, 1874-04-30

is no exit except by boats. Business is
almost suspended. Fully 1000 people
here have not had rations for three days
nor money to buy any. The town is
full of starving stock of every descrip-
ton. The river is still rising. Planta..
tions in the vicinity are all submerged
and there are no prospects of crops.-
What the people are to do, God only
knows.
SAN FRANc1gco. April 26.-Steamer
Granada. from Panama, arrived to-day.
Tugs have succeeded in auling the ship
James Cheston off the ocean side beach.
and are now towing her up the harbor.
PHILADELPHIA, April 25.-Advices re-
ceived from Port au Prince to the 18th
inst. state that Gen. Dominguez was ex-
pected hourly with troops from South,
and trouble was feared. Foreigners
were sending their valuables to the con
sulates, and numbers of them were leav-
ing the Island.
WASHINGTON. April 25.-Committee
on Ways and Means to-day heard Mr..
Sherman, a commission merchant OF
New York, who testified to paying A..
Goodrich Fay 800, 900, to be divided be-
tween Fay and Sanborn, and $4,000 to
Judge Davis, then District Attorney, to
secure the dismissal of the suit brought
against witness for selling liquor on
which the tax was unpaid. He paid the
money to escape scandal, although he
was innocent. He was told that the
case was dismissed in accordance with
orders from Washington.
Vice President Wilson is on his way
from Boston to Washington. On his
return to Boston he will leave on a
Southern and Western trip, which will
probably extend to California.
In the House to-say, Hurlburt, from
Committee on Railways and Canals. re-
ported substitute for the bill previous
ly reported by the Committee, in favor
of aid for the Portland, Dalles, & Salt
Lake Railroad, Also telegraph line.
The bill provides that the United States
shall guarantee and pay the interest on
five per cent 10-year bonds, to be issued
by the railroad company to the extent
of $4,000 per mile. amounting in all to
$3.50, 900; and as each section of twenty
five miles shall be completed, to aid in
the construction of the road from the
Columbia River to some point on the
Pacific R. R.-Bowen, Ogden or Kelton.
When this portion of the road shall be
finished, similar aid, on the same con-
ditions, shall be furnished to the re-
mainder Of the route between Portland
and the Colorado river. In return, the
z. r. is to transport mails, troops, In
dian supplies, and also send Govern
ment dispatches, free of charge, forever.
No determinations shall be made against
freight and passengers at any point ;and
pro rata charges between any specified
points are omitted.
Government Engineers report on the
survey on the mouth of the Coquille
river, Oregon, says the difficulties to be
overcome and the great cost have led
the officer in charge to the conclusion
that the best outlet to the sea would be
secured by cutting a canal to connect
the river with the waters of Coos Bay.
The cost of the canal is estimated at
SO, 100000.
portland, April 25.-R. J. Ladd,
School Clerk of this city, has defaulted
to the amount of nearly $4,000. He is
absent from town.
MADRID, April Pa rumor is cur
rent that the Carlists have asked Ser
rano for an amnesty. Senior CASTELAR,
has written letter in which he declares
himself in fa%or of a federal republic.
LONDON, April 26. -Advices from
Constantinople state that the Suez Cam
al difficulty is settled.
BERLIN, April 26.-Emperor William
closed the session of the Reichstag yes
terday with formal speech.
New ORLEANS, April 26. The river
is falling. 1t is now two inches below
high water mark. Seven days of North
ern, Eastern and Western mails due.
Three bridges are gone between here
and Mobile, and jackson.
MONROE, La, April 26.-The river
rose but very little last night. Another
break poured much water on the back
part of the city. Washington street is
overhowed within three blocks of the
river. The weather is fair. There is
no intelligence from above or below.
WASHINGTON, April &c. Since no sup
plies can be had from military stations
on the overfowed region Of the lower
Mississippi, the Secretary OF War, after
a conference with the President, has or
dered the Commissary of Subsistence
to purchase five hundred thousand
rations of meat, -four, beans and rice.
and to carry into effect the relief bill
and ask an appropriation of $4,000.
Estimates are based on issuing rations
to 10000 persons for 20 days.
The Senate Finance Committee will
this week consider the House Finance
Bill. Conservatives think bill may be
framed acceptable to the Senate by COM
bining the feature of redemption pro-
posed in that bill with the right to issue
additional bank notes, on condition that
certain proportion Of legal tender
notes be withdrawn simultaneously, and
many believe that if such bill be re