New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-19
NEW YORK.
Denial Of n Placard.

New YORK, April lS.-Mr. Archibald,
British COneul General here, denies being
the authority for statements in the piacard
published in the agricultural districts of
England that 10000 hands are waiting to
return to England. He denounces the
whole thing, so far as it relates to him, as a
ridiculous canard.
The Victory, from New Haven for New
York, is aground On Harris Island. Cap
tain Cook was drowned.
Hanged.
A dispatch from Thomasville, Georgia,
announces that three negroes we're hung
Tor numbering planter, and one tor poison
ing his wife. Rescue was threatened by
negroes from Florida and portions of Geor-
gia, but the militia we're prepared. All
were hung in the Jail yard. After the exc
cution the sheriff admitted the public,
mostly cOlOred, to view the bodies before
they were taken from the gallows.
Judge Blatchford's Rulings.
Judge Blatchtord has ordered that the
books of Platt & Boyd. seized by the GUS
tOmhouse authorities, be returned to the
firm. He refused to allow the district attor-
ney to keep the books longer for trial on
the ground that they we're only seized for
the information of the collector who has
had sufficient time to examine them. He
uOluS Iu6G Vuc dCU uuucT WHICH, W6TTdulo
were issued is constitutional.
Bank Statement.
The following is the bank statement:
Loans, decrease, 1875, 900; specie, decrease,
$625, 900; legal tenders, decrease, nearly
100000; deposits, increase $4,000.
Financial Items.
The sub-treasurer paid to-day $4,000 for
interest and 81 600 for called bonds.
Customs receipts to day, $4Is.OOO; for the
week, $2,370, 900.
Imports for the week-Dry goods,
81, ,72S, ,635; merchandise, $7,54l, ,l8O.
Specie shipments this week, $503, ,7sI,
principally IN gold and silver bars.
Church Dedication.
Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Jr.'s, new and
large church, is 10 be dedicated Monday
next, the services TO continue eight days.
The church is highly ornamented, but has.
not single ecclesiastical symbol. Mr..
Tying says his church is working and
preaching church, in which the ritual is
subordinate. If Bishop Potter and the
church authorities let him alone and let
him work in his own fashion, he shall re-
main as he is; if they meddle with him he
nations are to occupy the church.
Mayor Wfl,z's Dispatch Received.
Mayor Havemeyer received a telegram
from the Mayor of New Orleans to-day,
stating that owing to the upexampled over
flow OF the Mississippi river, and lower
branches, many thousands of families are
ruined and threatened with starvation;
that it is beyond the means of those who
have escaped the calamity to give adequate
relief to the sufferers, and asking for sub
scriptiOns for the victims of this two-told
visitation Of food and famine.
Public Reception Declined.
~ T 7 1ar p.l -
lie reception at the hands of the city au-
thOrities, with his thanks for the cOmpli-
ment. Next week the gallant captain will
visit the public institutions, accompanied
by the mayor aldermen and other civic
tuDctiOnaries.
Captain Lenarie sailed to-day for
France.
Death Of Stefson, of the Astor House.
James p. NJ. Stetson, for many years con-
nected with the Astor House and other
hotel enterprises, has died of paralysis,
aged ifty-six years.
Illness of John Brougham.
John Broug ham is very i'll, and fatal
result is feared.
Their Statement.
A special dispatch from Paris to the
Herald, dated the eighteenth, says A
few of the passengers of the steamer
LAmerique have arrived here. Their mar
ratives OF The disaster are incoherent. TIE
following is substantial summary:
The weather continued fine until the
morning Of April l3, when strong west
erly breeze sprung up, and veered at two
o'clock to northwest, finally blowing a gale
from west 10 northwest, heavy roller
struck the roof of the wheelhouse when
about 100 miles from Brest The captain
ordered the ships head 10 be turned to the
wind. The gale increased, and at P. NJ.
It was blowing hurricane, filling the
engine room with water During the night
the weather thickened, and the vessel rap
idly filled with water, putting out the fires
three times The engineers succeeded,
nevertheless, in keeping up steam.
On the morning Of the fourteenth the sea
went down for short period and everybody
worked at the pumps until ten o'clock.
The engines finally stopped working. The
heavy seas shipped at various times could
not have filed the holds with the large guam
titles Of water in them. and IL became evident