Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-26
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The real motto of the Seceders-"Let U. S.
alone" . ...-.....
The name of Camp Floyd, in Utah, has
been changed to Camp Crittenden.
The rumor that Garbaldi is going to
marry an English marchioness is unfounded.
A new story by the author of The MiJ on
the FIo8s will be published Immediately
after Easter. t.s... NOE.
Lawrence Oliphant, author of a work on
Japan, has recently become editor Of the
London Revisw. t
Fl" / say, Sam, why am the State of Alum-
bsro like big piece of cOrkT "Gubs um
up" because of its great boy Yancey."
The deaths in st. Louis, No., last week,
numbered fifty-eight of which thirty-seven
were children five years Of age and under.
Mrs. Amanda Stafford of Kent County,
Nd, was so seriously burned by fuid-1 lamp
recently, that she died in great agony.
A girl at party in town the other even
| ing, was asked what made her cheeks so
unusually red; she replied, ''the chaps"
John Birringer, German, living near
StriDgtown, Ind, on Sunday night COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself.
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"A woman in Charleston, S. G., few nights
ago, had three children at birth Charles
ton continues to be port of delivery.
A whooping crane, a rare bird in this lat
itude, was captured on a farm in Fayette
County, KY, few days ago. --
A young man, Michael Gleason, was killed
at Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday, by Robert
Poole, who was arrested and examined.
There is a firm in Elgin, Illinois, known as
"Grsy 4 Lunt" Half the letters come to
them directed to Lay & Grunt." "
Advices from Yucatan to the 7th ultimo,
state that the Indians in that country are
being seized and sold into bondage in the
Island of Cuba.
On Wednesday the ship augusta, Capt.
Bell, sailed from New Orleans with the first
Southern Confederacy flag ever nailed at the
masthead ofany vessel. ...
AT the Washington Inauguration Ball
Mrs. Drake Mills wore two thousand dollars
worth of ilaces and twenty thousand dollars
worth of diamonds. ...
A Mr.. Groves, who resided four miles
south west of Charlottesville, Ind, died last
Thursday night at the advanced age of log
years.
A train of cars has commenced running
through from Memphis to Louisville, KY,
and early next month another train will be
added.
A man named John Meyer was killed in
Charleston, s. O., on Friday, by Daniel
Rouse and wife, who crushed his skull with
a stick Of wood.
John Lewis, vagrant, was beaten to
death last week in the Allegheny County
(Penna.) Jail by a cell-mate, Andrew Nc
Mullen, notorious ruffian.
An affray occurred in Montgomery Ala
bama, on Thursday, between Rilaud Pollard
and Isaac Watson, in which the former re-
ceived mortal wound.
William Steele was shot dead by his brother
George, in st. Louis, Missouri, a night or
two ago, while the latter was endeavoring to
take a pistol from deceased. ..
A number of young Hungarians have Just
sent to NJ. H. Berlioz silver crown of ex-
quisite workmanship, bearing ona shield the
arms of the town of Gyor. .
A deaf man named Taft was run down by
passenger train and killed, the other morn
ing, half mile north of Greenwich Station,
near Cleveland.
A constable, Robert A. Wilson, in sp-
preaching the house of one John Clarke,
near Holly Springs, Miss, to levy an execu-
tiOn, was recently shot dead by Clarke.
Mrs Veronica Knauer, young married
woman, hanged herself in New Orleans, on
Saturday, because her husband had ehastised
her for iDfidelity. e- -.er.s
A cannon.ball weighing 44o pounds, from
which others are to be made, has just been
turned out at the Ames Company's estab-
lishment in Chicopee, Mass.
The estimated value of negro property in
Virginia is put down at $400,000000, and
the annual products of their labor $2S 0O0,-
600. ...
The Charlestonians recently wanted a
Unitarian minister who would preach Seces-
sion, but after various efforts, were COM
PEELED to take Methodist.
What chapter might be written on the
inconsistencies Of authors Emerson writes
to persuade us of the folly of reading, and
Carlyle talks to enjoin upon us to keep
silence. 81 .-e r...
Only one citizen of slave State has
lately had an audience Of the French En-
peror, and he was General Stevenson, of
Tennessee, who was introduced as chairman
of the Pacific Railway. .,, ,-.
An English traveller writing home, from
Russia, says of it, that its "civilization is
small, bribery and corruption are deemed
only .fnesSe, religion is superstition, and
morality myth ra.t..
A beautiful stone mansion near Funchal,
with offices, terraces, shrubbery, and every
/ convenience, is advertised for sale at $4,000.
This gives us some idea of the value of es-
| tates in Madeira.
Thornton Hunt, the son of Leigh Hunt,
and editor of the London Chronicle, who
was recently in this country, is engaged
upon volume, giving his ideas of what he
/ saw and learned while here.
A disease, known as the spotted fever,
I prevails TO considerable extent at Harris
burg, and in Lebanon County. IL has
| proved fatal in a number of instances, re-
Gently.
Charles NJ. Hiss, Treasurer of the Mutual
1 Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore, has
absconded with $4,000 of the Company's
money. His character heretofore was '1irre-
proachable." ...
A correspondent from Germany announces
TO us that Herr Ernst, the state of whose
health precludes any hope of his being able
to resume his profession, is putting the last
touches to stringed quartet. !