The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-16
Washington Items.

Washington Items.
WAsHiNeroN, March 15.-Representative
Blacks condition is improved.
The counsel for Sergeant Mason has pre-.
sentcd to Judge Wiley, of the district SUI
preme court, petition for writ of habeas
corpus for their client, alleging want of ia.
risdiction of the court.martial In time of
peace, and that if that court had iu.isdc-
ton TO try the case, II exceeded its lurisdC-
ton in the excessive sentence passed. Ma
son, was. started for Albany penitentiary
to-day, hand-culled, with guard of sol.
diers.
The lighthouse board gives notice that
continued encroachments of the sea have
SO iar endangered the safety of the light
house tower ut Cape San Bias, Florida, that
1t is impossible to maintain the light in il
when the sea is heavy. Mariners are there
fore cautioned not to rely on this light dur
ing rough weather.
The president has been notified by Judge
Samuel Blatchiord, of New York, OF his ac.
ceptancc of the office of associate Justice of
the supreme court
No official report has yet been received at
the treasury department from the special
agent investigating the affairs OF the twelfth
lighthouse district. II is already known
that the deialcation of James X. Best, en-
glneer clerk at San Francisco, is upward
of 500
Jacob r. shepherd appeared to-day be-
| lore the house committee on foreign relp.
tions, but as he had brought with him none
OF the correspondence called for by the com
mittee and explained that there had not
been time enough given him TO make copies,
he was excused until Saturday. The only
progress made by the committee was to ex.
PLAIN to Shepherd the scope OF the. proposed
inquiry into his affairs. He was reauired In
produce before the committee comics of
all correspondence he may have had with
nited States officials of every degree upon
the subject OF the Peruvian company. He
was entirely selfpossessed and deliberate
IN his replies to the committee. His atti.
tude there and his intervie with local o.
porters indicate that he will not become
communicative TO any further extent than
he IS compelled to be, though profcssedly
frank and open.
The Flood.
NEW ORLEANS, March H.-At midnight
the river was eight inches below the rise of
1874. NO further disasters to the leyees
No further rise reported. Weather clear.
NEW ORLEANS, March l5.-Captain n p
Leathers, of the stesmer Natchez. tele.
graphs to-day from Port Gibson, Missis.
sppi as follows; ships bayou ieyee
twenty-five feet high, broke this morning
The break will cause water to run broadcast
over Tensas and Concordia. These peonle
require immediate assistance or there will
be great suffering"
West Baton Rouge levees, COVERING M |
they do q number OF principal sugar par. |
ishes In the state, continue 10 be the subject |
OF great interest and anxiety. A dispatch
from 9. J. Barrow, president of the police
jury OF that parish says ave are ali rivht |
20 far aud have held for our expenses over
VI, 900 per day, but tonight funds will he |
exhausted. The river continues 10 encroach
upon us nj the rate Of "a inches In "a hours
All the levees have 10 be closely watched
The river Is now within three inches of The
high-water mark Of 1874"
About month ago the first crevasse I, |
Louisiana, this season, occurred IN the
le,e, Of Concordia parish, near tho rensas
line. IL was then stated that tho waisr
from this crevasse would be reinforced hv |
the waters of the Ouachta and submerc,
Concordia and Tensas parishes Monjsv
four crevasses were reported In leyees along
The river front Of Tensas parish. within q
distance of fifteen miles, which were going
70 inundate Concordia and Tensas parisbas
Today another crevasse has occurred
which the report states will submeryn
Tensas and Concordia parishes Nnnv
similar cases may be mentioned where the
rapidly encroachlng waters have caused ihe
people TO moro than realize the widest ex.
aggerations OF reported damage by the
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