New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-02
WRECK OF THE CRESCENT CITY


Four and a half Million Debt Decrease
| Coin and Currency in the Treasury-Jay
| Cooke & Co.'s Offer Declined - The
Bowen Bigamy Case-C0urt of Claims.
sub Outrage Committee-Orderiy Meet
ing of COl0red Strikers-Weather Sy.
nopsis and Probabilities.
| WASHINGTON, June. 1.-The debt state
ment shows decrease Of 81, 100000.
Coin in the treasury, $S9, 900; cur
| rency, over $3.50, 900.
| The treasury has declined Jay, Cooke &
Co.'S offer for $130,9O0,00O of the new loan.
| The terms of the offer are unknown.
| N. Sergeant, Commissioner of Customs,
has been retired. III. A. Lockwood acts ad
| interim.
Judge Miller, Collector of Customs at
| Mobile, returns home tonight. He retains
| his place, over which there has been des-
| perate struggle.
| In the Bowen case Judge Olin decided
! the New York record could be attacked
| first for fraud, second for want of iurisdic-
| ton.
David N. Cooper, an expert, swore there
| we're erasures under Chris. c.. and Francis
| and S. B. Gushing. The witness found
| several other erasures, but no attempt to
| conceal.
Soon Herrick produced file of his paper,
| the Atlas, but found no such advertisement
as notice of G.. G. 1RQwen to Francis
Bowen. The referee of tHe court swore no
such case was referred to him in 1855 nor
was there any such case on Judge Barret's
docket.
Court of Czaims-The claim of Louisa
Midway, an English woman sOjOurning in
North ICarolina during the war, whose cotton
was seized and sold. She proved loyalty;
furnished supplies to the Union troops, and
otherwise treated them kindly, but toward
the close of the war she wrote letter to
Mr.. Davis, in which she expressed, in warm
terms, loyalty to him, with the view, it is
supposed, to secure his assistance in getting
out of the country. This letter was among
the captured Confederate archives, and de-
feated her claim. Judge Peck dissented.
The court adjourned to November.
The sub-Outrage committee met to-day.
Several responses were received from the
South in answer to the committees circular.
The examination of witnesses commences
tomorrow; about thirty have been sum
moned. The subcommittee intention is TO
take a general view of affairs South, and
report to the full committee in September
An immense but orderly colored meeting
was held in the Union League Hall to con-
slider the strike, which appears quite
general.
4 committee was appointed to confer
with the Board of Public Works, and a
mass meeting is called for Monday night to
hear their report. This action partially
dispels the apprehensiOns of turbulence to-
morrow. ..4s ..
The barometer has again fallen somewhat
on the Pacific coast, and has risen at the
Rocky mountain stations and in the Mis-
souri, valley. 1t has fallen decidedly from
the lower Mississippi to southern Florida,
and is rising from South Carolina to Maine.
The temperature has risen from Pennsylva-
MIA eastward, but elsewhere remains SEN
sibly the same as on Wednesday, excepting
a heavy fall at Key West, where heavy rain
has fallen. The rain fell very generally dur
ing the night from Georgia to Massachusetts,
followed to-day by clearing up weather
Cloudy and threatening weather is at pres
ent reported from southern Missouri, and
probably also prevails in Georgia and Flori-
da Pleasant weather has prevailed on the
lakes.
1t is probable that partially cloudy and
pleasant weather will be experienced on
Friday from Missouri to Virginia and north .,
ward. 1t is probable that rain and high
winds will prevail in the gulf, west of Flor
ida, during the night.