The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-25

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Henry Wilson Cameron Pennsylvania
Senator Guthrie failing health has been unable
to occupy his seat for several sessions but effort to
compel him to resign that the State might be represented,
obtained the promise from his friends that he would take his
after the holidays In the House there Law
yers 81 editors namely Baldwin of Massachusetts Blaine
of Maine Brooks of New York Gossbenner of Pennsylvania
and Getz of Pennsy vania manufacturers ID merchants g.
engineer Il railroad manager, horticulturist lum
beTmen q real estate agent and stand aside ye mud
of Kentucky The real estate agent is John Fox OF New
York lumbemen, Phleus Sawyer Wisconsin, and Thomas
W. Ferry Michigan agricultnrist c. Newcomb, Missouri;
railroad manager Gney Twitche, Massachusetts,; civil
engineer G. NJ. Dodge Iowa; general business Sydney
Clark, Kansas, j F. briggs Michigan, and B. F. Hopkins,
Wisconsin, coal operator, Henry L. Cake Pennsy vania;
clergyman, William A. Pile Missouri. John Morrissy, of
New York. is put upon the rolls banker-not faro banker
Just simply banker Being asked why he chose that title
instead of gambler pugis by either of which he better
known he replied that he coward that he had always
been gambler and always would be that he had also
been that he had been in the lowest brohes
in the country that he had been the companion of thieves
and cypransbut that he quite bad company
when he into Wall street. among the bankers and
brokers' He said there less honesty and trickery
and thevng in Wall street than among his former associates
and he did not want the world to misundersand him. lie
wanted be taken his worst and had therefore chosen
designation of banker The four remaining bankers are
Cornell of New York; Griswod, of New York Hubbard,
of West Virginia and Price, of Iowa. Whatever be
said of Morrissy, his heart is overlooking with warmth
towards persons in aicon and he has hypocrisy He
every house in his district during his campaign and
frankly asked for the support of the voters He told them
that he gambler but that he wanted his boy who
growing up know that his father something besides
gambler and BANKER but that he has been to Wash
ington he thinks he adopted unfortunate manner of
lettering his In addition to losing $780, 900 year
while in Congress, which he says he could make if in
business he is also losing his good name. His old friends
won't speak to him more and he is nearly broken
hearted He wishes he had been
He is sure that is respectable.
The of Mrs Cobb is not unfamiliar to the public in
connection with the pardon brokerage business the mpeach
scheme, and the exploits of detective General Baker
Mr. Cobb has been hitherto unknown to fame. People
content if there masculine Cobb, that his identity
should be merged in that of the feminine representative of
the family But Mr.. Cobb, Joseph r. bursts suddenly
and brilliantly admirng world Joseph R. prints in
ST. Louis paper card which is Short sharp and ncsve,
if decisive. Wasting time in preliminary sparring,
he hit Congressman Ashley right between the eyes, and
denounces him "calumnious Hbeler" suborner
"infamous INSCRIPTIONS sanderer, and as coward
We suppose the of Baker and others will good
time 1t will be lucky for Ashley if Joseph r. only writes
daggers and pistols and uses
Official figures Washington show that during the year
ending the 31st of March last 4703 900 of freight
transported the railroads of Illinois running and
west the value of which $646 000equal to nearly
wo-hirds of the entire foreign of the county
Mr.. Shafer recently killed gray eagle Bald Knob
Mazzara prairie which measured feet and inch
from tip to tip of wings and its claws open full eight inches
Wolves abundant in that neighborhood
Austria.