The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-03-10
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

The RIVER FRosT.-Thc Ice has commenced
breaking above the Long Bridge, and Is floating
tween Aqua Greek and this city, W, Keep up
street at $50 o'clock this a. M, and the latter at
aria feHry.bo Tom CoIiyer and winnlsimmet,
are making their regular trips leaving their re.
speetiye wharyes at o'clock. AIN, and running
uH The steamer W"wsset, Witch has been laid
up during the winter, and undergone thorough
Wilmington this morning at . O'Clock, While
on her way from Fort Washington, the tug
Ariel, Capt. Jno. Martin, was disabled BY her
wharf Sv tn. tug Fisher The tug Fisher left
for Forts Foot and Washington at o'clock
The schooner Katie Ann, Capt. WIN. Layeoek,
while passing through me d, Sa IN tne Long ,h
B,idEe was Tanned s sgss her ms"ts snspped
johnson & Bro. are having ans warehouse J.lH. 81,
built for salt at their new wharf at y" rum VI
Twelfth street.
HONORABLE MENTION OF LEWIS THOMAS, 'g'
gEAsED.-On Sunday, In Grace church, South
Washington, the pastor, Rev. Alfred Holmead,
In the course Of the morning service, alluded In
Lewis Thomas, of South Washington, recently
deceased, saying that from an intimate acquai mt
ance OF many years he was justified in saying
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memory should be cherished with more regard
and esteem than his. Gentle and quiet, calm and
.Self-possessed always, firmly and constantly at.
tsched to the principles OF virtue, honor and In
tes rity, he seems to have escaped the pollutions
OF he world which are ever swelling and surg:
Ing around US. In conclusion, Mr. Holmead
made feeling allusion to the afhiction visited
upon the family of the deceased.
ABAD LITTLE Boy.-A couple of days since
boy only ten yeats Of age, named Charles Bruf,
went to the Residence OF Gen WILLIAMS, corner
he REPRESENTED @ that his parents resided In Viz:
ginia, just beyond the Chain bridge; that he had
been hunting the house Of his aunt, named will
nams, a long time, and that he was lost. Gen
Williams sent to the Fourth ward station for an
officer to put the boy on his way hone. Sergeant
Walling and Ofieer. Lynch called and took the
boy to the station, where he was recognized as a
lad against whom there is one or two cases pend
Ing, and 1t was aseertained that Lieut.. Skippon,
his arrest; 80 he was sent to him. The boy, we
understand, is Of good psrentage, and belongs
made Of him what he now Is.
PuBLIc MEETING or ST. PETeR's TEMPERANCE
SOoIErY.-A public meeting OF this society was
held at st. Peters Sunday school on SUNDAY
evening last, at 1880 O'Clock, Rev. Father Boyle,
president, In the chair: Addresses were deliy.
s Ws, ~ nambeT Of signed the
pledge, after which Master Louis Walsh deliv-
cred q recitation pertinent to temperance, which
ciety has been In existence but two months, and
under the supervision OF that energetic and genial
pastor, Rev. Father Boyle, already numbers 100
members
PRESENT TO THE PREsIURNr.-A day or two
since we learned that MIR. George Driver, OF the
NOyster Bay" and now a leading oyster king,
received some eighty barrels OF mammoth and
ieliciously favored Oysters, and selecting mar
rel, presented It to President johnson. The
CHIEF Magistrate graciously accepted the pre-
sent.
RELIEF FOR THE PooR.-The treasurer OF the
Proyident Aid Society acknowledges the follow
ing receipts since last publ ication From Messrs
Spalding Rapley partial proceeds OF m "a ~
BIZ RichIngs Troupe aud japanese, $4,000 Jas
&. Stout, assistant librarian Congregational LII
brsry, tlj; "from friend" S25; John Y ATrlsoh'
$40; Bates Bros, t50j Geo IL. Chandler,S w.
SALE OF REAL EsTATE.-Messrs. Cooper
l. stimer, auctioneers, on Saturday sold part oil
IL . II, IL, and Is, In square No. 20i, with I'm
nro Nements, consisting OF tWo-story frame
bnn ~ on Thirteenth street south, between q and
Il str sets, to Starr Metcalf, for 1000.
Dot, cg BUsIHEss DuLL.-Yesterday morning
,ys fou nd nothing on the reports turned In BY
~. Ala ereut lieutenants at police headquarters
sno,thy OF note. Fines to the amount OF T2l
We're i'm, Nosed In the various precincts
n,suissgp.-Mr. VIM. J. Harris, who for ten
yaers mast has been employed at the Capitol, the
y.,u,ar NOR zion Of the time as Waterman In the
east mark, has been dismissed
n q. Fo,yLgn's last hour Of chronological ex
.ninstions at the Ebbitt House, Tuesday, at
~ Gall at once,