New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-27
FACT aNB FANCY.
NATHAN UPHAM.

% General Grant is reported by St. Loui
correspondent to be worth 100000.
Schuyler Colfax carried his town. hi:
county and his State, while Frank Blair is
beaten in his ward, his city, his county and
his State.
Old Crabtree, Lotta's father, loses $4,000
by the fire which burned out his liquor
saloon in Broadway, New York, few
nights ago.
20 Fessenden says Andy johnson went into
Office tight He went in so very tight that
be must have got badly squeezed by the
operation, since he has been decidedly
mellow" ever since.
The Frankfort Journal states that Mrs.
Lincoln passed through that city on the
eighteenth ultimo. on her way to Wesba-
den, to place her son Thaddeus at school
there. She was afterward to proceed to
Carlsbad, Nice and Naples.
A Republican in Massachusetts abstained
from voting because he had resided in the
State less than a year by fifteen minutes
when the polls closed.
Florida is small State, but it has two
Governors at present, both of whom are
using the State Seal. The impeachers are
trying TO make one Of them u broken
Reed.
The soldiers and sailors of Massaehu
sets intend to be represented at Washing
ton by a large delegation on the occasion
of the Inauguration of President Grant A
committee of prominent ex-army and navy
officers has been appointed to make the
necessary arrangements.
The steamboat lines between New York
and Boston have renewed their wars. The
Newport line has reduced its fare to three
dollars and the other companies will fol-
low suit
A correspondent of the New York Evan-
getist shows that Barbara Freitchie was no
myth, but person we'll known in Fred
erick Maryland, and that the incident re-
lated by Whittier in his poem was substan-
TALLY true.
The Vermont Legislature has passed
bill delivering the bodies of executed erimi-
nails to medical schools, one argument for
its passage being that the prospect of dis
SECTION would deter criminals from the
commission of crime.
Many families in Gloucester, Massachu-
,setts, are almost penniless on account of
the failure of the mackerel fisheries. The
winter fishing will be pursued with more
than usual energy. The vessels that have
followed codfshing all the year have done
we'll the fish commanding good prices and
finding ready sales.
Mr.. John G. SAKE recently met on board
steamer lively Young lady to whom he
made himself agreeable. of course, he
made al impression upon the damsel, who
sald at parting; .Good by, MIR. SAKE; 1
fear you'll b forgetting me- eAh, Miss
replied the many-times defeated candidate
for Governor Of Vermont, eif | was NOT
married man already, you may be sure I'd
be for getting youls
Speaking of the exit of the aWhite
Fawn,' the st. Paul Dispatch says the girls
of the ballet were "baretooted up TO the
neck" One Is reminded by this Of an
Afhansas 'full dress suit, )" pair of spurs
and paper collar.
According to the New York Democrat,
meeting was held in Jersey Oily, ION the
. evening Of the twenty-tirst instant, of the
men who fought With Admiral Farragat at
the capture OF New Orleans in 1862.
The object Of the meeting was TO pre-
pare petitions for next Congress, TO seek
for the prize money 10 which they were en-
ntled alter the capture Of New Orleans
under Admiral Farragut. Although the
property taken bs Farragnt and his men
amounted to abopt eighteen or twenty
millions, yet, up TO the present hour. notl
single eens OF pfize-noney has been
awarded.
= Thosquestion viii be strongly aeitated
rasa 81 next meeting Of Cengrt
g.