Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-05


broad road that leads TO distraction Q year
or 30 ago. and he has got almost there. He
has disappeared, aud turns out to DO a dc.
fauitsr to the amount Of s75, 900. Small
business, comparatively, as we'll as disrepu.
tabls.
1LorAL GRAr, a rich, lively fabric, Is all
the fashion In the North just now. The
President Of the Senate appeared In . suit Of
II to-day. The contrast with the California
olive suit worn by the Speaker Of the House
Is very great.
AARON A. BRADLEY, q partially insane
oolored man, who was some years ago ex'
PEELED from the Boston bar, convicted BY =
military commission at Savannah, for sedi.
tious language and melting the freedmen to
disorder and sentenced to q years hard
labor at Fort Pulaski, has been released on
parole by order of Secretary Stanton.
An esteemed and usaally woll.informsd
correspondent Informs us that the victorious
Gillian corvette Esmeralda Is not manned by
Chilians. The captain 10 an Englishman,
the 6rst officer an American, and nearly all
the crew are Of the AnglO.ssIon race. Tho
csbin.boy Is said TO be the only Gillian on
board
Gerard HALLocK, the founder and for
manyyears tho proprietor Of the New York
Journal Of Commerce. died at his residence
in New York, at hsif.past nine o'clock last
evening. He had been suffering from 4 COM
plication Of disorders for the last six months,
but was not confined to his residence until
two weeks past. He was sixty.six years Of
ago.
A CURIOUS custom Is still in vogue In the
more northern districts Of Scandinavia. On
the occasion Of marriage the mother Of the
bridegroom approaches the bride and lays at
her feet a plate Of bread and aag-root. The
bride offers her future mother.in,law . part
Of II, bat the latter declines partaking; thus
intimating that she will never live on the
substance Of her new relative.
| THEArRicALs having become q necessity
in Galveston, Texas, tho theatre there has
been opened by the following company: Mr..
Frank NJ. Bates, stage manager and leading
man; Mrs. F. NJ. Bates, Mr.. Harry Melmer,
Miss Fanny Melmer, Mr.. p. J. Coss, Madame
Cossino, Mics Ellen Cassell, Mrs. Lind. Miss
Lind, Mr.. Oliver Wren, Mr.. Fred. Wren, Mr..
H. Miller, Mr.. F. M. McClanahan, and Mr..
Stone, leader of the orchestra.
Ar the wool growers convention at Colum.
bus, Ohio, on Tuesday, resolutions wers
adopted approving the policy Of terminating
the reciprocity treaty between the United
States and Canada, that wool-growers' inter
ests arc entitled to O degree Of leRislatiy,
protection equal to that accorded to manu-
featuring interests, that the interests of tn,
country require an extension of culture o.
worsted woods; that the committee Of tn,
National Manufacturer Association to nee
the United States Revenue Commissioner
be advised to recommend that tax be Levied
on dogs sufficient either to raise q consider
able revenue for the Government, or materi
ally diminish the number of dogs, or both.
The FEsIASs continue to have lively
times. Yesterday, the Congress appointed q
committee to confer with the Fenian Senate
and adopted a resolution directing the Pres
ident Of the Senate to report directly to tb,
Congress. Roberts replied to the Congress
that he did not recognize the legality Of tn,
Congress, but was willing that the books anG
papers of the Senate should be examined
Mr.. Killian's financial report Is ready for tn,
Congress. Col. o'Mahony's address wal
road to the Congress in the afternoon. Col
Mehon has written an appeal to 0'Mahony
and Roberts to resign simultaneously.
The First National Bank of Richmond
II. g. FAINT, President, has been doing bus.
mess about six months, and notwithstanding
the heavy expenses attending the organiEa.
ton and establishment Of a new bank, 1t has
nevertheless earned for its stockholders 25
per cent. on the capital stock during this
short period, being equal to SO per cent per
annum. With view Of enhancing the value
of the stock, and adding to the working cap,
ital, the directors have very wisely divided
only 10 per cent. of the earnings, Is per cent
having been added to the surplus fund
From the quarterly report just issued, II mp
pears that the resources of this bank sum W
81, 1872, 976 90. The leading items are bill
and notes, 1914, 724.42i due from National
Banks, S276, 5O5.26; United States bonds,
S2ll 900; legal tender and National Bank
notes and cash items, 1924, 562.s5; specie
and sterling, $85.530.04.
The Daily Montgomery (Alabama) Ledge,
prints a "heathenish" poem from contrib.
utor who calls himself Alabama" "How
doth the heather rage' in such stanzas az