Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-24
NEW YORK.
The Presbyterian SynOd-ImpOrtant
Proceedings The stokes Trial
Reeusant Sha3ks.
YagsTnts Nh dered-FlnanciaI Matters
-Haight 6 90 Expelled from the
stock Exchange.
Currency Payne ts-The Grani.Wil-
Iiams COrrespOndence-ResOla-
tiOns Of the Metropolitan
Bank, Etc.

Bank, Etc.
New YORK, October 22.-The Presby-
] terian synod met to-day in the West
Presbyterian church, Rev. Robin A.
Sawyer, moderator, presided. Rev. DR.
! Kendall gave an account of the opera
| tons Of the missionaries in the freed
! mems cause. The work has extended
greatly, and its practical workings now
reach TO the Pacific coast. The Presby-
| terian church has representatives among
the freedmen in every 3 ate excepting
| Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama and Ari-
IONA. DR.. Kendall having said that the
! the board would go on, gradually but
surely extending its operations, ad-
! yOcated the planting Of Presbyterian
church wherever they had the right to
I do 30 He begged them to remember
that they could not afford to stop their
work, and that missionaries must not
I be allowed to suffer.
/ Rev. D. McClelland of Pittsburg,
( spoke on the same subject. He said
there are among the freedmen 103
/ churches, 1908 commandments, 500
scholars in Sunday-schOols, 1904 schol-
aTs in parOchial schools, and l24 mis-
sionaries. Last year l455 churches, or
| less than one-third of the whole number
in the general assembly, contributed to
this work S57, coo. During the last three
I years about $500 per year had been con-
! tributed by the churches and schools
/ under their charge, the money going
into the work they were carrying on.
L Il. T-fNl III ..
vaneed, and the church-WOIk Is all that
could be hoped for. DR.. EllenWood, sec,
retary of the board Of foreign missions,
addressed the synod on the subject of
| foreign missions. The financial con-
dition Of the board is very unfavOrable,
and the coming winteris looked forward
to with apprehension.
Among the witnesses in the Stokes
case to-day, to testify to the mem
| tai condition Of the prisoner pre-
viOus to the shooting Of James
Fisk, was W. F. G.. ShaBks, an editor
of the Tribune, who was brought from
prison in Brooklyn. He said Stokes
had told him that Fisk had put price
on his (StOkes) head, and that two men
we're after him, and that he carried 8
pistol for his own protection. Other ev-
idence was given, going to show that
Stokes. believed that Fisk or some of his
followers would shoot MIN.
Jennie Turner, waiting maid to Morse,
in the Grand Central hotel, said
she came from the sick to give evidence.
On the evening of January 9th l saw
Stokes come along the secOnd-tiOor of
the ball and look into parlor No. 207,
pass on, then turn and look in again for
the deceased, and then go to the head of
the ladies' staircase: turning my head
he was not in sight; she was cleaning
the globe around the corner of the ele-
vator; she went around the elevator to
speak to Hart, when the report of a pis-
tol was heard, and Stokes came back,
looking very pale, and called out
twice: "Get doctOT;H then she went
to the head Of the ladies' stairs, and saw
Fisk wounded, and a lady coming up
the stairs pick up pistol on the fourth
step and hand it to a gentleman; she
then told what she had seen to Mr. |
Morse.
William II. ChampsOn, professor of
Hdterid Bledjcd in a university, gave il
a. his opinion that Fisk died from the
effects Of drugs administered after he
was shot.
j. and z. Mclaughlin, vagrants, about
half-past seven O'Clock last evening,
went into an unfinished building a. A.
Monroe street. About eleven O'Clock,
John was found with his head hOrr bly,
mashed, and beside him an irOn-tip-
ped cart-ring covered with blood. Mi
chael Cody, the owner of the building
and his son Jas. Cody, and James Muir
ray were arrested.
The board of officers of the Turkish
army have arrived to inspect the quality
of firearms manufactured in this coun-
try, for their government.
President Grant authorizes the posi- |
tive denial of having written n. Will |
Jams or any one else letter containing
any such statement made as is public.
Edward Haight, ST., who represents |
Haight & Co. in the stock exchange, |
was expelled to-day for the assigned |
reast that the senior member of the |
firm had Overdrawn his account with |
the bank Of the Commonwealth four hum |
dred thousand dollars, and only returned I
a part, causing the closing Of the bank. /
The Times says: 1.-The system of gem
eral currency payments in greenbacks
aud national bauk-nOtes is about TO
solve Itself. Most of the banks are pay
ing on all demands when prefaced TO
the certihcatiOn Of checks, and the
difference against the checks of other
banks that frame their position decline
to pay out large sums of currency, Is only
b9t per cent. in exchange for green
backs or national. Some first-class
banks are not only helping their neigh
bOrs TO greenbacks and sending cur
rency TO their country correspond
ents, but they are paying their debtor
balances at the clearing house in green
han anLy in r,la r ~aIi iaf h. I
practical condition of the question is in
favor Of q voluntary general resump-
ton Of currency payments in a
very few days. No bank that
hopes to retail their old accounts OF
value, or expects to acquire new sc-
counts Of g desirable character in the city
or country will deem it prudent to
have it known that it is behind its
neighbors; and as to the scaling and
pooling process the public will lose sil
interest in it if q majority Of the pru-
IDENTIFY managed banks are content TO
tolerate its inequalities after q resump-
ton on greenbacks at the counters Of
the banks is made general or universal.
A Washington dispatch says: " 1t Is
stated that no copy Of the Presidents
letter to John Z. Williams is returned
there"
Mr.. Williams says the letter from
President Grant merely acknowledged
the receipt OF one rom him, and ex-
pressed his anxious desire to do all he
could TO relieve the monetary panic. He
then asks the question, Why can't banks
come together and make some arrange
ment for the relief of merchants and
the public? adding that he will do all
ia bis power to assist them.
At the meeting the bank presidents
to-day, Mr. Williams, OF the Metropoii-
tan national bank, submitted letter he
had received from the President Ii
was very brief, and simply stated that
for three or four weeks the President
would feel disposed, in the case Of urg-