New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-09
WHOLE NUMBER lll7.

responsible forthe deficiency; asks Congress
for Q GENITAL system for measurement in
hauling grain and similar articles; urges an
allowance Of tare on cotton, and IN sb0h-
ton OF State laws discriminating against
nonresident traders.
The resolution asking Congress to pass
laws overriding these local regulations did
not receive . twothirds vote necessary to
its passage. Tho death Of General Wal
bridge was announced and the Board ad-
journed.
CINCINNATI, December 8.-The case Of
the United States against the estate Of
Alfred r. Stone, Collector Of the Seventh
District Of Ohio, five years ago, for
bond claimed forfeited for non-complianee
with the law, was compromised to-day BY
$4,000.
A bill authorizing the Southern railroad
to bridge navigablo streams was introduced
in the House of Representatives to day BY
morrow. 1t provides that plans shall be
submitted to the Secretary of War; that
the bridge over the Ohio shall not be less
than ninety feet above low water mark and
not less than forty feet above the highest
span over low water channel, and five hum
all stages Of water. The remaining spans
not to be less than twenty-five feet.
MONTREAL, December 6.-The Canadian
papers comment variOusly ON Grants meg
sage. The question of the fisheries attracts
the greatest attention.
The Gazette, ministerial organ, attempts
to show the inconsistency of the Presidents
While Canada is always ready to negotiate
for settlement Of all matters In dispute,
it can not submit to any stand and deliver
argument.
The Herald. independent, takes q moro
moderate view of the subject, and trusta
there will be sufficient right feeling among
the people of both countries to get over tho
existing difficulties.
BUFFALO, December 6.-The demoustra-
ton made here to-day by the Roman
Catholics who sympathize with tho Pope
was most interesting affair. The route Of
| the procession was lined with pesple, and
| the procession was one of the largest ever
seen in this city. Bishop Ryan opened the
services at the Cathedral, and delivered an
| eloquent address. An address to the Pope
and pious resolutions were adopted.
River IntslllGeace.
SOUTHWEST PASS, December 8, IL NJ
Barometer 3O:10o. Wind northeast, and
Arrived: Bark Esmeralda, Nelson, mas
| ter, forty-three days from Rio de JaneirO,
with 5000 bags of coffee to Napier 4 Co.;
bark P. j. Carleton, Luce. master, twenty-
four days from Camden, Maine, with 100
schooner Mai, Snow, master, ten days from
Utilla, with fruit to K. Morgan q Co.
| Sailed: Steamship Agnes, ships William
Cummings, bennington and Favorita, and
bark RenOm.
PAss-A-IOUrRE, December 8, l2 M.-Wind
northeast and fresh.
Arrived: Schooner Anna Lyons, Camp,
i rnn.<nv aounu<oova do from ROaf0sn Nth
passengers and an assorted cargo TO Thorn
dyke, Norton and Co. Schooner T. N. Stone,
Pitcher, master, seventeen days from New
York, with general cargo to G. A. Fosdick
& Co. ~
Sailed: Schooner Challenger.
The schooner NAPLES from Pensacola
bound to Galveston, passed the bar at nina
o'clock last night.
The schooner Theodore, Smith, master,
from Paseagoula, with cargo Of lumber
bound to New Orleans, ran on q snAg to the
northward of the bar, at two o'clock this
| morning, and sunk in seven feet water. The
vessel and cargo will be saved.
vICKsBuRo, December 8.-Passed up:
Grand Era at S A. NJ; C. B. Church ct
A. N. The merchants' new wharf boat ar
rived this morning. River rising. Weather
MEMPHIS, December 8.-Passed down:
Dexter, Hesper, Nora and Commonwealth.
River rising, Weather clear. Mercury 50P.
LOUISVILLE, December 8-Arrived
Oceanus, from Pittsburg. Departed
Oceanus and M0llie Ebert, for New Orleans
The following boats had steam up, ready
to 90 through the canal: Kate Robinson
Belle Vernon, Emperor, Edinburg, Anna
Argosy, Armadillo, Alaska and Liberty and
barges, all Of which 20 to Cincinnati and
Pittsburg to load. It was thought that thu
majority of them, if not all, would succeed
in getting through tonight. The river hai
fallen one inch during the past twenty -foul
hours; there is scant four feet in the chute
and six feet in the canal Weather cleal
} and cold.
The amount of coal that has and will
arrive ON the present rise, for this and the
: Southern market, will exceed 10000
! bushels.
PrrTsBURG, December 8.-Weather cloudy
Mercury $50. The Monongahela has five
feet and three inches in the channel, and
!: There has been 5,33S, 900 bushels of Goa
shipped from the four ports Of the Monon
gahela river in November.
CINCINNATI, December 8.-River thirteer
feet one inch. It has risen nine inches
during the past twenty. four hours. Weathea
clear Thermometer 80.