The national Republican., 1867-08-03
Pen, Pencil and scissors.

IT is estimated that Brownlow's major
ity will reach $4,000.
THE Emperor Francis Joseph intends
returning Nspoleons visit at an early day.
A BALE of new cotton has been received
in Savannah, from Florida.
A SON Of Daniel Brooks, ten years old,
was drowned at Springfield, on Tuesday.
The Peruvian Government is not yet
able to raise the 81, 900, 900 authorized by Con-
gress.
A SUBSCRIPTION of $52, 1856 has been Sc
cured for the proposed Bible House Of Constan.
tinople.
J.R. YEMAS, of Oneida, N. Y, has built
q working steam engine which weighs less than
three ounces.
ENGLISH PAPERS are remarking upon the
large number Of prizes awarded to American ex-
hibitors in the Paris Exposition.
GEN SHERIDAN seems determined while
he remains In once 10 remove all officers who,
in his Judgment, obstruct reconstruetiOn.
A LITTLE boy named James Dewd died
in Fall River, on Sunday, from the objects Of
burns received 4 few days previous.
II CALIFORNIA has found a peat bed. This
was about the only useful article which that
State was not previously known to possess.
n A REQUIEM MASS for the repose Of the soul
Of the Emperor Maximilian was celebrated at th'
Church Of St. John the Baptist, on Thursday last
in New York.
THERE are rumors in Chilli and Per,
: that Spanish squadron has sailed for the soutl
- American waters. There was much eIcitemen
: over this rumor in these countries.
A BALL Of ton weight and another o.
an ounce weight, falling from any height viii
reach the ground at the same time. So say
9 some one supposed to know whereof he speaks
Q LATE ADvIcEs from Ireland declare thai
e the distress In counties Mayo and Connsmara
!. ireland, has, it would appear, been greatly o.
v aggerated. Affairs are now assuming a NOR,
i cheerful aspect.
nj A MILE foot race was run on Tuesday
h at New York, between Kemble, a Canada
II pedestrian, and Jerry Willett, of Brooklyn
Kemble won by twenty yards in four minute
and forty.th seconds.
A RURAL philosopher AYERS that subject
ing all children to the same system Of instructio
Is like boiling large and small potatoes in on
u pot and for like number of minutes. Some
J. them get done and some don't
: CONSIDERABLE excitement has been OF
!. casioned In Philadelphia on account Of the seii
q ure Of an amount Of cotton by the revenue Of
v GERS. The owners declare It is an attempt I
, levy black mail.
AN Irish girl who plumed herself upo
: being employed in a 'gsnteel family" wa
asked q definition Of the term. "Where the
= have two or three kinds Of wine, and tho ger
: tismen swear" was the highly satisfactory T,
ply.
Mr.. BRADLEY concluded his argumen
10 the surrstt case yesterday. Judge Pisrr
% pont will probably close the case for the pros
is cutiOn to-day, when this political campaig,
5. which has been going on for some seven or eigt
y, weeks, will come to an end.
IL IT is said of Senator Wilson. of Masst
ID ohusetts, that honesty, poverty, and politi
is have agreed with him lie ought to be Il
~ Snowman Of the temperance army, to lot peop
see that q Congressman can ignore wine, ket
a clean palm, hold his Maker in remembrance
~ be kindly affectioned toward humanity, and y,
u wear rosy, uncloudod face"
n TIE New Orleans Bee says that Gener
IL Mcclellan was the only one of the Federal go
as erals that the South really feared The re
TX were the subjects Of common Jest. On the 9th
,s- hand the Crescent says 1--WE may have laugh
nd at Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, McPhs
Mt son, and few others, but wasn't 1t out Of Il
lie wrong side Of the mouth, neighbor Bee"