New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-06

| Baptist Association, which is to take place
| IN few days, on Long Island, the Rev. s.
| n hyatt Smith and George r. PentecOst, of
| Brooklyn, will be put on trial for radical
lsm on the subject of open communion.
| Smiths views have caused a great deal of
interest among the Baptisfs
At Bayonne, New Jersey, this morning
| an explosion of nitro-g -glycerine occurred on
the Central railroad, where some eaboose
laborers had been at work track-buildinp.
Glycerine was applied for an experimental
Elast. The qualrymen were ensconeed be-
hind boulders. After the blast Patrick Nc
Glvnn, who was not more than forty feet
distant, was found horribly mangled, with
his right arm torn off by pieces of rock.
Another laborer was struck in the bowels,
and is in dying condition. Another was
lifted into the air, and is dangerously hurt
A residence 200 feet distant had It's root
crushed through, by a boulder weighing
1000 pounds.
The excise board to-day refused license
to Paul Falk, against whom the Seventh
Methodist Church made a complaint for
selling beer.
The money market was active and strin-
gent to-day, ranging from 7, gold, to IA,
closing at rs. The exchange market was
weak in the morning, when sales were
made at l06& for prime bankers sixty
days sterling and LOS for sight, but in
the afternoon there was decreased de-
mand for bills and an advance in rates,
closing at 107 a I07A for sixty days.
The gold market was active and excited;
price declined sharply under the pressure
OF sales; from ll424 to 1884, and afterward
rallied to ll4A, closing at lI41s a II4A.
about 500, ,S86,000
Governments opened steady at II q Ao
lower than at the close last night, and de-
clined Is a IA during the day.
Cotton was dull early in the week, but
atterward became more active and ad-
vanced. The sales for the week reached
ll6,268 bales. of which I02 100 bales were
for future delivery and IA, 1853 on the spot
and to arrive. Exporters took S009 bales,
spinners $3.50, spectators 81, and 209 were
in transit
Money stringent at gold to a COM
mission. Sterling light, SIS 0Sl5. Gold
HAS a ll44 Bonds declined "a to ",
closing steady. Skies of 1881, 1855; FIVE
twenties of 1862, 11424; 1864, l14a4; 1865,
new 1l0A ten-forties 107a4 State bonds
quiet; Tennessee skies, old 1915, new 7214;
Virginia SKIES A, new Az, consols SOS, de-
ferred Is; Missouri skies 80, st. Joseph
8958; Louisiana skies so, new 48, levee
skies IS, eights 60; Alabama eights 80, ffves
60; Georgia skies 70, sevens 85: North Caro-
lima old 30, new 49, special tax IL: South Caro-
Iinas 40, new % Is, April and October 231a.
The coach drivers strike for two dollars
per week advance has been successful.
Loss by Patterson, New Jersey, fire yes
terday, $375, 900; 300 persons are thrown
out Of employment. Bonds, papers and
over 100000 worth of patterns were saved.
A Washington dispatch says the filing of
the vacancy in the Mexican claims umpire.
caused by the death of Dr. Francis Lieber,
will probably lead to trouble. Our govern
ment, it is said, would be unwilling to ac-
cept any one named by Mexico as all ques-
tions preferred would be by lot.
The Indian cases. amounting to $32000,-
600, might fall to the Mexican umpire, and
the interest of his country, it is contended,
would necessarily bias his Judgment. It is
also said that Mexico can not consistently
ask any of the European nations to name
an umpire,
A Washington dispatch to the World
says that special dispatch received there
reports that Foster BIodgett was arrested
in Columbia, District of Columbia, on the
charge of forgery, while treasurer of the
Western and Atlantic railway, in 1869
He was subsequently discharged, but it
was expected that requisition would be
made for him by the Governor of Georgia.