Daily national Republican., 1865-12-30
sUNDRIEs TO sUNDRIEs.
IT one foot Of snow fell to-day.

-"winter comes to rule the varied year"
Thomson (t0ithout a "p.")
SOME brave New York girls have Gre
sOiUed, that If we, the young ladies of Seneca
Falls, don't get married during the year to
come, somebody will be to blame"
SOUTHERN PAPERS declare that the Georgia
Legislature deferred the election Of United
States Senators in the hope that the disa-
bilities of A. II. Stephens may be removed.
If removed, Mr.. Stephens and Joshua Hill
will probably be the Senators.
The Richmond bon riUantS are smacking
their lips over the Christmas dinner and
supper given at the spottswood Hotel, in
that city, kept by Messrs. Corkery q Mill
ward. According to the newspaper accounts
1t must have been rare feasting.
A CORRESPONDENT ask us "what 10 q
Sybarite ?" A Sybarite, dear boy, is fel-
low who sleeps on bed of rose leaves and
makes laundering row with the chamber
maid IL he finds q leaf crumpled.
The Nashville and Chattanooga railroad
has begun suit against its late president for
one million dollars damage for permitting
the rebel government to use the road and its
machinery during the war.
TIE New York Commercial Chronicle
publishes complete list of vessels destroyed
or bonded by Southern privateers. 1t ap-
pears that there were 4 steamers, rs ships,
43 brigs, 80 bsrques, 6S schOoners-in all
276 vessels of nearly 1000, 900 tons in the
aggregate captured.
The South Carolina Legislature has ap-
pointed special committee to investigate,
ascertain, and report at the next session Of
the General Assembly, all the facts and fg-
ures in connection with the war debt Of the
State. That does not look much like COM
pliance with the Presidents intimation that
the debt must be repudiated.
ONE of us was made the recipient Of
beautiful New Years present, in the form of
an elegant illustrated copy of Early English
Poems, from Chaucer to Pope, from the pub
fishing house of Sampson Low, Son, 4 Co.,
Ludgate Hill, London. May the choicest
blessing ever imagined by the English poets
or any other man fall to the lot Of the
donors.
WE SEQ it stated that the famous New
York seventh regiment is about to give a
grand ball, which will surpass anything Of
the kind ever occurring in that city. They
propose to expsnd $40, 900, and 8, 900 tickets
will be sold Mt $40 each. The occasion for
this affair is reception" Of members who
have been officers of the army during the
war. Delmonico is to furnish supper at q
cost of $50, 900.
Col. Taos. DoDAMEAD, superintendent Of
tho Richmond and Danville railroad, has
published card in the Lynchburg VTgtn-
ian, correcting the statement of Richmond
correspondent of the New York Herald that
the suspension of freight transportation on
that road during the Christmas holidays was
caused by "a fear that negroes will mob the
trains and destroy the property"
TIE Wilmington Dispatch says: Captain
Carter, of the Dudley, while off the Cape
Fear bar, few days since, discovered and
took possession of the brig Georgia, from
Baltimore, which had sprung leak and been
abandoned by her crew. lie put crew on
| D0ard, VINO, hltor cOnsluorhDlo eAeTtlOn,
brought her safely into port. She was loaded
with COAL but her destination was not ascer-
tanned. According to the law governing such
cases, Captain Carter is, we believe, entitled
to seventy five per cent of the value of the
vessel and cargo.
A RATHER serious riot took place in
Springfield, ILL.,, on Christmas day. About
forty or fifty soldiers Of the Sd Veteran vol.
unteers, Hancock's corps, came up from
Camp Butler to Springfield, and after in.
dulging in much bad whisky, not liking the
appearance of the place, proceeded to clean
it out. A bloody fight ensued between the
soldiers, police, and citizens, which resulted
in the killing of one soldier and seriously
wounding several citizens and two policemen.
The riot was finally suppressed by the joint
efforts Of the citizens and the police, and the
leaders locked up. The soldier killed was
the ringleader of the mob.
A ROW took place in groggery styled the
Fourth Ward Saloon, in Indianapolis, last
Monday, in which three msn-Casey, Burnes,
and another unknown-were stabbed by q
man by the nams Of Pros Hobbs. Casey wai