New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-26
to-day one passenger and the engineer were
fatally hurt and several passengers serious

to-day one passenger and the engineer were
fatally hurt and several passengers serious
~ injured.
PROVIDENCE, r. I F., September 25-1n tho
United States Circuit Court to-day Juoge
Knowles delivered the opinion OF the court
Judges Clifford and Knowlee) IN the case
of the sction at law OF the United states
aga inst Rowland G Hazard. Inc acLion y
one of debt to recover tho sum OF $I7, 4ol
for tax on defendant's income in 1868.
The defendant pleads in bar to recover
the payment by defendant Of the aesess-
ment made BY the United States aseistant
assessor. with the added penalty of fifty
per cent. United States Attorney Gardner
demurred to this and other pleas, and the
opinion of the court to-day sustains the de-
cision of the United States Supreme Court
in the case of the Dollar Savings Bank vs..
the United Statee.
The case IS important, ae il ie the first
one that has been instituted to recover in
come tax after a citizen had paid the
tax assessed by the United States assessor,
with fifty per cent penalty. The judgment
Of the court eustains such action.
Probabilities.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Office Chief Signal Ofhcer,
For the Gulf States. cooler northerly winds and
rising barometer, and partly cloudy weather. 70 :
lowed in the West portion. by easterly winde,
stationary falling barometer and increasing
c4oudiress. s=---.s-.-ze
River and Marine News.
SOUTHWEST Pass, September 25.-Barometer % .6s
Weather calm and hazy. Arrlved-Steamship New
Orleans. Dearborn. master, at $50 last Mig h. Io!n
Quick mast. /. at 9I5 A. NJ. from New York to G.
A Whitney 4 Co.. American ship Maj tha 4. Cobb,
twenty Fix days nom Bah, with cargo Of ice to
J. z. Warner; Brush bark Lexington, Orkney
master, fifty five days from Marseiles, III ballast
to Lowell Bailey. sailed-SteamshipC City Of Nor
tslk and bark Refine Des Anges.
PAss.A.LOuTRE, September Is -Arrived-Stesm
shin Tappahannock. at 1880 P. NJ, Casev, MASTER
from Havana and Florida ports, to |. X. Roberts.
PoRT EAps, September 25.-Arrived British
bark MontebelIo, Kelly master and the American
dsgs frem susian WITH rut to Tore Anseme
vIckssuze: September 49, Weather warm and
fair. The river fell seven inches. Atrived-Capi'
toll City at 9 A. NJ; Natchez, at P. NJ.
1..PHs, September The e river fell two
CNCIsNArI, September 25.-9iver twenty nre
feet nine inches and falling. Weather fair and
warm. Arrived-John L. Rhodes, from New Or.
PIrrsBuRs, September 25-River seven feet ten
inches and rising. Weather cloudy
feet four inches and risicg slowly. Weather
cloudy and cool. Down-Kra Nc 9, at nine O'Clock
CAIRo, September pa -rived-Grand Tower,
from St. Louis. at P. NJ. Shannon, from Gin
cinnati, s!2 A. NJ; Future City; nom St. Louis,
at ten o'clock; Ashland, from New Ore -, at
3 P. NJ. Depart ed-Grand Tower. for vicks-
burg, at II p. n, shannon for New Orleans.
ct 4 A. n: Ashland, for Cincinnati, at P.
NJ Leopard for New Orl. ans 1T five O'Clock.
River twenty one feet and falling. Weather cloudy
and thre 'ening. Mercury 7so.
- LOUISVILLE, September 25.-R,ver falling eleven
feet ii We inches in tho canal. Weather wall and
cloudy. Down-Schenck, for New O'eans
ST. Louis, september Is. -Arrived-City Of Helena,
from vicksburg. River falling. We athtr clear and
cool.