New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

virginia State Debt-Impeachment Of Gov.
crnor acknowledgements in Internal
Reveuae Accounts-The Indiana Fire
Report Of Illinois State Treasurer.
RICHMOND, Va, December I5.-The Re-
publican State Central Committee last night
adopted resolutions praying Congress to
pass general amnesty bill. There were but
two dissenting votes.
The question of the State debt was up in
the Senate this morning The tenor of the
speeches was in favor of carrying the mat
ter of West Virginia's share of the debt be-
fore the United States Supreme Court, and
IL payment was not compelled there, Viz
ginia will settle the whole debt. AL op-
posed any idea of repudiating it.
RALEIGH, N. c., December 1.-THE
House. to-day, sent committee of three to
the bar Of the Senate, impeaching Governor
Holden, demanding that they take order in
the matter, and informing the Senate that
articles of impeachment would be soon pro-
duced.
The Senate replied they would consider
tho matter and take order therein
Articles of impeachment, it is believed,
will be shortly submitted. and high court
Of impeachment organized, with the Chief
Justice Of the State presiding.
CINCINNATI, December ia number of
discrepancies have been discovered in the
the former collector Of the second Ohio dis
trict. They involve several thousand dol
lars, that appear from tim to time to have
been collected without being fully accounted
for. There seems to have been much'lOOse-
ness in the management of his business.
The signing of receipts, it is charged, has
been done by several persons, who were not
held by him to rigid account.
CHICAGO, December ia special to the
Ksvk1o nd ha
fire there on Tuesday destroyed property
valued at over 100000.
The report of the State Treasurer makes
the following exhibits: Balance in the
treasury, December l, 1869, 5000, 974 70;
amount received from all sources to Deem
her l, 1870. $685., 779 Oh; balance on hand,
a 500 $40 So.
River Intelllsence.
SOUTHWEST Pass, December Is, z. M
Barometer 30:l5. Wind east and blowing
lard.
Arrived: Ship Friga, Hodgson, master,
thirty-seven days from Liverpool, with
general cargo, to Hunt & Macauley; ship
May Queen, Ross, master, fOrty-fOur days
from Liverpool, with salt, to j. A. Bryson.
Ship Margaret Pollock, Mitchell, master,
forty-one days from Glasgow, with railroad
iron to j. A. Bryson. Ship La Gloire, Rood,
master, thirty-eight days from Cardiff,
Wales, with railroad iron to order. Ship
Nayfiower, Call, master, forty-three days
from Cardiff, with railroad iron to order.
Schooner J; G. Whipgle, Goodspeed, master,
Morgan g. Co. Sailed: Steamship New
York.
VICKsBURG, December 15.-Passed down:
w. r. Arthur at 10 last night, Ida at IL NJ,
Messenger at Z P. II. Up: GAINESVILLE at /
p. n River rising. Weather rainy and
cold.
MEMPHIS, December 15.-Weather cold
and rainy. River rising. Arrived: Magenta.
Departed: LaBarge, Indiana and MOllie
PrrrsBURG, December 15.-The weather
is growing colder. The Monongahela is
falling, with seven feet ten inches in the
channel. The Allegheny is rising, but it is
not expected to prevent fall in the water
here, as the Allegheny is falling at Oil City.
The tOwboat Fearless and five barges of
coal are stuck on Tow Bar. 1t is expected
that two Of them will get of. Departed:
Six hundred and forty five thousand bushels
Of coal for Louisville.
CINCINNATI, December 15.-The river has
risen nine inches in the past twenty-four
hours. There is now twelve feet and six
inches in the channel. Weather cloudy
Mercury $50. Departed: The Spray, for
Nashville.
LOUISVILLE, December ID. - Arrived:
Sam j. Hale, Belle Vernon and Edinburg,
from Cincinnati. Departed: Sam J. Hale,
for Memphis, and Virginia, for New Or
leans Edinburg in passing through the
canal, grounded and was still aground at a
late hour this evening. The Belle Vernon
Lays over until tomorrow, when she will
depart for New Orleans. The river has
risen one inch in the past twenty four hours,
with three feet five inches in the chute and
five feet five inches in the canal Weather
cool and cloudy.