The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-11
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Anuh vorsaries - FeDiRnism - Gold.
stocks, ansN' Market cholera Reports
TITS Bttwe>'n two CIIts-Interesting
Snifs nri,n.n l'asnallLes. Etc.

-TtTs RIVE IN two CIIts-Interesting z
suits, Grimes casualties, Etc.
Special Cc~respondercs Of 7he Eveni,'g Telegraph.
NEW YORK, May II -MCDey is easy to-day. Gold
opened Ot 1891; Exchange pn London lO9i. Cow
erement STOCKS are steady. ISaiI"ay speculation is
inactive, but prices are firm.
Ihe produce and mere haDtie markets are rather
dull Flour, Wheat and Iork open favorable TO
buVers: Corn Cotton, and Petroleum are hrmer'
Eleights are light
The report from the cholera shiVs becomes moro
aud more encouraging. BuC one Oeath occurred
yesterday There ste but tSrtynne cases alto0etner
now on board the FOicOn The stcanrshIp Ealtaad
permitted to cone TO the city yesterday having
been released from QAarantns.
The annversary OF the Howard Mission and Home
for Little Wanderers ceebruted ast eVenin at
The Brooklyn Acaoeny OF S'usc, n sho presence or
a full audience A number Ot cue children OF the
Institution were present, ana their singing was one
the most interesting features OF the ebration.
From the lreasurer's Tepor. It appeared tnat the
reCelp OF the past year weI S33bjj Y9 and the
penuitures Ss5 5S5 &c. About ST. 900 was col ec.ed
at the m e4ing.
The Thirteenth Anniversary Ortae American Con-
grega iOnal Union was ce ebrated last evening III
Plymouth church, Brooklyn speeches We're made
by Ex-Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut Rev.
DIR. q. B. Boynton, ChaplPau OF the House of Re-
pTesentatves; Major.Genezll Howard, and Rev.
henry Ward Beechor, aftes when collection of
six thousand dollars was taken up to asd in building
a Congregational church in Washington.
A meeting OF cOlored per-ons was held last even
ing at Cooper Institute. Toe object OF tue meeting
was TO tenuer reception to DIR. Frederick Doug ASS,
who, however, was absent, and sent iotter to too
Committee. Addresses were made by NesSrs
Al. An imDortant sult growint qnt OF gold speouia-
tlons has been tried before Jrdge Mullen, IN the
alleges that the defendant, Lpman loplitz, EN-
plOyed hlm TO buy and sell gold Tor hun on commits
sion. In 1854 when gold was deprecatlng y ain
tiff had ON hand some S43 $50 which he had pur-
chased for defendant rhe market failing be tilted
the defendant TO make good his margin or the golt
would be sold This he Iaiied to do, and tho sale
took place accordingly, at loss OF Sl3,156 5j tor
which the suit was brought. Verdict for plaintiff
Tor the full amount claimed with interest.
N was ~ ms do IN nd r.
nard, IN the supreme Court Chambers, for an order
preventing the trustees OF Ieno Burnham, the mock
auctioneer, now IN state Prison, from selling his
estate and allowing his fanny to carry the busi
ness as heretofore. Judge Barnard reserved his de-
Cl5lCn
An action was brought by Benjamin f. 'Kllman
and Others officers the cutter Crawford,
against Deputy Collector Charles p Chnch, IN the
United States Circuit Court, yesterday, before Judge
ohIpman and jury, for the recovery of five thou
sand doGrs-a moety of the proceeds of the sale of
the conhscated schooner Inn PiCkereL After near.
ing the evidence and argument pro aud con, Judge
ShIpman discharged the jury until he had examined
the questions raised.
A motion for an Injunction was made Yesterday
before Justice Barnard I'm the SJpreme Court, Cham
bers, by Phi p e Williams lministrator of Ellen
q. Williams, 10 restrain AIRED Pei, Secretary OF a
branch Office OF the London tire and Lille Insurance
Company, in this city, from 'lsposng Of policy on
the / te of Ellen Williams, the deceased wife OF
plaintiff. The Court ORD red
Christian DutChler residing at No. 1913 West
Broadway, attemp ed his life yesterday after
noon by cutting his throat. NO cause for the deed
is known.
A fire broke out last evening near Hamilton ave-
nue., Brook Yn, and DESTROYED property to the
amount OF about S1l 900.
The premises Nos. 62 and GA Greene street were
partly destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The
damage was at out $500
stolen goods 10 the amount of S1150 were dis
covered yesterday the premises OF Isaac Harlem,
NO. 399 rearl street. Harlem arrested.
From the qOarter,y report OF the Police Depart.
ment, IT appears that during the last three months
lG 500 persons arrest d. OF whom IL, 1873 were
males and AGO females being coo less than the quar-.
erly average of the preceding year. OF the persons
arested 1882 were married, and 926l were single ;
1882 could rad and write; Ill could neither read
nor write, and 29O0 could read only. The total
unit OF property lost was 50 201 $50 So which
only S63 44S SO was recovered. During the quarter
1863 arrests made in BROOKLYN. FULTON.