The national Republican., 1867-07-26
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NEWS AND MIsCELLANY.


AyoSrA JOKES is expected here from
Europe in the course OF rev weeks, ano
will bring number OF new plays, wIit,eh
expressly for her, and in wnlcn sne nes
performed with great success IN England.
TuK estimate of the Treasury Depart
mont for tbe support Of the United States
army In the Southern States during the
present year is from S35 100000 to
S40,000,OOO. "
The United States steam frigate Mime
sofa will sail this week for the Mediter-
ranean, taking out forty-six midshipmen OF
the class Of 1867, who will join the ships OF
the European squadron.
ALARoE and enthusiastic railroad meet
ing was held at Denver on the 11th. Two
hundred thousand dollars in bonds will be
voted by Arapahoe county fol. the road, to
connect Denver with the Union Pacific.
NEWPORT is represented as being as dull
this year as the other fashionable watering
places. The hotels look forlorn, there is
all absence Of gay equipages on the ave-
nues, and few bathers gambol in the surf.
GEN. PorE has issued On order prohibit
ing civil officers in his military district
from using any influence whatever to de-
ter or dissuade people from taking an &C.
tive part in the reconstruction Of the State
governments.
Ton CLARKE, the leader o. gang Of
banditti in New South Wales, was re-
Gently captured and hung. In two years
Clarke committed eleven murders, nine
mail robberies and thirty-six robberies Of
individuals.
ONE Of the India governors, by name
Sir Jung Babadour, wanted badly to come
to England, and could not be restrained
until the Viceroy threatened to reduce his
salute from seventeen to fifteen guns.
Such is the force Of gunpowder.
LOUIS NAPOLEON, in his letter of sympa-
thy to the Emperor Of Austria, says
"God, who penetrates our hearts, knows
that / never had any other object than to
extend to Mexico the influences Of civili-
zation"-and bag silver mine, he should
have added. .r-l
The New York and New Haven railroad
intend soon to put a new invention for
ventilating cars on their road. The air
passes in at the front window, over water,
where It is purified, and then is distributed
through pipes opening into various parts
OF the car. :.
Col. WALTON, Of Norfolk, has completed
the survey Of the Dismal Swamp Canal,
preliminary to its enlargement ard i'm.
proyement. He gives q gloo-av account
OF the condition Of the canal. II will
cost s5O0,O0O to pr. Il in the condition
desired ~ - 'n'
Ep"AA, EVERETT said TO o friend, "If
yvu willing to be reckoned with those
% consider going to church as going to
o fashionable exchange, or to place Of
entertainment for weary leisure day, why
then it little matters where you go, or
where you do not 60"
An OLD LADY in Trenton, Nj, read an
account Of the bursting Of q grind-stone
used in the saw factory, and became
alarmed lest the grind-stone standing in
her cellar should burst in a similar manner
and blow up the huuse. que nuu Lne 'uan'
gerous thing" removed Immediately.
"wHAr's that a picture on ?" said q
countryman in our hearing the other day
in print store to the proprietor, who was
turning over some engrayings. That,
sir" said the dealer, "is Joshua command
ing the sun to stand still" "Du tell !!
Well, which is Josh, and which is his son ?"
A SUIT has been entered against parties
at Setauket, L. l., for violating the law by
making hay on Sunday. One Of the cases
is aggravated by the fact that moving
machine was driven, with its almost intol-
cradle noise, under the church window
during service. One Of the offenders was
q constable.
Tue London Ne,os, in referring to the
absurd proposition in the British Parlia-
ment to withdraw the British Legation
from Mexico, pertinently asks If an Amer
ican adventurer had gone to Hungary,
waged war against the Austrian Govern
ment, and ultimately been taken and exc
cuted, should we have recalled our Am
bassador from Vienna
In recent report OF the English Admi-
rally Board it appears that during the in.
terval between 1900 and 1865 the number
OF officers and men employed on the West
coast in suppressing the African slave
trade, who died in the execution OF their
duty, was S52, and that this amount OF
deaths was incurred in releasing about
5000 captive Africans.
ihE DAN rrunclsCO DWNettn learns that
"there are now on the way to California
from China, 439 Cinnamon OIL board the
ship Free Trade, and 459 on the California,
making total Of s9S disciples of Con.
fusius, worshippers Of Buddha, consumers
9f opium, manipulators of chop.sticks and
burners OF incense to JOSS"
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT has occurred at
Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana.
Three little boys, brothers, were PLAYING
on the railroad track, and were living be-
tween the rails. so that the anginear Of tho
Cincinnati train did not see them in time
to check the train or to give the alarm.
The cars ran over them, and killed all three
outright,
OK FRIDAY, as three sailors were scrap
ing the foremast of schooner Juliet, ut
Salem, the halyards Of the triangle on
which they were standing gave way and
two Of them fell to the deck. One of them,
George W. Keen, Of ofNantucket, about 20
or 30 years old, died within Is minutes;
the other, Charles Jew, was seriously in.
jured' but it is thought will recover.
JoHS JACOB AsToR, the millionaire, died