Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-01
sUNDRIEs TO sUNDRIEs.

THE telegraph lines from New Orleans are
complained Of as Of irregular habits.
"Boor-JAcK" is the last aud most appro-
pirate name for Virginia mud.
THE drizrle of to-dayis not favorable to
New Years calls.
MAYOR HOFFMAN, of New York, has been
sworn in.
CRITIcIsM on Miss Braddon has not yet
been exhausted. One writer says, TT Is a
pity Lady Audley hadn't kept her secret"
SMITH 4 Co.'S Bank of Duquesne, Illinois
was broken open and robbed on Thursday
night of about $50, 900.
THE report is that General weitzel has re.
signed.
| LOUIS NAPOLEON and his cousin, the
Prince, are to make up and be friends again.
The rewards offered by Customs officers of
New York for the recovery of the body of the
late Preston King have been withdrawn.
| FRANK R. LUBBAoK, Ex-Governor Of Texas,
lately confined in Fort Delaware, has got
home. The Texans had better pass him on
to Macmillan.
FIVE bushwhackers, who celebrated Christ
mas by firing into passenger train on the
Pacific railroad, in Missouri, have been ar
rested, and perhaps they will be punished.
The New York Netion boldly charges the
Cincinnati Gazette with having "prigged" q
column-and-a-half article without saying
where 1t found it."
"HAs your sister got q son or daughter ~
asked an Irishman of friend. upon my
life, ;" was the reply, ~ don't know whether
I am IN mmeie or aunt"
Gov. ANDERSON, of Ohio, in his message
to the Legislature, takes grounds against the
Monroe doctrine. He thinks salt wont save
Mexico.
IT Is said that one house in Boston pur-
chased this fall fifty thousand dollars worth
of English holiday books. But so great has
been the demand that they find the supply
fills short,
TIE damage by the tornado at Pulaski,
Ga, was not SO great as at first reported A
Miss Braddon was killed. and Mrs. johnson
mortally wounded. Ono negro was killed.
and seven more or less injured
| IT SEEMS that it was Charles Levi Wood.
bury, Of Boston, lawyer who is somewhat
famous for all manner Of out-of-the-way
knowledge-who unearthed the statute which
has SO completely dumbfounded the State
constabulary of Massachusetts,.
The Boston papers have news that cholera
has broken out in the French island of Quad
aloupe, West Indies, and was lat the close Of
November committing great rayages. In n
town of 5000 inhabitants, there were 1O7
in one day.
| REV. Dr.. BELLOWS writes as follows: Ac
cording to the best sources Of information ut
present open to me, the ratio Of natiye-born
soldiers in the whole army, was eighty per
cent. of the whole. Per contra, the percent.
age of disabled men demanding or requiring
asylum is, according to the best testimony,
ninety per cent. of it of foreign birth.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the London Times
writes from Madrid that the Spanish are SO
much offended with their Queen on account
of her unchaste conduct that a revolution Il
regarded as inevitable unless she resigns. In
other words, she is so nasty that new dy'
nasty must be set up.
A LITTLE time since, at Jefferson, Texas,
the military rescued by force, in open dis
trict court, from the sheriff, two Treasury
agents indicted by the grand jury for swind
| linz Thu ofinar in command ordered the
provisional judge of the court to release thu
agents, under the threat of punishment If hi
disobsyed. The judge declined obeying thu
order.
The receipts for school purposes in New
York during the past year were 81, 2sS, sos bS,
and tho expenditures 81, Ss7, s5o.e2, At