New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-20

per cent below last year.
Election Ordered in hrLansas.
LITTLE Rock, September l9.-Governor
Baxter has ordered an election to fill va
cancies in the Legislature, nine Senators
and forty one Representatives. This will
recessitate general election throughout
the State in November.
The Texas Editorial Fart.
INDIANAPOLIS, September l9.-The Texas
editorial party was driven around the city
to-day, under escort of the Board Of Trade
visiting the exposition in the afternoon.
They left for Cincinnati tonight.
Spiritualist Convention.
CHICAGO, September l9.-The national
Jpritualist convention adjourned after
electing Victoria Woodruff president. The
local papers refuse to print her speech on
account OF its indecency.o
knights Templnr on the Sun:nit Of Pixies
Peak.
DENVER, September l9.--At one o'clock
to day the Colorado Commandery No J.
knights Templar, convened in special con-
clave on the summit of Pixies Peak and
was opened in ample form. Probably no
similar Masonic body ever before held
meeting over IA, eco feet above the level of
the sea. After the meeting the knights
engaged in a parade and drill going through
the usual manual OF arms in use by the
Sraer.
From the Yellowstone.
OMAHA, September l9.-The expedition
Under Captain w. A. Jones, OF the engineer
corps, sent out by the government to sur
vey routes to the Yellowstone lake, arrived
at Camp Brown, Wyoming, on their return
They report all well; found three passes in
Yellowstone valley from east to west. One
route, via Head Wind river, is easy for
wagon road and through fine country. |
The other routes are quite gratifying.
General Ord, commanding, regards it as |
certain that wagon road viii soon be |
opened from near point on the Rocky |
mountains, on the Union Pacific road, to |
Lake Yellowstone, a distance of ESQ miles |
The Sioux Indians arc officially reported |
as being on one of their raids. Runners
into Fort Fetterman say large war party
split Oft from the main camp, which was
moving into Fetterman, in consequence of
the Alrapahoes having killed a Sioux on
Tongue river. Large war parties said
to have been thirty miles north of Fetter-
man on the sixteenth. going east.
President Grant Mt Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, September 19.-Generar
Grant is in town. He was waited upon to-
day by several prominent and influential
gentlemen.
The Exposition.
CNCINNATI, September 19.-Judges for
the exposition have been all chosen. They :
will proceed to make the awards next week,
and the result will he published the week
following. The attendance is immense 9
The city holiday next Monday already ex- {
cites great interest. The military of the
city and Newport Barracks will parade the .
streets in the morning, and all business S
Will be suspended for the day. The citizens !
lake lively interest i'll the matter, and if
the day is fair the attendance at the expo !,
sition will be very heavy. The success of L
Ihis years display in every way has
gone beyond expectation, and already
plans are being discussed for a larger one q
Fire and Loss of Life. y
The residence of William Gomuch, hear q
William street. was burned to-day. His :,
wife, two children and an orphan were .
burned.
Work on the st. Leuls Bridge. II
ST.. Louis, September t9.--Twe centre
ectiOns of the arch between the western
butnent and the western pier of the bridge /
ere, each consisting OF an upper and lower
10, were completed yesterday This is re-
arded as one OF the greatest triumpils
engineering skill the world has ever di
cen. The two remaining ribs of this arch. fn
-hich are only partially constructed, will pa
e finished at once. The three grand arches -, "a
the bridge are expected to be finished by ly
he middle of December. m;
Tom Allen Accepts Hogan's Challenge. RIG
Tom Allen, the pugiiist, accepted the ".
nallenge of Ben Hogan last night. Two Al
undred dollars side was put up as for nc
ut; $500 more to De deposited. The tight Az
r $1,000 will take place thirty-one days
ON signing the articles. This will not be |
one till after the contest between Allen Sc,
I'D McCeOe next Tuesday. Hogan will Sci
} into training Monday next. Sci
High Water in the Rio Erandc. Sci
MATAMnpA Saptamhar Thu boos,- ! Set
ms have inundated the whole Rio Grande | TO,
.iiey. The river is higher than for years To-
.st, and is overlooking its banks in all d. 10,
ctions, flooding the country and doing g
eat damage to fall crops. The highways al
e impossible, stopping the mails and in. NIB
rrupt1ng travel and commerce generally. TO
Geographic communication with the in. az
rior has been interrupted for more than a 81. 81
EEK, and no intelligence can be obtained ill
the extent OF the storm, but from the \
ollen condition of all the streams it is be. DOL
we'd to have extended to the mountain n
,tyicts. st.,
Iron Works Burned. Inai
IERRE HAUTE, September I9--The Terre ; III
ante iron and nail works was totally de- n
royed by fire to-day. The establishment. ?o,TTl
iployed las men. Total loss. $4,000: TIE
-urance, $4,000. sl2
Sessions of the Cortes Suspended. yot.
IADRID, September l9-Tlre session.. of II
rtes are suspended until the second o! W.. vas
4 January. ri
The Cholera in Vienna. Ann
rrssA, September ia.-It is officially re. '31af3
ted that there have been 275, cases of ing
'lera in Vienna since the outbreak of the 500
ease, and of this number 40 were fatal 81 * e
the twenty-Iour hours ending at mid ! ia
MT yesterday forty-one fresh cases are re- .spo
tsd. GI
FROM 10 JuheirOs | eltht
LISBON. September l9-The mail steamer Stat,
N Rio Janeiro, August 81, has arrived. slecl
n unsuccessful attempt was made st , AZ
mos Ayres to assassInate DR.. Sarmlento, | Citiz
sldent of the Argentine republic. Nat
he Attacama silver mines had proved New
eedingly rich. S SOU,
Probabilities. TERN
WAR DEPARTMENT Peon
ONCE Chief Signal Officer ! | Hiba
washington, September 49, 1879, 4:35 P. NJ. Lata
ooablLt es on Saturday for New England, in Lou.
sing pressure with northwest to north winds Teut
IF temperature and clear or clearing weather | Mutu
and ssd w pasv to north Metz
rain and the winds increasing to brisk from New
inia to New Jersey. Tnio,
me south AL :, STATES cloudy weather, Hope
anu very prlsA winds, the latter probably Germ
ing 10 nOrthwesterly, with clearing weatbar Louis
rioraa 10 south Natol.na Conn
the Gun states east OF the mississippi Ten FactO
ee me ONO Valey anu lower iake region, gen Mech
V clear weather and fresh Winds mostly ffom | Delta
forth and northwest. | Mercl
the upper iake region, Using temperature, orlea
y cloudy weather and winds shifting to The Cresc
and south. Sun NJ
the northwest falling barometer rising tenn | Caro-
ure and increasing southeast 70 south winds | Jacks
indications of rain for this region. New {
ltionary signals continue at Jacksonville | st. CT
,nah, Charleston and Wilmington and are Cresc,
ed for Norfolk. Canal
River Intelligence. Pacif
INVEST Pass September 49, 6 p M-Baro- New