The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-25
CURRENT NOTES.

CONGRESS adjourned on the Goth,
to january 9th,
INDIANA church sociables lave
masquerades.
BUTTER isseventy- five cents pound
in Philadelphia.
THERE are now 1,647 National
Banks in the United States.
THE latest invention is skate
heated by chemical arrangement.
CHAMBERsBURe is to be rebuilt; its
citizens have formed building associ-
alton on the cooperative plan
WAYNE county was decided by the
Central Committee as thebanner coun-
ty of the State at the late election
and was accordingly presented with the
flag.
IT is strange that the best hunting
on this side of the Rocky mountains
should exist in the heart ola old
State like our own but it is true.
THE Freedmen's Bureau at Rich
mond, Va, issued three thousand ra-
tions from soup houses to destitute
white and colorcd persons, in one
day. .
In the Senate, on the 20th, the bill
to repeal the cotton tax, which passed
the House, was again postponed. 1t
is said that had n vote been reached
the bill would have been defeated by a
majority of two. 'u
THREE million one hundred and
fifty thousand bushels of coal were
shipped from Pittsburgh in twenty
four hours for Cincinnati and lower
points. , .w..-
THOMAS X. BEECHER, the eccentric
clergyman of Elmira, holds forth in a
column ofthc Elmira Adcertiscr every
week, saying many things sharp and
quaint Two weeks ago he got off the
following:
"Thc less a man knows, AND more
liquor he drinks, the more determined
he is to make this "a white mans gov
ernment.' u .... .......
That strikes us as being one of the
home truths Of the age in which we
live. 1t will bear repeating and lose
none of its piquancy thereby.
As a set off to the great meeting
lately held in New York, there has
been another in Boston, composed of
its solid men, iAvoring Grant for the
Presidency. 1t is not hard to foresce
what will "turn up"
To the chapter OF horrors, none have
been added more terrible in detail and
horrible in effect than the late railroad
disaster at Angola. 1t is now def
natcly ascertained that not less than
sixty, and probably over seventy, per-
sons were either killed, roasted to
death, or mortally injured.
The idea which has been hatching
in the brain ofthc Democracy, to steal
march on the Hepublicansby nomi-
mating Grant first, has been Civ
en- up since the famous ''private'
letter has come to light. Since itspuh-
lioation, observes the Commercial, the
General has lost caste wonderfully with
that party.
EUGENE CAssERLY is nominated
by the Democrats of the California
Legislature for United States Senator
in place of Mr.. Conncss, whose term
of office expires on the 18th of March
1863. Mr.. Cassarly is a leading
Democratic politician of California
and a prominent lawyer of San Fran
cisco. He was formerly a resident of
New York City. The Democrats
having a majority in the Legislature
he will, of course, be elected.
THE President did not as was antic-
ipatcd, return to the Senate with OBJ
iections the bill striking out the word
"whitc" wherever it occurs in the laws
in force in the District of Columbia.
The ten days allowed by the Constitu-
ton for the President to send in his
veto did not expire until the day af-
ter Congress adjourned. The Presi-
dent will pocket the bill and it will
have to be re-passcd. lie will then
send in his veto and it will be passed
again and so they will continue
to pass and re-pass until the sold
cuss" passes of the stage. %
SPEAKER CoLFAX has written a
letter to Mr.. Conway in New Orleans,