Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-12-12
sUNDRIEs TO sUNDRIEs.

BRorHERs-rS-LAw-th lawyers.
GEN. HALLEcK takes a hand in the Cali
fOrnia Senatorial game.
The Union State convention of New Hamp-
shire is to be held at Concord, January 3.
The bruit goeth forth that Scripture Dick
is to undergo a serenadc tonight.
The resignation of Gen. Quincy A. Gill
more has been accepted.
An ice manufacturing company has been
formed in Augusta, Ga.
FRED. W. LINCOLN, Republican, is re-
elected Mayor of Boston by 900 majority.
Growers opera company opens rich in
Baltimore.
IT is observed that the Round Table pre-
sents many sharp corners.
The Legislature of Virginia has taken to
discussing the validity of the election of So
called Senators Segar and Underwood.
TuE working men of Chicago had an eight
hour torchlight arrangement on Saturday
evening,
N. b. FORREST, lately rebel General of
bad repute, is engaged in the commission
business in Memphis.
TIE cause Of temperance is gradually gain
ing ground in Richmond, where dissipation
has been making giant strides.
Mr.. CHAuNcEY NJ. DEPEw, Secretary Of
State of New York, has declined the position
Of Minister to Japan, to which he was some.
time ago appointed by the President
JOIN F. POTTER, United States Consul
General at Montreal, has been invited to ad
dress the St. Patrick's Society Of that city Al
its coming celebration.
OFFICIAL information has been received at
the State Department Of the ratification of
the nti.slavery amendment by twenty.three
States. Telegraphic ditto from six others
IL Massachusetts, q negro has the same
chance of being drawn in a jury that white
man has. The secessionist who edits the
baltimore Eremmg Transcript appears to
think otherwise.
"AS attempt is being made in Paris to
introduce the fashion Of three.cornered hatt
for ladies'" How pretty the dear creatures
will look in cooked hats, especially those o.
them that are already in the habit of wear
ing the breeches.
WHILE Mr.. Noah B. Kent, of Chicago, wa
absent from home, a DR.. Mills boarded will
his wife. Noah, on returning, was somewha
Jealous, and fogged the Doctor within al
inch of his life. The Doctor has determined
to have the law on him.
Mr. KIEsER, who has resumed his edito
rial avocations upon the Montgomery (Ala.
Ledgey, announces in his salutatory that 9Th
Lsdger will be conducted upon a purel
Southern theory and basis" And he is on
Of those who got up rebellion on the groun
that a sectional President had been elected
JUDGE ALEXANDER, of the Circuit Cour
for Baltimore city, yesterday ordered tn
discharge Of Luther S. Sands, from the mill
tary service of the United States on writ
haJeas corpus, upon the ground that the mi
nority of the prisoner at the time Of his en-
listment yitiated the contract.
The Mayor of Louisville has been in
peached, and is to be tried before the Boar
of Aldermen to-day. He had refused to sig
an ordinance granting the right of way to
street railroad company, when the counc
passed il over the veto. A mass meeting {
the citizens, however, was held on Saturday
and resolutions passed heartily endorsing hi
course.
IL the Alabama House, Mr.. Smith, {
Choctaw, has introduced bill to prohibi
marriage, &c, between the white and blac
races. Intermarriage is made felony by tn
bill, punishable by imprisonment for tn
whites, and branding and whipping for tn
negroes. Other disreputable connections be
tween the races subject the whites to fin
of 81 900, and imprisonment in the count
Jail for twelve months. The other parties t
the crime are to receive "one hundred lashe
on his or her back. "
A CHARLESTON paper takes satisfaction i
saying that Gen. Grant, on his recent vis
to that city, Twas quietly received by th
military authorities. The negroes an
Northern citizens turned out in eonsiderab
numbers to see the General, but nati'
Charlest onians all turned their faces persis
entity towards the business part Of the city
the hour for his arrival approached. A fe
merchants, mostly Yankees invited Il
distinguished guest to dinner at Il