Daily national Republican., 1865-12-26
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Labor League.
HsRE lisa double;j jOinted joke, from the
Saturday Press
"A company is about to be formed In this city
for reducing the price Of beef and mutton; o
course II will be Joint Stock Company
The Nation says that the effort Of Virs
ginia to reabsorb or recover the lost territory
Of West Virginia, will be about as successful
as that to replace chicken in its shell
SOMEBODY says politics should be adjusted
not so much in accordance with human req.
son as with human nature, Of which reason
forms part, and by no means the most i'm.
portant part.
The rain. and.freeEe storm ofsunday strung
the telegraph wires with great diamonds and
crystals until they broke down with the
weight in many places. Quibble says II will
bresk anybody to wear too much iewelry.
A purcHER's horse beat Lieut. General
Grants favorite nag on the road few days
ago, and the General would not allow the
grass to grow under his feet until he had
purchased the victorious trotter.
TIE managers of the Philadelphia and
Erie railroad company have presented to
VIM. g Moorhead, Esq, president Of the
company, a dinner and tea set of solid silver,
comprising twenty seven pieces.
Two members Of our editorial staff have
gone down East to spend the holidays. May
the wind be tempered to those shorn lambs
while on their return to the sanctum. To
use Fenianism, they are generally very
much at home while they are abroad.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that twenty-five cents is the
highest rate of stamp duty upon warehouse
receipts, whatever the value Of the property
deposited or stored.
The Secretary of the Treasury on satur.
day received 500, accompanied by the fol-
lowing note:
place the enclosed 500 to the credit Of
| the Government 1t is from person who
believes that God will punish in another
world those who keep that which does not
belong to them"
A PIGHT for $500 n side, between Morris
Phelan, lately from England, and Jim Ker.
rigan, of New York, is to come off on the
10th Of January. The men are to fight at
catch weight. Phelan is champion Of the
| light weights in England.
For the week ending December % the
Treasury Department redeemed S25S, 900 in
outstanding certificates of indebtedness, and
1894, 279, S5S in interest. bearing notes and
currency. Last week the Comptroller o.
the Currency issued $401, ,450 in currency to
national banks.
MISS FRANCIS NJ. DAYTON, OF Litchfeld,
Conn, was shot and probably fatally wound
ed on Saturday, in Brooklyn, N. Y, by
William II. Russ, who shot himself and
jumped overheard. Cold water cured bis
desire for death, and he got out in season to
be arrested. Russ says the young lady had
deceived him in love affairs.
Esr-IL POSSIBLE A weekly paper con.
tains the statement that the Count Joanness
has offered his professional services to Gen.
Robert E. Ice, to defend him in case he Is
tried for treason, and the General has writ
ten, gratefully accepting them" If this
circumstance he true, the best defence that
can be made for the rebel Generalissimo will
be that of insanity, which can thereby easily
be estnblished.-N y. Cni=en.
The trial Of the lato rebel General II. ".
Mercer is to take place at Charleston, s. G..
He is charged with the murder Of some Union
soldiers, who had, as the specification reads,
"been induced to enlist in the army of and
had taken the oath of allegiance to the So
called confe derate States to avoid starvation,
brutal treatment, and to offer u better means
of escape, on the assurance that they should
never be required to take up arms against
Union soldiers, which assurance was violated
on the first occasion"
Col. S. s. GooDE, was appointed Colonel
of the 2lst Illinois regiment carly in the
war, and the regiment having fallen into a
bad state OF discipline, Governor Yates
placed in command Ulysses s. Grant, who
then held position in one Of the State De.
partments of Hin 1is, and whose suggestion:
on military matters had inspired the conf,
dence of the Governor in his judgment and
ability. While Grant was making his way
up to the chief command Of the armies,
Goode was going to the bad insomuch thai
he became a bartender in a drinking saloon
By the death of his cousin, Sir Jasper Goode
at York, England, recently, Col. GoOde hai
fallen heir to n title and an estate, the
rental of which is three thousand pounds
sterling per year.
THE Chicago Republican treats Mr.. Ben
nett as warmly as Thad. Stevens does the
late Judge Taney. 1t says: "llowever un
pleasant it may be to watch the process o.
decay, it is impossible to notice the decline
of the New York Herald since the downfall
of its old rebel and copperhead patrons with
out giving to Mr.. james Gordon Bennett
that peculiar pity which the Scriptures be
speak for even the most hardened sinners
We are overcome with sadness in perusing I
woful account in that print of the 10th inst
Of a dismal confagratiOn that devastated
the city of New York Miry gears ago
Poor Mr.. Bennett, who seems to be as much
in his dotage as old Lamartine, is so fal
gone that in these stirring times he cannot
offer New Workers any fresher intelligence
than that Of casualty of the early part o
the nineteenth century. But more painful
than even this, is his editorial remark thai