The national Republican., 1867-04-16
Pen. Pencn and Scissors.

| 1HE cOttOn lnhrket OF DlVerpOOi mas W
come little more active.
TnE running OF trains on the Southern
Minnesota railroad has been stopped recently,
owing to the destruction Of bridges by the aOOds.
Two Indian chiefs had stabbing ARRAY
In Lacrosse, Wis, yesterday, one Of them being
killed
The NEGROES Of Nashville, Tenn, have
held an outdoor radical meeting. No hall In the
town was large enough to hold them.
WENDELL PnrLriPs seems determined 10
consider Gen. Grant as the Republican candi.
date for the nsIt Presidency.
GEN. Howard, Col. Palmer, and the rebel
Gen. johnson sllseem TO agree in respect to the
dsstitution and consequent suforings OF the peO.
pie In the Southern States.
Mr.. GLADsroSE's amendment to the re-
form bill. In the British Parliament, reducing
the rate to Eve pounds, was defeated BY twenty.
one majority. Haa7l .T-.. oh
HENRY WARD BEEcHER has been chosen
as one Of the Republican candidates for election
n delegate TO tho Constitutional Convention In
tho Second Senatorial district. Brooklyn.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Portland A rgiS
furnishes that paper with list Of the places In
Maine where thers arc at present in course Of
being built 2s2 vessels, with total Of 76,o15
tons.
The American hoto-Lithographic Com
pauy announce another triumph Of tho applica.
tion Of one Of the most remarkable Of late dis.
cOveries. It's specimen Of TYPE set BY sun
light"
IT is suggested that il would popularize
dictionary to have such words as donated, B."
''disgruntied," )" &C., separated from those Of q
legitimate description, and collected In an ap.
pendiI headed Slang"
HoS. HENRY J. RAYMOND withdraws his
name, and refuses TO be candidate for Minister
to Austria. 1t Is now said that sx.GoV John
A. Andrew will receive the nomination, and that
he will DO confirmed.
The Norwich Bulletin thinks that John
A. Andrew, Of Massachusetts, will be the next
President. Without committing ourselves to the
nomination, we are free to say that the nation
might do worse.
/ WE would call attention OF our readers
to the card Of Mr.. WILLARD, the keeper Of th'
Ebbitt House. The best accommodation thai
we can give Of that house is TO say that II Il
always full, and that the guests are always sat
isGed.
IT is reported to be the opinion of AT
tOrney General stanbery that the provisions O
the tonure Of Office bill were prospective and di(
not apply to vacancies existing before its pas
sage; hence the President had tho right to gil
such vacancies on the adjournment Of the Senate
Ar ONE of the schools in Chicago the in
spector asked the children If they could give any
text Of the Scripture which forbade man hav
ing two wives. One Of the children sagely quoted
in reply the text "No man eau serve two mas
tiers"
The New York Times says that specu
lators and business people are making more us'
Of the cable at this time than ever before sine,
II was laid, and II the company would reduc,
its prices to n decent figure II would soor
have all tho business 1t could do. Now II has
not one.eighth as much.
TREASURY AGENTS have arrived at Nash.
vile TO investigate tho whisky transactions
among the distilleries in Middle Tennessee.
None Of the firms engaged in the business have
complied with the law, and they will all be
closed. Their plea is that their business Is diff
fersnt from that of Northern distilleries.
Col. EUGENE TIsDALE, Of New Orleans,
was on Saturday nominated for Collector oi
internal Revenue for the Third district Of Louis
ana, and his nomination was unanimously con
hrmsd. He Is every inch n gentleman, and will
make . popular and an efficient officer. His
bond was secured in Washington at once, show.
ing in what light gentlemen now hero from that
city regard Col. Tisdale.
| A YOUNG lady from Ohio, attending the
college for young mon at Pittsburg, has beoI
unusually popular among her teachers and class
mates, on account of her marked proficiency AM
good conduct but on lately coming back t
school, after vacation, she was denied admission
because of the microscopic discovery that " sh
is ono thirty second part Ethiopian"
BosroN publishers are getting out book
Of rebel origin insulting to the memory Of GU
fallen heroes. Yankee book publishers, like tn
rest Of their tribe do not scruple to turn aponny
honorabIy or dishonorably. They remind US o
the man who furnished the rebels food during th,
war, and then justified the deed by quotation
from scripture-'If thine enemy hunger feed
him.