New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-17


the States and dispensing with freights on
mails and military aud naval stores It
cOntemplates the construction of railroads
centring in Washington.
A bill introduced for I is removal of the
disabilities of certain ci' 5ens Of North and
South Carolina AlabaT = Georgia, and q
few for other States. rhs List embraces
about twelve hundre9 lar %, including
Governors Brown aaG oldsn, General
Longstreet, aud George - Jones, of Ten
nessee, the last the only ka0Wn Democrat
in the list
The finance bill was resaL ed till adjourn.
ment.
House-The Senate amendment relieving
Roderick r. Butler, member elect from
Tennessee, from disabilities and seating
him without the ironclad oath passed 80
to ~.
After local business the river and harbor
bill was taken up. 1t appropriates about
seven millions. The Southeast is only ben.
Gifted by thirty thousand dollars for the
examination and survey of the Atlantic
coast. Tributaries of the Mississippi get
one million three hundred thousand dol
lars, but only one hundred thousand for the
mouth of the Mississippi, and part OF one
hundred and eighty five thousand for the i'm.
provement of the Missouri, Mississippi, and
Arkansas rivers will be spent South. No
action was taken.
The motion to reconsider the twenty per
prevailed and the bill was recalled from the
Senate. Adjourned.
1t is rumoredsthat General Martin T. Nc.
Mahon, of New York, will be appointed
Mexican minister.
United States Indian Agent Ieaven-
worth in his report narrates numerous out
RACES on the part OF the COmanches and
Kiowas. They seem to have q special pre-
dileCtion for raids into Texas. Colonel
Leavenworth recommends that they be
punished promptly and severely.
The recall of the twenty per cent bill
causes much disappointment, though the
| clerks still hope it will eventually pass,
The Committee of Ways and Means is yet
undecided what course to pursue. 1t is
| probable that the new bill will cover over
one hundred pages, changing the present
system of collecting the revenue almost en-
| tirely.
If this is correct the bill will not be ready
for report until next week, and its passage
will require two weeks. Considerable stub.
bornness and bad feeling exists.
Ninety-two witnesses have been sum-
moned in Surratt's behalf.
The President has withdrawn the nomina-
tion of G. P. Mott as minister to Costa Rica.
General Meigs has resumed active duties
as Quartermaster General.
Internal revenue to-day 1858, 900.
The Florida delegation here is very
anxious about the Senatorial election which
a negro will be elected for the short term
| ending March next.
From Europe.
LONDON, June l6.-Cambridge University
to-day conferred the degree of Doctor OF
Laws on Henry W. LongfellOw, in the
presence of vast audience, which received
the poet with loud and prolonged cheers.
great meeting of Ritualists was held
here to-day. Resolves by DR.. Pusey and
others were adopted, sustaining the Irish
Church establishment and High Church
doctrines.
LoNDoN, June l6.-.The British govern
ment threatens to prosecute Train for q
speech made to the Irish in Manchester.
Bismarck has retired to Pomeranis. Thile
takes his place in the foreign office.
River intelligence.
ST. LOUIS, June 16.-The Mississippi is
rising rapidly at Dubuque.
LoUIsvILLE, June l6.-River at stand,
with five feet eleven inches in the canal.
Weather. cloudy and warm.
From Southwest PaSG.
SOUTHWEST Pass, June l6, 6 P. Ma.
rOmeter 1915. No wind. No arrivals.
Sailed-Steamship Agnes and Austin. q
Ship INLAND still on the bar. ...
AEIseeIIaueous Telegrams.
NEW YoRk. June l6.-The coast beacon
lighthouse at Sandy Hook has been burned.
| A temporary one will be erected by the
Lighthouse Board.
| CHARLESTON, June l6.-The steamship
| Falconer passed the steamer Charleston,
| from New York for Charleston, thirty miles
| north of the Fryingpan Shoals light ship
| on Monday, with the abandoned ship Mont
sSyxNEAH, June l6. = The steamship
America, from Baltimore, fell in with the
/ British ship Montgomery, water-logged and
| Abandoned which she endeavored to tow
1 s.,so Ilr,-4 ul hY1f a
the ship becoming unmanageable, had to
| leave her. .a
Financial Matters In New York.
NEw YORK, June l6.-Money unaltered.
Call loans 29124 u cent Prime paper 596
sa cent Gold active and excited, closing
firm at l4l; transactions very large. stocks
rather dull during the afternoon, but closed
with a slight Improvement. 620s of 1852
with coupons lI2t; of 1864, ll02; of 1865,
llOE; of 1867, l135; lO-4S's, lO64i 7-SO's,
1893.
NEW YoRK, June 16, Evening" Cotton
opened more steady and closed quiet sales
1900 bales; middling uplands zotg2Si
closiug at 2sA. Flour unchanged southern
in better request; 50 SO9l5. Wheat 2sSc'
better, but very Quiet. Corn closed droop.
ing. white Southern 81 Is. Pork quiet al
S2s 25ta2s 373. Lard 6rmer. Whisky dull,
Turpentine 46 a47c. Rosin So 1907 20,
Freights shade frmeri corn by steam "a
sCEurSyArI June l6.-FlOur lower; good
| grades of family offered at So, Wheat
active. Corn 93994c. Oats T4G375c. Pro.
visions nominally unchanged. Butter 26Ca
SOC, Eggs ale, o0sEig9
Foreign Markets. .,f,,ef--.,
LrvERRooL, June l6, Evening. Cotton
| closed drmer; middling uplands l04d.; mid
ding Orleans lid. Sales Il, 900 bales. Corn
advanced 3d., quoted 3ls. Cd. Wheat steady,
Sugar to arrive 26s. Sd. -a--
IoEDoH, June l6, Evening. g.--Money closed
Arm; consols s4i; bonds TSt, is5rnt,1
IFrom Yesterdays Evening" FADsrS.l 81
WASHINGTON, June Is. = Mr.. Schenel
} stated yesterday in the House that he dit
not fully understand the INSTRUCTIONS Of IA
| House regarding the revision Of the WhizsI
J and tobacco tax. ist d ssls.Es v.3I a.
! If they simply meant reduction II W0uil
! not taxi long, but if the machinery for col
( / lecting, etc., were intended % be revived ]
4 | would be matter Of TINA
{ YICKsBURG, June l6s--Rassed up Quitmal
at6P. M. yesterday and Fulton Win barge
at this morning. Down, 0nlnd Lake viz
|. barees at Q this morning. Eitax recedlnl
/. steadily.
' LoN1os, June l6.--Iiard stanley says IN
4 Pasha Of Egypt proposes @ establish lal
4 courts for the protection 81 the rights
I foreign residents in Egypt o