Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-09-17

of New Orleans, one of the oldest, and in
wears gone by, one of the soundest financial
institutions in the country has suspended. -.
The Collector Of Customs at FL Paso, Texas,
in letter to the Chief of the Bureau Of Sta
tistics, dated Aug. II, says: "We have not
had drop of rain in this vicinity for 800
days. Everything is scorching hot and burn
ing up. Many cattle have died Of starvation"
A MESSAGE has been sent to the President
from Shreveport, La, signed by leading mer-
chants, bankers and professional men Of that
city, denying that any resident of that parish
participated in the recent murders, claiming
that no spirit of lawlessness exists in that
parish that cannot be controlled by the local
authorities claiming that the condition of
affairs there has been misrepresented abroad.
and asking that a commission of fair-minded
men be appointed by the President to visit
Louisiana and ascertain the truth. The
places in Louisiana designated for troops to
prevent outrages are New Orleans, Baton
Rouge, Shreveport. Alexandria, Monroe, Har-
risonburg and st. Martinsville. sFt
A MASS meeting of the citizens of Maury
county, Tenn, held at Columbia last week,
adopted resolutions denouncing in strong
terms the lawless outrages recently committed
in that State, and appealing to the citizens of
the counties in which the disturbances have
occurred to preserve law and order without
Federal Intervention. The Arkansas Con-
stitutional Convention has adjourned to the
10th of October-several days after the cleo
ton on the new Constitution. Should the
Constitution be ratified, the Convention will
stand adjourned sine die.
THE yellow fever has already appeared at
several Gulf ports, and the Secretary of the
Treasury has issued a circular directing the
quarantining of all infected ports under the
provisions of the law of 1871. There is said
to be coed cause for apprehension as to the
spread Of the disease. -
The Health Officer at Galveston, Texas, an
nounces that there has not been single case
of yellow fever, or any other disease simulat-
ing yellow fever, in Galveston during the
year 1874. The same is true of all the Gulf
ports Of the State of Texas.
Washington.
two months of the present fiscal year exceed
the amount received for the corresponding
period last year by over half q million
dollars.
IT is given out from Washington that o
formal order will be issued from the War De-
partment as to the distribution OF troops in
the Department of the South, but the whole
matter will be left with the department COM
mander, who will dispose of the forces as he
may deem expedient. The troops now in the
South are distributed as follow- Three
companies of the Second infantry in Alabama,
entire Third infantry a. Holly Springs, Miss.
three companies of the Sixteenth infantry in
Kentucky, two in Arkansas, one in Missis-
sippi, one in Louisiana, and one ir Tennes-
zee. Eight companies of the Seventy-eighth
infantry in South Carolina and two In Geor-
gia. Eight companies of the Fifth artillery
in Florida, one in Georgia, two in South Caro-
lima, and one in Virginia. Six companies of
the I'd artillery in North Carolina, one in South
Carolina. one in Virginia, and four in Mary
land, making the whole number Of troops in
the several Southern States between $500
and 5000.
The Washington National Monument Assoc
citation reports the gratifying success of it's
appeal for contingent subscriptions, and the
society is sanguine of the success of the en-
terprise during the Centennial year. .Secre-
tary Bristow has directed that steps be taken
at once for the reorganization of the Secret
Service of tie Government.
General.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, last week, in the test
case brought by the Sunday League, Judge
Pierson decided that a transGressor of Sun
day laws can be fined for each and every sale
French bark Coromandel, Of Bordeaux,
went ashore at Bagdad, Mexico, in q gale, last
week, and became q total wreck, breaking up
in less than two hours. The captain, first
mate. and three seamen were rescued. Eleven
Of the crew are supposed to have persisted.
San ANTONIO, Tex, has been made Cath
Ole diocese, with Vicar General Pellicer Of
Mobile, as its first Bishop. A diocese has
also been organized in the Bio Grande dis
trict, headquarters at Brownsville, and Rev.
d. Nancy, of Mobile, Bishop.
Political.
THE Nebraska Republican State Convention
was held at Omaha, on the Sd inst. J. G. Nc
Bride was nominated for Treasurer, George
II. Roberts for Acknowledgement, and Patrick
O'Howes' for Contingent Congressman. The
platform adopted declares in favor of free
banking counsels economy and reform in all
the departments Of the public service, and a
reduction OF the public debt as rapidly as may
be without imposing burdens on the industries
of the country; demands that railways be
subservient to the public good, and proclaims
a determination to resist by all lawful means
all exorbitant tolls favors equally-imposed
taxation, and demands that State and ma
tional legislation compel the railroads to pay
in the same proportion as individuals receg-
nizes the power Of the General Government
to regulate commerce between the States !;
recommends the establishment of double
track railway between the East and West !;