New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-01
MISCELLANEOUS.
Illinois Bridge COmpany's StOck-Habeas
Corpus i'm North Carolina - Passing
Counterfeit Money-Death of Mrs.
Insa


Counterfeit Money-Death of Mrs.
LincoIn's Brother.
MEMPHIS, July 3l.-A Paducah special
says: All the stock of the Paducah and
Illinois Bridge Company was subscribed
here to-day.
WILMINGTON, n. c., July 3l.-John +.
Pickett, the New York broker, now in jail
here, will be brought before Judge Rodman
on writ of habeas corpus on Thursday.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 3l.-R. B. McGee
a prominent citizen of Trenton, Tennessee
and prior to the war president of the Branch
State Bank at that place, has been arrested
here, charged with passing counterfeit
money On searching his baggage, $4,000
counterfeit United States notes were found
Owing to the high social position enjoyed
by MCGEE, his arrest has caused consider
able sensation.
Captain David H. Todd, formerly of Lex
ington, Kentucky, and brother of Mrs
Lincoln, died in Huntsville, of consumption.
Weather Report.
WAR DEPARTMENT
Office Chief Signal officer, )
Washington July 81, 1871, $50 P. NJ }
SYNOPSIS OF THE PAST TwENTY-FoUR HOURS,
The barometer has fallen slightly since
Saturday evening at the Pacific and Rocky
Mountain stations. The pressure on the
upper lakes, gulf coast and in New England
increased slightly in the middle States;
light, fresh, and local winds have generally
prevailed, and southeasterly winds are now
reported from Tennessee to Minnesota.
Rain has fallen very generally to-day on
the gulf coast and at few stations in New
England. Local rains are also reported this
evening from the Middle and Atlantic
States, and threatening weather from Michi-
gan to Lake Superior and westward.
rrTrS
No material change is probable for Tues
day on the gulf coast. Cloudy weather,
with local storms, will probably prevail
north and west of the Ohio river.
The conditions remain favorable for
sasterly winds and extended rains tonight
from Virginia to Massachusetts.
River Intelligence.
SOUTHWEST PASS, July 81, 6 P. M
Barometer 80. Wind southwest and
fresh. There were no arrivals or depart
ures.
VIcKsBURG, July 3l.-Passed down: Com
monwealth at 10 last night. Down to-day:
Ouachita Belle at l P. NJ. Henry M. Shreve
at p. NJ. Passed up: Oceanus at 8 A. NJ,
Dexter at p. NJ Weather warm and clear
MEMPHIS, July 3l.-Weather clear. Mer-
curry $50. River falling. Passed down:
Lady Lee.
LOUISVILLE, July 3l.-The river has
fallen three inches IN the past tWenty-fOur
hours, with thirteen inches in the chute and
scant five feet on Portland bar. The river
is lower now by two inches than at any
time this season, and the indications are
that there will be lower water this season
than for several yerrs past Navigation is
becoming difficult for even light draught
boats. Weather warm and dry. Mercury
ranging from 79 to S70.
CINCINNATI, July 81. = River falling
slowly Weather cloudy and warm.
ST. LOUIS, July 3l.-Arrived: Mary Alice
from New Orleans. Departed: City of
Chester for Memphis. River falling, with
five feet ten inches to Cairo. Weather clear
and warm.
The St. Joseph, which struck and sunk
last evening below Cairo, was owned by the
st. Louis and Memphis Packet Company,
and was not insured.
PITTsBURG, July 3l.-Weather warm and
clear. River twenty-five inches and falling
slowly. The work Of dredging at the Glass
House will lot be completed for two weeks
vet.