The national Republican., 1861-04-02
NEWS LIE MS.

lhOmaS hayran, IN eHhnpO county, j eir.,
blew out his brains on Monday, because his
Robert Brisbane, an American sailor from
Portland, Me-. was murdered at midnight, some
weeks ago, in the streets of Lisbon, Portugal,
by two unknown rutlians.
A eunuch, in Constantinople, recently mur.
dered four of the feminine inmates Of harem,
because they had caused him to be severely
punished.
Peter O'Rainey, after being on six weeks
spree in New York, drank pint of whisky at
a draught, on Tuesday, aud died in an hour.
On Tuesday George ClaAin hanged himself
with his handkerchief, near Albany, New York,
because his wife had owned to him her love for
another man.
A large salmon was caught in the Hudson
river near Albany, N. Y, day or two ago, and
a silver watch found in its stomach.
In Quebec, Ca, on the 22d inst, Michael
Quagman, while eating fish, was choked to
death by a bone.
A runaway negro girl was found dead near
Farmvlle. Va, few days since, nearly eaten
up by buzzards.
Mrs. ]. A. Farra was burned to death re-
Gently in De Soto county, Miss by her clothes
taking fire from o stove.
Mrs. Catharine Oberry died in Vienna, Aus
tria, on the 23d ult, aged ll9 years.
The Pensacola correspondent Of the New
Orleans Della says: "The appearances Of
things in the villages of Warrington and Wool.
sey are gloomy; fully one.half the stores are
closed, the store.keepers having left for New
Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, and other places,
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are one-half of them deserted, the occupants
having left to avoid 'Lincoln's bombardment'
of the place. Indeed it is q remarkable fact
that not one Of the old creole population but
has not packed his furniture aud proceeded
some miles into the woods to avoid the war;"
The Little Rock Gazette furnishes the vote
in the late election in that State. The Union
vote was 23,626; Secession, 1922; Union ma.
j'oS.ia.y a 1893. The Gazette says that probably
10000 did not turn out at the election. The
vote for the Convention stood 27,4l2; against
it, 5,s26; majority for Convention, l,5s6.
The State Convention, before its adjourn.
ment, elected the Hon. Albert Rust, E. A. War.
ren, James p. Spring, Thomas l.. Bradley,
and =. II. Hampstead, as Commissioners to the
proposed border slave State Convention.
The army appropriation bill, which passed
the United STATES Congress at the close Of the
session, contains an appropriation Of $l56,000
though Florida had, with all possible formality,
declared herself out Of the Union some weeks
before, she will, no doubt send on a commits.
sioner to Washington to claim the cash.-Lou.
isuille Journal.
At a religious meeting of negroes in Syra.
| cuse, N. Y, on Sunday, Mrs. Ienson spoke
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excitement. As she sat down, she shouted,
Blessed Jesus " and immediately fell into
trance, in which she died in about two hours
a1sr. She had previously been entirely healthy.
In Georgia, the price of brandy has advanced
to fifteen cents 6 lass, in the bsr.rooms, in con.
sequence of the new Southern tariff on import.
ed liquors. This is hitting the fire eaters in the
| vulnerable point, and taxing the chief element
that secession feeds upon.
| A bear was killed in Winhall, N. Y, recent.
ly, by Paul Robbins, who was getting spruce
gum. His dog began to bark at hole in the
snow, and Robbins, seeing something black,
| fired his fowling.piece at it, which brought out
bear instead of hedgehog, which he expect.
ed 40 see. Robbins, the bear, and the dog,
rods, till Robbins got q stroke at the bears
Some of the Charlestonians, happy in the
thought of getting rid of Major Anderson,
were anxious to offer him public dinner. The
Major said he would not 60 to Charleston at all
if he could help it, and certainly would not &C.
cept Of any public entertainment.
The Paris papers publish telegraphic an.
nouncements from Beyrout, which state that the
Christians of Damascus are again undergoing
insults and provocations from the Mussulmaus.
Consular reports, it is said, confirm the fears
that the Christians are in serious danger.
A Plymouth (Eng.) paper states that it has
received reliable information to the effect that
the murder at Road House, committed in May
of last year, has been confessed by Miss Con.
stance Kent, the sister Of, the murdered child.
The report requires confirmation.
The cial census of the United States, which
has just been announced, makes the population
81 l,429,S9l of these, 3,952,sOl are slaves.
Charlotte Cushman takes great interest in
the young debutante, Miss Kellogg, thinking she
discerns in the pretty prima donna all the ele.
ments Of great actress.
Frank Cross, about sixteen years of age, of
Gloucester, Massachusetts, hung himself, Fri.
day night, in his employers store.
Several young ladies, and young men in fe
male apparel, residing in the neighborhood of
Liverpool, Westmoreand county, Pa, we're re.
Gently taken before a magistrate, upon the
complaint Of young man residing in the
town, who alleged that the defendants, while
returning from u prayer meeting, threw him
down, and, having daubed him with tar, ap.
piled feathers. The young ladies stated that
he had made use of offensive language con.
cerning them. The matter was arranged by
the payment of small fine and costs.
MODERATE DRINKING IN WAsHIYGToN's DAY.
G. W. Curtis, in his recolections of Washing
ton, gives a copy of a contract in Washnston's
own hand, between Geo. Washington and Phil.
ip Barton, his gardener. After the usual clause,
it provides that the said Barton "wil not at
any time suffer himself to be disguised with