The national Republican., 1867-02-05
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
RENTS in Galveston, Texas, are exhorbitant.
FoR several centuries Of the best ages Of
Rome II was criminal offence for Roman
mother to drink intoxicating liquors.
Is Philadelphia q poor woman sold the
only good carpet she had in the house so as
to enable her TO buy tickets in gift lottery.
IT Is intolerable that the South should drag
or be dragged along for years under the pres.
ent system ofno-g government prevailing there.
II ought TO be reorganized upon q constitu-
tional basis, and that immediately.-The Ma.
tion.
PLANTS o. the Chinese tea shrub were re-
Gently in full bloom in North Carolina, and
were fully five feet in height. Five pounds
Of "Bohea" made in 1865 from the leaves Of
these plants were considered equal TO the
best imported.
No LESS than 47,4s8 children were regis.
tered in England in 1864 as born out Of we'd
lock. Even this number does not represent
the actual state OF things, as registration is
not compulsory
A COMMUNICATION from the War Depart.
ment was laid before the House, from which
II appears the late President Lincoln directed
that the Illinois and Empire City, sea-going
steamers, the property Of Marshall, o. Roberts,
Of New York, be appraised and purchased
as Government transports. The Illinois was
appraised at S400, 900, which President Lin
coin ordered to be paid.
A SPECIAL agent OF the Treasury was re.
Gently sent to the northern frontier. The
district he visited includes twenty-three sub
ordinate custom-house Offices. "The special
agent, who was unknown To these officers,
succeeded in making an arrangement with
twenty-five Of the officers for smuggling goods
into the United States"
The Pensacola Observer speaks of Con.
federate soldier who oyerstayed his furlough
during the war, took 10 the woods for fear oi
being arrested as q deserter and reappeared
last week. having just heard Of the surrender
OF Lee and johnson, and the close Of the
war. He was making his way to Fort Bar.
rancas to obtain parole.
ANINsASE MAN got of the cars at Hornells.
vile the other day and wandered away, freez.
ing his feet while lying in snow bank.
While in the depot he burned hundred dol
lars in greenbacks in the gaslght. His
brother was telegraphed for at Milwaukee
and he came on and took the unfortunate
man home.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says thai
Gen. Tillson, superintendent Of the Freed
mems Bureau in Georgia, has resigned bis
commission, bought plantation in Bryan
county, and will devote the remainder Of biz
life TO the cultivation OF Sea Island cottor
and friendly relations with his unrecon
structed neighbors.
The English papers complain Of the Sc
verify Of q snow-storm which recently block
aded London, and occasioned great suffering
among the poorer people. Natures work in
this line is not there considered so enjoyable
as Whittiers, whose "Snow Bound" is one o
the popular books Of the day in England.
THE congregation Of Rites, at Rome, wer,
recently consulted upon the question whethe
aluminium could be used in the manufacture
OF chalices Tor communion-cups.) They CAV,
for their opinion, gold and silver, "being no
BILE metals" could alone be used for this pur
pose; although, under some circumstances
they allowed pewter TO be used to manufac
ture that sacred vessel.
THERE is some hubbub in Paris, in conse
quence Of the publication Of posthumou
novel, by the late Countess de Boigne, I'm
Passion dams le Grande Monde, which is no
exactly novel, but sort Of memoirs of tn
authoress. She makes Marshal Marmont
Mime. de Stael and Nine. Recamier figure il
it. The De Boigne family protest, Nine
Lenormant publishes, the public purchases
CAPT. RYNDERs has bound copy of tn
New York Herald from its commencement
He proposes to dispose Of it by rafle-sel
ing ffty-fve tickets at $4,000 each. On
would suppose that the Captain would no
part with such an inestimable politician
guide unless he was in want Of money, an,
If he is in want Of money the politics Of tn
city of New York must be improving.-Bos
ton Transcript.
} A CORRESPONDENT Of the Cincinnati (0hio
Commercial says Last Sunday saw in 81
Louis, at the dinner table OF the Southeri
Hotel, Sterling Price. saw before me
poor old man, whom peace and honor mad
plethoric, whom war has made bald and lean
His great shoulders bent under their dwinde,
flesh his feet were shrunken in their gaiters
and ratified like pair Of spurs; he had los
the battle-light from his eyes, the bronz
, from his knuckles; his voice Of comman,
was lost so that the waiter bent to his lips l.
hear his choice Of soups. Destitute in hi
disappointed age, the sceptre Of dininI
table, one-half Of the guests who locke
upon him pitifully had been his soldiers i
the war. Three times he swept Missouri
slew Lyon, stormed Mulligan, bearded JEFF
Davis. Now he eats like the seventh stag
Of man"
THEODORE TILToN is still lecturing wit
success in the West In reply to q CORE
spondent curious TO know II he is engage'
TO Miss Anna Dickinson he writes from Of
tawa, ILL.,, as follows:
"MY DEAR SIR: In reply to your kind in
quiry whether the story be indeed true, tina
| am to marry my pleasant friend Miss Ann
Dickinson, permit me just to mention (wha
must suffice for the present) that in this a
in every other important matter, ] am boun,
by q rule which ] have observed for nov
nearly eleven years. and that is not to TAX
conclusive action without the advice O
Mrs. Elizabeth r. Tilton, very sensibl
woman, and the wife Of
"Yours truly, THEODORE TILToN."
The Massachusetts, Legislature once thun