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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17
A New Weapon Of Destruction.

Cavalry Grapnel is a newly in4ented
weapon OF destruction, and is designed to
render cavalry vastly superior to infantry.
1t is an admitted fact in the science of war,
that infantry formed into a square, or in
mass, and standing firm and unbroken, can
defend an equal number of cavalry, each
being armed with the ordinary weapons.
This fact has been fully demonstrated upon
many a well-fought field, in the last half
century, including the celebrated battle of
Waterloo, where the French cavalry repeat,
eddy charged the squares OF English Infantry,
and were uniformly repulsed, the square
standing firm and unbroken.
A man and horse acting united, have the
stlengthand speed of several men; and ought,
If properly armed, TO be competent to the
defeat of several men, The Grapnel is a new
weapon, adapted to this superior strength
and speed, and cavalry armed with this de-
structive machine, and well skilled in its
use, can easily defeat four times their num-
Der of infantry, moving them down like
grass before a scythe. This weapon may
also be used by cavalry against cavalry, and
even by infantry against infantry.
The Grspnel was invented in one of the
Northern States, and 100000 have been re-
Gently manufactured for q European Gov.
eminent, for the arming of cavalry. The
present wide, spread rebellion in our own
country caused the inventor to offer them to
our Government. We understand, hat they
have been submitted to the proper depart
ment, and approved of and purchased and
the President will shortly call into service OF
the United States twenty five thousand cav
airy, TO be furnished with the Grapnel, as an
additional arm. With this destructive
weapon, they will be able TO cut in pieces
and annihilate one hundred thousand of the
best infantry thai ever entered a field.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17
Question of the Recognition of the South.

YIN
The London Economist, the organ of the
English banking and monetary interest, says
sitter stating the circumstances of the bonn
bardment OF Fort Sumter:
Under these grave circumstances it is that
Mr.. Gregory proposes to ask the House of
Commons on Tuesday next to affirm the ex-
pediency of an immediate recognition of
the Southern Confederation. We can i'm
agine no course more disgraceful to England
or less likely to command the assent of the
popular body appealed to. Not that we de-
sire TO see a civil war in America, even
though the North should be completely tri-
umphant. We have often said that unless
there were q Union party in the Southern
States considerable enough to make some
head even without external assistance, the
defeat of the newly Confedersted States by
the North could scarcely lead to any good
result. II would be mere military conquest;
and power like the American Union can
not hope to bold together its territory by
military force. And seeing that there is,
u%nhappily, but little trace of a powerful
Unionist minority among the seeded States,
we can not wish to see q fratricidal strife
which would multiply indefinitely the mu-
tual hatreds of the North and South without
solving the ultimate difficulty. But this is
not the question for US to consider.
Ii has been England's universal rule to
acknowledge a de Gaet0 revolutionary gov
eminent, wherever it has established its
practical independence by incontrovertible
~proofs-then, end not sooner. What
ever be the wisdom or folly of the war,
which there is but too much reason &c
believe is now declared between the Fedora
Government ut Washington and the ~revolted
States-it is not yet begun, or is only Just
beginning. There can be no question what
ever Of the constitutional right of President
Lincoln TO treat the hostile Confederation 81
& reasonable rebellion, which, so far as i
trenches on Federal property and laws he
may resist by force. This is his present
attitude. He hopes, however little we may
hope, TO suppress the rebellion. He thinks
however little we may think, that he shall
be able to enforce the laws enacted at Wash
ington, and to redeem the United State
property from the hands of the ssnaders
This may be sanguinei nay, i may even b
a mere hallucination.
With that we have nothing to do. W,
profess always to abstain from Judging tb,
rights of a quarrel between a people and il
rulers, and TO guide our conduct by tn
plain results of political fact. We are nov
on the eve Of seeing what these results vii
be. Either wal OF compromise seems nov
inevitable. If a War, we are bound to avail
the results of that war. A premature reeog.
milton of the Southern Confederation would
be a departure from the recognized course O.
England, and could not but therefore EXPIRES:
q political bias in favor of the seceders.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17

Wan ExoITHNnET ON THE BoRDnA-The
New Orleans Rcapane learns by the steamer
"a ~ Shqrp, which arrived At New Orleans
on Saturday morning from Jefferson, Texas,
that news reached that place on Tuesday
last by express in q letter 70 j. M. b J. o.
riety, at the head of three thousand men,
bad taken Fort Ouaohita. Messengers had
been sent to Marshall, end other places, for
men, money, guns, powder, and lead. Cap
tain Bill Young, with about SIX hundred
men, was on the march, trying to oppose
Montgomery. This news was corrobotated
last wednesday at Shreveport. The great
est excitement prevailed throughout the
country. The bells were ringing when the
Sharp left jefferson, for the purpose Of call
ing a town meeting. Already a large meet
ing bad been held at Shreveport.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17

LOUIS NAPoLEoN. IN ALLIANCE WITH JEFF.
DAvIs.-The Liverpool Courier of April 80
remarks:
We are informed upon the best, most I'M
namable authority, that all this uproar is
oaaeed by the Belzebuh Of the Tuileries.
Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi were all
French possessions once. The French owned
the half of st. Domingo, and many of the
little fragments of a submerged continent
which peep up above the waters, as the An
titles, were French. The Emperor has an
idea-it is to reyendiquer frontiers. The in
terence is easy. He has set the Spaniards at
St. Domingo and the Americans by the ears,
that by. and-by he may step in as a benevo.
lent mediator to stop the effusion of blood,
and to quarter tie palmetto of Carolina with
the lilies OF France.
Quantities of rifled cannon and shells are
sent TO New Orleans and Pensacola in French
bottoms; but Louis Napoleon is a great
manufacturer of artillery, and has always q
store from whence to lend u friend. Ha ran
not be blsmed, fot Virginia herself is casting
cannon hy light and day, and it is Il toss up
whether they are sold to Northerners OF
Southerners. 1t is quite true that the French
are making vast preparations in the naval de,
partment, but the American navy could all
be split into matches by La GLoire alone,
The Emperor doubtless watches events, and
ss surely will consult the interests Of
France" hereafter; but he has other object;
nearer home at present, and the voyage ia
the Gulf of Mexico would exhaust all the
coal his steamships can carry.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17
General As,embI, Of the o. 8. p. Church

General Assembly Of the o. 8. p. Church.
The annual session OF the General Assem-
bly, oftbe Old School Presbyterian Church
opens to day at Philadelphia. As this
Church is the only one of the great e%cclesi-
astical bodies of the country that has not
divided upon the fact of slavery, and as,
consequently, the session will be attended
by a greater or less number of clergy from
the slave States, the discussions will doubt
less be lively and interesting,
The Old School Presbyterian Church, as
is generally known, has been, and is, con-
siderably more liberal in its views in respect
to the Southern institution than any other
Of our religious organizations. Whether this
is attributable TO the fact, that not having
divided il has found compromises of opinion
desirable for the sake of harmony; or,
whether the failure to divide is the effect of
pre.existing liberality is a point that we
would not undertake to decide. However
that may be, it is probable that the Church,
even in respect 10 its Northern members, has,
like all other communities, been effected
by the eKcitements of the times-open-
ing wider and making more palpAble
differences of opinion in respect to
the one great American cause and topic
of political and religious conference.-the
peculiar form Of the relation between master
and servant in the South. That these differ
ences will be more perceptible than hereto
fore, it is natural to expect; and it is by no
means impossible that this church which
has resisted 30 long the tendency 70 divide,
may not only be able to resist it no longer,
but may discover that through such resist
ance they have prepared the way for still
fu ther Subdivisions.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17
British view of the Treason of the Sc.
cessiOBisIs.

+. The London Daily NetoS says:
Why should we, upon whom the possession
Of territories scattered all over the globe, and
ENHANCEMENT in the conflicts of a continent
destined to resound for years to come with
battle. cries, entails the obligation Of support
ing a crushing weight Of war-taxes-why
should we take pleasure in the thought that
one more nation is likely to have its wealth
and energies so consumed without any COM
pensating ~advantage2
But, in truth, nothing can be more idle than
10 iRlpute this ldmeHtable Secession 10 any defect
in The organization Of the Government. No
form of Government has yet been iHDeated
Which could secure the country against treason,
and by treason this Secession ScqS dccompL shed.
The ornaments Of the forts, the location Of
officers, the composition of garrisons, the ac-
emulation of warlike materials, were all
provided for in the Ministerial Department
at Washington under the late President,
with a view 10 Secession by men who are
now avowed leaders of the Southern move
ment.
Mr.. Lincoln's Cabinet was compelled to
sacrifice its first four weeks in the work OF
replacing the t%reacherous placement appointed
by the late Government by reliable servants
of the State, a task which has generously
been described here as dividing the spoils."
Had MIR. Buchanan done his duty, or had he
only left his successor the means of doing his
upon acceding to power, Mr.. Lincoln might
have employed the military powers of the
Union to hold the Federal forts and arsenal:
in the South, and by checking the rapid de,
velopment Of the Secession movement, en-.
able the moderate men in the slave States to
make a serious attempt to save the Union
But this is all he could have done. The re.
suit most likely would have been some base
compromise, full of present disgrace and the
seeds of future danger.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17
Colonel Anderson,s speech In phIndelphIs

~
Colonel Anderson spoke as follows in re-
ply to the address of welcome of Mayor
Henry, on the occasion Of his reception in
Philadelphia on Saturday last;
l dare not attempt to express the feelings
that fill me here; standing, as | do, in this
temple of liberty, surrounded by the spiritG
of the departed sages of the Revolution. l
was born in the country where and at a time
when we had but few of the opportunities
now afforded to The rising generation, and,
therefore, / have been wanting in my tongue.
l was soon taken into the ranks of that
nation which have for thirty years endeav-
oIed to serve TO my utmost ability, and it
will not be expected that can properly re-
ply to you and my fellow-citiEens Of this
State, and those who have honored me with
resolutions, but | do thank you for the honor
you have conferred upon me.
The duty l have performed was simply
such as all true Americans would nave per-
formed, and | trust better, but mont with a
better heart, or q heart that thrObbed more
for our country and our glorious independ-
ence, which was handed down to us by those
whose portraits grace those walls. | was
surrounded by those whom | wished to look
upon as friends, but who considered me an
enemy; and | pray that no other American
may be called upon 10 encounter the same
difficulties.
l put my trust in God, and / believe
firmly that God put it into my heart to do
what did. There are many who are in
clined 70 blame the preceding Administra-
tion, and some to censure the present; but /
believe truly that every act that was per-
formed in that harbor from the 2lst of No
yember, when | took command, was ruled
by that God whom we all should adore, and
whom we must adore if we wish 10 do well
both in this world and the next.
! believe that eVerv act done there was
necessary in order to bring up the public
heart TO that sentiment OF patriotism which
now perVades throughout the North. ]
thank you for your kindness and ciVilities.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17
UrpEa The GRADUAL vhinIinO down which

USpEa the gradual whiting down which
il Is undergoing, the story Of the cOntem-
plated accession Of Hon. John O. Breckin-
ridge 70 the cause Of the Union is growing
zine by degrees and beautifully less" It is
already reduced to the ordinary value of q
Geographic dispatch Ofthe Associated Press,
taken "from the Herald's correspondence"
which approached par about az nearly as Yir-
ginis money. 1t is probably as authentic as
the report that General Scott had resigned
and Joined the Southern army, that President
Lincoln contemplated resignation, that JEFF.
Davis was at Richmond, or that General
Harvey had been superseded by Frand Blair.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17

SOAKING SEED CoRN.-The soaking Of seed
corn in various liquids, for six, twelve, or
twenty. four hours, previous to planting, as is
Of late the general practice, is a too general
error. If we could be insured a long contiu
ued drouth Immediately following the plant
ing; the soaking process might be productive
of good results as ~insuring speedy germina-
ton; but as on the contrary, we are very gen.
orally visited with one or more cold, Uery Wet
rains, OF unreasonable duration, just after We
have committed our seed corn TO the ground,
by soaking il, we secure the loss of one fourth
by rotting in the hill, the annoyance Of
replanting, at a time when other work hurries,
and the satisfaction Of seeing that portion
which has survived our hydropathie treat
ment growing up pale, feeble, consumptive-
looking stalks. We hold that three piuts Of
common gas tar, thoroughly stirred iato a
bushel Of seed corn, until ever grain receives
a coating of the tar, and then the whole
mixed with plaster, wood ashes, or dry loan,
until it is no longer stickey, is the best
possible preparation for seed corn; an efficient
protection against rot, the depredations of
crows, jays, field mice, and ground-squirrels
and thebest protection yet discovered against
the insidious attacks of the 'cut-Worm.'
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17
Al Vesersu soIafsrss Remiaisoenees on the
War Of 1919.

"A Vesersu ssIafsrss Reinstatement on the
war Of 1919.
The Rochester IN. Y.) Democrat publishes
the following letter from s. Pieruon, dated at
Bs Roy, in that State, from a veteran Of
eighty-four years who was . soldier In the
War of 1925
In the time ofthe War ofthe Revolution I
lived down near the sea, In the own ofKil-
liDgworth, State Of Connecticut which town
borders or the sea, In plain view Of the Brit
ish feet when sailing to OF from New York.
From my grand. fathers chamber window l
could see the white canvas sails glittering in
the sun. My parents and grand parents
were all warm and jealous pat~riots-Gndeed,
! never knew one Of the name that was not).
Ny father was in the service three years as
lieutenant. ] was almost FIVE years old when
peace was announced.
1 think l was not physically or mentally O
very precocious brat. Isoon began to share
with my parents in the sympathies and ex-
elements OF the times-when L heard the old
men talk about tories, which my childish
fancy had pictured as the vilest menon earth.
l heard the old men remark that the tories
made more trouble than the British red
coats, who were readily and easily recog.
nized. Not 80 with the tories ;Kthey could
not be distinguished by their dress, and here
| will state what ] never saw in history, that
there were some prominent men among us,
and in the neighboring towns, whose fidelity
was strongly suspected.
They were called Island treders, or Island
traitors. For a while / could not tell the
difference, or to what class of men the term
was applied, till my dwarfsh intellect be-
came more expanded, when | learned who
and what were the Island traders, whom /
will try to describe. They were supposed
to be prominent private individuals who de-
sired to be considered as fraternizing with
the people in their country's cause, but the
love of. British gold preponderated or OBJ
scured all their patriotism or love Of country.
1t is said they would slaughter O fat OK, put
1t on board a sail boat, under cover of the
night, with a fair wind they would soon
reach Long Island shore, only tweny miles
across the sound, where they would exchange
their beef at an enormou price for British
~gold-thus furnishing aid and comfort to the
enemy.
They would return at their leisure and re-
sumo their former or usual stations in the
community as jealous patriots, professedly,
but strongly suspected, and reputation badly
damaged, and at the close of the war much
was said about sending all the tories and
Island traders TO Nova Scotia TO make grind
stones, which subject, if mentioned in their
presence, would cause them to wither and
wilt like q sentative plant.
Young soldiers, beware of sailing under
false colorsl
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17

OPINIONS OF TEE VIRGINIA SLAVES IN
REeARD TO THE Waffle Cleveland TO-
PlaiHdealer says;
Yesterday afternoon, while a couple of
young men, from this city, were perambu-
lating the woods in the vicinity of Newburg,
they were suddenly startled by o huge negro
springing up from behind a log which lay in
their path, and running away from them.
They addressed him kindly, when he stopped
and allowed them to approach him. He
proved TO be a fugitive slave, from the neigh
borhood of Frederickstown, Virginia. He
said his master owned about twenty.f five
slaves, who were employed in a mill. He
bad recently sold three OF them, to be taken
South, and the rest fearing a similar fate
had made their escape, scattering about to
avoid detection. The fugitive was nearly
starved, lame and foot-soTe. He had come
over the mountains, and performed the
entire journey here on foot.
He said the slaves in Virginia know there
is a contest going on between the North and
the South. They think the new President
of the United States is making war for the
purpose of setting all the slaves at liberty.
He says that belief exists very generally
where he came from.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17

THE CAUSE OF KERosESE's ExPLosIvEEKss.
A New York chemist states that the admix-
ture Of camphene does not render kerosene
explosive, but alcohol mingled with the oil
does make it a dangerous commodity. Man
ufacturers of kerosene Oil should reject all
those parts which have a boiling point OF
below 3O00 Fahrenheit and thereby ensure o
safe article for Illuminating purposes. The
terrible accidents already occurred from the
improper manufacture of kerosene, should
inspire every one who makes or uses this oil
with extreme caution.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17

A FORMIDABLE WHAPoS IN THE Souri,
The Petersburg (Va) Express says:
We saw yesterday a most effective weapon
in the shape of a pistol ~seVLpteen inches
Thomas Goodwin, an ingenious engineer and
machinist Of Portsmouth, Va. The barrel
is just twelve inches long, and is 50 arranged
as TO discharge one or i've shots at one FIRE.
This new fre-arm is remarkable for its SIM
plicity, and yet is capable of killing a man
at the distance Of one hundred yards. Mr..
Goodwin deserves credit for furnishing SO
valuable q weapon at this time.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17

A HARDY CREW OF VoLUNTEERs.--The
volunteers from the "wild cat' district of
Pennsylvania, three hundred strong, created
q perfect sensation when they reached Camp
Curtin, on Thursday. They wore red shirts,
and their hats and caps were each sur.
mounted with a fox tail, emblematical of
their backwoods home. They bore in the
ranks an immense pair of buck horns, which
merous" cheers. Each of the men brought
with him his own rifle, with whose use
they are familiar, and with which, ifthe
service permits, they could do terrible execu-
ton against an enemy.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17

The GREAT MISTAKE OF TIE RRBKLs.-
Massachusetts, has a number of other regi.
ments ready for orders to march. The South
ern leaders who have inaugurated this great
rebellion, under the belief that the North
wouldrsthtr yield than fght, will discover be-
fore long, the difference between forbearance
and pusillanimity; the unWillingness to COM
mencs strife, which will desolate the land,
and the courage which can defend its rights
manfully, when no fair compromise can avert
war.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17

TIE DISTINCTION OF THE FUTURK.-The
coming months are 70 decided what mems
names are to be in thu hearts of their coun-
trymen, not merely for the present genera
tion, but to all time. Just as the great de
tenders OF the mighty republics of antiquity,
CoriolanusJ Regulus, the ScpiOs, are to this
day quoted as examples Of patriotism, so
down this great rebellion, this death strug-
gle of our country, be remembered with
gratitude and affection centuries upon centu-
ries hence.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17
opT1OrAL FAPHR or THR OIrK

VIZ sincerely hope that The Enquirer has
no intention 70 be personal in its reminis.
cenos Of the fact that the only time the gun
boat editor Of the Commercial ever saw salt
water be was IN intimate personal relations
with q piece Of yellow soap.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-17
-H rather be q deg
Ard bay the moon, than such q" Southron

We feel that there can be but few men in
Tennessee willing TO submit TO such a fate.
But there may be those who are still uncon.
scious of the perils which surround Us
and are dreaming of an early and s~atisfac-
tory termination of the contest. If these
lines come before the eyes of any such, we
entreat them to awake, arise, dream nc more.
The issue of degrading submission and sub
jugation, or a glorious independence achieved
at the point Of the bayonet, is upon us, and
we must make our choice.
There is no middle ground Of neutrality"
It would be treason to ourselves, to our
wives and children, TO the high destiny which
awaits our sunny cline, if its sons but do
their duty, TO attempt 10 avoid an active aud
cordial participation in the contest. Let
every Tennesseean, then, stand forth erect,
unaWed, and fearlessly vindicate his title 10
liberty and equality.