New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-28

prisOnment and Five Thousand Dol.
lars Fine-The Umpire Gets Six Months
Arrivals Bank Statement Govern
ments Steady-Southerns Dull-Week's
Financial Events Unimportant.
NEW YORK, May 27.-Judge Dowling
| sentenced the prize fighters, Tim Collins
sand Billy Edwards, to twelve months i'm
prisonment and $4,000 fine each, and in de-
! fault of the payment of the fine, another
years Imprisonment. McAlpine the um-
pire. gets six months in the penitentiary
and $500 fine.
Arrived: Mississippi.
The following is the bank statement:
Loans increased two millions; specie in
creased one hundred thousand; deposits in
creased nearly five millions; legal tenders
increased nearly a million and three
quarters
The specie shipments to-day amounted to
nearly half million.
Money closed easy at 304c. Sterling
nominally steady: Gold Ill Il 1l15s. Gov
ernments closed steady at ls advance. Ten
nessees and North Carolinas, new, very
active; others dull; Tennessees 7213. new
1888; Virginias 69ls, new 741e; LOuisianas
60, new 621e; levee skies 20; eights "a;
Alabamas l03, fives 20; Georgias SS, sevens
9213; North Carolinas AZ y, new 26la: South
Carolinas IS, new 637s.
The weeks financial events were unim
pOrtant. The gold room has been tame
In the stock room there have been ftful
spasms of buOyance, but these have been
confined to speculative shares.
Money closed up very easy. Leading
bankers ask l03s for sterling.
The French cable between Duxbury and
st. Pierre Miquelon failed to-day. Com
munication with Europe is however main
tanned by means of the Western Union Com
pany's overland lines and cables to ST.
Perre.
The prize fighters, Immediately after be-
ing sentenced, were removed to the peniten-
tiary.
The sub-treasury disbursed S2750, 900 for
interest; received s., 100000 from customs.
Skies of 1881, ll7l4 five-twenties of 1862.
ll19s; of 1864, 1l135; of 1865, 1ll5s; new
1873; of 1867, 1875; 1868, lii ten-forties,
1898.
General Walker, a son of Robert J.
Walker, received verdict of $2O 900 against
the Erie Railway Company for injuries re
ceiyed from an accident two years ago.
The Stot says, editorially: A It Ong cor
poration of Northern capitalists has now
IN hand the construction of a railroad from
Mobile, through New Orleans, to Houston,
Texas, distance of AIS miles. Among the
leading stockholders are Hon. E. ID. Nor
gan, Hon. John A. Griswold, Hon. Oakes
Ames, Messrs Morton, Bliss & Co., j. & w.
SeligmaE, L. Won Hoffman & Co., and
others, who have put into the work solid
basis of money amounting to nearly SIC, ,OO0-
900. Nearly tw0-thirds of the entire line
has already been built with their own funds
They have now made mortgage upon the
Louisiana division of the road to E. ID.
Morgan and o. Ames, trustees and offer for
sale, at reinunerative rate, the eight per
cent bonds secured by mortgage.
This division of tho rood will onoe+;4,,to
the only rail connection between Texas and
It's natural shipping port, aud as such it will
naturally " have very large traffic. 1t has
been esteemed so important to Louisiana
that the State has granted its aid to the
amount OF more than $4,000, 900, in direct
donation, subscriptions to the stock, and the
guarantee of the second mortgage bonds.
The financial agent of the company is
Mr. w. B. Shattuck, who has been very