The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1867-06-04
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Pen. Pencil. and Scissors.
The days are six hours longer than they
were in the middle Of December.
BRAZIL has declined the mediation Of
the U nited States in is war with Paraguay.
A FIVE year old baby in Chesterfield,
Va, weighs two hundred and seventy pounds.
Miss SYLVAN HARDY, of Winton, Me-, is
q sylph Of three hundred and hfty pounds
weight.
A MASSACHUSETTS PAPER announces q
new college degree, D. G. D. R., doctor Of col.
lego boat rowing
0SE would think, from recent discus
sions about Free Religion in America" that
religion was not free hero,
IT is thirteen years tomorrow since the
rendition OF Anthony Burns, Times have some.
what changed since June ?, 1854
The Russian Government has proclaimed
. general amnesty to the Poles engaged in the
last insurrection In Russian Poland.
A LEADING miller at GAINESVILLE Ohio, re-.
duced tho price of bis best -four from sixteen to
fourteen dollars per barrel, few days since.
DE WITT COUNTY, Arkansas, has appro-
prstsd S. 900 to purchase provision for its desti
tute citizens.
A COTTON FACTORY in Greenville, N. G.,
turns out one hundred and twenty thousand yards
Of cloth per week.
YHERE are clerGymen within forty miles
of Boston who have only two hundred and nifty
dollars salary. If the preach is no better than
the pay, 1t must be poor, indeed.
| A YOUNG MAN in Texas, named Harry
Turn, recently married his cousin Of the same
name, on the principle that lone good turn de-.
serves another"
MAYOR WrHERs, Of Mobile whom Cen
Pope has removed, Is the same man who, when
elected. was paroled rebel prisoner, and could
not serve until pardOned by the President
THE Emperor has arrived in Paris. The
Government have made great preparations for
his reception. All the royal visitors will have a
grand ovation rendered them.
The Canadians have again been deluded
by the report Of Q Feuian invasion aud have
seized several small American steamers on sus.
picion.
LIEUT.. GEN. SHERMAN, with his staff,
arrived at Chicago on Friday from St. Louis, and
departed the same afternoon for Omaha and the
Plains where he goes to take personal command
Of the military movements against the hostile
Indians.
The Mobile advertiser says Hon. John |
A. Campbell, R. II. Smith and Rufus Andrew,
esqs., have been retained as counsel for withers
in his suit in the United States Circuit Court to
test the leg ality Of his removal from the Mayors
office BY military order.
TUE New York Constitutional Conyen.
ton ASSEMBLIES in Albany to-day. David Dudley
Field has presented some suggestions with re-.
'pect to the new constitution which arc worth
considering. They are published in the Trtbuu,
Of yesterday.
SOME OF the newspapers are inquiring |
why Mr. Greeley docs not deny the statement
We made In our paper few days since that he
had written letter to John c. Breckenridge, in.
wiling him to return to this country. They will
look In vain for any denial from that quarter oil
a fact so easily verified.
BGsaARcK's visit to Paris will be hailed
In that city by the polite Frenchmeu with much
apparent delight. 1t will. however be mere sur
face feeling. A profound dislike of the great
Northern statesman still rapkles in their hearts.
They do not like the man who humblsd their
pride.
DISPATCHES from Dacotah to the 18th Of
May state that not single depreciation has been
committed on the Upper Missouri since the open
ng Of navigation. Several small parties have |
ONE down the river In open boats, without mo.
'station, and small detaehments Of troops have
asssd from fort to fort undiSturbed.
A DISPATCH from Berlin announces that
russia and Russia have come to a proper IN.
lsntAnding upon the Eastern question. This
nay lead to the settlement Of the Cretan trou-
lies. We think the Sultan will DO compelled to
Qnsede so much to the great Powers of Europe
Is to allow the annexation of Crete to Greece.
A PEW years ago the French Count
aaousset Boulbon was bsutally assassin ated in
sonora, Mexico. The Count had purchased az.
and mining territory in that State, and
ed colony OF his compatriots thither, but he
vas killed and the colony broken up. II is now
reported that cousin Of the Count has organized
IN expedition Of twelve hundred men for the
purpose oil aVsnging his relative and retaining
the property.
foRTr'FIvE marine disasters occurred
uuting The month of May. OF this number three
"ue steamers seven were ships seven wsre
OS'A' three were briggs twenty. -four were
'0nooHsf'i and ono was a sIoop. Seven vessels
"e'o HoAndonsdi four were foundored; one was
burned one sunk after collision; and six are |
missing supposed to be lost The total value of |
property lost and missing ia estimated at So.
$Ss5'6eO' The total losses during the ar,t Ave
months Of this year are estimated ut $lS, 1853 800
which Is s776, 900 less than during the same
period last year