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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-25
Social PaImettoisn-sOeiety 10 the City II
..t H. EUr DharlPatou

Social PaImettoisal-SOciet 10 the City &
..t $50 .CharIestOn.
The Especial correspondent of the New
York Tribune gives the following sketch of
society in Charleston:
Society here, as in other parts of the world,
consists, first of the creme de la creme of the
high tory Faubourg st. German, including
those descendants of the earliest British and
Huguenot settlers who have attained TO
wealth and influence. The old gentlemen of
that class are the venerable Kuickerbockers
of Charleston but Just now they are electro
fed by the unusual spirit Of patriotic en-
thusissm. These families supply society
with the most stately end fascinating bellies,
and the most valiant and dashing beaux;
they are distinguished from the social cliqne
beneath them by great simplicity and ur-
baDity of manner, derived from their greater
confidence in their position.
The old gentlemen planters are particu-
larly modest and unassuming, aud yet shrewd
withal, resembling in that respect the Barings
of London, and great capitalists generally,
who endeavor by their kindness of deport-
meDt, to atone as it were, for the crushirg g
magnitude of their wealth. The best class
OF society combines with some of the sharp
| and shrewd elements of the present civiliza-
tion many of the more beautiful features of
the earlier years of South Carolina life; and
beneath all the conflicting feelings of the
hour and the terrorism of self-preservation
runs fine thread of elevation of department,
| giving on the whole the impression that this
| class Of society constitutes the real gentry oi
the country, possessing comparatively little
Intellectual taste, but much OF the best innate
| refinement.
Next to this best class of society come the
usual cliques of all sorts of people WHOSE
wealth and refinement permit them tc
miDgle with their social superiors. Military
men, marrying generally from inclination
their wives are frequently taken from the
unwealthy classes, and in many instances
present, in their modest appearance, a strik
ing contrast to the stately mistresses of tn
plantations; yet both associate here freel!
and pleasantly. Among educated peopl
here there is generosity and an absence o
narrowness in social relations which con
trasts favorably with the North. Ever
above the richest planter stands the giftet
statesman, and the skillful officer and maj
of science and literature are greatly hOnored
The circle of the old historical families in
cludes many of the present members Of tn
Legislature and the Government and nov
presents a combination Of political and socia
interest equsled only by Washington in it
| palmy days.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-25
Financial Condition of the Palmetto state.

A legislative committee, to whom was re-
ferred the subject of raising supplies for the
present fiscal year, report a deficiency Of
81, ,647 496, to raise which sums they have
submitted bill of taxation which will pro-
duee, it is estimated, 81, 724, 900.
Among the items of taxation are as fol-
lows: Upon every $le0 of the value of all
lands an dd Vaolrem tax of $2 on all slaves
q tax of $4 &c per head; SO 25 on each free
negro, mulatto or mestizo, between the ages
of fifteen and fifty years, except such as are
incapable of procuring a livelihood; twenty
seven cents ad ValOTsm on every 800 on all
lots, lands and buildings within any city,
town or village 81 per 800 on factorage,
and ali professions and employments, except
ing clergymen and mechanics; the same on
commissions, &C.; forty-five cents per $l0O
on capital stock of all incorporated gas COM
panies, and one and half per cent. on all
premiums taken by insurance companies
twenty eight cents on every 800 of the sales
of merchandise, &C., made between the lst OF
January, 1860 and January l, 1861, (the pro-
ducts of the State and the manufactured
products of any of the United States are ex-
cepted from this provision); 300 per day for
ali circus exhibitions, and 500 per day fol
| all theatrical or other shows; 81 80 on every
| 800 of interest received during the pas
| year on all bonds and notes; So 30 on every
private carriage, (not kept for sale(, ant
81 80 on each buggy, provided that not mort
| than one tax of this kind shall be charged
| against any one individual; 81 upon every
| gold watch, and fifty cents upon silver extrS
| watch not kept for ale.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-25

ANECDorE OF FAMOUS ARTIST Turner'S
CarelessRess of Detail An engrsver, en-
gagged in transferring one of Turner's paint
ings to steel, came one morning to the great
artist and owned, without hesitation and
fear of exciting his anger, that, though he
had tried his best he could not distinguish
what object was meant to be represented by
a dab Outright color in the immediate fore
ground of the picture.
Turner looked at it for a while, then said :
'What do you think it is 2"
81 can't tell sir,n was the reply, ''but if
were to make guess, should think it might
be wheelbarrow."
every WE'LL Then make it a wheelbarrow,"
said Turner, and dismissed the engraver.
The shape of the object made no difference
TO him, but the color was every thing and
this great stress placed upon general effect
and harmony of color in a picture probably
led to that indistinctness in detail which he
declared to be his weak point"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-25

DAKGEBs OF THE WHALE FIsHERY.--A let
ter from Job N. Sherman, third mate of the
ship Mary Ann, of Fair Haven, Mass, gives
the particulars Of his escape from death
while pursuinga whale. The whale struck
the boat and threw him right across the
monsters mouth, so that both legs were in
Its mouth, and then went down with him.
Fortunately, the whale soon came up 80 the
man could breathe. Insthe meantime, he
had extrieated one Of his legs, but the whale
Immediately went down again, carrying Mr..
Sherman down the second time. Mr.. s.
then thought of his sheath-knife, which he
used upon the whales underjaw, causing it
to let 60 its hold, when Mr.. s. arose to the
surface of the water, about ships length
from the boat, and he was rescued nearly
exhausted, by seizipg him by the hair of the
head as he was sinking. On examination he
found himself with hole in one leg large
enough TO receive an egg.
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A ASTRoNe. MINDED WOMAN ON BABlEs.-A
majority of babies, says Mrs. Swisshelm, are
to their mothers what a doll is to little
girl-someth to dress-a means of dis
playing odds and ends of fnery, and exhib-
iting ones tastes. If Infants were treated
on the principle on which a good farner
treats lambs, goslings, chickens, pigs, &C.,
viz well-fed and kept warm, they would
live and grow just as well-cared-f for goslings
live and grow and we never knew one die.
Dutch babies wear caps; and how could any
lady of taste have her baby look like Dutch
baby2 Just so; and Dutch babies generally
live, laugh, and grow fat, for they are ''smoth-
cred in flannel, and feathers, and kept all
in "a sweat" Dutch mothers do not keep
their babies for model artist exhibitions.
They cover them up keep them warm and
quiet, and raise a wonderful number of
sturdy boys and girls. We treated our baby
on the Dutch plan, and never lost nights
sleep with her. -t., :. e..
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A New Orleans, Journal ON tho Present
Crisis.

Sundays New Orleans Picdyttne, under
the head "Reaping the whlrlwind," says
One who had not been close and inter-
ested observer of the gradual growth into
whirlwind which the sewers a the wind, at
the North, have been so diligently sowing
for the last twenty years and more would be
very likely TO be led awsyby the pharisaical
hypocrisy of those who have done all the
mischief, as they now put on look of sur
prise and Indignation, and ask, what is the
mstter2 What have we done2 In what
have we given you reasonable excuse for
complaints An unobservant and mex
perienced man, listening to such, might be
apt to copcede that their skirts were clean
from the great offense of putting eumity and
strife between the members of Confedera-
ton, which was formed in amity, aud for
the preservation and maintenance of the
common interests and the common tran
guilty, and 1fI initiating and agitating a
policy, the inevitable tendency Of which is to
dissolve that fraternal union.
"The mother of mischief says Spanish
proverb, SIS ne bigger than midge's wing"
and no bigger was the commencement of
that spirit of meddlesome mischief which,
but few short years ago, under the stimu
lus of an ignorant fanaticism, began to make
itself felt, in its malign influence over the
Northern mind. The favorable opportunity
for checking its spread having, by the
adoption Of a most disastrous policy, been
allowed to pass, party soon came in to the
aid of fanaticism, and under one speCi0us
name and another, availeditself of the grow
ing strength of what, but for such accession,
could have never attained to any consider
able hight of importance.
Its availability as an instrument of polit-
ical agitation was soon made manifest under
the guidance of those who were interested
in its progress. Abstract ideas which, under
the circumstances imposed by the Constitu-
ton and laws, could have no other practical
operation than 10 stir up sectional strife, and
to set man against man, -andsState against
State, as they were promulgated and en-
forced by the press, the pulpit, aud the plat
form, began TO be received as embodying
the only true policy Of the North, aud the
only proper guide Of its action.
Every instrumentality that could be
brought to bear for the spread of this per-
nicious heresy has, during all these years,
been ingeniously, persistently and efficiently
used. That most potent of ALL the press,
the freedom of which, under blind or wicked
guides, is so sure to degenerate into licen-
tiousness, was first tainted, and men we're
| found willing to lend their abilities to the
support of this infamous cause. Their num-
| Der has gone on increasing as the fell spirit
| of AbolItionism, under this or that party
name, has spread over the North, until by
far the greater proportion of the press OF
| that section has become sectional and IN
| constitutional in its teachings
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TIE GREAT GRANDMOTHER OF THE EXPRESS
EUeESIE.---The great grandmother of Eu-
genie, the Empress of the French, says the
Scotsman, was born in the old mansion house
of Couston-part of which is still standipg-
near Bathgate. She was named Isabel Sand
Hands, being the elder daughter of the Hon.
William Sandilands, of Couston, third son
of John, fourth Lord Torphichen (1522.)
She was married to Sir Thomas Kirkpat-
rick. Of CClOsebqrn, while her only sister
the parish of Bathgste. These facts are at
tested by an old genealogical paper, dated
1916, in the possession of Durham Weir, of
Boghead, Bathgate, and who further traces,
through the Sandlands and other ancient
Scottish families Her Imperial Majesty's de-
scent from Robert III. -.t
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TIDE -WELLs,-An exchange says: 'sThe
exact state of tide, at any moment, az well
as the points of high and low water, may be
known in a seaport town by the contrivanee
of well having subterranean communica-
tion with the sea, so that the water shall
rise in it during the flow, and sink In il
enter a tube Of this kind by small orihee,
the agitation of the waves without is rem
deretl insensible. Tide-wells Of this kind,
constructed by NJ, Chazzillon, the, French
naval engineer, exist at Cherbourg aud Al
Brest. The hight of the tide is self regis.
teredby an instrument called a maregraphe.'
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-25
Tho Progress of the Slave Power in the
r' United States. .|.-

f| United States. .-
The London Times, of the 7th instant, OBJ
serves: ..
But the most melancholy part of the mat
ter is, that during the seventy years for
which the American ConfedeTacy has ex-
listed, the whole tone of sentiment with re-
gard to slavery, has, in the Southern States,
at least, undergone q remarkable change.
Slavery used to be- treated as thoroughly
exceptional institutiou-as the evil legacy
of evil times, as disgrace to Constitution
founded on the natural freedom and inde-
pendence of mankind. There was hardly
political leader of any note who had not
some plan for its abolition. Jefferson him
self, the greatest chief Of the Democracy,
had, in the early part of this century, specu-
lated deeply on the subject; but the United
States became possessed of Louisiana aud
Florida, they have conquered Texas, they
have made Arkansas and Missouri into
States, and these successive acquisitions
have altered entirely the view with which
slavery is regarded. Perhaps as much as
any thing, from the long license enjoyed by
the editors of the South, of writing what
they pleased in favor of slavery, with the
absolute certainty that no one would be
found bold enough to write anything on
| the other side, and thus make himself a
| mark for popular vengeance, the subject has
come to be written on in tone of ferooious
and cynical extravagance which is, to an
European eye, absolutely appalling.
The South has become enamored Of her
shame. Free labor is denounced as degrad-
ing and disgraceful; the honest triumphs of
the poor man who works his way to inde-
| pendence are treated with soorna and con-
tempt. 1t is asserted that what we are in
the habit ofregarding as the honorable pur-
suits of industry ineapacitate nation for
civilization and refinement, and that no in
stitutions can be really free and democratic
which do not rest, like those of Athens and
of Rome, on broad substratum Of slavery.
| So far from treating slavery as an exceptional
institution, it. is regarded by these demo-
cratic philosophers as the natural state of a
great portion of the human race; and, so
| far from admitting that America ought to
| look forward to its extinction, it is contended
| that the property in human creatures ought
to be as universal as the property in land or
| in tame animals.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-25

JAPANESE "ToMMY" AN IEsIoEIFIoANT No
BoDY.-The Home Journal has an interesting
stated that Tommy" about whom SO many
young ladies nearly ran mad, is an. insignif-
cant nobody at home. He is simply the son of
an interpreter, is furnished splace to sleep, has
a per diem allowance of mice to eat, and gets
81 67 per month pay, The. same CORE
spondent relates as a curious fact that kissing
in Japan is one of the lost arts Kissing is
ta6oOed in Japan-it is held to be too vulgar,
too indicate for any respectable person to
be engaged in. Consequently the young
and even old ladies of Japan have to go un-
amacked
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CITY ORDINANCES.
No. 2S2
A ORnINANCE TO ESTABLISH THE
mo. 2s2

AN ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH THE
IN grade of Canal OF randin.street from Central.
avenue to Plum-street -
SECTION l. Belt ordained BY the City Council Of the
citu of Cincinnati, That the grade of Canal street,
from Cen ptral avenue 10 Plum street, be, and the
same is hereby esteblished as follows, viz Com
ms ncinE at the intersection of the east gutter Of
Central-avenue and the north gutter of Canal or
Grandin ST. eet raved at the level thence
ing Grade of foot and sixty seven hundredths Of
foot, in each hundred feet, distance of three
descending fifty hundredths Of foot, distance
of fourte feet to the gutter Of West Plum street,
and the level 1,005 .35
Done at the Council Chamber in the city Of
Cincinnati, this twenty third day of January, In
the year one thousand eight huldred and sixty.
~ JOHN +. T0RRfNCE, President,
Attest: SAM. l., OoRwINE, City Clerk. ja25-c
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-25

A CANADIAN DECLINING A DUEL.-Ex-
Chancellor Bleau, Of Montreal, Canada, re-
Gently challenged Fheophile Hartubise 10
mortal combat The latter Immediately laid
the hostile missiye before the Police Magis-
trate, who arrested Bleau, and bound him TO
keep the peace for six months.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-25


RELIeIoUs PREJUDIoE IN THE SoUTH-Atro-
ciosts AHdck By FTTe-eater on The Methodist
Chu7ch.-Mr. Reagan, of Texas, in a fire.
eating speech in the House of Representa-
tives on the 18th inst, uttered the following
atrocious charge against the Methodists of
that State:
! must say that the very State from which
come, the very district which ] represent,
has had some painful experience during the
last Summer, growing out of the doctrines
of Abolitionism. We found for the last
two or three years, that the members of the
Methodist Church North, and others living
in Texas, were propagating Abolition doc
trines there. We warned them not to carry
on their schemes Of producing disaffection
among our negroes; but they persisted, aud
did not cease until they had organized a
society called the "Mystic Red"
Under its auspices the night before the
last August election the towns were TO be
burned and the people murdered There
now lie in ashes near a dozen towns and viii
lagos in my district. Four of them were
country seats, and two of them the best
towns in the district. The poisonings were
only arrested by information which came to
light before the plan could be carried into
execution. The citizens were forced to stand
guard for months, so that no man could have
passed through the towns between dark and
daylight without making himself known
A portion of them paid the penalty of their
! crimes. Others were driven out of the coun.
\ try,
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-25

TRANsPoRrATIoN BUSINESS OF ARIz0EIA.--
The transportation business in Arizonia em-
ploys capital of $4,000, 900; one train Of
twenty five wagons costing about $1,000.
During the past season the carrying trade to
New Mexico employs 5,984 men, 2,l7O wag-
ons, AGA horses, 5,933 mules, i, 1886 oxen, and
the whole weight transported was 6, 900 tuns.
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FoRT SUMTER RE-ENFoRoED By NArURE.-
A letter from Charleston 10 the Courier dss
Etats- Unis, says; THE yigilant guard Of
last night, an addition of two individuals TO
the garrison Of Fort Sumter. The mother
and her twin-childTen are doing we'll
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sIds ~ ID from to

A N ORDINANCE TO ESTABLIsH THE
tA grade OF Ailanthus-Htroet, from Bank-street to
Clearwater stteet.
Bea ordqined ythe O. Council of the oay Of OsH.
oinndt, That the grade a lAiAnthus street be, add
the same Isl hereby established rs follows, viz:
Commenting lhe Intersection Of the north gutter
of Bank street and the west gutter of Ailanthus-
Q,Ol9.O7)i thence aleDg the west gutter Of Allan
thusstreet, at ascending grade Of ID one foot in
themes at descending grai Of u 2S) one foot and
tNenty eight huudredths OF foot in each (O0) one
five feet; thence at descending grade Of (8.29
three feet aud twenty.nine hundredths of foot in
two hundred and thirty-ope feet to the level OF
grade as at present established
Dsne at the Council Chamber In the city Of Gin
cinnati this twenty third day OF January, in the
year eighteen hundred and sixty-Ope.
JOHN n TnRRENoE, President
Attest: SAM. l.. C0RwTSf, City Clerk. Ja25-O
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Discovery or SALT SPRNa.-0n the
south side Of the Mahoning River, at
YoungstOwn, Penna., some persons engaged
in boring for oil, few days since, struck a
dueea over a teacupfui Of fine salt to the
gallon.
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mo. zss.l e tor.I-r
An ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH

"A the grade q @6st>siiey, fF.n Psrf' alley to
Ramsey IS north line
sEcrioH l. BE d ordaiaed bv LLe Ciy Council Of the
city Qf OiReiaaet, That the grada Of West alley be
established az iolows BsSli ning az tae intersef-
ter q Park aey, At the level Of O65.sI thence
cending at grade Of rs feet in each 100 feet for the
distance of $50 feet tho north line Of Ramsey's
subdivision, 10 the level Of l,064. 81.
Done at the Council Chamber, in the city Of Cin-
ciDnati. this tsenty-thtrd day of January, IN the
year eighteen hundred and siXty-one.
JOHN Il, T0kRENCE, President. q
Attest: SAW. H. CoRwINE. Oity Clerk. ia20-o
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AN ORDINANCE 10 ACCEPT A DEED
IA of Dedication of Loek'street, from d, y. stra-
sfcTGoS l. Bs Il ordaiaed BY the oRsy QoaneH Of he
eiiy 81 ciEsinHaEs That Deed Of nedieations exc;
Mary n. Wooley, dated December "a, A. d. 1850. Tor
certain real estate thereiR described, form part
ward front-streefs be, and the same 10, hereby 40
cepted and ooDfrmed said groupd TO remain part
Of Haid Lock street forever. ..-t
Done At the Council Chamber, IN the city Of Gin
cinnaH, this tweE ty third day Of january, IN the
year one thousand eight hundred and sixty -one, hi
JOHN 7. TORRENcE, President.
Attest SAN. L. CoRwnEi City Clerk. la25.c
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-25

PHoToeRLPB OF AN Ex.QUEEN. The
young ex Queen of Naples sent q photo
graph of herself in a military dress, with q
cap, vest, full trousers, high boots and
sword at her side, to the wife OF the French
Admiral, whose presence at Gaeta has alone
enabled Francis II. to prolong q hopeless
contest until now. The Empress Eugene
having seen and greatly admired this pho
tograph, the young Queen had sent Her
Majesty copy Of II, magnihcently framed.
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DON,T BELIEVE IT!

WHRN YOU RAR INTEREsTEW
w parties say that the WILCOX GIBBe
sFWING-MACHINEsm make work that viii ncl
stand the test Of don't you believe them but
examine for yourselves, and ask those who iron
experience, are able and willing to tell the truth
about them and the work they do The Machines
warranted for three years, and the work mAaa
them is warranted 70 fast equal to that made on
any other machine. Price Of Machine, 336. We
will teach every body to operate the Machines, foe
Of charge. If they will call at the General Agency
0fice, in the second story of Carlisle Building
corner Of Fourth and Walnut sts., Cincinnati.
de2-om v. W, SUNDERLIN, Agent.
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mo 2s5l
ANORDINANoIR TO, EsTABLIIsH THR THsR

"A N OkDlNANCk TO, ESrABL1SH II THh
IN grade Of Ailanthus-alley, from Clearwater
Be e ordained by ne Oily Council Of The oity Of Oa-
eilnaii, That the grade of AilanthuA-slley, from
sAneis, hereby established as follows, viz Com
mencng at the interrogation Of the north gutter Of
thence aacendng foui Of foot to the side
OF tClearwater-streeti thence at descending grade
of one foot and twenty one hundredths Of foot in
each one hundred feet, distance Of one hundred
and fifty feet 70 the south gutter Of Central avenue
Done AZ the Council CHAMBER, in the City Of Gin
cinnati, this twenty third day Of January, in the
year eighteen hundred and slKtg,one, - = -
JOHN r. T0RREN NOE, President
Attest SAN. Il. OoRWNR, City Clerk. ja25-c
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GREAT BATTLE ON THE PLAINS WITH THE
KIowA IEDIANs.-A special telegram to the
Missouri Republican from Independence says;
Gone hundred United States troops, under
command of Colonel Orittenden and Lieu
tenant Jackson, of the rifles, ON the End inst,
encountered 800 Kiowa and other Indians, at
Cedar Springs, and completely routed them.
They killed two chiefs, one Of them the noted
Gatank, and fifty braves. They took some
prisoners, 100 lodges, with their provisions,
and great number Of women and children.
The last they liberated. Four of the soldiers