The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-19
Special Report.
FINANCIAL.

NKw YORK, September Is.
The stock market continues inactive.
The effJrt of Saturday 10 revive the
dropping tone of business was successful
only for that day.
The dealings in railroad shares were
without much animation, although the
market was generally firm. There is still
q great lack of outside orders and the pub
lie are too much engaged in legitimate
pursuits to speculate in railroad shares at
present.
Governments are lower under quota
iions from London and reports from
Frankfort, no orders having come BY the
last steamer.
There is 8 continued demand for Border
State stock, and higher prices made
throughout
Miscellaneous shares are strong; there
is an advance 10 the Atlantic and Pacific
roads.
There is no speculative activity in gold,
but the market is Armer on account of q
liberal demsrd for expectation. a-r a2
Money continues easy.
PETROLEUM STOCKS
Ara frmer and active, to day. The Oil
Creek Company report they have opened
q flowing well of 200 barrels and have two
wells going down on Benefits Run. This
is the cause of the activity in that stock.
Sales at the following rates: Cherry Run,
oz, Oh OIL, ona, Eznalsinr III: Webster.
l53; Fee Simple, IL; Pithole Greek, s95;
Watson, 22O; AlAnd, 100; Buchanan, y;
Webster, 16s; Oil Creek, 23s
PETROLEUM.
Petroleum market active for Crude, with
sSles of 1900 bbls at S4@s5G refine. in
bond is firm at 56@61c and 7s@s1c for
free.
STORM.
A severe storm with high wind COM
menced this morning, and it is still in pro.
gress. It is supposed 70 be the sutumnal !
equinoetiAl.
A CoLoRED MAN AS JUROR.
At the September term of the City Court
of Brooklyn, to day colored man named
Jackson was duly empanneled aud sum.
moned as juror. This is the first case of
this kind in King county.
CONFERENCE WITH eEoRGIANs.
The Herald says: A number of the
leading men of Georgia, on q visit to the
national cspital last week, had very in
teresting conferences with the Secretary of
the Interior, and the Commissioner
Of Agriculture, Mr.. Newton. A Georgian
said there was great distress among their
people There was great demand for
books containing the recently enacted laws
Of the United States. The Secretary in
formed them that the books for all the
States were printed as regularly as before,
ard had been carefully stored, but now
that the national authority was restored.
they would soon be distributed. The
Georgia gentlemen are pleased with the
results of the visit, and represented to
the Secretary that the people generally in
Georgia regarded the issues of the war as
fully settled. They considered slavery ss
completely dead, and were desirous of be-
ing again able to take their proper position
in the Union.
SEEKING PARDON. M
-.a NEW YORK, September Is.
The Tribune's Washington special says:
The hotels are crowded to day with South
ern patriots yearning for forgiveness.
Among them are MI. McMullen, late rebel
and Roger A. Pryor.
HORSE STEALING.
Horse stealing in the District of Colum-
bia, Maryland, Delaware and on the bor-
ders of Pennsylvania, has became so fre-
quent and extensive that the government
has taken the matter in hand. Nearly 8
dozen thieves have been spprehended and
await trial. l
AGRICULTURAL. DO. |
Information at the Agricultural Buresu
shows that the recent rise in the price of
wheat and -four results from a specula-
tive combination rather than scarcity in
the crop. The yield, though less than last
year, is vastly more than can be consumed
by the American people. -s
CAPTAIN wIRZ.
The Herald special says: Wirz seems
to have undergone complete, though
his precarious condition, not
tranformssion in his mind
since nis illness. During the early days of
his confinement in Old Capitol Prison, he
was in the habit OF borrowing from Cap
tain West, superintendent of the prison,
such literaries as Milton, Moliere Dante,
De Quincy, SC, but now he hAs discarded
these authors and it is authoritstiveIy
stated he hasbsen perusing the we'll known,
but not widely read book, Bsxters Call to
the Unconverted.
GENERAL sLooUM AHD BIS ORDER.
The same speciGissys: The revocation
by the President Of General Slocum's order
in Mississippi is aescsDted upon at consid-
erable 1engthtin official letters received
from officers in that department. and the
hope is expressed that the apparent antag.
0nism may lead to his resignation, His
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