Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-11
VARIETIES,

/ SusNOIu bh ~ NJ new lOTk HEtudy mOluiuks
shortly after seven o'clock. Its diameter APP
/ peared to be about one fourth that Of the
sun, and II was accompanied by q shining
| train Of light, from which q shower of stars
blazed, as IL q rocket had gone on burst.
So far from that terrible distress and
| starvation that was predicted, the New York
! Sunday Times says the demand upon the
benevolent societies have not as yet reached
the aggregate of former years
! Long lines of advertisements appear in
the Charleston and Savannah papers of
plantations for sale, some Of which are rec
commended as beyond the line of defense.
| Significant.
Husband have an asthma so bad that
can't breathe" "Well, my DEAR wouldn't
try; nobody wants you to-"
God has not taken so much pains in franz
ing, and furnishing and adorning this world
that they who were made to live in it should
despise it.
There begins to be disposition apparent
in various parts of the country to throw
Canada money out of circulation.
The Massachusetts, war bill against the
Government is So, 100000.
The disbursements in Missouri since the
war began exceed $lS,OOOOU0.
Two million dollars worth of cotton has
already been gathered by our forces at Port
Royal.
The Kingston &c. W. News says the release
Of Mason and Slidell does honor to MIR.
Seward.
An English newspaper describes new
lock in process of manufacture in Wolver-
hampton, having 244, l4o625 combinations.
One Of the sailors at the New York Sail
ors' Snug Harbor went up. to the city on
Monday to celebrate his one hundreth birth
day. He was born at Gottland, Jan. G, 1862,
as papers in bis possession show.
Several large purchases of manufactured
cotton in bond have been made in Montreal
recently by dealers from New York and
Boston; wholesale prices there for many
styles of goods being much below current
rates in the American market.
ANOTHER TAX PRoPesED.--It is said that
resolution will be introduced in the House,
instTucting the Committee on Ways and
Means to propose a tax Of one, fourth or one
half cent per mile on all railroad passeR-
gers travelling in the United States.
There are now from 5000 to 1000 more
negroes on the islands about Beaufort than
when our troops first landed.
The Petersburg (Va) Express SAYS the
First South Carolina Regiment, in the Army
of the Potomac, has not received any pay
for long time, and the families of the SOL
diers will be likely to experience pincbing
want.
A number of the first ladies of Havana
have sent large box of elegantly prepared
lint tied up with colored ribbons, to the
rebel army, as a testimonial of their heart.
felt devotion TO the Southern cause.
The General Government has placed to
the credit OF the State of Indiana 10000
for ammunition furnished by the State since
the commencement of the war.
IN
of Minnesota. and late mariner of ITnited
States Senator Wilkinson died at 81 Poni
recently He want to Winnesoto fcoD, M;ch.
| igan in l949. He was Speaker of the Terri.
tOrial Legislature in 1851, and a prominent
member of the State Constitutional Conyen-
tion in 1857.
The total number of intentions of mar
riage issued in Boston during the year 1861
was 2, 300, decrease of 3le from the previous
year. This decrease is doubtless the result
of the civil war, and the consequent pros
tTation OF business which followed.
| At lecture recently delivered at New
csstle-upop-Tyne by Jessie Merton White,
sbe sthrmed that OaVour pledged the island
OF Sardlnla TO france before he died. and
| that Louis Napoleon ID only waiting the
proper minute to seize his prey. This ac-
CORDS with The assertions lately made by Mr.
NUeou'N'
Deacon anu mrs. Dan; Veits celebrated
tneir Soloen Weadlng At East CRANKY, Conn,
on New-fesrs Day; -Four daughters' with
their husbands, ana nVe sons WIN tneF
ee,ber with the norarts aoS 0U ,,rsut utu' tTo w
GRANDCHILDREN. made mn a fsm;Iv TuT naTtv w oS
| forty. In family an loraa foy tba hi iono, ~
oeried of half a century. No deotb bs, IVns oe
cnrred excent an infant child of Rav NJ
| Felts, few weeks since; and all except the
lat,eri (wbo has been for nearly ten years
setted pastor 10 Hancock, Mass live within
a few miles OF the old home.
muskrat threw the whole community~of
Winsted Conn, into commo,ion lately by
Evsoipg aoo ~ iutS ,ne naln gas pipe OF mat VII
i"ge' anu ooS'ruc'lpg 'ne no" OF tne gas
A LONG TRAlN.-The Rock Island Argus
| on Saturday last saw train of fifty-dve