New Orleans Republican., 1868-07-01
MIsCELLANEOUs ITEMS.

The Menken is about to revisit Paris for
the purpose of appearing in piece which
has Theodore of Abyssinia for its here,
Fifteen cents was the fare from Albany
60 New York by the steamer last week-the
result of lively competition.
The Democrats confidently expectt to carry
the two Boston Congressional districts next
November. They are now represented by
Messrs Hooper and Twitchell, Republicans.
The Democratic Convention in the
eleventh Illinois district passed resolutions
denouucing any delegate to the New York
Convention who abandons Pendleton 30
long as there is any probability whateYer
of nominating him.
man telling about wonderful parrot
hanging in Il cage from the window of =
house which he often passed, said: 1t
cries stop thief so naturally that every
time hear it always stopm
A Young Frenchman, who styles himself
pTeStidigttdtettr en- pGtdfi0H, performs some
remarR able teats under water such as danoi
ing as il on terra ,JiJTtd lighting and smoS-
ing cigar, and reading journal by the
light of fambedu
The Columbus (Ohio) Statesman says:
t'NOt less than 500 papers have come out for
Mr.. PendletOn. He will go to the New FORK
convention with the support of the dele
gates, in whole or in part from fifteen Of
the twenty so.called 1oyalStates. ?" .
South Carolina farmers are offering liberal
Inducements to European emigrants TO set
tie among them. Que proposes to give a
third of his farm to actual settlers; another
will allow the emigrant to choose twenty
five acres ont OF his farm OF 225 acres and q
third will give 1000 acres in Fairfield dis
trict TO bona Jide settlers, particularly Irish
men.
The Taunton (Msss.) Gazette says that
some five years ago an Ethan Allen colt
was inuustcd to a welLknown turtle for
training. The gentleman pronounced. him
vaiulessF as a racer, and he was sold in Bos.
ton for Sl20. The man who was fortunate
enough to buy him at that price has re-.
GENTLY refused Sl2, 600 for the stallion.
Margaret Robinson, a colored woman,
recently died IN Schenectady at the extreme
age of los years and six months. She was
native OF Africa, and was brought to this
country when small child. at the time of
the revolutionary war she was sixteen
years of age. She was very familiar with
events of that remarkable time, and de
lighted to relate incidents from its history.
The uniform of the Pendleton escort will
consist of a brown linen duster a Pendl6-
ton Hat . of light felt, and dark eolored
pants. Their peculiar banner is the Ameri-
can flag, with star for every State in its
field of blue, while across its bright bars is
imprinted fac smile of a five dollar green
back, save and except that in the lower
righthand corneris a likeness of Pendleton.
The Lynchburg Va.) Republican kindly
informs Chief Justice Chase that he might
have been the next Democratic President of
the United States in defiance of all the
world and the rest of mankind.r if he lad
decided the MCArdle case in the Supreme
Court of the United States three months
ago, instead Of postponing it for party pur-
poses until December. If this be true, it
was certainly very thoughtless in the Vir
ginia editor not to have warned the Chief
Justice to be more circumspect.
We learn that carpet-bagger was shota
two negroes were killed in Bienville parish.
The white man (so,called) was attending
secret meetings of the negroes, and it was
thought laying plans for '''iSing" against
the whites.
The white man is living and will perhaps
recover, bat the two negroes have been
gathered to their fathers. duOcate.
That is the way you write, and then as.
sumo to lament and shed tears over such
ouragesl 'It is long lane that has no
turn."-HoDser Itad.
among the Conservative appeals made
20 the Mississippi blacks were the follow.
ing: "Rememberl The white people are
not going to cut loose from you unless YOU
cut loose from them. Remember The
white people will not forget the black men
who stand by them now. Remember The
hand
of friendship TO you, and if you are not
friends to them you mnstneYer expect pat.
ronage or employment at the hands of the
white people against whom you vote. Re.
meInber!- That II you wish to vote the
Democratic ticket you will be protected In
yo1r right 70 vote II from the Loyal League
mobs by the law'abiding citizens.n
Very little pure wine or brandy is now to
be had in Franco. Real brandy is nearly
4t~rnls1 To- faln IA
Is composed with strong alcohol. distilled
from f-cula-colored, sweetened, and made
twenty years old IN ten minutes-so AZ 70
deceive the most expert connoisseurs. The
Government inspectors confae themselves
= preventing as much as possible the addi-
Hlouof noXsOus ana dangerous substances.
The disposition to drunk kenness seems 70 In
crease q the lower classes with the scarcity
81 unadulterated beverages. -
The World thus delicately indicates its
xeai choice for the Presidency, ia whose I'M
Aerest the feintsin favar of Chase, Harcock,
aAetielle.z4s and others have really been
1AAae; y u y terr9ted that Governor Bev
noon y RrsParihs So. ah q. Haasess to the Democ-
bodied his views Of the present Confess. "a
% also said that in this he win take occasi6a
to say that he viii not be a candidate. But
he viii hardly publish this to the world
until he has consulted the delegation from
~AAAo A7Sot1t 1A0 tAlib p-Eh ucIltklHE QIul1GlI
not candidate, II reaily included Ia the
document may, under the solicitation OF
the delegation, be stricken out. One thing
is now quite apparent, whether q candidate
efnot. Governor Seymour viii have a potent
3nnnence In the councils Of the Democracy
en that important occasion"
The 81. Paul Press says that on Sunday
iast the three children Of Nr. B. sohreiber
ct A1ahkato, Minnesota, asked and received
permission Of their parents to 90 out walk-
ing. They were three very bright
handsome little boys, aged Thirteen, nine,
ep. seven years. They passed along down
the pank of the Minnesota river 70 4 se-
ENDED place, when the one aged nine az.
Sermined 10 90 In bathing. While d0ine "a
1e got beyond MS depth and commenced 10
grown. The eldest brother at once ran 10
Aia rescue but IN the struggle he avidentlV
SO teet Roth would loae their lives, f1r
Nnen the little fellow on the shore ataffed
II be called 70 him, eayine: ssI5an,f eoz,e
A4Af us of lather Will lose all his hove 10
4E1eF "a few seconds aftes both ennk
% sAe bottom The alarm was soon alvea |
@a4 Z prompt search made for their b0diea. /
AA44 we're recovered Ia about half An hi1tlr
4ut NE was entirely extinct The Awn liafIs
teileWz were tightly locked in each Others I
s1aasI AaginB died while thus holding eaoh
asaax p death grasp.
PENCE Polignac, who feurishsa aome.
extensively Ia she rebel anv ii I
4as lnFtl|ooly called .tRoleeaH -
aA4 1ie cucsm pUeut vas fnoef
e. ne on tQlqcst's Lag eut Uhen
~ = uce q Lees 8urfender reersr|1
~. s-.S9 ~ gf the princes aidsleet1or
~ ~ ...t inks. rushed into heed
.','.s. ~ T. yer e We excited Ia,