner in the concern, and
eventually a man of immense wealth, and
the chief banker ia Paris.
Doubtless this story is a fiction but if it
be true, it is only half told. The relator
probably cared not to mention that the same
picker.up of pins was a mean, sordid, selfish
fellow, who cared for nOught save worldly
grin.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

AN ENGLISH IDEA OF AN Angela gen.
tlemon walking through Knightsbridge (En-
gland on Sunday, overheard the following
conversation between a man and a woman,
who appeared rs if just come from some
pleasure trip into the country;
Woman-'Blow me, Bill, how tired / do
feel. I'm as miserable, too, as a starved her,
ring. What a miserable world is this! |
wish Pdnever been born, that | do; and row
that | ON born, l wish myself dead again"
Man-"Wby, Bet, what's the matter with
you now? What are yer grumbliug about?'
Womsn-"Wby, don't ! tell yer l am as
miserable as a rat?7
Man-"Miserable, indeed Why, what on
earth would yer have? You was drunk
Monday, and you was drunk again Wednes-
day, and Pm blessed if you haven't had pretty
near enough to day. If that ain't pleasure
enough for yer, l don't know what is. /
suppose yer wants to be a downright hangel
here upon eartb.'
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

EFFECT OF THE E~xHALATIoSs OF SALT AND
Fresh WATER.-Yenice lies, as we know, in
the midst of saltlsgoons, while the surround
ing terra frHa is marshy through the agency
OF fresh water, which the Venetian Republic
had, by vast and costly hydraulic couri-
vances, carefully excluded from the lagoons.
Now, although this marshy soil is scarcely
three miles from the city, which is itself
constantly immersed in the e~msnations
from the lagoops, it is a fact that the ague is
a very rare mslady at Venice, while it is
proverbialy endemic in the adjoing marshes,
and TO snch an extent that the Custom.
house officers stationed at Fusine some
years ago were entitled to a daily ration'oi
quinine, at the charge of the Government.
Hence it appears that while fresh water en-
a~nations relax the ibres of the human body
without any other redeeming action, the
emsnatiOns from salt water, although they
have the same tendency 10 produce relaxa-
ton, yet at the sam time are pregnant
with q corrective which neutralizes that
effect.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

The PosrOnice and JOurnalistir I~mbroEIio.
An Innocent little dispatch of the special
kind-hnd Of doubtless full average truth
f%ulness, Tor special dispatches-to the En-
quirer, a few days ago, has had the luck TO
set nearly the entire newspaper press of the
city By the ears. The dispatch stated, in
substance, that Mr. Richard Smith, one of
the proprietors of the Gazette, was an appli-
cant, with good prospects, for the Office Of
Postmaster of Cincinnati. This was on
Sunday. On Monday the dispatch of the
Enquirer was copied into the editorial COL
umDs OF the Gazette, with a denial of the
truth of its statements. On Tuesday the
Commercial walks into the ring, and afirms
that if the editor ofthat concern were Presi-
dent of'he United States, and the article of
the Gazette bad been brought to his official
notice, be should consider that Mr.. Smith,
in the case, was exceedingly anxious for an
Office, and that be was struggling very hard
10 assume an indifference and dignity that
he by nc means possessed
This brings out the Gazette, which holds
the mirror up to the nature of the CONNER.
eiah stating that it us well known that one
of its editors has held an office at Columbus
for two years, drawing 81 per day from the
State, while writing letters for the Commsr-
ciaI and another Of its editors is ION the
Blate for the Cincinnati Postoiice; while
it is currently rumOred that still another
Commercial man is to have an interest In the
Postofhce income, in case a certain we'll
Known applicant shall be appointed" The
Gazette accompanies these remarks with
certain suggestions, touching the grasping
disposition and notorious selfshness of the
Commercial which we have not read, and
advise other people to be equally abstemious,
as they would be likely to let the public into
a knowledge Of things not now generally
understood.
There is probably but little doubt that
gentlemen, both in the Gazetts and in the
Commercial concern, have, in their moments
Of pensive reflection, thought of themselves
In connection with the Office of Postmaster of
cincinnati. 1t is SO easy to be done. Kind
iriends-hOw kind friends are, on such
3Gcasioasl--msy have FIRST suggested it.
"hy' gentlemen, publishing as you do, a
large and influential paper Of the Republican
suipe' contributing as you did materially to
the success Of Mr.. Lincoln, how can he re-
iase you any thing you ssk2 He will de-
hehtDo 20 an that lies in his power for those
who have done SO much for him. peel
dents elect are the most grateful of ersa,nrss
and this little o%fieei pshawl why douit
you ask for the Liverpool oOnsulate--a for.
eign ~mission-sOme thing COMMEMORATE tc
the services you have rendered.
1t il not likely that the Office Of Postmas
ter Of this city will be conferred upon an.
persOR known 10 DO connected with eithe
.aI az" | p.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14
M nn.hnnnn,n Pnrhdr.


The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune, describing the condition of
Fort Sumter, its need Of supplies and the
difficulties that would attend any attempt to
furnish them, and the consequent discussions
in the Cabinet touching its Abandonment
adds:
aThis condition of things was purposely
contrived by Mr.. Buchanan, and Mr.. Holt
declares Openly that the present Administra-
lion can in no way be made responsible for
any course that may now be adopted. He
GAYS that the fort could have been REINFORCED
thirty days ago without serious difficulty,
and messures had been taken for that pur.
pose, but Mr.. Buchanan positively refused to
have them executed His whole policy was
to bequssth q eomplication to his successor
which compelled one Of two alternatives,
either Withdrawal or reinforcement, with
the certainty of civil war
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

The WEEKLY Pass will be issued this
morning, and persons DESTROYS Of obtaining
copies for mailing at home or abroad, can
90 so by application to the counting room,
The Weekly win contain the latest news
from every quarter, and a variety Of edito-
rial, literary, artistic and m~iscellaneous mat
ter, with such Monetary aud local news, as
can not fail to render it interesting.
We think our Weekly far superior to any
in the west-and those who read it seem to
agree with us-as it is made up with great
care, and ran not be equaled, in our opinion,
for the quality and variety Of its contents.
A more acceptable newspaper for a friend
away from home, we believe, could not well
be found. We bespeak for it a careful ex-
animation
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

a HosTILB THREAT PRACTICALLY EXECUTED.
Sings is rather a %braggart. He certainly
don't "wbip'' every man he threatens when
he's drunk. He was ON a ''bust' the other
night, and among other "bumming,' he
stated that Fred - had slandered him,
and he would make him literally swallow
the lie " An acquaintance who had listened
to his CANNON until Tired, for the purpose OF
shutting him up, offered to bet him a "V"
that he wouldn't make him Swallow the
lie" Sings took the bet, aud after putting
up the money, started off with a 'cloud Of
witnesses" in search of Fred -. He
was found in a saloon not far away, and Sings
at once invited him and his company TO
''take a drink" which rather astonIshed the
party who had heard the threat! Sings was
''cOol."
Knowing the habit of his victim when TAX
ing q glass Of ale, he took out his pencil and
slyly wrote the word Vie" on a cracker, and
calliI e stttntion to the fact, he vOok drink
with the party. Taking his ale i'll one hand,
Fred - reached to the plate and picked
up The identical cracker on which was writ
ten the obnoxious word, in the other, and
leisurely devoured it
The stakes were handed over to Sings.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14
Fort Eumter-Its Condition Should It be
HelInquishedS

In weighing the question Of the propriety
Of the surrender or abandonment of Fort
Sumter, there are certain facts which seldom
are, but certainly always ought to be, taken
into the account. While the Administration
has been doing nothing, the South CARROLL
mans have been erecting batteries under the
guns Of the Fort, situated so as to command
the channels by which alone it can be APP
preached, until they have nearly if not quite
renderd the post unteDsble by its present
force, ard have made a reinforcement a mat
ter of'extreme danger and difficulty.
Why this has been permitted to be done
ia q question which it Is proper to ask; aud
which ought TO be answered. By whose
authority or suffersnce were the enemies oil
the Union permitted to erect hostile batteries
within easy range of one of our national
Qualifications? The party who has done il
has been guilty of q great and criminal
wrong. AS an officer in command of the
post and without counter orders from hi:
superior, il was the imperative duty of Mai
Anderson TO see that, at least within the
range Of his own guns, no works of the
enemy capable in any event to endauger his
position, were erected. To permit those to
be erected was, in fact, to give up the place
Fort Sumter, under such practice, is only
nomiDally in the hands of the United States
authorities. IT is theirs by permission and
the right to invest being couceded-as prac.
ticaIly it is-there is no principle involved
in its retention.
Had Major Anderson used the guns of Fort
Sumter TO prevent the construction ofworks
within their range, their would be little
difficulty now in supplying him with men
ard provisions. Had he had nothing TO
obey but the ordinary rules of military &C.
ton, we have faith to believe that he would
have done so. The fault of the present sc mi
conquered condition of Fort Sumter is prob.
ably due to Mr.. Buchanan; but this fact, for
the sake Of his own reputation, Major An
derson ought to make clear at the first
opportunity. That he could, had he chosen,
have prevented the occupation of Moultrie,
and the erection of the works on Cummings
Point and Morris Island, is believed aud
had he done so, the question whether Sumter
should now be given up, could have been
answered. without difficulty.
We are not in favor of the REIMBURSEMENT
of Fort Sumter-nor against it. The ques-
ton is one that may safely be left to the dis
erection Of the President and his official ad.
visers, civil and military, who are the
parties, above all others, best conversaat
with the circumstances The people feel as
if they would prefer to have the place re.
tainedi but if the reasons are against it,
mere preferences must be d~isregarded.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14
The HennlinnI Ten-Gnrdcnr I'D Inrnn.

INT bNbONlIul lth- UuTUtnh OF JHpnus
A correspondent of the New York Tribune
thus writes from Japan:
The beautiful tea-gardens were more at
tractive. From a side door of the temple we
CIT ssed a narrow street to these. Embosomed
amid shade, and screened by rows of living
beOge, we're numerous cottages, charm
ineiy situated amid gardens and flowers,
Nhtre the Beatest of rooms and the c~leanest
of mats invited to rest and repose. From the
city's din and confusion without we were in
a moment transported, as by magic, to a
SC. ne of sylvan quiet. Every cottage has its
at rae IONS; it may be a grove of cypress and
fir, with winding walks, or trim rows of
s~hTubbery and blossoming hedges trimmed
il a dozen tapciful shapes of urns, Candida
bras, tables, birds, beasts and monsters; or
p rterIes Of flowers, separated by gravel
W ks; or lands apes in miniature, with little
V tas of closely. cropped turf, spreading un-
d. miniature pines and dwsrted yews; OF
a iicial rock. work, covered with creeping
plsuts; arhors covered with the purple
10, en- es of the wistaria; ponds of gold fish,
in rocky basins; or several of these attrac-
tic combined.
We passed several of these pretty Swiss
like chalets, where well dressed people were
taking meals, or quietly smoking in the
open veraudahs. We selected one for our
selves, where the tall hedges as effectu4lly
screened us from observation without rs
though we bad been piCuicking on Fusi's
summit Tea, pipes and tobacco we're inn
mtdIately brought us, while we awaited the
preparation of II more substantial repast.
This, when set before us, consisted of hard.
boiled eggs, prewns dipped in butter and
fried in oil, boiled rice, reIishes of picked
vegetables, hot sake aud fruits, pears, insipid
aud iDdigestible, and persinmons large and
foir as Havana oranges. Every thing was
clean and nicely served on little stands, a
few inches high; and squatted a Ia Japan,
sweetmeats followed, among which were
candies wrapped in notices, whose tender
laI gusee was hidden under ~illegible Charac-
te1s. II. translated some of them for us, and
they proved to be as sentimental as those
we pass 10 sweethearts at home under the
GAS liUhls
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

VALUABLE BRIDAL JEWELS AT the mar
risge of the young Earl of Lincoln with
Miss Hope, the jewelry worn by the bride
cost upward of $4,000, and consisted Of a
handsome head ornament of diamonds, and
a diamond necklace. Mr.. Hope, II is said,
gives the Countess of Lincoln G6,0o0 a year
pin. money, and the use Of an irish estate.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

The Pass is dividing its editorial space
to favorable notices and defenses Of two dis
tinguished individuals, Mr.. Lincoln and
Satan. 1t is difficult to say which of them
has the most of the PREss's afBections.-El-
gliirer.
The Enquirer can certainly find no fault
with our defense of Mr.. Lincoln when it
claims to have recommended the very policy
which he has pursued and as to the defense
of Satan, our close proximity 70 the Enquirer
Office may have made the character Of that
distinguished parsonage appear in a more
favorable light than it would have done had
we resided 10 a more desirable locality.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

A HUeE GLUFTos.-The Undertook On.
~ Rough Notes chronicles the %gsstronomie
feats of an inhabitsnt of that town thus
A well-known and old resident Of this
town, named John Dennis, ate twenty-nine
bard. boiled eggs, at a grocery 10 this village,
on Wednesday night of last week. The eggs
weighed three aud q bali pounds. II is re
ported that "Uncle Johnoy," as he is ia
military called, went into an eating house al
Hudson, some time ago, and ate an entire
roast pig for dinner, for the aum Of twenty.
five cents.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

STRANGE CAUSE OF A BOILER ExPLosIoS.-
The cause of the late boiler explosion at
Whitneyyille, near New Haven, Conn., Is thus
stated: The explosion is by all attributed
70 a defect in the masonry of the furnace.
The brick work caused the fire, instead of
hating the under part Of the boiler only, 70
heat a great portion Of the boiler above the
water.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

ExPRKDITURB or THE ERGLIsH NAVY.-In
the English Navy. during the last official
year, more than 81, O0O, 600 were expended in
building forty. nine ships and vessels; nearly
f20O,O00 in altering unlanched sailing ships
TO steamers, and more than f3O0,0O0 in con-
verting vessels launched as sail-ships into
screws.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

A JUST RECOMMENDATION The Director
Of the Philadelphia Mint has written to the
Secretary of the Treasury, recommending
that the coinage of the New Orleans Mint
be declared no longer a legal tender, isas-
much a. the Mint has been seized by the
State authorities, and is no longer a Federal
institution.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

A BRAVE WOMAN Two young women
walking alone two miles from Pocopsou,
Penus, were attacked by a ferocious dog.
just as The brute was about to spring, one 0f
the ladies drew a small revolver, and gave
him II ball IN the shoulder; a second shot in
the neck, put an end to further molestation.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14
NEW ApVERTIsRMRNTs
Utioa WHITE Lime.

TNxHE UNDRRsIGNED HAVING N
n CkEAbFD their f~acilitits 10 meoufacturing this
celebrated Lime, are nov prepared to I'LL orders to
any amount, gnd those ordering Lime eau rely on
hbVit z them Blled. aud ia No | coOperage, aud on
the most reasonable terms All orders addressed TO
Us, at Utica, Ind, will meet will prompt attentioa.
TYLER H0WES
Utica, Ind, March Is, 1861. mhIi-cns
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

the Caste or the Commercial. The reason
for this will be, that the Office is thought to
give advantages to the publisher that has
influence in It's management over his rivals.
Such being the case, to give IL to one would
be to make an enemy Of the other. This a
party, whoever It may be, that has the dis.
position Of the Offices would prefer not 10
do. Our contemporaries will therefore be
obliged TO turn their attention to other quar-
ters-to diplomatic or administrative posi-
tons, ~clerksbips, paymasterships, or the
more safe and lucrative favors that come in
the form of contracts. This is the way the
thing looks to us, and has looked from the
beginning. The factthat each of our neigh.
bors is opposed to the other. must almost of
necessity settle the question sgainst both ;
and the Government will have to light its
candle and look in some other direction for
a man of letters.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

The Manchester IN. H) Mirror learnst that
. man, woman and child, while crossing
Lake WinDipisseogee, with Q horse and
sleigh, on Friday, broke through the ice and
were dtOWned.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14

Allen Frszier, a wealthy citizen Of P utnam
County, Virginia, committed suicide by
shooting himself with rifle last Friday.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14
IN KMGsBURY, PR OF

btsideDce-443 ThiId.st Cincinnati
Orders lett At the Music-stoTes Of A. Q. Peters &
Bro, "a West Fourth st., and j. Church, Jr., No.
90 West Fourth-Et.i will meet with immediate
attention. milk
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-14
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49, ENVELOPES, WRITING, PAPER,
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Benton's "Debates In Congress-"
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can kill and cure a Cancer without instruments OF
pain. He also cures Piles apd all kinds OF Sores,
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reslgnirg sone time ago. 1T is, as you NAV ma
gne, xtremeiy difficult to obtain fufiourhs Al fi,;a
no pae,euiar news from the enemy we aye ,nt
sHe H are none ths less ready for them There have
gesa none OF our troops eneamped on the Misgori
ssit here, Of late Tie enemy, knowing
Sfa - cyaiEy sconting party over there night
sasa sas not known tI morning that fhey were
snsnes san They left before daylight and eyiisntIT
ahisa ~ tsearss for numerous spars eat
Iney would have been properly ~ rsefsnsa XII
they tried II on again last night. -
81, aags hoW about ap with my camp chat
IN anntar p1nsn yoq with another long letter
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