The national Republican., 1867-04-18
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wing are all prepared for going 70 sea-
THp- steamer Mustague, from Portland,
Maine, reached liverpool on the lsth Inst
Hos. JoHs w. HUNTER, ex-member Of
Congress, has been nominated for postmaster Of
Brooklyn, New York.
THE opeiousas railroad has been over
flowed BY the crerasse at La FOuOhs, and travel
Is Suspended.
The people in different countries Of Eu-
rops are making efforts to raise material aid for
the suffering oretans. g...r
THREE HUNDRED emigrants for Brazil
left New orlssns on Monday last in the steam.
ship Mormon. 40. u.. DE-.
Two notorious characters at Louisville,
named Dick Hunt and Geo. Roscuss Hunt, were
both severely wounded in a street ssh, the other
day. ." F'
BY special order Of General Thomas, a
general court-mArtial will meet At Nashville on
the 18th instant for the trial Of Lieutenant Jas.
p. Ruggies, Of the 5th Unitsd States cavalry.
Col. CAKE, brother Of the Represents
tive Of that name, has been nominated for the
collectorship Of Philsdelphis. nb thought he
viii be confirmed. ''.. p
TnE stOamship New York landed at
Southampton on the 18th instant, and sftsr lssv.
ing her mails and passengers for London, pro.
ceeded to Bremen.
THE Minister Of Colombia, resident in
Washington, Is said to have received news from
his Government to the effect that the conflict be-
tween the President and Congress has been set
tied.
ADvIcEs from Manchester are unfavora-
Bile. The market for goods and yarns Is de-
pressed, and prices are declining. A decided
advance was established in breadstufis, and the
market closed firm and buoyant.
The Republican Cdnadien is the name
of a paper recently established in Montreal,
Canada, as the organ Of the French population.
It favors the annexation Of that country to the
United States.
A MAN named Ingraham, who is be-
lieved to have been an aceomplice Of the brothers
Pixley in the murder Of Gen. Bailey, in Vernon
county, Maine, has been hung by the citizens Of
that county.
SENATOR WILSON had reception on
Tuesday evening in fremont Temple, Boston,
rendered by the different temperance organiEa-
tions. The house was crowded. He took strong
ground In favor Of prohibition. u
GEORGE PEABODY is to meet the citizens
of Georgetown, Massachusetts,, next Thursday,
him, and the citizens will make the occasion .
holiday.
A FRENCH PAPER published in Canada
says that steps are to be taken in England to
buy the northwest territory in order to connect
by this belt Of land British Columbia with the
eastern part Of the confederation.
Rev. DAVID d. FIELD, D. D., for many
years pastor Of the Congregational church at
stockbridge, Massachusetts, died suddenly at his
residence in that place on Tuesday evening, aged
eighty.sx years. Mr. Field was the father Of
Cyrus W. and David Dudley Field.
The Ohio Legislature has passed very
stringent law for the regulation Of life insurance
companies in Ohio. The law covers State organ.
nations, agencies of companies organised under
tho laws Of other State, and Of foreign institu.
tions.
The town Of Alliance, Ohio, was on
Tuesday flooded in consequence of the bursting
Of the reservoir belonging to tho Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company. Great
damage was done in the village, and two children
arc reported to have been drowned.
The trial of Admiral Persano, who COM
mandsd the italian feet at the battle Of Lissu,
has ended. In aceordsIacs with the verdict Of
the eourt.martial, he has been sentenced TO be
cashiered from the naval service for incapacity
and disobedience.
SIR CLoUDEsLY SHOVEL, when midship-
man, hearing Sir John Marlborough express an
earnest wish that some papers Of importance
might be conveyed to a distant ship, undertook
to swim through the limo Of tho enemy . nro with
the dispatches between his teeth, feat which he
actually performed.
FoRTr-oNE SUITS have been entered in
the United States court by citizens Of War. IN
county, Kentucky, against Col. J. II. Grider an, |
Capt. John NJ. Billingsley, SD Kentucky troops,
to recover 500 each, collected from them during
the war, to reimburse Union men for dopreda-
tions of rebels and gusrilIas.
@"S '0iV"hB 10 tuc uLuOunL OF pTOVln-
cial notes in circulation on the Sd instant, and
payable at Montreal: $2,26s, ,S42i at Toronto,
$3.50, 35s specie held at Montreal $6ll, ,OOOi at
Toronto, $243, $685. debentures held by the 70.
csiVsr general, $4,000, 900. Discount on United
States invO ices for the week is twenty. seven per
cent.
THERE have been sixteen murders com.
mittsd In jackson county, Ind, in the past two
years, most Of them sbOckingly cold .blOOdsd and
Premoditated' The law.loving citizens are be.
coming much alarmed at this condition Of affairs,
and are determined to put an end to 1t. A Wig
ilanoe Committee has been organized, which
threatens to visit sudden and condign unish-
mont upon the offenders.
Col. CHARLES FARNswoRrH was drc rwned
at Savannah, Ga, on Monday evening, te 'gethsr
with man named Wilder, who was with him in
q sail.bOat. Col. FArnsworth was born in Hart.
ford, Conn, and entered the service In 1851, as
adjutant Of the LIST Connecticut cavalry. lie was
onoo wounded in battle, and once captur ed, ly-
ing for several months in rebel prisons. He wa,
engaged In business at Savannah Mt the time oi
his death.
The Hamburg-Amesican Steam Packet
Company held general meeting Of Its share