The national Republican., 1867-05-21
Pen, Pencil, and Scissors.

GEN. GRANT and staff visited the scene
Of his victories around Richmond on Saturday
TIE grasshoppers are Matching in Kan
sas in myriads, and the same accounts eomerom
other sections Of Western country.
Tur colored people in the South, par
,,ou,.ry in New Orleans, arc Objscting 70 women
having the right to vote.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL was before the
Judiciary Committee yesterday. What particular
information he communicated We know not.
RrSDERPEsr has again made its appear
anoe In England. The government are taking
decisive steps to restrict its ravsgss.
The Count Of Flanders gave his wife
$500, 900 worth Of diamonds as q marriage
present. He is what the ladies call "a perfect
gentlsman.n
TIE hotels will continue to sell Con-
grsss, soda, and mineral waters, cigars, and ans
cut Soda lemonadss win be supplied as usual
early in the morning. ng.-Boston Transcript.
&c. GRAFTON has been ordered to COM
mand the vandalia. Second Lieut.. William B.
Muse, Of the marine corps, has been promoted 10
be hrst iieutsnant. ......
GEs. SHERMAN, who has returned TO st.
Loui. from his confsronos with Gen. Hancock,
Is said 10 have expressed the opinion that IN sx.
tended Indian war is not imminent. . r a.
TnE trial Of Myers, at Amherst, n. H.,
for killing man in . saloon N Amosksag, By
striking him on the head with chair, resulted
In verdict Of mansaughter.
THERE will be no war in Europe-the
Luxsmburg question is settled. The Emperor
Napoleon and King William Of Prussia have
signed the treaty.
THE New School Presbyterians, who met
at Rochester, and the Old School Presbyterians,
convened at Cincinnati, have proposed terms Of
reunion.
A woNEN's SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION has
been organised in St. Louis, and some Of the
most prominent ladies Of that city are connected
with 1t.
The City Council Of Mobile recently
prescribed a gray uniform for the police, but
Gen. swayne, by order of Gen. Pope, has in.
formed the Mayor that no uniform copying that
Of the rebel army can be worn BY them.
IT was gratifying relief to an astonished
husband, as his amazed bride, at recent crowded
fair, suddenly dropped her arm from the shoulder
Of the handsome man Of the parish, " and ex'
claimed, "why, John, I thought 1t was you"
The ATLANTIC CABLE laid in 1866 has
been broken by an iceberg, and had not the one
that was laid in 1865 been repaired our commu-
nication with the Old World would have been at
an end for the present at least
THERE is great rivalry between the
Omaha and Kansas Pacific Railroad Companies,
who are laying track at an astonishing rate, and
tho contractor for the Omaha line declares that
he will lay Eve miles In one day before the sum
msr is over.
A CARGO Of wheat recently passed west.
ward through Syracuse which was originally
| shipped from San Francisco for France, and
brought thence to New York and sent to Chi
cago.
This is truly a remarkable fact that wheat
should be shipped from California to Illinois
| On THE 10Th instant the fur store of the
Messrs. wombath, Philadelphia, was robbed Of
356 Hudson Bay sables, undressedi ten dozen
chinehilIas, dressed, and other valuable furs.
ono thousand dollars reward has been offered for
the recovery of the goods, and $500 for the ar.
rest Of the thieves.
Hon. Horace GREELEY is receiving more
kicks than coppers for his magnanimity in be-
coming bail for Jefferson Davis. Many Of the
Republican papers are pressing him hard about
the matter, and from some things wo have seen
from his pen We incline to the opinion that the
honorable gentleman ID little troubled about It.
HENRY F. DURAST, ESQ.,, recently preached
with acceptance and excellent effect in the Uni.
vsrsalist church at Salem, and In the course oi
his sermon expressed his great satisfaction with
the discourse Of the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Spaulding,
which he heard in the morning, at which time he
was invited to occupy tho pulpit in the after
noon.-BonOn Transcript.
THERE WE'RE 1888 gallons of whisky
produced in the Sixth District Of Kentucky
during the month Of April, the Government tar
on which Is 1895, 666. The number Of gallons
in bond on the 3Oth Of April was 378, ,SO7t; and
the amount removed from the district in bond
during the month, and unaccounted for 143, 2s2
gallons.
Rev. DIR. BACON has singular notions
or rather notisns which arc getting to be hngu-
lar-about the rights Of opinion In this country.
He says he makes no opposition to those who
think that the temperance cause 10 benefited BY
prohibitory laws; he only claims for himself and
others tho privilege of having our own opinions
on such questions Of public policy without being
regarded as unfaithfui to the temperance reforma.
tion IN. Y. TImeJ.
Tho Doctor will find himself denounced as a
rummie.
nIANOS "A LARGE ASSORTMENT
L OF PIANOS, from the manGf.e; Sus1sza=a