The national Republican., 1867-09-06
Pen, Pencil. and Scissors.

GEN LoSGsTEEEr is ruralizing in the
New Hampshire mountains.
GREAT BRIrArN's mineral productions for
last year are estimated at something over 5000.
900, 900.
IT Is proposed to establish sporting
bureau in connection with the New York
police.
DR.. HAYES has received the Victoria
medal for his explorations in the Arctic REQ .on'.
HEAD CENTRE SrErHESs is writing q
book. He will doubtless find his pen mightier
than his sword.
The business Of the postal money order
the current fiscal year.
BUSINESS is reported lively in Philadel-
phia, also in Baltimore, principally among the
Wholesale dealers.
A. 7. STEWART, esq, Of New York, is
about to establish a brapch establishment in
Boston.
IT is stated that John u. Cough has
been obliged to decline four hundred invitations
to lecture during tho coming season.
A GENUINE woolly horse is exhibited in
Ohio. Barnum may cover many sins by secur.
ing him.
Ex.GoyERSoR CURIIy, who arrived on
Monday, from Europe, has greatly improved in
health during his absence.
"ALL SoRrs," Of the Boston Post, has
made a discovery, the result Of which is, "Ten.
nysOn's nose is precisely two and fOur.seventhS
inches long.
From FRENCu Il RICHARDSON, 334 Penn.
sylvania avenue, we acknowledge the receipt Of
tho London Quarterly Review american edition.
for July
ApARE story goes that kegs Of old nails
arc thrown into the Saratoga Springs at night to
Gecure the flavor. Glue and mackerel skins are
also hinted at.
A MAN named Tease has married a
woman named Cross in St. Louis That's a
lucky tease. He teaEed her till she agreed she
wouldn't be Cross any more
The schoolmaster is going abroad in
France. Thirty.fve hundred French pedagOgues
are to visit the Exhibition during the fall vaca.
tion.
Az auctioneer's clerk being directed by
bis employer to insert in an advertisement q
"Freseo by Raphael" wrote "a Fresh Cow by
Rattle ~
The late ex-senator McDougall, Of Cal
itOrnia, leaves a wife and two daughters, one 4
young lady, the Other child Of seven years.
His wife was tho daughter of Murray McCOn.
nell, an eminent lawyer Of Springfield, Ill.
i Hos. SCHUYLER CoLFAx has arrived
from Lake Superior, in Chicago lie left on
Monday afternoon for his home in Indiana. and
intends soon to take the stump for the Republi
can cause in Ohio.
DR.. CROSBY, of New Haven, who in
vented the machine for making pins, has per
feeted another which runs out a perfect needle
without touch of human hand, except the TEN
peripg Of the wire.
THE London Spectator has an Australian
correspondent who adopts the curious signatur,
Of wild Ass" An exchange, in alluding t.
this, very uncivilly remarks that "he has sew
eral close connections among the watering
place correspondents Of New York journals
. The poor Princess of Wales, after month
/. of torturing confinement, without the possibilit
p Of exercise has been ordered to tho baths
Germany as last resort. 1t is feared that thi
most delicate and beautiful Princess has bee
crippled for life. She was too young, too fragil
for the duties of her exalted station, and tn,
burdens of maternity. Three children in lesl
than three years exhausted her vitality.
THE New Orleans Crescent Of the 27th
srys The letters and extracts from CORES.
pOndenca which reached the Crescent Office yes.
terday contained information about the cottor
crop Of not so universally gloomy a character a
that We Published week ago. The prospect il
soue quarters is bad enough, but within tn,
last week the planters appear to be recovering
from the n!rrehcnsiyls oocasionsd by the early
attack of the worms.
: PERSONAL.
Cot. CHARLES 7. ELDRIDGE, of the Com