Daily national Republican., 1863-02-11
GI,aninEs from our Ershnna,,,


Messrs. Duncan, Sherman q Co. received re-
Gently In New York, through the mail, pack
age Of foreign letters, which was lost In 1854.
Among tho enclosures were sec, 900 Of Now
York Ave per cont. stock. ..
Rather an important item that, and then the
interest has beOn running on safely all tho
while. n"
The Louisville Journal says that not less than
S,6l7 boxes OF Loulsyille manufactured tobacco
were sold In New York and Boston lately, al
rates ranging from hfty-eight TO sixty-two
cents per pound. OF this amount 900 boxes
we're sold In Boston, and the remainder In
New York.
Valuable salt springs have been discovered
near LeaVenworth, Kansas. They are said 70
be ineNhaustible. II
An Eastern paper stating that Miss Ella
Hayes skated twenty miles In three hours, calls
II "a remarkable shating feat" Misc Ella
certainly has remarkable skating feet.
The North is at last aroused and putting H.
self Into an admirable state of defence. A
traveller on New Hamdshlre railroad speaks
OF 1ndlng "iron-clad doughnuts" at one sta
tion. That Is the diet on which these yankee
schoOl-mastersn are raised, so many Of whom
are now In the Union ranks teaching tho rebels,
not young IDEAS, how 10 shoot. ....
Army chaplaln-My young colored friend,
can you read. Contraband-Yes sar Glad
TO hear IL. Shall give you paper sartin,
mnssa, lfyou please. Very good. What paper
would you choose, now Well, massa, II you
chews, l'll take paper Of to6aeker.
The followers of Miller have now Fixed upon
the year 1857 for the end Of the world; but one
"seer" says IL will happen on the nth Of Au-
gust. II the latter proves true It seems proba-
BILE that many will live to see tho end Of he re-
bsiiio''-thst ls ono comfortable reflection.
Father Taylor, the sailorpreacher, in Boston,
offered up the following prayer 10 meet the
present crisis OF the nation; go Lord, guide
our dear President, our Abraham, tho friend Of
Cod like old Abraham. Save him from those
wriggling, intriguing, polite, piercing, slimy,
boring keel-wormB; don't let them 20 through
the sheathlng Of his integrity"
Tho year 1903 is to be celebrated as a year Of
jubilee in the German Reformed Church In
this country, 1t being the three hundredth an
niversary of tho formation Of the Heidelberg
Catechism. .....
A little son Of George Muhl, of Fort Wayne,
Ind, while playing In the kitchen with another
boy on Monday last, went 70 tho stove and
placed his mouth over the spout OF the tea ket!
tie, which was alled with boiling water. His
little playmate, not knowing any better, tipped
the tea kettle and poured a portion of It's boil
ing contents down the, throat OF little Muhl,
scalding him to death.
AS the London 7IDaes threatens TO "wlthdraw
Its moral support" from the rebellion, we hope,
says Prentice, II don't mean 10 transfer IL To the
Federal side. TAiS would be a disaster.
Mrs. Root, Wife Of Jerome Root, De Kolb,
Illinois, was frightened 10 death last week, by
a man dressed In a white sheet, with a coat
wound around his head. He knocked at her
door In tho evening" she gazed for moment at
a fall ka, ~ a.. L.
floor lifeless. The ghnstly Joker is q merchant
Of respectable standing. Any person who viii
perpetrato such a ffightful "joke" should DO
severely punished.
The New Orleans Deitd Is informed by Pay
master Fitch, of tho steamer Tennessee, lust
from Galveston, that the Harriet Lane has not
got out of port. Her masts have been taken
out, and sho has been toWed round the bend,
behind the town, to place her out Of the range
Of the Brooklyn's guns. ....
In a general order No. 0, issued by Mai. Gen.
Hooker, he directs that flour or soft bread be
issued at the depots, 10 commlssaries, for at
least four Issues per week to the troops. Fresh
potatoes or oniops, If practicable for two issues
per week. Dessicated mixed vegetables or po-
tatoes for ono Issue per week.
Several spectators have been recently en-
gagged In buying the large quantities of rags
gathered from the deserted camps OF the Army
OF the Potomac, where, for months, cast-off
shoddy coats and pants and wooden rags have
accumulated. The battlefield of Antletam has
also. furnished large quantities Of rags for the
market. "
A large cheese, brought into New York to
comfort the KnlckerbOckers, weighs / ,504
pounds, and was made In Oneida county from
the morning milk of nine hundred cows. II is
being cut up in pieces OF twenty-five pounds
each, and sells for twenty-five cents per pound.
Three hundred and seVonty-six dollars for one
cheese Is something out OF the ordinary line.
We should say, that was Gust the cheese"
The Boston correspondent Of the Portland
Press says that, In tearing down the old City
Hall, in Boston, to make room for a more spa
cious one, cit was found necessary TO remove
the statue Of Ben. Franklin, which stood In the
way. So they took poor Ben. of from bis
pedestal and placed him behind a shed, where
the top of his head can be seen from the street.
He looks Just as much ashamed as i is posi-
BILE to conceive"
New Jersey has been added to the Department
of the East, now composed of the New England
States and New York. Gen. Wool is in com
mand.
According to the city Inspectors report, there
were 4l6 deaths In New York city during the
past wOeh-a decrease of as compared with
the mortality Of the week previous, and less
than occurred during the corresponding week
last year. '... : 30.
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