New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-12
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Jones, Democrat, for mayor by forty-one
majority. The Republicans elect the re-
corder by about 306 majority, and the Dem.
ocrats the receiver OF taxes by AL major
ity. The Democrats elect hve out OF the
eight councimen. This is the first time the
Democrats have been successful in fourteen
years.
CHEYENNE, March 1.-THE Cheyenne
Leader has a apeclal dispatch from Fort
Laramie. which Gays a messenger from Red
CLOUD agency, Just arrived, says General
Smith, with eight companies of cavalry and
four of infantry, started yesterday for
Spotted Tail agency.
The Brules and Minpecongous were con-
eentrating near the agency, and threatened
fight. The Indians under Red Cloud are
greatly dissatisfied, and there is much bad
Ialk about soldiers being in the country.
The Races Mt Augusta.
AUGUSTA, March 1.-THE races com
6nence at the Fair Grounds tomorrow and
will continue three DAYS. Twenty five
Aorses have arrived embracing the stables
of Bacon, Weldon and Lewis & Hitchcock.
Pools are selling to-day. The weather is
8nfavorable.
Hammers Defalcation and Death.
LOUISVILLE, March IA deficit OF at
Feast $5S 600 has been found in the accounts
OIL b.,
this city, who died very suddenly and under
suspicious circumstances Monday morning.
The finance committee of the city councll
o. still engaged in the examination, ana
other deficits NAV vet be found. Inquest
On the body was postponed until the con.
Cents of the stomach are fully examined
and report made. Hammers possessed con,
siderable property, besides an Insurance OF
$50 600 on bis life, which will probably be
contested.
Terrible Gale.
BALTIMORE, March 1.-THE Nuremberg,
@shich arrived to day, reports she lett Bre-
amen on the seventeenth OF February, and
On the twenty fourth experienced terrlnc
gale which continued until the twenty fifth.
Heavy seas swept over the ship, tearing
sway boats, one of which crushed the SKY
light and water poured into the cabin. Dam
eging furniture, etc, to between $2O,Ooo
41i 100000.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Office Chief Signal Officer, I
Washington, March ii, 1874, 4:35 +. ND
4or the South Atlantic and Eastern Cuff States,
Generally fresh north to west wipds, low tempeTa-
cure and clear weather, except possibly along Inc
coast.
River and Marine News.
&curHwEsr Pass. March H. P. M.-Bsrometer 30
Wind north west. fresh. Arrived-Schoonsr Te1aDs,
Rault master eight days from Tampico; bark Noah.
sixty DAYS from Leith; bark Christiana ByOnnass
master fifty che days from Waterford; steamship
CarOndelet, McCreery master, at p. M from New
York, to George A. Fosdick L Co. Ssiled-schooner
Jennie Wood.
PAss.A-LOurRR, March II. Noon.-Wind west,
fresh, Arrved-Steau ship W. s. Clyde. at 1910 A.
u Livingston master from Havana, via the Flor
Margaret.
vICKsBuRG, March Il.-rp-Henry c. Yaeger, at
q N. Down-Fanny Tatum at r. NJ. Weather
CLOUDY and cool River is rising; is now 40 feet 10
inches above lew water marx of 1871
MEMPHIS, March ll.s-River stationary. Weather |
clear and cool. Arrlved-Ben Franklin, from Gun
sinnati. Departed Crescent City. Scudder, for |
New Orleans; Joe Kinney, for Red river; Clarks- |
ellie, for Arkansas river; Fred Wilson, for Pitts
Burg Tempest for Cairo.
CINCINNATI. March II River thirty-f feet six |
tnches and falling W. ath-r clear Arrived |
Thomas Sherlock from New Orleans.
PIrTsBURG March ll.-River eight feet and fall !
eng. Weather clear and cold.
LOUISVILLE, March 1.-THE river has risen about
Two inches; stationary with eleven feet eight
inches in the canal, nine feet eight inches in the
chute. Weather clear and cold. DOwn-ParasOn,
from Cincinnati TO New Orleans
EVANSVILLE, March lI.-Weather clear and cool. |
River has fallen fourteen inches.
CAIRO March I-Auiyed-Nick LOngworth. |
from Cincinnati, at A. NJ; Thompson Dean, from
Cincinnati, at six; City OF Helena from 1T. Louis.
at r. NJ. Depai ted-Dean for New Orleans, at IL |
Longworth, for New Orleans at seven. The river
has risen two inches. Weather clear and cold.
ST. LOUIS March l.--Arrived-Fannie Lewis from
Red river. peparted-Pauline Carroll, for New Or.
leans River rising slowly. Weather clear and |
4 leasant.