New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-05
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place. The agency was under the charge
Of Asjor g. w. Ingalls,. The alleged cauee
= the misappropriatiOn OF public funds.
Major Ingalls, is absent.
Trial Of che Langmaid Murderer.
CONCORD, n. H., January 4.-The trial OF
La Page tor the alleged murder OF Josie
Langmaid. at Pembroke, commenced be-
fore Justice w. l.. Foster and Associate
Justice Rand. An immense assembiage
6lled the courtroom. The prisoner was
seemingly indifferent. The jury, is COM
pleted, and will proceed to Pembroke to-
Eorrow to view the scene.
while Lawyers Fight the Prisoner Escapes
MEMPHIS, January Awhile two attOr-
neys, named Moss and BurrOw, we're en-
gagged in q rough and tumble fight in the
criminal court this morning, Bill Smith, the
prisoner, walked of with his handouts on,
and escaped while the sheriff was eeparat-
ing the attorneys. The judge sent both OF
the attorneys to Jail, but they were released
this afternoon on payment OF tlne.
Barry Sullivan.
Barry Sullivan, the veteran tragedian,
appeared before crowded houses last night,
- Richard Ill, after an absence Of sixteen
years.
Governor Tilden's Message.
ALBANY, Y. n, January Ain Governor
Tilden's message, after the common schools
are mentioned only in the submission of
their statistics, nothing is said of the sec
tartan question, of the constitutional amend
ments proposed by the President and Mr..
Blaine, or OF the grey nuns act.
The Governor dwells at length upon the
financial condition of the country as among
~ nj fh61f ouA rad do.
preston. He includes the extrava-
CANT expenditures Of public money, fede-
raj and State. Local taxation was in
1850 357 for each inha bitant; in 1860 it was
90; in 1870 it was 81. 1t would be diff
cult TO add anything to the force of THESE
startling figures. The amount Of money
raised by taxation in the last eleven years
is more than 500 900. The remedy OF
existing evils the Governor holds is in a
return to the sound principles Of govern
ment. Prosperity must rest upon the old
foundations. There is y popular ''revOlt at
financial Quackery." The Governor COM
ments severely upon the expenditures of
quacks and finds no safety but in the
restoration of an honest currency. He has
NO sympathy with the theorists who after
eleven years of cOnvulsiOn without restOra-
ton, are now clamoring for restoration in
m hour of convulsiOn. He says there is no
danger of convulsion in q return TO specie
payments.
ContestiDg the Election.
BALTIMORE. January 4.-Henry NJ. War
Said. the Reform candidate for mayor in the
election held in October last has instituted
proceedings cOntesting the election of Gen.
eral +. C. Latrobe, the Democratic can
didate who has been installed in office.
Billiards.
Garnier beat Sexton in 300 point three
bali game. Sexton scored 236. Sexton beat
GARNER in . four ball game.
Weolen Mills Burned.
UTICA, January A. Tho Oriskany
voolen mill burned to-day. Loss LOCO.
Eighty hands are thereby ousted.
Texas Democratic Convention.
GALVESTON, January A large number
Of delegates to the Democratic State Con-
vention have arrived. A preliminary meet
ing is announced for eleven O'Clock to-mor-
row. 1t is expected a permanent
organization will not be effected until
Thursday morning. 1t is the general i'm
preston that Governor Coke will be re-
nominated by q nearly unanimous vote.
The valiire Laud Case.
ST. LOUIS, January 4-The celebrated
land case under the title of Benjamin Soul
ct al, heirs of Don Joseph Vslliere; Will
liam H. Duryea ct al, grantees Ct the heirs
Of Valliere, and John Wilson, plaintiffs, va.
the United States, defendant, was argued
yesterday before Judge krekel of the United
STATE District Court at Jefferson City. The
case involves some 5000, 900 acres Of land
along White river in Southwestern Missouri
and Southeastern Arkansas. 1t is estimated
to be worth SIS, Coz, 900. The plaintiffs seek
the confirmation OF certain land grants
alleged to have been given Colonel VALERIE
by the Spanish government Tor III ATary
service. About one third of the contested
property ia owned and occupied by persons
under grants from the United States, and
numerous towns, villages and cultivated
farms exist thereon. Judge Krektl took
the case under advisement and will render
. decision about the first of February.
A Confidence Man.
HAvrnHrLL. Jsnuary 4.-Arthur P. Dew
lin. who has been ]ecturing as reformed
Catholic, and severely denouncing the
Catholic Church, was arrested, and com
mitted in default of bail, on the charge Of
blackmail. His speeches and denunciatinns
OF Catholicism created quite an excitement
here
Free from Ice.
The river in front of this city is entirely
free of ice. The sudden opening made
havoc with the boats fastened in and above
Stuyvesant.
The Nlississippi Legislature.
MIMPH1s, January A. The appeals
jackson. Mississippi, special says nearly
every members was present at the Ofganlzh-
ton of the Legislature. j. NJ. Stone, OF Al
corn, was elected President pro tenn. OF the
Senate, and D. Price Porter, of Hines,
secretary. Counting Furlong independent
Republican, the Senate has two-thrds
Democratic majority. In the House H. M.
Street, of Prentiss, was elected Speaker,
and Gearge M. Govan, of Marshall, clerk.
The Office of president pro tenn. OF the Senate
becomes important from the fact that he
will probably be Governor, as the indica
lions are that Governor Ames and Lieuten
ant Governor Davis will be impeached.
Colonel Lamar, Generals Lowery and
Featherston, aspirants for United States
senatorship, are here. Lamar is decidedly
ahead, but LOwery is developing consider
able strength; Featherston will get about
fifteen votes on the first ballot, nearly all
Of which will afterward go to Lamar.
The Governors message, which was read
THE afternoon, gives considerable cffense,
and is spoken Of as falsitying the conduct OF
the citizens prior to the late election, and
magnifying incidents connected with the
campaign, Of which it is largely made up.
Probabilities.
WAR DEPARTMENT
once Chief Signal Officer. I
Washington, January 4. 1876. A:3o P. M)
For the So nth Atlantic States, clear or
fair weather and northeast to southeast
vinde. stationary or slowly rising barome-
ter. and no decided changes in tempera-
turo. a. i.
Ohio valley, partly cloudy and slightly
warmer weather, easterly to southeriy
winds. veering to southwest in the Ohio
vailey. and stationary or falling barometer:
sy4e ro.s,hlu a slight rise in the Cult