Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-30
NEW YORK.
TIE sea Trade-East River Bridge
soldiers Colony Scheme-Cuban
War Material.
A Defiant Convict in SiEg Sing-A
WrestliBg-Hatch-The Wateh-MOTe-
ment Fraud-Carl YOgt-
Etc., Etc, Etc.

New YORK, July 29.-The depression
Of the tea trade the past year or two has
been caused by the failure of the follow
ing firms: J. D. Mckenzie & Co., w.
H. Gillet & Co., Smith & NOyes, Charles
f. Eill & Co., Phillip, Dater & Co.
Mckenzie, one of the earliest sufferers,
has made a settlement and resumed
business, and the other firms mentioned
either have made or are making settle
ments with their creditors.
The last of tie mossiRc iron plates for
the East river bridge anchorage, was
placed in position yesterday.
t I Sidney Darlon, the famous oysternan
Fulton market, is dead.
The Wilson colony association, formed
of enable former soldiers to take ad-
vantage of the new homestead law, will
send a committee west in September to
select land. The first party Of coloDists
are expected to leave this city next
spring.
A cargo Of war material, which the
steamer Virginius succeeded in landing
on the coast of Cuba for the insurgent
army, was composed of the following
articles: Five hundred Remington ri
fles, fifty Spencer rifles, one hundred
and fifty needle-guns, two hundred
thousand cartriges, one ton Of gun-pow-
der, two hundred sabres, revOlvers,
etc, besides a large quantity of medi-
cines, clothing, etc.
The notorious Wes Allen Sing Sing
convict, refused yesterday to join par
ty of fellow -convicts being sent TO the
Auburn State prison. He retreated into
his cell and armed himself with knife.
When the authorities We're about TO at
tack him he pointed TO can Of nitro
glycerine, which he had in his cell,
threatening TO blow up the prison IL
molested. The officers then retreated.
A wrestling-match for five hundred
dollars was made last night between
John Mcmahon, the American collar
and-elbow champion, and Albert Ellis,
the English Devonshire and Cromwell
lightweight champion.
1t is understood that the government
viii press the cases against parties who
have been importing inferior watch
movements into this country, with the
forged names Of American manufaetur-
ers engraved on them.
The London Times Of the seventeenth
expresses the opinion that the Ashantee
war may yet become a formidable af-
fair.
Upto the twenty-fOurth OF this month,
the total number of immigrants who
had arrived this year was one hundred
and seventy-nine thousand three hun
dred and seventy-six, which is only be-
tween seven and eight hundred less
than the figures at the corresponding
period last year.
1t was rumored in the city to-day that
the long delay in the State department,
in disposicg of the case Of Carl Vogt,
the Belgian murderer, is owing to the
fact that they have now under consi,i-
Grafton the PIE iminaries of an extradi-
ton treaty with Belgium, under which
Vogt can be extradited, thus avoiding
the complications which would be likely
10 arise in case he should be extradited
under a treaty with Prussia, or in case
that the demand of the government
should be refused under an opinion Of
Attorney-General Williams. 1t Is also
rumored that owing TO the peculiar
phase which the case has assumed, the
matter viii become subject to cabinet
conference.