The national Republican., 1867-07-29
Pen, Pencil and Scissors.

The Virginia Springs are again spring
Ing Into popularity.
A CHICAGO MILLIONAIRE has offered his
wife $3.50, 900 not to publish his inhdslity.
BuLLErs are rapidly taking the place
Of ballots In Tennessee.
New YoRK CITY receives about 100000
year for liquor licenses.
GEN. PRrN has not yet conquered Spain,
but Is looking for good fall business.
FouR-rS-uASDs are numerous at the wa
tsring plsces--more numerous than guests.
AoAssIz says the Florida reefs were
70. 900 years in building.
W. GILMORE SNNs Is summering and
simmsrins at Yonksrs.
Two hotheads in New Orleans, having
nothing else to hght about, got up duel on
European politics
The estimated expenses Of the Metro
politan Board Of Health In New York city Is
$lsl, 200, and in Brooklyn $1,000. ...
The Boston Board Of Health and the
New York Board have made an excursion down
New York bay. They visited the hospital ships
IT is now denied, upon good authority,
that General Sheridan will be relieved from the
Fifth district and assigned TO another position.
LOUIS NAPOLEON advises King William,
Of Prussia, to surrender the District Of Northern
schlsswis 10 Denmark.
DANIEL MACE, an ex.member Of Con
gress, committed suicide in Lafayette, Indians,
on Friday last.
FANNY FERN acknowledges her particu-
lar weakness to be glass Of ale and well.cooked
steak.
A CRITIC calls the verses and sentimen-
tai stories Of young writers the teeth. cutting
and mea'els of literary infancy.
THE nickle mines from which Govern
ment obtains the material for It's small metallic
currency are located near Lancaster, Pa.
A DUEL with pocketknives took place
in Mississippi not long since Both parties were
fatally injured.
The papers inform us that the grand hop
in honor of Gen. Grant at Long Branch took
place on Thursday.
A sPoRrsMAS in Indiana blew in the
muzzle Of his gun to discover whether It was
loaded or empty. He found out what hAsought,
but 1t was the last thing ho knew in this world.
As THE Church rates have been abol.
ished by the House Of Commons the House Of
Lords will have another opportunity to defeat
1t, which they will probably improve
| IT HAS been stated that the Kahn Of Box.
hAra has secured an armistice between himself
and the Russian commander. It is only TEN.
porary.
Rev. s. II. TYSG, JR., it appears, has
violated some canon Of his church (Episcopalian
BY officiating in Methodist church. The affsii
is to bs investigated.
Gems. SHERMAN, Harney, and Terry
have been appointed on tho Indian commission
They are all good men for tho positions the,
hold.
IT appears that the New York constitu
tional convention means to allow those VIII
aided rebellion to vote, and also idiots and luna
tics. They refuse the franchise 10 women.
The man who sang "Pm lonely sinct
my mother died." isn't quite 40 lonely now
Tho old man married again, and his stsp. mother
makes II lively enough for him.
The Prime Minister Of Italy, Baron
Ratyzi offers to garrison tho city Of Rome with
tho national troops to defend 1t against tn,
premeditated attack Of Garibaldi and Mazzini.
Ex.PREsIDESr DAY, of Yale College, now
near the close Of his life says ho is going tn,
eght-hour principle, rising at eleven and going
70 bed at seven.
TENNESSEE, about this time, seems to be
the theatre Of numerous political riots. The
last one came of at Knoxville, on the occasion oi
the delivery of speech by Prank P. Blair, Jr.
| The hotels in Richmond refuse to re-
csivs colored people as their guests, and tn,
question is asked, where will the colored dele
gales End lodgings during the convention
| A COMMANDER Of an American vesse
surrendered to military conscriptr who have en-
barked on board Of his ship at Bramerhaven
Prussia.
The Rodman gun has been tested ant
not found wanting. The trial was conducted il
the presence Of number Of military and naya
officers, and experts. It was proved that no irOl
or steel armor is proof against 1t.
RUNoRs are again rife in Europe and il
this country Of an approaching war botwsel
Prussia and France There are, it is true, som
Preparations Of 4 warlike nature going on Il
Prussia, but such activity does not, Of itself
necessarily mean war.
The New York Herald publishes q rid
culous story that Col. Percy Wyndham, while II
command of a regiment in this vicinity, enters
into an arrangement to abduct and to deliver u
to the Southern government, in Richmond, Mr.
Lincoln and his Cabinet. Humbug
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON was welcomed
by thepeOpleOf Newcastle upon Tyne, England, o
the 9th inst, as enthusiastically he had been Il
London and Manchester. He was entertained Q
a banquet, and attended public meeting whicl
was afterwards held.
The Viceroy of Egypt has been 81
much delighted with the Exhibition that he ha
induced the principal functionaries of his cOun
try to make journey to Paris, and has also in