Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-10-26

Ar great coal sale, by public vcndue mt
New York yesterday, prices were as follows:
Lump coal SlOall, steamer coal Sllall.25,
CRATE coal Sll.37i, egg coal Sll.62ial1, ,65,
stove coal Sl1.75all.Sj, chestnut coal SlOa
II. Twenty-Five thousand tons Of Scranton
coal were sold at the following prices Lump
coal $l0al0. so, steamer coal Sl0.l2lal0.20,
crate coal so 1O.G2ialOs7i, egg coal $40. .62ia
1915, stove coal Sl1 37Iall.75, chestnut
coal SlOalO.62,. Freight from Elizabeth
port IS cents per ton.
Gov. ANDREW Denies in the New York
EpeRing Post, the statement which the tel.
egraph industriously circulated through the
country, that Massachusetts, was ever pre-
tcrrod to other States in the settlement Of
claims, or that he Extensively pushed the de.
mands of the State, his efforts being simply
directed to procuring the examination and
auditing of the accounts of the Common.
wealth.
J. L. Acorn has, according to the tele.
graph, been elected Senator from Missis-
sippi for six years from March 4, 1864. Con-
gress will decide whether this provisional
acorn will grow into tall senatorial oak.
A MEETING of the friends of the Baltimore
Association for the moral and educational
improvement of the colored people held last
evening was very fully attended. o. Bevan
Braithwaite of England, Bishop Mc1lvaine,
of Ohio, and others, delivered addresses.
II. W. HTLLIARD, of Alabama, ambassador
to King Harris, of Tennessee, in 1861. has
been pardoned. The state of Tennessee
ought to bring suit for damages against
Hilliard, whose diplomacy enabled Har-
ris to steal the school fund of the state.
An association has purchased 3, 500 acres
of good coal and mineral lands near Rich.
mond, and have commenced to operate them.
Capt Webster is agent.
Two hundred cattle belonging to the Gov
ernment were sold at auction yesterday at
Hampton. The purchaser was Mr.. Isaac
Hayes, of Chester county. Pennsylvania. But
how much they brought of course the dis.
patch don't say.
BnoPur and Burch's senton Hall Library
is rapidly expanding its circulation.
A TERRIFIC GALE occurred at Montevideo
on the 9th of August, causing great damage
to the shipping and on shore.
IL Alexandria the fine for being "unnble
to show any visible means ofsupport' is 81. So.
GEN. CANBY, commanding at New Or.
leans has issued an order that no military
interference shall be allowed at the polls on
election day, except to suppress disturbance,
CHARLES GRAY, who halls from New York,
as such characters generally do, was arrested
at Springfield, Mass, yesterday, in attempt
ing to pass $500 in well executed counter
felt "ffties" at the First National Bank
SOMEBODY telegraphs from Nashville an
inexplicable explanation of the Melcalf cot.
ton case at Augusta, Georgia. When VIC get
an intelligent account it may be worth print
ing.
SURGEON maxwell is performing the du-
ties of American consul at Panama.
DULL business at Panama now a-days.
GLooMY-South American affairs.
The revolution in New Grenada has
ceased to revolve. Tho leaders were all cap
tured and their heads ere this, may be
spinning.
THE distinguished uuthoress of "A Bold
Push for a Husband"-not the play of that
name, but the dread reality-has gone to
Cincinnati.
GEN. BANKS retorted upon Wendell Phil
lips, at Maiden, the other day. His tactics
appear to be offensive. defensive.
To THE Norfolk Post onIy-It is something
to love.
The steiner Majestic, from Shreveport
with $50 bales Of cotton was burned on Tues
day at Point Coupee, mouth Of Red river
Boat and cargo total los
The New York NewS says it has large
circulation in the Southern States than al
the other New York daily papers together
fact which is about equally discreditable t,
the NewS and to the people of the South.
A CORRESPONDENT of the World, writing
from Charleston on the 2lst, reports Wad
Hampton elected Governor.
THERE is AWAS in Ninth street, on tn,
road to ruin. He has gone to speculating il
gold - - fish.
No company has been mustered out of tn,
Sd Pennsylvania regiment as reported
About two hundred members whose tim,
had expired have been honorably discharged
THE frigate Lancaster sailed from PanamI
for the Sandwich Islands and San Francisco
on the 18th inst
The Peruvian revolution continues t
waggle along unsteadily.
BRIEF jottings from the Boston Tran
script: ".........'
A GRAND ESTERPRIsE. call the at
tention of our readers to tho advertisement
elsewhere Of BUTrEuFlELD' Overland Dis.