The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-09-26

by south of The Piers ut Grand Haven, Mich.
The cause of the accident was correctly given
in the first dispatches. The steamer sprung
a heavy leak at 7 O'Clock, which gained so rap
pidly on the pumps that at Q O'Clock it put out
the fires. When all hope of saving the yessal
was gone, the crew and passengers took to the
boats, and all the loss of life occurred through
the capsizing of two of them. Capt. DENNIS
Chapman, a member of the Chicago Board OF
Trade, committed suicide by blowing his brains
ont last week. Financial troubles had crazed
HIM.
THE SOUTH.
BALTIMORE has been visited by another
| disastrous fire, involving the destruction,
among other buildings, of the Holiday Street
Theater. Loss, $3.50, 900. The ravages of
yellow fever at Shreveport, La, are described
as frightful.
SHREVEPORT. La, a town of some 5000 i'll
habitants, located ON Red river, near the great
raft, is being terribly scourged by the yellow
fever. Every inhabitant who could get away
has departed, the stores are shut, the telegraph
Office closed, and to complete the isolation of
their misery, the railroads connecting with the
city have stopped running their cars. The
causes of this singular epidemic at this place
are unknown. but one hypothesis is that it
has resulted from the malarial matter set free
by the loosening of the Red river raft.
The steamer James Howard recently caught
fire on the Mississippi, near Commerce, Mo-,
and was scuttied to save her from burning.
The Howard was the largest steamboat ever
built for the Western or Southern waters, be-
ing $500 tons burden. She cost S16O, 900, and
was only three years old. IA number of
cattle thieves have lately been hung in YER
million county. La, by the Vigilants. The
yellow fever is raging in Memphis. Lord,
the missing New York Herald correspondent,
who disappeared from Shelbyville some weeks
since, has been seen near Midway. KY, and
beyond there. walking through the country,
!, splendidly dressed, with diamond studs and
! heavy gold watGl and chain exposed to view.
THE sunken Mississippi steamer James
Howard has been raised. and will be repaired
"A dispatch from Shreveport, La, dated
/. Sept. 16, saws: "Of the six men in our tele-
4 graph Office. five have taken the fever, and
4 two have already died. The interments aver
age thirty or forty daily in a population OF
+ perhaps not over 1000. The physicians and
nurses are worked down. The people of the
country should know these terrible facts, and
: send aid to the suffering city."....S. II.
Tucker, one of the oldest bankers of Little
Rock, Ark, has suspended.
r THERE has been great destruction Of prop
erty along the Rio Grande. caused by the over;
flow. The cotton crop id destroyed, telegraph
:. poles and railroad tracks washed away, the
b mails stopped, and all communication with the
5 interior suspended.
WASHINGTON.
HRNRY ID. COOKE, Governor of the District
: of Columbia, has resigned, and Presiden,
Grant has appointed Alex. Il. Shepherd to
q succeed him....It is rumored that a heavy
: military force is to be sent to punish the
: Sioux and other formidable Indian tribes.
The officials at the various Indian agencies
1 have been directed by the Washington au-
r thorities TO allow the sale Of no arms or am
; munition to Indians 80. Since july 1 the
postal-carrier service has been established in
thIrty-two cities. One of the measures to
be brought to the attention of Congress, ar
soon as possible. will be a bill for the adoption
of measure. for the prevention Of the danger
and the consequent losses to ships i'll the
American lumber-trade OH account of carrying
) deck loads in the winter months. The Cana.
: dian Parliament some time ago Issued a law on
D the same subject.
) EX-PREsIDEST johnson is in Washington
,, for the purpose of taking part in the contro.
versy now going on respecting the trial and
. execution Of Mrs. Surratt The postal cards
3 are arriving from the Morgan Envelope Com
5 pany in a satisfactory manner, and it is said
\ there will be no more trouble. The charger
against Postmaster Filley, of st. Louis. vii
= be thoroughly investigated, and if it is found
5 that he has been assessing his employees hi.
2 official head will go of.
The condition of the United States Treasu,
~ is pronounced by Treasury officials to be
: excellent. 1t is predicted that, by the LIST OF
s November, when the quarterly interest OF
: Government bonds falls due, there will be
balance in the Treasury of quite $500 900, 0Ot
in coin, and even after deducting that inter
e est, amounting to about SIS, 600. 900, there
e will be as large 4 coin balance in the Treas
I ury as has been shown any time during thu
u year.
FOREIGN.
The cholera Is increasing in France, italy
Russia and Germany. Six persons were
' killed and thirty-two injured by a recent rail
way accident between Madrid and vittoria
: Spain. The news from Spain gives rather al
: encouraging view Of the prospects Of CASTELAR,,
Government. 1t is believed that he will be
able to place a large army in the field against
5 the Carlists, and that he will enter at once
upon an active and aggressive campaign.
Z There las been q serious political riot a,
Tralee, Ireland q. q. Railway accidents are be
4 coming alarmingly frequent i'll England
Three occurred in one day recently. 49,.
Amendments have been made in the Japal
D criminal law by which many orenses punish.
able by death may be atoned for by imprison.
ment for life....1le drought in several pro.
L yinccs of China il ,,reat aud throatopu r.r;a-