Cincinnati Daily Press, 1862-02-21

VOLUME VI.

THE DAILY PRESS.

PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAYS, BY THE CINCINNATI PRESS COMPANY.

OFFICE - EAST SIDE OF VINE-STREET, A FEW DOORS BELOW FOURTH.

FRIDAY..................FEBRUARY 21

ENGLAND WILL NOT RECOGNIZE THE SOUTH.

The Southern Bid of Emancipation Exposed.

As the time draws near for the meeting of the British Parliament the question of British and French intervention in our affairs is earnestly discussed in the English papers. We give below an extract from an article from the London *Spectator*, in which Abe Liberal paper, which has from the beginning of the war leaned strongly to the cause of the rebels, but has not, therefore, forgotten that armed intervention in their favor means only to make Great Britain the powerful ally of a slave government:

[From the London Spectator, Jan. 25, 1862.]

THE SOUTHERN BID.

It is understood, that indirect but accurate way in which great facts get abroad, that the Confederacy have offered England and France a price for active support. It is nothing less than a treaty securing free trade in its broadest sense for fifty years, the complete [?] of the import of slaves, and the emancipation of every negro born after the date of the signature of the treaty. In return they ask: first, the recognition of their independence; and, secondly, such an investigation into the facts of the blockade as must, in their judgment, lead to its disavowal.

The first two items may be very speedily disposed of. Free trade is always an excellent thing, and free trade with the South - a really free trade, that is, unembarrassed by custom-houses - would be undoubtedly of the very highest importance to both England and France. With uninterrupted supplies of cotton, and the command of a great tropical market for our manufactures and for French silks, wines and *articles de luxe*, both countries would, in a twelvemonth, receive ample compensation for the Morrill Tariff and the losses of the past year. But earnest as they may be, their offer on this point is neither more nor less than a *bribe* - an offer of so many pounds sterling for permission to build a State whose corner-stone is the "divine institution of human slavery," and needs only to be stated to insure its instant rejection. When England or France have sunk to the point at which such bribes have any perceptible weight, it will be time to prepare for the calamities which follow so fast on an avowal of national cynicism.

So, too, with the suppression of the slave-trade. The South may be quite honest in that offer also, for though the planting States undoubtedly desire importation, the slave-breeding States are as bitter against it as the most ardent of Abolitionists. Every man smuggled in from Congo reduces the price of the children annually exported from Virginia.

It is the offer of a future emancipation, and that alone, which demands and will receive a careful consideration. In making it, the South give up, it is true, the only principle they have ever professed, destroy their only *raison d'etre*, and declare their revolt from a Government which they themselves controlled, a purposeless act of caprice. On the same offer, even now, they might govern the Union for a century longer, till the irrepressible dislike which springs up between men of a Northern and men of a tropical civilization once again urged them to try the power of a Southern, and therefore capricious, race to stand alone.

*It is war these men want and not recognition, a breach of the blockade, not merely a right to have Mr. Mason received at the Foreign Office.* We are to declare war on the free in order that a slaveholder may promise one day to commence emancipation. *A more unusual proposal was never made to a great state,* or one which, if accepted, would tend more directly to demoralize the few principles by which nations contrive to save themselves from utter selfishness and contempt of right.

Enfranchisement *en masse* would, we acknowledge, guarantee itself, for millions of men once free can not be again enslaved, except at a cost which makes them peculiarly worthless. But *who is to guarantee that the treaty made to-day will not be waste paper next year or at the first moment when a European war leaves the South free to act.* Is England to administer the South? Or is France to give a Prince-Protector to the new Confederacy? Even on those monstrous suppositions, involving plans which, if successful, would overturn the whole balance of power, and if unsuccessful, would make Western Europe the laughing-stock of two worlds, where is the justification for a purposeless and unnecessary war?

The Union Feeling among Rebel Prisoners

A correspondent of the *Gazette* writes from Cairo about the prisoners taken at Fort Donelson:

No observant man can visit a rebel camp without noticing the vast difference, in point of intellect and intelligence, between the officers and men of the troops composing it. This difference is especially apparent in the case of the Fort Donelson prisoners. Many of the private soldiers are wealthy men, owners of large farms, or the sons of wealthy men, but they are the most ignorant set of beings ever assembled under any pretense whatever. The officers, on the contrary, are, as a class, educated men, most of them young - few of the Captains and Lieutenants more than twenty-five years of age. In one company, belonging to a Tennessee regiment, I found a private who owns some four hundred acres of most rich and valuable land in the interior of the State, yet I doubt if he can write his own name. The individual whom he salutes as his Captain, is a penniless youth from a Nashville lawyer's office, who, not two years ago, delighted an audience in a New York college by the eloquent rendition of his graduating essay. It is this "species" among the prisoners that are the most vehement in their determination to "fight abolition to the death," and to "contest every inch of ground with the Lincolnites." The unsophisticated privates avow that they entered the field under a mistaken idea of the nature of the war, and expressed their firm determination, should they again reach their "homes and firesides," to pass the remainder of their days as peaceable citizens, under their own vine and fig trees. Not one in ten desires an exchange, until the term for which they are enlisted shall have expired. The [?] of war blew in their ears, and they were too quick in imitating the action of the tiger.

The Nashville papers publish a special dispatch that the rebels have gained a great victory at Boonville, Mo. It says that "Colonels Poindexter and Dorsey met the enemy in greatly superior force and whipped them in three separate battles." The [?] happens to be on the other pedal extremity. Colonel Poindexter's force was routed, horse, foot and dragoon, by Federal cavalry, and a large number of them are now comfortably quartered in the old Penitentiary at Alton. Thus the Secesh keep up their hopes.

This Western land of ours has got an idea that it wants the national highway down the Mississippi opened speedily. It has sent 100,000 men to work out its *road tax* in that quarter. cinnati D[?]

CINCINNATI, FRIDAY EVEN[?]

True Words Fitly Spoken.

We make a short extract from an article in the *New York Tribune* of the 18th inst:

But the Special-interest issue is objected to as creating one currency for soldiers and another for bankers. Let us tear the gizzard out of this claptrap.

We who protest against baseless and boundless shinplasterism deny that the Government need ever have gone to rags at all. Had the war been pushed in November and December as it is in February, and had the patriotism of the people been strongly appealed to for the means of insuring a speedy triumph of the nation, we are confident that one hundred millions per month could have been borrowed at par for at least three months on the 7.30 bonds, and the Treasury thus kept solvent on a basis of specie payment. If was the inexplicable paralysis of the National arms that temporarily destroyed the National credit. Hundreds of thousands who would gladly have lent the Government from $100 to $100,000 each to pay the soldiers of Burnside, Grant and Thomas, the gallant tars of Dupont, Goldsborough and Foote, shut their purses tight on perceiving that what money there was in the Treasury was devoted to paying such commissions as those of George D. Morgan and Wm. H. Aspinwall. Had Congress, on its meeting in December, devoted the first week of the session to reducing its own pay to $1,500 and its mileage to ten cents per mile by the most direct mail route - [and] abolishing the abominable franking nuisance - and proceeded to make similar retrenchments generally had our armies then advanced upon the enemy, and had the Government thereupon appealed to every loyal citizen to contribute all he could to a loan of three hundred millions at par on 7.30 bonds, pledging the country that the sum should be so applied as to use up the rebellion, there would have been no hesitation to supply the money a great deal faster than it could be used. Our slump into shinplasterism is wholly due to official incompetency and imbecility.

But here we are. What is to be done?

We say, cling to the payment of interest on the public debt in specie as our only hope of salvation from a general stagnation of business through a worthless shinplaster currency. A currency based on a National debt whereof the interest is scrupulously paid in coin can depreciate very little.

It is quite as much the interest of the soldier as of the banker that the interest of the public debt shall be inflexibly paid in coin. So long as it is, it is scarcely possible that his $13 per month should not at the worst be convertible into $12 in specie; but let the interest on the bonds be payable in irredeemable paper only, and his $13 will soon be worth but $10 in specie - perhaps less; and though his Treasury notes may be called par, he must pay many more of them for his food and clothes and fuel or his family than if the interest were made payable in coin.

[From the Frankfort Commonwealth.]

MY DEAR REES: I now take my pen in hand for the purpose of holding communion with thee, through the silent medium of pen and paper. I have just learned that the lines are now open as far as Fort Donelson, in Tennessee, and I avail myself, with alacrity, of the opportunity now presented of resuming our correspondence. Your many friends in this section would like to be informed on various topics, for instance:

How are you, any how?

How does "dying in the last ditch" agree with your general health?

How is the "constitution" down your way?

Do you think there is any Government?

How is King Kotting?

Is Yancey well, and able to eat his oats?

When will Buckner take his Christmas dinner in Louisville?

Is Lloyd Tilghman still hanging Union men in the First District?

Is Floyd still "rifling" cannon and other small arms?

How is Pillow's last "ditch," and when will he gratify his numerous friends by "dying" in the same?

How is the "Southern Heart?"

Are you still able to whip five to one?

What is your opinion of the Dutch race?

Did the recognition of the S. Confed. by England and France benefit you much?

Where is the "Provisional Government" of Kentucky, and what is it kept in?

Where is the Louisville-Nashville-Bowlinggreen-Courier now published? Say!

And lastly, what do you think of your selves any how?

A prompt answer will relieve many anxious hearts.

Yours, in a horn, A LINCOLN MAN, UNITED STATES, Feb. 18, 1862.

WILL MEXICO BE CONQUERED? - The New York *World* asks and answers the question by saying, surely not by the twenty or twenty-five thousand that the Allies have combined to throw upon her shores. It says the United States, as official records prove, 73,208 men to conquer a peace from Mexico, and the number of Americans lost by battle and disease exceeded the entire force now dispatched against her. The *World* further states that Europeans, with their wonted inability to judge correctly of events at this continent, have always supposed, since the conquest of Mexico by the United States, that Mexicans can not fight. It has entitled them to believe that General Scott marched to the Mexican capital, not because of any great ability on his part or that of his troops, but because of the cowardice and weakness of the foe. In their jealousy of the Americans, this has been a pleasant belief, but the chances are that this easy credulity will soon cost them dear. The truth is that the Mexican, however unable to govern their country, can yet defend it with tremendous vigor. It cost us harder fighting to bring the Mexicans to terms than has been seen in Europe since the wars of the first Napoleon.

A GOOD IDEA. - The most ingenious contrivance that has yet come to light, as an emanation from the Secession mind, is a telegraphic communication between General Buckner's head quarters at Dover and the different fortifications at Fort Donelson. A wire extended from the head-quarters and through the fort, with batteries at each redoubt and important points. By this means it was calculated that troops could be ordered from place to place with much greater speed than by the usual medium of a courier on horseback; and it is said to have worked admirably during every attack. While the engagement of Saturday was going on General Buckner stood upon a hill in the rear of the fort, viewing every thing through a spy-glass. A telegraphic operator was by his side, with a "pocket instrument" in his hand, and by this means all orders were transmitted from the commanding officer to the troops within the fort.

A PORTABLE PALACE FOR SOUTH AMERICA. Messrs. Spaulding & Rogers, the well known hitherant showmen, of New York, have contracted for the iron work of a portable equestrian palace, with which they will shortly start, on a tour for South America and the West Indies. Although this amphitheater is to comprise forty private boxes, a spacious parquette, and gallery, with spacious chairs and sofas throughout, complete gas fixtures, requisite offices, refectories, and with drawing rooms, and every thing in a style of elaboration to correspond with a building of such pretensions, they hope, by means of the corps of artisans they take with them, to erect this novel structure in three days at each place of destination.

Ladies would make the best distribution of matter, [?]

Columbus, Ohio.

As this point is likely [?] great interest, the following [?] the probable number of r[?] read with much interest.

St. Louis *Republican*:

There is no mistake th[?] dition at Columbus, Kentu[?] pregnable as the engineer[?] the natural topography of[?] country, can make it. Fro[?] we have acquired in relat[?] we should deem it extrem[?] tempt its capture by mere [?] land or naval force, or by [?] if the half that is said of it[?] is capable of a prolonged [?] sistance to any army, less [?] or one hundred and fifty [?] that might be sent to attac[?] however, Columbus can [?] believe, without the neces[?] gun at its formidable wor[?]

In speaking of Columbu[?] fortifications and military[?] which have been construc[?] The town itself is a place o[?] tunes, numbers from one si[?] hundred inhabitants, and [?] ground, sloping gradually [?] It is about twenty miles f[?] by railroad, one hundred[?] above Memphis. The to[?] heavily-timbered region, [?] the north by a range of h[?] along the river, ranging in[?] to seventy-five feet, flank[?] a strip of low land betwee[?] river, which overflows in ti[?] There truth disappear in [?] trees and brushwood upon[?] cut down between the upp[?] and a rifle pit more than [?] The upper intrenchments [?] site the place where the [?] stretched across the rive[?] masked battery is placed. [?] ground is low, wet and m[?] completely overflowed. [?] rifle pit the ground is elev[?] highest bluffs is a strong [?] between twenty and thirt[?] 62 and 32 pounders. In th[?] what south of this fort, in[?] doubt mounting about six [?] eight or ten 12-inch shel[?] this work and the river th[?] principally encamped, an[?] tending from the town no[?] tected by a mortar battery[?] Ohio Railroad enters the [?] lumbus proper through an[?] the space where, in the ci[?] defenses. Another line of[?] tends east from the town, [?] opposite Wolf Island there[?] there are about twenty p[?] There are also other bat[?] fortalices commanding the[?] east, the whole making a[?] from eighty cannon, indep[?] tillery. Scores of acres of[?] felled, forming a heavy a[?] three sides.

The number of the rebel [?] bus at the present time [?] known to any except th[?] right to know. Forty tho[?] that has usually been put [?] reason to believe that thi[?] geration. Indeed, it is [?] there were near as many [?] have supposed, why sou[?] made to reinforce Fort Do[?] of its several trial, Until [?] is offered than the statem[?] parties, we shall be har[?] there were more than tw[?] cession soldiers, if so man[?]

We have spoken of the [?] cial strength of this "Mana[?] the place where, accordin[?] leans *Delta*, if the field b[?] the Confederate cause. [?]

It is stated that a large [?] labor and means that have[?] impede the march of the F[?] Memphis and New Orlean[?] and will fall, and, in cons[?] If not voluntarily evacua[?] vested and starved out, an[?] warning its readers of th[?] how this may be accompl[?] necessary to extend struc[?] nay's Bend, ten miles ab[?] Melbourne, a point twelv[?] river, and thence to Union[?] four miles from the Mobi[?] road, thus cutting off all [?] tion. A successful move[?] Madrid will obtain contro[?] and the only thing then to[?] for the rebels to consume [?] provisions they have at th[?] or come out of their intre[?] against far superior odds.

But we do not think Ge[?] lay until General Grant [?] superstitious character, an[?] Memphis journal has kind[?] better one of General Hall[?] Just now Memphis itself[?] great a peril for the Bish[?] lumbus. He will abando[?] either place and retreat, o[?] and Fort Pillow, and take[?] can conveniently pack up[?] ward the South and beg[?] march. It is even a for[?] whether he will be perm[?] his men in that direction [?] unless his reverence is ver[?] But it will all be develope[?]

A WARNING to Cathol[?]

We find the following in [?] in the last number of the N[?] leading *Catholic Journal*:

We have learned that co[?] superstitious character, a[?] stitious purposes, are [?] among the Catholic peop[?] among the laity, but s[?] ligion, intelligence and co[?] protest against these sup[?] and practices. Surely th[?] vilied prayers enough for[?] and spiritual wants of he[?] igloo trial, no vicissitude, [?] tion of our probationary [?] which suitable prayers ar[?] in the beautiful ritual of th[?] *But the use of any prayer[?] or wearing it about the per[?] and as such the Church K[?] and prohibited such degrad[?] is not faith*, (though it ma[?] faith), it is superstition, [?] practices can never do [?] Nothing can be more silly[?] the use of these prayers [?] ail such things are a dis[?] and give our enemies a [?] they are not slow to avail[?] instead of throwing the b[?] due, on the knavery of [?] cost such gross trash, and [?] superstition of others wh[?] than to adopt and make u[?] enies of religion pande[?] world as so many proofs[?] Nation. We earnestly e[?] therefore, to put no faith[?]

If Buckner raised the b[?] diers should have complet[?] seing them, to furnish the[?] Divine, for the benefit of hi[?]

PARLIAMENTARY COURT[?] amendment to a bill in def[?] to reconsider, it is taken [?]

Nearly the last feat sc[?] Bowling Green rebels, w[?] Cavalry in burning a chu[?] [?] Daily [?]

[?]RIDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 21, 1862.

Columbus, Kentucky.

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A Warning to Catholic Soldiers.

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PARLIAMENTARY COURTESIES. - [?]

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BY TELEGRA[?]

NIGHT DISPATCH[?]

CLARKSVILLE T[?]

Large Amount of Supplies[?]

PRICE MAKES A STAN[?] DEFEATED,[?]

ST. LOUIS, February 20. - [?]

Interesting from Mexico and th[?] Havana.

NEW YORK, February 20. - [?]

Later from Burnside's Ex[?]

FORTRESS MONROE, Februa[?]

The Killed and Wounded at[?]

WASHINGTON, February 20. - [?]

Bridge Burners Excepted - The[?] of Columbus - Probable Advan[?] phis[?]

ST. LOUIS, February 20. - [?]

Washington Railroad Con[?]

WASHINGTON, February 20. - [?]

Trade Not Allowed on the No[?]

WASHINGTON, February 20. - [?]

The Pursuit of Price - Union[?] Arkansas.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo, February [?]

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``` y Press. ARY 21, 1862. NUMBER

Y TELEGRAPH IGHT DISPATCHES: ARKSVILLE TAKEN! e Amount of Supplies Captured! UM MAKES A STAND AND IS DEFEATED.

ST. LOUIS, February 20. - General Halleck [?]

esting from Mexico and the South via Havana. NEW YORK, February 20. - The steamer [?]

Killed and Wounded at Roanoke. WASHINGTON, February 20. - A dispatch [?]

e Burners Reprieved - The Evacuation of Columbus - Probable Advance on Mem- [?] ST. LOUIS, February 20. - General Halleck [?]

Washington Railroad Convention. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 - Delegates from [?]

Not Allowed on the Southern Coast. WASHINGTON, February 20. - Numerous ap- [?]

Pursuit of Price - Union Feeling in Arkansas. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., February 19. - It is not [?]

McClellan Urged to Make a Move NEW YORK, Feb. 20. - Specials [?] [?]

Death of Colonel Dudley. LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 20. - Col. [?] [?]

Acts Against the Coolie Trade WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. - The President [?]

Letter About Senator Wade Hon. M. C. Hills, Representative [?] WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, Hon. M. C. Hills : DEAR SIR : Yours of the 24th inst [?]

A Yeas-Called Post [?] The New York Evening Post, with [?] Yours truly, H. G. BL[?]

RECESS OF THE LEGISLATURE. - On [?]

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NUMBER 146

[?] Urged to Make a Movement. [?], Feb. 20. - Specials state that [?] Wade and Andy Johnson had an [?] with Gen. McClellan yesterday, [?] the necessity of action with the [?] e Potomac as well as in the West.

Death of Colonel Dudley. [?], Ky., Feb. 20. - Dr. Ethelbert [?] a citizen of this place, and Colonel [?] wenty-first Kentucky Regiment, [?] yphoid fever, this afternoon, at [?] Kentucky, where his regiment is [?]

[?] Against the Coolie Trade. [?]ron, Feb. 20. - The President has [?] he bill to prohibit the Coolie trade [?] citizens and American vessels.

[?]er About Senator Wade. [?] C. Hills, Representative in the [?] Assembly from Medina County, [?] e various statements from Wash- [?] lative to the relations of Hon. [?] Wade with President Lincoln, [?] nt subject, wrote to Hon. H. G. [?] information, and received the fol-

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 1862. Hills: [?] Yours of the 24th inst. came [?] and contents noted. I am [?] surprised at the statements of [?] in regard to what men say of [?] Wade. I know not what men [?] them they say that Mr. Wade is [?] if they mean that he is [?] has no weight of character and [?] tion, I can only express my utter [?] at such lying.

[?] le is the most active, untiring, [?] man in the United States Senate. [?] s of more influence in that body [?] other than there. He is in the [?] friendly relations with [?], the latter sending for him [?] to consult on the conduct of the [?] as a firm and decided friend of [?] istration, and is doing all he can [?] the rebellion and aid the Gov- [?], I can only express my utter [?] tie being true that Mr. Wade [?] his fist in the President's face, [?] him a "d - d fool," is simply a [?] any thing to make it out of. [?] Senator or Representative that [?] of more intimate friendly rela- [?] the President than Mr. Wade; [?] no man in either branch of the [?] department of the Government [?] ed on more, and consulted so [?] the Administration as he is. He [?] personal friend of the Hon. E. [?], the Secretary of War, and be- [?] fore the appointment of Mr. Stan- [?] sent his carriage to Mr. Wade's [?] ouse to have him come and see [?] onsultation on matters relating to [?] before breakfast, and after nine [?] the evening. The fact is, Mr. Wade is [?] tive hero of this war; and at a [?] this, when our country needs the [?] our wisest men, to assist in sav- [?] overnment, sustaining the Con- [?] and preserving the Union, it would [?] shame and disgrace to throw [?] out of Mr. Wade's ability, experi- [?] acknowledged energy!

[?] egislature could most effectually [?] bellion, if it desired, by the elec- [?] Mr. Wade. I know of but two [?] men here who oppose the election [?] ade; 1st, The traitors; and, 2nd, [?] Generals in the army who reason- [?] the war, on peace princi- [?], keep doing so with the [?] reds of millions of dollars to the [?] no fighting.

truly, H. G. BLAKE.

A [?]-Called War. [?] York Evening Post, with all its [?] [?]

[?] OF THE LEGISLATURE. - On Friday [?] egislature took a recess until Tues- [?] pay of the members and officers - [?] to $600 per day - suffered no abate- [?] here. It is, probably, perfectly [?] the recess was taken. It may be, [?] rity of the present members will [?] returned to the Legislature at the [?] and, therefore, it is well enough that [?] wear their legislative honors as [?] convenient may be. The intima- [?] work, and the precipitancy with [?] they have been doing it, incline us [?] tion that they should have two [?] weeks each. - Chillicothe Advertiser.

[?] Now. - A mass occurred at the Le- [?] use, Davenport, a few days ago, [?] watchman and one of the misses [?] deceased. The mischievous [?] the habit of teasing the watchman, [?] ricks on him, and even managing [?] hine. Watchy got indignant at [?] Miss down, and shocked her. [?] her assault, but the complaint on [?] were dismissed. [?]

ADVERTISEMENT[?] Inserted at the Following Rat[?] TERMS, CASH. One insertion.........................[?] 19 insertions.........................[?] Larger advertisements inserted at the follow[?] rates per square or two lines[?] One insertion.........................[?] Each additional [?]...................[?] [?] insertions..........................[?]

SEWING MACHINES.

WHEELER & WILSON'S SEWING MACHINE[?] Awarded the First Premium as The Best Family Sewing Machin[?] For three successive years, at the U. S. FAIR[?] For five successive years, at THE OHIO STATE FAIR For three successive years, at THE CINCINNATI MECHANICS' FAIR Office, No. 77 West Fourth-s[?] ja25-tf PIKE'S OPERA-HOUSE

SEWING MACHINE[?] - AT - GREAT BARGAINS. WE HAVE TEN FIRST-CLASS Sewing Machines Particularly adapted to the MANUFACTURE - OF - Army Clothing, etc. etc., Which we will sell AT GREATLY-REDUCED PRICE[?] Call at our store and see them. NIXON, CHATFIELD & WOODS Nos. 77 and 79 Walnut-street. [de6]

NEW ARRIVAL - OF - Williams & Orvis Improved Noiseless Double-thread $25 FAMILY SEWING MACHINE[?]

THE INCREASED DEMAND FO[?] these UNRIVALED MACHINES has call[?] for a large increase of our stock, and we have now [?] the oddest and blouse, vast and cheap makers [?] this city to call and see a Machine for their inspec[?] no MORE WORK, in less time, and DO IT BE[?] TER, than any other in this market. Samples of heavy and light work, with circular[?] forwarded on application at our Central Office [?] West, [?] 126 W. FOURTH ST., CINCINNATI, (Commercial Building), or de-tf No. 323 Washington-st., Boston.

SPRING STOCK OF PIANOS. - I am [?] now receiving my spring stock [?] of Pianos, bought exclusively for cash; and I am now prepared to of[?] fer greater bargains for cash than have ever been offered in this city. [?] for Lighte & Bradbury's, Wm. Knabe & Co.'s, [?] Hallet, Davis & Co.'s, and other good makes. Re[?] member the number - 72 West Fourth-st. C. M. MURCH[?] Old Pianos taken in exchange for new. [de-tf]

PIANOS FOR RENT! PIANOS FOR [?] I have the largest stock [?] of Pianos for rent in this city, and at the lowest price per quarter; and [?] will rent and let the rent pay for the [?] Piano, at 72 West Fourth-st. C. M. MURCH[?] Old Pianos taken in exchange for new. [de-tf]

500 VOICES Daily testify to the sterling worth of Ludlum's Specific Paste, THE ONLY CERTAIN CURE FO[?] PRIVATE DISEASES. Price $1. Can b[?] sent by post any where for six three-cent stamps Orders strictly confidential. Sold, wholesale and retail, by DAVIDSON & BRO., Druggists, [?] corner Fourth and Main-sts. Market-place, N. E. cor. Fifth and Main-sts., fa15 Cincinnati

HEAD-QUARTERS - MILITARY MEN AND SUTLERS WILL SAVE MONEY BY PURCHASIN[?] THEIR GOODS AT THE New Rubber Store SOLE WESTERN AGENCY For the Sale of the Patent COMBINATION CAMP COT FENWICK & CO[?] No. 56 West Fourth-st., OSITE CARLISLE BLOCK

BATHING-ROOMS AND GYMNASIU[?] Warm, cold shower and Plunge Baths. Roo[?] open from four in the morning until ten at night[?] Membership for one year.......[?] [?] Apply to L. NORTON, Secretary, at the L[?] Bank or at the Gymnasium.

Soldiers' Back Pay. I WILL GIVE PROMPT ATTENTIO[?] to procuring the back pay of soldiers who ha[?] claims against the United States. Also, in proc[?] ing pensions for those who have been wound[?] while in the army, and for widows whose husba[?] have been killed while in the service. FRANKLIN HALLIDAY, United States Commissioner. de-tf Office in Clinton-house CINCINNATI, Dec. 9, 1861.

Home Demand a Sure Test. CINCINNATI, November 2, 186[?] MR. J. J. [?] BUTLER, AGENT, 29 WE[?] STREET. - Please send us the [?] more [?] Pens ordered by us on the [?] of Octob[?] ink, and much obliged. ROBERT CLARKE & CO., Wholesale Stationers FAY'S TAGS HERE, MERCHANT[?]

Book Papers. ALL THE REGULAR SIZES, FRE[?] for sale by NIXON, CHATFIELD & W[?] Nos. 77 and 79 Walnut-st[?]

THE WEEKLY PRESS[?] [?] the Cincinnati [?] and Weekly [?] [?] Local, and a fortnightly Summary of Bu[?] elsewhere, up to the hour of going to pres[?] For sale at the Counting-room. Price [?] copy. RTISEMENTS

the Following Rates

RMS, CASH.

not exceeding five lines (agate)s [?] insertions.......[?] [?]1 [?]|[?] Insertions...........[?] [?]

ments inserted at the following r square of ten lines:

[?], [?]|[?] Insertions...........[?] [?] [?] Insertions...........[?] [?]

G MACHINES.

[?]

R & WILSON'S

G MACHINES

the First Premium as

mily Sewing Machine

successive years, at the

. FAIR.

ve years, at THE OHIO STATE FAIR years, at CINNATI MECHANICS' FAIR

77 West Fourth-st.

PIKE'S OPERA-HOTEL.

[?]

G MACHINES - AT - T BARGAINS.

E TEN FIRST-CLASS

s Machines

larly adapted to the

UFACTURE - OF -

othing, etc. etc.,

hich we will sell

Y-REDUCED PRICES.

r store and see them.

ATFIELD & WOODS,

nd 79 Walnut-street. [de6]

ARRIVAL - OF -

ms & Orvis'

oiseless Double-thread

$25

EWING MACHINE.

ASED DEMAND FOR ARD MACHINES has called of our stock, and we now invite hlome, and and dross makers of [?] a s a Machine for $25 that has in less time, and DO IT BET- er in the market.

, and light work, with circulars, neral Ofilcation at our Central Office for

TH ST., CINCINNATI, (Commercial Building), or 393 Washington-st., Boston.

CK OF PIANOS. - I AM my spring stock exclusively for prepared to of- for such than red in the city. lbury's, Wm. Knabe & Co.'s, or s, and other good makes. Re- er in the market. C. M. MURCH, ir - 73 West Fourth-st. in exchange for new. fe15

RENT! PIANOS FOR the largest stock this city, and at her quarter; or if rent pay for the Fourth-st. C. M. MURCH, in exchange for new. fe15

VOICES

y to the sterling worth of

s Specific Paste,

ERTAIN CURE FOR RRASES. Price $1. Can be hers for six three-cent stamps. dential. and retail, by B & B&O., Druggists. uccessors to G. B. Lassa E. cor. Fifth and Main-sts., Cincinnati.

QUARTERS.

MEN AND SUTLERS

MONEY BY PURCHASING GOODS AT THE

ubber Store,

WESTERN AGENCY

Sale of the Patent

TION CAMP COT!

VICE & CO.,

West Fourth-st.,

OSITE CARLISLE BLOCK.

OOMS AND GYMNASIUM

wer and Plunge Baths. Rooms the morning until ten at night. s per year....................$

TON, Secretary, at the [?] mnasium.

ors' Back Pay.

E PROMPT ATTENTION [?]y of soldiers who have n United States. Also, in prosecu- [?]lions who have been wounded [?] hile in the service HARKLEY HAIGHDAY, United States Commissioner, Office in Custom-house. [?] 8, 1861.

emand a Sure Test.

CINCINNATI, November 2, 1861 PTLER, AGENT, 33 WEST- [?]nces sent us 128 South Fourth KARTOLIS TO THE PUBLIC lings ROBERT CLARKE & CO., Wholesale Stationers, N. REMEMBER. [?]

ok Papers.

REGULAR SIZES, FROM ity to the cheapest, on hand and OR, CHATFIELD & CO., [?]77 and 79 Walnut-st.

LY FRESH NOW ARE here of the Week, [?] Telegraphic Summary of Events [?]s hour of going to press. [?]orating crops. Price [?] cents.