The national Republican., 1867-08-22

TINS Fenians holding picnic in Troy,
the other day, made a visit to Gen. Wool. The
General gayo thom some good advice.
OoDRssBuRo Is to have handsome Gus.
tOm-house and large grain elevator, which will
hold over coo, 900 bushels Of wheat.
Much attention is now being paid in
the interior Of Louisiana to the propagation Of
the Hungarian grass, which yields ten tons to
the acre on bottom lands.
Mrs. MESDr, the German authoress, is
about to visit the United States on a lscturing
tour. Her daughter, aged fourteen, acoompa.
nies her
THrRrY-rwo thousand persons died Of
cholera in Italy from January to July, and the
epidemic still RACES in many districts Of the
kingdom.
Six persons were drowned in Bone Lake
near stroford, N. h, on Tuesday. They were
crossing the lake TO pick berries on an island.
The parties belonged in Dover.
SEVERAL MEMBERS Of the Little family,
| Of Elizabeth, N. j., have been arrested on 'us-
picion Of being concerned in the Wostheld bond
robbery.
| Dr.. EVANS, the Washington manager Of
the Craig Associated Press, succeeds Mr.. Fitch
As Washington correspondent Of the Boston
Post. That journal has made good selection.
BELLE BOYD, who figured in the South
during the late war, Is stopping at the Maltby
House, Baltimore, on her way to ST. Louis,
where sho commences her theatrical tour at
DeBars Opera House.
The Radical split in Nashville is still
unadjusted, and bid, fair to increase as the party
organ opposes both nominations for Mayor, and
the adherents of the rival nominees proposed
establishing other organs.
DAN NOBLE was arrested at Elmira on
Sunday, on a charge Of having been concerned
in the robbery Of 5000, 900 worth Of bonds from
tho office of the Royal Insurance Company, in
Wall street, in December, 1856.
GES. SIcELEs has approved the finding
Of a court martial imposing dne of $3.50 upon
the captain Of a steamer plying out Of Charles.
ton, who refused to grant a Grst-class passage
ticket to respectable colored woman.
NJ. GUsTAvE LAMBERT, a French Savon,
proposes to make journey to the North Pole,
and to reach 1t, or the open sea, by new route
As soon as 900, 900 francs are subscribed he will
start Napoleon favors the enterprise.
THE Austrian steam corvette Elizabeth
has been retained by Admiral TegsthOf at New
Orleans, and the troops she brought on her last
trip from Vera Cruz arc to be shipped for Austria
by the regular mail passenger line.
SEVERAL persons in Plymouth, N. G.
have been guilty Of beating a colored girl in a
most inhuman manner because she resisted and
fought white girl. They have been sentenced
to one month imprisonment, and to pay fne Of
| $40.
ONE George W. Godfrey, clerk in the
New York Herald Office committed suicide at the
Teutonic Hotel, on Tuesday, by poisoning him
self lie had taken some days checks Of 81, 900
from his employer, Mr.. Bennett; but small por-
tion Of the money was found on his person.
ApvICEs from Panama at as late date
as August 18th, announce that General Santos
| Gutierrez, the actual President Of Colombia,
arrived on the 7th instant, and was received
with grand demonstrations. He was waiting q
vessel to convey him to Carthagena.
MR. b. b. SwKKTzER, OF Cumberland
Centre, Maine, by taking q stand and swinging
his lantern on the track Of the Rennebeo and
| Portland railroad where the embankment was
washed away by the recent rains, saved the
train from q serious accident. Mr.. sweetzer
stood It like a mpjOr for a full hour in the rain
THERE is much alarm in Chill in conse-
quence Of the expected return Of the Spanish
squadron. Some preparations have been made
for the defence of Valparaiso, but it is feared
that they are insufficient, and that the city may
be burned.
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE has written let
ter to gentleman in Philadelphia, denying the
statement Of Thurlow Weed that he has an in.
come of 500, 900 Mr.. Chase says he is worth
about 800, 900. He says that he did not deceive
the people to make money out of them, but to
save money for them.
The wife Of celebrated physician, one
day casting her eye out Of the window, observed
her husband In the funeral procession Of one Of
his patients. at which she exclaimed: II do wish
my husband would keep away from such process.
sions-it appears too much like q tailor carrying
home his work"
A VERY marked illustration of the power
Of Imagination was given at Portland, Ne, tn,
other day, when several express and truckmer
were overcome and sickoned by supposed stencil
from box containing neatly. carved Indian fol
some tobacconist's sign, but which they imagined
to be a coffin containing corpse.
The THEORY started by the physician o
Carlotta that she was poisoned on shipboard oil
her way from Mexico to Europe seems to b
, gaining ground on the continent. It is nov
very generally believed to be true She has no
yet it is now said, been informed of the death
Of Maximillian.
| Our Government is doing a noble ant
Christian work in gathering up the remains 0
patriotic soldiers who lost their lives in the lat
war. Five hundred neat collins, for the bone
Of Union soldiers now being disinterred fror
Cove City burying ground, to be finally burie
In the National Cemetery, were shipped fror
Nashville last week.