New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-15
MIsCELLArSEOUs.

ghe Compromise in AIabama-TrOOps from
Little Rock for New OrIeans-Ten
Years Peniteniiary Sentence-Attempi
to Wreck n Railroad Train-SchooneT
Capsized-AH Hands LOst-The YaIa-
busha Railroad Bridge Burned-Com-
amerciaI COnventiOn-Hay for New Or
leans.
MONTGOMERY, December li-Both houses
aIlect Tuesday noon to consider the COmprO-
mise suggested by the Attorney General
LITTLE Rock, December l4-The United
States troops stationed here have been or
dered to New Orleans. 1t is understood
:hat the Fourth Infantry viii take their
place.
NORFOLK December 1.-THE steamer
ashore at Smiths Point was the William
Kennedy. She got off without damage.
MEAPHIs, December 1.-THE bridge
across the Yalabusha river at Grenada,
Mississippi, built jointly BY the Mississippi
aud Tennessee, and Mississippi Central
railroads, was burned at five o'clock this
evening by the sparks Of an engine 1t
wil require several weeks to rebuild it.
Hartford. December A. - Charles
BIacksley was sentenced, today, to ten
years imprisonment for attempting to
wreck a railroad train.
PORTSMOUTH, December l4-An unknown
schooner capeizeI off Cape Ann on the 9Th
tho deck, but the gale prevented any assist
anee from the brig which reports the dis
aster.
81 LOUIS, December 1.-THE CONNER
ciaI Convention adopted resolution favor
ing q canal between Tennessee and COSTA
rivers. Benjamin E. Crane was made presi-
dent Of the executive committee.
BELFAST Me, December IA ship
with 2l00 bales Of hay cleared to-day for
Savannah and New Orleans.
Weather Report.
WAR DEPART .>yT,)
Office Chief Signal Officer
Washington, December i, 1872, 435 P. NJ. }
PROBABILITIES.
For the Northwest and the upper lake
region, and thence TO Arkansas and Ken
lucky, rising barometer, cloudy weather,
light snow and rain, decreasing tempera-
trlre aud southwcsterIy to northwestcrly
wind; in Tennessee. wind yeering to north
westerly, with occasional rain and high
temperature, diminishing on Saturday
Night; in the Gulf States, generally clear
and warm weather, with falling barometer
and southwns5erly wind; in the lower lake
and Canadian region, southwesterly wind,
threatening weather, higher temperature,
followed by snow; in the Middle and East
eru States, southwestly wind, partly cloudy
weather, higher temperature and diminish |
Hg pressure.
After the fifteenth instant the display of |
warning signals on the lake ports will be |
suspended for the winter.
River Intelligence.
SHREVEPORT, December H.-Weather
cloudy and warm, with appearance of rain.
Biv,r declined one inch during the past
twenty four hours. No arrivals or depar-
lures for several days.
MEMPHIS, December li.-Weather cloudy
aud cool. River stationary. Departed /
Mary Boyd for White river City Of Chester
for st. Louis Indiana and Charles BOdmann
for New Orleans, Robert Mitchell for
Cairo.
EVANSVILLE, December I4.-Weather
mild The river has risen ten inches in the
past twenty-four hours.
PITTsBUKG, December l4.-Weather clear
and moderate. River rising slowly, with
.Erce feet ten inches in the channel
CINCINNATI. December l4.-Weather
warm aud cloudy. River eight feet three
inches, falling.
LOUISVILLE, December 1.-THE river
mas fallen two inches, with four feet six
inches in the canal and two feet six inches
II the chute.
CAKo, December H-Arrived-C B.
Church, from New Orleans. II 2. NJ; Com
uonweaith, from Belmont, 10 A. NJ. The
Iver has fallen one inch in the last twenty
our hours Weather mild, with light rain
q day.
ST. LOUIS. December iI.--Arrived-Mo
lie Moore and II. c. Yacgcr, from New Or.
cans. Weather mild and wet.
NICKsBURG, December If.-passed down.
Glencoe, A. NJ; II L. Lee, 10 A. NJ; John
; Maud |! NJ; E. II. Durtee p NJ; Lee
aI Tender, p. NJ Governor Alien. ?.
g.; Belfast, r. NJ No boats up today.
Weather cool and clear River falling. :