The national Republican., 1866-07-03

. MAJ. GEN. 8. A. HuRLBur is spoken Of by
the Union men Of Iuoi, as q candidate for Con.
gresham for the State at large.
The Chicago Tribune says that Hon. John
+. Farnsworth will be renominated for Congress,
by seelamstion from the second Illinois District.
E. ST. JULIAN Cox, formerly resident Of
waukeshs, Wisconsin, Is spohsn - . Dv,s..-..is
candidate for Congress in Minnesota.
A CALL appears in the Macon Telegraph
for convention Of cotton planters to consider the
system Of free labor and othor subjects Of interest,"
"THE INDEPENDENT DISORDER OF CHAorros,
Capt. Absolom Helterskslter." are to parade in
Portsmouth on the Fourth Of July.
"UGH! Him great man! Big brave! Take
many scalps 4" said an Indian, seeing window full
Of wigs.
GEN. SLoouM had his pocket picked Of
gold watch while getting Of the steamer Chauncey
yibbard, at West Point, on Wednesday last.
DIpLoxAr1c relations between the Euro
peau Kingdoms very fragile. They are break.
ing of" in all directions.
THE Cincinnati Commercial reports that
Gen. John A. Logan, Of Illinois, will stump the
State of Pennsylvsnia in behalf Of Gen. Gssry, the
Repu blican nominee for Governor.
The reverend Lindsey, who whipped his
child to death, has fed to Canada to save his life,
which he did not deem safe in the neighborhood
where he resided.
The Journal Of Medicine recommends as
cure for feons that as soon as the parts begin to
SWELL cloth, saturated with he tincturs Of lobelia,
should bs wrapped around them. This kills the
fslon and Is said to fail II applied in season
WE learn from The London Field that an
epide mic Is carrying of the grouse In many dis
tricts Of England and Scotland. A similar disease
destroyed many birds some years sgo, and Its na
ture 10 not at all understood. The Field Is Of the
opinion that 1t Is caused BY overlooking.
A PRIZE FIGHT between John Dempsey and
Ambrose Casey, for $500, came of at Petroleum
Centre recently. Fifteen rounds were fought and
Casey declared the victor, on account Of foul
blow.
MRS. HEdGIE, who poisoned her two daugh
ters in Ithaca two years since has just been tried
in CORTLAND county-the venue being changed tt
that county from Tompkins county-and con
victed. Able counsel tried to make the jury be
Ieve that she was insane.
The distributors Of the large estate Of the
late Samuel Colt began last Tuesday at Hartford
the work of apportionins the property under the
terms Of the whl. The estate, real and personal
probably amounts to between three and four mil
lions, and includes large tracts of land with gold
silver and quicksilver mines.
GAIL HAMILTON, in her last work, Sum
mer Rest" does not seem to assent to the doctrin
Of the Immortality Of the soul It is p pularl
| r.. q, a. "A r. ,,nSh
Ing In this world but to convert grain into Tissue
what is there for him to do In q world whero ther
Is neither grain nor tissue? Why should he liv
again.
FoRNEY signs the call for a Garrison Test
monial Fund. In 1855 hs said: "Abolitionisr
marks Ito career not only by forcbls resistance
: the statutes Of Congress, but in filling chris,ia
denominations with discord and unhappiuess, b
giving prominence to inadels like Garrison, and
traitors like Wendell Phillips" These 'inadels
and TRAITORS" Fornsy now embraces with anss
tionate regard; but "inadsr' or "trsitor," neitbs
Mr.. Garrison nor Mr.. Phillips would permit th
y political chamsliof to come into his presence.
. THE remains of the late Governor Corwi
!, were buried at Lebanon, Ohio, the 18th instan
The Star says the body had been embalmed an
preserved In the vault Of the cemetery to await h
arrival Of his only son, W. II. Corwin, who ha
been In Mexico since 1861. The family were a
present, except sister in distant part Of Illino
As funeral ceremonies had been held at the tin
;. . the corpse reached Lebanon from Washington 81
v months ago, only the burial service was read o
tho present occasion, and prayer offered by th
10 Rev. DR.. Leonard, Of the Baptist church.
The late Augustus Russell Street, Of Ne
| u.y.n ,ha fonpdar of ha Yala School NJ Eina Att
II is reported to have left BY will some $50 900 for Ii
n endowment Of profsssorship In the Yale Theolog
!. cal School, to revert, in certain contingencies,
!, the College library, and about an equal sum {,
n the completion Of the Art building and the OF
,, dowmsnt Of some more chairs Of instruotio
|. in that school. These posthumous gifts Of M
Street to the College. combined with his donation
while alive, will swell the aggregate Of his bensfa
o tiOns to over s25o.ooo.
The English are fond Of abusing the peopl
Of the United States for not preserving the India
s tribes from becoming extinct before the advance
n our civilization. But the same thing is takin
place In New Zealand. The natives are fast disaI
Q pearing DR.. Featherstons says that forty yeal
n ago their numbers were estimated at one hundre
u thousand; now they do not number twenty tho'
o sand souls, and in twenty years they will be II
It duoed to mere handful 1t Is not that their lonI
t svity is abridged, but that from some unde6ne
6 cause, whenever placed side by side with Il
Europeans, "the bearths Of the natives, like Il
wigwams of the American Indians, retreat or di
u appear before the torrent Of immigration"
]. A LONDON letter says: American ceel
n rites are all the so just now We have Coksr Il
II boy sopranoi Bell Boyd, who has made her appea
|. ance as an actress In the provinces with su
i, cess they say, but then notoriety whatever shaI
It takes, Is generally successful in EngandD at
Artemus Ward, who has been offered $4,000, at
&c all expenses paid, to lecture In England for 81
10 months! En- rsuanehs you are to have the la
g Gordon Cummings collections Of skins hides BON
70 and tusks. Mr.. P. T. BArnum has purchased the
D. for his Museum. One hundred and ten pounds wei
10 given for one elephants skull II all the rs
is fetched proportionatsly large sums, the heirs
10 Gordon Cumming must have realised . tolsrab
proat."