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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01
NUMBER 13l



Our cotemporaries are making great out
cries against the proposition to tax tie
newspapers. For ourselves we repeat the
sentiment uttered several days since-"IfH IL
IS right that the newspaper should bear a
portion Of the burden, let it come. We Of
The Sun, representing the very portion of
the people by whom the tax would be most
severely felt, are cheerfully in favor of IT,"
Our individual feelings our individual
profits, and even our individual rights, we
are ready and willing to ignore for the
good of the whole country, and we believe
the same feeling very generally prevails
in the community. What the country
wants just now is some tax-some dctioa-
to show its readiness to sustain aud carry
through the war We hare had talk enough.
We How rant a direct promise to pay the
nation.
If our legislators are silly enough to tax
newspapers-to tax the very source Ct the
Nations golden eggs-let them do so. Bet
ter tax them than not put down the rebel
lion-better tax them than quarrel among
ourselves, until foreign powers interfere to
our detriment-better lay tax in the
wrong place, and on the wrong article, than
not olay some tax Immediately. A tax on
newspapers will not last long enough to get
the machinery in motion for collecting it.
and yet we say, put IL on-if nothing bet
ter can be devised. The very men who
voted it will be glad to travel back to Wash
ington by express, paying their own mile
age, within a week after the session closes,
to vote its repeal; and still we say, put IL
on.
HiS not right, not polite, not just to i'm
pose special tax on newspapers. We are
quite as clear on that point as upon the i'm
mediate necessity of taxation to sustain the
war. 1t would at this time be advisable,
and certainly would be justifiable to lay a
general tax on all industries in which the
making of newspapers shall be included
with the making Of hats, coats, boots and
umbrellas, though we doubt the good policy
of fixing permanently even that. 1t is
most clearly to free knowledge in all its
forms, that our whole country is indebted,
more than TO all other things combined, for
the prosperity and greatness which it has
achieved, and our duty is to profit by the
lessons of the past.
Taxing newspapers is q long step back
to barbarism-it is as bad as the step from
slaveholding to the slave trade which our
Southern brethern have been proposing,
should their rebellion succeed. History is
full of warnings against measures for
crushing out knowledge, and our Members
of Congress would do well to study them.
That they will study them in time to avoid
this snare, we are well satisfied. Would
that We were as well assured that they
would act promptly on the vital point of i'm
posing some tax. One ofthese days people
will find out that the best way to support
all governments-city county, state and
generals by well adjusted direct taxa
ton. Let there be but one tax gathered for
all purposes. This simple expedient would
save one half of all taxation by saving the
cost of complicated machineries for collect
ing - Neao York Sun.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01
BEAUTIFUL SONG.


Here is one Of the most beautiful songs in
the language Imagine a sweet little girl,
for whom life's morning bell has just rung
five" the light of child like beauty cluster
ing around her brow, slowly and thought
fully repeating it, between daylight and
dark.
The window is open, and through the
swinging vine that drapes it, the young moon
seems rocking at Its anchor in the evening
breeze, and the little night dress Is nestled
the shadow, and syllable by syllable, like
the music of the lapsing Of a brook, comes
the words:
81 think when read that sweet story Of old,
when Jesus was here among men,
how He called little children as lambs, to his fold,
should like to have been with them then.
I wish that His hands had been placed on mn head
That his arms had been thrown around me,
AHd that might have seen His kind look when He
let the little ones come. unto me-
"Rut beautiful place He has gone to prepare
For all that are washed aud forgivenl
AId maby dear children are gathering there,
For such is the kingdom of Hsavenp"
Ard if that evening vision has passed for
ever away, aud in dreams a circlet of gold is
about the radiant brow. and the little white
night dress has been changed for garment
from the wardrobe of Heaven, these words she
said have grown holy as a Scripture, and
hallowed as the spot where we laid her.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01

The Cincinnati Daily Commercial wishes
to know what we would have done with the
negroes, if we would not free them. We
answer, let them alone. If they are slaves
now, let them be transferred from rebel to
loyal masters; and when peace comes land
awful rule, aud right supremacy" of legti-
mate government shall crown our land, we
may be at liberty to take up the question.
The negro has not been our trouble but only
the pretext to our trouble, Those who hate
our Government have used him as a rally.
ing CRY, North and South, to disturb it. And
people easily excited and timid have shruuk
for years past from the clamor of public life,
and allowed worthless men TO gain author
ity. The masses are soundly devoted to the
Government as Washington left it to us
under which slavery disappeared from many
States without political agitation, and under
which we ought to have brought the West
ern continent. We want no Boston civiliz
alton to narrow our political creed or to i'm.
pose on us the rules of its meddling systems
Let us have Government that is unfalteriug
and just liberty for ALL Catholic Telegraph
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From WashinGton.

WASHINGTON, January 81. - A schooner
loaded with salt, cleared for Washington,
the other day from Baltimore. She went,
however, to the rebel camp at Acquia Creek,
having first signaled the rebel batteries not
TO fire upon her.
The new postage bill will soon be intro
duced in the House, reducing postage on
letters to two cents, and delivering all letters
free of charge in cities.
The House Committee on Territories have
under consideration a bill to regulate and
govern the rebellious States as territories.
The tenor of the foreign dispatches re
ceived at the State Department is peaceful
The steamer HecLd, of Philadelphia, ran
the blockade OF the Potomac last night with
out receiving a shot from the rebels. She
was loaded with stores for the army.
-Four Federal steamers are now on the
alert to capture the priVateer Sumter.
Several Federal vessels are now lying idle
in port for want of seamen. Four thousand
of them are now needed by the Navy.
Minister Corwin, though desirous of re-
turning home, will remain in Mexico if he
can be Ofservice to our country and Govern.
ment. He thinks he can.
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The Dayton journal records the death OF
James Davis, thes"mighty hunter" of Ohio.
Davis was born in 1887 at Point Harmar. a
stockade at the junction Of the Muskingum
wi the Ohio He was the third child born
in the Territory of Ohio, after the first dem.
onstration toward a settlement by the white
people, and the first mulatto child, being
one fourth African blood He was brought
up in the family Of Commodore Whipple,
one of the earliest Ohio pioneers.
Davis was q character as well as hunter,
and settled in Dayton in 1928 where be fd,
died for the young folks until about sixteen
years ago, when he joined the church aud
laid aside the sweet sounding viol." A
sketch of bis life and exploits saws:
Born and reared in the great North. west,
while it was yet a vast and almost uubroken
wilderness, he mingled much with the red
men of the forest, and became we'll &C
quainted with their habits and character, At
an early age be became an expert hunter. a
pursuit which he loved most dearly, and con-
tinued to indulge in at proper seasons until
a very few years ago. In his lifetime he
killed twelve hundred and forty. nine deer,
twelve hundred and one of which he skin
ned; and upward of sixty BEARS the largest
of which measured nine feet and seven
inches in length. Its skin is still preserved,
and may be seen in the Museum at Oincin.
natl. In the war of 1912 he was waiter TO
General Cass, and afterward accompanied
him in that capacity while engaged in max.
ing numerous treaties with the Indians OF
the Northwest. He was remarkably fleet
of foot, and used to say when in the prime
of life he could outrun any Indian he ever
met. At the Chicago treaty he ran five races
with the celebrated Indian Chief Black
Hawk, then comparatively young man,
beating the Chief every time. During the
visit of General Cass TO Dayton, in 1874. Da.
viz had long and interesting interview, a,
which several of our citizens were present
General Oass held MIN in high esteem.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01

The London Times of the 9Th contains
strong anti-war article, in which occur these
passages:
We confess freely that, great as the provo
cation has been, and opportune as the mo-
ment appears for exacting all the satisfaction
we can possibly require, sOe shrink from the
idea Of aodT. We are not insensble to the
advantage of the sudden opening to US of the
Southern cotton market, and we are by no
means intimidated by the only threat of ali
that have. been launched against us which
the United States are able to perform-the
threat of copfscating the property which
British subjects have intrusted to their honor
and 10 that of their people. We are slow to
believe that even those who make such q
menace are capable of executing it, and we
are firmly convinced that this country
would agree to no peace which did not
make the most ample provision for CON-
plete reparation to the victims Of such a
wrong Such conditions have been made by
Great Britain before now, at the conclusion
of wars more prolonged and more formidable
than any conflict with the United States is
likely to prove. Still we hare ample reason
for sincerely hoping that 1odr may not be forced
upon US. Beyond the opening to US of the
cotton market, 1Oe haze no gain TO look for
from contest Nth america. We do not coUet
their lands or their cities, or any thing that is
theirs. We have enough, and more than enough,
of territory on the North american continent.
We can not destroy American capital with
out ipjuring our Owl. We can not cripple
their commerce without striking heavy
blows at the commerce of these islands. To
shut them up in their own territory would
only be 10 give strength and development to
those protectionist tendencies which charac.
terze the democratic school of political
economy.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01
POSTAL RULEs.

Many errors occur by persons not observing the
follow ing regulations in depositing letters papers
or miscellaneous publications in the office FOG
mailing;
ALL DRoP-LETTERs MUST BIZ PREPAID By POSTAGE
STAMPS.
Prepayment, by stamps, required on all letters to
places within the United States.
Oce and the parry addressed IsiA net b notified, az
heretofore.
Prepayment, by stamps, required on all transient
printed matter, foreign and domestic
By inserting the county In which the Of1oe Is le-
Gated, upon ali letters, many in superscrip-
ton might be detected, and mistakes In mailing bo
avoided.
The postage on sheet music maps enOrapia0s, Iiho-
gFdphs photographic prtnts, rOleTs in p0psF
oOBtTs; books b0Had unbound; phOBOOraphio pdpeF
and letter enBelOpe PACKAGE not exceeding "a dN
case -four pOVnds Is at te rate of one cent an oco
TactsO. Of cHAce 70 place - the Dated Stats
Gade fifteen hundred miles, and al The rate Of hoo os
miles, prepaid bD postage clamps.
Same rates on cards, either blank or prtntedi and
blanks in packages weighing at least eight ouuoess
aGd seeds or cuttings In packages not exceeding
REGISTRY OFFIOE.
Valuable letters for AnY part Of the United States
Canada Great Britain, Fra ce Holland the Italian
States, or States Of the German. A astrian Postal
Union, viii 10 Registered on APPLICATION at the
Letsvs % bs rsoiirsd '0in not b received Iat
NsT''9 oFFIoE HOURS. 1r ~
Ofdcs opsa nom g A. N. to6P. n. 1I
Open ON Sundays from to l1h A; ~
Cincinnati, December 8. 1851.
I H.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01

MARRIAGES OF SoLDIERs.-A few days since
at the residence of the brides father, the
Duptial rites were pronounced by Hiram
Peirce, Esq, between Sergeant Johu W.
Francis and Miss Mary E Daniels, both of
GarIettsville. The bridegroom is a Sergeant
in the Fourteenth Battery, o. ", and within
an hour after being united to lovely bride,
bade her sdieu, taking passage on the cars,
to join bis companions in arms, to spend the
honeymoon, in defense of an outraged coun-
try, under the lead OF the daring Brigadier
General Lane, of the Kansas Brigade.
Saturday morning, Miss Jennie Campbell,
late associate teacher in the High School de
psrtment of the Ravenna Union Schools,
was united in marriage to Lieutenant John
O Hutchins, of the Second Ohio Cavalry,
son OF Congressman Hutchins of Warren.
The denOuSment was quite unexpected to
many RaVenniane. Mrs. Hutehins joins her
husband in bis army life, and Ravenna loses
a universal fayorite from its educational re
ligious and social circles.-R RaUsnnG Demo.
cydt. --,.---
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01

The Knoxville Register has some informa.
ton as to the number of hogs the Govern.
ment has purchased and is having slaughtered
and packed in Tennessee, and gives the fol-
lowing approximate estimate;
At Bristol, about twelve thousand; Nor
ristown and vicinity, twenty thousand (;
Knoxville, ten thousand; London aud Sweet
water, twelve thousand Chattanooga,
twenty thousand; Shelbyville, fifty thou
sand Nashville, ffy thousand CIarksville,
ten thousand; other places, about sixteen
thousand. Making in all two hundred
thousand. From these hogs the Government
will net twenty four millions of pounds OF
bacon.
We learn that B. @. Harley & Co. are
making fifty bushels of salt day, at their
works on the Ouachta River. If kettles
can be procured they can increase this
Weld
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01
tFor the Daily Press. !
A Word Concerning the Necessity of Hav
ing Drawing in our Free Schools.

ing drawing In our Free schools.
We often hear that America is practical
country; we are right in saying so, when we
see that in Europe more care is given to the
knowledge of arts, whereas, here, more at
tention is paid to practical elements. The
purpose of the public schools is to give the
scholars foundation for future life. So,
many branches are taught but one Of the
principal ones is neglected-this is drawing.
Most all the scholars leaving school become
mechanics, masons, carpenters, cabinet
makers, turner's; still more become mach n
lists, and all others, without exception, feel
the necessity of drawing, and they painfully
regret not having learned it.. By the gene
rosity and willingness of the School Board
to make our schools useful, it requires, as
hope, only this suggestion, which would be
joyfully signed by thousands, to establish
drawing lessons.
Without regard to the practical use, draw.
ing sharpens the eye, makes the hand steady
and cultivates good taste and sense of beauty
A FRIEND OF SCHOOLS.
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A Check On Kansas Jayhawlkcrs-MIIItar
Matters.

LEAVE NwoRTH, Jan. 3l.-Geueral order
No II of the Department of Kansas pro-
bihits the troops of this Department from
entering the Department OF Missouri without
special orders.
All armed parties, whether belonging to
the Government service or not, which shall
hereafter Cross the Kansas border and enter
the Department Of Missouri without due au-
thoIity, shall be adjudged to have entered
for the purpose of committing depreciation,
and shall be held subject to the penalty OF
military law.
All armed bands of men in the State of
Kansas, not in the service of the United
States, nor &C ing under special authority
obtained from the Governor of the State or
the General commanding, are hereby warned
TO disband and return to their homes.
Military commissions for the trial of all
such prisoners, and all who are now detained
on charges ofarmed depreciation or JayhaWk-
ers, " i'll be established.
The Ninth Missouri, Col. SaIomon, is
quartered in this city. The Second Ohio
Cavalry, Col. Doubleday, is quartered at
Platte City, Mo-, at present.
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From California,

SAN FRANoIsCo, Cal, Jan 3l.-After one
weeks extraordinary cold (though pleasant,
weather, at other rain. storm has commenced
in San Francisco, which doubtless comes
from the flooded portions of the State. The
storm in the most interior counties has sub.
sided.
Communication with the mining districts
is still suspended. The Legislature, by g
concurrent resolution, agrees 10 assume CAL
ifornia's portion of the national direct tax.
The resolution passed instructing the delega.
tion in Congress to urge the establishment o.
a line of mail steamers between San Fran
cisco and Japan and China All the naviga.
BILE rivers of Oregon are closed by ice.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01

CHICAGO, January 3l.-A special to the
Journal from Cairo says that Captain Con-
sable, commander of the mortar boa.s, re.
turned fcom Pittsburg this morning. Twelve
of the l3-inch mortars, with mortar beds and
ammunition, have been shipped. Twelve o.
the mortar-boats will be Immediately put in
readiness for active service.
DR.. Scales, arrested at Bertrand, was tried
at Charleston on Wednesday for horse steal
ing and murder. The Commissioners found
him guilty in both charges, and he was sen
fenced TO close confinement in the military
prison during the war.
1.-the steamer Emma Duncan arrived to-day
with large cargo of powder and shell.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01

to the Gulf. lie referred to the blockade of
t Potomac as q cause for shame, and inti-
mated that the President was anxious that
h war should he prosecuted with vigor. In
conclusion he said he saw a streak of light
ahead resting upon The chair of the new Sec
re aHy Of War-a man who, il report spoke
truly, was like brave Ben Wade, of 0hio-a
good combination of Old Hickory and Zack
Taylor, with mind of his own, brain to
place, and a mind to execute That officer
would be likely TO push on the war with all
the vigor that characterized the people in
raising 30 vast and mighty an army.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01
BIZ TELEGRAPH. y
NIGHT DISPATCH ES
Additional By the Africa.

MADRID, Jan. l9.-The Sumter has been
ordered by the Spanish Government to leave
Cadiz, and she has gone to Gibraltar.
PARIS, Jan. l9.-The Journal Des DeJdts
thinks that Lord Palmerston's intentions to-
ward the United States are not pacific.
The Paris Temps, in announcing that
Messrs. Msson and Slidell are expected to
arrive shortly at Havre, says no obstacle
will be offered to the fll6llment of their
mission to France and England.
The Plenipotentiaries OF the South will be
allowed to plead for the recognition Of the
South.
The Presse says the French GovernG.: ent
wiz NOT receive Mason and Slidell, or any
other Southern commission.
The Independence Beige says that France
will assume the initiative in making diplo.
matte remonstrance against the blockade OF
the ports of the South, and that England
will only afford France moral support.
PARIS, Jan. l9-The Moniteur saws the
number Of partisans in England for the re.
cognition of the Southern Confederacy in.
c1eases, and that there is no doubt that man
will advocate this measure in the approach
ing session of Parliament.
Trade at Manchester continues to be de.
pressed, Notwithstanding the great reduction
in manufactures. Prices are generally un-
changed, however.
CHIEA.-Two American Missionaries
Messrs. Parker and Holmes, had been muir.
dered by the Chinese rebels near Cheloo.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01

Upon skates. the Journal Of Health is
particularly strong. ST the thermometer is
below thirty" il says, 'and the wind is
blowing, no child or lady ought to be
skating" We don't know about this. If
the lady is 'belOw thirty" and good look-
ing, let her skate, Thermometer or others wise.
If she is the reverse, let her slide.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01

Horace Weaver of Winsted, Conn.,, writes
home from camp at Washington that he has
Just carried the log" for three hours, as the
penalty for shooting hog while on sentinel
duty. He had orders to let nothing pass,
and after a sharp tussle with the porker, he
had to give in or shoot .rr
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01

THE REBUILDING OF CHARLRsroN.-The
Legislature of South Carolina has passed an
act authorizing the Governor to effect loan
OF $1,000, 900 to rebuild that portion of
Charleston laid in ruins by the late fire; the
money so borrowed to be lent to such appli.
cants as desire to rebuild, who are restrained
from erecting other than IRE proof buildings.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01

The Richmond ladies are fond of dancing,
to which amusement the Richmond Whig is
very hostile. In its issue of the 18th it says
the girl who waltzes ought TO be sent to a
nunneTy. 1t proposes to kick out of good
society all who dance what il esteems i'm
modest dances, OF else go to the other ex-
treme and have "round dances" after church
service
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01

SEKING OF THE JUDAH ToURo-HEAyY
CARGO TOTAL Loss The elegant passenger
packet Judah TOuro, Of the New Orleans and
Columbus line, struck snag aud sunk be-
low Vicksburg, on Saturday morning. The
Judah Towo had very heavy freight, in
cluded in which were four hundred and fifty
hoesheads of sugar and five hundred barrels
OF molasses. The sugar is total loss.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01

The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Times says that 'all interest in
General Fremont has apparently died out in
Washington" This is not surprising, Fight
ing Generals have not been much cultivated
in that latitude.-NeIO York Tribune.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01

A project is on foot in New York to intro
duce the Turkish bath there-a regular Con-
siantinople affair with real imported Turks
for attendants--and $25, 900 have been raised
for the purpose.