New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-19
TERMS SIG 90 PER ANNUM-
WHOLE NUMBER 397.

% %Mess pork $2S is. Lard a shade better.
6ettle rendered l73@l8l. Naval stores firm
Grocerles quiet. Freights a shade firner
,SSINclNFATI, July Is.-Flour unchaneelI.
mheat w: Corn 92c. Provisions yerv inlI.
Butter 26029c.; eggs 150I7c. -'
LOUISVILLE, July IS.-Tobacco nar,,oE
very quiet. superfne -four S6 50a7: fancx
$lO@l0 50. Wheat 81 75@I so. Corn s5a
96c. Oats 80@82c. Mess pork S2s so. IsTd
lSc. Bacon shoulders l34c; clear sides I9c.
ST. LOUIS, July lS.-Flour dull and mn
changed. Wheat irregular and lower.
Corn 7s0S7c. Oats 760s3c. Provisions
CHARLESTON, July 1s.-Cottou duII-no
sales. sa e hiddlings nominally 3lc. Receipts
SAVANNAH, July 1s.-Cotton dull and
9y 99eavy; r. MIddIngs SOC. Receipts rs bales.
MOBILE, July l9.-Cotton market dull and
irregular; sales 100 bales; middling 29o. Re
ceipts rs; exports 697.
Foreign Markets.
LoEDoE, July Is, Evening.-Consols s47.
Bonds 721. 014'
LIVERPOOL, July IS, Evening Cotton
heavy; sales to-day 5000 bales. Shinments
from Bombay to the fourteenth since last
report II, 600 bales. Sugar quiet and steady.
River Intelligence.
SOUTHWEST Pass, July Is, 6P. M.-Barorn-
eter 1856. Wind southwest and light.
No arrivals.
Sailed; steamships St. Mary and W. G.
HeWes.
LOUISVILLE, July ls.-River falling, with
four feet two inches in the canal.
Thermometer at 8 P. NJ. 100. ..
ST. LOUIS, July l8.-A rise from the Mis-.
souri, river is now passing down.
Yesterdays Afternoon Dispatohes.l
OTTAWA, Canada, July 18.-The effect Of
the drouth is most disastrous to the crops
in the surrounding country.
PHILADELPHIA, July lS.-The gas work.
men have carried their point and are at
work.
WAsHINGToN, July lS.-The Southern Rep
resentatives conducted themselves quietly,
voting with the Radicals on all questions.
Their prompt party votes on subjects
which have been seriously discussed for
months, and upon which the most shrewd
legislators were doubtful, provoke smiles on
the floor of either House.
1t is stated that the three hours Cabinet
| session yesterday was very important, and
! that some Executive suggestiions regarding
| the Presidential elections will be sent to
| Congress to-day, and that the veto of the
bill regulating the electoral college will be
withheld until Monday.
The Senate last night passed the Alaska
| treaty, with an amendment ignoring the
joint power OF the House with the Senate
| and President in making treaties. The bill
as it passed the Senate simply appropriates
money to fulfill the stipulations of the
treaty.
The Senate also passed bills providing for
| selling the st. Louis arsenal property; aid
! ing improvements in the Mississippi river at
| Rock Island and Des Moines rapids; exempt
! ing certain vessels trading with Canada
! from tonnage fees, and the civil sppropria-
ton bill.
The House considered the funding bill.
COLUMBIA, s. c., July 1.-THE Senate
today passed the homestead bill. An at.
tempt was made to reduce the official bond
of the Treasurer to enable him to fill the
office, the bonds already given being de-
clared insufficient.
In the House long discussion over con-
tested seats was had. The probability is
that several Democrats will be ousted.
SAVANNAH. July 17.-Weather very hot
several cases of sunstroke occurred, but
only two ofthem fatal. Thermometer ninety
eight degrees.
The crop reports are very favorable from
Southwestern and Middle Georgia, but from
Florida they are very depressing on account
of tile worm.
ST.. LOUIS, July I7.-Thermometer 100.
The sun and whisky killed twenty men yes
terday.
VIcKsBURG, July 1s.-Passed up: Stella
with barges at g, and Pargoud at 10 A. M.
Down: Governor Allen at II A. NJ. River
falling slowly.
RIO JAEEIRo, June 24.-The allies have
bombarded Humaita. The Paraguayans
were defeated in a recent sortie.
LIVERPOOL, July Is, Noon.-Ootton heavy;
sales 5000 bales; middling uplands lie. mid
ding Orleans l4c.
LoNDON, July l7.-Archbishop Cullen, of
Ireland, is ill.
In the House of Commons Lord Mayo said
the sentences of the Fenian convicts could
not be revised.
The Standard says the question of citf-
zenship needs careful attention, and regrets
: the publication of the dispatches on the
: subject.
The Duke OF Montpensier is at Cintra
The cause of his exile is his refusal to Obey
any orders save from the Queen.