New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-29
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r,burch. and in establishing these instHuuoos
sn,,on the broadest and most permanent
Hasie. recognizing in the erection CT tne
contem plated congregational mouse At DOS
tom for q valuable public library OF our de.
nomination, and IS permanent nonlo W
al chr benevolent societies-an enterprise
vorthv of liberal aid by Congrega'lonallsfs
in ali PARTS of our land and thanking GOD
for the triumph of the principles OF the
fathers for the emancipation OF tne
blacks, and for the adoption OF the
1fteenth amendment. A resolution re-
uuesting the Pilgrim Society OF flymoulh
to remove the Masonic tablet on the corner
stone of the national monument 10 our lore.
fathers, on the ground that the spirit ana
nrinciples were quite inconsistent with the
views of Masonry, provoked warm dlscus-
sion but was fually postponed 'hueubltely,
as Conversational convention VIII De held
in Cincinnati ne xHsummer, to expressly con
cider the question OF the relations OF the
Church to secret societies.
ST, LOUIS, April ga meeting OF the
South Paci6c Railroad was held here to-day
and board of directors We're elected. The
formal opening of the road to Springfield
takes place next Tuesday. The track will
be completed fifty. miles west of Springfield
within sixty days.
PlrrsBURG April 2S-The condensing
tanks and agitating house Of the Brilliant
Oil Works of Lockert Il Frew near this city,
was burned, with four hundred barrels Of
oil, this afternoon. Loss eight thousand
dollars. No insurance.
River Intelligence.
SOUTHWEST PASS, Aprll2S. 6 P. M.-Barom-
eter 1880. Wind south, light.
Sailed Steamship W. G. Hewes, ship
Otago, bark ITALIA and schooner j. u.
Whipple.
VIcKsBuRG, April 2s.-Passed up: Pau
line Carol Mt 7 A. M; Groesbeck at II N.
Down: Edinburg at A. NJ; Magenta and
Aongworih AZ P. N.
River rising. Weather cloudy and pleas
ant.
CINCINNATI, April 2S.-River has fallen
five feet, with thirty-two feet in the chan.
mel, aud seventy feet space under the bridge.
Weather rainy. Shipments light. Arrived:
Minneola and Jonas Powell, from Memphis.
PITTsBURG, April Electromagnetic scant
six feet and falling. Allegheny eight feet
eleven inches and falling. River falling at
all points Mollie Ebert is loading for New
Orleans. Weather cloudy and rained during
the afternoon. Mercury 70.
CAIRO, April 28.-Passed down: Julia, st.
Louis to Vicksburg at 8 T. NJ; Wlcks, st.
Louis to Memphis, at A. M; City of
Cairo, st. Louis to Memphis, at T. NJ.
Passed up: Utah, Arkansas river to 81.
Louis, at midnight; Sam Brown. Memphis
to st. Louis, at midnight; Nightingale, Ar
kansas river to CINCINNATI, at A. NJ. ST.
Joseph, Memphis to St. ouis, at A. M;
Sam Hale, phis to Cincinnati, at 10 A.
NJ; Houston, New Orleans TO Louisville, st
2 A. M; Thompson Dean, New Orleans to
st. Louis, at A. M; Marble City, Vicks-
burg to st. Louis, at "A. N. River rose five
inches. Rained all night. Weather cloudy;
mercury So.
MEMPHIS, April 28.-Passed up: Shreve
and Ajax. Down: Arthur. River falling.
Weather warm and rainy.
LOUISVILLE, April 2S.-Arrived: Robert
Burns. from Cincinnati; Armadillo, from
Red river. Departed: Robert Burns, for
Memphis; Armadillo, for Cincinnati. The
river has fallen two feet six inches during
the last twenty-four hours, with fourteen
feet six inches in the canal and twelve feet
elk inches in the chute, with seventy-two
feet under the bridge. Weather rainy and
disagreeable.
= The towboats Boaz and Horner departed
to-day for New Orleans, with 5000 bushels
of coal.
ST.. LOUIS, April 2s.-Departed: City of
Alton, Tor Vicks burg. River stationary.
There was a heavy rain last night, and
nearly all day, but it is now clearing up.