New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-08
MISCELLANEOuR.

| AAAs Sseu 8bDeO hnEOUG0 CnoY00M0
and Omaha Yester
Reports Of Indian Outrages-No Indiaa
Troubles In Color ado -Commemorativs
Ceremonies NJ Mem ehis-Corner Stone
OF IA Confederate Cemetery, and Ad-
| dress by General Bates-Joha savage
! 1t san FranclscO-Indlann Ontraees-
| Arrival from "A ustraila and Importsnt
| Intenigence-Buildlngs Blown Down
In Kansas ClsY-Woman's Suffrage not
| to be submitsed by the Illinois Cen.
ventiOn-FroclamatiOn for the Arrest
of Lynchers-Equal Rights Biu De-
feated In MlssissiDpi-soushern Bsp-
| llss OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to Ger.
pOrase BaDtists Of the MOrih and
SOuth-RallrOad Matters ut Cineln.
nOtl-Arrest or an Ex.InspectOr s(
Spi~its.
CHEYENNE. Wyoming Territory, April T.
J. B. Bell, proprietor Of the Planters House
| by shooting himself through the left breast.
He is now lying in a critical condition.
Ninety-three men got off the Eastern train
| here today-fity-three for the Big Horn
! expedition and forty for the Greeley new set
tlement, fifty miles south of here.
General Sheridan and staff arrived here
| on the Pullman train this evening, en- route
westward, and was met at the depot by
officers from Fort Russell, the post band and
an immense crowd of citizens.
OMAHA, Nebraska, April General
Sheridan and staff passed here to-day, going
west.
1t has been raining here and west all day.
DENVER Cry, Colorado, May 5 The ac-
counts OF Indian Outrages on the Kansas
Pacific Railroad and elsewhere in Colorado,
recently published by eastern newspapers,
are entirely groundless.
There have been no Indian trou bles IN
this territory during the past year, and Gov.
| ernor McCook is confident that none need
be anticipated within the limits Of Colorado.
MEMPHIS, May THE commemorative
ceremonies, at Elwood Cemetery to day,
was attended by fully 10000 persons, despite
the weather.
An address was delivered by General
Bates, and the corner stone OF Con federate
monument laid, with appropriate ceremo-
MES.
The Methodist Episcopal Conferen ce ad-
journed. to enable the members to attend
the comm smorative ceremonies.
Business to-day was, suspended, in honor
of the decoration of the graves of the Con-
federate dead.
SAN Francisco, May John Savage
arrived here last night and Was received by
a committee of the Fenian Brotherhood.
He will deliver an address at the grand Fe-
nian picnic on Sunday next.
The smallpox has broken out in Arizona
City.
Numerous Indian outrages have been
committed in the vicinity of Prescott.
The steamer Idaho brings one hundred
and forty passengers from Australia, nearly
all of whom are en- route for England.
The following intelligence is published
from Auckland papers otApril 2:
Major Ropata attacked Maraclipa and
captured it after one hours engagement.
The garrison was captured, with over three
hundred prisoners. Tekoveti, with twenty
followers, escaped.
KANSAS CI1Y, Mo-, May 7-During viO-
lent storm last night a three-story building.
unoccupied, was blown down. Loss SIC, ,0C0;
no insurance. Almost immediately after.
ward, four-stOry brick, owned and occu-
pied by Askew Dubois & Co., leather deal
ers, fell with terrible Crcsh, buryiDg stock
valued at s55, ZOO. Loss on building Sic, 600;
insurance $4,000. Nobody in either build
ing was hurt.
CHICAGO, May THE question of woman's
suffrage will not be submitted to the people
of Illinois after ALL the constitutional cOn-
ventiOn having reconsidered its action in
this respect. 1t is claimed that this retro
grade action is owing to lecture delivered
by Mrs. Wheaton, of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
against wOman's suffrage in Springfield,
some two weeks since. The convention will
probably adjourn sine die next week.
The Grand jury in the Recorders Court,
has called the attention of the authorities to
the loose and careless manner in which the
public buildings and dwellings are being
erected in. this city, and suggests the ap-
pointment of inspectors of buildings, the in
spectors to be held responsible for the
safety OF all buildings erected in the city.
Joseph c. Ramsey having been forclbly
taken from the custody of constable in
Putnam county, Illinois, April sixteenth.
by certain lawless persons, and murdered by
hanging, Governor Palmer issued procla-
nation yesterday, calling upon all public
officers and all good citizens to exert them
selves to detect and bring to justice the per
sons concerned in the said act, and offering
$1,000 reward for the apprehension and con-
viction of said persons.
JACKSON, Miss, May THE Senate to-
day confirmed to the Supreme bench
Messrs. Simran, Peyton and Torbell.
The bills for mixed schools and equal
rights to negroes in taverns was defeated.
LOUISVILLE, May I'm the sou thern Bap-
tist Convention to-day Rev. DR.. Peter, of
Virginia. offered q resolution to refer to u
committee the subject of the corporation
of the Baptists of the North and South
Said committee to report whether any, and
if any, what action should be taken in the
premises. After long and spicy debate,
The resolution was adopted By large ma
jority, and committee of four was ap-
pointed.
CINCINNATI, May Jay Gould reached
here late last night. His presence created
some anxiety among the New York Central
parties. 1t is reported to- day that the rep
of the New York Central were
here endeavoring to make terms with the
Hamilton and Dayton Company
for more intimate business connection with
that road, on account of some disturbance
Of relations with the Little Miami Railroad
Rumor further says that Jay Gould is
here to prevent any arrangements with the
Cincinnati, Hamilton Snd Dayton road, and
That he threatens 10 buiId road from tin-
cinnati to Dayton If his wishes are not
yratifed. Whether this be tree or not,
there is doubtless something important in
he wind. The impression is gaining
ground that the three great roads will not
always be content with two routes into
Cincinnati.
Colonel Thomas Il. Roberts, the former
inspector OF spirits under The revenue laws,
was arrested to-day, charged with afixing
fraudulent bonds and using fraudulent GER
.ifcates ofiwhisky in inspection aud cor soir-
ng with l.. N. Fowler and others, to de-
fraud tho government. The offenscs are
charged 10 1867 aud 1858 aud the spirits in-
vowed ranging from 6O,000to x, ,0OO galIoas,
upon which there was q tax at that time OF
two dollars per gallon. The government