The national Republican., 1867-08-16

thrown open to the commerce Oh tho Woriu'
THE amount Of revenue exacted by
Austria from Hungary has not been increased.
The first section Of the Oregon rail-
road will be commenced in September.
JEFF. DAVIS declines to have any con-
vsrsation with Paul Baglsy in relation TO peti.
tion for pardon.
The registration in Alabama foots up
thus: white voters, $685. colOred, $780,
total, 98, 1s2.
The Prince Imperial is right as trivet
again, and his physician, NelatOn, i'tO be made
. Senator.
A YOUNG LADY at Long Branch Is re-
ported As clothed In laughing eyes and be-
witehing smile." Light gear.
A MALICIOUS CORRESPONDENT tells OF a
young lady at one Of the watering places who has
been nineteen for Eve seasons.
CoSovER appears to have as many names
Is he has taken false oaths, and they are as
numerous as the titles Of 4 Portuguese Prince
TIE ship Nellie Fogarty was burned at
sea July /. The crew were saved. She was
bound from New York to San Francisco.
News from China via London is to the
effect that "A, 900, 900 pounds of tea leaves have
already been sold.
The cholera has become epidemic in
Italy, and the disease is very malignant and is
spreading at a fearful rate.
AN EFFORT is being made in Tennessee,
by some leading Republicans, to have the fran.
chise extended to 4 larger number Of whites.
The sloop Of war jamestown has sailed
from San Francisco for Sitka, and will remain
there during the winter.
The Californians are holding immense
Union meetings. Some parties have attempted
interruptions and have boon arrested.
GENERAL SIcKLEs has declined to revoke
two of his important orders, notwithstanding
the remonstrsnce Of the Chicago Board ol
Trade.
The steamer Sierra Nevada, loaded with
Government stores ran aground on the Colorado
river on August I'd. The men were taken of by
another steamer.
A RAILROAD contractor by the name Of
John A. McRae was robbed the other day at St.
Louis Of 81, 500, which he had just taken from
the bank.
"SoNE whisky may be better than other,
but there is no such thing As bad whisky. Re.
member that, old fsllsr," Is the opinion Of q
steady drinksr out West
THERE was collision between q
Canadian and an American steamer on tho 81.
Lawrence on Wednesday The Canadian steamer
was sunk. No lives lost.
ADvIcEs from the new dominion state
that q reasonable correspondence between Mr..
Lunclat, the Rouge candidate for Montreal, and
to light.
A MAN by the name of Philbrick died in
Kansas, the other day. He leaves
some property and large sum of money. 1t
10 supposed he belongs in Lowell, Massachu-
setts.
A DISPATCH from Richmond says that
Judge Henry W. Thomas, of Fairfax, arrived
last night under arrest for having violated the
civil rights bill by refusing to take negro testi-
nony.
Lhih uuNlCCb lIOlh khC DElllbh " Gov
dies report general depression of tho colonial in.
tsrests in Jamaica, British Guiana, and Barba.
dos. Tho markets were dull, and the prospects
Of produce exports not encouraging
Hon. JoIS l.. PESDLEroS, Of Culpeper
county, Virgjnis, who Is said to bo an OK mem.
ber Of cSncress-it is not stated whether Of
the rebel or Of the federal Congress-has been
arrested for having his name illegally registered.
A IMAM by the name Of Rountree severely
boat his father and mother-in.law at New Mar.
hit, New Jersey, on Monday last. 1t Is thought
that Mr. Harris, the fathor-in.law, will die. Some
money matters in the family arc at the bottom
oft.
A NUMBER Of prominent citizens Of st
Joseph Mo-, were arrested on Tuesday, charged
with completely in tho burning Of a railroa
bridge in 1861, with the intention Of thereb
precipitatins . train Of Union soldiers into tn
river.
The Equal Rights League of Pennsyl
yaniA held convention at Reading on Wednsi
day. The usual radical resolutions were adop,
cd, ono of which favors the extension OF ne gr
suffrage to every State In tho Union by Con
gssssional legislation.
The New York Hcralds special CORE
spondent at Havana gives full account OF th
late attempt of the Narva to lay tho Cuban cabl,
He predicts that, notwithstanding the misha
which occurred, tslegraphic commun icaton ov,
the Gulf will be opened by the 18th.
Cyrus FIELD has been to Hearts Cor
tent examining into tho workings of the Ian
and ocean cables. The broken Atlantic cab
will be working again in few weeks, and Al
rangsmsnts are being rapidly made to avoid tn
delay OssasiOned by the imperfect workings 9
the Newfoundland wires.
RECENT rains, it is feared will injure tn
cotton crops in Georgia. Tho cotton crop hi
been injured so many times, and in SO man
ways, that we begin to fear and have come
tho conclusion that there will not be any eottO
gathered In tho South. Speculation is admisS
BILE, and good prices arc desirable, but the thin
may be carried too far.
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