Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-29
NEW YORK ITEMS.

New YORK, December 29,-PrOmi-
nent members OF the Union League
Club of this city have taken measures
to raise some money 10 place Mr..
Stanton's family in comfortable pc
cuniary condition.
A bundle, containing 100000 worth
of bonds, stolen fifteen years ago, was
left at one of the police stations this
morning by a boy, who escaped ar
rest.
All the conspicuous persons impli-
Gated in the drawback frauds, the
Times says, with two EXCEPTIONS have
been taken as Government witnesses.
The latest addition to the number is
Samuel L. BiaJchlOrd.
The European steamship lines refuse
to carry the mails after the first OF
January for the sum offered by the
ustmaster-General, viz: two cents
per letter. Mir. Cresswellis is now here
endeavOring 10 arrange matters.
A motion was made to-day in the
case of Ruwena Lawrence vs.. BENZ.
Z. Butler, brought TO recover the value
of Gen. Trigg' swords and other prop
erty seized by Gen. Butler in New
Orleans. The motion is TO vacate the
order Of arrest against Butler on the
ground that the taking was under or
ders of the United states, and that
there was no conversion. The decls-
ion was reserved.
A very important case to stock
brokers was decided in the Court Of
Appeals yesterday. The substance OF
the decision Is th8j broker VINO sells
out his customers stock, after his
margin is gone, but without giving
him notice of time and place of sale,
is liable to the customer for the high
est price Of stock down to the time OF
the sale, because the customer owns
the stock. and the act of the broker is
a wrongful commission. This was a
test case, prosecuted by the Brokers
Board.
A theatrical squabble broke out at
the Grand Opera House yesterday.
Alice Dunuing applied to Judge
Dodge for q warrant of arrest against
her husband, VIM. Needham, alias
William Horace Lingard, the well
known comic singer and mimic.
Mrs. Needham Lingard Dunning al
/ legps that her husband habitually
abuses her, and that yesterday he
threatened to blow cut her brains
with pistol. Judge Dodge issued a
warrant. Both sang as usual last
night.
The Star SAYS: There is great dis
tress among cigar makers IN this city.
Some of the heaviest manufacturing
I firms have discharged at least one
/ hundred hands within three weeks.
/ Other trades and business is suffering
/ in like proportion, owing to the un-
/ settled condition of the gold market.
| Wholesale clothing firms whose en-
/ ployees arc numbered by the JhOU'
sand, have almost entirely closed
manufacturing goods for future sales.
I The same is true o1 carpenters, brick
I layers, iaOorrrs, c0ODerS and others
! thousands Of WOIkmen being obliged
! TO leave the city in quest OI work III
other localities.
The Tribune has a report from
/ Washington that the Administration
/ has now under earnest consideration
/ the propriety Of changing its course
with regard 10 Cuba, and speedily
recognizing the bellgerent rights o
the insurgents. This course 10 Inn
/ peiied By the evident feeling OF The
I people of the country, aHd the temper
Of the majority in Congress. The 70
port further states that secretary tisl
aud Senator sumner have expressed
within the last three days, such view.
as would indicate a changing OF poi
icy towards the Cubans, and highel
confidence in their future.
A rumOr was Ia circulation yester
day afternoon that irregularities hav
been discovered in the Merchant
Exchange National Bank on Broad
way. Inc bank officers aeither al
nit nor deny the truth Of the report
but say that a committee is eXamin
ing the accounts, and that If it shoul
be discovered that a deIalcatiOn hi
been committed, information OF In
fact VIII be given to the public.
A statement to the effect that irree
uIarities have been dicnvered in tn
Merchants Exchange National Ban
proves to be true. The COMMITTEES
now in session, have discovered SO ia
a deficiency Of 100000, and tn
. amount will probably prove muc
I larger. So far, no names of the delil
auent parties nave been made knoWl
The bank claims to be fully able
meet the deialcstiOn.
The EUeaiHg Post places the loss
the Merchants Exchange Bank /
the Irregularities OF Cashier Oakley
500 600,