Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-03
ycIL AVID scIssoHa.
PEN. PIE.

are going homet 'Fote "
THr force of , treasury clerks is to be re
duced by seventy. two ,Nsmissals.
The oanadiansl ave now 1000 wsll-driIlst
officers for their mi MA -. u.,utfr
WE are apparentJSa the point Of having
the Fenian mystergaBs red up.
The Texas couansit N is fighting shy Of
its legitimate work.
Tn.. Minnesota Legif iature has endorsed
the Freedmen's Bureaa bill and adjourned.
TBu oueenof Spain lost her little baby
February 18th.
Visions OF "plankea'" shad are looming
up on the Potomac.
TIE temperance lecture Of Con. S. F. Cary
Mt the Z Streea Baptist church last evening,
was an ndmirs BILE effort.
DEAD DUcK.i ("sh ufiers") were selling
this norping at thirty-seven and half cents
apiece. No "di dappers" in market.
SEcRErARr M cCULLocH has authorised
Government ago nts TO recommends the sale
of captured RrI conhscated cotton seized by
the military sut horities.
The gold-bead ng quarts in the vicinity of
the Great FaIIs the Potomac, about four.
teen miles from d Ills city, is beginning to at.
tract considerable attention.
An immense oh urch and college edidce is
to be erected in, the town of st. Mcinrad,
Spencer county, Indiana, by the Roman
Catholics.
| BEPoRE eating jour pork examine II with
q microscope, to see whether the butcher has
been tricking you with meat infected with
trichnie.
IT is understood thi,t II the loan bill fail,
in Congress, Secretary McCulloch will i'm.
mediately use the power conferred upon him
by the last Congress to reduce the currency.
SOME bold robbers tied Milton whipple, of
Riga, Monroe county, New York, and his
family with, cords, and robbed his safe of
$40, 900 in stocks and some cash.
The English champion billiard player,
Roberts, has been beaten at French carom
BY Melvin Foster by fifteen points in eight
innings.
The number ofletters and newspapers de-
liyered in New York city is increasing at the
rate Of not far from FIVE millions year. The
number received last year was nearly fifty
millions.
THERE is an enormous pigeon roost in
Martin county, Indiana. 1t covers terri
tory Of ten miles long and two miles wide,
and We suppose there's much sgud5.bling in
that territory.
Ar public dinner to the members of the
Canadian Government, Thursday night,
speeches were made by Gait, Rowland, Mac
donald, and Cartier. Macdonald asserted
the confederation of the provinces was now
certain to take place in a few weeks.
The pulpit of the Congregational Church
in this city is to be occupied tomorrow, and
the two next succeeding sabbaths, by Rev.
Mr. Hepworth, of Boston, who enjoys a great
reputation at home as an eloquent preacher.
His politics are Of the "radical' school.
AFFAIR of lovers, fleeing from stern and
cruel parents, were married in the cars near
st. Louis, the other day. Papa telegraphed
to the conductor to send his daughter back,
but he telegraphed back, "Never return
fair on this road
john WoOD, alias Jack Shepard, IT,, who
l recently escaped from, Sing Sing prison, was
arrested in Yonkers, New York, on Tuesday
, night, by Detective Baker, of Boston, in
, which city Jack stole $4,000 worth of dry
goods.
THERE are, at the present time, some four
hundred banks that are used as repositories
for United States funds, yet out of the
/ whole number there are only four who have
t more money on deposit than is covered by
securities in the hands of the United States
Treasurer.
We have been requested to state that the
l Swiss Benevolent Association will hold a
general meeting nj tho Office Of the Consul
General of Switzerland, on Monday evening
next, at seven o'clock precisely, and all
Swiss residing in Washington are invited to
/ attend.
DURING tho month Of February certif-
, Gates, checks, &c, amounting to $l26, OS4.6S,
: were received at the Army and Navy Claim
Agency Of the United States Sanitary Com
mission, being the amount of their collec-
ton of pensions, prize money, bounty, and
I arrears.
: The Dostonians are getting dissipated.
/. The Traveller says that "the participants in
the masquerade last night reached their
t places of business before noon, with the cowl
dotted and the scowl donned. They will re-
4 sumo their true characters after n nights
E rest"
: Occasional" shrieks frantiOally-"Who
q shall keep q record Of the thousands Of
!: broken promises in reference to the distribu.
tiOn Of his president JOhnson'sl patronage
among the members of the great Union party
It to which that patronage clearly belongs'"
IS Poor fellow! The patronage of tho Senate
y Is not enough for him.
:. AMONG the recent commissions signed by
the President are the following: Hannibal
: Hamlin as collector Of customs at Boston;
Lawrence Grinnell, as collector at New Bed
% ford; Alfred Macy, as collector at Nantucket
n Daniel W. Gooch, as naval officer at Boston,
: and Thomas b. Bush, as naval officer at New.
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