Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-01
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PORTLAND, December 3l.-The steamer
North American, from Liverpool on the goth
inst, via Londonderry on the 2lst arrived
here at 104bt this morning.
The .Glasgow arrived at Queenstown on
the goth. ~ At tt sf
LiuerpooL December 2l.-The sales Of cot
ton for the week reached $4,000 bales, in-
cluding $4,000 to Spectators and g. 900 to
exporters. The late adyiccs from the United
! States and the announcement Of peace with
| China caused an advance Of fully I'D on all
descriptions The market closed buoSant
and active. The sales to-day were $4,000
| bales the market closing firm. Total stock
estimated at $4,000 bales including 100000
American.
B1eadstuffs fra, with good demand at
extreme prices. Corn has an advancing
tendency. Provisions generally quiet.
London, Dectm6er 21.-Consols closed at
| 90 for account The latest sales of American
Stocks were Illinois Central 2s@29 discount;
Erie 33h93411 New York Central 77@79.
The Russian Government had received
news that the English and French prisoners,
Norman, Anderson and Boweby, and three
French officers, were massacred by the
| Chinese.
The negotiations for the evacuation Of
Gaets having failed, its bombardment would
recCmmence on the 10th instant.
The directors of the Atlantic Telegraph
had resolved at their own expense, to keep
the concern ahoat, in hopes Of operations
= being renewed in the future.
The London Fmless city article Of Thurs
day evening (20th) says:
"The English funds are dull to-day from
a variety of causes. They opened at a de-
cline of I'D. and subsequently experienced
q q further fall.
~ "News from Bombay of an organized resist
q ance on the part Of the native tributaries to
the income tax and the unsatisfactory state
of the army in the Presidency, constitutes
. the chief reason for the prevailing heayi-
~ | ness.
y THE tendency to depression on the Paris
. Bourse, coupled with the intimation given
- to Austria that she must consent to sell
n Ventia, or prepare for new war in the
~ spring, likewise had some effect on the mar
20 ket, which was influenced by a sudden and
~ considerable increase of the demand for
N loans on Government securities.
10 1.-THE rate for advance on the Stock Ex-
-, change this morning, was per cent, at
20 which there was an active demand.
= "In the afternoon the requirements in
of creased, and applications were made to the
~ ~ bank, where the minimum rate of discount is
five per cent.
'Tn the discount market there is also an
10 active demand. About 100000 in bar-gold
~ was taken from the bank to-day. II is ex-
- pected that the steamer Austrdldsian, on
- Saturday would take out some more gold
mn to New York.
rs "The railway market continues good, but
h. some depression was caused yesterday
" ~ partly by sales to close speculative accounts
us preparatory to the holidays Most of the
on leading Stocks left off at 4 to u per cent
lower.
IN The Grand Trunk (Canada) Railway stocl
sS. experienced a renewed decline of fully per
90 cent. yesterday, on the publication of the re
% port Of the Committee of Bondholders.
at is now beyond doubt that the projectet
,os Turkish loan is a complete failure here, and
the prospects are scarcely better at Paris"
mo Calcutta papers say that the disbandmen
,vo of the Fifth Bengal European Regiment wa
followed by the immediate military executio
al of a prisoner. He was marched aroun
ow the square in the rear Of his coffin, and she
dead at the first volley. He acknowle ige
ho the justice of his sentence, and met his deaf
and with manly resignation.
!, O Scarcely had this terrible scene been er
,rr acted, when the Twenty second Regiment
sod foot moved in front of the Fifth Europea
Ier- Regiment, the artillery, loaded with grapI
- or either flank.
Tho The Fifth Regiment was then commando
to order arms, and then to pile their arm
adv They obeyed, and were at once marched
IVY short distance clear Of the piles of arms, an
no sooner were they clear of the piles, tha
was two companies of the Seventh and ThiI
"'~ Regiments filing rapidly to The spot, inte
vos vened between the Fifth Regiment and tt
rect arms, to prevent the possibility of any rus
to recover them. When this was accom-
pished, the Brigader read an order, pr
tion nouncing the doom of the regiments.
The was struck from the army list, all its con
and missioued officers reduced to the ranks az
1an- the men drafted into the FIVE remainiI
regiments of the Bengal Army. They we
"a men with medals on their breasts, who hG
fought England's battles all the world owe
tho many of the old soldiers who had bee
ow wv drafted from the old Bengal and from Il
,een, Royal Regiment, appeared to be utter
to heart-broken, and sobbed aloud.