The national Republican., 1861-03-28
EW 8 ITEMS.

Gov. Morgan, of New York, earnestly recon.
mends the amendment to the Constitution re.
Gently adopted in Congress, and proposed for
the ratification Of the States, designed TO secure
the slavehoding States against any interference
whatever, BY the General Government, with
slavery in the States.
The St. Louis Republican learns that an
agent of the Southern Coniederacy has char.
tered the steamer H. d. Bacon, Of that port, to
60 to Alton, Illinois, and take in load Of pro
visions, consisting of corn, wheat, pork, &C., to
the amount Of 600 tons. The cargo is destined
for Florence, Alabama.
The journeymen painters of New York have
resolved to demand 81 a day after the lst Of
April, which does not indicate much distress
in that trade.
The trial of young wife for poisoning her
husband has Just been concluded in Delaware
county, New York, and resulted in verdict
of acquittal. Mrs. Harrington is handsome,
and was married to James Harrington in July,
1859, when under sixteen years Of age, while
her husband was thirty.six.
On Tuesday, in the Virginia House of Dele.
gates, resolution was offered for leave to bring
in a bill requiring the banks to resume pay.
ment after the Maryland banks have done so.
1t was, however, after debate, indefinitely post.
poned.
Governor Pickens, Of South Carolina, is suf
feriDg from the gout, and quite i'll from recent
nervous exctements.
George Underland committed suicide near
Jeffersonville, Indiana, a day or two ago, on
account of mental distress from poverty.
Mulligan, the New York bruiser, who was
sent to prison, has been granted q new trial.
and released on $4,000 bail.
Sam. Pike, the veteran editor, has perfected
his arrangements for his txenty.ninth paper, at
Portsmouth, Ohio.
A book has recently been published in Ber.
lin, designed to show that no such men as Han.
nibal, Alexander the Great, or Julius Cesar,
ever existed.
The New York Legislature have passed
bill adding Washington's birthday to the list
Of legal holidays, and providing, that when
these fall on Sunday, the next Monday may be
observed instead.
Ryland 7. Pollard, of the firm Of Garrett
Pollard, Of Montgomery, Alabama, was shot
and killed in a street rencontre in that city,
Thursday last.
traordinary extent, just now, in Athens, Greece,
where there are no less than 5000 gaming
houses.
Two men, George Rowe and Jacob Ellet,
quarrelled in bowling saloon, at Piridevale,
Va, the other day, when the former struck the
latter with ball, and caused his death.
A deliriously drunken planter, Charles Ar.
gum, in Sumter county, Florida, some two
weeks ago, shot five of his negroes dead, while
they were at work in the field.
A diver, of Kingston, Ja., recently recov.
cred q thousand dollars worth of ivory from q
ship sunk in the hsrbor of that city one hun.
dred years ago.
TIGHT TINES IN MIssIssIpPI.-The money
pressure appears to be pretty tight in the north.
ern counties. Such paragraphs as the follow.
ing, from the Aberdeen Conservative are not
untrequently met with in the papers from that
region
1--WE attended the sheriff's sale of Monday
last, and were perfectly astonished to see such
sacrifice of property. One gentleman actu.
ally purchased one hundred and sixty odd acres
of land for $40; another bought half interest
in a brick law Office for $50; a $l25 buggy
was sold for $50, and other property sold equal
ly low."
F. H. Goodrich was stabbed ten times by
James Ofutt, in Georgetown, Kentucky, on
Thursday. Both are students in the college at
that place.
In the parish of Assumption, La, last week,
!, DR.. Williamson, planter of large fortune, was
waylaid and murdered by his two nephews.
Tn Falls county. Texas. Peter Rovne was 70.
Gently fined $50, for killing an old man under
the most outrageous circumstances. Texas is
the home Of justice.
At New Oak Ridge, Arkansas, some days
since, Colonel Benjamin Raille, discovering
his wife's extreme intimacy with one of bis
slaves, shot them both dead, and then fed the
State.
GOVERNOR HoUsToN A WEALTHY GOVERN.
oR.-We were both pleased and surprised, the
other day, to hear that the Governor was so
rich in pecunary point of view. We learn
that his property is worth not less than
$l5O,OOO. He has rendered an assessment to
the assessor and collector of Travis county for
this year of property to the amount of $S4, 1000
and upwards. Whatever may be our political
differences with his Excellency, we desire him
no harm, and feel glad at his prosperity 7eras
paper.
Some mischievous boys finding lad of l3,
Stephen Maloy, asleep lately in Worthwhile,
Wisconsin, placed match under his nose, and
the fumes Of sulphur caused his death the next
day.
An ingenious English inventor proposes to
remedy the want of bust in ladies of "a given
thinness" by jacket, to be inflated by the
wearer to the proper shape.
The large increase of the number of lunatics
in England is attributed by eminent physiolo.
gists of that country to the deleterious sub.
uto pnao ivad with fond