New Orleans Republican., 1871-09-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

| Grand Council of ''Red dMen',-Republican
state Convention Indorse Grant-Pris.
oner shot-Conee and Tea Going East
Rains Bad for Carolina Crops.
PHILADELPHIA, September 12.-The great
council of the improved order of Red Men
assembled here to-day.
BALTIMORE, September 12.-The Repub-
ican State convention have organized.
The resolutions indorse Grant and Cres-
we'll.
| SALT LAKE, September 12-Baum. a
Mormon. indicted for murder, was fatally
shot while attempting to escape arrest
SAN FRANCISCO, September 12.-Twenty
| East yesterday.
| Arrived: Gina from Hong Kong. She
brings one package Of musk twenty-five Of
| merchandise, six hundred and seventy of
silk, nineteen thousand one hundred and
| fOrtv-seven Of tea for New York, seventeen
hundred and eighteen for Chicago and
| three thousand four hundred and three for
| Boston.
| CHARLESTON, September '12.-Accounts
coming in from all sections of this State
| represent the continuous rains of the past
| week as very disastrous to the growing
crops on the Sea Islands. The expected
| yield has been cut OF by unfavOrable
| weather at least one half. and from the in
| terror reports of rust, and the plants she'd
| ding the fruit. are universal.
| The board Of health report no death from
| fever in the past twenty-fo hours.
Weather Report.
WAR DRPARrnKxTl
Office Chief Signal Officer,
Washington. September r. 1871. 7;c0 P. n.
SYNOPSIS OF THE PAST 1wENrY-FOUR HOURS.
The barometer remains as on Monday
afternoon highest from North Carolina to
Maine, and also over Lake Michigan, with
s1i Il oh 0n<a 70,
Missouri. The low barometer in the gulf
has moved westward, but the atmospheric
pressure is quite uniformly distributed
north Of the Gulf States. Rain and cloud
have been reported from the gulf coast and
| northward to South Carolina and Iowa.
Cloudy weather with little or no rain has
prevailed from North Carolina to New York.
Smoke and haze continue from the Ohio
valley to Iowa. Clear or partially cloudy
weather is reported from Lake Superior to
Lake Ontario. The temperature has very
generally risen. Light and fresh easterly
winds continue on the Atlantic coast. Brisk
winds have been reported from Texas, with
indications of a storm in the neighborhOod
OF that coast.
PROBABILITIES.
The barometer will probably continue
low and falling south Of the Missouri, with
easterly winds, and cloudy weather south
ward to the Atlantic. Tie pressure will
probably fall slightly in the Middle and
Eastern States, and over the lakes with
partially cloudy and pleasant weather and
light winds. No serious disturbances are
apprehended for these regions on Wednes-
day.
River lntelligence.
SOUTHWEST Pass. September IL, 6 P.
M.-BarOmeter 30:l5. Wind east fresh.
Arrived: Ship Oswego, Anderson, master,
fifty-seven days from Liverpool-a general
cargo to Ocean, Zerega & Co.; schooner
Lizzie Lima, Webster, master, nine days
from Ruatan, with fruit to the New Orleans
and Bay Islands Fruit Company. No de-
partures.
VrCKsBURG, September l2-Passed down:
Ouachita Belle at P. NJ, Natchez at P.
NJ. Passed up: Julia at p. NJ.
The merchants wharfboat sunk this morn
ing. at six o'clock, with a large amount of
freight on board. It will probably he
raised in few days. Weather warm and
clear. River falling.
MEMPHIS, September l2.-Weather cloudy
There was a slight shower this evening.
Passed down: City of Quincy and Utah.
ST. LOUIS, September l2.-Arrived: Grand
Tower from Memphis, Cambridge and Emil
lie La Barge from Vicksburg. Departed:
City Of Vicksburg for ricksburg, Virginia
for New Orleans. and Tally for Memphis.
River falling slowly. Weather pleasant.
LOUISVILLE, September l2.-The river Is
falling slowly; four feet large on the Port
land bar, and eighteen inches in the chute.
Weather cloudy with indications OF rain.