New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-29
PERSECUTION OF cHRls1lANsM TURKEY
THE DUTCH AND THE ACHINEsE
EMPEROR WILLIAM RECOVERED
JEFFERSON AND SHREVEPORT CONNECTED
WASHINGTON.

A 1Ouis1anian Appointed COnsul 10 bOu.
IOgne-COllectOH at CharIeston-Ap.
prafsep at Mobile-Return Of secre.
tary Richardson-SurgeOn General Pal
mer, of tho Navy, Retired-Sugar
Suits C0mpr0mised-The YeiloWstOne
observation-disclosures the Cable.
WASHINGTON, June 28-Louis Trager, of
Louisiana, has been appointed consul at
BOulOgne.
1t seems determined that Worthington
Hall succeeds Clark as collector at Charles
ton. The commission will issue next week
upon Secretary Richardson's return.
Dewitt C. Whiting has been appointed
appraiser Of merchandise at Mobile.
Secretary Richardson returned to-day.
Surgeon General Palmer, aged sixty
wears, has been retired as medical director
Joseph Beal succeeds him.
The succession of Horace F. Clarke, as
president of the Union Pacific railroad, will
be made defendant in the government suits
against the Credit Mobilier.
Advices from New York report that the
suits brought by the government against
large sugar importing houses for defraud.
| ing the customs, have been compromised
by the payment OF from twenty to forty
Der cent of the amounts claimed.
A suit for $4,000 against dry goods
| house has been compromised for $1,000
| A similar suit for $60,000 is pending
| against hardware importer.
| A dispatch from Fort Rice, Dakota Terri
tory, SAYS of the Yellowstone expedition,
now under way, for exploration through
Central Montana: 1t comprises l9OO men
and 80 wagons, under the supreme com
mand Of Major General Stanley. Genera
Custar commanding the cavalry. Sixty
days subsistence and forage will be taker
ND the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers
| and meet the command at the mouth O.
| Powder river.
The officers and men are limited to th'
smallest possible quantity Of baggage
Each soldier carries 200 rounds Of ammu
milton. Thirty Indian scouts and eigh
half breeds as guides accompany the ex
pedition. Its objects are: first, to serv'
| as an escort for the survey and loca
ton of the Northern Pacific road
second, to intimidate and eubdue the In
dams who are hostile TO the introduction o
this road; third, to make a thorough scien
titic investigation of the traversed reglO
which has never vet been explored, an.
which it is expected will furnish ric
field for study and research, especially
its geological and geological features.
A Hearts Content special says the shor
| end of the cable was spliced to-day.
A Herald special from Hearts Conten
saws the Great Eastern having paid out al
the deep sea cable to within eighty miles o
Hearts Content at nine o'clock this morr
ing, cut and buoyed it. A heavy wes'
southwest gale made it imprudent to pas
it to the Hibernia for splicing to the shol
end. 1t will be spliced and run in as 500
as the weather mOderates. g:
The Great Eastern arrived here at eigf
o'clock this evening. having left the col
voys standing by the buoys. She lies wit
her broadside toward the village, presen
ing with her hundreds of lights splend
appearance. But few visitors are here
. witness the event. now thrice repeated, al
the apathy displayed seems all the mo-
marked when the enthusiasm OF seven yea
ago is remem bered.