The national Republican., 1867-07-27
Pen, Pencil, and Scissors.

DARKER's bank al New Orleans Is now
an honest cake and soda shop. ~
Ex-PREsrpEsr BUCHANAN is announced
to lecture in cincinnati next winter.
A MAINE PAPER has the conscience 10
publish a Christmas poem in this weather.
THE riot at Rogersville, Tenn, appears
to have been rather serious affair.
The Mama county (ohio) Jail is with
out q tenant. virtuous people in that section.
A GERMAN in New Orleans has fought
three dusls in twelve months, and Is preparing
for the fourth. ..
A New YoRK cor. driver Is under arrest
for running his vehicle over newsboy and crush
ing him to death. .r...
lie. FINANCIAL matters, under the directions
Of Mayor Heath, in New Orleans, arc assuming q
moro healthful status.
THEY are racing carrier pigeons between
Cologne and Brussels. Tho fastest time made
Is ITO miles in three hours.
IT Is reported in Montreal that recent
petitions for Mo release Of McMahon, the Fsnian,
are to be favorably considered.
THE author Of Roll on, Silver Moon"
has opened ball alley. Silver moon can't roll
on his alley without paying for 1t.
TnERE.is o considerable political excite
ment in Virginia. tn Republicans say that
they will carry the State BY 10000 majority.
/ GIN. KMBALL has found ii necessary TO
issue q circular to the effect that the Grand
Army Of the Republic is not lottery concern.
TIE Corps Legislatif Of France has ad-
journed. The budget Of extraordinary expsndi.
lures, with all other business, was disposed Of
ALL well regulated Indian commits.
sionsrs expect to make their $40, 900 profit in
four years. It makes Lo q poor Indian, indeed.
The William Robertson, an American
brig has landed cargo Of coolies in Louisiana
They have been put to work upon the planta'
tions.
The Republican State Convention oi
South Carolina, which has been in session in Co
lumbiA, has voted down q proposition for cOnhs.
cation.
The Wilmington, n. c., daily Dispatch
has been sold to q company Of Northern men.
1t Is hereafter to be published as q Republican
paper.
HENRY KEEP resigned the presidency oi
the New York Central Railroad at q meeting Of
the directors in Albany yesterday, and II. ii
Baxter was elected to the position.
A CROWD of people in Dublin, on Thurs
day last, cheered number of Fenian prisoners,
and stoned the guard as they were conducting
them to aplaoe of security.
IT is given out by Omar Pasha that the
insurrection in Gambia is suppressed, and thai
the war in the island Is at an end May God in
His infinite mercy shield tho poor cretans.
JAMES RILEY attempted to cross the rail
road track at Quinsigamond, Worcester, Mass,
on Wednesday, as train was approaching, when
his foot was caught in tho track, and he was rur
over and killed.
WILLIAM HOWARD, teller in the Pc
quamack bank, in Bridgeport, Conn, has ab
seconded ", q considerable amount Of the fund
Of tn, bank. The officers Of the institution ofiei
| $500 reward for his apprNhsnsts-.
In CHARLES COUNTY, Nd, Matthew Cook
| eey ahot ohu staooou u young coioIeu BHl III NJ
employ because she refused his improper ad
vances. -Four days after ho was found dead ii
the woods near by, without mark Of wound o
injury.
| DR. HARRIS sends o communication il
regard to the spread of the cholera to the Nel
York Board Of Health He says tho disease ha
not become epidemic this summer at any poin
east of the Alleghanies or north Of tho Ohio, bu
is spreading ka fatal manner west Of the Mis-
sissippi upon the great routes of travel.
| The South Carolina Convention ha,
under consideration the proposition that the col
ored people were entitled to have the candidat
for Vice President, because of their loyalty. n
race or color is entitled to nything as such, bu
man Is entitled to what he Is fitted for as al
American citizen because no Is citizen and
man When men set up their claims as rae
they will fail. and ought to fail.
HOTEL,