The Evansville journal., 1870-01-21
NE w YORK
financial MatteTs-Rail Items
Cub3n News, &C., &c.

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Cuban News, &c., &c.
New YoRK, January 1S.-The E!E
press reviews the statement that the
| Rothschllds have proposed 10 take
81, GOO, 100000 of the new United
States five per cent. bonds at par in
/ gold, to run twenty FIVE years, with a
liberal sinking fund, and interest
payable at London, Paris, and Frank
fort
A report in Wall Street says the
| Northern Pacific Railroad proposes to
use twenty-five miles of the Lake Su-
| perior IL Mississippi Railroad, from
4 DuDleith westward, thence ever about
due west, crossing the Mississippi
north of Crow River, emerging from
/ the Wilderness at Otter Tail Lake.
and reaching Red River of the north
at Fort Abercrom5ie.
Owing to the renewal of the re-
ports of new issue of $1,000, 900 Of
Rock Island stock, the Committee on
Securities Of the Stock Exchange has
been Instructed to inquire into the
/ T. & w. Railroad yesterday au-
new stock, which each holder of com
mon steck has the privilege OF tax
ing by paying 20 per cent. in cash.
! This viii give the company about
| $500, Goo cash to expend on the road.
The Stock Exchange, dissatisfied
with the tardy act ION Of the commit
tee appointed to select the location
for new building, yesterday ousted
the proerastinatOrs, and elected a new
live committee of nine, with John w.
/ Denny, Chairman The uptown
movement will now receive a fresh
impetus.
The Cuban Junta, on Wednesday
| night, received information agreeing
with the report Of the Spanish Gen.
eral, Puello5, in regard to the defeat
near Guaimaro, on or about the 1st
ult. They are advised that he was
forced TO return to Puerto Principe
after losing 1900 meD, bat will await
further news before laying claim to
the great unprecedented victory thus
| indicated.
NEW YoRK, January 20. = The
steamship South America, from Rio
Janeiro December 18th, brings the
melanch holy intelligence of the death
of Louis Gottschalk, the celebrated
American pianist ard composer.
While giving a monster concert at
Rio Janeiro, he fell senseless at his
instrument, during the performance
of his favorite composition, La MOrete.
He was taken to Tijua, where he liu-
gered three weeks, and expired on
the 18th of December.
The Emperor sent continually dur
ing his illness, to obtain tidings of
his condition. The funeral was con
Quoted by the Philharmonic Society of
Rio Janeiro, and was attended by an
extraordinary number of persons of
all nationalities. The remains were
deposited in the cemetery OF St. ohm
the Baptist.
New York, January 2O.- The
managers of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroads, and
the Toledo and Wabash and West
ern Railroad, who have been ia ses-
sion some days, negotiating for basis
! for pro1rating the business Of the
: two roads, adjourned to-day without
: eHecting an arrangement. 1t is Un
/ / derstood that the contracts now in
force on the Wabash prevented new
t arrangement, but they will expire on
t the 1st Of May, aud that an amieable
! arrangement Will be made before that
Z time, salts factory to both parties.
J Affidavits have been issued against
: Alderman James Barker and others,
? proprietors of a large distillery on
: Eighth Street. between Tenth and
: Eleventh Avenues, charging them
: with illegal evasion Of the payment
of whisky tax to the amount Of 1916.
600. Warrants have been issued fol
i the arrest of the proprietors. Barker
/, has voluntarily surrendered himself
) 10 the authorities. As the alleged
T offences were committed over two
: years ago, it is probable that the pro
| / ceedings will be barred by Limitation
/ The Herald publishes long letter
: from a son of jeremiah S. Black,
D | touching the political opinions and
position Of the late Il. NJ. Stanton, as
e a member of Buchanan's Cabinet
G on the secession movements from
Dee. 1860, to March 1861. Black
Q saws that under Buchanan's s admins
q tration Stanton was not only a Demo.
crat, but States Rights Democrat
! and as the last chance he was In favor
5, of compromising with the South
p ern secessiOnists, but upon the ques
5 ton of surTendering Fort Sumter,
: be supported Mr. Black and some
/ other members Of the Cabinet against
8 the shameful alternative of suTren
). der, which the President had re
q solved upon; that thus the trembling
e imbeciiity Of Buchanan was over
: come, AMI his proposed answer tt
South Carolina was essentially
n changed, for it was agreed that For
e Sumter should have men and pro
i visions. General Cass, Secretary O
e State, had before Withdrawn from th,
Cabinet in disgust, on learning tha
the order to strengthen the forts o
: Charleston Harbor had been unac
a countably put of, and that the della,
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