New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-26

Railroad DecisiOn-RaiIrOad Bridge
Across the Missouri.
ST. LOUIS, July pa violent hail storm
passed over Pike county, Missouri, and de.
stroyed corn and tobacco.
The report that the Indian chiefs Salanta
and Big Tree were killed while attempting tc
escape, is untrue. Both have been tried
and found guilty of murder in the first de.
gree.
An express robbery was committed on
the Mobile and Ohio railroad, in Hickman
county, Kentucky, last Saturday night
Three men got on the train at Union CITY,
and at Moscow, and when the train halted
two of the robbers got of. and a confederate
remained on the platform. As the train
moved out from the depot, the two jumped
into the express car, overpOwered the mes.
senger, and robbed the safe of $4,000
halted the train, jumped off, and disap,
peared in the dark.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w. Va, July
25.-W. Meade Addington, prominent
lawyer of Baltimore, and United States
District Attorney Of Maryland under Presi-
dent Buchanan, died last night. Weather
| cloudy. Thermometer 72o at I2 NJ
NORFOLK, Va, July 25-The schooner
John ROwlett, run into some time ago by
the steamer State of Virginia, has drifted
ashore in Occohanock Bay, twenty miles
north of Cherrystone. The bOwsprit and
| v.
! The vessel is full of water, and the deck
broken up. The wreckers have abandoned
| her.
| CHARLESTON, S. c., July 25.-Arrived
| Steamer Manhattan, from New York:
steamer Falcon, from Baltimore; brig B.
Young, from New York; steamer Lizzie
Baker, from Savannah for New York.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 25.-The Demo
| cratic central State committee unanimously
resolved, that in Thomas A. Hendricks
they recognize the choice of the Democracy
of Indiana tor the Presidency in 1872, and
| recommend every honorable effort to secure
his nomination and election.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25-The miners
league terror in Amador county continues
A force of men, not members of the league,
are besieged, but are determined to hold
out. Troops will be ordered Immediately
to the scene of disturbance. E. E. Hatch,
book-keeper of Amador, was assassinated
by the league, but before he fell he sue
ceeded in shooting leader of the league
ATLANTA Ga, July 25.-The Supreme
Court of Georgia, to-day, in the Macon and
Western railroad injunction case, decided
in favor of the lessees.
GeneralGordon leaves to- night for Wash
ington, to appear before the Ku-Klux COM
mittee.
Boston, July 25.-At a meeting yester-
day, in which the Central Branch of the
Union Pacific, Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, Hannibal and st. Joseph, Chicago
and Southwestern and Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe roads were represented it
was agreed TO construct bridge across the
Missouri river at Atchison, the work to
commence Immediately.
The Central Branch Company made ar
rangements to extend their road up Repub-
ican river, to connect with the Union Pa
citic at hundredth meridian.
NIAGARA FALLS, July Ex-senator Fen
ton was serenaded and spoke here tonight
In the course of his speech, after declaring
his devotion to the Radical party, he said
he had been credited in some quarters with
entertaining special concern with relation
to the personality of the next Presidency.
The suggestion was founded on a miscOn-
ceptiOn of his feelings. His only wish was
that the next candidate should be one who
would most fully embody the principles of
the party, and be most capable of leading
it to victory.
ST. Louis, July 25.-At noon to-day, a
delivery wagon of the United States Ex-
press Company, in charge of a driver and
messenger, stopped at the mouth of an alley,
between Fourth and Fifth streets, to deliver
a package addressed to a party in the alley.
The messenger left the wagon in charge
of the driver and while he was absent two
men jumped into the wagon, gagged the
packages from the safe they threw the
driver backward into the wagon and es-
capped. A policeman captured the wagon
and driver. man and boy stated at the
police station that they saw two men Jump
out of the wagon with packages.
The driver told them he had been robbed.
and they offered to remove the gag, but the
driver would not let them. The amount
taken is $33 1000 in money and $S5,00O in
railroad bonds directed to the Kansas Pa
clt1c Railroad Company The robbers left
number of small packages untouched con-
tanning nearly $1,000 in gold.
Weather Report.
WAR DEPARTMENT1
Office Chief Signal Officer
Washington, July 25, 1871, 7:3O p M.
SYNOPSIS OF THE PAST TwENTY-FoUR HOURS,
The low barometer which was Monday
afternoon west of Wisconsin has moved
and is now probably central
north of and on Lake Superior The
pressure has fallen from the Upper Mis-
slssippi to Lake Ontario. The area of high
barometer has moved from Pennsylvania to
Maine, and it is probable that the barome-
ter is quite low off the coast of the Middle
states. Threatening weather. with light
'ains, has been very generally reported
rom Missouri to the gulf and from Wis
,onsin to Lake Superior. Cloudy weather,
With nOrthwesterly winds, has continued
IN the Atlantic coast; and brisk winds,
With occasional rain, prevail this after
loon from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod.
'artlally clear and clearing weather is
low generally reported from Lake Michi-
.an to the Carolinas.
PROBABILITIES.
The low pressure on Lake Superior will
robably move eastward. and on Wednes-
ay extend sOutheastwaTd to Lake Ontario,
'risk easterly winds will probably prevail
n the east Atlantic, and partially cloudy
+ clearing weather on the south Atlantic
Oast. SOutherly winds with rainy or
threatening weather is probable from the
-estern Gulf to the Ohio valley, and clear
lg up weather in the Northwest.
River Intelligence.
PAss-A-L'OUrEE, July 25, 6 P. M.-Wind
ast, fresh
Arrived: Steamer Sarah, Davis. master.
2. NJ, from lake end, to c. A. Whitney
Co.
Schooner Angelina, Ward master, seven
ays from Ruatan, with fruit to T. Cietco-
ch.
Sailed: Schooner Oakridge.
oooTHWEsT PASS, July 25, p. M
arometer 30l0. Wind east southeast
esh. No arrivals or departures
VICKsBURG, July 25.-Passed down: w.
Pike, P. NJ; Indiana, SPIN. Passed
,; City OF Vieksburg, z p NJ; John KYLE.
last night Weather warm and cloudy.
lver is falling.
LOUISVILLE, July 25.-The river is fall
g, with twenty-five inches in the chute
ID six feet on Portland bar. Weather
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