Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-12
ESTABLISHED MARCH 30. 1886.
NEW YORK.
Home and Foreign Intelligence.
Special to the Union and American.

Home and Foreign Intelligence.
Special to the Union and American.
| New YORK, Feb. ll.-Movements are
on foot to bear gold, number of capt.
talists having organized, it is said, for
that purpose. They are confident that q
decline in coin to 120 or 125 will advance
the price of stocks and have wholesome
effect on the general trade Of the country.
An effort is being made in Wall street
to carry up government bonds. Several
houses have been buying largely of late,
and they feel confident that fve-twenties
before next June will touch eighty
ents on London exchange.
The speedy trial and sentence Of John
Real for the murder Of policeman Sine"
dick yesterday, is regarded here as "a
vorabls to law and order. The press
coEmends the sentence, which will GER
tainly be carried out.
Real is said to have boosted he could
not be hanged. He has now despAired,
and attempted suicide this morning by
hanging himself with his suspenders.
This morning large sums of money
were wagered on the race between the
Prussia and City of Paris, which left here
yesterday for Liverpool. The Innman
and Cunard lines are competitors for the
contract of carrying the British mail, and
are anxious, therefore, to make the fastest
time possible. The fact of the race was
carefully kept secret from passengers be-
fore they sailed. The press gen.
orally denounces the racing of ocean
steamers.
News from Athens state that the irri-
tation against France is so great that the
sailors of the French vessels of war
cruising in front of that city have been
forbidden to go on shore, so as to prevent
fights between them and the Greek pop
ulation.
Madrid, Seville and Barcelona bands
are parading the streets asking for the
expulsion of the Catholic clergy, and
tearing Papal emblems from the fronts of
the public buildings.
The Tribunal of Colmenar has asked,
from the French government, the extra
dition of Matthew Clare.
The confessor of Queen Isabella is &C,
ton of having carried away from the
Escurial 100000 worth of sacred vases
and jewelry.
The cholera, which had made terrible
ravages in the French possession of Sene-
gal, On the western coast of Africa, was
gradually disappearing. 1t is now in the |
interior Of the country, where its prinei- |
pal victims are natives.
Jay Gould and leading managers of |
the Erie railroad are organizing the |
Broadway railroad bill, which will be |
introduced into the Legislature very /
s DON.
The Evening Post editorially advocates
the sale of canals as the means of facili> /
tating trade with the West, and diminish
ing official corruption. |
The Captain General of Cuba reports
that he has IS 900 regular and volunteer
troops to oppose 1000 insurgents, but
that the nature of the country prevents
the suppression of the instruction. He
says the blockade is complete, and that
the insurgents cannot be reinforced.
Last night German tailor, residing
in Seventh Avenue, attended ball in
company with his step.daughter and a
young man who had been paying his
attentions to her for some time The
party remained until the festivities of Il 9
evening were over, and then returned
home, the young man acting as the
lady escort Arriving at the residence
of the stepefather, quarrel, of which
the cause is as yet unknown, took place,
when the German drew a pistol and fred
two shots, inficting, it is said fatal wounds
upon both of the lovers
The funeral of the late JAS L. Brady
was attended this morning at St Patricks
Cathedral A preliminary service was
held at the residence in Twenty ,third /
street The hearse was followed to the /
Cathedral by between FIVE and six huns
dred members Of the bar. The follows
ing gentlemen acted as pail bearers
Chas. OConner, Chas p DAILY, Judge
Ingraham, Clarence A Seward, Mayor
Hall, ex.Judge Acker, Prof K Ogden
Doremus, Judge Barbour, Nathaniel Jar
Wis and DR. Quackenbos.
The Stevenson cotton case was up in
the United States District Court here to-
day The United States sought to recover
from the defendant the value of about
one million dollars wont TIA Of cotton which
it was alleged was the property Of the
Confederate government and had been
converted by defendant to his own use.
The defendant pl evailed in the suit The
court Hclu thdt INC PiOoi was in"HS4 N"'"'
that the cotton never belonged to the |
Confederate government, and the United
States could therefore have no claim as
the assessor of that government The
United States Immediately took steps to
appeal the case.
In the meantime the counsel for the |
defendant moved that an attachment Isl
sued by Judge Belts against the property |
of the defendant, in this city, be vacated
because it was granted on insufficient
grounds. The application was granted
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