The national Republican., 1861-07-16
N EW s ITEM s.

The Yreks (Cal.) Journal relates the follow
ing: "One Of our expressmen, q few days since,
while travelling through the country, stopped at
the cabin Of an old miner, who anxiously in.
qured as to the latest news. Bad enough
replied the vender of news 'the Secessionists
have taken Fort Pickens and Washington city,
and hung General Scott With look of un
utterable horror, the miner coolly stepped into
his cabin, took down his rAe and exclaimed: :
Anybody can take my claim that wants it /;
hut - me if amt of for the wars, and III
have Washington city back or never return.
Our informant assures US that he would have
been as good as his word, had he not learned,
to his great qualification, that he had been the
victim of SELL"
The ONO RvER.-The river is still slowly
receding. There are now only thirty one inches
water in the channel. The only boats running
to and from this point are the Lepina Logan
and Eunice, to Parkersburg, and the fiat boat
None Such, to steubenville. The boats at the
landing are the r. II. Hamilton, Sunny South,
amont, Courier, the tow.boat Hercules, and the
new boat which is being built by Captain Booth
for the Sunfsh trade Wheeling Ltelligencer,
July 10Th.
Blk companies of the second Minnesota regi.
ment have been mustered into the service.
From Paris we learn that rice straw is the
bonnet most in vogue. The trimmings are gen.
orally Of black velvet, with punches of grass
daisies, and other summer flowers. There are
also dress bonnets of figured tulle and roses,
with the curtain of pink silk and tulle, straw.
colored Grape, with baby crown and drum
front, having between the crown and the front
Il wreath of yellow roses, from which falls a
dropping feather on the left side. These bon.
nets are often lined with colored silk, which
is very becoming.
A Charleston merchant was drafted for the
war some time since and procured substitute,
who was killed in an engagement. The mer.
chant has again been drafted and pleaded that
he could not 20 as he had been regularly killed,
and WAS so recorded. 1t is said that the mill.
tary refused to recognise his title to exemp.
ton.
Tanity Fair for last week has a capital illus.
tration of France patronizng the Southern Con.
federacy. JEFF. Davis is represented as a little
boy standing on keg of gunpowder supported
by a bale of cotton. Beside him stands Napo.
leon, who looks at the little fellow with semi
patronizing, semi.contemptuous air, and ad.
dresses him as follows
"Ha! ha my leetle Tom Thumb of Davis
ven you grow so big and can walk all alone,
you shall be great friend With me-"
KIT CARSON HAS A FALL.-Kit Carson, the
adventurer, is said to have had very narrow
escape from being killed lately-the narrowest,
in fact, Of the many hairbreadth escapes" he
has known. While crossing, during the latter
portion of April the divide between the Rio
Pedro and Rio des Pinos, in Utah, with train,
one of the mules becoming unruly, Kit Car
son attempted TO manage him. The mule
reared and threw itself over precipice, carry.
ing himself along with it, his foot having be.
come entangled in the mules lariat They fell
together, distance of nearly two hundred feet,
alighting finally in a very deep snow bank, for
tunately without injury except the shock and
q few bruises.
GLAD TO hear ia country paper. dis.
canting on the times as they affect business,
says that farmers will have no hard times.
Crops are good, and prices will be good for
everything excepting hay, the plenteousness of
which all over will make it very cheap. While
the farmers will be getting good prices for their
produce, the price Of everything they consume
clothing, dry goods, groceries-all viii be cheap.
This pleasant prospect ought to induce all who
know anything about farming to turn their in.
dustry in that direction. Other branches of
business certainly do not present anything 80
Hattering. Wheeling Lnfelligencer, lOh.