Daily national Republican., 1866-03-20
PEN, PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

HEAvr rains have been falling In Ken.
tuoky, and the tributaries of the Ohio are
swollen beyond precedent. The Licking river
rose II feet in one day.
The trade Of New Orleans with the North.
west is increasing. twenty-five thousand
sacks Of grain were brought down the Missis.
sippi In one day. .. .... ... .....
I In Belgium there are eighteen thousand
persons who havo right to wear the order
Of King Leopold, and In France there are
sixty -four thousand with the ribbon Of the
Legion Of Honor.
ITALIAN brigands lately captured Mr..
wennerson, rich Swiss, at Salerno, and did
not release him till his family paid fourteen
thousand ducats. Their first demand was
for million ducats, but this was refused.
On the gravestone of an old lady in Dux-
bury, after the mention Of her name, date Of
death and age, the epitsph asserts the need.
lessness Of adding TO q well-established fame
BY the simple sentence: "The ehisel can't
help her any"
THE LIE Pays, q French Canadian paper,
says: Canada, by not joining It's interests
to those Of its rich and powerful neighbors,
will be condemned to vegetste miserably un-
der the tutelage Of foreign power, and be
loaded with taxes, debts and beggars."
A LARGE per cent. of the apple, peach,
pear, ounce and plum trees in Hancock
county, West Virginia, has been destroyed
by mice. There will be few cherries, owing
to the trees being full of blacks knots. The
wheat looks we'll.
A MAN by the name Of Montgomery, living
about Eve miles from Sweetwater, East Ten
nessee, was murdered In cold blood on
Wednesday Of last week, while on his way
from his farm to Sweetwater. He had been
shot through six times in the head and in
the body.
LATELY there has been great excitement
among the people of Armstrong county, Pa,
foyer the discovery Of q substance closely re-
sembling gold. It is found in ainty blush
rock, said to be a species of quartz. Speci-
mems Of the ore have been sent to the assay
Office in Philadelphia.
SEVEN or eight negro criminals were taken
to Petersburg, Wednesday, from southside
county, to be put in jail. Some discharged
colored troops cut the ropes with which they
were tied, as they were passing uptown,
and they scattered, but after an unstrategic
scamper, were rearrested. The prisoners
were charged with the most diabolical crimes
JOSIAH QuIScY is urging the Massachu-
setts Legislature to purchase the Boston and
Worcester and Western Railroads of that
State. He says that BY the purchase of the
two roads the interest on the State debt
would be provided for, and the expenses of
transportation between the West and New
England be reduced at once by half mil.
lion Of dollars.
TIE death is recorded Of the celebrated
chemist, Mr.. William Thomas Brande, D. G.
L., T. R. s. He was born In 1856; was
grandson of physician who came from Han.
over with George I'LL. and was that Kings
physician. He has held nearly every high
place In the medical world of London. Be-
sides his famous "Manual Of Chemistry, {"
which has been translated into many lar
guages, he was author of "outlines of Geol-
ogy," Dictionary Of Science and Art" &c.
SOME time ago, at Bross and New Gala.
bar, on the western coast Of Africa, the na.
tivss Of New Calabar made a raid on the
Bross men, through the Calabar creeks, and
returned with thirty-seyen prisoners. On
the next day after the raid aforesaid, we are
informed, that great "play'' was held in
Calabar town, and all the prisoners were
killed and eaten. After death the bodies
were cut up and divided among the chiefs,
according to the number taken by each war
canoe.
In Oakland township, Schuyler county,
Illinois, on Sunday week, q gang of rowdies
gave chartVari TO newly-married couple
at the house Of Mr.. Middleton. Mr.. Middle.
ton opened the door to demonstrate with
them, when he was knocked down with a
club. His cousin, Murray Middleton, then
rushed to his assistance, when they attacked
him, knocked him down by striking him on
the head with q rock or brickbat, and
Ltamped him SO severely that he fingered till
daylight next morning, when he died.
In Syracuse, New York, the other night
a young man, going home from his work
met three ladies abreast. In this case rude
ness or the gutter was his only alternative
He chose the gutter, slipped upon piece o.
ice, bruised his person and dislocated hi
shoulder joint. The Standard says tn,
young man will be laid up for weeks, and al
for want of the most barely decent polite
ness on the part of the ladies he met-ladies
We are sorry to say, who have their counter
parts in all places, and to'whom n few les
sons in street etiquette would be extremely
useful
An academy in Clinton, of New Yorl
State, worth about three thousand dollars
was recently burnt to the ground. The edi
tor of the Courier, (the local sheet,) VIII
was witness Of the conaagration, tells u
that 'the fire increased in vengsless fury
and the forked flames leaped up the cupola
and rolled over the rich corniee and heav,
balustrades in livid streams Of Madness send
ing up great volumes Of smoke and lighting
up the darkness and the distant hills Il oV
grand the sight, and still how terrible, non,
will soon forget who saw 1t Sadly We watched
its burning timbers, and saw its splendiC