The national Republican., 1866-07-17

A NEAT five cent paper has been started in
New Orleans called the New Orleans Herald.
TnE Free Masons Of Brooklyn, New York,
IRE about to build marble hall 200 feet front and
40 feet deep. ...r.rr .IH
MILES O'REILLEY has q knack Of writing
,nscreon,c poems that beat the sfusions Of Ana.
'rson himseif all to piecss .,'.r
Miss JEASNErrE L. DOUGLASS, Of New
Yo'k, received legaoy Of 500. 900 from relative
n Scotland. She vas employed during the war
| one Of the Departments at Washington.
Hon. Mr.. SrANsBERRY left Cincinnati last
night and will arrive here tomorrow morning. He
staiksd Of as successor OF Attorney General Speed
.hose resignation has been tender cd to the Piesi-
| lent. .'
Mr.. BERNARD FoRr, jr, formerly citizen
t Eliiootts Mills, Nd , but recently 9 resident Of
Catonsvhls, Nd committed suicide on Thursday
.iternoon last, BY blowing out his brains with a
gun.
THOMAS DESSIsoS, an American citizen
sorking as . b,iekiaysr In ogdensburgh, N. Y f,
sisited Prescott, g. w.. on Sunday last, and was
unsigned to the cells for giving utteranos to Fe.
,isn sediments. 1t appears that Dsunison had in
lulssd rather freely In stimulating dripkA
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Providence Jour
aai after a visit to the House Of PEERS in London,
describes the noble Lords as being rather shabby
n their appearance, and says Lord Brougham was
the worst dressed man among thsm.-hs did not
even look clean. .'
SOME boys at Sedalia, Missouri, fred of
| an anvil on the 4th, and burst II. One piece
sent length wise through the store Of Shields Co
loing further damage than psrforstng the build.
| ng at both ends. A pisos weighing seven pounds
| vas thrown on top Of the Parker House. Strange
to say, there was nobody hurt ....
THERE is a church in Vermont in which
the people cannot agree whether to face the pulpit
or the choir during singing. Some look ons way,
,oms the other, and others, seemingly disgustsd
w,th the whole ssnsslsss quarrel, will not stand q
| all. We don't see how the parson can stand It at
| al. tr f ..' .
Tnn Baltimore american, which loudly and
bitterly opposed the passage Of troops through that
city for the defence of the capital In the spring
1861, is now opposed to the Phsdslphia convention
in August The Out Hsrodiugs Of some Of the elsv.
snth.hour Hsrods of the radical party are very
amusing. II the Fuitons, Stokes, Brownlows, etc.,
do not make up for lost time II viii not bs for lack
Of we'll simulated seal In their efforts to cover uI
| the mistake Of lifetime" .u
The sympathies Of the Queen Of England
| must bs strangely divided In the contest on th.
| continent. The husband Of her eldest daughter
commands division Of the Prussian army, ,in which
aear relatives Of her late husband occupy promi
uent positions. The husband Of her second daugh
ter has command In the Austrian army. Primo,
| rsck, just married to the Princess Mary Of G N
bridge, has accepted . command In the Aastri !
army, and sets out for the seat Of wa, with hi
bride. before the honey moon s half over. ,f,, B. |,
We have reached that point Of the sum
ner season whom . scjourn at Pinsy Point. on th
Potomac, so we'll known to the old habi'uss o
Washington, Is most desirable. Several gentlsms,
Who have gone there with their families report tha
Captain Mitchell is furn 'shing his guests create
attractions than ever before and that the doubtsr
and unbsevsrs--soms even "who went to scof -
remained 10 eat shssps-hssd, softshsll crabs. ant
he thousand and one other luxuries Of the shore
II the great Potomac and Chesapeake bay. Som'
pleasant people occupy the cottages connected with
the hotel and the season Is said to DO more delight
ful there than usual.
The Paris correspondent of the Nation
tells Of learned ,avan connected with the Gardei
Of Plants, who has been trying for some time, bu
unsuocss'fuly, to hatch three crocodile eggs, tive
Ofthsm white and one red,) presented him last win
ter by traveller returned from the East with q
view to ''doiating' France with new article o.
food-stewsd crocodile being declared BY said
traveller to be both palatable and nutricious In .
high degree. The failure Of the learned doctor t6
hatch these eggs, which hs is said to have carried
constantly in his bosom for the last ,svsn months,
wrapped in flannel waistooat especially do ned
for that purpose i attributed to the fact Of their
not being crocodile eggs At oil. but three billiard
balls sbstrsetsd from "hsll" q Cairo By the
psrhdisus "ffisnd,n a a..g.- gs- .IZ .al i