New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-16
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| &euse appropriation COmmittee-New So
3icitOr GeneraI-Instructions TO Internal
Revenue COlleceOrs-BOnded Tobacco
WHrehOuses-PhiIadelp Postmaster
ship-P0staRe sn Chr0mos-COmpletIon
I of Games River CnnaI-4A Delegation
Calls on the President-The Signal Ser
xice-BmpOrtRnt N1eteOrOlOgic DiscOv-
ery-The Great November Atmospheric
Wave.
| WASHINGTON, November l5-The Appro-
| priation Committee OF the House meets on
| Tuesday.
| Samuel NJ. Phillips, OF North Carolina,
| succeeds General BristoW as Solicitor Gen
| eral.
| The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
| has, with the approval of the Secretary of
| the Treasury, prepared to be issued instruc-
| tions to the several collectors in charge OF
| bonded warehouses for the storage of manu-
factured tobacco and snuff, for the sale at
public auction, for the benefit of the United
States, of any tobacco or snuff remaining
in said bonded warehouses on and after
December 6, or remaining in warehouses for
period of not more than six months after
the passage of the act of June s, 1872, with
q view of Immediately closing up all such
warehouses, according to the terms and pro-
visions of said act of June 6.
Competition for the Philadelphia post
nIttS GCISL1p is S4dIp u. S5SSEdl uELtGbLIOnS
are here. Grant seems disposed to let the
civil service examination designate whom
he will select
The POstottice Department classes chro-
mos as engraYings and printed matter, re-
Yersing its previous decision.
A delegation, composed of Judge Langh-
ridge, momber of Congress elect from
Iowa, Senator Lewis, of Iowa, and
representatives elect J. Amber Smith
and Il II Sanav of Nirtriuia with ~
gentlemen, called upon tho President
today, in order to lay before him the sub
ject of the completion of the James river
and kanawha canal, tor which government
aid is desired. The value of the proposed
work in the interest of cheap and capacious
transportation of the West to the seabOard,
in connection with the tender by the States
of Virginia and West Virginia OF their inter
ests to the government, and after return of
the expenditure of completion, that it be
made highway free Of all tolls except
those necessary to keep it in repair, was pre-
Sented to the President and will probably
at an early day receive the attention of
Congress The President expressed himself
sensible of the great Importance Of the
work in its national aspect. After an in
formal Interchange of opinion, the dele
gates withdrew, much gratiiod with their
interview.
The researches of the signal office have
just been rewarded By a beautiful and
highly important meteOrol0giC discovery
On the coast of England from time imme-
mortal the phenomenon of the great No
vGmber atmospheric wave has been the
speculation of scientist and seaman, but
Sir John HersGhel and others have supposed
it was peculiar and confined to England and
Western Europe, which it reaches from the
South-Atlantic, and over which it rolls in
long continued undulatiOns from October to
January, constituting an important element
III the phenomenal character Of the Euro
pean winter. On the twelfth of November
a similar atmospheric wave began to break
over the shores of Oregon and British
Columbia, as shown by the weather tele-
grams. BY the evening of the thirteenth
instant it had spread over nearly all the
Pacific States and Territories of Utah
and Nevada, and at midnight was
pouring through the PASSES Of the Rocky
mountains. On Thursday the fourteenth it
descended upon Colorado, Nebraska, Kan
sas and the Indian Territory; on Friday
morning it extended in apparently in un-
broken magnitude and magnifcence from
Oregon and Washington Territory east
ward through the Great Trough or the
depression OF the Rocky mountain back
bone in Idaho and Montana, and stretched
thence to the lower Missouri and lower Mis-
sissippi valleys, and over the western shores
OF the Mexican gulf.
This discovery will enable meteorologists
to anticipate BY many days the approach of
winter as it 8avances from the Pacific coast
eastward in the great current of westerly
winds. 1t serves to clear up the old mys-
terry of American winter storms, showing
that they originate in the Rocky mountains,
upon whose cold aud loftfest SUBMITS in
Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Southern Wy
oming the vapor laden air of this wave,
coming from the warm Pacific, is now seen
to be condensed in the overwhelming SHOWS
of the forty-tirst parallel.
AS this vast aerial wave is probably like
the English wave continued in successive
undulations for two or three months, it
may assist in explaining the comparatively
high temperature and light precipitation
along Pugets sound and eastward,