The national Republican., 1861-03-08
N E W EN- 8.

2s, 1859.
NEWS ITEMS.
W. NJ. Browne, late editor of the Washing.
ton Constitution, has been appointed Assistant
Secretary of State of the Southern Confeder.
acy.
Fourteen companies have been regularly
mustered into the service of the State Of Mis-.
sissippi, under the new military law-twelve Of
infantry, one Of artillery, and one Of cavalry.
The California Legislature, by q vote of Al
to 32 have expunged the resolutions Of censure
formerly passed against the late Senator Brod.
erick.
Judge Black will not leave Washington for
the present. He remains on private and pro.
fessional business, and will probably continue
10 practice law here.
A German pedlar was found murdered near
Mortonville, Delaware, few days since.
The French distillers are making brandy
out of COAL
The Kansas Relief Committee report the re.
ceipt of $l0,382.36 for the week ending March
lst Mr.. A. Merwin acknowledges the receipt
of $6596O for Syria, since the subscription
closed.
Among the resolutions passed by the late
Congress were one authorizing Captain William
L. Hudson, of the United States navy, to &C.
cept diamond brooch, for his wife, presented
to her by the Emperor Of Russia one author.
izing W. q. Smiley, United States commercial
agent at the Falkland Islands, to receive tel
escope rendered him by the Belgian Govern.
inent one authorizing Lieut. 7. A. NJ. Craven,
United States navy, to receive certain marks
Of distinction rendered to him by tho Spanish
Government one authorizing Commodore h.
Paulding to accept q sword from the Govern.
ment Of Nicaragua.
The Galveston (Texas) News says that the
property seized by the Texas troops at San An.
tonic amounted to $55,000 in specie, 81, 900
stand Of arms, 26 pieces Of mounted artillery,
A pieces of dismounted artillery, any quantity
Of ammunition and other munitions of war, and
q large collection of horses, mules, wagons,
forage, etc.
San Francisco has recently been visited by
great food, washing down such quantities of
sand that some Of the sewers have caved In,
and the others are so clogged up that they are,
for the time, quite useless. A brick wall in
front of house in Stockton street, above
Greenwich, fell with great crash, but fortu.
nately injured no one.
Father Griffon, Catholic priest, whose
horse died under him on the great morass
plains, British Columbia, and who lay freezing
and famishing for FIVE days before be was found
and convcyedto place Of safety, has since had
one of his legs amputated below the knee, but
is now rapidly recovering.
While skating on pond near Westville, on
Thursday, son of Mr.. Zephsniah Hodges
broke through the ice, where water was eight
feet deep. His mother saw him from her win.
dow, and his aunt, Miss Louisa Robinson, ran
to the pond, plunged in, seized the boy, and
kept his head above the water with one hand,
while she broke the ice with the other, SO as to
get him into shallow water. A Mr.. Bullock came
to her assistance, and succeeded in bringing
both to dry land, but in o benumbed and ex.
hausted condition.
On Friday evening, a lady entered store
iu New York, for the purpose Of making
purchases, when she accidentally trod upon
match, which ignited, and the flames communi.
Gated to her under garments. The lady did
not perceive that her clothing was on fire, sup
posing that the warmth proceeded from the
register, until some persons in the rear Of the
store discovered the fact, rushed to her assist
ance, and extinguished the flames. She was
but slightly injured.
A Madison (wisconsin) paper relates, that
| bOMc way cutCEcu tuc hbScIuUly CubmDer In6
other morning, and set the clock ahead about
forty minutes. 1t was the intention to hold
session Of about one hour, but as the members
entered they glanced at the clock, and instead
of taking their seats, broke for the depot, leav.
ing the Assembly in a short time without
quorum.
They have singular weather at Salem, Mas.
sachusetts. The Salem Observer says: "Blue
birds made their appearance this week, and
on Wednesday turtles were singing in the
swamps. On the same day we noticed GRO.
cuses above ground in warm spot, though not
in bloom. At the same time the ice at Lake
Wenham was foot or more in thickness"
The VoTE IN TENNESSEE. - The vote in
Tennessee for and against State Convention,
to give an expression of the opinion Of the peo.
pie on the present position of our national af'
fairs, is thus classified:
East Tennessee, comprising twenty.eight
couptes, voted: For Convention, 1900;
against Convention, 32,547.
Middle Tennessee, comprising thirty.three
counties, for Convention, 26,439; against,
1885.
West Tennessee comprising eighteen coun.
ties, for Convention, POLLY; against, 6,9ls.
Recspitulated, the vote was
Against Convention 67,360
For Convention 54,l56
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