Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-31
NEW YORK NEWS.
The Price of COal-Butterfleld' Defeat
Another CustOm-HOuSe SWindle-
British Indemnity-The Mo-
does TO be Shot, Etc.

NEW YORK, July 30.-Edwsrd Ba-
ercke d Co, importers Of glassware,
etc, whose books have been seized by
the custom officers, and against whom
suits have been commenced TO recover
penalties for alleged violations of the
revenue laws, assert that all the viola
tious of law were committed by one
Clark, who was in charge Of the bust
ness here during the absence of the firm
in Europe, that while he altered the
charges at the custOmhOuse he made
proper entries in the books Of the firm,
and that when a sufficient number Of
these alterations had taken place to war
rant a good case against the firm, he
voluntarily retired from their employ,
having previously arranged with the
custom officer to get one-fourth of the
amount recovered from the firm by
compromise or conviction.
At the monthly sale of Scranton coal
to-day seventy-ive thousand tons were
sold. as follows: Steamboat, 465 tons,
at S73 cents; crate, 495, at 50; egg, SIS,
at 35; stove, $50, st 2l3; chestnut, 40,
at Is. These prices were advanced on
June sales as follows: Steamboat Pip
cents, CRATE 1902, egg 2S4, stove Log,
chestnut l34. This general advance is
said 10 be in accordance with the plans
of a cOal-cOmbinatiOn.
A report is current that William NJ.
Tweed has escaped the new indictment
through a stupid blunder or design of
some official. Andrew Garvey testified
before the grand jury that he collected a
bill from the city for one hundred and
twenty-six thousand seven hundred and
seven dollars, and-that he collected the
bill through lngersOll, TO whom he gave,
on the same day, his check for ninety
five thousand dollars. On this and other
testimony concerning parties implicated,
the grand jury ordered an indictment
against Tweed, IngersOll, and William
L. King, Tweedis private secretary, but
when the bill Of indictment was returned
for the signature of the foreman, the
name of Tweed was found omitted, and
the mistake is such it cannot be recti-
fed. Ingersoll and King having fled,
the new indictment is worthless.
The commissioners Of emigration have
complied with the request OF the Vail
manson society TO return to Roumania
five immigrants, who are unable to sup
port themselves here. and they think
the consul at Bucharest is deserving of
censure for permitting such emigra-
tiOn.
Thirty thousand German Catholics in
this city have petitioned the commits
siOners to give the Catholics in Wards
island q separate place for worship.
The will Of the late Louis Tappay has
been. presented for probate. His proper
tv, which is valued at less than five
thousand dollars, is left 10 the wife and
daughter Of the deceased.
4 iowop1ar pfrral1 - paoaoy, ctrao+
New York, delivered himself up last
evening, saying he had just killed his
brother, James. During a quarrel at
the above place, the murderer says, his
brother made an attack on him, and cut
him in the neck.
Peter Terrell has been indicted for the
murder of Gilbert A. Robinson, a jewell
er, in his store at Rye Neck, New York,
on the night Of April 25, 1859.
In the United States District court to-
day proceedings were instituted on
cdpids against G. X. Garrison, William
G Fargo, J. McB. Davidson and S. G.
Wheeler, b0ndsmeD of General Daniel
Butterfield when he was assistant-treas-
urer at New York, TO recover three thou
sand dollars, the amount of deficit dis
covered when he left office.
London papers at hand contain the
following special telegram to the Man
chester Guardian, dated July 18th: "At
Hull, on Tuesday, SignOr Cont, and
Messrs. Russell, Quincy and Frazier,
arbitrators appointed under the treaty
of Washington to investigate the claims
of British subjects against the govern
ment of the United States for injuries
duriug the war, made an order for SS4,-
3g2 in gold in favor of Messrs. Bailey q
Ieetbom, ship-Owners Of Hull, for the
destruction of the steamer London at
the time General Banks's expedition was
sent TO the south. The reward will be
paid through the British government.
An attempt was made at the cotton
exchange TO pass q resolution contain
ing a penalty for making fictitious sales.
Ii was voted down by large majority,
amid great excitement.
The board of officers of the corps OF
engineers, tosconsider plans for a ship
canal from the Mississippi river TO the
Gulf Of Mexico, met here to-day, and
adjourned TO meet in New Orleans.
Unofficial advices received at the war
department state that the court has
found all the MOdoc Indians on trial
guilty of murder, and has ordered all Of
them TO be shot.
tits estimated that the damage by the
rain-storm yesterday at Newark is over
two hundred thousand dollars. Nearly
all the Easements in the city were
flooded. Several buildings were dam
aged and some set on fire by lightning.
One house was blown down and COM
pletely demolished. Two grocery stores
were ruined by the flood, and also q shoe
store. Factories had their machinery
damaged. Hundreds of people In the
lower part Of the city were driven out OF
cellars, several having narrow escapes
from cToYping.