The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-06
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

Gold Stocks - Markots-Tho working
mem and Their Demands = Another
Heavy RObbery-Queer Buit-The Al
legged ChtIian Privateer-Tho Theatres,
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Special Correspondence Of The Epentng Telegraph.
NEW YORK, April 8.
The Stock Market is firm, and there is some
excitement. Governments are steady. Cold
l273@l28. Business is better to-day, and in some
articles OF merchandise considerable movements
are noticed. Cotton has declined underunfa-
vorable advices from Europe. Flour and wheat
dull and lower. Petroleum dull and declining
Corn is frmer, oats higher, pork heavy, beef
steady, lard dull and heavy, and whisky, as
usual, dull and nominal Exchange 1861. Money
per cent. -s
' Last evening the workingmen of New York,
Brooklyn, and Jersey City assembled to the
number OF about seventy-dve thousand in
Union Square in mass meeting, and were ad-
dressed by Messrs. Horace Greeley, Charles s.
Spencer, Henry D. Ranrey, John Reed, Dugald
Campbell, Christopher Staley. and others. The
resolutions declare that the interests of labor
and capital are identical; that the workingmen
should have eight hours for sleep, eight hours
Tor labor, and eight hours for recreation and
mental culture; chat fair trial OF eight hours
as days work has always been triumph for
the measure, and that the workingmen of New
York hail with lively satisfaction the co-opera.
tive movement of the iron moulders Of Troy.
The office of the Montauk Insurance Com
pany, No. Court street, Brooklyn, was entered
by burglars yesterday morning, VINO forced
open The iron SAFE and carried OFF about $l2, 900
in railroad bonds, seven-thirties, and bank notes
The Office Of the Inspector OF PoliceIs only one
hundred feet from where the robbery was com.
mitted.
A suit for libel was commenced Yesterday in
the Supreme Circuit Court, Part 2, before Judge
Mason, brought by Mr.. Henry w. De
Puy, formerly an Indian agent of the
Government to the Pawnees. against Mr..
Oliver p. Hurtord & Brother, doing business
in Omaha, one hundred and twenty miles from
the Indian reservation, where plaintiff was sta
toned. The ground of complaint is that defend
ants wrote two letters, charging the plaintiff
with having forged two vouchers while trans
acting his business agent. One OF these letters
was written to Mr.. Dole, formerly Indian Com
missioner, who is charged with completely in
the attack upon Mr.. De Puy.
The case of the alleged priyateer Meteor still
occupies the attention OF the United States Dis
trict Court. Yesterday further evidence as to
the equipment and fitting out OF the ship was
given, after which the Court adjourned till this
The New York East Conference resumed its
session in the Washington Street Methodist
Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, yesterday, B shop
Scott, the President, in the chair. rhe business
OF the day consisted OF the proposal of eight
candidates (deacons) for ordna ion, to whom
the Bishop propounded certain disciplinary
questions, which being satisfactorily answered
the candidates were declared competent to be
ordained to the ministry.
Resolutions were passed relative to Methodism,
North and South, in which the New York Con-
terence extends to the General Conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, now in ses-
sion at New Orleans, an invitation to make next
Sabbath april 81 day OF SPECIAL prayer for the
peace and unity OF the country. The annual
missionary sermon was preached before the
Conference last evening by Rev. DR.. Andre VS., of
Stamford, Conn. The session will be continued
to-day.
The great Bal dOperd, got up expressly for
the giorifcatiou of Max Maretzek, came off bril-
liantiy and successfully at the Academy of
Music last night. ,...
Mr.. Edwin Booth is finishing up his highly
successful engagement here, and will open In
Philadelphia as Hamlet on the Goth.
Mss Maggie Mitchell also visits your city pro-
fessionally soon, after an absence OF many
yeaIs-ever since childhood. FULTON.