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The New York herald., 1869-06-25
STRICKEN DEAD IN A GAMBLING HILL.
Man Falls Dead in a KeNv Reom--A Pitt,
able Spectacle.
from the New Orleans Picayune: June 2o.l

from the New Orleans Picayune, June 2ol
About haifpast nine O'Clock last night an unknown
Charles street. AS usual on Saturday night the
house was crowded to sunoc alton. The young and
the old, the rich and the poor, had gathered In
spend the earnings OF the week. The light OF many
brilliant jas get dashed over crowd OF men, ear
nest and eager In the passionate excitement OF the
game. Suddenly tall, dark looking man from one OF
the centre tables from his seat and walking few
eae e hrorg hue Soy noo " % G1 a
the man was dead; died from heart disease or the
excitement OF gambling For single moment
stiffness like death fell upon the crowd, and then
some one said he'd only tainted, and the game went
on. But life was extinct.
.rIe's dead,- some one cried. and then men rose
hastily from their and left the room The game
was stopDed, and little circle gathered around tue
dead man on the floor. The face had grown waXen;
the death look had settled darkly around him. IL
was foreign looking face-an Italian or Spaniard-
and In life had been handsome, but now IT, rigid
lineaments wore scared expression as II the heaft
had struggled vanly 10 but 1--we To get out oi that
bad place
suddenly all unprepared the man was hurried into
the presence OF his Maker dead, with the gamesters
passion fierce In his heart with all his evil thoughts
aud guilt about him. The lights were turned low
in the dorkened room. and the Coroners Jury gath.
cred around the nameless dead. Below, In the halls,
the rattle OF dice the noise and strife OF gambling
broke sadly on the ear. What contrast None
seemed to heed the spectacle above them. or take
warning Of the awful Judgment 80 sud
denly pronounced vo,ca The games went sm5 on
the witnesses were scarcely heard IN the uproar be-
meath Men could not pause IN that eager STRIFE OF
hazard What II dead man lay above, They were
fanily's necessities-the bread, maybe, OF their
children. What need they cares The insanity OF
gaining ran riot in their veins. The pale wife's
tears the chdren's wall were harder far TO meet
and vet meet them they must for they had put their
ali upon the hazard Of the cast.
one can reconcile 1t to his feelings 10 see death
upon the battlefield: death by flood and pestilence
but death in gambling house seems out OF place.
who cares Tor the dead man some one will say.
.Iake the Fellow out-go with the game"
Al last the inquest was over. the dead man re-
moved and the brilliantly lighted halls again
sumcd the excitement OF the game: aud one entering
there an hour afterwards would never suspect that
death had so recently snached victim from
among them.
The New York herald., 1869-06-25

Islis, Reading. os1 a ssH; Chicago and Alton. is6
l5s; CO. preferred. 1866 bid; Alton aud Terre
Haute, 40: do. preferred SO 6l%; Toledo ana
Wabash. tx ~; do preferred, 500 SIX,
Milwaukee and st. Paul, TAX 74tI; do pre-
ferred. s5H s5%; Fort Wayne, 157H 1571s; Ohio
and Mississippi S2A Michigan Central 1919 l34;
Michigan Southern, 1861 l051l; Illinois Central,
143; Cleveland and Pttsburg, 971l 9Ia; Rock
Island, 1867 q 1l6H; Northwestern. S0s S0h; do.
preferred, 95 954; Boston Water Power 1917 1914;
Mariposa, ga 10; do preferred, Tx Tx; New
Jersey Central, 1867 1917 Hannibal and st. Joseph,
1ls bid; do. preferred. 1lsh bid; Columbus, Chica-
go and Indiana Central, 40 a4l.
General Walker, the Deputy Special Commissioner
of the Revenue has just sent to press monthly report
No. 25 of the Bureau OF Statistics from which IL COM
piled the following summary OF our trade for the
months OF January, February and March, 1869. and
for the nine months ended March 81, 1862 compared
with the nine months ended March 81, 1868. The
figures OF exports are IN mixed currency and would
require to be reduced to gold to compare with the
imports, which are all entered in specie values:-
Months ellded Imports. Exports. Re-erp0rfs.
January 81, 1862 $301l2,64 $35 244 lS2 81 232 6l0
February 2S, 1862. 35,l73,726 3S,155,4So 22S1 54o
March 81 1862 49,. 50,l95,3s4 3l,594.l97 3JOS,02i
Nine months ended
March 81 1863. 3o3 $685. SOB 1856 1913, 463
Nine mOhths ended
March 81 1865 ,956046 332,0 l53 l5,52O, ia
The Western Union Telegraph Company have Is
sued the following statement OF revenue and ex-
penses for the six months ending July l, 1907
The New York herald., 1869-06-25
INGENIOUS ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM Prison.
From the Providence Journal. June q.

From the Providence Journal, June 2i.l
Charles Williams, who Is now In prison awaiting
trial for burglary, and who recently made an unsuc
cessful attempt TO escape, tried another experiment
TO accomplish his purpose on the 2lst inst. since
his first effort he has been constantly confined In his
CELL except when bathing or taxing exercise IN the
yard. On one OF these occasions he had obtained n
piece @ 81 az an old saw W ME ne, ne s u s IN o con-
machine for opening his door. First he made saw
Of piece OF the iron Of which his bed frame was
constructed, with which saw ne could cut wood.
Then taking board forming a shell. he split II In
pieces and made square by tyipg the ends OF two
pieces at S rgIt angles snn o. ts s IN s
stces of the bars Of his door which sets In recess
in the wall, and turning the instrument down he
could bring the other angle on line with the KEY
hole on the outward side and eighteen inches from
the inside or the door. Next he made key-an I'M
provemcnt on his former one-from piece OF thick
tin taken from his ration dish. when new the ra-
tion dishes have two handles. but as they get old
many are used with one handle. He had observed
this and taken handle with o wire In 1.-THE TACT
not being noticed when the dish was removed. This
key he made had wooden pulley on the shank, aud
string made OF threads pulled , from MS c9sn, 9,,
ing was wound IN the groove of me wneei. Inc
string passed to the angle OF the square around
pivot and along the angle held IN Ms
hand. The whole being completed he put out MS
apparatus through the grating felt for the keyhole
by moving his machtne until the key entered. But
the key dd not nt we'll and when ne pulled 'ae ne
string attached TO the pulley he broke the shank OF
the key, leaving portion OF n ~ the hole. An OF
hcer observed this and also heard Williams cxcalm,
when the key broke Calamity I'm up In q bal
looni II IL all over; the d-n thing has broke"
At this moment aprsoner passed bis CELL to whom
Wnllams whispered, "For Gods sake pull that Key
out" His cell, however, was then examined. Tne
bali and chain had been removed from hls leg IN
manner truly Ingenious A piece of hard wood from
hole made In this little smaller than the screw
the end being served with black linen thread
when inserted and turned thread was cut strong
enough TO pull the spring and unlock the irons.
The ingenuity displayed by Williams has seldom
been equaIed in the history VI prison escapes. Re-
markabiy observing, he readily adapts means TO
ends and seems To make everything auoserve MS
purpose. Having nothing In mis- possession III the
shape OF tools but the rusty piece OF an old he every
thing else needed was made from articles Ia MS CELL
The New York herald., 1869-06-25


The government gold sold to-day awarded in
the following lots, at the accompanying prices:-
$4,000 at 1862 500 900 az 1861 800 900 at $685.
500 900 at 1855, 100000 at 1857, 100000 at
1871 800 900 at 1885, 100000 at 1870, 800 900
at 1887 100000 at 1a6.es $4,000 1862 s.5 900
at 1862.
Southern securities were heavy and lower for the
Alabama eghts the Louisiana lcvce cights and the
Missouris, steady for the North Caronas and
very weak for the Tenncssees, particularly the new
bonds which sold down to 81, from which point,
however. they showed reactionary tendency at the
close. The following were the final street prces:-
Tennessee skies, ex coupon, o. a 62l.; do, new.
SIX; virginias, ex coupon, so a SO; do, new
oik 62H Georgia skies, s4}s So; CO., sevens,
3d. n 81; North Carolinas, ex coupon, 5s1s 59is:
do, new, 55i6 55A; Missouri sives. 81 q Ola:
do, ST. Joseph issue, 92 bd Louisiana skies, 70
"a; do. levee skies, 6s 90: do. do. elghis, s5 a
50; Alabama eights, 9s1s 9a
Stocks were strong and puoyant, the rise IN prices
beng steady from the opening TO the close OF busi.
ness the market being more animated than usual at
this season, and the transactions In some instances
quite heavy. In the upward turn the least active
was Michigan Southern, which, owing TO its recent
heavy decline, Is as yet regarded with some suspi-
cion. The features In the railways were the North
western shares, which advanced to SEA and
touched 1872; Hudson River, which recovered
again and sold up to ieils; Reading, which
rose to g9 and the ST. Paul stocks which advanced to
,6,i Tor the common and S, for the preferred Rock
Island closed at lis. Fort Wayne rose TO 1854. AT
the meeting OF stockholders to-day the lease was
ratified and the stock increased II 81 per cent on
which the Pennsylvania company are 10 pay per
cent interest free of government tax, annually. for
800 years. The usual quarterly dividend OF ~ per
cent was provided for. The feature Of the afternoon
was q sharp advance In United States Express stock,
which on tho second call sold up TO 49, Yesterday
afternoon and this morning the price was 20 to IL.
Adams also became active. rising TO O. American
touched Az, ana wells.Fargo ~ On the one hand
n IL asserted that the "shorts" IN United States
were forced to cover and the advance operated SYM
pahctcaly on the other express stocks on the other
hand n said that the companies have agreed upon
harmonious plan of business, which increases their
earnings. Erie underwent decline from 2eA to
2eA The following were the closing prices on the
call at the last session Of the stock EXCHANGE
Cumberland 80 "a; Wells, Fargo 4 Co.'s Express,
3O% 81; American Express. 4Os. 4O&: Adams
Exp, VS., 02S 90; United states Express, II 77s;
Merchants Union Express Is bid; quicksilver, 15k
si6; Can, N, 01h o.; Pacific Mail s5l a SC; West.
ern Union Telegraph 3sx sss; New York Central.
lolk . 1914; Harlem, 142 LA; hudson River 10i
The New York herald., 1869-06-25

Although sixty eight convicts similar articles IN
their respective cells yet this man gives The officers
In his persistent efforts to escape more troube than
all the other prisoners. His intention on this occa-
to secree himself outside OF his cell and at
tack the oicer duty at night, and with the view
OF deceving the watchman as he made his rounds,
Williams had arranged stuffed figure on ms Deh,
using for the purpose his drawers ard some straw,
putting his boots the legs OF the figure and attach
ing To IL the bal and chain from which he had so
successfully cleared his own leg.
The New York herald., 1869-06-25

CoFrEE-Rio In demand at former prices,
and sales made of 500 bags Satellite and 900 do.
er steamer Merrimsc private terms Other kinds
steady. Sales, 500 bags Laguayra private terms.
FLOUR AND GKAiS-Recepts, s,352 bbls. -four, st l2O
bushels wheat 81 0S@ do l2l do. OATS and 3U do.
The flour market ruled duh and heavy for extra State
aud prices were 0c 20c lower TO SELL the market closing
somewhat irregular Western and
prices sustained The sales 5000 bags
California h0ur dull and nominay unchanged. South
-four very quiet The sales $50 bb Rye -four
continued rm with fair demand the sales being DO bbs
Corn steady in value, with sales Of 200 bbls We
The New York herald., 1869-06-25
REAL ESTATE MATTERS.

Though really heavy transactions in real estate
can be recorded for the past few days. there never
theless, every indication that the ease which the
money market at present exhibits will have de-
clded influence In rendering speculation more ami
mated and extended, and lots which may now be
rated at mere nominal figure will very quickly as
sumo value in the market far beyond the most
sanguine expectations OF their owners.
Our exchanges, especially from the West, mark a
decided upward movement in all kinds of real estate
property Chicago, as usual, makes show OF Won
derful advance in the price OF city lots hereto
fore deemed OF ordinary importance. Our own sub
urban information tells Of what mine OF wealth
lies in the soil around this city. Westchester is
moving forward to grand prosperous future. New
Jersey chuckes all over with the lavish and foolish
fondness New Workers display for building their
homes and rearing their vines and fig trees upon her
soil. Long Island is still backward, but Staten
Island shows signs OF awakening from very long
and fatal stupor Real estate on that insular Eden
will go up, as goes balloon and none but the
daring can hope 70 share Its possession.
The following sales by A. J. Bleecker were effected
VOC nj EiiZanpfh n I
The New York herald., 1869-06-25
STREET CuJTArl]sS.
Unif.prst Five O'Clock p. VI.
COMMERCIAL REPORT.

THURSDAY, June 2s-6 r. N.
CorroS.-Thc demand more active for all purposes,
and fair business consummated. while prices
steady yesterdays quotations The sales 1856
(noudng s21 arrive) OF which 2074 spinning
1888 speculation and 2s for export For future delivery
there sales We quote
The New York herald., 1869-06-25

Cash gold up to Clearing House time was loaned
at aud Ia per cent and at 3-6l and lilo Tor carry
ing. In the afternoon the rate declined to 10 and
per cent. The disbursements OF coin interest today
were s6604s IS. The following is the report o the
Gold Exchange Bank for LOdaY:--
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-06
! phraII., Zee. Ran.

lie Pdrhrr-burg Gd-dte announces
'a1t hrHmM BEE, Esq, Of Doddridge
county iayors the removal of all politi-
"a. re,t:ictious in this State. The Ga
s'.'' says:
Iu q conversation we had with HIM
.a't week, he said that when the Suit
orS Test Oath, the Lawyers Test Oath,
lar Teachers Test Oath and the Voters
lest Oath laws We're passed, he headed
."e i'on, IN the Legislature, because he
'@'HgAt they We're necessary for the
Protection Of the State; but that they
''i. when the Southern States became
'l'4ciontly reconstructed, and Old Nir-
5'n,A was 50 fixed that she could not get
'1sN the new State, that they would
,epe'I those laws; and that that time
-AI nov come, and they would all be
''Gra.ed next winter.
The opinion of Mr.. Bee is the same as
.4Al OF great many other Republicans
W. 'ie state, They see that the late
""' IS ended and there is no prospect of
-"''"eT difficulty. That the govern
men; must be Republican in FORM" or
's-'Me a despotism-in which latter
>s' no person is quite sure what form
,1e HespotlSm will take. We cannot
ran from complimenting Mr.. Bee,
anu all other Republicans who have as.
'..7.. 'ae same position, upon the man
patriotic stand they have taken.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-06
THE H,OxRoRDs, NM BOY,
BY ooRSr BLAxg.

~ Has Was down by the Tens a few days ago.
iuSnired % hof 'Enry Chi was hSnxious to
y " ,l hat wa. all the h'erci,ement about
Las 80 . answered, and a hne H'eng.
II. ID expressed what was hour. 70 h,.,,.
ID Its the race with tie 49,. teJsS, ouJoS,
Hour HozfoSa. A'ot Hspsl.na. my Boy.
Then hi edged myself in, to h'oD,.i. , soo,
Has the h'elegsut boats with their sour
Drew hap 20 the start and each 'arfnslss
crew,
Sat h'expectantly 'oldins their h'oar.
And hi cart their own h'umpire, h'aeeent IN.
word 10,
With all the airs e esuld eu,pl Y.
and hof went the 'Arvsrds hof Boston, you
Hand of went the H'oIfOrds, my Boy.
H'O, the H'oEfords asw hon, and their h'ashe.
With he streRgth h'of each muscular ridge
And tt my hoPinion, it was h'aA h'at han
h'end
Beforc they reached 'Ammersmith Bridge.
Ilen o. 0 er the Tams. they did evenly row,
with h'endurance that knew no h'slloy,
Aud they came in ha!Sad h'of the 'ArvarNis
Won know
The oxioris h'of Il Henglaad-my Boy.
Now, they say that their ooXswain was rather
hunskilied
. aud h'.xcuses like THESE h'oit hsppear.
That their stroke 'ad bile that was h'angrily
filled
And a aan al a bad diarrhra.
But 1 wAs ponG b of these thai made thcm 90
slow
Or that Injured thrir appiesti,v
but the rrasou tho 'AtvAris were beaten, you
know
Was-thcy roved with tho II oIf,rls-my Boy
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-06
d.eCu EkusLaudry.

The good time coming for wool grow
ers seems indefinitely postponed. Farm
ers with a dOCile, and, We Will hope,
with q Christian spirit, have washed
their sheep pretty well, dried them,
sheared them, and sold their wool at
whatever price buyers thought best TO
pay. Forty cents takes about all the
wool. Compared with wages, andwith
what farmers buy, forty cents is ruin.
ously low. 1t comports neither with
the price of land, with the taxes that
must be paid, nor with the general range
of prices for produce.
1t is limited very often by our best
sheep men that we must abandon sheep
altogether, or grow the large mutton
variety.
Every branch Of business has its sea-
sons of depression, and il is bad policy
to 90 out of thing when it is low.
That is the time when good calculaters
90 in, for then they get their supplies
cheap, and have raised something to sell
nv the time the market has advanced.
But we must not forget that every
man and every locality is especially fitted
TO some particular branch of industry
Raising wool is not the forte Of our
hest Ohio county farmers, where land
is worth 500 TO 500 per acre. 4 shift
less. semi -barbarous tribe can tend sheep
| in a country without snow, and beat us
in getting up cheap wool, which cost:
them little TO transport,
This don't mean that we should
butcher our dedr "AUerican Merinos.'
! II does mean that raising wool here
must be an incidental and not leading
pursuit. 1t means that we must keep
our sheep well, aud have our surplus
ready for the butcher. II means that ut
should carry our improvements TO the Aig'
est dttdinatte standard, TO meet cempet!'
tion successfully.
We should keep right on with our
best Meriuos, but the inferior ones might
| he crossed with large rams to rai,e early
lambs for market. Neat is certainly
and must be, an important consideration
with those who keep sheep. Bot, IN
snite of Australia, SOnth America, the
tTopics. and the Nomsds, eve that
raises a lamb and gives six or eight
nounds of merchantable wool washed
in a year, is a choice legacy, aud will
nav her way well where land is worth
less than $3.50 per acre. Let Us thank
heaven for her, and help her TO multiply
her kind.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-06

the protests of the men whose votes ana
influence made him what be is. If those
Republicans who profess liberality Will
use their influence for a fair admins
tration of this registration law, they
will get it. If they do not so use that
Influence, their silence must be taken
as acquiescence and they must bear
that heavy share of the responsibility
which their failure to act fixes upon
them.
Only few days ago we had an ad-
dress from the Republicans of Ohio
county advocating removal of po-
litical disabilities in this State. The
cardor of that paper and the high char.
acter of those who put it forth, have all
been conceded. But with what con-
sistency can these gentlemen advocate
the enfranchisement of rebels, while
calmly acquiescing in the wholesale pro-
scription of men legally entitled to
vote' Gentlemen of the Republican
party in Ohio couHty, you have it in
your hands to put an end at
once ito this abuse of the reg
istration power of which you com.
plain. Do not deceive yourselves. You
may convince the people that the grad
nal enfranchisement of rebels is the
proper policy, but you cannot persuade
them that the corrupt disfranchise-
ment of Union men, which you admit
has marked the course of your party
heretofore, is justi6able and ought to
be continued. 1t is the blackest feature
of your war legislation. 1t is a shame
and disgrace to the State, and to you
who make professions of magnanimity, it
is a standing rebuke and a reproach. The
proscriptionists openly question the
sincerity of your address, while you
tacitly endorse them in their arbitrary
management of the registration ma
chine, and they feel well assured that
what you profess in the one direction is
mere than counter balanced by, what
you permit in the other.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-06
fHE LET-UP MOVEMENT,
How it Take. in parher.burr

..-. 10" t"r,o7>3.yg Times, September 81
lie ne important movement of the Re-
''.''anS Of Oaio county, West Va.
..'- ..'''rN cutie Il stig in the ranks of
t''hr !rrGbicans. While we are
t..-.'.Iy.' 'H"f a large number of them
INV tobo.>a the action Of their
p. .'l OF OHIO county and are ready
,r. them IN their movement. there
que aug ',''' who s,ill entertain that the
+. -, 1Hs h't get come to lei up: and if
l...,'.". be left TO their Judgment to
f-.,"e ."e when that time ha, arrived. we
- 's5h''rT would elapse before they
,a, , uee.G II safe 10 remove the pres.
Vs.. restrictions; nay. some are so ev.
,ss". ana yludlctive in their Senti.
s' ras..5 Is TO maintain that fine evistinc
y4,.;:Suons should be made even moTs
n-,.'''.'.,,Ive, and if possible. az tho or
Va - themselves, new screw aGSod y
sroi tLank God, have no affl;at;on r;.b
rs,I ,l, ,l.e"s, convinced that they viii ~ M
3-a f. Io restoration of harmony oI;aD
ha,,to. o.e'er those from us Who 10 on.
par-itss AZ present to any of the est, W. nU. :.
deyeIo1,,and and permanently impede tbs
tIse.opment tIs and check irrefr;aetI tIe
W growth of our State. '"oly
po,,u snail, perhaps, soon bave
spirit Is 'y Sa 70 count noses and show what
ansp,ilsS, y PSeryading a majority of our %in' at
'"oal Republicans. u our IN
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-06

The ship laborers' strike at Quebec
has ended.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-06
WILLIAM HARE,

PLUMBEn AND
Gas FITTER, No. Monroe o., wheel
'hS o,SSr. from TIE country ATTENDED % .
~ -. ssyD
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-06

4 dispatch from Philadelphia, dated
Saturday, says The Hsithla1 Base Ball
Club, (coIored) after challenging a nun
Der Of white clubs Of this city who re-
fused 10 play, succeeded in getting their
challenge accepted by the Olympic
Club. The Olympies defeated the Hsi-
thians By 44 to %. Tie novelty oi tne
affair drew an immense crowd, IL oeing
the first game played between ws,ss Is
and colored club. Colonel Fitzgerald
one Of our city editors. acted as umpire
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-06
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