Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-10-17
suNpRIEs To suNpRIEs.

TnE Fenian congress at Philadelphia goes
into secret session to-day. Six hundred del.
egstes are present. Into, &c., rode the sir
hundred.
Iowa gives 16, 900 majority for Stone. and
three quarters Of the Legislature are Of the
same sort.
TWENTY thousand nremen were In the
Philadelphia procession yesterday.
EMERSON ErHERrpGE's plea to the juris-
diction having been overrulsd, an exception
was noted, and he then pleaded in confession
and avoidance, so to speak.
THERE is . great, and, Il seems, advanta-
geous sale Of Government hospital stores
going on at Elmirs, New York.
THE Pacific Mail Company has now tri.
monthly through line via Aspinwall.
A. N. sIckLEs, A. Potter, Samuel Bailey
and J. and r. Quackenbush have been CON-
mitted for trial at Belleville, Canada West,
for counterfeiting on large scale.
TIE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN is good ma
tured.-Noyfoik Post.
Thank you, dear.
The planning mill of Derwent, Myer 4
Hartwick, the freight depot Of the St. Louis
railway, and the lumber in the yards Of Por-
ter, Ripley, 7. II. Morris and D. H. Grover,
in Chicago, were destroyed by fire last even
ing.
Dr.. YELLOW FEVER BLACKBURN has been
discharged on his own recognizance by q
magistrate at Toronto.
TIE Richmond Bulletin is vexod because
northern Journals speak Of some Of the poll
ticians there as "Unionists."
A RICHMOND paper congratulates the Ma.
tioaai Intsaigeneer upon the acquisition of
Mr.. BuRwELL as its southern correspondent.
Is Mr.. B. expected to add to the weight Of
the heavy daily?
"THosB NEGROES" in the New York Err
press law report, we suppose was written
"theatre goers." Niger on the brain has
extended to the composing-room, has il?
TIE coal tonnage Of the Reading Railroad
last week, anthracite and bituminous, Is re-
ported by telegraph at $4,000 tons.
GEN. sLocUN's house, in Syracuse, was
robbed the other night.
PHILADELPHIA uses an average Of 81, $780,
DOL gallons of water daily, principally in the
manufacture of lager beer.
TIE Episcopal General Convention will
meet three years hence in New York Thanks
giving services for the return of peace will
be held to-day. On Thursday evening servi-
ces in respect to the memory of tho late
Bishop Potter.
The Richmond Bulletin is at its old tricks.
1t copies from the dirtiest paper in New
York story about a rebel who, on receiving
his pardon, said to the Chief Magistrate: "I
thank you, Mr.. President, for my pardon. 1
am now good Union man, an emphatically
one Of you, but didn't Stonewall jackson
give US hell in the Valley?' This yarn was
originally told some three years ago. about a
drunken loafer who took the oath before Gen.
Butler, in New Orleans. Had any such inso-
lence been offered in either case, it is un-
necessary to say that there would have been
something to add to the anecdote, which
would have made it more readable.
RoBERr J. WALKER is reported to be en-.
gagged to stump New York for the Democrats.
If he wants to support the President, /" why
don't he try his hand in Mississippi?
The London Times is ingenious in adver-
sity. 1t says the statement that the editor
is loser by confederate stock to the amount
of two thousand pounds or more money is q
complete falsehood. But 1t does not say that
its editor, its attaches, did not receive large
amount of Confederate bonds for supporting
the rebel cause. Nobody supposed they
were foolish enough to invest very hard cash
therein.
THE New Orleans Southern Star call Wirz
one of its unfortunate brethern. Did their
mother have many more Of the same sort.
MRS. WARD BEEcHER is to read her hus.
bands lectures to Lyceum audiences this sea-
son. Mr.. II. W. B. endorses her talents as
lecturer,-and he ought to know.
WE are glad that oil is produced so abund.
antly, for vast deal is needed to be poured
on the troubled waters.-Prentice.
PROBATE CoURr suits over legacies may be
placed under the head of Litigation over
the left ."-PoSt.
FRANcK TAYLOR has part L of Van Most.
rands Rebellion Record, with excellent por.
traits of Generals Candy and Couchj but the
latter's name is D. Mot D. M.
Companion Poet Edition" of Owen Mere.
dith's Apple of Life.
A Curious Case.
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