The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-23

large company Of hshionsble and aristocratic
people Of Harrisburg and Altoona recently ira
yelled lO8 miles in their ball dresses to attend y
ball; but it was by railroad.
| Israel Donaldson, of Adams county, Ohio, is
the only surviving member Of the convention that
framed the constitution Of that State.
The New York Day Book quotes paragraph
from the Tribune, and commences reply to it in
| the following words: s'That is false Mr. Gree
ley knew it was false when he wrote it, He
wrote it because it was false, and published it ON
purpose to mslead and deceive. !" The Tribune
commences an article by saying: ''The New
York Times is not among those journals from
which we expect honesty, manliness, or candor.
Courteous gentlemen, those New York editors.
The third house of the New York Legislature-
the lobby-is the uppermost Of the three, and
aspres to be council for the Executive also; or
so it is said. N
How shameful that they should cut down the
wonderfully large trees in California.
It is regretted by writer ON the rapping spirits
that many Of them appear to be inveterate in the
habit of stealing middling poetry, already printed
here, and rapping it out as their own composition,
while others cherish still more excePtionable
tendency to concoct very poor doggrel and pass
it off as the illusions of Byron, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, &c. z
The New Bedford STANDARD says, the six whale
ships which have arrived at that port since Satnr-
day morning brought home 9,09a barrels of whale
OIL and 3770 barrels of sperm oil, the aggregate
value Of which is $3.50 200. This is exclusive of
the oil and bone sent home ON the voyage, or the
bone on board.
Why have they not life-boats and ropes, and
men trained to manage them, at Niagara This
is the question.
They have English opera at Niblo's, in New
York. Thillon, Frazer, Hudson, and Leech, are
doing we'll We rejoice to hear it-the news, we
mean. Would that we could hear the music.
We'd face it any night. ....,...
Counterfeiting three-cent pieces is said to be a
small business. So it is; but what do you think
of ofhce-huIfting.
A contemporary says it don't believe in the
water-cure, and gives as a reason: There Is
Mr. -, (namng a noted political editor,) he
has been lying IN his damp sheet for twenty years,
and he s worse now than ever"
Judge Douglas, of the United States Senate,
was at Florence on the Oath of June last, and just
about setting off for Egypt.
81 met Lord Ellesmere and his party at Mag
ara the other day, writes a. correspondent OF the
Home Journal 81 knew the ladies' were persons
of distinction the moment ] saw them, because
they wore no iewelry, or any other ornament
whatever"
1t is said that Madame Sontag has cleared
cool 100000 in this country.
The New York True National democrat afnrms
it as a fact that the mlk-men Of that city, whose
carriages are labelled "Pure Orange County
Milk,'' pour pals full of water into their milk
every morning, and to conceal the fact in the
appearance of the milk, mix with it white pow
der of known poisonous qualities.
Mrs. Kimmick, at Cincinnati, placed her milk
in the front yard for the milk-man to pour the
milk in. He did SO, and some kind neighbor added
a quantity of arsenic Six persons, all of the fam
lily, except one child, were thus poisoned.
Ephraim Cutler, well known to all the early
settlers of Ohio, and especially in the Muskingum
Valley, recently died at his residence in Warren,
Washington county, aged eighty-seven years
Judge Cutler was a member of the first Constitu-
tional Convention of Ohio. He is the last of that
body which ushered Ohio into the confederacy.
His father was Rev. Manassah Cutler, whose
name is familiar to Ohio history us one of the
original propretors of the Ohio Company. The
title of Judge was given him from having been
an associate Judge of Washington county. He
represented his county in the Legislature and his
district in Congress.
HENRY WARD BEEcnER sweeps up poetical
flower, occasionally with his broad scythe-swath.
He said the other day, in the Independent, that
the sweet briar was "a country cousin of the
rose.'
How romantic young people are when they
court! Till girls got married, all they think ne
cessary to happiness are moonlight evenings,
few hollyhocks, and brd-cage, surrounded by
honeysuckles and grapovines Boston Journal