New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS.
Captain Eads and Party nt the Mouth o1
the River.

Captain Eads and Party nt the Mouth o1
the River.
Pass AL OUTRE, May l4.-The revenue
| cutter John A. Dix, Captain Freeman, with
| Captain j. B. Eads, Colonel Andrews, John
| +. BOtiinger and others on board, left New
| Orleans at noon on the thirteenth instant
| arrived at Southwest Pass at P. NJ, an.
chored until daylight, and then proceeded
to the South Pass, accompanied by the tow.
boat Heroine, OF the Associated Tow boat
Company. On arrival there, Captain Eads,
Colonel Andrews and the United States
engineer made thorough sOuDdings over the
bar, and found a channel of not less than
eight and . half feet water; proceeding up
the pass to the head of the passes the least
| water fonnd was sixteen feet.
The Heroine then proceeded to Pass. a.
fOutre, and Captain Eads and pacty were
transferred to the revenue cntter. The
Heroine left at GAS P. NJ, with portion of
the party, Tor New Oleans, leaving Captain
tads and party to complete his survey.
Every one ia perfectly satisfied with the
feasibility OF securing asutticiencv of water
tor any draft vessels in twelve months.
The weather was delightful.
Work of Northwestern Outlaws.
OTTAWA, Ont, May A-The Department
OF Justice has been informed that several
murders have recently been committed in
the northwest Territories. by white men,
who have taken refuge in Montana, United
States. An effort will be made to recover
the criminals, for trial, by means OF the
extradition treaty.
Marine.
QUEBEC, May ll.-rhe British steamship
Chesapeake, from Hull for Montreal, is
ashore at Malone.
Conviction of Il Defaultine Postmaster.
Monte oMERY, May lI.-C. H. Davis, late
postmaster at Union Springs, pleaded guilty
in the Uuited States Court to day Of embez-
Element OF funds from letters he received.
BY request of the district attorney, who
stated that there were extenuatng clrcum-
stances, the lowest punishment, which was
sentence OF six months imprisonment ard
d fine to the amount OF the money alb
stracted, was imposed.
Chinese Deacons in the Methodist Church.
CALAIS, Ne, May l4.-The Methodist
conference here yesterday ordained six
Cinnamon as deacons.
indian Prisoners Going to Florida.
ST. LOUIS, May l4.-Orders have been
issued from the headquarters OF the army
here that the Indian prisoners now confined
at Fort Lea7enworth be conveyed to St.
Augustine, Florida, and confined in Fort
Marion under special guards.
Bold Trick Of Escaped Sing.sing Pris-
Oners.
POtGHKEEPsIE, May "a. - While the
freight train was passing through the arch
at Sing-SlDg Prison, four convicts jumped
on the engine, presented revolVers at the
engineer and fireman and compelled them
to get ott. They cut the engine loose and
started southwark, abandoning the engine
three miles north of Tarrytown.
Recnpturcd.
TARRYTowN, May lt.-Three Of the con-
victs who escaped from Sing. Sing were
near Sleepy Hollow. They had
stolen the clothing of the engineer and fire.
Inan. the fourth one is being hotly pressed,
and will be caught.
To BE Hanged.
ATLANTA, May H.--Three negroes, in two
cases of murder, tried and sentenced in the
Superior Court here within two days, are
to be hanged on the fourth of June
Wreck of the ST Maguus.
SAN Francisco, May ll.-oyduey. New
South Wales, advices say the bark st. Ma
guns, for Adelaide from Brisbane, entered
Atoreton bay and took pilot on board
The next day she was discovered bottom
up. A steamer searched unavallinglv for
the survivors Of the wreck. She was owned
and sailed by Captain Easterbrooke, Bos-
tonlan, tor many years resident of Ade
aide. His wife and family perished with
him.
New South Wales and the Centennial.
The steamship Cyphrenes, from Sydney,
brings intelligence that tho New South !
Wales Parliament has included in the SUD. !
ply bill recently psesed $4,000 for represen- |
,aiion of New South Wales at the centen.
nal exhibition at Philadelphia
The Honolulu Sugar Crop.
The Honolulu Commercial Adcertiser of |
May says in January last Il. s. Spaiding
lrrived from San Francisco and made a
proposition to sugar planter to enter into
/ contract with San Francisco retiners for
he entire crop of the coming year at fixed
rice. The proposition was disapproved.
Items from the Pacific.
Sixty thousand ounces of gold was melted
o the mint yesterday.
A dispatch from Salem, Oregon, aavs
Governor Grover will call special elec
ion on the twenty fifth of October, to
i'll the vacancy occasioned by the death of
George A. Ladow
James o Smith. engineer of the steamer
enator, which Vas blown up at Portland.
oregon, recently, has been placed under
0nds to answer the charge Of manslaugh.er
D causing the disaster.
The Honolulu Commercial Adrertiser saws:
We learn that the reciprocity treaty be
ween the United States and Hawaii was
atitied by his nlniesty on tho seventh of
pril, and will be sent forward to Washing
,n for an exchange of satisfactions by the
yphrenes
The Mining Troubles.
TYRONE, Pa, May l4.-Fiftv men went
work at the Sterling miEes this morning.
About eleven o'clock fight took place
etween the few police and the strikers,
nd two OF the latter were arrested. There
no police force sufficient to protect will
,g wOrkmen, and the sheriff is dilatory.
;. G. Coutri, editor of LItalia, who on
[onday was captured by the strikers, is A.
yrone with forty Italians, determined to
ut them at work with proper protection.
fairs in Clearfeld county are in Q bad
tate, and nothing short Of military force