The national Republican., 1867-02-23
PERSONAL.

GEN. SHERIDAN and staff are on their way
way to New Orleans.
Mr.. JAY Cook, the banker, is purchasing
superb collection Of pictures for his art gallery.
| G. V. Fox, Esq, late Assistant Secretary
of the Navy, is in the city, the guest of Judge
Blair.
G. W. BLACKBURN is elected State Comp
troller. and s. C. Mercer, Of the PrssI and Tme',
public printer, for Tennessee.
NJ. b. BAILEY, brakesman on the Old Colony
railroad, and Henry @. Gibson, Of the Arm Of Glib
son 4 Walker, last manufacturers. died suddenly
last Tuesday Of heart disease.
EDWARD NJ. FREEMAN, Of Foxboro, Mass,
was tried for assault upon his father, an old man
seventy years of age found guilty and sentenced to
pay hns Of IS and costs.
MRS. HENDERSON, Of Wisconsin, was Sc
verely injured by drinking lye which was offered
her by some one who playfully represented that 1t
was beer. A malicious lys. An aikali.
ADpIE GooDNow, daughter Of Mr.. Willis
Goodnow, Of Brandon, Vt, wandered from her home
on Wednesday Of last week. and has not been heard
of since.
SIR EDWIN LAYDsEER has completed the
lions for the Nelson monument in London. The
modelling has been the work Of eight years, and
has been all done with his own hands. The figures
are 20 feet long and II in height.
ABRAHAM SKAArs, an old gentleman Of &c
years, committed suicide by hanging himself in his
shop in wethershsld, Ct, during a temporary ab.
erration of mind caused, 1t Is supposed, by scan.
dalous report circulated to his injury.
JIM. FORBES, Esq, of Boston, has received
from Iowa a consignment Of one hundred live
| han. Ill la nd
1t has been almost winters work to secure them
in good condition.
Rev. WILLIAM GooDELL D. D., for many
years ono Of tho missionaries of the American
Board in Turkey, died at Philad.lphia on the 18th
instant. He was seventy avo years and four days
old. Mr.. Goodell was born in Templetop, Mass,
Feb IA, 1902.
Gov. CHAMBERLAIY, Of Maine, has ap
pointed as commissioners under the resolve Of th,
present Legislature for restocking the rivers and
interior waters Of that State with certain kinds o.
fish, Messrs. Nathan W. Foster, of East Machias
and Charles @. Atkins, Of Augusta.
JONI HoILESBAUGH, Jr., one Of the old
defenders In the of lsl2-'l4, dod on the 18th
instant at the residence Of his son.in.law, John
ElseroAd In the fourth election district Of Carroll
county, Nd, agOd ninety years.
JENNY LOCKE, daughter of Jas. ii. Locke,
of Rye, N. H., committed suicide in Portsmouth,
on Monday, by taking poison. She left letters ad,
dressed to several friends, and instructions il re
gard to her funeral Tho old story Of loving not
wisely, &c, was the cause.
/ GEN. GEo. II. THOMAS was recently re-
: quested by the Mayor Of Rome, Ga, to releast
! several young men who had been imprisoned BY
Gen TiliSOn for displaying the Confederate flag il
q private theatrical exhibition in that city Gen
Thomas reads the Mayor and all the individuals en-
gagged a severe lesson, and orders their release
The Austrian Admiral Tegethoff arrived
at Norfolk on Thursday from Richmond He spen
the day in visiting the Gosport Navy Yard, and be
i came the guest Of Admiral Rowan. A salute o
: fifteen guns was fred in his honor. He eviuceC
great curiosity In the inspection of the diFsren
points Of naval and historical interest.
Mr.. JAMES HULBERT of Dresden, Wash
I ngtOn county, New York, was drowned at tn
mouth Of South Bay, Lake Champlain, on TusSda!
evening last, in attempting to the lake from
Whitehall. man on the ice heard a noise, and
proceeding to the place from whence II came
found horsS's head resting on the ice, his bod,
i being in the water. By the aid of neighbors th
). horse was rescued and the body of Mr. Hubert re
covered.
). LEUTzE has so far recovered from his re
q cent illness as to be able to resume his artist
labOrs lie is engaged on picture of Cromwell
representing the Protector seated in the Tower rum
maging tho relict Of royalty He is in the ac
> Of drawing forth from an iron.bound chest tn
Magma Charta, brushing off, as he docs so, the royH
e insgnias, with which kingly babbles " the ches
!, is filled. Tho British flag drapes portion Of tn
y apartment and a portrait supposed to be that Q
the murdered king, stands with its face toward tn
wall The picture is Of large size and the head @
- Cromwell Is taken from correct engrAvngs