Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-18
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NRW YORK.

NEw YoRK. April ls.--The Herald
special from Vienna says the Industrial
Exposition building in that city Is in
backward state Of preparation and can
not possibly be finished for use on tbs
LIST Of Nay, the day liked for the opening
and Inauguration Of the worlds fair
The roofing Of the dome is incomplete,
The labor force now at work on the
building is inferior.
A Herald special from Havana says
an American named Oscar Wilson was
arrested on Monday night on complaint
of the London detective officers who ar
rived by the Moro Castle, and who had
been sent to take Bidwell, the Bank Of
England forger, to England. The bag
gage belonging TO the detectives had
been robbed of money andpapers. They
supposed Wilson had them, and had him
arrested on the supposition that he is a
confederate Of the Bidwell gang
The steamer Tybee, Of the SANTANA
Bay Company, starts to-day. The YES
sci carries out an assorted cargo and
dispatches of the company and officers.
There are but few passengers, among
them Henry Conrad, late American
Consul at Hayti, and his family VIM.
NJ. Davis, of Philadelphia; Captain
Simpson, Of Providence, and Edward
D. Hall. 10 actien has been taken
upon the report Of Chief Engineer Hal
sey until it is rendered more complete
A special to the Times from New Or
leans says: Later news from the scene
Of hostilities in Grant parish show that
the massacre Of negroes at Colfax court
house was even more horrible and com
plete than at first reported. 1t appears
that not single colored man was killed
until all Of them had surrendered to the
whites, when over one hundred unfcrtu-
nate negroes we're shot down in cold
blood. After the butchery the whites
scattered in every direction. Many left
for the Texas border. No arrests
have yet been made. Grant parish
being over two hundred miles from the
mouth Of Red river, and but few boats
leaving the city, the State authorities
have great difficulty in procuring trans
portation to that region for the militia
that has been ordered there. A small
number Of State militia arrived at the
scene the day after the massacre. They
buried over sixty bodies of colored men.
There was intense excitement on Wall
street yesterday in the early part of the
day, it being confidently expected by
many that disastrous panic wonld en-
sue. During the first half hour after
the opening of the stock exchange prices
were all better, the bears evidently fol-
lowing the same tactics as on the previ-
GUS day in figuring speculations. On
the bull side the market began to
sag, and stocks we're thrown over in
great blocks, which had a tendency
to bring about a marked decline, and
every stock on the list gave way and fell
to figure nearly the same as during
the panic on the previous day. The
tactics of the previous day on the part
IF the bears was observed so far as
he marked and strong reaction in prices
1t the close Of business was concerned.
Every stock recovered what it had lost
Turing the day, and in some instances
higher prices were realized than during
he upward movement of the morning.
,ut no settled opinion about anything
IN the part of anybody.
The agents Of the White 'Star Steam
hip Company publish a card concern.
ng the Atlantic disaster, contradicting
tatements which have been published
egarding the condition Of the vessel
Vhen she was wrecked. The agents say
hat she was fully proVisioned for thirty
20 days. and was not short on any par
ocular kind of food, as reported. She
Iad 967 tons of coal, which was
efficient. as her average consumption
1as seven hundred and forty-four tons
yer voyage. No opinion is given re-
arding the professional error Of Capt
Williams in placing his ship 50 far from
he point of calculation. From the ma
ure of the coal it burned rapidly, and
or this reason the captain, apprehend-
ng a shortness Of coal, decided to enter
Halifax, port which has been made use
( for coaling purposes By eleven steam.
rs. belonging to various European lines,
ince January, 1872. \
CALIFORNIA.