The national Republican., 1867-05-22
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IT Is DENIED, on what is said to be good
authority, that Chief Justice Chase had snything
to do With N. release Of Jefferson Davis on ball.
THERE appears TO be class Of infamous
white men in TEXAS, who think II aus sport TO
shoot freedmen. It should bs stopped.
The Treasury Department has COM
pletsd the printing Of three per cent. certificates
to take the place Of the compound interest notes.
Two attempts were made on Saturday
night last to burn some barracks at Memphis, In
which some colored troops were quartsr.d.
Tnr poor-house of Ingham county, Mich.
isan. was burned Monday, and sir Of the inmates
peri,hed In the flames. .n .-
A SUBSCRIPTION is on foot in Kentucky
to purchase home for the family Of John @.
Breckinridgs.
IT Is stated that Collector Kellogg, Of
New Orleans. has appointed several colored men
TO all vacancies in the eustom.houss.
WHEN ladies vote, candidates will always
be elected by "hand,oms" msjoritiss, and some
timss by "svssping'' msjoritiss.
THREE Charles Smiths were recently
united in mstrinony 10 three Misses Smith At
the ssms residence in Kentucky town. '....
THE Connecticut Legislature are going,
II is said, to appropriate SIC 900 for the sstab-
lishmsnt Of a State Industrial School for Girls
OK Wednesday evening last the Board
Of Aldermen Of New Orleans adopted an ordi.
nance apprOpristing 500, 900 for the maintenance
Of schools for oolored children. ... .t .r
| The United States mail over the Ma
nassas Gap railroad will be re.sstsblished on
tomorrow. Tho company receive 81, 700 COM
psnsstion as mail carriers.
MAYOR WrrHERs, of Mobile, has given
orders to the police Of that city to rgidy enforce
the law prohibiting the sale Of liquors on the
Sabbath.
THE New York World has q savage per-
,onal attack upon Hon. George Bancroft, our
newly appointed Minister to Berlin. Mr.. B.
will probably survive.
THE venerable Ex.President Day, Of
New Haven, now in his 93d year, Is very feeble,
and will probably never be able to leave his
house again.
IT Is understood that Hon. Geo. Ban
croft accepts the appointment Of Minister to
Prussia. Everybody will feel satisfied with this
selection.
A STATEMENT put forth by Mr.. Delmar,
the Commissioner Of Statistics, gives the popula
tion Of all the States and Territories at the close
of last year at "a, sos, ss2.
The Amesbury (Mass.) WoOllen Mill
Company have voted to sell their property,
worth $40, 600, to liquidAte their debts, which
amount TO s125, o0o-an amount equal to the en-
tire capital Of the company.
SwTNBrRNE's sheepskin factory at Buf'
falo was burned on Saturday afternoon, and
skins and finished leather destroyed to the
amount OF $4,000. The property was fully in
sIred.
| SANTA ANNA, now an old man of seventy
years, has been spending the winter on Staten
Island He is said to DO worth little less than
million and to have given up all connection
with Mexican politics.
TIE early closing movement for the
London shops has been indorsed by the fashion.
able society Of the metropolis. Fourteen hun
dred ladies, M "1eaders Of fashion," declare
they will no longer do their shopping after two
CLOCK on Saturdays.
The Mayor of Philadelphia yesterday
issued ordsr for the stringent enforcement Of the
liquor las Of that city recently passed BY the
PsnnsyNania Legislature. 1t forbids the selling
OF liquor, etc., from midnight to sunrise, and
prohibits the sale altogether on Sunday.
JOHN MINOR Boris has written letter
giving his reasons for going bail for Jefferson
Davis. 1t was published in the Richmond DIS.
patch, but We failed to see 1t. We have looked
for 1t in our exchanges, but up to this time have
not found it.
EDWIN b. HUNTER, OF New York, has |
Just had to pay 81, 900 for suocating the tenants
Of one Of his houses He stopped tho chimney
hue without their knowledge, which caused their
rooms to be filled with coal gas, and resulted in
the death Of two Of them and the serious injury
| Of others.
The Bristol (R I.) Phenir learns that as
many as three hundred and seventy persons pre-
ssntsd themselves for prayers in the stats'strset
NJ. E. church, Of that town, during the recent re-
vivsl with which the community has been favored
ono hundred and ninety oE these have bsen re-.
ceived on probation at thss church.
On THURSDAY man by the name Of
Wm. Weaver, said to cone from oldtown, while
standing upon log at work, just above the dam
Of the Homar Hastings mill, so-ealled, at Ber.
lin Falls, Maine by some means lost his balance,
the water being high and swift, and when last
seen was being carried swiftly through the dam
The bridge over Broadway, New York,
was thrown open to travel last Friday, and thou.
sands crossed upon 1t in the course Of the day.
1t Is said, now that It Is finished, painted, and
decorated, to be rather an ornament than other
wise to the street, as well as great convenience
[=COxsIpBRABLE excitement on both sides
Of the Rio Grandstis reported in the Browns.
willie papers at the rumorsd discovery of large
gold mines In Chihuahua, and still more, per.
haps, at 4 ridiculous rumOr that 90, 900 Ameri.
cans were about TO cross over, as armed emi.
grants to take possession of the new Eldorado.
Ar Waterford, n. Y, it rained twenty
seven times on Saturday. Ono gentleman was
working ON the west side Of a street when n
shower cano up which in three minutes wet him
to the skin. Another man, working directly op-
opposite, did not get wet at all, was he aware
that my rain had fallen in the vicinity.
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