The national Republican., 1861-07-12

haye arrived at Msrtinsburg last Monday morn
inc. Il embraces the seventh Pennsylvania
regiment, ninth New York, second and third
Wisconsin, third New Hampshire, and first
Pennsylvanis. The whole numbering some
1000.
~ The grand jury of the United States dis
:rict court sitting in Baltimore, has found bills
Of Indictment for treason against John Merry.
man, Samuel Mactier, Lewis Bitter, James
Mccartney, Philip Cssmire, Michael Hooper,
and Richard b. Mitchell.
vrRoN1A SKsAroRs.-By the Legislature in
session at Wheeling, on the 9Th, John ). Car
lie, Of Harrison county, was unanimously
elected United States Senator for the long
term, in place of R. NJ. T. Hunter, and Wait.
man F. Wiley, Of Monongshela, in place J. M.
Mason, for the short term.
~Letters were received in Washington, on
Tuesday, from persons at Richmond who Gem.
braced an opportunity that had just occurred
What opportunity The bearer Of the flag Of
truce arrived on Monday night, but surely he
was not permitted to distribute private letters.
~within the past ten days, nineteen places
have been vacated iu the Patent Office in con.
sequence Of the diminished revenues Of that
Office. Among the persons removed were two
principal examiners, Messrs. Foreman and
Henry, and three assistant examiner, Messrs
Shaw, Shugert, and Reed.
~If the present wsr shall terminate with
out the annihilstion Of slavery in the United
States, European observers will be disappoint
ed. 1t is for the South to determine whether
it shall have such termination. II it shall con.
tinue many months it can have no other, what.
ever may be the present designs Of the Govern
ment or the purposes Of the people.
o. JENNINGS WIsE.-The retreat Of this EN-
inent worthy from Ripley, the shire town Of
jackson county, is confirmed.
COLONEL SnGrL.-This officer 10 held in
very high esteem by General Lyon. He has
served a. an officer in the European armies.
He is about forty.two years of age. Gentlemen
from Missouri, now here, speak of him in the
highest terms.
CAvALRT CoxIso.--We learn that Young's
Kentucky cavalry, 1900 strong, have been or
dered to break camp, at Camp Peyton, near
Philadelphia, and repair to this city. The
Government have determined to purchase the
horses, which are now owned by the members
Of the regiment, and, at the same time, to fur.
nish them their entire equipment and uniforms.
The several companies are now in different
uniforms, one or two of them having dash
ing hussar rig. They are all to have the cav
airy uniform of the regular service.
~A worthy old citizen, who has of late
lost some Of the repose to which he is by ma
tsre aud by natures God entitled, remarked to
US yesterday that he thought NO generous or
even honest man could so far forget the rights
of-others as TO keep dog in G city. In the
daytime our canine population seem to be but
q few hundreds; in the night, the swelling
chorus impresses us with the conviction that it
amounts to tens Of thousands. The corpora.
ton revenue for dogs license is very large, or
the enforcement of the ordinance in the case
10 shamefully neglected.
The effort of Mr.. Lovejoy, of Illinois, to drag
the slavery question into the debates Of SEES
sion convened purely to transact business, was
a. untimely as it was indiscreet. The country
will insist that the halls Of Congress are not
the proper place, just now, to trot out the ne
gro.-Atbdny Erening Journal, 9th.
Mr.. Lovejoy's resolution, to which the Jour.
nal takes exception, was simply that the officers
and soldiers of our troops now in arms to de-.
fend the Republic, should not be employed in
catching runaway negroes. In other words,
that the Federal forces should not be used to
"trot in "or "trot out "the negro" The
Journal, we know, would not have us be told
that CONGRESSES entire business should be SO to
sct that the contractors and army-place seek
ers should be solely cared for in its legislation
~ We learn that B. F. Kendall, Esq, has
received the appointment of Superintendent of
Indian Affairs in Washington Territory. This
u an excellent selection, and happily termi.
mates O long contest which has been going on
inregasd to appointments in that Territory.
Mr.. Kendall is q man of excellent business
ability and good sense, of culture and of force,
and integrity of character. His long residence
in the Territory, no less than his general ca
pacity, ct him for the place, which is a most
important one. He is graduate of Bowdoin
College, (l852,) and is, we bslieye, native of
Maine, or of one of the New England States.
We chronicle this appointment with the more
pleasure, because, as will happen in our poll
tics, stupid, persevering, and sometimes servils
men, are more likely to obtain place than
those of fine native parts and generous culture.
SAD ACCIDENT TO THE WIFE OF PRoT. LONG
EILLow.-A sad accident occurred at the house
Of Prot. Longfellow, in Cambridge, Mass, on
Tuesday night. Mrs. Longfellow was melting