New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-19
NEW YORK.

ArrivaIs-Bank Statement-TIass Meeting
of Carpenters Methodist Conference
| Eight New BishOps-Sentence for Murder
| Specie Shipments-COrpse of a Selma
Man by Express-Payments for Re-
deemed 5-2O's-Interest on Public Debt
Fires in the WOOds-1IOnetary and
| Commercial.
! New YORK, May 1S.-Arrived-St Steamers
England, George Cromwell Georgia, United
| States and Huntsville. Arrived Out-As-
| syria.
| The bank statement shows loans increase
! 5O,0OG; specie increase 1915, 900; legal ten
der increase 81, 500, 600; deposits increase
| S2,OOO,OOO; circulation increase $750,000
A mass meeting of carpenters rejected the
| proposition of the bosses for the eight hour
! system to commence November |. All car
| penters are ordered to step work Monday
The Methodist Conference adopted res
| olutiOn electing eight new bishops, one of
| whom is from the South.
Libbie Cara abrant, for the murder of
Ransom +. Burroughs at Paterson, New
Jersey, was sentenced to-day to be hanged
on Julyl9.
Specie shipments to-day amounted to
$958,OO0 including $lS7, 900 in silver bars.
A corpse was received at Adams Express
office on Friday, addressed to Schenectady,
New York. The casket was said to contain
Selma, Alabama, who died of gunshot
wound. As the corpse could not be re-
moved from the city without permit from
the Board of Health, the coroner made an
examination, gave permission to remove
the body and telegraphed to DR.. Backers,
at Selma.
The Assistant Treasurer paid out $293, 900
gold to-day, on account of the 5-20s re-
deemed, raising the grand total to $49, $780,
900, and S4s0,00 on account of the interest
on the public debt.
An additional delegation of the Atalanta
Boat Club left for England to-day.
A case of yellow fever has been reported
on the schooner John Foster, lying at Jer-
sey City.
A private dispatch saws that the miners
at AlbrightOn, Luzerne county, Pennsylva-
mia, struck for an advance in wages.
Fires at TObyhanna, on che Delaware,
Lockawanna and Western railroad, are
now under control, and the village has
not been destroyed, but the woods and
sawmills beyond are still burning. A
woods fire has been raging at Yapa-
hank, Long Island, for two days and nights,
moving rapidly along the Long Island rail
road track. About 5000 cords of wood |
have been destroyed; loss $4,000. The fire |
was ignited by lunatic.
A large fire broke out this morning in the |
woods near BaypOrt on the south side of 1
the railroad station.
Money in the forenoon was y cent on |
call loans; later in the day it was loaned at |
A y cent, and finally closed at 203. Ster- |
ling 91R G99s Gold fI30Il39s. Governments |
steady; new fves I11A; skies of 1881 1885; /
ive-twenties of 1862, 1l3l5; 1864, 1I38; |
1865. 1879, new issues 1853; 1867, ll6A; |
1868, II61s; tenfOrties lin. State bends |
quiet Tennessees, old 7I13; new 7l&;
Virginias old 48; new 55; Louisianas,
old SO; new SIS; levee skies g. II; eights
II; Alabama eights Sc, fives co. Georgia
skies 20; sevens 884R; North Carolinas, old
33, new 90; South CarOlinas old 48; new 49,
During the week cotton has advanced on
an improvement in Liverpool and small
receipts at the seapOrts. Sales for the /
week reached sc, 500 bales, of which SO, 500
were for future delivery, and 5000 bales on
the spot and to arrive; of the spot cotton,
spinners took about $500 bales, and specu-
latOrs 275 bales.
The naval store trade is in a more encour-
aging condition. There have been sales
this week of q 900 barrels spirits of turpen-
tine, for July delivery, at 4504Sc, and
about 10000 barrels, for August, st 48c.