Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-14

ueutIhl OCObNb COdCuAhhhg WhooN SnBeNAN
by the rebels, after the battle of Bull Run,
was believed 10 be with his own consent, has
returned among the exchanged prisoneri.
He says that he made every effort to escape,
and did escape once, but was recaptured.
According to the Vincennes SUM- eight
thousand Eve hundred hogs have been
slaughtered at that point during the past
season.
The Scriptural penny was worth in the
time OF Christ about one hundred and fifty
of our cents. A penny day, therefore, fer
working in the vineyard, was toleraole
wages.
The Lafayette journal pronounces it as its
deliberate conviction that Jim Lane, OF Kan
sas, is the Coming man, Come on" that
paper SAYS, ooh coming man, and il you, i'm
Lane, be he, come quickly !" Or any other
man.
WooD FOR THE SoLD1ERs.-Each regiment
on the Potomac is allowed $50 cords for its
winter consumption. The entire amount
required is immense, involving a total ccst
of million of money. The Government now
pays 81 q cord for wood on the ground, which
seems to us a most enormous price for wood
in the forests of Virginia.
The Rebel Congress has adopted resolu-
| ton to the effect that peace should not be
concluded with the United States until Mary
land is added to the Southern Confederscy,
That is modest. We presume our subrnis-
sionists favor the conclusion of the war on
those terms.
Angelo Chiarini, the famous rope walker,
while walking with wheelbarrow up tight
rope, stretched from the ground to the top of
Hayes Park Pavilion, San Francisco, fell to
the ground, distance of sixty feet, and died
of his injuries on the 9th of December.
The family name of Queen Victoria is
| Alexandria Victoria Guelph. Since Prince
Albert's death there is an effort to find out
| what was his name. 1t was Francis Albert
Augustus Charles Emmanuel Busici.
The London Post says that, previous to
closing the coffin containing the remains of
the Prince Consort, a wreath of flowers
made by the Princess Alice, was put over the
corpse, and miniature of Her Majesty placed
in his hands.
It has been reported by gentleman from
Galveston, Texas, that cotton has been
transported through the extreme Southern
States to Brownville, in that State, and from
thence shipped to Matamoras, in Mexico. 1t
is further stated that the said Mexican port
has been made an English military and naval
station. If SO, Great Britain could, without
apparently infringing on the blockade,
obtain all the cotton she might want from
the South.
Some Of the banks of New York refuse to
suspend specie payment and yet, let de.
positor draw out his funds in gold and silver,
and they would be down on him like a
hawk on June bug. The banks referred to
are making asses of themselves, and attempt
ing to get up little t,srore in their favor by
means of false pretenses.
At festival on some occasion, among the
soldiers in Missouri, one of the men from
Adrian offered the following extravagant
sentiment, which is printed in a Missouri
paper, from which we copy:
"Jeff Davis-May he be set afioat in an
open boat, without compass or 'rudder; may
that boat be swallowed by whale, the
whale in the DEVILS belly, and the devil in
hell. And, further-may he be chained in
the south. h.west corner Of hell, and north
east wind blow ashes in his eyes to all eter-
nifty, d-n him"
The following petition is being circulated
and numerously signed in some of the New
England States
ITO the Senate and House OF Representa-
tiyes in Congress assembled: The under
signed, citizens of the United States beg of
, you to drop the negro question and attend
to the business of the country"
Thurlow Weed says he has "reliabe au
of his pen, was at the Queens request to
soften the dispatch sent to Lord Lyons"
Beauregard admits that if Patterson's di-
vision had been transferred from Harper's
Ferry so as to have come up at Manassas on
the 2lst of July, he would have been de-
feated.
One thousand copies of spelling. books
recently exchanged for an improved series by
the children in the public schools at Worces.
ter, Mass, have been forwarded to Fortress
Monroe, at the request of the Massachusetts,
soldiers there who are teaching contraband
ideas how to shoot
No PosT MIsTREssEs.-It has been off.
cially settled at the Postoffice Department
that the title of Postmaster is the only one
, to be known and recognized, whether ap.
piled to male or female officials in charge OF
, postoffices. We have at the present time
several hundred lady postmasters in the
government employ. In the course of 9
pretty long official experience, we have YET
! to learn OF the first instance where one o.
the softer sex Las been convicted of mai
robbery.
! A MULE SCHooL.-A letter writer speaks
! of q government mule school, at the cross
ing of the Wilmington and Baltimore Road
on the Susquehanna. There are now thir
teen thousand mules in training. Abou
3 one hundred and sixty are educated to har
ness daily, and graduate in about a week o.
ten days. There is lady in this city wht
contemplates sending her husband to thi
, institution, in the hope of breaking bin
i fairly into the matrimonial harness.