The national Republican., 1867-07-30
Aatiaaal &spablifaa.
NEWS AND MIsCELLANY.

saving that the English worship success,
:. and would have feted- JEFF Davis more
bountifully, had the confederacy sue
ceeded, than they have Mr.. Garrison.
The city debt Of Baltimore amounts TO
S9l. l.73 for each person; that OF Boston,
s66.s0 per head San Francisco, s6l.s4;
Philadelphia, S56.52; New York, S46.39;
Louisville, SAILS; Brooklyn, S33.41; St.
Louis, s27.72; Chicago, S26.93. r.ia
RICHMOND is excited about rumored
changes in its city affairs by the military
authorities. Gen. Schofeld has issued q
general order, carrying into effect so much
OF the recent act Of Congress as affects
registration. .EhI
The rye and grass crops In Connecticut
are said to be large and good beyond all
previous precedent The heads OF rye are
six and seven inches long, and the reapers
say they never thrust their cradles into
such rye before. w...
The Shakers Of New Lebanon, N. Y,
have decided 10 close their public meet
ings, in consequence Of the attendance
there Of certain disreputable persons, who
annoy them and take improper liberties
with some Of their members.
"SoNErME SINCE" says DR.. Payson in
letter to q young clergyman, "I took up
little work purporting TO be the lives Of
sundry characters, as related by them
selves. Two Of these characters agreed
in remarking that they were never happy
until they ceased striving to be great
men"
A COURIER has arrived at Fort Leaven-
worth from Fort Gibson for medical sup
plies and assistance. The cholera prevails
among the civil employees, Indian, and
freedmen at that post, but has not yet at
tackled the troops. The disease Is decreas-
ing at Fort Harker.
The Newport NeWs says that Ordnance
Sergeant Morrison has Just re-enlisted in
in the United States regular army. He
has been q soldier sixty-seven years, and
or fifty years he has been connected with
he American service. Sergeant Morrison
now eighty-two years Of age, and has
charge Of Fort Wolcott.
OK Tuesday morning last, Mr.. William
Peyton, an original Union man, and for
merly member Of the Seventeenth Ken
tucky cavalry, was shot dead in his own
door, near Nebo, Hopkins county, Ken
lucky. He had since the war been quietly
living on his farm. The assassin has not
YET Deen detected.
The public debt Of Georgia, according
to the State Treasurer, amounted on the
1st Of July to S6,256,635. The assets, in
cluding S990,000 in unsold bonds, were
$l2,00S,60 This is fair financial eI-
hibit for the Empire State" Of the South,
and contrasts with the individual destitu.
tion prevailing there.
1F SHEEP are kept in the same lot with
cows or fat cattle, no dog will disturb
them. As soon as the dogs approach the
sheep, they run to the cattle, who drive off
the dogs. A farmer for thirty years, by
adopting this plan, never lost sheep by
dogs, although in the same night the same
dogs killed sheep in the farms north and |
south of him.
The Freedmen's Bureau agent for Rob
ertson county, TEXAS, reports that during
the last three months thirty bodies Of mur-
dered freedmen have been seen floating
down the Brazos river. Within nine CON,
secutive days this month eight freedmen
have been murdered in that one county. |
There is no redress from the civil authori. |
ties.
THE Mobile Telegraph says the State Of |
Alabama alone Is capable OF supporting |
100000 Of white people. Its iron is |
equal TO that Of Sweden; its coal beds in |
extent and quality surpass those of Penn
sylvania; its marble rivals that of Car
rara; with proper cultivation its soil can
be made to feed an immense population.
THE Albany Journal says that after the
1st OF October all railroad conductors are |
to be uniformed alike throughout the |
State Of New York. A provision to that |
purpose was Incorporated in an act of the |
Legislature last winter. A plain uniform
will be in better taste than the present |
fashion Of labelling there officers with a
band upon their hats.
LAST Wednesd ay at Chillicothe, Ohio, q |
young man named Hunter was standing |
in front Of saloon with several compan-
ions, all very drunk, when Hunters neither
came to the party and implored her son to
seized with frenzy, rushed into the street,
and picking up heavy stone threw il into
the group. The fatal missile struck his
mother on the temple. She sank to the
earth, and died in ten minutes.
The story that the King of Abyssinia
had shut up batch Of Englishmen, and
threatened their lives, because Queen Vic.
toria had refused his hand in marriage,
which has had some currency, never had, |
1t appears, any foundation In fact He
imprisoned them because q letter which |
he wrote to England, asking for an envoy
regularly accredited to him, was allowed |
to lie for year and half in the Foreign
Office unanswered.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the London Times
tells good story Of negro priest who
visited Rome during the recent festival.
obtained an audience, and, kneeling before
the Pope, attempted to express his emo
tons in Latin. He made an awful mess
Of il, but the benignant pontiff gave him
his blessing, adding, 10 himself: " FTqlio |
mio come sea brutto"-"My son, what a
fright you are" 1t was fortunate that the |
reverend gentleman did not understand |
Italian.
AN eminent clergyman once supplying
one Of our pulpits on hot summer day,
after service, could~not help overhearing
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