The national Republican., 1867-02-16
Pen, Pencil and Scissors.

ILLINOIS mas HcsuCt
TnE Canadians are going to manufacture
beet root sugar.
The origin of st. Valentines Day is still
involved in obscurity Pity
ADvfcEs from England state that four
regiments are to be withdrawn from Canada on the
opening Of navigation.
THEODORE TnroS says as Congress itself
is something Of humbug, II Is just the place for
Barnum.
D. L. WALKER, Of San Antonio, was fined
He flung his cane at them.
ELoPEMESTs are 80 common at Springfield
that there is talk Of establishing "a Home for De-
serted Husbands"
IT is reported that Gen. Grant lighted his
cigar with the four page tract against smoking ad.
dressed to him by Rev. George Trask Of Fitchburg,
Mass.
THE house where Gen. Scott lived in boy
hood is still standing near Dnwidde Court House,
Virginia, in a region sadly devastated during the
war
GEo D. PRENTICE denies the report that
he is collecting volume Of his fugitive poems.
Politics rather than poetry Is engaging his atten-
| tion Just at present
IT Is supposed the Nebraska Legislature
will meet on the goth, and accept tho conditions
imposed in the Congressional act of admission Of
that Territory as a State.
| A LARGE number of counterfeit $50 and
$50 greenbscks have lately been circulated in To.
ronto. They are an excellent imitation Of the gen.
uino notes.
The Louisianians who came hither in
search of labororS for their plantations returned
homo few days since without having obtained q
single man-NoyfoH Journal
TIE Abingdon TTrginidn nominates Hon.
windham Robertson for Governor, James Marshall
for Lieutenant Governor, and John GOode, jr., for
| Attorney General.
APREss CLUB was organized in New York,
with Horace Greeley president, and Jane, Gordon
Bennett ST., lst vice and William II. Hurlbut I'd
vice president.
0UR Connecticut and Rhode Island ex.
changes continue to give details Of the damage
done by the recent freshst. The loss in the
eastern part fthe former State was about 5000 900
The Rev. Lindsay's letter, in which he
avows that he whipped his child to death from q
sense Of duty" is described by a PhiladelphiS
paper as concrete puritanism."
"FoRr HILL" the estate of John G. Cal
houn, at Pickens Court. House. S. c., Is to be sold
by decree Of n court Of ehancery, on the 4th oi
March next
IT has been decided to place squad o
Government Canadian police at Niagara Falls, t
patrol between the Suspension Bridge and Tabl,
Rock, to protect travellers. Each is to have
breast. plate marked Government police"
In Chicago three men named Lee, Golfer
and Horne were arrested charged with the forgery
of Buena Vista county bonds, of the State Of Ohio,
to the amount Of $500 A preliminary eIami.
nation was had and the prisoners held to bail
AT military dinner in Vermont an officer
of the militia of that State proposed the following
toast The fair sexes of vArmOunt, admirers o.
the milinteryi they look upon our sojers with var
tuous curiosity"
The Notifications for the protection of thu
II city of Montreal are soon to be commenced. St
E Helen's Island is to be rendered impregnable
Forts to be erected at Inprairis, Mount Royal
" and at several points on the south shore.
l. PETER BREWER, respectable citizen o
IS Utica, died on Friday Early Saturday morning
: in attempting to come down stairs, his widow fsl
and broke her neck. She was 70 years of age
She will be buried in the same grave with her hus
band.
n TIE steamer Peruvian arrived at Norfoll
" on Monday. Her agents, Messrs. W. D. Reynold
: 4 Bro, have q cargo ready for her, and she viii
: load at once and clear for Liverpool about the Is
i of the week She will take out 900 bales of cot
d ton and 100 barrels Of crude turpsntins.
d TIE New York dramatic critics are sever
c on the animals in the "Chrstian Martyrs at Bar
L NUNS They say "tho lions and tigers act thei
Is parts with shameful Indifference and evincc non
Of that endish zeal for tho blood Of Christian mai
tyrs which the truth Of history makes it incumben
a upon them to exhibit"
O. THE most cursory reader of the newspaper
Of the day must have noticed that Of late crime ha
fearfully increased in the land. Like the Easter
scourge, 1t appears to visit US in m epidemic form
l. And what is more noticeable its ravages are no
d confined to any one particular section, but appea
- to be universal in their sweep.
v FoUR men, lately belonging to the stcame
!. City of Bath, arrived in Charleston, S. c. frOI
= Georgetown on Thursday morning They repor
their ship burned at on Sunday morning. o
Hatteras. There were twenty.six persons 0
II board all Of whom believed to be lost excep
Is ing these four.
Is some curious facts in the case of th
ID steamer Cuyler seized in New York few day
10 since, have transpired She was sold to the CC
s. lombian Government, but her owners were not
receive pay for her until she was delivered at Ii
guayra, Venezuela In the meantime a conspirac
was formed on board under the head of an el
70 rebel officer named Read, to turn her into Chilia
g privateer when out at Her owners are nON
= satisfied that they would have lost their vessel bu
for fba in nf thu Initial gtatas