The national Republican., 1861-04-01
EW ITEM 8.

Secretary Cameron is in Harrisburg to bring
his family to Washington.
Minister Corwin will take the steamer Ten.
nessee, on the 18th proximo, for Vera Cruz,
from New Orleans.
Mr.. Holloway entered upon bis duties as
Conn missioner Of Patents on Friday.
It is stated that Judge Allen A. Burton, Of
KY. who was nominated and confirmed as As.
sociate Justice Of Dacotah, declines that posi-.
ton.
The trial of Captain Armstrong for the sur.
render Of Pensacola navy yard is still pro-
crossing. The Government has sent TO Florida
for witnesses.
The Brooklyn charter election takes place to.
morrow. Frederick Scholes is the Republican
candidate for mayor, and Martin Ralbslesch
the Democratic candidate.
Cassius NJ. Clay has advertised to sell at auc.
ton, on the 10Th Of April, his stock and farm
and household appointments, preparatory to
leaving for St. Petersburgh. Mr. Ciay has
long beeu distinguished breeder and importer
of stock.
Hon. William L. Dayton, Minister to France,
will sail on April 9th, accompanied by his
cepted the compliment of public dinner, to
be given by the bar of the State, at Trenton,
on or about the 18th proximo. He has re.
signel the office Of Attorney General of New
Jersey, and Frederick +. Frelinghuysen has
been appointed in his place.
DR.. williamson, very wealthy planter of As.
sumption, La, was murdered Oh the 10th inst,
by Henry and Frank, two brothers of his wife,
whom he had adopted, having no children OF
his own. They had quarreled with him in the
morning, and in the evening on his return shot
him in his carriage, four balls entering his
body.
"Clint," an old negro, and one of the most
successful horse trainers in the world, died at
the race course, near Memphis, on the 18th
inst, Of consumption. The Avalanche says
Clint was known to every turfman in the Union,
having spent his entire life in the stables of the
most noted race men in the country.
The Democratic State Convention of Ten.
nessee, to nominate candidate for Governor,
will meet in Nashville on the llth of May next
G. W. Lane, recently confirmed as Judge
for the northern and southern district of Ala.
bama, will, it is said, endeavor to hold his court
at Athens, in the Union part of the State.
Good specimens Of copper ore are shown in
Montreal, from Black river mine, Lothiniere, a
parcel Of which is about to be sent to the Lon.
gueuil smelling works.
Nancy Coyle was burned to death, suffering
intensely, at Sharpsburg, Penn; her clothes
took fire from CRATE in her bed room.
A little child drank so much whisky, which
had beeen unguardedly left within its reach, at
New Orleans, recently, that it died in q few
hours.
The heroic Mrs. Captain Patten, who, it will
be remembered, nursed her sick and blind hus.
band, and navigated his ship to San Francisco,
died at Boston on Saturday, aged twenty.four
years.
Chadwick Kimball, of Bradford, Mass,
jumped from the bridge on the Merrimac river,
at Haverhill, Mass, on Friday, while lsboring
under temporary alteration Of mind, and
was drowned.
Miss Prescott, the popular magazine writer,
is about to be married to Mr.. Richard SpaHord,
Boston lawyer.
The resolution requesting Congress to call
National Convention has passed both Houses
of the General Assembly Of Ohio.
Wild ducks swarm in the river Susquehan.
ma, at Harrisburg, Penn.
Robert Blakely shot and killed Michael Fer.
guson on trading boat, near Henderson KY,
the other day.
A telegraphic dispatch from Turin, dated
the 18th, states that on that day the citadel of
Messina surrendered to the Sardinians.
A shock Of earthquake was felt on both sides
OF the St. Lawrence, near Quebec, on the llth
instant.
V. D. Groner, of Norfolk, Va, has been ap.
pointed lieutenant in the Southern army.
As a compromise between the Secessionists
nit the whole question to the popular vote.
The amount of specie brought to this coun.
try from Europe, from December Is to March
l6, was $l9,32O, ,455. During the same time,
about s5,OOO,OOO Of gold was brought from
California.
Abuxom dame lately sued in London court
for a divorce, on the ground that her husband
was Objectionable because he wore silver nose.
If it had been gold one, what?
One of cur religious weeklies has lust re.
ceived a letter from q Texan secessionist, re.
questing his paper stopped, because Barney's
Union Bouquet was advertised in it. He takes
the scent quick.
An old.fashioned passage OF one hundred and
seven days was made by an old.fashoned craft,
the Dutch gallot Cadzandrion, which arrived
at Philadelphia on Friday, from Rotterdam,
loaded with cargo Of schuapps. Washington
Irving would have been delighted with sight
of such model.