The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-16
o "A N "A D A.
Financial Jugglery The Great Boat
Race-Release Of Fenian Prisoners
Riel and the Northwest A
Queer Cruise-A Horror Of
the H0usctop-A Mtssis.
sippi Incident.


and so this letter shall be merely few para
graphs embodying the fotsam and jetsam of news
items of all sorts thrown up by the waves of
journalism.
FINANCIAL.
The annual statement Of imports and exports
for the past year has just been published. There
Ia an increase of $3,oOOOOO. or about four and
three-quarters per cent, In imports, while the ex
ports show an advance of $ll 900 900, or twenty
per cent. The government returns show that only
100000 worth of fractional currency has been
placed In circulation, and another $3.50, 900 Is
being issued. As some $4,000 of American
silver was retired from circulation by the govern
ment scheme of expectation, and Its place 80 well
filed by the fractional currency that no inconveni
ence has ensued, it would seem utterly impossible
that so small sum of currency as $40O00 would
be adequate for the purpose, which only three
months ago took s4,5OO,OOO. That the public
accounts and statements in Canada are oil
cooked no one has ever doubted. But this last
item is so egregiously incorrect as to cause much
public comment.
SPORTING.
Two thousand dollars of the five thousand stake
money, between the Tyne and st. Johns crews is
already up. The race is to take place at Lachine
on the 18th of September. Both crews will
arrive here on the 18th of this month and have
taken houses and engaged cooks at Lachine.
There is good deal of speculation on the result.
The Tyne men are, as might be expected favor
ties. but anything better than 100 to rs or 100 to
30 is readily taken. An attempt will be made
to get up O single scull race between
Walter Brown and Renforth, the English cham
pion. l hear that the New York oarsmen
think OF getting up four-oared crew
to row the winners at New York. If this is true,
it must be borne in mind that by the articles the
st. John and Tyne men cannot row together ont
side OF Lachine unless tho consent of the Lachine
Boating Club has been obtained. The address of
the Secretary, Major S. Ii. Wallis, is Grand Trunk
The prompt justice done by the American gov
eminent in the CAGES of O'Neill, Starr Thompson
and the other Fenians, has Disguised the Canadian
press. For the past three years they have pre-
dicted that such thing as conviction for infrac
ton of the neutrality laws by Fenians at the hands
Of an American jury was thing impossible.
that President Grant may pardon them out.
In that case the British lion may vet roar.
But if the moor devils have to blde in close
prison till their term is out, don't really
know what the rantng loyalists of Canada
will do. A petition to the American govern.
ment, or, rather memorial to General Grant,
from the Irishmen OF Canada has been drafted
and signatures were being canvassed for
it in this city yesterday. Mr.. F. B. MacNamee,
one of the leading IrshInen of the city and form,
erly president of the st. Patricks Society leaves
to-day for Ottawa. hear that the object of his
mission is to endeavor to obtain similar recon-
mendation, If possible, from the Canadian govern
ment 1t will be represented that the Canadian
authorities have full faith in the honor Of the
American people, and in their intention to stop
any further raids. The Fenian movement being
dead the (magnanmous) Canadian government
would not desire to have the poor blind dupes
punished too severely. Therefore if the Ameri.
cans would be pleased, having manifested their
power to repress and readiness to punish, to re-
lease said prisoners, the people of Canada would
greet such an act as q new link of friendship be-
tween the two nations. To such an air under
COursol has been out at Sweetsburg, examining
the Fenian prisoners held there. One of them
Thomas Murphy, respectable farmer of st. Al
bans, Vt-who was captured while driving team,
has been released on his own recognizance to an.
pear at the next session of the Court of Queens
Bench, at Sweetsburg, in October. This is prac-
tically his acauittal The other prisoner-Captain
Murphy, of New York-is still imprisoned. hut
hear that he has applied to the American Consul,
Mr.. W. A. Dart, to have his case investigated.
THE NORTHWEST.
The reported amnesty to Riel and his fellows,
which raised such storm of indignation among
the English speaking inhabitants of Canada, is
now generally conlradicted and dscredited.
learn that an urgent message has been sent by a
friend OF bis in the government at Ottawa telling
Rel to fly to the States for the present This has
been caused by the discovery made last week
that over 200 of the Ontario volunteers. now
forming part of the Manitoba expedition,
O'Donahue, Lepine and other prominent rebels. |
Advices from Fort Garry say that O Donahue has /
sent an emissary to General Spear urging him to |
send Fenian aid to Manitoba so as to oppose the |
further advance OF the expedition. Your CORE |
spondent at Fort Garry will, however, keep you |
posted and his news is likely to be more authentic,
If less sensational, than the dispatches from Red |
River to the Globe and Teegruph the generally |
of these being from Our own Special Commits |
sioner " in the back Office
TRAGEDIES AND THINGS.
We have had more than our share of what news |
paper reporters cal-or, rather miscall-' fatal |
ties F" of late. woman at Gloucester, near
Ottawa, standing in need of change OF husbands, |
undertook to improve upon the iaodus ope,andi in |
Hamlet, and, instead of using cursed helle- |
bore and hebenon in vial melted four
pewter spoons in an iron ladle, and while
her husband was snoring the snore of
the righteous poured the insinuating fluid |
into his ear. An unsteadiness characteristic of |
the amateur criminal marred the success of this
otherwise good philosophical experiment, and the
man survives although he has lost eye, and the |
molten metal has burned his head and face in the |
most shocking manner, cutting channels to the
bone.
The second horror was at a building on st.
James street in this city. Five men were raising
stone to the third story bya windlass placed on
lOOse Wllcl DcdHlS gave way ana men,
stone, windass and beamswere all flung together
into the basement. Two men, crushed to a jelly,
never spoke: three more are mangled for life.
The cellar was very shambles-blood, brains,
flesh, all in one pool-untila workman mingled the
ghastly puddle with lime and the thirsty earth
drank it up. The Coroner's jury disagreed over
verdict, frye being for accidental death, the other
eight for verdict of wful murder against the
whose names put record-Messrs
Bourguoin and Plante.
And finally We have had small Mississippi sem
saton. market boat, at gray dawn having no
lights up met barge in mid channel, and as
chary of coal oil. A collision ensued. The
steamer went down in two minutes. or her lis
passengers five are said to have persisted, though
later advices bring up the dcath-rol to seventeen
have thus given you all the local news and
reserve politics to my next.