New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-08
quarter of a million of dollars win change
hands on the result
NEW YORK.

rive Millions of Bonds ROuRhr Inv Cavern
ment-hore Legal Tenders-Tvveed's
YriaI - Horticulturist Dead-Bids for
the Five Millions GOld-Cuban Steamer
FIrsinius Observation-Disclosures and Dbfos
Railroad Accident-Amerfcan Agricul--
turni and Mechanical Association
Fourth Annual Fair Addressed by NErs
Greeley.
New YORK, October 7.-The announce
ment from Washington that the Treasury
Department. would sell five millions of
oonds, created stir in financial circles
Last evening large crowd of Wall street
operators We're congregated at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel discussing the gold question,
1he Times says it is now understood upon
good and we'll informed authority, that the
| government will place atsleast $I0,000O00
| IN gold upon the market to be sold for the
oeneht OF those needing coin to pay duties,
and tlansa st their foreign business.
| A Washington dispatch says the govern
ment will shortly take rigorous and de-
! c'SlVe action for protecting our Texas
boundaries from incursions of Mexican
smugglers and robbers.
The government bought $50OO,000 bonds
at l12740l1299. The government as.
cepted $5,00O,OOO gold at Ii2.740II35
| 1t IS reported on Wall street that the
| government will issue $20,000000 legal,
tenders at an early day
James Hayes who was shot and robbed
" d highway lnall, IN central Park, q few
days ago, died this morning in the hospital.
William NJ. Tweed's trial commences next
Monday.
James Morris, a soldier of 1912, is dead.
John Z. Thomson, horticulturist, is dead.
Arriyed-Steamers Henry Chauncey and
Columbia. Arrived out-Trinacua.
There are some forty bids for the FIVE
millions of gold, aggregating over seventeen
millions at lll0ll3 l-l00. The offers of
bonds aggregated nearly seven millions at
ll2 7-l0O TO lis.
Money has advanced to Lie ~ cent. Ster-,
ling exchange is higher; quoted at I0S for
long, l09as for short sight. Gold declined
to 1929, but subsequently advanced to-
ll3A. Rates for carrying 397 p cent.
governments are easier.
Skies OF 1881, l15&; etwenties of 1862,
las; 1864, ll5ss; 1865, 1855, new, 1144s;
1867, HAS; 1868, ll4aB, new fives 110lh;
ten-forties 1919. Tennessee skies, 734s,
new 72A; Virginia skies A, new 48, eonsol-
ldated 81, deferred l5#; Louisiana skies
9O, new %, levee SKIES So, eights GO; Ala
bama elghts gu tives 90; Georgia skies 10
seyens 90; North CarOhnas 80, new Is, special
tax /: South Carolinas 40, new %, April and
October 231b.
The Cuban steamer Virginius has escaped.
from Puerto Cabello.
Mr.. Sharpe, acting master of transporta-
ton of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
gives the following facts relative to the ac--
cldent: About half-past twelve o'clock Sal
urday locomotive No. 10, attached to q
freight train, exploded her boiler at Frank
vile, on a seventeen mile grade, eight and
q half miles west of Piedmont, West Vir-
ginia, killing Engineer Joseph Jockey and
Fireman John Duckforth, and iniuring
Brakeman Lynch SO severely that lie has
since died. The switchman was scaIded,
but not dangerously. The explosion is un,
accounted for, as the engine had been fail
ing tor steam and was taking side track
The fourth annual fair Of the American
Agricultural and Mechanical Society COM
mences tomorrow at their grounds at PIN
leo, adjoining the city, and will continue
tour days The number Of entries in almost.
grea{or +ban o+ 60 , LnG ,etooA' ID
6 $500 g'AA "U a. guy pA0N4ouS 6AhIpiGloA.
I1Ou horace Gr6GIeY Will deliver the
nual address Thursday at 1890 P, NJ. On q