Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-13
GLIMPSES OF NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, May l2.
Charles II. Phelps, the jeweler who
was shot by burglars on Friday evening
last, is still living, and likely to recover.
John Moore is under arrest on suspi-
cion-he closely answering the descrip-
tion-of being the murderer of Phelps,
the jeweler.
The Mercantile Library Reading-roOm
was opened to-day for the first time on
Sunday. The attendance was about
one-fifth the usual number.
Tammany has called a meeting at
Tammany Hall, for Tuesday evening, to
consider suoh reorganization of the
Democratic party in this city as will Sc
cure success in the pending election.
The funeral of T. Buchanan Read
takes place Tuesday afternoon, from the
residence of his brother-in-law, j. E.
Caldwell, of Philadelphia. The remains
are to be inferred in Laurel Hill Gene
terry.
The bark Caroline, from Bremen, had
seventeen deaths during the passage, out
of four hundred and fourteen passengers,
and the bark Gessner from Bremen,
with three hundred and seventy-twO
passengers, had sixteen deaths.
The charges preferred against Judge
Curtis, Of the Marine Court, by the Bar
Association, are Published. The princi-
pal specifications are indecent language
from the bench, den ial of trial by jury,
and law partnership of a corrupt nature.
At the afternoon session of the Wood
hull Convention, yesterday, a resolution
was adopted authorizing the issue of
bonds for the expenses Of the campaign.
The bonds are to be payable when the
people succeed in regaining possession of
the government.
J. Palemenan, for a long time prom
inent clerk In the New York postoffice,
has been arrested and committed in de-
fault of five thousand dollars bail, for
embezzling letters and packages con-
tanning articles of valHe. Some of the
articles were found ON his person. He
admitted his guilt.
The brig abb Clifford, of Stockton,
Maine, arrived to-day from Pernam-
bueO. Captain Clifford, mate, steward
and a seaman died of yellow fever. The
Captains wife and others were sick, but
recovered. After the death of the mate
the Captains wife navigated the brig
and brought her into port.
Charles H. Smith, for the past two
years chief night operator on the West
ern wires in the general office of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, in
this city, has resigned and accepted the
assistant superintendeney of the Gold
and Stock Telegraph Company. The
Western press Is Indebted to him for
many oourtesies.
The HerGId's monetary article has the
following: "Some of the worse men of
the street, and the wise men of the
street, and those who have the reputa-
ton of being far-seeipg and sagacious
dealers, prognosticate a bull movement
next week that will at least cause the
market to recover from its present de
pressed condition, and send a majority
of the speculative stocks up three of four
per cent"
The anniversary of the Presbyterian
Board of Foreign Missions was held to-
night at Manis0n SqnaTe church. Rev.
DIR. EllenwoOd, President, reported that
the receipts for the year were four hum
dred and fifty-fve thousand dollars,
against three hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars the preceding year. There
was debt remaining of fifty thousand
dollars until q few days ago, when a Leg
aey of thirty-Sight thousand dollars was
received.