The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-12-23
BY TELEGRAPH.
From the Gold Hill News of last evening.


CHICAGO, December 2l-The Tribune
Omaha special says the Union Pacific tract
is completed 962 lies west of Omaha.
NEW YORK, December 2l.-Greeley has
three column letter to Senator Morton OF
his recent speech on resumption of speci'
payment. Greeley differs from Morton il
that the former believes in prompt resump
! ton of specie payments. He argued upor
| that point at length in a speech at a banquet
in Philadelphia on Saturday night.
Speaker Colfax said, in relation to the in.
coming administration, that the most search
ing retrenchment, honesty, efficiency and
high character, in all connected with the
public service, and rigid guardianship of
the treasury against unwise and extravagant
systems of financial policy, which shall sus-
tain our credit uItarnished. and appreciate
our currency, and place us on the firm rock
of specie payments, would be the policy.
CHICAGO, December 2l.-Specials to the
evening papers say that Mr.. Seward has
dispatches from Cuba, showing that the in
surrection cannot last much longer, unless
civil war should break out in Spain.
WASHINGTON, December 2l.-The House
was called to order by Z. B. Waseburne.
Nan Wyck presented the repor. of the Com
mittee on Retrenchment, when the House
adjourned to January 5th.
NEW YORK. December 2l.-The Stock
Exchange this morning was the scene of the
the announcement of the Treasurer of the
New York Central Railroad Company, in a
card bearing this date, that at a meeting of
The Directors on the 10Th instant, a scrip |
dividend OF eighty per cent. was declared,
.,so a cash dividend of four per cent, pay
sble February 2cth, on old and new scrip
certificates. The scrip dividend is issued to
in the form of a certificate,
igned by the President and Treasurer of the
ompany. 1t declares the bearer entitled to
lightly per cent. on the amour, of stock held
y him, and that the same dividends shall
GREATER be paid thereon as declared on the
Id capital stock that the certificates may
e at the option of the company converted
Ito stock whenever the company shall be
to increase its capital to an
mount sufficient for such conversion. This
ividend was astounding-a surprise not
My to a majority of the stock operators at .
lie Exchange, but to many who are supposed .
, share the confidence of the controlling
xner of the road.
SAN Francisco, December 22.-Super-
sors Canavan and Cavalier were both in
eir seats last evening. No allusion has
zen made by any one thus far to the due!lo ?
1scO.
Justice Levison, in the election bet case of p p
orton against Sicily, and Norton against c
decided that the demand not hav-
g been made on the stakeholder before the
oney was given up, he could not be COM
lied to refund it to the better. This upsets
large number of suits commenced or about al
be commenced by distressed Democrats. .
SAN FRANCISCO, December 22-2 r. NJ
'seph B. Pierce, telegraphic operator in the n
tlantic and Pacific office, was found dead
is morning in the Stevenson House. Sup U
sed cause. apoplexy. He was a native of
ermont, aged %, and was four years with
II. Bulkley's Telegraphic Expedition on -
e Northwest coast.
The steamer Golden City sailed this morn q
: with $40 passengers and S579,262 in
assure. T.
The Supervisors last night awarded the T.
hitting for the city and the Sheriff to the
,aminer for the year 1859. "A
One-tenth of an inch of rain fell last night,
We have had frequent light showers this
rning.
It is currently reported that the Canavan-
WALLER affair will be examined into by the w