Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
NEW YORK.
A Lookup Of Five Million Dollars.
Secretary Boutwell, Appealed to.

Jay Gould Holding with the Hare
and Running with the Hound.
NEW YORK, April S.-The Tribune this
! morning states that proceedings have been
instituted by the United States Assistant
! District Attorney Purdy in the United
States Commissioners Court against the
! officers of the Tenth National Bank, for
having used their institution to lock up
! legal tenders, with view Of causing a de-
| cline in stocks.
LATER.-The lock up of money with
which the Tenth National Bank is charged
was caused by an attempt of Henry n.
! Smith, Jay Gould and other Wall street
men TO secure fall in stocks, these gentle
men being on the Bear side. Altogether
/ they withdrew from circulation without a
moments warning about four aud three
| quarters millions legal tenders. In cor Sc
quence of the closeness of money this has
induced, there was great embarrassment
| Saturday at the Commercial Exchange. a
| telegram has been sent to Secretary Bout
well, requesting him TO relieve the money
market by loaning a portion of the large
! reserve in the Treasury. 1t is said a num-
! Der of the operators will be arrested to-day.
| The Tribune says that the Attorney Gen
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! is not instigated by the new MANAGEMENT.
! On the contrary it is said Gould is giving
! the management every assistance in the
work of reforming the road.
The FrancO-German Peace.
The committee for the celebration of the
anniversary of last years peace Jubilee
have issued a call on Germans to decorate
their houses April 10 and to illuminate
them in the evening. The German Land
wehr Verein, an association of former
members of the Prussian militia, has APP
| pointed a committee to make arrangement
for the observance of the day.
The International working uVG the
Oppressed Masses Relief or ReVO-
luton.
A mass meeting of Germans was held
Yesterday forenoon in East-fOgrth street to
discuss the eight hour question and form an
! eight hour league. One of the speakers
said ifthey could not obtain what they
wanted by legislation it would be got by
revolutionary means.
The New York Internationals held a
meeting Yesterday. Five new zieIJS were
organized. Communications from seventy
different parts Of the country were received.
llG OGllldl1o llAll1 d DdlG VI IuC
| Council have split and OTganiZeda separate
council Of their own. There seems to be a
/ disunion existing in the lnternatiunals of
Europe, and here the Germans wish to es-
/ tablish their,cOmmunistiC system, the French
advocating their doctrine of socialism.
! The General Council of London has been
applied to to settle the difficulty. 1t was
decided to invite the discOntented Germans
! to return. The InternatiOnals will hold a
! Congress on Aug. l. The proceedings Of
| yesterday give signs of brewing trouble.
ROme's African Mission.
! Rev. Herbert Vaughan, who is on a mis-
sion to America for the Archbishop of
! Westminster, England, on behalf of the
| cOlored people, yesterday preached at ST..
! Peters Catholic Church. He said, although
much thus far has been done for the COL
Ored race, little had been thought Of their
spiritual welfare.
The new Church of st. Alphonsus Lig-
ouri, said to present the most elegant inte-
| riOr on the continent, was dedicated by
Archbishop McClosky yesterday.
UniversaIism.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher surprised his
congregation yesterday by calling on them
to contribute to a Uniyersalist preacher,
of Kansas, who would solicit from them du.
ring the week.
Tried to Shoot Her Husband.
Mrs. Fidelia Manning, of Brooklyn, was
before Justice Delmar and charged with at.
tempting to kill her husband by firing two
! shots from a revolver at him on Monday last.
The testimony showed the most cruel treat
ment on the part of Manning toward his
wife. She was held to wait the action OF
the grand jury.
AIsatianE.
Some sixteen hundred immigrants from
Alsace and Lorraine arrived during last
week, all destined West, and all in apparent
good circumstances.
Yachting.
The yachts Sappho and Dauntless are
ready for the ocean trip to COweS, and will
sail on the 18th. 1t is reported that five
/ other yachts of New York Club will join
them in June, and the whole fleet make a
trip to St. Petersburg.
SiIk-Weavers' Political Club.
The German silk-weavers organized q
political workingmen's club last night.
Fisk's Opera House.
It is reported that Gould sold his interest
in the Grand Opera House to Mrs. Fisk
! who is now the sole owner of that building
Spotted Fever.
Three new cases of spotted fever occur
red in Newark yesterday, and several other
cases in the neighboTing villages. 1t i;
feared that it will become epidemic.
Explosion Of Fire.Damp.
A Scranton dispatch states that Edward
Sullivan was fatally and three others seri
ously burned by an explosion of fire-damI
in the Pinebrook coal mine Friday.