The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-10
GENERAL NEWS.
United States.

that President Johnson has resolved on the removal of Gen
era Phil Sheridan from the command of the Louisiana and
Texas districts We agree with daily contemporary, that
"no other could many to thinking seriously
of impeachment who look upon it unnecessary and
impolitic Notwithstanding General Sheridan employed
language in response Mr. Sanberys opinion after the
President had made his own which pointed than
respectful to those fnctonares the fact remains that he
right and they wrong that his views have prevailed
while theirs have been repudated by the authority which
higher than they And in the estimation of the people this
fact will outweigh everything else. Hence it becomes
Andrew Johnson with the greatest possible caution
in any crusade which shall have General Sheridan for of
its victims"
1.-THE official head of the victor of Winchester is to fall
will only be the first of series of startling events by which
it pretty be succeeded One Will be the impeach
men and than probable deposition of the man who
through the action of Mr. Wilkes Booth is President
the United States. Another will be the elevation of the
gallant Sheridan the highest office it in the power of the
flowing people of America confer At present. his
chances for the Pesidencywhaever his claims may be-are
perhaps hardly certain those of General Grant But
let him be degraded by petty spite for doing has duty and per-
haps the world will change In fact this perpetual
uneement of the Southern States is great evil both in
domestic and foreign point of vew and ought be abaed
if ten thousand "policies go to the WALL
And thing with confidence that the country
just in temper the subject which will brook
much more trifing.
The new town of Julesbg on the Union Pacific Railway
is growing rapidly in things The Omaha Herald
it has hundred and twenty whisky shops for population
of about three thousand At recent meeting of the citizens
agreed to form civic government and to adopt the
charter laws and ordinances of Omaha They have elected
Mayor and Common Council. The Mayor only five
days resident of the place. and of the Council has been
there over ten days. Rents enormously high One
pays 800 day for tent for gambling and billiard hall
with table Another building part shed and part
canvas, for 81, 900 a week.
The cholera is reported to be raging earuy Forts Glib
Harker Larned and Dodge in the far West The
of the disease is said be poor water badly prepared food
and the excessive of bad liquors. The water used is
pure surface water filled with vegetable decomposition and
persons drinking much of it invariably attacked with
dlarrhea.
Our friends who during this cheated erm go out abah-
ing in Lake Michigan had better take that they do
get gobbed up The Milwaukee Wisconsin quotes certain
captain Mcbride "who has frequently had his attention
called to whaey sort of fish that makes much noise and
blowing and always with huge puff that be heard
still morning for mile out sinks below the surface of the
water before he get his boat enough and
describe the beast" To this is added the testimony Of
another "wdeawake saor who has the monster lying
off the mouth of the river and moving slowly along, if
devourng objects that out of the river On
son having the wind strongly in his favor he bore away for
the fish, and enabled that he could plainly
seets back which seemed formed like that of whale with
huge fins attached that looked big enough destroy boat at
one blow Upon discovering the tug seaming towards it,
e sh or BEAST whichever 1t was uttered low, moaning
sound as fyery much frightened and then blowing loud
blast sunk The captain crused about the spot for some
time, but of the fish afterwards 1t is
described being much larger than sturgeon which has
ever been in the lakes of those who have 1t
estimating its length fully sixteen feet Its head large
and Its jaws capacous
The explanation of "the affair" is this The celebrated
seapent which the Boston captain off Cape Cod SO
delighted with the Yankees appearance that he followed him
all the way up theS Lawrence till he he sepen arrived at
the Falls OF Niagara After spending weeks there among
the oer shionabe celebrities of the age he resolved to
extend his trip and see what the lakes are like before
ing to his Atlantic home He was taking birds or rather
seanakes eye view of Milwaukee when he was on