The national Republican., 1867-04-11
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Dublin. Massey has turned Queens svidsnee,
En- BIAcouE is the newly appointed En-.
voy Of the Sublime Porte to the United States.
The funeral OF the late George Evans
was held on Tuesday, in Gardiner, Maine.
The popular actress Sallie St. Clair,
wife Of Charles N. Bsrras, died in Buffalo, New
York, at . o'clock on Tuesday.
IT is estimated that the construction Of
the lsvees in Louisiana will cost at least
500, 900, 900.
A BRUTAL wretch in Andover, Mass, has |
just beat his wife to death. II Is pleaded that
insanity was the cause.
PAYNAsTER WN. G. MARCY has been or
dsred to duty at Mare Island nayy.yard as In.
spector Of Provisionf and Clothing.
| IT IS said that Governor Peirpoint will
be nominated by his friends for next Governor Of
Virginia, aud that Mr.. Hunnicut will also be a
candidate.
Gen. SHERIDAN has annulled an election
held in ono Of the Louisiana parishes in violation
Of his general order.
The Derby Government Of England is
now believed to be safe, as there Is split on the
reform question in the House Of Commons.
THE Jamaica Committee are pursuing
the trial Of Ex-Governor Eyre, with great energy
and much real.
J MEssRs. FEssEYDES, Of Maine, and Yates,
, Of Illinois, are said TO be the two Senators who
, voted against the ratification Of the Russian
treaty.
FRIDAY, the 18th day of April, is the
ninetieth anniversary of the birthday Of Henry
Y Clay Some notice will be taken Of Il in differ
Q ent parts Of the country.
The defaulting book-keeper Of Shepard
L Co lumber dealers, Boston, who fed with
IS, 000 has been arrested. Tho detective had
s his photograph, and this led to his arrest.
IT was rumored yesterday that the Pres
!. ident would send in the nominations Of John
n Hisstand to be naval officer and DR.. Meclintock
T. surveyor at Philndelphia.
m Tue Canadian press are very much dis
gusted over the cessiOn Of Russian America to thu
!; United stateSi yet, like ToOts they pretend tC
10. think ''its Of no consequence.
ry A FEDERAL soldier named David Trus
III Ter and horse which he was driving were boil
IN drowned in the river near Fredericksburg OF
~ Monday.
bo The medical commission at the Pari
Exhibition consists Of one chief, seven assistant
and twenty eight students. DR.. Gosselin is a
N0 the head.
~ The question Of reconsideration on tn,
nv nomination of General Rossesu for brigsdier
io ship in the regular army, in place Of RosecranS
was up in the Senate yesterday in eIecutiv
be session.
es- GENERAL SCHoFIELD's recent order pro
he yides that all vacancies occurring in Office befor
tho Convention is held can only be filled by pei
sons who never took the oath to support tn
1T Constitution of the rebel States.
The good people of the Bilgrim cit,
10 are holding series Of religious meetings In tn
Boston Theatre. These meetings come Of unde
n the auspices Of the Unitarian Association o
Lis Suffolk county.
lr' WISCONSIN is a reading State. 1t sup
m ports one hundred and thirty three newspapers
let In politics eighty.6vo Of these papers Re
mt publican, and forty.eight Democratic. There
cd not a county in the State which has not at lea,
one local paper.
A VERY destructive fire occurred il
Wilkesbarre, Pa, yesterday. 1t is reporte,
nd that the whole Of Market street from the Cour
ed House is in ruins Loss, 800, 900. Insurance
he $50, 900.
.ir STRIKES among laborers and mechanic
to are not only becoming frequent in this country
m. but the same manifestations are prevalent Il
,so England, France and other countries Of EurOp,
-. Business is being very seriously intertered wit
mo on this account.
az The steamship Great Eastern arrived i
p' New York hArbOr day before yesterday. sh
pie went quietly to her wharf, at the foot Of Fou
teenth street, and but comparatively few pc
Or sons were gathered on the piers to the mol
ve ster ship. Tho Great Eastern Is a failure, an
70 the only redeeming thing about her is that sh
-, aided in laying the Atlantic cable.
ho The news from the Lower Mississippi
A. in regard to the frightfu crevasses that are no,
sweeping over some Of the finest sugar and cotto
w. plantations Of Louisiana is really distressing
sh 1t seems pity that something was not done b,
IT. Congress to prevent this calamity when pre-
rs vention was possible, by liberal appropriation
w to repair and strengthen the levees which mil
,ir itary necessity" during the war, had damaged
q. MAJ. j. Ii. WHITrLEsEY, United States
es army, has been ordered to proceed to West Point
"A N. Y, and to such Of the principal college,
in the United States as will enable him, aftel
'A consultation with the college authorities, to re
port method Of introducing a suitable system
In Of military instruction into such OF the college
ee, Of the United States as shall desire the same
IN The late interesting exhumation of sup
pressed passages of "Gulliyer's Travels, " turn
led out to be an invention Of some Chatterton VIII
mt contributes to London daily, and who has con
M fessed. Everybody was taken in by II, even tn
-. London RevisiO, and I'M. F. T, initials whic
niS have horrible identity with those of the bard
Tupper, implored the journal in which the pa
pers appeared to go on with the publication.
er- TIE SENATE rejected large number o
'p- appointments yesterday, and confirmed I
Ter few engineers The persons confirmed
ry are as follows Colonels- Gallon, Ben