Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-11-08
suNDRIEs TO sUNDRIEs.

A BOX Of Claib. Jackson's headquarters'
papers, found at Eufala, Alabama, has been
received at Jefferson City, and turned over
to Adjutant General Simpson. Among the
papers is Sterling Prices commission for
Jackson rs Major General of the Missouri
State Guard. 1t is dated May 13, 1861, three
days after the capture Of Camp jackson.
Tho box also contains the Senate journal of
Jackson's bogus Legislature at Neosho,
which, with less than half o quorum, passed
the so-called ordinance of secession, appoint.
ed representatives to the rebel Congress, and
many letters from prominent citizens of the
State, revealing their completely in Jack
sons treason.
Mr.. d. +. DUNKIN has been chosen chief
justice of Georgia.
The Mississippi Legislature proposes to set
apart twenty-five per cent. of the public
debt to pay tho State debt tax to be levied
for the support of disabled Confederate SOL
ders, and widows and children of soldiers
killed in the war.
The General Assembly of Mississippi is
going to straighten out things. Bills have
been introduced to compel railway companies
to provide separate cars for the negroes; to
suspend all laws for the collection of debts in
the State for certain time; and to tax all
suits brought in the United States courts.
We have received from HUDSON TAYLOR
the United States Service Magazine for No
vember. 1t contains an essay on interna-
tional law-"who may kill in war, and who
may not" the Siege of Morris Island; Seek
ing the Bubble, No. 7; an account of Kilpat-
rick's campaigns; a very interesting article
on the Paymaster's Department of the army;
and much other valuable matter.
The remarkable loveliness of things gener-
ally, and the extraordinary altitude at which
the goose now hangs, were subjects Of COM
mon remark on the avenue this morning.
IL Georgia, ex-Gov. J. L. Manning has
been elected United States Senator for the
term ending in 1867.
In Nashville, on Monday, there was
fight between ex.Mayor John Hugh Smith
and a police officer named Brown. Two
shots were fired by Smith without killing
Brown, but they barely missed lady who
was passing, and man on the opposite side
Of the street.
ANOTHER case Of embezzement and fraud
has been recently developed in the person of
ono 7. H. Ogden, jr., q long time clerk of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad The
books Of the road show q deficit of over
$4,000. On last Tuesday he abscondcd and
went to Atlanta, Ga, where the detectives
traced him. He was captured and brought
back, and lodged in Jail. T. II. o. yielded
to the destinations of tho demt monde.
IN the Tennessee Legislature yesterday
bill was introduced authorizing the Gov
ernor to sell tho Hermitage property, be-
longing to the State of Tennessee, except
the two acres enclosing the grave of Ad-
drew jackson, provided that the estate is
divided into lots and sold at public auction
to the highest bidder. Payment to be made,
in bonds of tho State.
A FREIGHT train on the New Orleans,
Jackson and Great Northern railroad ran off
the track on Friday, seventy five miles north
of New Orleans, smashing five cars and Sc
verely injuring the conductor.
THE speech of Mr.. Albert G. Hall, in the
City Council, on Monday evening, which dis
cusses tho colored school question very
thoroughly, will bc found on the first page of
to-day's REPUBLICAN.