The national Republican., 1867-03-01
Pen, Pencil, and Scissors.

tatng the question Of consolidating the Worcester
and the Western railroads.
IT IS proposed to exhibit at the great exhi-
biton, so far as practicable every publication put
forth in Great Britain in 1865.
BENNETT, jr., will visit his fathers birth
place before his return. The spot Is In the village
Of Nswmill opposite Keith, Scotland.
AN EXCHANGE says that Jennings, the
correspondent Of the London Times, Is to marry
Miss Henriques, Of Wallacks Theatre.
SALNAvE, the late revolutionary leader in
Hayti, has arrived at Turks Island from Corpus
Christi.
The concert OF Hermann's, at Metzerott
Hall, next Saturday night, Is attracting the atten
ton Of all lovers Of the finest Operatie music.
That spicy little sheet, the Albany Knick-
sybOekey, made its appearance on Monday in new
dress and looks as neat as spring bonnet.
The Senate, in executive session, has con-
hrmsd the appointment Of James W. Black to be
Collector Of Internal Revenue for the Sixth Dis.
trict Of Missouri.
Hudson Taylor Bookstore, are constantly receiving
tho newest and best articles Of stationery. They
arc constantly on the lookout for the latest and
best styles Of goods in their line
The town of Westerly, Rhode Island, had
gin enterprise which was to distribute the gifts
on the 2sth, but the concern has already decamped
with hundred thousand dollars.
The way they weigh hogs in Kansas is as
follows They first tie the hog to one end Of rail-
balance the rail on fence with rocks tied the other
end, and then guess how much the rocks weigh.
SODIUM is used in the gold mills Of Colo
radO, and 1t Is announced that 1t Is Of great value
as an agent in collecting the gold dust from the
ore, the increase in the yield Of the ore where II
is used being about 80 per cent.
The latest waterfalls are located upon the
bump of self esteem, but as the fashionists are
perched upon the bump Of benevo!ence They will
ship the bump Of vensratiOn.
TBosE who denounce woman's extrava-
gance should read this A London shirtmAker has
just finished dozen shirts for a gentleman, the
price Of which Is fl2O. They are, 1t Is stated, Of
the finest cambric, and have fronts embroidered
with gold thread.
The Yokohama Herald of Jan. "a says
that the Tycoon has invited the foreign represents
tives to ossA to settle tho great question of the
opening Of Hiogo. The movement Is considered
important in the political game now being played
in Japan.
In the Senate yesterday some Senators
who had indulgod In recriminations on the previous
evening explained that everything they said was to
DO understood in a Pckwckisn sense. This is the
result Of congressional Observation-Disclosures at
night and retractiOn in the morning
The New York radicals are in favor of
negro suffrage on the Southern plantations, where
the poor darkies don't know what ballot means;
but the New York radical Legislature have mega
tved the proposition to allow negroes to vote for
delegates to the New York State Copstitutional
| Convention.
FRIEND OF OURS met clerk of one OF
the Departments yesterday with a basket Of greens
upon his arm, and said to him Dan, what a lot
Of water crosses you have got" '0h, no." re-.
piled Dam "this is my extra compensation; these
are gresnbacks."
PROF. BAcHE's successor as Superintend-
snt of the Coast Survey is announced to be Prof
Benjamin Pierce, Of Harvard College. His appoint
msnt was recommended by a large number Of
scientific men Of the country, and also by the
prominent officers Of the Coast Survey Bureau.
IT Is SAID that Fenian emissary who has
arrived from Ireland reports to the brotherhood
that the English statements that the rebellion had
ended false. The organic alton Is stronger than
ever, and the soldiers are under the immediate
drill Of four hundred officers who served in this
country during the rebellion. As to the detection
among British troops, it is understood they will
march wherever ordored but when they come to
fire they will know what to do An American
officer has enlisted eight thousand British soldiers
since Christmas.
FIVE DEAD BODIES, two males, two females,
and one newborn infant, were found by the dc.
tective police, at the Grand Trunk railroad depot
at Buffalo, Wednesday afternoon. They were
shipped through the American Express Company
for Ann Arbor, Michigan. The bodies were packed
In -four barrels in nude state, and had not been
dead over week. They were not decomposed,
and there are no marks Of violence on them. They
are being ecansed Of tho four and will be exposed
for Identification tomorrow morning. The city Is
wild with excitement to know whose relatives have
thus been desscrnted by body. .snatchors.
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser saws :.
1--WE know Of one enterprsing Western representa-.
tive who bought twenty Ave dollars worth of writ
ten eloquence in aid of 4 railroad grant, and who
circulated 1t at home with such acceptance that he
was rewarded by credulous people with United
States senatorship. The initiated know, and have
ceased to smile over the familiar fact, that not n
day passes but reporters, and even competitors,
have daily occasion to smooth the asperities of
congressional grammar and rhetoric, and to restore
manged quotations and false citations Of history.
The ga"ehsrIe' and ignorance of our Solons is In
the special keeping Of those useful but unappre.
ciated men-unappreciated except by the objects
Of their constant vigilance and solicitude."
A so-cALLED rebel sheet in the South utters
the following terrible sentiments "Mongrel politi.
clans are like all other half breeds, degenerate;
weak in the spine, or weak in tho knees tho
natural result of the miscegsnatiOn of which they
are the offspring They associate together, not on
principle, but because they have abandoned princ.
pie. Their prime object Is net country, but self
As rule, such parties are formed by discontented
party lenders, who have had their feet loosened
from the strrupS Of their own party saddle, and