The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDOS, MONDAY IVENING, APRIL 19, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

THE LATEST CANARD.

''The Weekly _Register says:—

"That some remarkable change in the political horizon
may shortly be expected seems to be pretty certain.
There is no doubt but that Ministers—at least many of
them—are most anxious to get the Irish Church Bill
passed and done with, and yet to do so without a com-
promise appears to be impossible. In what people call
the best informed circles' it has been rumoured during
the past week that the Lords will agree to disesta-
blishment, but not to disendowment, and that the
Anglican Church in Ireland will be left with allits present
worldly goods, although no longer a State establish.
ment. This, it is said, has disgusted the more liberal
members of the Cabinet, and that a break up, followed by
a remodelling of the Ministry, is likely to take place.
Itumour even goes further, and says that Lord Stanley
is not unlikely to take office under Mr. Gladstone, and
that the new Ministry will be formed of the more con-
t.erva',ive Liberals and the more liberal Conservatives."

There is not the smallest sign of any such confede-
racy as our contemporary supposes. The increasing
majorities of the Ministry are certainly not a sign
of a Ministerial rupture. They are far more likely to
indicate the determination of the Lords not to resist
a measure which becomes more numerously sup-
ported every week. And yet we are told the rumour
was very current in the lobby of the Ifouse on Friday
night.

DR. LIVINGSTON•

What has become of Dr. Ivingstone? The
rumour of his murder everybodythought had been
sufficiently cleared up in the tutumn2 and Sir
Roderick Murchison was expectig him in England
to eat his Christmas dinner. 3ut Christmas has
passed, and we have gone though winter into
spring ; but there is no Dr. Livigstone. His con-
tinued absence is beginning to case great interest,
if not anxiety. His scientic friends, how-
ever—and they may be apposed to know
most about him—feel quit( hopeful as to
his safety. His ambition tc explore as much
as possible, his absolute determiation and indomi-
table perseverance will lead him they say, to go on
until he shall have a tale to tellworth the hearing.
It is now hoped that Sir Salmi( Baker, in his Nile
expedition, will meet him. Livia stone has evidently
taken another route than throng). Zanzibar, and it is
conjectured that he is followii the course of the
mighty river of Egypt.

copy as the standard predicting that America will re-
quire a century to grow to it, for although she has
the wealth and luxury, she has not as yet had the
time. Congressmen might employ the interval till
the 6th December (the next session) in practising
the epigrammatic style in society, and as Americans
do things in a month which would require a
decade with other nations, they may come out
full-blown " aristocrats" with the New Year, now
that they know the distinguishing mark. The
Pall-Mall traces some of the habits which prevail
in the Republic to the early necessities of a young
country. American hospitality and the self-devotion
to the guest, are derived from the times when the
stranger was guided through the imperviims forest
and his host considered his duty towards him only
ended after he had placed him in safety, either at his
destination, or in a neighbour's charge. The gran-1-
son of the man who so acted conducts his guest
through the labyrinth of his city, showing him
everything, and permitting no expense to fall on
him. The habit of " treating," comes from the time
when the backwoodsman shared his last ration with

his mate ; and from something similar is derived
that self-denial in trifles, mutual consideration in-
stead of the" devil•take-the-bindmost" system, ten-
derness for the weak, above all, chivalry towards
women, merely as women, which distinguishes
American society. The American correspondent
contrasts the American snob abroad with the Bri-
tish snob abroad, and his argument is simply un-
answerable. In no country in the world are there
so many nouveaux riches as in the United States,
and it is their habit when they acquire the means
to take a European tour ; consequently, not only
are there more of them, but that more is more seen
by foreigners ; hence, it is to their good sense in
the main, as well as to the institutions of the
country, the nation owes the fact that they have
not made the American name a by-word of vul-
garity. It is surprising, under the circumstances,
that there should be so little under-bred ostenta-
tion and display, not that so much is to be seen. In
the Republic the difference between the poor and the
rich is not marked as in England; that Americans are
not separated by such an almost impassable gulf is
shown by the numbers who cross it; and as wealth
does not create such social distinctions it is less
valuable, wnns, wll es-n lac/ are p." Hence
when a man does scramble across, be is not con-
scious of having accomplished any marvellous feat ;
to him it is the mere reward of sobriety, industry,
and good judgment. It can readily be believed
that such a case will contrast favourably with the
purse-proud arrogance of the Englishman who has
achieved the wonderful task of crossing the gulf.
Ile has one of two objects, both equally offensive ;
either to obliterate every trace of his ever having
been on the other side, or to take all to the brink
that he may indulge in self-glorification ; the first is
a pretender and his life a lie, the second is an egotist
and an unmitigated bore. The nouveau rich Ame-
rican has then the great advantage of not being to
the same degree in a false position, and therefore
carries his wealth with more grace and ease. Sup-
pose these things were reversed, and that a vast
crowd of Englishmen, suddenly enriched from the
mills of Lancashire, from the furnaces of the Black
Country, from the meadows of Leicestershire and
the mines of Northumberland, as well as from the
workshops of London, Birmingham, and Manche&
er, were without any previous training to inundate
Europe and America, where would the horses be
driven which carried these beggars? As what here
is termed the lower class, is in America brought
up socially and the upper class brought down, where
members of the one get into the other, they are akin,
and assimilate the more readily, that socially but
little difference has ever been acknowledged, and
politically none. In another column of the same
number of the Pall Mall Gazette. which contains the
article to which we have referred, is a good illustra-
tion of the manners and customs of Americans. In
an " Occasional Note," that is, among the para-
graphs coming from the hand of one of its writers,
a story is told as having occurred at Lebanon, In-
diana, intended to illustrate the necessity for
civilising the States in the Union before the Re-
public endeavours to add to its territory. A file of
persons there passed through a church, each in turn
touching a corpse laid on the communion table, the
object being to discover at whose touch the corpse
would bleed. When this is the sort of information
supplied to the upper classes of England about
America, who can be surprised at the ignorance
with which they go there? and it is vain to say it
war merely copied from an American paper—for
there are no men who more amuse themselves by
invention, who make more wonderful discoveries in
their sanctums, and describe with more elaboration
of detail the marvellous remains of extinct animals,
cities, curious antiquities, and subterranean works,
with an occasional three-headed birth, an eagle that
flew away with a team of oxen, or the detection of.
a murderer, by the corpse announcing
who did it.
But we must add, in justice to the z-wz th.t.
if quick to pick up JONaTHAN'S shortcomings, it
does not spare JOHN BM. " A Bloated Aristo-
crat," from the House of Commons, writes to that
journal in strong terms of censure of a member
whom he must have bad before him at the time.
He had settled himself in the reading-room of the
House to enjoy his book, and as a preliminary had
taken off his shoes! Nor does it less censure im-
morality,
i\iue,t
es tiaasest.he I
It
is accountto be i t
hogpaevde otfhatthew‘o'mLeandieos;
rank in London will take the hint, and if they can-
not suppress such action on the part of young men
at least drive them out of the society of virtuous
women.

TRAINING REPORTS.

Epsom, Thursday.—Nightingall sent Sarcolite, Elector,
Glen Stuart, Arcanum, Agate, colt by Vedette, colt by
Caractacus, colt by Amsterdam, and Leveret twice about a
mile and a quarter, while Forster's King Richard, Nannie,
Chivalry, and colt by Blair Athol were going good half-
speed for a mile, and S. W. Reaves was doing good
work with Sir Oliver, Cheddington, Honor, Nanny Thor-
manby, Conservative, Fiona, and several others. Marsh
did plenty of long steady work with Powderham.
Hughes sent Redcap, Lopez (both engaged in the
Chester Cup), Standard Bearer, colt by M. Phillippo
(4 years), Candidate, Bonnie Lass, and Music a nice
steady gallop
for a mile and a half, all going in good
style. Glengarnock and Shamrock, in Stinton's stable,
were in physic. Sherwood sent Vanbrugh, Sea
Serpent, Master Dick, Temple, and Claribel a good
gallop for a mile, and Bonnie Katie was striding along in
excellent style. Searle, Potter, Tomlinson, and W. Reeves
were merely giving their lots healthy exercise, while
Bentley's Laird, Slowman, Aeronaut, and Dido were
sent twice a little over a mile. Friday—Despite the
bleak and showery state of the weather, Tomlinson
had out twenty of his string. After the preliminary
canters, Rampart, Mercury, David, and Tett did a good
steady gallop for a mile and three-quarters, while Polis-
sone, Aurifera, La Marquise, Birdie, Tim Hogan, Ron-
forth, Mathesis, First Duke, and several others went
twice little over a mile. W. Reeves sent Catalogue and
Seagull a good gallop about a mile and a quarter; and
Sherwood, with Vanbrugh, Bonnie' Katie, Sea Ser-
pent, Master Dick, Temple, Claribel, and Mrs. Jones
did the mile thrice, all moving in fine style. Hughes
did some rattling work from a mile to a mile and
three-quarters with Redcap, Lopez, Standard Bearer, Can-
didate, colt by Ar. Philippe (4 yrs), Bonnie Lass, Music,
Seringapatam, colt by Wild Dayrell (2 yrs), and colt by
M. Philippe (2 yrs). Nightingall sent Sarcolite, Glen
Stuart, Elector, and Little Go a good half-speed spin
for a mile and a half, while Arcanum, colt by
Amsterdam, colt by Vedette, colt by Ceracticus, and
a few others were doing a nice gallop of a little over a
mile, and Forster's King Richard and Chivalry had a good
gallop of nearly a mile and a quarter. Reeves, Martin,
Carter, and Potter did some good work from a mile to a
mile and a half, while Stinton and Bentley's strings only
walked.

HEDNEsrottn. —The following of Cliff's have been doing
good work:— Dunce, Lady, Do Trafford colt, Royal Lad,
Messenger, Ettrick, Troubadour, Albion, Venico, Kidder-
minster, Master Willie, Vermicelli, Pyrenees, Uncas,
Melody, Orion, and Barnabo. Hunter, in Palmer's stables,
is doing good mile and a half work, and Fan is doing long
gallops. Pantaloon is fit, but William and Alicia are not
doing much work. Saunders's President Lincoln, Abbots-
ford, Catamaran,. and Ocean Wave are doing mile work
and Merry Horn and Knight of Kars horse are doing well.

Mr. R. Millar's colours are—Buff body, blue cap and
sleeves.
The filly by Newminster out of Mrs. O'Rourke (3 yrs)
has been named Miss Edie.
Mout Blanc (2 yrs), after winning a selling race at New-
market on Friday, was claimed by Mr. Clay.
Spider, after winning the Subscription Plate at New-
market on Thursday, was claimed by Mr. York.
The colt by Thunderbolt out of Khadidjah (2 yrs) has
been ;land langerio.

MONEY AND BUSINESS.

(From the Springfield Republican, April 3.)

The tightness in the money market shows few signs of
abatement as yet. In fact the stringency is greater and
more troublesome than it was a week ago, and it is causing
borrowers much inconvenience. At Boston the bank rate
is still 7 to 8 per cent. for liberai depositors, but outside
the very best double-name paper is cashed for nothing
short of 9 per cent., while for good notes, having three or
four months to run, as high as 10 to 12 per cent. is de-
manded and paid. Probably easier times will come before
long. Although the Ist April has lost its terrors as a bank
quarter day, it remains a settling time in the interior of
New York and many other States, and currency is there-
fore drawn away from the large cities. Besides, the banks
are still in a state of uncertainty as to the date when their
returns will be called for, and aro keeping under
close sail until time shall have passed. It was expected
that the change of the requirements commencing bank
statements from regular ones quarterly to irregular ones
five times a year, would alleviate or prevent the usual
stringency at this time of the year, bu: the expectation has
not been realized. The uncertainty of the present ar-
rangement seems to operate disadvantageously to the
money market, at least. The question of the redistri-
bution of currency is attracting a good deal of attention,
and it is very probable that a new deal will bo made,
whereby the eastern banks will lose thirty or forty mil-
lions, and the South and West gain as much. Some of
the Boston banks, fearful that their profits will be dimi-
nished, have declared for an expansion of the currency to
meet the Southern demand, as if we had not already
enough paper afloat. Mr. Geo. Walker of this city, iu a
sound and sensible letter,reminds them that as the national
bank bills are current almost all over the country, they
will find their way wherever exchanges carry them; and
he shows that the proposed redistribution, instead of cur-
tailing the banking facilities of this State, would in
reality increase them. The Boston banks seem to be
more alarmed about the matter than they have any
occasion to be. The plan of Mr. Amasa Walker for bring-
ing the country gradually back to specie payments has
been commented upon very generally in approval or dis-
approval by financiers. The old Journal of Commerce
frowns upon it, and the New York stockholder calls it a
plan to make people pay interest on their own money, and
thinks that the proposed funding of the legal tenders into
compound interest notes, and the notes into forty year
bonds would impose a burdensome and unnecessary tax
upon the people. The stockholder's plan would be to
have the Secretary of the Treasury hold on to his gold;
instead of buying up and cancelling bonds with it. Then,
starting with a hundred millions in coin free from pro
sent demands for interest on the public debt, it would
have the treasury offer to redeem all legal tender
',tea which might be presented and thus make a paper
dollar perforce equal to a gold dollar. This might b)
very well so long as the gold lasted, but what then? The
stockholder anticipates this objection by adding, "Not a
hundred millions, not fifty millions of legal tender notes
could be returned into the Treasury without creating a
scarcity which would render the remainder as valuable as
gold for all purposes, and for the special purpose of sus-
taining the banks, more valuable." And so much accom-
plished, the demand for coin in place of paper would cease.
This plan, it will be observed, does not diminish the
volume of currency beyond fifty millions (supposing that
it operates as predicted), and the special merit claimed for
it is that it does not, the stockholder asserting that there
is no more money afloat than the business of the country
demands, while it is not difficult to demonstrate that the
contraryis true. The scheme proposed is not,likeMrWal ker's,
a new one, but neither, we apprehend, is likely to be
adopted by the administration, at least for some time to
come. The New York stock market has been dull and
heavy during most of the week, as might be expected
along with the present scarcity of money. There was a
curious exception to the rule on Wednesday, when, not-
withstanding money was as tight as ever, New York Cen-
tral and most of the other stocks became suddenly buoyant.
The cliques have obtained possession of most of the lead-
ing stocks, in the expectation that there will be a specula-
tive furore and higher prices as soon as money is easier,
when, of course, they will be ready to "unload." Govern-
ment bonds have been weighed down heavily by the strin-
gency of the money market, and are a little lower than
they were a week ago. Many weak holders of stocks have
been obliged to sell bonds, but few shrewd investors,
however, are doing so, except upon compulsion, as it is
very evident that money will shortly be easier and bonds
higher. It is estimated that foreign houses are now
holding $20,000,000 in bonds, at New York, waiting for
the time when they can get better rates on their bills. The
foreign exchange market has been badly demoralized, and
is somewhat lower.—Gold is scarce and firm, but without
any marked advance in price. It has been reported that
$4,000,000 in specie is to be shipped at once from London
to New York, but the rumour is probably untrue, as such
an importation could not be made, at the present rates of
exchange without positive loss. It may be true, as
reported, that $1,000,000 in small coin has been shipped
from London for a New York house, in payment for
bonds, owing to the difficulty of settling bills against
the bonds, but this transaction must bo regarded as
exceptional. The receipts of specie at New York, last
week, amounted to $1,1199,945, but $809,060 of this
amount arrived from Hamburg one day and was shipped
for Havana the next. The exports from the same port for.
the week were $3,085,395 against $2,440,120 for the week
previous. The dry goods market has been much unsettled,
some styles of goods being scarce with an upward ten-
dency, while others have shown. a marked inclination the
other way. But wholesalers are hopeful of a steadier
and better condition of the market very soon, as the
spring trade has fairly begun. Unbleached shootings
and shirtings are half a cent lower with a chance for still
lower figures ; bleached are generally firmer, although the
less marketable styles are weak. The recent decline of a
cent a yard in prints has made buyers plenty and trade
lively, but the market has not been buoyant enough to war-
rant higher prices, and quotations are more likely to go
down than up. Desirable styles of ginghams are in fair de-
mand at steady prices. In otner uonrestie vuttoa fabrics
there is little noteworthy change. The importations. of
foreign goods in March wore very heavy, and the auction
rooms are crowded with them. The market, however,
is overloaded, and prices are inevitably going down. The
wool market is dull again, in sympathy with the goods
market, and while holders are very firm, manufacturers
are buying cautiously and only in such lots as their im-
mediate business demands. The cattle market is also
dull. Indeed dull is the word in all the markets this week
except the money market. The decline at Brighton and
Cambridge this week has been about half a cent a pound,
and trade was very backward, drovers selling their stack
with difficulty even at the concession.

Messrs. Drexel and Co., Philadelphia, report that on
April 2, the latest sales in Pennsylvania Railroad
Shares were 581 58} ; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 99} 99f ; 2d
Mortage, 944 941.

(From the Wall-street Journal.)
Friday Evening, April 2d, 1869.
Money continues very stringent, and borrowers on call
are compelled to pay seven per cent. in gold, with a com-
mission of 3-16ths to f per cent. on railroad and miscel-
celaneous collaterals, and seven per cent. in currency with
1-16th commission on Government bonds. We regret to
announce the failure of the old and ,well known firm
of L. and B. Curtis, importers of British and Continental
goods. This was one of the oldest and most respected
houses in the trade, and it is to be hoped that their em-
barrassments may prove but temporary. It is understood
that their liabilities are chiefly in France. Discounts aro
generally dull, with some sales of first-class acceptances
at 10 to 12 per cent. The gold market opened to-day at
132, and after some fluctuations closed at 131+. Foreign
exchange is dull and prime bills to-day are freely offering,
even below our quotations.
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Sixty Days. Three Days.
Londcn Bankers
1.61. e. n, Prime Commercial lO6l-107
Paris, Bankers 5 2Bf —5.221 5.23}-5.21}
Bremen, Bankers
Hamburgh, Bankers 34f —3sf
Frankfort, 0.3 f 39-40i
Berlin and Cologne
Antwerp 5.30 —5.25
Amsterdam, Bankers
Swiss
Quotations for specie:—
Amer. silver... 95 to 95/ I Eng. sous .....,486 to 489
Mox. dollars...lo3f „ 104 20 francs ........ 38 t „ 386
Eng. silver 480 ~ 485 Thalers ......... 71i „ 72
Five francs 951 „ 96f f

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Express Stocks are dull, but steady
Adams ... 571 to 58
American Merchants' Union 40i to 40
Do. Old Stock ... 15 to 15
- - -
United States ...

Wells, Fargo, and 56 to 56-
Co. ... ... ... .. 304 to 30,
In Miscellaneous Stocks a good business is doing in
Canton, Mariposa, Pacific Mail, and Union Telegraph:—
N. Y. Centra1.......,.... 1 9} Fort Wayne
Erie
Hudson .................. 1381 Atlantic Mail —
Reading
Mich. South. &N. 1.... 951 W. U. Telegraph
Illinois Central
Cleveland & Pittsbrg B6l Ohio and Mississippi... 321
North-West
North-West Preferred 931 Cumberland
Canton 59 Bankers and Brokers... 108
Rock Island
1271 M & St. Paul
Cleveland and Toledo 1,p61 IM & St. Paul Preferred 791

_ .. .
Government Bonds are lower on tho entire list, some of
.the weaker holders, in consequence of the severe strin-
gency, having been forced to realize ; the market, how-
ever, shows great firmness :
Sixes, 1861, registered ll5 to 115}
Sixes, 1881, coupon 3151 to 1151
Sixes, 1868, coupon .
U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad lO4 to 104{
Five-twenties, 1862, coupon
Five-twenties, 1864, coupon
Five-twenties, 1865, coupon
Five-twenties, 1855, coupon, new
Five-twenties, 1867, coupon
U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll2k to 112 k
Ten-forties, coupon .. lO5 to 105 k
Seven-thirties, 2d series to
...

Seven-thirties, 3d series — to
Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to
11411 road fiteoka, considering the 'state 0 the Money

Market, are generally strong,
Mortgages closed as follows :
N. Y.,Central 6; 1883 91
N. Y. Central 6; 1887
N. Y. Central 6s, R Est 871
N.Y. Central 6; Sub'n 871
N. Y. Central 7s, 1876
N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76
N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 —
Erie Ist Mort, Ex
Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 —
Erie 7a, 3d Mort, 1883 —
Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 B6
Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 —
Long Dock Bonds
Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M,'77 B7
Ilia R. 78, Ist M, '69_1001
Hud. R. 7s, 3d M, '75 100
Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 102
Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 -
Mich. new Ist M 85,'82 117
Mich. So., 7p. c. 2d M 94
N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B
Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 99
111. Cen. 7 p. e, '7O llB
Alton & T. H. let
Alton &T.IL 2d pfd 81
Alton & T. H. 2d M.lnc. 791
Han.&St.J. Lan dGrantslo2
Han. & St. J. Con ..... ll2
Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 111
Chi. & N. West, S. F 95
Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 9l
('hi. & N. W. Ex'n B —
The following notification has been published in Nor
York :—Erie Railway Company, Lessees—Notice is here-
by given, that the Coupons of the Pennsylvania and Ohio
First Mortgage Bonds of the Atlantic and Great Virestera
Railway Company, due on the Ist of April, 1869, will be
paid in cash on presentation at the office of the Erie Bail-
way Company in the city of New York. For the over-
due Coupons of First and Second Mortgage Bonds, First
Mortgage Bonds of the Boston, Hartford, and Erie,Railwal
Company, carrying seven per cent. interest, guaranteed bY
the Elie Railway Company, in sums of $l,OOO each, Will
be issued, and Scrip Certificates for sums of lesser amount-
-JAY GOULD, President Erie Railway Company, New
York, Mar•;h 80, 1869.

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and are not forced for aftle

Chi. & N. W. Ist M...... 91
Tol. & Wab. 2d M Es. 91,
Gt. Western 2d M '88... 781
Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M..
Gal. & Chic. Est .......... 90
Gal. & Chic. 2d M.........
Chi. & R. 1. Ist M.........
Chi. IL I. & Pacific 7'5... 93
Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund... ---,
N. J. Central Ist M...... 99Z
N. J. Central 2d M...... 89
Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist 31.
Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 2d M.
Pitts. Ft. W.. & Ch. 3d M. 91,.,
Cleve. & Pitts. 2d M
Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. 90
Chic. & Alton, S. E. lst3l.loli
Mil. & St. Paul Ist M... 89
Mil. & St.. Paul 2d M...
Marietta & Ist M... "
Morris & Essex Ist M... 100
Morris & Essex 2d M 90
Joliet & Chic. Ist 31... "",
Chi. & G t. East'n lstM...
N. Y. & N. 11. Gs ..... •••
Dubuque &S. Ci tv,lst M. 90
Peninsula Ist•M .........
Ohio & Miss. Ist
Ohio & Miss. C0n.........
Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D...
Atlantic & G. W. Ist 31.

We extract the following from Messrs. Satterthwaitg
and Co.'s Circular, of April 14, London :—ln United States
Government Bonds there has been an average amount of
business during the past week, and quotations have
slightly advanced on the lower rate of gold exchange re'
ported from New York. 5-20's of 1862 and 1865 have jai-
proved about per cent., while 10-40's and the 1867 issue
of 5-20's have not maintained the highest point totaled
during the week. The latter Bonds are now quoted on
the Official List of the Stock Exchange. Illinois Sharon
remain steady at 94 to 97, but Eries are flat at 231 to 24'
There was a marked decline in Atlantic and Great Western
Consolidated Bonds during the week, but on the announce-
ment to-day that the Erie Company are paying the coupons
of the first Mortgage Bonds maturing on April 1, there has
been an improved feeling, and they close 31 to 32. The
Divisional Bonds are entirely neglected. There has been
rather less doing in Sterling Railroad Bonds generally, but
Camden and Amboy Bonds have been inquired for, and the
market is cleared of all offering under 87. By the Sibe►'i.
our New York advices are to the 30th March. Govern"
ment Bonds were steady, but the increased demand Lot
money restricted the demand. State Bonds from the Wag
cause were generally quoted lower, while Railroad Sher°
were firm, and in some instances showed a slight improve'
ment. New York Central, Chicago and North Wester°'
and Rock Island being the most active.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—.Mr. Theodore
Tilton has returned to New 7c ork, after a succesful
lec-
turing tour.—The leading offices of the Freedmen's Buret°
have memorialized General Howard to withdraw his re-
signation, and to continue at the head of the Freedmen,g
Bureau till the department is abolished.—General Adel-
bert Ames has been appointed Assistant Freedirol
Bureau Commissioner for Mississippi, and General .1.
•
Reynolds Assistant Commissioner for Texas.—Marshall
0. Roberts has presented to the Central Park Conn't.
sioners Miss Stebbins' celebrated colossal statue of (s°-
lumbus.—Delmonico pays Moses H. Grinnell $27,500 6
year rent for his Fifth-avenue mansion in New York.'
Neal Dow is recommended by the Maine Congressmen fr
a foreign mission.—General Robert E. Lee has !at",
visited New England, and has returned to the South.'"
Tho late James Guthrie of Kentucky left an estate
$1,000,000. Ex-President Pierce has recovered sufficiently
to visit Boston. Benjamin Miller and Clay Matthews l'ref
committed for extradition at St. Catharine's, Cana'
March 27, on the charge of highway robbery in John°.:
town, New York.—Thomas S. Woods, editor of the OM"
Patriot, and a prominent local politician, died at Saleliij
r
Ohio, on Friday, March 26.—The death of Captain
A. Wise, of Virginia, at the Hotel de Rome, NaPle;
is announced. He was related to Governor Wf';',
of Virginia.—Mr. Longfellow and family have beet
stopping at the Hotel Tramontana, Sorrento, b"
are expected back in Naples immediately.—Adolphef
Rodewald, many years a member of the firm °
Rodewald and Winterhoff, died March 27, at his hell
New Brighten, Staten Island.—Plymouth church is s to
to bo raising a fund to enable Henry Ward Beecher ,
take a foreign tour.—A lady in Waterville, Maine, has r'„,
covered $1,611 from a physician, in law suit, for mAlPrate
tice in reducing a dislocated limb.—General Robert an;
derson contemplates a foreign tour.—The surplus precee
„e
of the Inauguration Ball are to be devoted to the pueehel,
of Clark Mill's statue of Lincoln.—Major W. M'Farlen,
Corps Engineers, has been assigned to the charge of the l"°
hour improvement of Lake Erie west of Cleveland, 011ie' i,
Mr. George Douglass died suddenly, March 29, at his .11111
dente, 35, West Sixteenth-street, New York, in the
year of his age. A. and E. Amos, leather dealers of ge'r
trial, Canada, have failed for a largo amount. Mr. Delo
lingame's Chinese Embassy, it is said, will make grand
tour to Berlin, St. Petersburgh, Stockholm, Spain, And
Italy. Judge S. W. Brockway, a prominent lawyer e
politician of California, died at San Mateo, March 2°'
The Rev. Ambrose O'Neil died at Albany, March 28' )f
The Hon. Thomas C. Acton, President of the Board
Police Commissioners, has returned from the Snutbto
New York.—The President has nominated Emil
.`', il ffit
chester to be Consular Agent at Bremen.—The Presidia,
has nominated George Earle First Assistant Postmasthete
General, vice Gen. Skinner.—J. Townsend Connolly, boo
son of the Comptroller, of New York, is announce
the engaged list, and is to be married early
to a Miss Oxnard of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. ,n5l
Fire Marshal Baker announces that the total '",O
fires in New York, for the month of March, 1!0%
$427,850, an increase of $154,000 over the losses clorloi
the month of February.—The Hon. Benjamin F. Wndiedg
Ohio has written very warmly in reply to an adur-el
from the National Executive. Committee of Colonlie
Men. He says nothing has given him so much Prrise,
and satisfaction as their appreciation of his eeu Di 9
—Commodore Thornton A. Jenkins has resigned, be
office as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. He will
assigned to other duty.—David Clark, of Hartford, ity,
necticut, after a personal inspection of Howard Univers
has given $25,000 towards its endowment.—Richer did
d
Wood, ono of the oldest merchants in Philadelphia, r,
on the Ist inst. Ho was 70 years of age.—Harrisealti,
Turner, aged 51 years, a commission merchant of 13epi0
more, committed suicide on the Ist inst, by cuttings,/
throat with a razor. Tho cause was business misfortune tee
The Memphis Common Council has appointed a Comiel,ore
of Arrangements for the reception of ex-President John'ive
—Governor Morton, on account of illness, has been he
able to be present in the Senate for two days. pig
Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge is seriously ill at 004
home in Danville, Kentucky. General The ea
recently had a purse of $lOO,OOO tendered him and retnoe 1,4
it. —The Buffalo man who made the $2OO pair of ev;io
for the President now swings a sign, " Bootmaker t 0 et,
Excellency r. S. Grant."—By direction of the Presf"tee
Brevet Major-General George Stoneman, Colonel e'
21st United States Infantry, is relieved from the temp 'aer
command of the First Military District, and will sec:fie
pany his regiment to the Military Division of the pas„ie,
—J. Tobens has arrived at Washington from St. Donll,-s./
with power to annex that Republic to the United Stal: tee
John W. Johnson, Esq., recently appointed Judge e`
Abingdon District, is not a brother of General JO5-I,je
E. Johnston. He is a nephew of the general. Dig'
Raymond is at Washington working up Tracy fel; Ale
trict Attorney.—Ex-Congressman Tom. Stewart is the
there pressing Inspector Dilks for the MarshalshiP,a °
Southern District.—Mr. Foster Blodgett, suspen",„ 0
the late Administration from the Postmastersuir
Augusta, Georgia, has been re-instated.
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