The national Republican., 1867-04-17
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MRS. Lucy STONE mas ''een ePehhinK AT
Lsavenworth, Kansas.
Two lottery dealers have been Rn''d in
Boston $1,000 each.
TuE financial panic in england does not
aoem to abnte, but rather increaaes
TuR majority in favor of a constitu honal
.o,v.n,ion TO revise the constitution Of Mary
land lie 10, 900.
TIE revolution in Hayti seems to have
be., more the work Of . few disoontented per-
sons than the result of general dissaiisfaction.
oSE HUNDRED MEN are at work at the |
bridge now building across the Missouri river at
Kansas city, Missouri.
LOWELL, Mass, has 40 factories, the cap
ital stock Of which Is $l3 $50, ,oOoi 9ol3 females
and 4, 9l4 males are employed
Two MORE crevasses occurred nt the
Bayou L, Fourchs on Saturday. They cause
great distress in tho psrish Of La FOurchs.
ALL the distilleries have been closed in
Tennessee by the Government agents. Their
owners failed TO comply with the law Of 1866.
IT is proposed to build bridge across
the Ksnnebec river, nearly 2,7Oo feet long, and
costing 81, 900, 900.
TuE colored people of Richmond, Va,
observed with becoming respect tho anniversary
ot Mr.. Lincolu's death on the 18th instant.
The people down East are receiving
large cargoes Of halibut from the Western banks.
One vessel brought $4,000 worth.
THERE will be nearly 5O,OOO, 900 feet Of
lumber, mostly spruce sawed on the line Of the
Grand Trunk railroad this season, all OF which
will fnd n market in Portland
MONDAY LAST was universally observed
in Illinois as the anniversary Of Mr.. Lincoln's
death. All business was suspended throughout
the State.
The weekly bank statement in New
York shows a decrease in loans, s4,367,s49i cir.
culaton, s72 52ei deposits, 81, O35 900; increase
in specie, Sill, ,4l6; legal tenders, 81, lso, ,oHW
The South Carolina Ne,gS, paper pub
ushsd at Columbia, has been purchased by Nash
= y and other colored men, and will be conducted as
a conservative negro organ.
u THE Catholics of Lawrence Mass, are
L about to erect house for orphans, at an ex,
h pense Of $50, 900. 1t is to be under the charge
e Of the Sisters of Charity.
'f Tue Cleveland (Ohio) Herald complains
ii of the unfair dealing of some of the Washington
r, correspondents with members Of Congress. II
Y says this is a growing evil
d CHEAP kIrCHESs for the working classes
l. have been established in Belgium. The Queer
" takes great interest in the project. For few
N sous a poor family is supplied with good soup
! bread and boiled meat.
IN "ONE might have heard u pin fall is {
-, proverbal expression Of silence, but II has beer
eclipsed by the French phrase, " You might hay,
y heard the unfolding Of lady's cambria hand
~ ksrehief"
u TIE settlers of nearly all the frontier
u counties of southwestern Minnesota are almos
IT entirely destitute Of seed wheat and corn, ant
n uni ess their wants in this respect be relieved
g next falls crops must be very light.
10 CANADIAN letter writer's to English paper,
al are attempting to turn the tide Of emigration il
" that direction by glowing descriptions Of th,
% richness Of tho gold fields. We wonder wher
N these gold fields are.
OUR New York exchanges are making
IN grave charges Of corruption against the member
h Of their State Legislature. From the emphAsi
which is given to these declarations, we judg,
there must bo some truth in the statements,
The farmers in the neighborhood ol
Belfast, Maine, have hauled one hundred thou
sand bushels of potatoes to Belfast the past
d son, which they have sold at an average price Of
e ffty.fve cents.
> IT is thought that the Central Pacific
y railway will reach the Nevada State line by the
= 18th of November The present working force
Q Is FIVE thousand men. Contracts have been made
}. for ten thousand more-all coolies.
q THE mail steamer from Rio Janeiro had
l. arrived at Lisbon on the 18th When she left
. Rio Janciro rumors prevailed that the mediation
: p'ofered by the United States had been sum.
marily rejected by Paraguay.
q SOME person who is fond Of curious spec
ulations in such matters estimates the amount
of snow that fell during the latter part of Febru-
ary and the first part Of March Of the present
u year to have been fourteen hundred million
II tons.
: THREE hundred tons Of iron have arrived
at Council Bluffs for the use of the Union Pacific
t railway, and eight hundred tons more are on the
o way. This roAd-following the Platte route-is
n expected to reach a distance Of six hundred
miles from the Missouri before the season closes.
News received from Colombia states
that Gen. Mosquera has carried out his long
N threatened attack upon the Congress of the Re
IN public. No less thad sixty eight members have
n. been arrested, among them ex.Presidcnt Mu
=, rillo.
he The Round Table speaks Of junk shops
second hand clothing stores, and other disreputa
n BILE avocations.n These trades become disreputl
Bile in dishonest hands but they cannot be classe
ai with avocatiOns which bring disgrace upon thoI
tic who follow them.
Tue Sorel poisoning case, at Montrea
is, Canada, is concluded and Sophie BOisclAire hl
To- been condemned to death. She protested he
al innocence before the court. Her sentence wa
On opposed by her counsel on the plea Of her bein
eneienie
~. A PARTY from Fort Phil Kearney t
Ia Fort Laramie in charge Of Mr.. Van Vasey,
to Government scout, and sergeant and twelv
men of the I'd cavalry, were killed, sOalpet
stripped, and mutilated by the Indians, eightse