New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-16
GENERAL NEWS.

The Spanish bark ResOluda, Captain
Coll, from New Orleans, with cotton, slaves
and OIL, bound to Barcelona, struck on the
reefs to the westward of the Bermudas,
causing the vessel to leak very badly and
losing rudder. The wreckers extricated
her, and she was to be tOwed into st.
Georges, March z, by her msjesty's steam
tug Spitfre
Mrs. NJ. E. Bright, widow of the late Hon.
Jesse ID. Bright, of Indiana, died at the
Gait House, Louisville, Monday, at 800
2. M. Mrs. Brights illness was of short
duration.
Washington special in the Cincinnati
Gazette says: The friends of Judge Wood,
United States Judge of the Southern Cir.
cult, Will urge hum for appointment to the
vacancy upon the Supreme bench, caused
by the resignation of Justice Davis. If this
appointment should be made from the
Southern Circuit, Justice Bradley, who has
done circuit duty in the South, will prob.
ably be assigned to the circuit vacated by
Justice Davis.
Colonel Rivera Rio, whom President
Diaz has appointed Mexican minister at
Washington, is an author and journalist.
He is at present in charge of the Mexican
ministry Of justice and public instruction.
Having been forced into exile by the French
| invasion, he came to this country, and &C.
quired general knowledge of American
affairs.
The late Secretary of the Navy, just be-
fore leaving office, issued instructions re-
scindiDg the obnoxious and famous general
order No. 2l6, which placed officers on shore
| on waiting orders on furlOugh pay. This
| will not only enable these officers to receive
their full pay henceforth, but will also give
| them the amount heretofore withheld.
The new hotel at White Sulphur Springs,
known as the PeytOn House, burned
| Wednesday night. The fire was acct
dental, caused from defective hue or the
kitchen. The hotel was finished last June.
| Loss on the building $50, 000 insured for
| SIS, 900 in Baltimore companies. A part of
| the furniture was saved.
The Supreme Court has decided, in the
case of Foster vs.. master and warden, port
of New Orleans, that the act of Louisiana
| authorizing master and wardens of the
port to survey the matches of vessels, and
forbidding others making such survey, is
unconstitutional. Reversed, with instruc-
tions to dismiss the bill.
Upward of 10000 ordinary and about 500
registered letters were destroyed by the
burning of the postal car attached to train
| No. a, on the Buffalo and Chicago railroad,
| having at ten minutes to nine on the eighth
| The train cOllided with freight train, near
Sedan, Indiana, the shock upsetting the
stove and burning up the car and contents
| The registered mail lost must have been
| very valuable, as this train usually brings
| the bankers remittances of bonds and other
collaterals, besides many costly articles
( sent registered, and for which no refand
can be obtained.
Charles Morgan has assumed the floating
| debt of the Houston Central railroad,
amounting to $500, 600, and thus saved it
from falling into the hands of receiver.
Mrs. Octavia Walton LeVert, an eminent
authOress of the South, died at Augusta,
Georgia, on Saturday last. She was nearly
seventy years of age.
| A special to New York paper SAYS a
number of informal caucuses have been
held by the Southern Republicans during
the past day OF two, and they have, with but
/ few exceptions, expressed q determination
to do everything in their power to pre-
vent the recognition and success of the
| Nichols and Hampton governments
| Should they fail in THE, as is now believed
/ to be probable, they will-or at least they
say they will-change the political COM
plexion of the upper house of Congress by
/ voting against the admission of Mr.. KEEL
logg, from Louisiana, and Mr.. Corbin, from
South Carolina.
The war of rates between the Cairo
| Short Line, st. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern, Mobile and New Orleans, and
the New Orleans, st. Louis and Chicago
Il
days past, was ended last Monday BY
the representatives of these roads, while
inside the General Ticket Agents
| Convention at St. Louis, and an interchange
of business was restored and all disagree
ments amieably adjusted. Fares were ad-
vanced from $5-the amount to which they
had been cut from St. Louis to New Or
leans-tO SlS So and all parties concerned
seem to be well satisfied with the result.
The Democrats have had q majority in
the Senate most of the time during the
past week, owing to the illness of three
Senators and two vacancies. This is the
reason why Senator Kellogg's case was not
reported on and he seated.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has issued q circular to collectors in the
South, that the ordinary means of collecting
revenue in portions of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee have failed. He advises collect
/ ore that the use of the military should be
avoided when possible, and assigns three
deputies for each collection district. These
deputies are specially designed to suppress
the Illicit manufacture Of spirits and to-
baccO.