New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-19

cial stabbed-Lake Michigan Navlga~
bie-Lake Superior Clenr OF Ice
Bank Robbery In Charleston and N
Drunken Accompllee Found LOckea
In tho Vault.
SYRACUSE, New York, April 1S-The CeS
trail Conference voted, Ill to 81, in favor Of
| lay delegates.
CINCISNATI, April 1s.-N. II. Sears, the
! private watchman on the Cincinnati Com.
| n,ercidt, was stabbed and dangerously
wounded in front of Race street last night by
Jerry Lynch. The brother of Lynch had been
! arrested on information furnished by Sears.
Lynch sought the latter and struck him, O
| struggle ensued, ending with inficting q
| probably mortal wound. The murderer es-
capped, but was arrested at Carthage this
morning. Sears had recently been on the
police force, was a brave officer and an ex-
cellent man. The crime was one of the
| most infamous that ha1 occurred for
months.
DETROIT. Mich, April ls.-Propellers ar
| rived to-day in St. Clair river from Milwau
| kie; experienced no delay on account of ice.
| Private advices from Lake Superior report
| all clear.
Navigation may now be considered open
| throughout the lakes.
ATLANTA, Ga, April 1s.-The Georgia
State Senate and House met to-day. and
adjourned until Wednesday.
COLUMBIA, s. c., April 18.-The vault of
Scott, Williams Co., banking house, wss
| burglsrized on Saturday night and $4,000
or $50 600 dollars in money and available Sc.
| curities were carried off.
| One of the party, named Gage, was found
| locked up in the closet of the bank. 1t is
! supposed he was too much intoxicated to be-
| moved by his companions.
| Several thousand dollars in specie, which
was on special deposit, is included in the
| loss. The banks losses. it is supposed, will
not exceed more than $40, 900. The balance
| is divided among private individuals.
| WILLIAMsPORT, Pa, April l8.-It has been
| raining continuously for forty-fve hours,
| and the river has risen seventeen feet and
| is still rising four inches an hour. Loyal
Sock, Lycoming and Pine creeks. are
higher than they were during the freshets
! of 1865. The creeks west of Lockhaven are
not so high. Some damage has been done
| to the canal that it will probably take
| week to repair. The Northern Central rail-
road between here and Elmira has been
badly damaged, and no trains have passed
over it to-day.
Raining steadily for five hours. The river
has risen seventeen feet, and is now swell
ing at the rate of four inches per hour. II
will take week to repair the damage to
the canal.
The Northern Central railroad is washed,
| and there has been no trains either way to-
day.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 1S.-The General
Assembly adjourned AZ nine o'clock this
morning. During the session seventy-three
general and forty-three local laws were
enacted; also, ffty-six resolutions were
adopted. The forthcoming volume of laws
will be about half as large as the volume OF
last year.
The legislative excursion to Washington,
numbering about three hundred persons,
left Columbus at half-past nine this even
ing. About half of the party were ladies.
CHICAGO. April 1S.-James Ramsey, living
between Granville and Hennipen, Illinois,
| person of his daughter. and while being
| conveyed to Jail, was seized by mob and
hanged. Ramsey rested under the suspi-
cion of having poisoned his wife two years
| ago, and of having burned his barn to secure
| the insurance money.
CINCINNATI, April 1S.-N. H. Sears, a COM
mercial watchman, who was stabbed last
night, died this afternoon. Jerry Lynch,
| the perpetrator, has been lodged in prison.
| CHICAGO, April 1S.-In comp lance with
request from Michael Phelan and G. Dion,
asking him to fix the time for the pending
match game of billiards between himsen
and Dion, Monsieur Rudolphe has con
cluded to play in this city some evening be-
| tween the twentieth and the first of May.
| 1t is rumOred that William B. Ogden has
been rendered the presidency of the North
western Railroad, and that he will proba-
bly, accept
| A communication from General Sherman,
| relative to the contemplated Big Horn
| mountain expedition, was received at Gen.
] eral Sheridans headquarters today Gen.
eral Sherman states that he is now author
lied by the President to say that the expedi.
tion Will be permitted to start from Laramie
| or Cheyenne, provided the leaders will sign
an agreement with the commander of that
| military department, General Augur, not 10
| tresspass on the reservation set apart for the
| Shoshone and Snake Indians, and not to 60
north OF the boundary lines of Wyoming
Territory, nor east of the range known as
Big Horn Nc untain range.
| kAlt is also to be expressly stipulated that
the leaders of the expedition must not AJAX
nor expect any military aid or protection for
| the settlements which they may establish.
or Tor mines which they may open.
BY order of General Sheridan. military
post will be Immediately established near
Pembina, Dskotah Territory.
Allen G. Mason, a prominent citixen of
Normal. Illinois, committed suictn yestor-
day.
River InteTi9enee.
SOUTHWEST Pass, April Is, 6 p. MIA.
rOmeter 29:95; weather calm. Arrived :
Steamship /. c. Harris at 4 so P. M. Lock-
wood, master, from Brsxos Santiago 10 o. A.
Whitney & Co.
No departures,
On the bar bound ont: Steamship Teutonia.
Outside waiting for wind to sail: Ships
bennington and Annie Royden.
PAss-A-LOUTHE, April IS, II NJ
weather clear; wind east, light. Arrived:
sseAmship Perit. Gardner. master, from
fmSnD "a 1la4zx rAQs.l
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