New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-23

Hatch. from Havana, has O case of yellow
fever on board, and ia detained ut quaran-
tine.
The President's Memorial Order.
LONG BRANCH. August 22.-The follow
ing is lust received from the President
1t il with extreme pain that the President
announces to the people of the United
States the death OF the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, Hon. Michael e.
Kerr, of Indiana A man Of great intellect
ual endowments, large culture. great
probity and earne stness in his devotion to
the public interests, has passed from the
position of power ami usefulness to which
he had been recently called. The body
over which he had been selected to preside
not being in session to render its tribute of
affection and respect to the memory of the
deceased, the President invites the people
of the United States to Q solemn recOgni-
ton of the public and private worth and
the services Of a pure and eminent char
acter. L. S. GRANT
By the President:
JOHN L. CALDWELL
Acting Secretary of State.
Washington, August 2l, 1876.
New Rice from South Carolina.
New York, August 22-Messrs. Dan
Talmage's Sons, of this city, received from
their Charleston house, the first of the new
crop Of Carolina rice. As unpropitious
weather delayed planting, the general har'
vesting will be fully two weeks later than
usual. The prospect indicates yield in
excess of any previous year.
Strike Among the Rice Lab0rers.
CHARLESTON, August pa serious strike
has begun among the laborers on the rice
plantations along the Combahee, the strikers
taking advantage of the harvest season to
demand an advance of fifty per cent ia
wages. Many of the hands are willing
and anxious to work at the present
rate, but the strikers are visiting each
plantation and forcing the working hands,
by whipping and other violence. to Join
them. The situation is critical, as the crop
must be harvested within few days or be
a total loss. Governor Chamberlain has
telegraphed the sheriff of Beaufort to sum-
mon strong posse and protect at all
hazards the lab0rers who wish to work.
Probabilities.
WAR DEPARTMENT
Office Chief Signal Officer. ;
Washington, August %, IS76-4:30 P. NY
During Wednesday in the South Atlantic and
Bast Cuff States rising, followed by slow ~ falling
barometer, stationary to rising temperature, east
erly to soutberly winds and clear or partly cloudy
weather will prevail with possibly occasional
The Ohio river and the Mississippi river below
Memphis, continue slowly falling. Caution ary
signals are ordered for Duluth. The storm centre
in the Northwest will probably advance eastwar
over the lake region.
River and Marine News.
SOUTHWEST Pass August o. 6P. M.-Bsroueter
$780, Weather calm and cloudy. Arrived
Hpanieh ship Fifteen of March, Artu master,
B1even days from Havana in ballast, to III. PUG &
Co. No departures.
sHREv.PoRr, August % Weather partly cloudy
Mercury 10 to s4' The liver fell eight inches No
m nvemont Of 0toamere
vIcKsBuRs. August a. - Weather warm and
,loudy River fell two inches Passed up-Helena
vt IL A. n. DOwn-Natchez, at P. M: Scudder
It r. n. Arrived-Genevieve at P. NJ
AanPHIs, August 22.-River fell one inch, and
tands thu teen feet i've incheA- Weather showery
Maximum thermometer go. Arrived-Rosa Miller
rom Arksneas river. Departed-Ella, for White
'ver Mil er, for Cincinnati vicksburg and nlinois
or Vicksburg; Eckert, Tolle and Tower for ST.
Louis Shannon left last night for the Ohio river
CINCINNATI, August 22.-River fourteen feet and
alling. Weather clear and warmer
PITTsBURG August 22.-River two feet ten inches
md falling. Weather clear and pleasant
EvANsvILLR, August 22.-River twelve feet eight
inches and falling. Weather clear and warm
LOUISVILLE, August 22-River stationary; seven
eet elk inches. Weather clear and tleasant
ST.. LOUIS. August 22.-River falling steadily |
Weather clear and hot.
CAIRO. August 22.-Arrived-City of Alton, from |
lew Orleans. at P. NJ Maude, from vlcksburg. |
a. N. Departed-Al5 on, for st. Louis at mid.
light Bee. for New Orleans, at 2 A. NJ; Maude for /
{. Louis, as ten O'Clock River fifteen feet nine |
,ches and rising. Weather fair and warm.