Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-09
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-The steamer Van
de rbiit arrived here this afternoon from
Havre, with dates to, the 22d.
The Indian news is important. Gen Bar
nard and Sir Henry Lawrence are dead.
~Cawnpore had been recaptrued by the rebels,
and a great massacre of Europeans had ta-
ken place. the rebels, however, had been
defeated in three engagements.
The Gwalion continent had also mutinied,
and the transit steamer had be en- lost in the
straits OF Lunda, but the troops were saved.
The news of the further mutiny in India
produced a profound sensation in England.
From Persia accounts say that the Shah is
reducing his army.
The Directors Of the Ocean Telegraph had
not determined on thsir future operations
yet.
A dispatch from Gonstantinople says that
the Sultan has announced that untiIthe con-.
struction of his new ministry, diplomatic in
tercourse with those European governments
who had suspended their relations could not
be resumed.
A sanguinary attack on the Jews at Tunis
is reported.
The English representative demands Of
Persia the immediate evacuation of Karat.
Schamyl had defeated the Russians and
captured several important posts.
NEW York, Sept. 2.-Private advices by
the Vanderbilt report en- advance of an eighth
to a quarter penny in cotton at Liverpool,
the sales of the week reaching seventy seven
thousand bales. Middiing Orleans quoted
eight and nine-saxteenths. AT iIavre cotton
had advanced one frame.
New YORK, Sept. There has been
great excitement in Wall street to-day. The
defalcation OF the paying teller Of the Me.
chanlc's Banking Association is stated to be
the cause of the closing Of the doors of the
bank, though the Post Of this evening learns
that its affairs have been critically involved
for some time.
The Commercial says that the paying tel.
Ter is In custody at the bank, awaiting the
result OF a thorough Investigation which is
now being made. The accused denies that
he has any guilty knowledge of the embez
Element. and treats the matter apparently
with indifference. The suspension win cause
inconvenience to depositors only, the circula-
ton notes which may nav been taken on
deposit by several other banks and brokers
generally being abundantly secured by State
stock, The Evening Express says the liza
billtles of the paying teller are not known to
a certainty. and until they are known the
directors decline to meet the obligations of
the bank.
Beebe & Co., who failed to-day, were hereto
fore regarded as one of the staanchest houses
in the street. The suspension is owing to
large loans on stocks. 1t caused great sur
prise, and the feeling on the stock exchange
was one of general unsettlement and excite
ment, with prices irregular, but every thing
on the decline.
The liabilities of the Ohio Life and Trust
Company are now stated as certainly over
six millions of dollars.
Several of the banks to- day acceded to the
loan of $500. 900 to the Erie Railroad Com
pany, which enabled it to pay the six months
interest on its bonds.
There are many rumors circulating unfa-
yorable to city banks, but they are believed
to be false.
New York, Sept. 2, P. M.-Everything
fell of at the second board this afternoon
Illinois Central bonds declined 81 Reading
2; Panama q; Cleveland and Toledo %
Michigan Southern, preferred, S Erie l.
John Thompson. the suspended banker,
has made an assignment.
The rumored deficiency in the accounts of
the Mechanics Bank is three hundred thou
sand dollars. The Clerking House this af-
ternoon voted unanimously to expel it.
The liabilities of Prentice d Co., fur deal
.ers, are very large.
Breese, Kneeland & Co., locomotive bull.
ders, Jersey city, have also suspended.
The banks have reduced their loans the
past fortnight FIVE millions. The deposits
decreased IN the same time nearly eight mill
ions.
The money market is very tight.
AMOR IN KANsAs.-On the 22d ult., a Free
State convention was to have been held at
Atchison. Kansas, for the purpose of cleo
ting delegates to the Grasshopper convention,
and Gen. zane had been invited to deliver
an address. Lane, it issknown, has excited
the hatred of the pro-slavery party, who, it
is said, declared he should not speak in Atchi-
son. A letter to the st. Louis Democrat, d.
ted the 22nd, says:
AT an early hour this morning the pro-
slavery men in Atchison began to show man
lfestations Of a determination to break up the
convention, and to prevent Lane from speak
ing by force. They assembled in crowds,
armed with knives, reyolvers and rifles, and
formed into companies, paraded the streets
all day, threatening to shoot or hang Lane if
he should make his appearance in the town.
One ofthem had a rope about his waist, with
winch he threatened to hang Lane if he could
catch him. Others who had rifles said they
would draw on Jim Lane at first sight But
the Free State general did not make his ap-
ooAooSO , An uIofe " Wltull 4 Idle ana nall
of town, when he met some of his friends.
and they prevented him from going in, and
the regulators were disappointed.
One or two small rows, occurred, however,
but a speech from DR.. Stringfellow had the
effect to restore order.
Beverly Tucker declines the Consulship to
Liverpool.
Gov. Walker is preparing a vindieation of
his cause in Kansas for Southern circulation,
particularly in Mississippi.
An INTERESTING CAsK-the Supreme Court
of Georgia, at their late session in this city,
had before them a suit brought by the Ameri-
can Colonization Society, Maryland, against
Col. Lucius S. Gartrell, administrator, with
the will annexed, Of the estate of the late
Francis Gideon, of DeKalb county.
The will gave all his slaves to the Ameri-
can Colonization Society, for the purpose Of
said Society sending them to Liberia, in AT.
RIGA and he bequeathed to his slaves a large
sum OF money, to be paid to them when they
should start to Liberia be also devised and
gave to the Society several houses, city lots,
lands, and a large number of shares of rail
road stocks, in trust for the negroes, to be
divided among them, which directions would
necessarily under the directions of the will
take place in Georgia.
This suit was brought to gain possession