New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-06
WHOLE NUMBER 1923.

for Reform convention, the meeting ad-
journed.
The legal authorities are consulting as to
the steps necessary to stay a general jail de-
livery. which is threatened by the decision
declaring the Court of Special Sessions TO ba
illegal. The district attorney is to resist all.
applications for the release of the con-
victeG men. Meanwhile, the court is to be
reorganized in accordance with the law.
The Morris and Essex railroad shops
burned Loss $4,000 A large number of
workmen are thrown out OF employment
After q stringent day money closed firm
at = cent on call loans. Sterling dull a.
9b 09A. Gold 1l0ls a 10as. Governments
closed steady at ls a 4 ; decline skies of 1851
i1oss; hye-twenties of 1862 ll24s; 1864 ll2l2;
!Soo ll2's; new issues iii 12: 1867 1929;
is6S, li2%; ten-forties 10sA. State bonds
dull but steady; Tennessees, old 66Ia new
ool2; |irglnias Sc, new 56 Louisianas, old
3c' new %; Levee SKIES 81; eights 70: Ala
bama elghts 81; fves 60; Georgia SKIES 73:
seyens &; North Carolinas, old 36la: new
2oA: South Carolinas IL, new 37a..
Az meeting OF master masons and build
ers, held at the Mechanics and Traders Ex-
change this afternoon, 10 consult on ones.
tions of wages and hours of labor. they re-
fused written application from the work
lngmens Union to appoint a committee to
confer with the wOrkingIncn A delepation
of working bricklayers was admitted to
urge their views. Some of the bosses de-
clared that reducing the hours of labor two
hours would lessen the capital Of the coun-
try twenty per cent.
The sense OF the meeting was that the
bosses had no objection to eight hours, pro.
vided the regulation was universal in all
the States, and that New York EMPLOYERS
would not be subject to competition from
neighboring States, where men could be
got to come. here and work ten, but they
considered that the change to eight hours
would be detrimental to the workmen.
The meeting declared that any decision
would be premature: and adjourned after
passing resolutions of regret at the death
of Professor Morse.
Charles Smith, musician, was shot this
afternoon in Brooklyn, receiving painful
but not dangerous wOand. The shot is sup
posed to have been fired from an air gun, as
no report was heard. 1t must have been
intended for painter who was at work
near by, men of that trade being on a strike.
Boss painters have called on the Mayor to
protect men at work against the strikers.
TomOrrow's Tribune will state that At
torney General Barlow has instituted in the
Supreme Court at Albany suit against
Jay Gould and Frederick H. Lane to COM
pei them to account for their management
of the Erie railway, and 70 restore to the
ceived. The summons in this case has been
served on Gould. Lane and General John
A. Dix. Field d Sherman, attorneys for
Lane and Gould, returned notice Yesterday
of the acceptance of service. General Dix,
as president OF the road. is included as a
mere fOrmality, but it is probably under
stood that the road will in reality finally
prosecute the case.
The fact that the Erie road is included
in the suit as co-defendant with Gould
and Lane, also leads to the belief that
Archer, Eldridge, Sisson, and all the mem
bers OF the old ring, are affected by it. Il
recovery is had from the road by sue
cessful suit, all the members of the old
board will have to pay the losses which re-
suited to the company by their negligence
in not restraining Gould, Lane and Fisk, or
Dy their completely in any operations
which may be proved to be corrupt. The
answer will have to be filed before the.
twenty-fOurth instant.
Two convicts who attempted to escape
from Blackwelrs Island yesterday, were
found concealed in a smallpox hospital.
The remains of Professor Morse were to-
day taken to the Madison Square Presby-
terian Church, where the funeral services
were performed by the Rev. DR.. Adams
The body of the Church had been reserved
for delegations from various organizations,
which had expressed their intention to be
present.
Among the delegations present were Gov
ernor Hoffman and staff, a committee from
the New York Legislature. the directors of
the Western Union and the directors OF the
New York and Newfoundland Telegraph
companies, a delegation from the Academy
of Design. a delegation representing the
Evangelical Alliance, the New York city
Common Council. trustees of Vassar Col
lege, committee of three from the Com
mon Council of Poughkeepse, and several
other delegations of less note. The coffin
was borne into the church on the shoulders
OF four men, surrounded by a crowd and
followed by the family and friends of the
deceased and the delegations.
There were seventeen new cases of small
pox yesterday and six deaths.
A barber named Wilkinson on Tuesday
night shot Mrs. Burkhardt twice with q
revolver, because she refused to marry him.
The woman is now dying. Wilkinson is
said to have killed his wife, a mulatto girl,
some years since, at York, Pennsylvania,
where he broke Jail and escaped to this.
city.