The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-16
Affairs in New York.

l says.
But Little else is talked of besides the news
from the South, and the effect it is having upou
| business affairs here. Wall street Iooks n.r
| ttcuIariy cerulean. Southern funds ars 40
hard to sell, as to be almost worthless to the
iaeIehant-and l0 per cent. is the current rn te
OF olscount ior majority of the bank bills OF
| the slaveholding States One authoritv do
ciares tnat men who thirty days ago con Id
| nnd collateral which would obtain them hon
:snos, .s can not to-day, upon the same descrip-
| uon OF security, realize single dollar
| But this is not the worst Of il. The work
| ins Glasses are beginning to feel the pinch, at
| tner very hearihstones. l have already m en- :
uoneu tne suspension of trade, by two leadin e
| eiothing houses In this city, who Jointly EN-
| pioyed 700 hands, and now must be added the
oiscnarge OF sixty more, from one of the prin-
cipai SILVER manufacturing establis bments in
| inc CITY: Some OF these were parties who had
! SCI Neo ior years as apprentices in the estab-
| lishment.
| The Williamsburg tailors-of whom MANY
huhdredt Just now have nothing to do-are to
| have public meeting this week to cousnlt "a
| to what is best to be done II they have no
| WORK they cannot starve they say, when the
| granaries of the country and the store houses
OF New York are overfowing with plenty of
| captain Rynders again turned up at the
Toombs Police Court to-day, to respond to the
| charge OF assault and battery upon Mr.. Tap
pan, IN the matter OF the African boys. Judge
| E,dmonds, on behalf of the prosecu ton, de-
| sired to withdraw the case, and the Court
| having DO objections, it was so ordered Be-
| lore leaving the Court the Captain made a
| characteristics speech in self-defence but there
| were but few TO listen TO him save the news
paper reporters
| Much excitement exists in Brooklyn to- day,
In consequence of a horrible murder last
evening, In the town of New Lote, small
village about two miles south of BROOKLYN on
the Coney Island Plank-Road. The victim
was respectable and wealthy farmer named
| Theodore Colyer, who had been to New York
a IN lot SsRt
| The proceeds Of this amounted to about SlUO,
| ard it is supposed that 10 rob him of the mo-
| ney was the motive for the murder. The un-
fortunate man, after coming home took tea
with his family, at O'Clock, after W which he
went out to neighboring grocery to settle an
account, and while there incautiously exhibit
| ed roll of bills There were two strangers
III the store at the time-G GerInans-who be-
/ hayed suspiciously, and when CoIyer went
cut they were seen TO follow him.
Nothing more was seen Of him until day
light this morning, when his wife discovered
hls dead body In a barn near by. The skull of
| deesased was split In two and the brains scat
tered'all over the floor, presenting most aw-
fui pectacle. The names of the supposed
| marderefs are not known, ,~but the police are
| ON their TRACK, and hfsxeAro doubt Of bringing
them to justice
|. The tldes have been unusually high for sew
eral days pasta remarkable eirc ums ia nee
seeing that the wliLld hassbeen strong from the
northwest, but accounted for On the theory OF
heavy easterly winds off shore.
The United States frigate Cumberland was
towed 10 the Brooklyn Navy Yard this morn
ing, to receive her new armament.
Money was "hard" on all hands to-day and
rates range all The way up from : to 10al2 per
cent. Southern exchange cannot be sold, un-
| less with bills OF lading attached.
THh BRITISH AND AaERICAs DIFFICULTY
| AT PANAEA-The Panama Star and Herald
| of October 30th, gives narrative of events
which have suited in a CORES pondence be-
tween Flag Officer Montgomery, of the United
States squadron, and Captain Miller, Of the
British man-of-war Clio. 1t appears th,t
British sentries were placed in front Of the
British and French Cons ulates, with orders to
challenge every passer, and demand an answer
to the challenge
On Saturday, the Goth, Dr. John P Klupe.
an American citizen, and employee OF the Pa
mama Railroad Company, complained 10 the
American Consul of the manner in which he
and others had been molested by an English
sentry, and the case was taken under nyest-
| CATION and laid before Flag Officer Montgome-
~. The same night, as Lieu tenant FitZhugh
| Of the United States sioop ST. Marys, and a
son OF Captain Engle, of the United States
| Navy, commanding the Chirique expedition.
| were passing the English Consulate, they
were hailed by The sentinel, to which they
| made no reply, and upon attempting to pass
| were stopped, the sentry presenting his bayo-
net. The sergeant of the guard was sent for,
ana "Heh requested 10 go tor the lieutenant t
| did SO, after ordering the sentry to shoot them
down II they attempted to escape. On the ar
| rival of the lieutenant they were released.
| On Monday, FIag- Officer Montgomery ad =
| dressed n communication to Capt. Miller, OF
the Clio, with statement of the circ ums tances
that transpired Saturday night, as lso the
| complaints made through the American Con-
sui, and demanded the immediate discon tin
uance Of thepractice, regarding itas aggressive
| towards the United States, and unless it was
| Immediately discontinued he would at once
| adopt measures for the re-es tablishment of the
neutrality of the city and Istnmus of Pana-
ma. The f1ag-otticer also opened corresp pom
| dence with the lnteDdente of Panama, with
| the view of fixing the responsibility where it
belongs.
On the 23d, Flag Officer Montgomery ad-
dressed a communication to Capt. Miller in
reference to The arrest of DR.. Kinge, on the
night OF the 2lst, by the guard III front of the
French Consulate, when he was detained &
prisoner till morning. Subsequently, Mont
gomery addressed Capt Miller another letter.
suggesting the duties of guards furnished for
protection Of Consulates in foreign ports from
ships-ot-war, and gave that officer 10 under
| sland that their operations must be confined
foot beyond; and had he known in time of the
imprisonment of DR.. kiuge. he would have
employed the necessary means to procure his
instant release.