New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-07
NEW YORK.

French News by the World Special-Ar-
rivaIs-Service of Plate to Retiring
President of Stock Exchnnge-Specie
Shipments-ImpOrts of Foreign Dry
GoOds-Arrested for NIutiny-Two Pris-
oners Fatally Injured at Sing Sing
Fall of n GaIlery-Bank Statement
Governments Dull.
Especial to the New York World
New YORK, May 6.-ROssel is preparing
for an offensive movement with 40 900 of his
best men.
The communists cannot be expelled from
Fort Issy. The advanced batteries have
opened on Fort Valerian.
NEW YORK, May 6.-Arrived: Abyssinia.
Arrived out: China and Westphalia.
The Stock Exchange presented service
of plate to Mr.. Seymour, its retiring
president.
The specie shipment to-day amounted to
81 ,064 900.
The imports of foreign dry goods this
week was over $l1, 100000.
Cable dispatches report the death of Oko-
lowitz, and the serious illness of Auber, the
composer.
William Ryan, Barney O'Donohue, and
James Devile, belonging to the ship William
+. Storer, were arrested for mutiny, and
held in $4,000 bail each for examination.
In Sing Sing prison, a gallery across which
the men were marching to dinner yesterday
gave way, precipitating over eighty con-
victs, some to the next gallery below, and
others to the stone pavement forty feet be-
meath. 1t was found that two prisoners
were fatally injured.
A dispatch from the great break on the
Erie Canal says navigation will be resumed
within ten days should the weather favor,
and no further trouble with the laborers
occur.
Money easy at sos. Sterling quiet at TO-
Gold Ill y. Governments dull and steady.
Southerns dull and steady. Tennessees,
673A; new, 673s; Virginias, g.; new, II;
sc; Alabamas 102; fives, 20; Georgias 80;
sevens, 88; North Carolinas, AZ; new, 25;
South Carolinas, II; new, 6012.
John Orvis, of Boston, presided at the
opening session of the labor convention to-
day, at the Cooper Institute, at which there
was a very slim attendance.
William West, working man of this city,
submitted series of resolutions calling for
political organization of. the workingmen
classes; providing for municipal, State and
national assemblies, and primary meetings
in schools and courthOuses of the people,
No vote was taken on the resolutions.
Horace Ploy, of the New England reform
union, declared that the working men of
New England would run candidates for
President and Vice-President at the next
elections.
NEW YORK, May 6. - Horace Greeley
leaves New York on Thursday next to at
tend the State Fair at Houston, Texas.
ssThe following is the bank statement:
Loans, increase $l,750, 900; specie, increase
nearly S250,0Oo; deposits, increase over
81 100000; legal tenders, increase over
$l,500,000.
Evening.-The events of the week In
Wall street were unimportant. Dizziness
was the great feature. The fluctuations on
the Stock Exchange and in the gold room
were generally confined with narrow limits
Gold was yery steady all forenoon at Ill W
0I1l4. At about 5 p. NJ, it fell off from
lIIA 0IIlA. Skies of 1881 advanced Is
this afternoon sixes of 1881, 1l7; five
twenties of 1867, Ill; sixtyfours Ill; sixty
fves III, new 1874 sixty-sevens ll34;
sixty-eights 1874; ten-forties l09ls.