Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-21
New York correspondence.

NEW YoAK, Feb. 20, 1882
General Sam Houston delivered lecture last
evening the subject being the American In
dams" before large and respectable audience,
at Niblo's Theatre. He WAS listened TO with great
attention. Interspersed in the lecture were many
anecdotes given of personal experience in frontier
life. At the conclusion three cheers were pro-
posed to the first President of Texas, which were
responded to with much enthusiasm. voice
cried, three cheers for Sam for the next Presi-
DENT which were given with enthusiastic APP
plause.
Miss Coutts, the lady who has been following
Mario in his professional tour in this country it is
said, will not return to Europe at present. but she
intends to remain with us for some time, with a
view to learn something of our institutions. Mario
and Grsi win positively leave tomorrow in the
steamer Atlantic for Liverpool.
At the Academy of Music, last evening, COM
menced the opera season, under the management
of Ole Bull, but the attendance was not what was
generally expected, the audience being very small.
The performers, however, were well received, and,
considering the many other attractions, it may be
set down as fair attendance.
having refused to send back the Belgian criminals,
an attempt viii be made to procure their release
from prison on writ Of habeas corpus. This it Is
said, the Mayor viii resist and if he cannot pro-
cure the cooperation of the commissioners of en-
igration, he will send these criminals back at the
expense of the city.
An engagement with Mile. Rachael to visit the
United States has been signed at Paris. She is to
receive 81, 200 for each representation and is en-
gagged for two hundred entertainments. 100000
francs have been deposited with her banker in
Paris, and in case Of fatal accident this sum re-
verts to her family
BY the eighth annual report, just issued, it is
stated that the average plumber of pupils attend
ing the evening schools in this city during the past
year, is over 1900. This is much the largest
number in attendance since the commencement of
these schools
Accompanying the new catalogue Of books just
published by D. Appleton & Co., are some inter-
esting Notes and Items" from which the follow
ing facts are taken: The number of authors in
the catalogue is ITS, about onethird being Amer
lean; the different works amount to 8,24l and
taking only one copy of each amount to 19,301
volumes the estimated value of which is $40, 30l.
valpy's Dolphin Classics comprises al volumes,
being the largest number Of any work in the cata-
logue; Walter Scott 9s volumes; j. Fennimore
Cooper, 33 volumes. The Oldest book in the list
is "The Troubles at Frankfort, bearing date 1854.
The greatest variety of editors of any author is
of Shakespeare, being no less than forty-four, the
sale of which exceeds that of any English author.
The largest number of copies of any American
work sold is Benton's Thirty Years" $4,000 hay
ing been sold before publication. Over 5000
copies of "Appleton's Modern Atlas" have been
sold during the last year. Any one visiting New
York will be well paid for their trouble in spend
ing little time in Appleton's bookstore, 1t being
the most extensive and complete of any similar es-
tablishment in the country, and where books of
every desirable kind, ranging from twenty-five
cents to one thousand dollars, (Hoefnagles Collec
ton of Paintings" being sold at the latter price,
can be found.
The weekly bank statement, closing on Saturday,
shows the following result
Increase Of loans, $685. increase of depos-
ties $l416767; decrease in specie, $205, 601 and
the decrease in circulation, $26,079. The totals
are Loans, $90,850,0lo; specie, $17,3S9,062;
circulation, S8,94l ,604 deposites, SIS, 500.
At the stock exchange to-day, the sales were to
moderate extent, without any noticeable change
in rates. Virginia SKIES sold at s5 Ia; Ohio SKIES
Of 1875. lo4 New Jersey Railroad, 1913 IL; Erie
Railroad, As; Canton Company, 90; Pennsylvania
Coal Company, 100 "a. LIS.