The national Republican., 1866-10-16
Pen, Pencil, and Scissors.

IHE Ohlnese pirates nave defeated Gov
eminent expedition sent against them.
GHIoSr and SrsrSr's Opera Troupe are a
Hibsrnia Hall, Savannah, Ga.
RosrSr is writing cantata for the inau
guration Of the French Exhibition.
Miss MELVILLE has closed at the Greenlaw
Opera House, Memphis.
A COMPLETE edition of Mendelssohn's
works for piano forte is now in press in London.
The sales of musical merchandise in Chi.
osgo for the year 1865 amounted to 81, Oes, 900.
J. K. PAINE, the Boston organist, has gone
to Europe on q musical tour.
Mr. BARRETT will succeed Miss Thompson
at the De Bars, st. Louis.
MISS JEAN HosNER has been playing at
the Nashville Theatre.
LADY Doy and KATE DENIM are the stars
at MEG uire's San Francisco Theatre.
ST. PArRIcK's CATHEDRAL, burned in New
York, is to be rebuilt Immediately.
ALL the employees in the Quartermaster 8
Department at Hilton Head have been discharged.
The cost of music on the New York Cen
tral Park last year was s4,365.
THERE will be trouble in Europe when
Louis Napoleon dies.
The well known Italian. Maestro Alsini
leaves Paris In November for New York to settle
there.
Two eminent Chicago physicians, Drs.
Hoph and Winner, died of cholera on Thursday
night last.
A DEcAYED locust tree fell upon drayman
in Cincinnati, on Thursday, as he was driving past
his own house, killing him instantly.
A LADY in England in custody for murder
Is the daughter of a man who cut his wifes throat
and then shot himself.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail of the Sd
instant states that there not less than 200
of the broken. bone fever in that city.
DAVID SMITH, Of Sanborntown, n. H., has
a grape vine from which he has picked this year
1900 pounds of grapes
The Academy of Music in Philadelphia is
to be thoroughly renovated, repaired, and uphOl-
stored. The prevailing color will be blue.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC is to be made q regu-
lar study in the Camden New Jersey public
schools.
TIE four marches performed at the recent
marriage of the Princess Helena wero by Handel
Beethoven, spohr, and Mendelssohn.
THERE has recently been put into circula-
tion a well.executed counterfeit of the IS bill of
the Bank of British North America, payable in
Toronto.
PRoF. AGAssIz is announced to deliver q
course of twelve lectures on Brazil, before the
Lowell Institute Boston, beginning on the 2Jd
instant.
A YANKEE farmer is endeavoring to dis
cover plan to extract beats from musical compo.
sitions He states that they are worth trying for,
as iu some cases it only takes two to fHa measure
The Utica Herald of the 18th inst says:
"Large quantities Of potatoes are being brought
into the Rome market, and bring, on an average,
about fifty cents a bushel.
A TERRIBLE MURDER has occurred ut AS
toria, near New York. An unknown man, appa-
rently q sailor, was found in n piece Of woods
dead, with fearful wound on the top of his head,
evidently made with an axe or hatchet.
The Boston Herald says it is stated that
gentleman in Stoneham, Mass has oh, aimed evil
dence establishing his claim to the great Townlsy
estate in England, valued at some ffty millions.
TIE colored people in Richmond have
bought two cemeteries near tho city. One is called
the Mechanics" Cemetery, .and the other
the "Van Arvale." Both are being filed rapidly
by deaths among the freedmen.
THE Portland advertiser urges the people
of that city to raise funds for the relief of the suf
ferers by the late disastrous fire at wscasset, Me-
1t says that town has suffered proportionately as
severe as did Portland in July
THE Yarmouth (Mass.) Register says the
heavy frost on some parts Of the Cape, on Friday
night Of last week. has occasioned a severe loss to
the cranberry crop, some estimating it as high as
800, OOO
The school children OF South Danvers,
Mass, were to assemble at the Peabody Institute,
iu that town, yesterday, to welcome George Pea.
body the founder of the Institute. A choir com.
posed of some Luudreds of the children were to
sing some odes written for the occasion.
A cuLTIvAroR was espied by party of
Nashville negroes, when one said "A man can jist
sit on dat ting ride while he's blowing"
"GOlly," said another, - de d-n rascAls was too
sharp to think O. dat fore the niggars was sot
free.n
MADAME, your boy can't pass for half
fare he is too large" said the conductor of a rail
way train which had been detained on the road by
snow. "He may be too large now" replied the
matron, "but he was small enough when we
started" The conductor gave in, and the boy
passed for half fare.
THE young fellow who tried to pass him
self of here n Of James Gordon Bennett
showed himself proficient in two languages-be
talked English and walked Spanish" We think
that If we had the choosing of father we wouldn't
make quite SO stupid q choice as he did.-Louis.
pWs Journal.
Or SwINBuRNE's new book, Laus Veneris
and other Poems and Ballads" recently suppressed
in England. and soon to be published in New York
by Carleton, the London EramiHv sharply says
"The withdrawal of that volume is an act Of weak.
of which any publisher who does not give himself
up to the keeping Of a milk-walk for the use OF
babes has reason to be heartily ashamed
Mrs. ELIZABETH STANTON CADY has offered
herself as a candidate for the congressional repre-
sentatiOn of the Eighth district of New York She
processes ndependet principles, with a moral reser.
vation in favor of the Republican party, provided