New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-17
NEW YORK.

| MORE elIeW EeFeF OL Rurauune-Int
| COIored Debaters-Tweed and Sweeney
Suits not AbRndOned-Clainlsf from Brit
ish SOurces-BOutvelI and Fish-JOur
neymen TaiIOrs - Yacht Capsized-
Lager Beer Sellers Convention.
New YORK, Arrived--Holsatias from
| London; NADIA, from Bordeaux; Maine,
! from Bremen. Arrived Out-Russia.
| The brig Sea Bird, from MaricaibO, ar
rived with yellow fever.
| All the Numencia patients but two are
| cOnva!escent.
The debate between Saunders and Gar
rett, both cOlOred, advocating respectively
Greeley and Grant, took place at the
Cooper Institute last night, in the presence
of a large mixed audience. Much confusion
and i'll feeling was manifested toward the
champion of Mr.. Greeley, and the meeting
broke up almost in a row.
The State Attorney General denies the
report that the civil and criminal suits
against Tweed and Sweeney have been
abandoned.
A Washington dispatch states that claims
aggrPgating $ll7 SOC, 900 have been filed
before the mixed American and English
commission from British sources for dam
ages sustained by the seizure and cOnfsca-
ton of blockade runners and their cargOes
during the rebellion by the American gov
eminent.
1t is stated that Secretary Boutwell, will
deliver several political addresses in Penn
sylvania next month.
Secretary Fish is reported too unwell to
return to Washington at present.
Secretary Boutwell, arrived here to-day,
aud is the guest of l.. p. Morton.
ArriVed-Stcemer France, from Liverpool.
The International Association of Jour
neymen Tailors elected Jacob MorstOl, of
this city, president of the convention, and
adjourned to meet in Norfolk, Virginia, on
the second Monday in August, 1873.
The yacht Blossom yesterday capsized in
a storm off Far ROckaway. The crew, num-
bering eleven, saved their lives by clinging
to the bottom Of the yacht, where they re
manned five hours in the storm. They finally
righted the yacht and beached her. The
crew lost everything.
1t is reported that a large firm in the cOf-
fee trade has failed.
A convention Of lager beer sellers and
liquor dealers met in this city to-day, Tor
the purpose Of organizing a central assO-
citation to work for the election of non
prOhibitOTy men this fall.
William Page, president of the National
Academy of Arts, was not attacked with
paralysis as reported yesterday. He was
overcome by exhaustion, but has recovered.
Money active, with an advance in the
rate OF interest on call loans, closing at A a
Az. Exchange quiet; closed at S3s a so.
6Olu liO4 ~ liO"B. Governments urn at Is
advance on last nights figures, steady all
day, closing firm at opening prices. Skies
of 1881, l18ls five-twenties of 1862, ll6l3
1865, 1861 new ll5l8; StaUe bonds duI,
but steady; Tennessees, old 1884, new 1874;
Virginias, old As, new 5OIR, consolidated
5038; Louisianas old so, new As; levee skies
so, Fights 70; Alabama Fights 49, fves s.;
Georgia skies 70, sevens Sc; North CarOliHas,
old 49, new 20, special tax ID; SOnth Carroll
mas, old 81, new 28A, April and October IS.
The steamboat Seawanakah exploded her
steam cylinder in He'll Gate this morning,
creating panic among the passengers, who
we're taken Oft by another boat No lives
lost
fire in the press room of the Christian
JiiOn, Henry Ward Beecher's paper, last
night caused damage to the extent of $780,
600