New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-30
WHOLE NUMBER 1869.

the defaulting cashier Of the National Bank
OF Brunswick, pleaded guilty and was sen
eaced = six years.
BOSTON, september GA committee q
tho Council ha" been appointed to extend
Duke Alexis.
ATLANTA, Ga, September s9.-Fostes
Flodgott, lato superintendent of the Geor-
gis state road, was arrested yesterday,
charged with fraud. H. c; Fsrrow, the at.
torney general, was arrested to-day, charged
! with cheating and swindling.
! PHILAD1LPHIA, September 29.-The paper
| and rag warehouse of Jessup e. Moore was
burned to-day. 1t was in tho centre of q
| number Of paper stores. LOSS el50,OO0.
! CINCINNATI, September 29.-The general
committee Of the industrial expositiOn de
cided to-day to positively close the exhibi-
! tion on Saturday evening, October 7: Also.
| that the exposition of next year would com
! nenco September and CLOSE on October =.
1872.
VIcKsBuRe, September 29.-No new cases
| Of yellow fever in the past twenty -four
hours.
BALTIMORE, September 29. William
Pritchard was hanged today, at Lawson
town, for committing rape on German
| girl in 1870.
SELMA, Ala, September 29.-The death
! Of ClantOn has produced q universal and
profound sorrow in this community to-day.
The church bells tolled, and other demon
| stratiOns Of respect were made.
At York, seventy miles west Of Selma
yesterday, a drunken man. without provo
| cation. killed his wife and father-in-law,
and then fled.
NASHVILLE, September 29-The first race
for three hundred dollars, three mile dash,
Foster walked over. The second race, for
one hundred and fifty dollars, one mile
dash, Commerce came in first, McIntyre's
b. c. by Norton second, Metalla third, Sue
Walton fourth. ArerOid fifth. and Mazeppa
sixth. Time: l:4S.
The third race for three hundred dollars
mile heats. McIntyre's C. h. c. by Tipperary,
!, l; Kathleen. 2, 2; Metalla, 3, 3. Time:
1:4914 and l:4s4.
The favorite won in each race. The
weather was fine, and there was the largest
attendance of the week. The meeting closes
tomorrOw with four races.
PROVIDENCE, X. l., September 29.-In the
trotting races to-day over the Narragansett
course, for purse of $4,000, for horses that
never trotted under 2:33. was won by Lot
terry in three out of five heats. beating
Frank Palmer, who won the first heat, and
Joe Beacon, who made dead heat with
Lottery in the third heat. Ten horses
started. Time: 2:32la, 2:3344, 2:a6, 2:331s,
9:35A.
In the second race for purse of 5000,
for all hOrses-$350O to the first, $1,000 to the
second and $500 to the third horse-was
won by American Girl, beating George
Palmer in four heats, the third being dead
heat. Time-o:2S1a. 2281s, 2:3laa, 2:27.
CHICAGO, September 29-Presitent Grant
is at Galena, Illinois. He leaves there to-
morrow, and will reach here at six o'clock
in the evening. The President will spent
Sunday in this city, and resume his journey
eastward on Monday.
SAN FRANCIsCO, September 29.-Advices
from Tucson, Arizona, to September %. con-
firm the report of the driving off of citizens
approaching Camp Grant for water.
A government mail rider and a cattle
herder have been murdered by Apache In
dians near Tucson.
Buenrentura Perda, alleged to be one Of
the Spanish soldiers who robbed the Spanish
army paymaster of 100000 in Cuba last
winter, gave up $4,000 in drafts to the
Chief of Police Crowley, Detective Lee and
the Spanish Consul Martin on the fifteenth
OF this month, alleging that he had been
robbed of a large part of the remainder of
his share of the plunder by his servant in
Chicago, and lost portion Of the sum in
speculatiOns in this city. Perda now sues
the officials and Consul Martin for the
money, assigning that it was wrOngfully
taken from him by them.
Weather Report.
WAR DEPARTMENT, }
once Chief Signal Officer, :
Warrington September 29, 1871, 7:3O p. NJ
SYNOPSIS OF THE PAST rwENTY-FoUR HOURS.
The area of highest barometer. which
was Thursday afternoon central north
west of Illinois, has moved southwark.
and covers the entire country east Of the
Mississippi. The highest barometer is in
Kentucky and Tennessee. The pressure
has risen in lower Florida and Maine, and
has fallen from Minnesota to Kansas and
Wyoming Territory. ClOudiness continues
in lower Florida and in Maine: clear weather
is elsewhere reported. Fresh nOrthwesterly
winds have prevailed from Lake Huron to
Virginia and eastward. Northeast winds
in the Gulf States, light winds and calms
in the interior Increased south and south
east winds have prevailed during the after
noon from Missouri to Lake Superior. The
temperature has risen from Michigan to
Missouri and northward, and has fallen in
New England: else where it is sensibly sta
tionary.
The barometer will probably continue
rising on the Atlantic and gulf coasts and
lower lakes with pleasant weather on Sat
urday, but will fall rapidly north and west
of the Ohio valley, with increasing south
westerly winds on the upper lakes. A storm
OF considerable severity is probably ap-
preaching from Montana and Dakota.
River Intelligence.
MEMPHIS, September 29-Weather clear.
There was a heavy frost last night River
falling. Passed up: Virginia and City of
Quincy. Down: II. NJ. Shreve.
VICKsBURG, September 29.-Passed down:
K. f. Lee at 6 z. NJ. Passed up: South
western at 3 P. M. Weather cool and clear
River falling
CINCINNATI, September 29-River sta
with three feet nine inches in the
channel.
CAIRO, September 29.-Arrived and de-
parted: Umpire from Cairo for Evansville
at p. NJ. last night; Colorado from Vicks-
burg tor St. Louis at IL A. M: Lida Nor
veil from Metropolis for New Madrid at II
A. NJ; Oceanus from St. Louis for New Or
leans at p. M; John Kyle from New Or
leans for St. Louis at +. NJ; Virginia from
New Orleans for st. Louis at 6 p. n. The
river has fallen one inch i'll the past twenty
four hours. Weather clear: thermometer
5S. There was a light frost here this
The examination of the Silver
Bow shows that she can be raised without
difficulty.
LOUISVILLE, September 29.-The river has
declined one inch in the past twenty-four
hours, leaving eight inches in the chute,
two feet at the head of the canal and three
feet six inches on the shoalest bars between
here and Cincinnati. Heavy frost here this
EVANSVILLE, September 29-Weather
clear and pleasant The river has fallen
three inches. Boats up: John Lumsden.
Dick johnson at 9 A. NJ: Florence Lee and
Ella Hughes at IL NJ; Ruby at A. n.
siuoss fair