Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-25
BY TELE G R A P Il
LATEST TO NOON TO-DAY.
Dispatches to the Southwestern Press
Association.
NEW YORK.

| NEW ORky rcuEuuty 60 hS ien'
many Theater collapsed yesterday. The
managers are out of town, the company
are unpaid, and the doors are closed.
This makes the third fasco in the amuse-
ment business this week.
Orders have been received from the
Minister Of Marine refusing the return to
the Peninsula Of the men-of-war Vic
toria, Scatals, Havasde. Toxka, Cuidad,
Decodiz, Sanquintin, Vasco, Hanez,
Debalboa and Ulloa. They are to return
in February as the Delameter gunSoats.
Under the presence of these large YES
sells, unnecessary in the waters OF the
! Island of Cuba, the Spanish man-of-war
Kalapta was taken in the Brooklyn Navy
Yard yesterday.
1t is said that the officers of the Brook.
lyn Navy Yard have invited Captain
Commerel and the officers Of her Britanic
Msjesty's steamer Monarch to grand
ball and supper, to be given within the
precincts of the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
and that Captain Commerel and his Off
GERS have accepted.
The gunboat Yantic left the navy yard
yesterday to take in her powder at the
battery, and to 90 from there to the West
Indies on an expedition to take sound
ipgs between the different islands for the
purpose of laying cable.
The Alumni Association Of Dickinson
College held their first reunion in this
city at the Astor House last evening.
The committee on the reception of
the Hon. VIM. b. Seward will meet that
gentleman at the Aston House this even
ing at six o'clock, and learn that gentle
mans wishes IS to the time when the
proposed banquet shall take place.
| Jay Gould, W. 81. Vanderbilt, Horace
F. Clarke and others we're before the
Legislative Railroad Committee, yester-
day, to give testimony in relation TO the
sleeping and drawing room car business
Vanderbilt testified that he had no inter-
est in these cars, and that no efforts were
made by the company to induce passen-
gers to ride in them. He regarded them
as an injury to the road, on account of
their great weight in proportion to the
number of passengers they carried, but
that they were forced to permit them on
the Central and Hudson railroads, in or.
der to compete with the Pennsylvania
Central and other roads. Jay Gould
testified that the palace cars on the Erie
road were run by an independent COM
pauy having no connection with the Erie
Railroad Company, aud whose president
he did not even know by name.
1t is stated that the Erie Railway Com.
pany have offered 5000 600 for the ground
on which the Protestant Episcopal Theo-
logical Seminary stands, on Ninth
avenue, with view to create mammoth
railroad depot on the property. The
Erie cars, it is stated, are also intended
to cross the river from Jersey City by
running under the bed of the river in a
gigantic tunnel
Assistant Treasurer Folger, of New
York, wrote to q member of the House
Committee on Appropriations saying
that the legislation bill only appropria-
ted nine thousand dollars for the next
fiscal year for clerks, porters and de-
tectives for his Office, and that one hun
dred and ffty.eight thousand dollars
were needed to keep the Office going with
its present force, and if the treasury APP
preparation s not made nsmber of en-
ployes in the sub.treasury will soon be
discharged.
The steamer St. Laurent has arrived
from Havre.