Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-11-02
sUNDRIEs no suNpRIEs.

The hearing Of the motion for an injunc-
tion to restrain Mossrs. Clark 4 Stuart, of
Winter Garden, New York, from playing
''0ur American Cousin, " has been postponed
to Saturday week.
ALBERT STARKwEATHER, who murdered
his mother and sister at Manchester, some
time since, and who is in Jail at Hartford
has lately tried to escape. On Friday he took
a fellow convict, named John Leonard, into
his confidence, and diyulgcd his plan to kill
the jailer, steal the keys, and escape. Leon
ard informed the jailer, and thus his plans
failed. I'D
Why is the Secretary of the Navy like o
crazy petroleum speoulator? because he's
Giddy-on Wells.
Mr.. ELIAS THOMPSON, keeper of the New
Haven light, has raised, during the past seq
son, sweet potatoes that weighed over three
pounds. He planted them on the Sd of June,
and raised them in rich sand on the beach,
near the light, and has gathered % bushels
from III hills.
NEAR Kingston, Canada West, on Tues.
day, an accident occurred on the Grand
Trunk Railway from broken rail. Two
cars were thrown off and demolished. No
body seriously hurt.
Two cattle trains ran into each other on
the Fitchburg (Mass.) railroad on Tues sday.
Two car loads of sheep and cattle were
butchered. An engineer was badly inju rod
IT seems that Capt. Harvey Putnam, who
was murdered in his canal boat near ALI any
the other day, was aroused from his sleep
and told that his boat was adrift. He hur-
ried on deck: he was seized by the steers man,
and, as is supposed, the rest of the or ew, and
murdered with hatehet. His head was ter
ribly bruised and cut. After the m, irder the
steersman rushed down stairs into the cap
tain's room, and took possession Of his pock-
et-book containing upward of thr co hundred
dollars. All the crew of the boilt fed.
Two large shoe factories in Southboro'
Mass, owned by John Hartt a. Co., of Bos.
ton, were destroyed by fire on Thursday.
Loss 100000.
AT New Orleans, Gen. Candy has rescind.
ed Gen. Fullerton's order for the arrest of
vagrant negroes.
The telegraph is working from Houston
to San AntO'hia, Texas.
A VESSEL from Cardenas brings the crew
and passengers Of tbe schooner Fannie, from
New York for Wilmington, which vessel was
abandoned in sinking condition.
H. V. JOHNSON proposes to practice law at
Augusta, Ga.
ELEVEN hundred and fifteen bales of cot
ton were burned on the cars of the Alab,amt
and Florida railroad at Montgomery recon tly
CHURCH burned at Savannah the Other
day.
Mr.. JOHN W. REANs has ST. lrtsd at An
napolis the Masonic GaUsi, n IN onthly paper
devoted to the interests of the brethren o.
the mystic tie. Judging from ake first mum,
Der, which comes to us this morning, he will
make square work of it,
IT is possible there may be more truth
than grammar in the following from the Tri
6Wme'S Washington dispatch:
Messrs: Speed, Rousseau, Byarts and others
nnOA iVi tho uoNoEnmeht1 announced IN new
York paper as positively determined on, wal
true In August, but is not true now.
THE Post Quartormaster was killed ant
several severely wounded at Fort Jefferson
recently, by the terrific hurrican which ha
visited the Atlantic coast.
A COUPLE Of Police Justices in the New
York ring have, according to tn Citizen
Oontrived by hook and by crook -prObabl!
by hOoking-tO draw salaries of 81 l, 800 each
JoHN sLIDELL's papa in-law di, ed recontl,
In New Orleans.
A MAN named Jameson, in Cincin natl
Wishing to curtail household expe, nses, adopt
I'd novel mode to effect his object. IL
kissed the servant girl one morninl 7, when h
knew that Mrs J. would see him. Results
discharged servant girl and sl2 p er mont
,aved.-N. Y, Sun.
THE Richmond Times makes 4 . defence O.
the election of Wade Hampton Governor oI
south Carolina by proving that s'orr was Al
violent " and efficient in treason % his rival