Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-11-20
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THP report is that she Shenandoah is bound
for Peru or Chilli, and thst her commander
proposes to sell her.
D. R. BARros's edge tool factory, in Roch-
ester, New York, was destroyed by FIRE.
Loss 5000
A YOUNG Boston merchant--namo not
given-has been mystcriously murdered in
Berlin.
McELRoY's dry goods store, Ninth street,
Philadelphia, was robbed of $40, 900 worJl l
Of silks yesterday morning.
Four thousand laborers are employed on
the railroad between Vera Cruz and the city
of Mexico.
Ex.GovERNoR A. C. Horton, of Texas,
died few days ago in Matagorda.
STEAMER Glide, No. 3, has been sunk in
the Mississippi, with six hundred bales of
cotton.
GEO. DAVIS, late Attorney General of the
rebel confederacy, arrested at Key West,
has been sent to Fort Lafayette.
ANEW ORLEANS reporter undorstands-or
misunderstands-tha Gen. Thomas (Lorenzo)
visits Mississippi by order of the Presi.
| dent, to settle the controversy between
Sharkey and Humphreys.
The steamer Ben. .stickney has been sunk
l25 miles below Cairo. She was valued at
$3.50, 900, and her cargo, which was perish.
able, was very valuable.
TIE Mississippi House of Representatives
has passed the bill permitting negro testi-
mony to be taken in the courts, by vote of
At to 43.
the mock.turtle slavery lately instituted
by the South Carolina Legislature, does not
seem to meet with much favor among good
statesmen.
:. Gov. HAMILTON, Of Texas, has called a
constitutional convention; the election to be
held January sth. the convention to assemble
February 7th.
The report in Cairo is that Georgia has
chosen Charles ]. jenkins Governor, and
Joseph johnson, United States Senator
Some mistake about it, though.
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Mobile,
says: Religion Is played out borO." We
would advise him to foe from that Sodom be-
fore the fireworks begin.
We are under obligations TO VIM. Faxon,
ESQ Chief Clerk of tho Navy Department,
for the astronomical and meteorological OBJ
servations made at the Naval Observatory in
1868.
EARL RUSSELL has nominated n son of the
late Mr.. John Leech to the foundation of the
Charterhouse, and the youth will onter " a
new boy g." in the course of the present
month.
The North Carolina election returns come
in slowly, not one half having been heard
from officially. The Raleigh Progress thinks
Worth has received small majority Of the
votes cast.
The Cincinnati Enquirer seeks to cast re.
proach upon the late Preston King because
he did not remain in the Democratic party,
forgetting that the Democratic party left all
such men as Preston King and Andrew John
son and went on its way to perdition.
THE number of sugar factories now at
work in France is two hundred and ninety
three, and the quantity made is 20, 800, 900
pounds. The whole country in the depart
ment Of the Nord is beet-root, pulp, sugar.
and fuel the roads are encumbered with the
produce.
JAMES LoSGsTREEr says that on the LIST of
April, 1865, the Confederates had under arms
but two hundred and fifty thousand men,
while the Federals had in actual possession
! ninety-eight thousand Confederate prisoners
Of war.
Mr. L. II. CHANDLER, United States Dis
trict Attorney in Virginia, was prevented by
ill l-health from arguing the constitutionality
of the test oath. Mr.. C. is n Congressman
elect, but we fear that his health is such
that he is not the man for Galway.
THE London Athem0mDl reviews tho let.
ters of Major Jack Downing, originally pub
lished here about thirty years ago, and treats
it as n net0 book, though it was republished
aquarter of century ago by Mr.. Murray of
London.
BRYAN W. PROcToR, better known as
Barry Cornwall" is preparing a life of
Ella, CHARLES Lamb. Mr.. Proctor is |
now over seventy eight years old having
been born in 1887. lie was Il schoolmate of
Lord Byron and Sir Robert Peel at Harrow. |
The number of Irish residents in England
and Scotland is n million and n half One
fourth of the population of Liverpool and
one fifth of that of Glasgow is composed of
natives of Ireland.
VERY chivalrous are the gallant knights of
Fredericksburg, On Wednesday last they got
up PHtournament, and the U United States officers
lent many of them the horses, saddles, sashes
and knightly spurs used in the ring. This
cNiii'X was rewarded by the passage of