Daily national Republican., 1865-11-29
suNDRIEs TO sUNDRlEs.


sUNDRIEs TO sUNDRlEs.
THE largest Sunday school in America Is
to be found In Cincinnati. 1t has twenty.
Eve hundred pupils.
HUGu McKrsSoN, deputy chief of police
in Hamilton, G. W., pays fine of $3.50, and
is to be imprisoned six months for assaulting
the correspondent of the Toronto Leader.
FRANK GuRLEY, who killed Gen. McCook,
will not be hanged until another appeal can
be made to the President. He is sheriff elect
Of Madison county, Alabama, and his neigh
bors want him to be pardoned, SO that in
stead of being hanged himself he may enter
upon the duty of Jack Ketch for the county.
Rev. Z. II. CHAPIN lectures in Brooklyn
tonight, on tho "Age Of Iron" Ho will be
expected to define the difference between the
cage of Iron" and the "Iron Age" The
difference is said to be greater than that ox-
isting between the Bridge Of Signs" and
the "SiEe of bridge, as once suggested by
Hood-not he of the Chattanooga Gasate.
The first snow-storm of the season came
down on the Capital to-day. The morning
was very black in the face when day awokc,
and before nine O'Clock the first white fakes
the spring chickens raised in this District
ever saw began to descend. The snow is
mixed with driEzling rain to an extent that
forbids all hope of sleighing here this No
vember.
IS 1851 Mr. Benjamin F. Flanders was
driven from tho city Of New Orleans by the
rebel mob which then ruled, for showing
some kindness to Union prisoners who were
confined in the parish prison there. With
great difficulty he succeeded in escaping with
his life from their clutches. The New Or.
leans Bse-virulent rebel-now speaks Of
"ths clemency and msgnanimity' with
which he was treated.
ALL the London journals publish the cor
respondence between Adams and Russell in
reference to the Alabama claims. It is re-
markable for the withdrawal by Mr.. Adams
of the offer of arbitration. Earl Russell
gives at great length facts to prove the Brit
ish Government did all that could be OK
pected Of it.
preparation under the direction Of the
american Numismatic and Archaeological
Society" in New York, during tho past six
months, is now noarly completed, and will be
furnished to subscribers in few weeks. This
is the largest and probably the finest medal
ever struck in this country, and will compare
favorably with those of the best European
artists. Mr.. Sigel, the artist, q brother of
General sigel, has spared no time or labor
upon it.
GBN. SIcKLRs' STAFF at Charleston is
composed as follows: Brew. Lieut. Col. W. L.
NJ. Burger, Assistant Adjutant Generali
Brew. Lieut.. Col. C. W. Thomas, Chief Quar-
termaster; Brew. Lieut.. Col. W. W. Burns,
Chief Commissaryi Major J. P. Roy, 9th U.
S. infantry, Acting Inspector General and
Acting Judge Advocatej Surgeon A. p. Dali
rymple, Acting Medical Diroctori Brevet
Major Leslie Smith, Commissary Musters;
Capt. Henry Seton, Aid-de-Campj Capt. D.
S. Leslie, d.de-Camp.
LAST EVENING we CHANGED to witness a
race that would have astonished the most
wide-awake citizen dozen years ago. Im-
mediately after the alarm had sounded, indi-
eating FIRE on the Island" two steam
engines came laundering Kissing, smoking,
blazing, sparkling, through the darkness,
down Fourth street with terrific speed. Tho
powerful horses attached to the fiery fire.
fighters wore upon a clean run, neck. and.
neck, as they crossed L street, but before
they reached Louisiana avenue one of the
steamers passed the other, and in few mo.
ments, like streaming meteors, they disap-
peared down Four-and-a-half street, Island
Here were two giants with frames of iron
and snews of steel, breathing fire and smoke,
each having the powcr Of n hundred men,
possessed Of endurance altogether superhu-
man, who were guided to their object by a
fash of lightning upon the wires of the city
telegraph, running with the speed Of race
horse "to put out n 6re." An old gentleman
standing by the City Hall when the monsters
few past, exclaimed: GLOW the world moves,
to be sure"