New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-31
GENERAL NEWS.

StLuo pIObpoSb VI u III buO pOldbO
market in that city. The prices are now
higher than for many years, and potatoes
are scarce and in great demand. The crop
of 1876 was almost failure in the East and
West, the South alone raising about the
usual supply. The Canadians have taken
advantage of the scarcity in the large cities
of the United States, and are shipping ex-
tensively to them from their abundant crop.
The expectation from New York is much
smaller than tor many years, the demand
for home consumption making sales profit
able here. The prices of the Wholesale
dealers are so high that in many cases re-
tail dealers refuse to purchase, and do not
offer potatoes for sale at their stores. 1t
was learned by inquiry of wholesale dealers
yesterday that the prices would become
still higher.
Ga motion of the Attorney General the
Bellocq-NoblOm cotton case, that had been
settled, has been reOpened in the Court of
Claims.
The suit of Hallet Kilbourne against
Michael c. Kerr and others, for $l5O,OOO
damapee, for imprisonment by Congress,
has been commenced. Messrs. Wells and
Anderson are taking note OF this trial for
future use.
Among the nominations sent TO the SEN
ate on last week were Thomas Settle, North
Carolina, district Judge for Florida; Ben
jamin F. Flanders, assistant treasurer at
New Orleans; Harris p. Hurst, collector of
customs, Pearl river, district of Missis-
sippi.
James NJ. Marker has illustrated the now
proveThial piety of Brooklyn divine by
writing sermons for Rev. DR.. RDssvalley,
editor of the Hebretg Evangelist and Con-
Uerted Jslo, and willing away the intervals
of doctrinal dissertation by raising two
do lar bills to the purchasing power of ten.
James seems to have been model youth
for a small boarding house. He said that
he as member of either Fleet Street or
Pacific Street Methodist Church, and that
his father was Methodist local preacher
in Iowa. "He did not like TO go out of the
house in the evening"" testified Mrs. Van
| much wicke6ness on the streets" He has
interviewed the local court and will be
| transferred to the custody of the United
States marshal, who will escort him in due
time into the presence of United States
| Commissioner WinslOw Rev. Dr. Ross
valley believed James had a family resid-
/ ingiin Newt Orleans, but he was q man who
| travelled considerably. ROssvalley himself
is not unknown in this city; bat while he
confines his evangelical lAhOrs TO the city
Of New York, nothing will be apt TO be
saidr,.
4 va A. Lockwood, Esq made speech
| be 3 the Committee on the Judiciary of
House on the nineteenth instant in advo-
cacy of her bill authorizing the Supreme
| Court of the United States to admit her and
| other women to practice at the bar of said
court, and the committee unanimously di-
rected Mr.. Hoar to report the bill favora'
bly,. Following upon this, as soOn as the
/ House met, large number OF petitions
were presented from number of the States,
/ signed by men and women, asking the
| passage of sixteenth amendment to the
] - Hha off
ment of women by any State These papers
were also referred to the Judiciary Commit
/ tee The most interested spectators of this
4 proceeding were Mrs. Lockwood, Cady Stan
| ton, Phoebe Cousins, Susan Anthony, and
/ the other leaders of the woman's rights
movement who have recently been in SEES
/ sion in this city, and who occupied promi-
nent seats in the gallery.
The British Admiralty has been made the
| victim of q huge and embarrassing practi-
| cal Joke. About a month ago telegram
| purportiDg 10 be from the Secretary OF the
/ Admiralty, London, was received at the
i admiraPs Office, Queenstown, ordering that
the Goehawk gunbOat should proceed i'm
mediately to Gibraltar The terms of the
order were such as to cause no suspicion OF
its genuineness. 1t was directed that the
full crew should proceed, and that as much
coal as could possibly be slowed should be
| laid in. There was little delay in her de-
| parture owing to the absence Of some OF
the crew, who were on leave; but they
were all mustered with dispatch, and in
less than twenty-fOur hours after the re-
ceipt of the order the GOshawk was on her
way to Gibraltar, with sixty-three souls on
board. The weather at the time was very
bad, and as these gunboats are not designed
| for sea-gOing there was much misgiving as
| to her safety. Very soon after she sailed
another telegram was received from the
same source, asking to be advised if the
| Goshawk had proceeded to Galway. A re-
Div was at once sent back from the admi'
rails Office at Queenstown, stating that in
| accordance with the first telegram she
| had gone TO Gibraltar. 1t was then as
| certained for the first time that the tele-
grams were bogus ones, and that the lives
| of the sixty-three persons on board we're
placed in jeopardy by the heartless conduct
| of some practical jOkers. The admiralty az
once took steps to have the Goshawk inter
cepted. At the earliest possible moment
| kilograms were forwarded to numerous
ports on the French and Spanish coasts
| with this object. She was first heard OF at
| Vigo Bay, where she put in through stress
of weather. A telegram was there Waiting
for the commander. Captain Bigg, intimat-
| ing that he had been made the victim OF 3
very cruel hoax, and that the gunboat
should return Immediately The admiralty
| authorities are making the most strenuous
efforts TO discover the perpetrators OF this
hoax.
William. Cogswell, general inspector OF
| Masss ohusetts maekerel, reports the catch
for 1876 at 223,37 barrels, Of which 3O,6l6
we're once, 95,S67 were twos, 93,O09 were
threes, and 4723 were fours,
New England Ia looking ahead. The
Providence Journal thinks the Southern
disturbances may demorAlize the sugar pro.
ductiOn, and says Of its substitute, beetrOOt
sugar:
| ST. Louis has had 3 sensation. 1t was