The national Republican., 1861-03-29
NEWS ITEMS.

changed to Camp Crlttenden.
The rumor that Garibald is going to marry
an English marchioness is unfounded.
Thornton Hunt, the son of Leigh Hunt and
editor of the London Chronicle, who was re.
Gently in this country, is engaged upon vol.
ume, giving his ideas Of what he saw and learn.
cd while here.
Collins, a Mississippi wood. chopper, has,
within few years, realized over 100000 by
selling wood to steamboats,.
The Rome (Ga.) Southerner says:
"a few day ago, four wealthy planters from
Maryland, one owning hundred slaves, passed
through this place, on their way to Alabama,
to purchase plantations, with the intention Of
settling in the Confederate States"
The London Spectator in an article on the
emancipation of serfs in Russia, consummated
on the Sd of the present month, predicts, as one
Of the necessary results of the movement, the
temporary extinction of Russian aristocracy.
This body, numbering in the aggregate about
one hundred thousand Shareholders, derive al
most ell their wealth from the serfs they pos.
sess.
There is now pending before the Virginia
Legislature q proposition to remove the re-
mains Of Gen. Lee from Cumberland Island,
Georgia, to his native State, Virginia. He died
in lSl8 at the 1euse of Mrs. Shaw, a grand.
daughter of General Nathaniel Greene, on Cum
berand Island.
Kink, who was arrested not long since at Ok.
ford, Ind., for the murder of DR.. J. H. Rowe,
who stopped all night at Kinks tavern, has been
released, owing to the temperance of the sup.
posed victim. Kink extensively advertised his
arrest, and besought Rowe to "turn up" and
prove his Innocence, and Rowe, seeing the no.
tice, confessed. Another proof of the efficacy
of advertising.
The deaths in St. Louis, NO., last week, mum.
bered ffty.eight, Of which thirty.seven were
children five years Of age and under.
Mrs. Amanda Stafford, of Kent county, Nd,
was so seriously burned by fluid lamp re.
Gently, that she died in great agony.
The Lynchburg Vrginian characterizes the
late unwarrantable proceedings in the case of
Mr.. Crook, the mail agent, as mob terrorism"
and says the rights of citizen have been shame
fully outraged.
The Detroit Advertiser says: "Our advices
from all parts OF the State are to the effect that
the wheat crop is entirely uninjured by the
frosts, and that everywhere farmers are san
gune Of another abundant harvest"
We have been told that the Southern fifteen
million loan had all been taken but it now ap.
pears that it hasn't even been in market, and
will not be until the l7th Of April, and then
only five millions of it.
A man named John Meyer was killed in
Charleston, S. c., on Friday, by Daniel Rouse
and wife, who crushed his skull with stick Of
wood
John Lewis, vagrant, was beaten to death
last week, in the Allegheny county PENN Jail,
by cell.mate, Andrew McMullen, notorious
ruthan.
An affray occurred in Montgomery, Alabama,
on Thursday, between Risnd Pollard and Isaac
Watson, in which the former received mortal
| wound.
William Steele was shot dead by his brother
George, in St. Louis, Missouri, night or two
ago, while the latter was endeavoring to take
pistol from deceased.
| A disease, known as the spotted fever, pre-
walls to considerable extent at Harrisburg
and in Lebanon county. 1t has proved fatal in
a number OF instances, recently.
| Mrs. Veronica Knauer, young married wo
man, hanged herself in New Orleans, on Sat-
urday, because her husband had chastised her
for infideity.
John Birringer, a German, living near String
town, Ind, on Sunday night, committed suicide
by shooting himself
woman in Charleston, s. c., few nights
ago, had three children at birth. Charleston
continues to be port of delivery.
| The Charlestonians recently wanted Unita
rian minister who would preach secession, but
after various efforts, were compelled to take o
Methodist.
Advices from Yucatan to the 7th ultimo
state that the Indians in that country are being
seized and sold into bondage in the island OF
Cuba.
A deaf man named Taft was run down by
passenger train and killed, the other morn.
ing, half a mile north of Greenwich Station,
near Cleveland.
A young man, Michael Gleason, was killed
at Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday, by Robert
Poole, who was arrested and examined.
1t is rumored that Governor Wise is preparing
FIVE days speech, to be delivered in the Con.
venton.
Thomas S. Davidson, clerk of the Hastings
| Court, was acquitted before the Circuit Court
at Danville, (Va.) on Tuesday, upon the
charge Of shooting and killing Joshua Young,
in street alteration, last fall
Private accounts from New Mexico represent
that the Texas special commissioner has met
with little if any success in his secession ef
forts in that Territory, and the prospect is not
encouraging.
The Somerset (Md.) Union says, Fears are
entertained that the oat crop, seeded in Feb
ruary, in that county, has been injured by the
weather."
An habitual drunkard, Mary Ann Corrigan,
fell headlong, in going out Of her house, at
Rochester, on Saturday, and was taken up
dead.
G. W. Smith closed his tea store and eloped
from New Haven, Conn, on Monday, with an