The national Republican., 1861-08-03
NEws rs,

pared with the corresponding season last year.
II is stated that whsn the nomination of the
Hon. Rufus King as brigsdier general is con.
frmed, he will at once resign his commission
as minister to Rome, leaving that Office vacant.
The Chicago Epening Journal states that the
wheat crop in Illinois, though not equal 70 that
Of last year, 10 greatly in excess Of that Of sev.
eral years. !
Mr.. c. M. Carter, who came in the overland
coach from San Francisco, reached this city
in nineteen days, believed to be the shortest
trip ever made. He reached St. Joseph, NO.,
in seventeen days. Il
ON SuNDAY.-The New York twelfth regi- |
ment left New York on Sunday, went into Vir-
ginis on Sunday, crossed over again on Sun. |
day, moved to Hagerstown on Sunday, marched
to Bunker Hil on Sunday, moved TO Charles |
town on Sunday, and evacuated Harper's Ferry
on Sunday.
Colonel Berdans regiment of sharp shooters
is rapidly having its ranks filed. The exami.
nation is so strict that only one applicant out
oftwenty, on an average, is accepted.
Parson Brownlow says that rebel in Ten.
nessee refused to allow his children to be taught
out of certain books, because they were pub.
lished by the American Sunday School Union.
He also says that a party Of rebels made de.
monstration upon a sign on which was painted
"Union Prayer Meeting Room"
RETuRN OF FuoITIvEs.-The Annapolis Ga.
zette Of Thursday says that few days since,
three negroes came up the bay in a small boat,
landed at the Naval Academy, and asked to
be sheltered there. Col. Roberts Immediately
delivered them to the sheriff Of Anne Arundel
county, to be dealt with according to law.
EVERETT ExposrD-We deem it needless to
invite attention to q communication in this
this issue. devoted to that hireling rhetoricisn,
Edward Everett Charleston Courier.
1t was the editor Of the Courier who ad.
dressed Mr.. Everett, when the latter visited
Charleston to deliver his oration on Wash.
ington, as the lsudator Of Washington, Cicero
of America, friend of humanity, &C., &c.
The American citizens residing and sojourn.
ing in Antwerp, Belgium, the commanders Of
American vessels in port, number of Bel.
giaus, and large number Of other persons,
assembled at the consulate of the United States,
on the fourth of July, and celebrated the ami.
versary Of our independence in worthy man.
ner.
Some of the Southern journals are terribly
troubled about a substitute for coffee, the block.
ade Of the Southern ports having cut off their
usual supply of that article. One paper sug.
stitute, and writer to another says he has
mixed dried sweet potatoes with equal quaint.
ties Of Coffee and "this coffee" he says, looks
much richer and is equally as good as the
genuine"
TIE REBEL Loss AT BULL RUN.-A lady in
Germantown has received letter from rela.
tive in Virginia, in which it is stated that the
rebel loss at Bull Run was at least three thou.
Z sand, officers and prvates.
PAY IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.-The fol-
lowing are the rates at which the officers OF
the Confederate army are paid:
The colonies get $l75 per month leuten'
ant colonels, $l70 per month; majors, $3.50
Der month captains, 500 per month; first
y leutenants, $50 per month second lieuten
f, ants, $50 per month; sergeants, $l4 per
I, month; privates, Sll per month, with yearly
allowance of clothing and one ration pei
day; quartermasters get the same as cap
tsins; commissaries get the same.
HORRIBLE MuRpER.-Two men, Collins and
Moore, entered the residence Of Mr.. Cobb, o
Msysville, KY, on Wednesday morning, abou
o'clock, and deliberately murdered him ant
n his two sons--the respective ages of the latte
being l6 and 81 years. Their object was
plumber, and they took away two hundred dol
lars. The wretches have not yet been cap
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Gle in the Cincinnati Gazette.
OscEoLA CAvE-The Bowling Green Stand
ard SAYS new and wonderful cave, to whic
the name of "Osceola has been given, ha
lust been discovered near Cave City, KY. ]
l gltters with wonderful stalactites and stalsg
n mite formations, and abounds with coral an
II sparkling pools. 1t is attracting great atten
Nj ton from the curious and the scientific.
has been opened for the inspection Of visitors
III WELL1YGroN's WAY WITH Non coMBATANT.
Wellingtons plan would be good one to er
\ force against those whose curiosity to see
H stronger than their patriotism to fight. Whe
n importuned at Brussels BY number of tn
M amusement seekers among his own countr,
men to let them be spectators of the approach
ing battle of Waterloo, he at once consented
and ordered them Immediately to be arme'
4 equipped and to take their places in the ranl
1, with the soldiers. General Scott should ssu
4, an order at once, that every civilian who a
should be at once placed in the ranks, whel
his curiosity can be satisfied and his present
mi be made useful.
lin A yoangster in Chatham, N Y, had set
| with a rattlesnake on Sunday morning, an
\ after a severe fight, succeeded in smashing h
head with his SHOE The snake measured fo
al feet three inches without bis head, and VI
|l seven inches in circumference.
EN The Commander.in.chief of the army h
wv ordered all the available batteries of Unit
III States artillery now at Harrisburg, Pa, al
,9 elsewhere in that State to the line of the p
IN tomac. Several batteries are already on u
way. Capt. Campbell, now at Harrisburg, b
been despatched to get ambulances for t
conveyance Of ordnance and men. The b
L teries at West Point are also being got rea
for service.