National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1867-01-04
Miscellaneous.

Nearly every Republican paper in
Maryland has avowed it preference
for General Grant for tn next Pres
iGency. Z E tts
President Johnson has purchased
farm in Greenville. Tenn. and in
tends to reside there after the close
OF his term of office.
The Cunard steamers are not to
run to Boston in 1868. Let Boston
build her own steamers. and patron
ize item.
VIM Daniel lately died in Fayette
county, ILL.,, at the age of 10l years.
lie leaves a sister lOG years old to
mourn his loss.
Up to the I'd of December, five
hundred shocks of earthquake have
been felt at st. Thomas. The man
that says that Secretary Stewards
last purchase is no great shakes is
clearly mistaken.
Good sleighng in Washington
and short supply of snow i'll Yer
mont is a curiosity of this winter, as
of last.
! The managing editor of the Lon.
don Times is paid the same salary as
the President of the United States,
The st, John Globe thinks that
at the end of three more such SEES
sionS ct the Dominion Parliament
as the first has been, the Parlia
ment buildings might be purchased
for a United States Arsenal at fir
ute below cost.
The documents submitted TO Con
gress on Monday show l,.a.t Gen.
Grant earnestly opposed the re I, 0y-
al by the President OF Secretary
Stanton and Gen. Sheridan. Good
Tor Grant,
y country editor who has visited
New J DIRK says: New York is n
hercuieaH4 oblODg .municipal bladder
stuffed with feverish sensuality.
nervous energy, crab,eycd shtcad. |
ness, spaSmodic fits Of piety and
paraiytlc strokes of abstraction,
More men are out Of employment I
IN New Hagen now than before
within the last ten years, and the
leading manufacturers are rcducino
their force.
LeaVenworth. Kansas, has a Don.
ulation $4,000. supports six daiIy /
papers, some Thirty churches, fifteen
TO twenty schools, two theatres. and
IRON five to ten gambling houses.
When Richard Pierce, printer. of
boston, worked off upon his hand.
press on the 10Th of September.
l69o, the first newspaper ever puh'
ilshed IN America, the General
court took the sheet into custody
neid solemn debate over the darino
dlsturber of the public quiet anI
voted that it contained retlertions
@. :. !" very nigh nature, and its publ.
cauoll was contrary to law. 1t WAS
not allowed to appear again,
PROPOSED REDUCTION OF TIE
ARMY.~~A Washington dispatch
says II is understood that the Honsn
Committee have bernn sn.
rlously to consider the pronri"t, Of
carrying the work of economy Into
the army. A bill will be provided
some time before the close of ,bn
session, providing for very LARGO
reduction of the regular army ia
process of reduction to commence
"ileh the first Southern State is ad. [
i',ted 10 representations Congress i
INA to be continued as the military i
districts Me diminished until thc
lrmy is brought down TO twantv t
i've thousand men.
"A party of Chicagoans have beo, =,
"filig for OIL near that city for four :,
ears, under the direction of utLa :,
'Pifts. AS one result, a p,odiu. !;
)us artesian well has been drvelnTT u
IT, and now they have stynck n res
ifolr ot gas, which flows M in inn.
iehse quantities, and burns red with l
shght blue tinge, not at all tIick. e
ing and with a full carbouoeeons Il
|aZe. ''' ST
'oMMoTIoN IN THE NATupA1 u,
oHLD.-The two last months Loyn 80
wen evidence of unusual agitation +, +,
ma the forces of nature, as the fol. - ~
wing list shows: AVA -
oct. o-Gale in Labrador; 80 YES. NJ n,
is lost and many lives. -,
Oct. 29-Hurricane in Torto,, a.
Oct. 30-Hurricane in San DO It.
lngo, lnagua. &c. %.
Nov. Hurricane in Ionc Kopo ~ ~
Nov. 2-llurlicane at Calcutta -
Nov. 3-Erupti(n at Vesuyius r.
NOV. S-Tornado at Matamoras ~ ~
iXas. Loss of $4,000, 900. Ct" -,
Nov 1l-Volcanic eruption in ~ ~,
icaragua. 1" ~
Noi' 2o-Earthquake at Tortola 81 -,
: Croix, st. Thomas, sc. o o,'
Dec Earthquake at Porto X X,
mere is another batch OF diplo. -,
"''c correspondence on the Ala. v
una una claims, the latcct document 'e'
inga note of Lord Stanley, dated fo
''''hoer 10, in which he rrasserts m;
{ position taken by the British IN
The stick is Just here ~,
+. Seward pronnsoS In i;sonn , an