The national Republican., 1867-08-23
Pen. Pencil and Scissors.

/ 1hs Shoieie IN hnhinB iTlBntiui r'"60'
In the Province Of Algeria.
THr Prussian Government DEGREES free
trade In salt.
The tea trade in China is very active
and the new crop Is going OF very actively.
Hon. RUrus KING, our late Minister to
Rome, has arrived in New York.
TIE Canadians have let out the Nc
Kenrie monument to the lowest bidder.
A NEW ORLEANS firm offers to supply
likely young coolies at 500 head.
THE last Of the "Bow street runners"
hs, died at the age of7c.
The Galveston Civilian thinks that, in
spite Of all the unfsvorablo reports, q respsets.
bic cotton crop will be gathered In Texas.
TIE Japanese delegation are now visit
Ing the Springfield armory and the Ames works
at chioopoe.
THEY are building the most splendid
opera house in Paris that can be found in any
land.
The little Imperial Prince Of France has
entirely recovered his health. He is said to be
in excellent spirits.
Mr.. AND Mrs. FREpERIcK SEWARD are
staying at No. IL West Twelfth street, New
York.
The Sublime Porte is intending to form
a new Council. It will be constituted Of an
equal number of Greeks and Turks.
The revolt in Catalonia is said to be q
failure. The Queens government Is being rap
idly re-sstablished there.
In Cincinnati the price Of gas has been
reduced to % per l, 900 feet by ordinance of the
Common Council.
The sum Of Sl5O,OOO has been raised in
Richmond, Va, to pay tho expenses Of registra-
tiOn in that State.
VERMONT has one hundred and ninety
Congregational churches with a total member.
ship Of IT, 524, an increase Of go over last year.
The expenses Of the army in the South.
srn States during the past year is reported at
s35, 900, 900.
The gamblers Of New York are getting
up a protective union and talk about license
law.
The party known as the War Democ-
raey is moving In the State of New York for a
more perfect organization.
They are doing lively business in dogs
in New York. Up to yesterday 6, 523 have been
killed in the public pounds.
Hon. R. NJ. BLArcHFoRD, of New York,
has been elected president of the Board Of Com.
missioners Of the Central Park.
The steamship James T. Brady was run
into of Barnegat on Tuesday night by some un.
known steamer, and seriously damaged
TIE proposed fifteen cent note will not
be issued, and it ought not to be. Let US get
back to specie, il we do 1t slowly.
Two LOYAL FREEDMEN had pistol fight
in church in carrollton, Mo-, some two weeks
ago, about who should walk at the head of an
emancipation procession.
GOODWIN SMITH doesn't want the Oxford
students to vote for fear of row at the polls,
which he says would result in "unseemly rela-
tions " If tutor were on the opposite side
Hon. Z. A. ROLLINS, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, has been in consultation with
the Metropolitan Revenue Board, New York, for
| several days.
The National Labor Congress have had
under discussion proposition to organize po
litical party. A very exciting debate was had
thereon.
ADvICEs from China state that the new
crop of tea is coming in very rapidly, with a
chance Of a fall in price. This will be good
news for the lovers of hat popular beverage.
Tue King of Bavaria and the King OF
Portugal were the two handsomsst kings in
Paris. The girls were all crazy about his Bava.
rian Majesty. and called him the King of Hearts
GENERAL GEO. II. THOMAS left Louisville
for New Orleans on Wednesday afternoon to as.
sumo the command of fifth district, in place Of
General Phil. Sheridan.
The City Council Of New Orleans have
recommended the removal of the city cOmptro.
Ter, surveyor, attorney, and coroner at the hands
/ of the military.
THERE is in Norway, according to a
= recent census, eighteen persons over ono hundred
C years Of age. One of these, a woman, i, one
hundred and seven.
King NIcToR EMANUEL is giving some
?; attention to the securing of blooded horses In
Il Italy. lie has appropriated forty thousand
II francs to be used for prizes in 1871.
q Ex.PREsIDENr BUCHANAN is living dan
/. gerOusly i'll in Philadelphia. He has been spend
s. ing some time at Cape May, and was brought t,
o Philadelphia in very feeble state.
], AUSTRALIA and New Zealand, in July
e had terrible hurricane lasting four days, an
i foods that go far towards disspating sker
IS tcism in Mosaic history.
A FAsTIDIoUs Chicagoan finds fault witt
" the practice Of smoking at funerals, although h
l. does not object so strongly to chewing if con
o Quoted in an unObtrusivo way.
THE colored camp meeting at Fushin,
l. was enlivened last Sunday by sermon fror
e. Mrs. Jane Benson, and several 6ghts among Ne,
A. York roughs.
A. The British Government has given
Q gold watch to Captain Hammond Of the Philu
l. delphia ship WestmOreland, by way of acknow
IS edgmont of his services in rescuing the crew Q
~ the ship Queen Hortense, last February.