Daily national Republican., 1863-06-06
PERHONAL.,


POLITICAL, MUSICAL, AND DRAMATIC.
Cot. A. NJ. BARNEs, Of the army, had his
pocket picked ot aasSln baltimore THURSDAY night
HoN. JoEu CovoDE and Hon. J. x. Moor
head arrived hsfs la.t night
Hon. JAMru W. NYE, Governor Of Nevada
Territory, J. II. KinksAd and Hon. O. N mot'' ar
rived in this city yesterday evening.
GHN. T. y. MnLoHHR is now the guest Of Mr..
DeyiIn, at Manhattanvills, where he will remain
for q short time to recruit his health.
Hon. HENRY WINTER DAVIS was nominated
last night for representative Of the Third Con-
grSSsional District Of Maryland. MI.
CoUST zIrPE1N, aid and member of the
staff Of the King Of wurtemberg, who came to this
country to see and learn military art, has Joined
Hooker's staff -r.., .. EHrF I'd
FRApoTs NJ. DREIkL, an aged and prominent
banker Of PhnAdelphiA, was run over by horse
railroad car yesterday afternoon, and died Of his
injuries At 10 O'Clock in the evening.
CouLTER, who murdered James Keuney on
the 18th Of November, 1891, at Toronto, was exc
outed At that place on Monday. He il said TO have
been STEPPED in crime.
JoHN Ross and wife, MisS A. B. Ross, Miss
8. ,. stapler, John Ross, IT,, Lieut.. Col. l. Down
| ing, Capt Jos. Mcdaniel and R. +. Jones, Of the
Cherokee nation, are at willards'.
MRS HENRY WARD BKEcHKR, while packing
up to remove to the country, was robbed by ser
want girl Of ten pounds of loaf sugar, some maple
sugar, and a quantity of clothing.
FERNANDO wooD ia in town, and is said to
have made the President a call. The principal OBJ
iect Of his visit was to house for the next
session Of Congress. ..
Cart. GEORGE f. WALLACE, company A,
seventy-ninth Indiana volunteers, has been dis
missed the service for altering the date Of hospi-
tai pass and assuming the rank Of major while he
held q commission as a captain.
GRO. B. MooRR, ESQ.,, who has been for some
months employed as of the editors Of the Port
land (Me.) ArgHf has taken the chair editorial OF
the advertiser, and is TO have entire charge of its
columns.
Mr.. KINGLAKE's profits on the first portion
Of his Crlmean history are estimated At $780,
Miss NJ A. Braddon, the author OF " Lady Audley's
Secret " and AURORA Floyd" is said to have made
more than so, 900 within the last six months.
Mn. WIN. WINTER, the dramatic critic the
New York Albion, is to deliver poem before the
literary societies Of the Norwich (vermont) Uni
versity at the commencement OF that institution,
August 18th.
Y Mr.. c. P. CRANCH, the American artist, who
has resided some hfteen yeArs in Paris and whos'
pictures of Venice have been particularly admired
has lately gone to that city 10 make some new
studieS and intends returning TO America to reside
during the coming summer.
THE PRINCESS METTRRSIcH made her ap
pearance in the streets of Paris lately in dress
= ! .Kl NaA trNNh NhaI
, trimmings, studded with Stsel-heAded nails. The
bonnet was OF the same material, ornamented In
like manner, and so was the pArasol. (But, whAt
color 10 HRyanA-cOlori")
A. WALTER MERRIAM, who is well known BY
visitors to and residents OF New Orleans, a. thu
proprietor Of the large billiard rooms attached tC
the St. Charles and St. Louis Hotels, in that city
left New Orleans at the time Of the capture Of tn,
place, with Gen. Lovells army, in which he held
, commission as Lieutenant Colonel OF . regimen
= known as "the ContinsntAlS." We now hear o
him as in Mobile, where It seems he IL raising
= Louisiana Battalion" to be mainly composed o
the "registered enemies" exiled from Genera
BAnks's department This he IL doing with full
authority from Richmond. He says, in his motto
0 to that effect, that he will receive all person
r not now IA service, who have, or may hereAfte
arrive from any part OF the State OF Louisiana %
? eupied by the enemy"
Mr.. TAYLOR, First Comptroller Of the Treas
n ury, has made important decision In referene
to the authority of the Postmaster GeneTAl. In
California case, involving large interests to tn
= Government, the Hen, Green Adams, Auditor @
the Treasury for the Post once Department, d'
cIded among other matters, that the word
'waterS OF the United States" used in the POI
Il once laws mean only internal waters, and do nc
, embrace the waters within marine league of II
= coast to which the Jurisdiction OF the Feder
d" courts extend, and also that the Post Once d
j. partment has no lawful power to employ ma
service by sea unless specially authorized to do
by an act OF Congress- This decision was referr
ye on appeal to the Comptroller, Who in an elAbora
d. argument, has sustained the Auditor, whose
. ciSion has prevented an unauthorized grab at Il
, public funds.
ID RsbSI Credit and British sympathy.