New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-10-30
National Academy Of Sciences.

Marine.
Arrived-Steamer San Antonio, frono
Galveston. Arrived out-Psrtha and
Donan.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Schooner and All Hands Reported Lost.
HALIFAX, October 2S.-The schooner
Maud with all hands, is reported lost at
Isle LamOrte.
Senatorial Transportation Committee.
LOUISVILLE, October 29.--The Senatorial
Transportation Committee were received
on Change to-day, where resolutions were
passed by the Board Of Trade, comnanda-
tory to the construction of the James River
and Kanawha canal. In tho afternoon
the committee examined Captain Adams
superintendent of the construction of
canal improvements, relative to the amount
of work performed, eliciting further in
formation as to the relations of the
government engineers to the directors
of the canal. Investigations we're made re-
gardng the relative cost of coal transporta-
ton by river and rail. The COMMITTEES alg
peared satisfied as TO the necessity of inn
provements of the Ohio river and the gov
ernment control of the canal. The party
left for St. Louis last night.
The Committee Expected in st. Louis.
mittee on Transportation will aiIive here
tomorrow. The Merchants Exchange com
mittee appointed for the purpose of furnish
ing facts relative to the transportation
charges on the Mississippi river and gnlf
route will present an exhaustive report
which shows that the lowest price per
bushel for which corn has been moved from
here to New Orleans is five and three ffths
cents, and wheat six cents; that the average
number of days the river has been closed by
ice for series of thirteen years has been only
twenty, and that both corn and wheat have
been shipped during the hottest months
from St. Louis to Liverpool via the gulf
route, and arrived at that port perfectly
sound. Much other information will be laid
before the committee, including commu-
nication from General Simpson, United
States engineers, asserting the feasibility of
permanently increasing the channel depth
of the river between here and Cairo so that
large steamers can run all seasons of the
ears
srhe N1OdOcs.
CHEeENNE, October 29.-The Modoc cap
tives passed here yesterday en- route to
Fort Mcpherson, where they will be quar-
tered, instead of Fort ID. A. Russell.
OMAHA. October ga dispatch from
North Platte, Nebraska, says that the Mo-
doc Indians arrived there this morning in
charge of detachment of troops, closely
guarded, and are not yet allowed out Of the
cars. The officers say that they have pre-
served logged silence during the entire
trip. The Intention is to place them in a
stockade on hn island in the Platte river,
near Fort Mcpherson.
How'a Chnrleston Merchant Advertises.
PHILADELPHIA, October ON. Dove
reux of Charleston, South Carolina, con-
tributes 10000 feet of lumber to the GEN.
tennial celebration.
The Uddersook Trial.
WEsTCHEsTER, N. Y, October 29.-A full
photographic report is to be made Of the
evidence in the Uddersook trial, for the life
insurance companies which have interest in
the peneing case.
The july was completed in tho Udder-
socks case this evening, and the district
attorney elected to try the prisoner on the
first count of Indictment, for the murder of
w. S. Goss and opened with statement of
she ease together with the suspicious cir
substances that pointed to the prisoner as
tho pcrpetrafor of the murders Evidence
was submitteds
fee af Augustn and Fire mt hmericuse
AUGUSTA, Gas October S:S-la. formed
fast night.
q fire in Americus, on Monday nigbs, dec
stroyed u large portion of the business part,
| of the sowns Loss $3l 900.
Marine.
SsvscNAH. October 29-Arrsve,ps 9ulHae
Georgia, San Salvador, Montgomery, G.. We
Lord and Sarag0ssa. Below-Bark Eva
Wells and a ship and bark names unknOwrA
Cleared-Buena Vista and Susan Stebon.
CHARLESTON, October -. -- Arrived-9
James Adger, l.. We Snow, F. l.. GodfreD
Sailed-Sea Gull.
Reward for KcIsey's Nsi rderers.
ALBANY, October 29-Governor Dix offer o
hon
derers of Charles q Kelsey.
Frozen to Deathe
ST. JOSEPH. No, October 29.-Two men
| wese found frozen to death sn the prairie
| near Kidder, forty miles east OF herep on
Monday night. Names unknown. o
War About n County Seat.
RICHMOND. Ind, October GA mob of
| disguised men, sixty strong, attacked u
! party of seven deputy sheritts guarding the
! Jail at Centreville, in this county, which
| workmen are tearing down to remove to
| the new county seat After firing 100 shots
| from small arms without serious results a
six pound cannon, loaded with spikes, nalg
7 and scrap iron, was fired at the doors,
which Sesig demolished the mob occupied
the sheriff. eesidence, i'll the front part of
phe Jail bsilding. After parie % enc dep,e
ties suGpendered conditionally.
shiDty men will occupy tho y,esssig ste
"heib anOfhtS attack bye large etety, WIN
carpons from Cam bridgs City - expsctede
2chinaid 10 threattoed with an attack for
, ehe i~rpose of takn,e the cOun;s records
J 'sack o. Centrevlle One hundred armed
men, with cannon captured At Ceutreyille,
are now here waiting the sherltts orders.
, The affair grew out Of the reelnval OF the
county seat from Centreyil!e t0 Richmonds
which is resisted tS tie Seople OF She
former Slace.
Gale at Quebec.
speEBrs,. October GA heavy gale -
blowing here with snow aud ram TwGA
fishing vessels were wrecked. No loss of
, life Seportod.
, Sonih Carolina Fair.
; COLUMBIA, October % The State fai eOf
| South Carolina opens Oh the eleventh and
| closes on the fourteenth of November.
| Preparations are being made for large
| crowd. The exhibition promises 10 be the
| finest ever made in this State, and the turf
| will be represented by studs from Virginia,
| kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia and
South Carolina, with some OF the most cele-
| brated racers now coming on.
Tho New King of SaxOny.
DRESDEN. October 29.-The Duke 0f
Saxeny, the eldest son Of the late King
| John, assumed the succession of the throne
| OF Ssxony tndsv. His msiastv haa issn0sl