The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1866-09-07
Pen, Pencil, and Scissors.

1T makes fenow reel sheeplsh to get
among wet wsathsrs.
A "roUcHISa" scRSE-where the pick.
pockets swarm on Washington street-Boston
Post
The ram Dunderburg steamed around the
lower hsrbor this morning, under the supsrintend.
ence Of Mr.. Webb and Admiral Gregory. She will
make her trial trip in few days.
A CORRESPONDENT, writing about Califor-
mia earthquakes, says II the last severe shock in
San Francisco had lasted but few seconds longer,
the city would have been mass Of ruins
ISSANDusKY, Ono, a beautiful and wealthy
young lady has died from mixing strychnine and.
love. She took the former to cure the latter. II
did Il.
HERR Wow DREYsE, the inventor of the
nesdle-gun, has constructed new rife In every
respect fac simile Of the old, but three pounds
lighter, and wholly Of iron. lie has also completed
q new and most effective cannon.
THERE are about one hundred and eighty
twenty short Of the ordinary number. The Lcgis-
ures to make up the deficiency.
LIEUT.. r. d. MURRArS, of the 18th infantry,
formerly Of the 10th West Virginia volunteers, Is
in town. and has been warmly greeted BY his friends
and acquaintance who have been made familiar
with his merits as officer and gentleman dur.
ing the war.
A LADY while bathing on Hampton Beach,
N H.. last week, was struck full in the face BY a
breaker, and her full set of false teeth carried
away Three days afterwsrd a farmer raked them
out Of a pile of sea-wsed on the shore, and re-
turned the missing members.
The Viennese jokingly say: 1--WE gave
yenetis for Napoleon, and 1t turns out to DO a
bad one" The sting Of the joke lies in the fact
that the French Emperor, on accepting the cession
Of Venetia, made promises to Austria which he af.
forwards did not fulfil.
The radicals are rejoicing over their vic
tory in Vermont but when any New England
We will throw up our hat and hurrah. There's not
even a negro constable In all New England. Where
arc the guarantees that Vermont will remain loyal,
The radical papers characterize Mr..
Speeds speech at the Philadelphia Convention as
patriotic speech. As Mr. Speed did not rec
ommend the Convention to adopt negro suffrage,
we must conclude that the radical party has bilked
the negro.
A GUERILLA LEADER, Dick Hampstead, was
on Wednesday captured by the Regulators, near
Little Rock, Ark, who after trying him, and find
ing him guilty of eleven murders, all of which he
confessed, burnt him to death by slow fire which
totally consumed his body, so that his ashes min.
glsd with those of the fuel.
THE Canadians are making extensive pre-
parations for receiving the FeniAns. The volun.
teers in the West have been supplied with ten thou
sand rifles recently arrived from England. Camp
equipsge and ammunition sre also going westward.
All regular officers on furlough are ordered to im-
mediately join their commands.
A LIVELY correspondent in the last Home
Journal writing from Stafford Springs to that
paper mentions his falling in love with "gush.
ing'' damsei, to whom he inditsd a "pome' of
eleven stanzas. Here is the result
up. s. And here conclude my p. Sing
It's all over. The poem was ehfsctual. I've been
and done 1t and Alice and are to be .Sanlessd
speedily"
A YOUNG maintained Mary Dougherty,
residing in Carlsston, s. c., was killed on Sunday
in 4 singular manner. She was employed in max
ing up the bed Of the proprietor of the house where
she lived, when a loaded pistol, which had been
left under the pillow, fell upon the floor, and the
contents were discharged into her thigh and abdo-
men.
A NEGRO quartette club recently serenaded
q servant in the house Of gentleman in St. Louis.
Their singing was excellent, and the young ladies
Of the family, deceived by the darkness, thought
-. IL IL.
ingly threw them boquets and went into becom-
ing state Of excitement. When papa went out to
ask the Ministries in to refresh themselves the mis-.
take was discovered.
A CLERGYMAN who had an engagement to
preach in Richmond on a recent Sunday arrived
there the Saturday previous in a steamer. Find
ing the staterooms very comfortable, he determined
70 sleep there that night. Awakng on Sunday
morning. after q refreshing slumber, he was aston
ished and Mortified to End himself at the wharf in
Norfolk, hundred and fifty miles from the congrs.
CATION which waited for his coming.
LONDON is q world in itself. The last
English develops the curious fact that there
are more scotchmsn in London than in Edinburgh.
more Irish than in Dublin, more Roman Catholics
than in Rome, and more Jews than in Palestine.
Next 10 Lohuoh PerhhPri Now iOrk Is the most
cosmopolitan Of cities. 1t has not so many Scotch
men as Edinburgh but according to the census 1t
has nearly as many Irish as Dublin, while as a
German city 1t is probably the third in the world
ranking next to Berlin and Vienna.
A CONTEMPORARY journal speaks Of Louis
Napoleon in these terms: Ellis plans have all
failed through the suppression Of the American re.
bsllioni the hope Of partial recovery through the
war in Germany is also knocked in the head; the
best way for him is to do the only thing which is
Left that Is, to submit to what he cannot help, and
henceforth keep at home, mind his own business,
and see what he can make out of France His ex.
pectation Of becoming the head of Europe, the
arbiter among kingdoms the supreme dispenser of
peace and war, and the lord of destiny to the
whole earth, has failed, and he can be nothing
more than Emperor Of the French, and that only
as long the French foolish enough to tolerate
him.
UNDER the title Of "The Times we Live
In" writer in the London Spectator gives a vivid
picture of the wonderful changes effected and be-
ing wrought in the political world and in the realms
of thought and of ethical and religious discussion