The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOND')N, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1869.

"true construction of the Act of Parliament was that two
:judges should sit during the whole time ; and this not
:having been done, he contended that Madame Rachel
..,.1307:a DT,,TURT:ANCES :N T:Y: ::;:--i,!-,1:-AN:-,,.
-bad been wrongly convicted, there being this error upon
p ace the ibae,, ;,_ ~ :,. e,,,ren
A riot has taken 1 in '-' ' ' •''''
the record.
hi:Ale-Set Dutch and Belgian workmen. 'l it, ,atr er hive
The Solicitor-General said before their lordships consi shown themselves willing to work for low wace's, and the
dered their verdict he wished to intimate that as the Dutch accordingly resolved to drive them out of ttw
Central Criminal Court sat on Monday, it would be con. country. A detachment of 300, armed with divers tools,
ve:aient to have a decision on the second objection, viz., NAVAL AND MILITARY ITEMS.
at. the Belgian men in their quarters, but th - latts,r,
th 3 right of division of the jurisdiction of the courts. The Army and Navy Gazette says that the inten-
outnumbered, prudently retired. Several men were, •
The Lord Chief Justice said they had come to the con- bon of appointing Rear-Admiral Loring to Ports-
however, wounded, but the information of the Arenir mouth dockyard is abandoned, and that a successor
cl asion that the Central Criminal Court might sit and Nationale,to the effect that five had been killed, is not con- to Rear-Admiral Wellesley will probably be found
ivide itself as it had done heretofore, and therefore Mr. firmed, not very far from Whitehall. The same paper
commissioner Kerr bad not been superseded by any A SCLAVONIAN CONSPIR ACY. believes that it is not true that Sir Edward
statutory enactment. They, however, reserved the point According to intelligence received by the Posen Journal, Wetherall le--,s relinquished his command to take
whether he could sit when the Sheriff's Court, of which the Rus_sian Government has discovered the existence of comteand of a division in India. The Broad Arrow
,he was judge, had not been abolished. a widespread Sclavonian conspiracy. The object of this states that Lord Clarence Paget, Commander-in-Chief
-.7. plot is the establishment of a Sclavonian Federal Republic, of the Mediterranean squadron, struck his flag on the
with Moscow, Warsaw, Wilna, and Kiew for its capitals. 28th, and left Malta for England vie Naples.
These cities are at such distances that the territory LITERARY NEWS.
A letter in the Manchester Guardian sny3:—" It is useless (includine• them would comprise the greater part of Russia The old-establlcd publishing business of Virtue
I
Europe. Many arrests have been made. and. Co., including St. Paul's Alaca.:ine, but not the
to deny that alarm, always contagious and sure to be can ,!,
TIIE " ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION" IN EG ITT. Art Journal, is to be transferred to one of the
,
gerated ~,y political feeling, pervades the proprietary class
There can now be no doubt that the attempt to assaFe
-who are connected v. ith Ireland. One instance has come•
youngest, and quite the
.most energetic, of the
to. my knowledge of a Roman Catholic, of noble family, sinate the Viceroy of Egypt was a complete farce. The London publishing firms, Messrs. Strahan. This
firm, it will be remembered, lately bought the copy-
director of the theatre found the Government subvention
v.-110, having purchased in the Encumbered Estates
right of Mr. Temr-son's works for a large sum.
too small to keep his
.head above water, and he therefore
Court some property, which is situated in ono of
determined to increase it by earning a reward for "saving The relation between the two houses has long been
the disturh.d counties, has for some time leen laying out very close.
the Viceroy. The bomb and its admirable
a large sum of money in improvements. Last year ho gave life "of the
s
notice to quit to a tenant of a small grass frm which arrangements under the Viceroy's chair wa only
ho wished to include in his park. The man has been in -con-
a plot to be revealed by the plotter. The
director himself carried out all the details, and NATIONAL SPORTS.
—___„----4,
sequence dispossessed, and the life of the proprietor has been The last day of the Newmarket First Spring Meeting
threatened in such a manner that his family have insisted on so completely did he arrange the mise en sane that presented one or two noteworthy incidents. The most im-
the danger of an accident converting the plot into a portant event, the Newmarket Stakes, throws rather a curious
Lis rdinauishing the idea of a residence in Ireland."
reality was by no means slight. light on the Two Thousand running. Standard Bearer was
THE IRISH LAND LAWS DEBATE, last but one on Tuesday, beaten at least 100 yards from
Tasman ; but he defeated this horse in the Newmarket
Undoubtedly the two subjects which now require
Stakes, though odds were laid upon Tasman. Blueskin's
the gravest attention of Parliament and the country easy triumph for the £2OO plate made iEgean a firmer favou-
are the Alabama claims and the state of Ireland. rate for the Chester Cup, a trial between these two having
The latter was before the House of eommons on proved very favourable to YEgean. The Field fears that
Friday night, and forms the topic of the principal Tasmani,he nothingoeixstev
t
leaders in the journals. No one can be surprised produce
ofn importancefield
ofi
about 18, of whom psix hivee
race may prod
that the subject was pressed on the attention of the been distinctly established ahead of the rest as the leading
Government; but the Daily News charges the favourites. These are Paul Jones, the winner of the Cup
Opposition—unjustly we cannot but think—with last year, "Egean, Knight of the Garter, St. Mungo, Romp-
using the subject simply- for the purpose of ing Girl, and Fairwiud. Up o Friday
tevening ./El gfean
firsthad
at Jones
to
iin delaying the Church Bill. The Times, on the other a
hand, not only justifies the debate, but demands a
.placeslig lint advantage betting,
beingau l Uu'tetlsietrynogugnegeorrhorse
proveda little upon this figure in consequence of Blue-
positive statement of what the Government intend sein's easy victory. Nothing came near these two. Knight
to do. Individual members of the Ministry may give of the Garter stood at 7to 1, but though backers would
their opinion, but what is wanted is a concrete policy. have accorded support at a point more, they. could
not obtain it. . Mungo nnd Romping Girl re
The Spectator is very severe on Mr. Bright for giving
each at 9 to ISt and Fairwind at 10 to 1. The
out that he had a scheme in embryo :
training reports are favourable in the cases of all these
" This curious and irregular independence of his chief horses. The owner of Paul Jones has declared himself
on one of the most delicate and difficult questions of the quite satisfied with what the horse is doing, and he himself
day must, we should fear, lead to misunderstanding, if appears perfectly sanguine as to the result. No horse could
not disputes, in the Government. Mr. Bright always be doing better than the JEgeati. During most of the week
feels too little of the sense of corporate responsibility he has been led by Distaff in two- mile gallop~, accornpaniod
belonging to his station, and of the loyalty which a col- occasionally by Birthday. With his very light weight it is
league owes to a leader." believed that he can scarcely lose. Knight of the Garter is
The question whether the land-laws have led to the also doing well. Of Romping Girl the Sportsman says:—
disturbances and the general insecurity of the The account,stteiNivhich reach us of this filly aro of
country is still fiercely debated. Quite a discussion the
e mostbeen flattering
ou,
1h duringo.(escriptio the
n. Fromlaat the
week l v oorrk
two sh e
has
has beets taking place in Ireland as to whether the . she is evidently " meant," and the public may rest
murder of Mr. Bradshaw was agrarian or not. assured that her owner will leave nothing untried that will
Leaving this out of the question, the Derry riots are secure success. Fairwind is in comparatively quiet train-
distinctly religious ; the murder of Mr. Anketell has ing, and little is known of his doings, but the reports
no reason assigned, and he was not a land- speak ,/e3ll of him. The statement that Dalby has broken
lord. The Mayor of Cork makes no re-
down is not correct.lt may be taken for certain that he is
tbe selected horse of the stable.
ference to the land-laws, but deatands sepa- . Of these competitors the Field pronounces in favour of
rate nationality, and the general feeling of mis- 2Egean and Knight of the Garter. Mandrake, it thinks,
trust may be in part ascribed to panic, caused by so - will be beaten by Fairwind, who may put in an appearance
many sad events happening in the same week. amongst tiheleeasderst. S. Mungo, too, commands the Field's
Underlying all this, however, there can be no doubt I,.l,BV(i'zvetr.d" thinksp°rthastmla).nsulnJaokneess ithe
v esrayne favourably selection.
treated. llhe
that the le ws of property are much disliked. There age is literally 'chucked' into the handicap, and ow Mr.
is a universal feeling that they must be altered. Topham let off with 7st 91b an animal that cantered away
THE YOUGIIAL WRIT. with the race last year, and afterwards, when heavily backed,
ran second for the St. Leger, I cannot imagine. 'On paper,'
The proposition of the Government to issue a new the race appears a gift for hies, and yet two three year olds
writ for the borough of Government
was opposed by i who have been overlooked. may prevent him from repeating
several Liberals. Those who voted against the the 1);:117 and
chance,Le anbn,n,igota
ttreitiimphs." The YEgean.rhas
Motion were Mr. A. H. Brown, Mr. H. Campbell, '
d%aycapwtlio ran second in tUleAl(3itvbetatenrd thsannhußrhtihn.
Captain Cholmeley, Mr. Dilke, Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. I The Sportsman, therefore, goes in for IE-4' can and Knight of
Fawcett, Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, Hon. H. W. the Garter, and with all respect for Paul Jones selects St.
Fitzwilliam (Wicklow), Mr. W. Fowler, Sir Henry Mungo for a place. ,
Hoare, Sir Wrilfrid Lawson, Hon. C. G. Lyttelton For
friendless
,Derby,eaa at P 3 rteotetn derT is the favourite, Pero Gomez
Mr. Marling, Mr. Monk, Mr. Morrison, Mr. Steven-
beingrl was. 1,000 to 400 against p r
o highestten doeffre r 3 ot no 1 c
0; Cambridged o ot
son, and Sir David Wedderburn. The majority was platformlDe had ; 3to 1 would not be taken about Pero Gomez. But
composed entirely of Liberals. Mr. Glyn and Mr. more sensational have been the proceedings in connection
Adam acted as tellers for the Ayes, and Mr. Collins with Belladruni. He was laid against at 20 to 1 inttn, -
and Mr. Raikes for the Noes. diately after the Two Thousand, but he very speedily came
down to one-fourth that price. On Tuesday night he was
backed for all the money obtainable down to 9 to 1, and
next day he was so heavily supported at 8 and 7 to 1 that
' a "monkey" was in one case invested at 6to 1. A point
less was after wards taken to at least £4,000; but after this
the opposition broke out strongly, and ho has since receded.
The Field still believes in his chance for the great race.

MISCI;GLANEOUS NEWS.

IRISH TERRORISM.

THE FIJI CANNIBALS.

The following is an extract from a letter dated upper
Rewa River, Fiji, -January 18, 1869:—"There has been a
dreadful outbreak with the natives and two white men
who I two a large plantation about seventy miles from ns.
The natives have burnt .£5,000 worth of cotton, killed a half-
caste boy twelve years of age, belonging to one of thou, and
ate him, killed and ate five horses, stole .£5OO worth of pro-
perty, killed four labourers (Sandwich mon)belonging to
the white men, cooked them, and, as a mark of contempt,
gave the bodies to the pigs to eat. They afterwards killed
and ate all their pigs, poultry, /cc. ; and anything they could
not use they broke up and throw into the river. They have
totally ruined Messrs. Burt and Underwood. Tho boy they
ate belonged to the last named."

ANOTHER FRENCH POISONING CASE.

Another remarkable poisoning case has just been tried
by the Assizes of the Marne. The following is an outline
of the affair:—ln 1852 Mdlle. Louise Lebobe was married
to M. Jean Baptist Brissot, a well-to-do agriculturist.
Shortly after the nuptials the wife took a great dislike to
her husband, probably owing to the great disparity of
their ages, she being only 16, while he was getting on for
40. One or two children, however, were born, and it
was not until 1866 that the family of both parties
discovered the irregular conduct of Madame Brissot.
At this epoch it was discovered that she was too intimate
with the tutor, who came to the house to teach her
daughter music. From that moment she appears to have
decided on getting rid of her husband, which praiseworthy
object she succeeded in effecting by giving him chocolate
mixed with sulphate of copper. M. Brissot died on the
23rd May, 1863, in the most fearful agony. The doctors
suspected nothing, and he was buried. Having disposed
of her husband and inherited what fortune remained,
she determined on giving her uncle his quietus, in
order to come into his property. She theiefore sent
her sister-in-law a box of dragees (sweetmeats), accom-
panied by a letter, in which she said : " The moment has
arrived. I shall feel greatly obliged if you will give these
bonbons to M. Lebocq ; they will do him so much good."
It is hardly necessary to state that these sweetmeats con-
tained the same delicate mixture as had sent M. Brissot
to his tomb. Fortunately, however, the suspicions of the
family had been aroused, and the bonbons were
destroyed. A riunion de fa»zille took place, and
it was decided not to accuse Widow Brissot
publicly, in consequence of the disgrace it would
entail on the family name. The affair, however, oozed
out, notwithstanding all the care bestowed on keeping it
secret. The guilty widow decamped to Switzerland, and
after spending the money she had inherited from her
poisoned husband, returned to France, and was taken into
custody on the 22nd January last. At the trial she stoutly
protested her innocence, and preserved a sang-froid
remarkable even in a woman of 32 years. The jury, how-
ever, found her guilty, and she has been sentenced to
death. •

MR. ROEBUCK ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Mr. Roebuck has changed his opinion on one
question. lle cannot say with justice that he is the
same now as he was when younger in all political
points. He has admitted that he now regards the
House of Lords in a very different light from what he
did formerly. The Eastern Post reports a speech of
his, given attheLondon University College Debating
Society. The question to be discussed was "Is an
Hereditary House of Legislature desirable." The meet-
ing was evidently disposed to vote in the negative. Mr.
Roebuck, however, came to the defence of the Legis-
lative Chamber he has so often assailed. He said he
thought the House of Lords as perfect as any human
institution could be; his long experience had taught
him that the Peers invariably acted with clearness,
dignity, justice, and impartiality, and that if we
aut,,,rte.a
~eatus• Quo, we should raise
a devil it would be found impossible to quell. It
was true that in earlier years he had said bitter
things of the House of Lords, but his long
life had taught him that he had been
wrong, and he bitterly regretted what he had said.
Mr. Roebuck seems to love " independence" for its
own sake, and not for the sake of the truth. 'Which-
ever way the majority takes, that way the late
member for Sheffield eschews. 'While most people
were for retaining the hereditary principle, Mr. Roe-
buck was its bitterest opponent. Now when the
greatest Tories are allowing a reform to be made
without opposition, Mr. Roebuck opposes it. Is this
a cruel fate, or is Mr. Roebuck wilfully fond of
opposition ?

A CHAMPION OF WOMAN'S 11GH7'S.

A murder, as deliberate as ever perpetrated, was
committed on Saturday, the 10th April, at Jarretts-
♦ille, Maryland. Nicholas M'Comas had ridden to
that town from Bellair to attend a meeting of a
militia company, and he was standing with some
companions at the back porch of a bar-room, when
n Miss Cairns rode up and dis,nounting fastened
horse securely ; then she entered the ladies' apart •
anent, where she removed her riding-skirt and al
that would encumber her movements, when At
walked through the crowd in the bar-room to within
ten paces of where M'Comas was standing, and
raising her hand, in which was a revolver, fired at
him with careful aim. Struck in the breast by Oft
bullet, he reeled against a pillar supporting the
porch, when she as deliberately fired two more
shots, while he, clasping the pillar, endeavoured to
sustain himself, but, fainting from the loss of blood,
fell, though neither of the other shots had taker
effect. Miss Cairns on this walked directly up, and
fired the two remaining bullets into his body. She
then, with the revolver in her band, passed through
the paralysed throng to the ladies'apartment, where,
as if engaged in the most ordinary occupation, she
resumed her riding-habit, mounted her horse, and
cantered home. Mr. Jarret rode after her, and on
his coming up she asked if M'Comas was dead
On receiving an affirmative answer, she re-
marked, without showing the least signs of regret,
that she had told him what she was going to do. It
appears that Miss Cairns had been seduced by
M'Comas over a year before under a promise of
marriage, which she had in vain importuned him to
keep. Last January she gave birth to a child
whose misfortune it now is to have its mother the
murderer of its father for the crime of its own ille-
gitimacy. Some time ago a suit for breach of pro-
mise was brought by the lady against M'Comas ;
but she did not give it time to come on for trial.
Both parties moved in a good social circle, the
woman being about 30 years of age and the man
about 37. On the day following the deed she gave
herself up to the authorities, satisfied, we presume,
as she has good reason to know, that public opinion
would sustain her. In Hartford county the excite-
ment is high, and, of course, on the side of the lady

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What " Rights" women in America can require
that they have not got it is difficult to imagine, as
they can with impunity do " any mortal thing."
The only woman that we know of who has ever come
to grief is Mrs. Surratt, and the nation never ceased
to deplore it, and to lay the blame on the head of
that universal scape-goat, Andrew Johnson. There
is something brutal beyond expression in the cold-
blooded cruelty with which the murderess walked
up to her victim to empty a revolver into his body,
and in the deliberate, unrelenting way in which the
crime was perpetrated. Considering that she will
only excite public compassion, have a subscription
raised for her, and be made the heroine of the day,
she ran little danger in an act which, as ber hate
was cold-blooded and her nerve strong, was easy
of accomplishment.

General Butler is sometimes called " Spoons."
This we have long known, but we did not know he had
any particular objection to being called spoons. It ap-
pears, however, that a woman clerk employed in the
Treasury had the folly as well as the impropriety to term
that influential leader of the dominant party "spoons" as
she was leaving a car in the Pennsylvania-avenue, in
which Butler was seated. Her words were, " Look out
for your spoons," which had the singular effect of making
Butler look out for her, for he immediately followed her,
tracing her home, when he discovered she was a clerk,
and she was at once discharged from the Treasury, and to
fill up her cup ho got her place supplied by a negress.
It is just possible, unless she has a father or brother
employed in a Government office, she will employ
the rest of her life in shouting spoons after him, for
if she could not refrain with an office to los., it is reason-
able to suppose that she will now thus indulge herself,
unless other means are used to achieve the Herculean task
of stopping a woman's tongue. The course we would re-
commend the lady to pursue is to qualify, and if Mr.
Jeockes' Reform Bill pass( s she may recover her place in
spite of the General.

It is now a law in New York that any man
who will keep and maintain a public watering trough
on the highway shall have an abatement of $3 from his
taxes.

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MONEY AND BUSINESS.

persons to buy more things. The third point is that
foreign nations are evidently coming for money while
they can get it. They see that the end of the full (From the Springfield Republican, April 17 .)
time is come, and they are not sure but that a scarce The money market at New York has been fluctuating
time may soon supervene. Accordingly they think and uncertain during the week, but the general and on-
they will come while they have yet a chance, and mistakable tendency is towards lower rates and greater
before a more difficult period renders borrowing by a abundance of loanable funds. To prevent this situation
qumtionable Government impracticable.
combinations of operators have been twice effected, within
the last few days, which have produced an artificial strin-
gency and a scarcity of money. The unnatural result
existed however but for a few hours, only long enough
to prove the inevitable course of the market and the im-
possibility of resisting it. Money is flowing into Wall-street
from the West, and the increased activity in the late spring
trade will swell the accumulation. The great outlet for
! money at the present time is in the South. and it is esti-
mated that within the last few months that section of the
country has drawn horn all portions of the North over
fifty millions in greenbacks. Politically as well as finan-
• cially this is most desirable, for the money has gone South
to stay, and a great portion of it, ultimately, to the
pockets of the freedmen and labourers who raised the
crops for whielt it was paid. The demand from the South
has lately been chiefly made on the Now York market,
and the recent statement (April 10) of the banks of that
city shows the effects of the movement—they now hold
in excess of their legal reserve only $5,913,010 against
$14,814,221 a year ng.). The South prefers greenbacks
to national notes, and until some plan for the redistribu-
tion of the currency is perfectei will probably retain this
preference. The Bost on money marketresponds closely t) the
situation at New York, while at the West there is an un-
usual ease, and Chicago reports, for a wonder, more money
than sufficient to meet the legitimate demands. In Cin-
cinnati, however, there is greater stringency and greater
still in New Orleans. The public funds have been firm
and advancing, though the business in them has nut been
large. The foreign houses are ready buyers, an 1 cannot
meet their orders. Although the Senate has rejected, 51
I to 1, the arrangement which Reverdy Johrson called his
Alabama treaty, Five-twenties advanced in London on the
reception of the news, and there is no prospect that the
foreign demand for our securities will be diminished.
Wednesday's steamer at New York from Liverpool brought
a large quantity of five-twenty interest coupons for collet-
, tion, and it is said that the greater portions of their pro-
ceeds will be immediately re-invested in securities of the
United States. Secretary Boutwell has ordered the
anticipation of the July coupons on a "rebate" of six
per cent. interest only on interest not yet due being.
deducted. The plan does not, however, seem to work
very extensively. Hardly a " baker's dozen" of heavy
bondholders have thus far applied at the Boston sub-
treasury for their interest in advance, and in New
York, up to the beginning of business Wednesday morn-
ing, the assistant treasurer had disbursed on account
of the May interest only $332,446.08, on which the amount
saved to the Government by rebate amounted to but
$1,305.67. The situation of the gold market and its pro-
spects for the future are supposed to produce this reluct-
ance of the bondholders to receive their interest in ad-
vance. The improbability that gold will be lower than
at present, or less than 130 before July 1, renders the
holders of coupons more desirous to hold ea and receive
the full amount of their interest. The gold market does
not relax, and the range of its quotations has been higher
than for the first week in the mouth. A sharp stock-job-
bing trick by the bulls on Saturday, which involved the
credit of the Bank of New York, produced considerable
excitement in the market, and gold advanced 1 to 11 per
cent., but the effect was only temporary, and on Monday
morning things were in their normal condition. The ex-
ports of specie for the past week were light, $326,350,
while the imports were much larger. The City of Brooklyn,
from Liverpool, Monday, delivered $1,400,000, and the
Java, from the same port, Wednesday, $llO,OOO. It is
said that still larger amounts are to come, and that not
less than seven millions in gold is now on its way to
our shores. In spite of these receipts, however, cash
gold still continues scarce, and the expected decline
in price is not realised. There is a loud clamour at
New York that the Secretary of the Treasury should
sell some or all of the large amount of gold, which
he now has on hand in the Treasury vaults, amount-
ing to more than a hundred million of dollars, but
he shows no indications of such action. The Govern-
ment receipts will pay its current expenses, and Mr Bout-
well is known to be in favour of applying this balance to
the purchase and cancellation of Government bonds,
without the intervention of the greenback or currency
medium. The effect of such an action on the public secu-
rities would be immediate, and some guessers interpret
the increasing price of Five-twenties of 1862 as an indi-
cation that the Secretary is about to put his theory into
practice. The exports to foreign countries continue light,
while the imports are enormous. The total at New York
for this week foots up neatly $8,000,000, or about double
those for the corresponding week last year. The stock
market has had an up and down motion for the last few
days, and at the latest dates, with the exception of the
Vanderbil t'roads, the tendency of the speculation seemed
to be generally upward. The uncertainty of the action
of the New York Legislature upon the extensive issue of
80 per Cent. Certificates on the Central stock, last fall,
and the report that the legalizing Act has been linked
with that of the Broadway Railroad Bill, and that both
will fail, depressed the Central on Wednesday, and the
Hudson River and Harlem subsided with it. The prospect,
in spite of the report, is still good, that soma way will yet
be found by which the sharp practice of the directors will
be legally con firmed, and full possession of the spoils insured
to the ring. The stock of the shore roads front Buffalo to
Chicago was helped by a report which is credited in the best
informed circles that all the muds now composing the line
from Buffalo via Erie, Dunkirk, Cleveland and Toledo to
Chicago will be consolidated under the general title of the
Lake Shore Railway. The stocks of all the components
will go in at their par value, ntakiug the aggregate capital
$53,000.000. Consolidation of the New York Central,
Harlem, and Hudson hiver —a union which has long vir-
tually existed, is also:talked of. The Cincinnati, Hamilton,
and Dayton (0.) Road having backed out of its lease of
its line to the Erie, and thus deprived the latter of its
terminus at Cincinnati and southern connections, the Erie
has advertised for proposals to construct an independent
line from Dayton to Cincinnati, 60 miles, and threatens to
begin operations immediately. Fisk and Gould are also
reported to threaten Mr. S. S. L'Hommedieu, president of
the Hamilton and Dayton Road, with a suit for $1,000,000
damages for not keeping his contract with them, but the
Cincinnati papers recommend the railroad Napoleons
to think twice before beginning either their new line
from Dayton or their suit for damages. Both would
probably cost a good deal and amount to very little.
Pending the settlement of the quarrel, the Erie enters Cin-
cinnati by the Little Miami road, the narrow gauge rival
of the Hamilton and Dayton, and on the other side of the
city. Western railroad stocks are generally strong, and
the miscellaneous market tends in the same direction.
Mariposa preferred and Western Union telegraph are mak-
ta
hn e Int
hynt
e o
,rl
y beena mak-
ing the most decided advances. The season is still back-
ward in the dry goods market and there is considerable
xriee sell,
alwhich
falling
d e descriptions
crhioapffst beenionn ps
r o i
fcg
prices,
s cottonn, ebr generally
and woollen
lt
an
n takenadvantageimprovement
goods i
of. s
hoped for,as
as the depression is considered the result of
temporary causes. The flour and wheat market has also
been unsettled and fluctuating in consequence of advises
from Europe, and prices are generally lower. Cotton is
heavy with a decline of prices in the northern markets
and an advance at the South. The cattle markets at
Brighton and Cambridge had a better feeling than for
several weeks, but at New York the supply was greatly
in excess of the demand and the decline was fully 25c. per
hundred.
The New York Tribune reports as follows: -Friday,
April 16, p.m—The Gold market was higher on an active
demand for cash gold for delivery. The opening transac-
tions were made at 1321, with sales at 1331, closing 1371
bid. Cash gold loaned as high as 1-16 per cent., the ave-
rage rate was 1.32 per cent. for the use of coin. The
clearings at the Gold Exchange Bank were $50,895,000,
and the balance $1,125,650 18. The payments on ac-
count of the May interest amounted to $50,189 73. Go-
vernment Bonds were strong and active, with:a goad de-
mand from the German bankers ; '62s sold at 1201; the
new bonds sold at 1151. This is the highest price ever
made. There was a good borrowing demand for bonds,
'62s loaning flat, and '678 at 6 to 7 per cent. interest for
carrying. The market closest strong and active, but with
few bonds offered at quotations. State bonds were higher.
New Tennessee 6 per cents. sold at 664; North Carolina
6 per cents., 611 ; new bonds, 541; Missouri 6 per cents.,
864 ; Virginia New 6 per cents., 60. Railway bonds were
firm at quotations. Western Union Telegraph was strong
at 411 to 411; Mariposa sold at 221; Mariposa Preferred,
391. Pacific mail was active, with heavy transactions.
The opening sales were made at 921, with sales at 941 to
934, closing at 941; Mariposa Trustees' certificates are
offered at 68, including the accrued interest at 10 per cent.
pet annum since Ist of July, 1868. The holders of these
certificates (of which there aro about $3,000,000 issued in
exchange for Mariposa bonds) are the real owners of the
Mariposa estate and must receive 10 per cent. per annum,
beside leaving 5 per cent. more in the Treasury, before
any dividend can be paid on the Preferred stock. If the
interest on the certificates should remain unpaid for two
years from last July, the taustees have the right to sell
property and apply the proceeds toward the redemption
of the certificates at par and accrued interest, before
anything can be paid on the stock. Express shares
States,
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64. Railway shares were buoyant, with a continued de-
n.and from operators for an advance. The desire to buy
was general, and prices showed an improvetnent. New
York Central sold at 1631, Hudson 150, Harlem 145, Read-
ing 94, Michigan Southern, 93/, Teeedo and Wabash 721,
Toledo and Wabash Preferred 80, St. Paul Common 80, St.
Paul Preferred 861, Fort Wayne 132„ Ohio and Missis-
sippi Common 33/, uleveland and Pittsburgh 911, Lake
Shore 99, Rock Island 1381. The market continued buoy-
ant until just previous to the 1 o'clock Board, when there
was a sudden decline in New York Central to 161, which
had the effect of depressing prices from f to 1 per cent. on
the general list. The transactions in Erie continue to be
light, the price was 33/ to 331. At the 1 o'clock Board the
market was lower, declining 1 to 11 per cent., from the
highest prices of the day. At the decline there was an
active clausal At the close the market was Oro* the