Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-24
PEN, PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

PEN, PENCIL AND SCISSORS.
Tomorrow Is Palm Sunday.
FENrAS arrests continue In ireland. The
search for Stephens Is actively kept up.
TIE cattle plague in England has extended
to the sheep.
ALL vessels leaving Liverpool for the Uni
ted States are crowded with emigrsnts.
A NUMBER Of stores and dwellings In Me.
dina, New Jersey, were burned yesterday.
A rELreRAPH line has been completed from
Chicago to Lake Superior.
RENTS in st. Paul, Minnesota, have ad.
vanced from twenty-five to fifty per cent.
FRIDAr, April IS, has been appointed for
Fast day in Vermont.
THE French Prince Imperial has recovered
from the measles.
HERE Is an important truth-the jokests
may die but the fun goes on.
A DIPLOMATIC conference, in relation to
the Danubian Principalities, was held in
Paris on the 10th.
IT has been discovered that Minnesota is
entitled to public land grant Of 500, 900
acres, which she never received.
FEsrAH envoy from Ireland, who has
arrived in New York, says the stories Of
Stephens escape arc false.
SENATOR made his ablest speech
yesterday. lie said, "Gen. Aman, let's take
a drink
WHEN the Whipple file manufacturing
company failed did they follow their file
leader
QUEEN VIcToRIA held her first reception
since the death Of Prince Albert on the 9th
instant.
wEsr RoxBURY, Massachusetts,, has paid
all her war debt, and has money in the treas.
ury.
The Boston Post" Office has branch In
this city at 2l9 street. J. Walton Fitch
is the Post Master.
THE crop Of maple sugar will probably be
very small this spring, the season being un-
favorable.
TIE California Senate has passed resolu-
tiOns endorsing Congress as opposed to the
President by vote Of % to 81.
ABoUr 600 of the S4th oolored regiment,
mustered out in Florida, intend to settle in
that State.
The grain remaining In the New York
Central Railroad Company elevator, at Duf-
falo, and saved from the late ere, was sold d.
auction yesterday afternoon for $34, 900.
The mansion of Pierre Soule, at New Or
leans, has been restored to him by General
Howard. 1t was used for over two years as
a colored orphan asylum.
MANY q little makes muckle." Mr..
McCulloch has received s44 from Union
loving woman, to be applied to the payment
of the national debt.
MosBr has entered into partnership in the
real estate business with M. Bannon, Of Bal
timore. His strong practice will doubtless
be Conveyance"
DIsPArcHEs were sent to Chicago assert
ing that the United States Treasurer, in his
late letter, sided with Mr. Freeman Clarke
against the Secretary of the Treasury, when
the contrary is the case.
The Hungarian leaders and Parliament
are contending stoutly with the Austrian
Emperor for the reinstatement Of their con-
stitution and laws as they were before the
rebellion under Kossuth in 1851.
VoLrAIRE related to Mr.. Sherlock an an
ecdote of Swift. Lady Cartsret, vito of the
Lord Lieutenant, said to Swift: THE air In
ireland is very excellent and healthy" For
Gods sake, madam, :" said Swift, "don't say
so in England, for If you do they will Ger.
tainly tax it,"
The steamer General Hooker, on her
way from Charleston to Georgetown, when
of Sullivan's Island, this morning, took fire
in her wood-room. She was run ashore, but
was entirely destroyed. Three men and two
aides were drowned, including Miss Bush,
who had just come from school at the North.
Mr.. CALVIN PEPPER, who was arrested on
Thursday at Fortress Monroe, has been sent
to Richmond, where his colonization scheme
meantime large number OF influential citi-
Gems Of Norfolk have rendered him assistance
and sympathy.
A POErEss, in the Columbus, Georgia, Sun
sings:
The early flowers, the early nowersl love
thom passing we'll
OF hope and Joy, aud Innocence, they charm
ingly doth tell
Yea, verify, they doth"
SWEET are the uses Of adversely" Jas.
R. Hood, formerly editor Of the Chattanooga
GaEetts, and member Of the Tennessee Legis-
lAture, has retired from newspapers and po-
litics and set up the confectionery business,
which pays better than either ofthose learned
professions in Chattanooga.
TAG NswburypOrt Herald gives verbatim
report Of q speech made in the Common
Council Of that city on Monday evening,
which was pointed and very effective, for the