New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-10
NEW YORK.

Death of IT, Buchanan Reid Expected
Prominent Men Dead-MOrmOn Mis-
siOnaries to EurOpe-General Confer
ence on Secret SOcieties-FFaternaI
Greeting to the Methodist Episcopal
Church SOuth-President of Erie-COt-
ton, Grain and Tobacco Burned.
NEW YORK, Nav 9.-The death of T.
Buchanan Reid is hourly apprehended.
Mr.. Hiram Livingston, a retired mer-
chant, died to-day, aged seventy-nine.
Judge PierrepOnt Isham is dead, aged
seventy.
Twenty-one Mormon missionaries sailed
for Europe to-day.
Numerous memorials were read to-day at
the General Conference on secret societies.
against the invidiOus distinction of race or
color in electing officers, and various other
subjects. Judge Caldwell proposed a dele
cation of six to carry fraternal greetings to
the Methodist Episcopal Church of the
South, which is to meet in 1874, and en-
deavOr to effect an organization with that
body. The latter clause was withdrawn,
and the motion carried.
The London rumor that Colonel Scott
was to be president of the Erie road is un-
confirmed here. 1t is not denied, however,
that such plan has been talked of.
Three hundred and fifty bales of cotton
were burned to-day in West street, and all
all the rest.in the building was thoroughly
to forty per cent per BALE Messrs. S. D.
Thompson & Co. have only an insurance on
general merchandise of $4,000.
Beside the cotton, there was a large guam
tity of grain, tobacco, etc, on the upper
floors of buildings Nos. 81, 80 and SO West
street, which was all damaged considerably
by fire and water The buildings were
owned by J. B. Bean, and are damaged by
fire to the amount of about $4,000. The
losses foot up: on cotton, $4,000; total
loss, $l22, 900.
Money 506 per cent on call loans.
Sterling weaker at l09lA 109H. Gold
l141s. Governments steady; new fves
1Il34; skies of 1881 11SA fve-twenties of
1862 ll3; 1864, lI3; 1865 1874, new issues
II5l4; 1867, 1855; 1868, I1524. Southern State
securities generally dull; Tennessees, old
e.; new g.; Virginias, old As; new 54; Lou
isianas old So; new 5515; levee skies 66;
eights 76; Alabama eights 81, fives 60;
Georgia skies 20; sevens SO; North CaFOlinas,
old, 80, new 90 South Carolinas so, new Sc.
The ffty-sixth anniversary meeting of the
American Bible Society was held to-day
Rev. luke H. Wiseman, a delegate from
the British and foreign society, after allud-
ing to the relations existing between his
society and one in this country. referred to
the Alabama claims, which, he affirmed
would ultimately be peacefully settled be-
tween the two countries for he. himself
could say, from what he knew and had seen.
that the people of England desired nothing
more than close alliance with the people
of America.
They are all, so to speak, of one country,
and the pioneers of religious sentiments all
over the habitable globe. The speaker con
cluded by very earnest eulogy of the
American Bible Society and the people of
America. Father Gavazzi was also to
speak.
A game of base ball to-day between the
EckfOrds, OF Brooklyn, and the BostOns, Of
Boston, was won by the latter. Score
twenty to nothing.
The State COlOred Convention adopted
an address urging the people to vote for
the Philadelphia nominees, accompanied
by resolutions declaring that the duty of
every colOred American citizen lies within
the lines of the Republican party; indOrs-
ing the administration of President Grant,
and agreeing to support the regular Re
publican nominees, State and national, and
recommending the Republican State con-
ventiOn to send William F. Butter, cOlOred,
as one of the delegates for the State at
| large to the Philadelphia convention.
While the building on the corner of Wall
and Broad streets was in course of demOli-
ton, the work being done by night to hasten
it, portion of the wall gave way, burying
| Thomas johnson. Martin Cox and Danlel
| I,earv in the ruins. All were badly in
iured. johnson will probably die.