The national Republican., 1867-01-28
Pen, Pencil, and scissors.


MACMILLAN has to put up with the French
isSSings.-LOa. Jour.
TWENTY SKATERS were drowned recently
in an ornamental lake in 81 Regents Psrk, London.
The Western papers Of all shades Of poll.
ties are taking ground against the new Tariff bill
The Springfield Republican pronounces
Ashley humbug, and thinks he had better ,ubsids
altogether.
HoMKR Is said sometimes 10 nod Does be
nod assent 10 al the trsnsations that are published
Of his works S-Paneh.
ONE Of the actresses at Wallis Opera
House is stin Gowiay whilo playing in boys
charaeters. .-..
TIE Spanish Government is understood to
have received very Kindly The ovsrturss Of the
Secretary Of State for mediation In the South
American war e .,
SEVERAL prominent citizens Of Brooklyn
have projsoted aplsn Of an excursion from that
port to Paiestins, Egypt, the Crimes, Greece and
internediate points Of interest. ..rr
TIE Philadelphians are mourning over the
deterioration Of the schuyikili water. II is now
t for hardly anything except to water corporation
stock ......... ..... ... .l..
ALTHOUGH the Massachusetts State con-
stables are continually seiing the liquor bull BY
the horns In Boston, We have not learned that the
number Of daily "'horns' has decreased In that
city. as l.l,e
TIE body Of the man Ellis, who perished
In the great snow storm Of December 27th has been
found only short distance from his own house at
New Marlboro. He ish wife and family Of eight
children In the greatest destitution.
The st. Augustine (Florida) Examiner,
speaking Of tho great crop Of oranges, says that
sixty thousand will be picked from one grove. A
gentleman writes that they hang In rich ysi.
low clusters from trees the sides Of the Streets
and the soft air 10 rsdolsnt Of their rich perfume
PRoF. HESRY W. LoSoFKLLow, DR.. Samuel
@. Howe, Mr.. Edmund Quincy. Prof. oliver Wen
dell Holmes, james Russell Lowell, Jas. 7. Fields,
New York, acted as pall.bearsrs at tho funeral Of
N. P. Willis in Boston, last Thursday.
WE observe that the theatrical incident
headed "a Terrible Dramatic Critic" which origi-
nally appeared in this journal, the facts having
been furnished US BY DR.. Hail. Of this city, who
was eyewitness Of the affair, Is going the rounds
Of our exchanges, sometimes without credit and
sometimes credited to the ChSonicIs.
A Rev. Mr.. GILBERT HAVEN, in this weeks
IHdepcndsnt, has discovered q plan to settle at
once all our political and sooial differences. The
substance Of It oil 10 that ..
-"the nation must cease TO use the words freed.
man and 'colored' and white, and know only that
Of men and brethren"
Why cannot Congress declare BY resolution that
there no black men, and that the notion Is an op.
tical illusion7
An accident, unattended with any serious
consequences, recently occurred to Miss Adah Men
KEN during her performance at the Gazette Theatre
Paris, in the pirates de 10 savsns." At the mo
mont whom she Is carried over the mountains
bound, like Mazeppa, to the back Of q horse, the
animal in making the ascent, lost Its footing and
slipped with her on to the stage. An eIeiamatior
Of terror burst forth among the audience, and tho
curtain was at once lowered. Miss Msnken, how.
ever, almost Immediately appeared at the footlisht,
to show that she was unhurt, and the performance
was shortly afterward resumed.