New Orleans Republican., 1872-06-02
NEW YORK.

James Gordon Bennett DeHd-Specie Ship-
ments-The Bank Observation-Disclosures
COnference-NewY York Press on SUM
ner's Speech-Meeting of Strikers
Piano Makers i Base Ball Jerome
Races.
New YORK, June l.-James Gordon Ben
net is dead, aged seventy-seven.
Notwithstanding Columbia, Georgia.
SOuder, Ariadne, Hermann and City of
Baltimore.
Specie shipments to-day $2750.0OO.
The bank statement shows: Loans in
creased 81, 900, 900; specie increased $500, 900;
legal tenders increased g., l25 600; deposits
increased So, 3,50C, 600.
The Methodist Conference to-day elected
E. o. Haven secretary of the Church Edu-
catiOnal Society. The report of the com
mittee on the state of the Church, censur-
ing sinful amusements, was again taken IN
and finally adopted by vote of I89 to IS.
The committee on temperance reported a
series Of resolutions declaring in favor of
legal prohibition of the sale of LIQUORS.
that dealers should be made responsible for
the woes inflicted on communities: that
members of the Church should not rent
property for liquor stores, or in any wav
cOuntenance the traffic.
The Methodist Conference voted to adj
jOurn sine die on Tuesday.
The Times says: Mr.. Summers speech is a
collection Of ISLANDERS against the President,
with literary, antiquarian and scholastic
embellishments.
The Tribune considers Mr.. Summers
speech one Of the greatest he ever deliv-
cred.
The World says: Mr.. Summers indictment
OF Grant recites nothing which the Demo
cratic press of the country has not reite-
rated for months, but coming from man
whose biography is the history of the Re
publican party, will carry conviction where
Democratic voices would pass as idle wind.
The Sun STYLES Mr.. Sumner the American
Caesar and calls the speech magnificent.
The Herald says Mr.. Summers speech is
a savage arraignment of the President,
and the bitterness which evidently is pro-
Voked by a sense Of personal prOvOcatiOn
will weaken its force. 1t contains nothing
new but the statement of Mr.. Stanton that
Grant could not govern the country.
Meetings Of the varnishers, piano makers
and other striking trades were held this
morning. One piano firm conceded the de-
mands of their employees. The wOrkmen
are confident the strike will end in a week.
1t is reported that the strike will extend to.
Philadelphia and Baltimore next week.
Money easy at 405 u cent on call loans.
Sterling unchanged. Gold Il44 Govern
ments generally advanced Is; new fves
ll2&; skies of 1881 1893; tive-twent ties of
1907 ia; 1864, la; 1860 ll5; new issues ll64;
1867, ll7A; 1868, l71B; ten-forties ll2. State
bonds closed dull; Tennessees, old 72Ia,-
new 72l5; Virginias, old 48, new "a; Louis
lanas, old 60, new 55; levee skies 63, eights-
18; Alabama eights 86, fves SO; Georgia
skies Y, sevens s.; North Carolinas old 30.
new 20: South CarOlinas, old So new 34k.
This afternoon the piano manufacturers
held meeting, and passed resolutions
pledging themselves in no case to accede to
less than ten hours work by their men.
twenty-five firms were represented.
AT the base ball match to day the AthIet-
cs were beaten by the Mutuais by score
Of to 2.
AT the Jerome Park races to-day the first
race was for the FOrdham stakes, handicap
'weepstakes. Twelve horses started. Or
an won, Frank Ross second Time 2:l4.
second race, Belmont stakes, one mile
and hVe furlOngs. Nine horses started
Joe Daniel won. Time-2:59A.
Third race, purse $500, three-quarters Of
;. mile Eight horses started Alarm won.
Time-l:l8.
Fourth race, steeple chase, two and half
[CoNTnJUED on EIGHTH PAeE.I