New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-26

ChOctaws-He proposes the State OF
Oklurhurpma and Lands In sever.
nity-southern Pre,s Convention.
CHICAeo, April 25.-In the matter of Ter
wilyer VS.. the Great Western Tele graph
Company, in which bill in chancery was
fled some days since, alleging various acts
of fraud by the company, testimony being
had subpenaed Mr.. Snow, the Secretary, to
produce the books OF the company, which
he refused to do, thereupon the complainant
moved for an attachment against Snow for
contempt of court, which was granted this
forenoon.
PHILADELPHIA, April 25.-The Chicago
delegates have Withdrawn from the Fenian
Congress, and have issued an address dis.
approving of its proceedings.
Lee arrived here from Savannah this eve
ming. At his own urgent request there
was no public reception.
MEMPHIS, April 25.-Bepiamin Kennedy,
engineer of the towboat Mary Alice, was
murdered below here last night by two
colored deck hands, named Anderson and
Henderson, who were examined and com.
mitted here this morning for murder in the
first degree. After stabbing Kennedy they
threw him overheard.
An engine and six freight cars were wreck.
ed on the Mobile and Ohio railroad by fall
ing through q trustle near Humboldt.
DR.. L. 2. Grant, an eminent physician,
died here this morning ofappoplexy.
Allen Wright the principal chief Of the
~Choctaws, has sent an able message to the
special session of the Council, and warns
them by reference TO the fate of their Terri
tory in Mississippi, OF what it will be in the
proposed Territory of Lincoln. He advises
that their lands be surveyed and held in
eeverality, and that the Choctaws organize
themselves at once as the State of Okur-
hurnma. and apply for admission into the
Union, and if it is the honest desire of the
Government to have them become citizens,
1t will acquiesce in their petition.
He also recommends an Immediate protest
against territorial government and the
adoption OF resolution asking the govern
ment to settle the status of the freedmen,
and recommends the encouragement of rail-
road building. The Council subsequently
passed an act submitting the question of
division of lands so as to be held in several
ity or as heretofore in common. The popular
vote will be taken on the fourth of July.
SAVANNAH, April 25.-The Convention of
the Southern Press Association met to-day.
Representatives. were present from North
and South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
The Executive Committee reported the re-
suit of the conference held at Augusta,
March 6, with J. W. Simonten, of the New
York Associated Press, favoring the CONT
nuance of the present news service as the
best that can be obtained under existing Cir
cumstances. The citizens rendered an ex-
cursion to the gentlemen Of the press to Fort
Pulaski, which was accepted and enjoyed by
the members of both the associations. Every
courtesy was rendered by the press and
people to the visitors. a. L. Lemar, of Co.
lumbus, is President of the Southern Asso
citation, and J. Clisby, of Macon, President
Of the State press. Members will remain till
Monday.
CHICAGO, April 25.-Andrew Keeseker,
compositor on the Dubuque Herald fell
dead at his case this morning. He has been
printer fifty-one years, and set type on the
first newspaper in Iowa.
LEAvENwoRTH, Kansas, April 25.-The an
nouncement OF the action Of Commissioner
Delano in removing Supervisor Mari from
the District of Kansas, when he had but
Just commenced, will unearth one of the
greatest swindles ever perpetrated on the
Revenue Department. 1t was received in
Kansas with surprise and indignation.
Colonel Mari, however ascertaned that
Speer's defslcation extended throughout the
whole of his administration as Collector of
this District, and amounted to over 500, 600.
The most substantial men in Leavenworth,
Junction City, White Cloud, Topeka, Fort
from five to three hundred thousand dollars,
who never failed to pay their taxes, were re-
ported by Speer as dead, absconded, run
away, failed, find no property, etc. The re-
tention of Supervisor Mari, at least until
he can complete his examination Of the
Speer case, is demanded by many of the
NEST prominent and influential men in
Kansas.
River Intelligence.
SOUTHWEST Pass, April Is, z P. Ma
rometer 80. Arrived, ship Roosevelt
Sprsgue, Lewis master, fifty days from
Cardiff with railroad iron to order. Bark
Rome, Bath, master nineteen days from New
York, with railroad iron to master. Bark
Audaman, Otis, master, fifty.three days from
Cardiff. with railroad iron to master.
No departures.
WIND east southeast, light. Tide high.
Arrived Brig II. G. Brooks, Briggs.
master eight days from Matanzas, with 800
boxes of sugar, to PUG Bros; schooner
Electric Spark, Connell, master, three days
and twenty. hours from Ruatan, with a
cargo of fruit, to K. Morgan IL Co.
The steamboat Lotus No. is at anchor
opposite the telegraph station, awaiting
favorable weather to sail.
VrcKsBURG, April 25.-Passed down: AR,
yosy at A. M, P. w. Strader at and
irand Era at Z p. NJ. Up: Mary Houston AT
A. M. and Natchez at P. NJ. River rising. |
Weather clear and pleasant.
MEMPHIS. April 25.-Weather cloudy. Mer-
.ury so. River falliAg. Passed up: Mary |
lice. Passed down: Rubicon, Common
wealth. Mary Miller and Belle Lee.
CINCINNATI, April 25.-River has fallen
hree feet in the last twenty-four hours;