New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-09

l.t Mortgage have beea sold 7e aso and Ohio
and est Rather more attention has been directed
.Ssn Raifosd Securities and their prices rather irmsr
III rr,redins together with the inos Central and the Mlc
@ ssI sre nearly the only Rairuad Securities 10 which
sny transactions hsys taken place IL almost impossible 70
snd rark: the Bonds Of unfinished Railroads any price,
I'VE have exceedingly dry and backward season tn.
q Brsduf. rather einsd nam 70 sdy,nGe It i not
OF abundant supply Of food aPpsreni
az important debate the result Of which will be
pledge the active prosecution Of the
syOr of which the feeling OF the country strongly man
fes,ed.n
The sales of lands by the Illinois Central R.iIrosd
Company amount to sl25 900 for the first five days in
June.
The London correspondent of The Commercial says:
GA case which has lately transpred in the CONNER
cial world is attracting great attention. About year
ago a firm named Davidson * Gordon failed for
$500 O00 and il was discovered that for long time
tbey had been obtaining advances the security of
fictitious warrants for imported produce deposited at
London wharf. They Immediately abseonded, but
were subsequently, captured at Malta and
derCong a criminal examination. Among their credi-
tors are the great firm of Overend Quincy & Co. for
about & 90 600 and in the of the proceedings
il has ranspired that this house made acquainted
with the delinquency of Davidson and Gordon By the
personal confession of one of these persons some
months before their open failure and That neverthe-
less they had kept il secret, Davidson & Gordon hav
ing pretended to them that If allowed to go on they
would be able TO recover themselves through the prof
Ne OF large OlrullerN IN WHICH Iney were eOghgel.
1t is contended that owing to Messrs. Overend Cur
ney g. Co. having neglected their duty of Immediately
breaking them up other persons have subsequently
sustained severe losses and although the reproach to
which the Overends appear to have rendered them
selves liable falls chiefly upon one member of the
house, (Mr. Cbapman) by whom the arrangements
with Davidson d Gordon we're conducted, they all OF
course share in it, and is not easy to estimate
the severity of the remarks upon the subject which
now current in all the leading mercantile circles"
Anagent, we hear, has been appointed by Califor
MIA present the vouchers for and receive the appro
pration made by Congress for the payment of the
war debt of that State. The holders of the debt
are anxiously waiting to receive their money. The
agent we understand, is of her Members of Con-
gress.
The assessment on Gold Hill Mining Stock has been
very generally paid The default, it is understood
win not exceed 10000 shares The advices frora the
mine are very favorable.
As considerable amount of Texas debt il held in
this City, we for the information Of readers
an official statement made up at the Controllers Office
the LIST May 1885, of the portion of the debt OF the
late Republic of Texas which according to the decision
of the Secretary of the Treasury and the opinion of
the Attorney General of the United States is secured
by pledge of Impost Duties exhibiting the rate of
adjustment established by Texas and the rate proposed
by the recent act of the United States Congress. Also
compared with the other and the dividend in the dol
lar on the ostensbe amounts realized by each mode
of adjustment: