Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-27
NEW YORK.
Trouble Between tbe Ship Owners and
Sailors clearinghouse Keep
ers i'm Gotham.
sealping- Knives and Other Playthings
fer the MOdOcs and Other Tribes
Of Indians.
The Eight Hour Project Abandoned for
the Present-Erie and Olher Rail-
road Intelligence.
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Insurance
Suit-HeaTy DefalcatiOn.

NEW YORK, April 26.-The ship
owners and ship-masters' ASSOCIATION
proDose, in view of the arrests last night,
IA see how far organized bands of sailor
boarding-house-ke keepers may interfere
with the commerce of the port. These
l,eepers and their runners have been
DoId Of late. They have prevented men
rom shipping before the commissioner,
a. required by law, and even insist that
tbe advance-money shall be paid within
rUeptv-four hours after the men have
beeD nut on board, and that often with
ont the seamen's signature to the note.
They also seek to prevent men from
shipping that they may break down the
law. and for that purpose have COM
,nitfee in the neighbOrhOod of the COM
rnissioner's office, frightening OF sea-
MGR. and If a seaman does get into the
Office he is frequently followed there
aud openly threatened with violence
II he ships in any manner or on terms
other than the bOarding-house-Ke keepers
dictate. A number OF vessels Wltn
their cargoes on board, have been de-
tanned for days, awaiting their crews.
The purchasing committee Of the board
~ Indian commissioners have con-
fracted for fifteen hundred and three
dozen butcher-knives, and one hundred
and twenty dozen skinning-knives,
among other articles TO be furnished the
Indians.
Wall Street gossip intimates that il
In, Erie and Atlantic and Great Wes-
torn railroads cannot be consolidated
The working or running arrange
,oeuts on q pro rata basis viii be
eefabIished. Il is also said that Gould,
uisoboffzcheim and Goldsmith have
onaned the regular Erie campaign
Could having gone short Of stock OF
sales to the latter, who are long. The
,.auoDaign is to be still further enlivened
,coording 10 the same authority, by 6
war TO be waged by BischOftscheim
F5rie's London banker, on President
Watson.
Twentv-seven delegates, from various
t-.des-unions in the United States, me
i'm secret session last evening, and afte
discussion resolved TO postpone any at
fernnt TO enforce the eight-hour rul'
until 1874.
To-day the legislative committee OF
grievauces resumed the investigation o
fba case Of Stephen English, now in jsi
io default Of bail, on a charge OF libe
preferred 10y Mr.. Winston, president o
4he Mutual Life insurance company
Testimony was taken showing that th'
allegations made against Winston ant
his company had no foundation IN fact
Robert Sewell, counsel for Mr.. Winston
testified that the bail, twenty thousand
doIIars. which Mr.. English is required
70 furnish, was fixed by Judge Barbour
vvitbouf suggestion from him or any
one connected with the Mutual com
many. When English heard Of the pro
daedings before Judge Barbour he fled t
Jersey CITY, where he was followed, and
1he eourt there ordered him TO find bal
in fine sum of ten thousand dollars
Preferring 10 be arrested in New York
FnqIish returned here, and accordiDgl!
Iyas lodged in jail in default of bail. II
,egard 10 the Mccullough investigation
5n $50. witness testified that Ton
Fields showed him a report damaging
~ he company, which was TO hav
Iaa, presented to the legislature, but h
subseduently had an interview Wit
Fields. which was arranged by WIN
N. Tweed, and q more favorable repor
was made to the assembly, but n
money was paid TO secure the change.
+. i. TaintOr, cashier of the Atlantis
national bank, reported to have con
fessed himself defaulter in four hundre'
Thousand dollars, tie bank Is said TO b
temperorarily suspended.
Investigation is being made by ths
Washington authorities into the &C
q cunts of Henry w. Whiting, cashie
OF the New York postOffice.
In the case Of the widow OF Jane
Fisk, ir., against the Union Pacific rail
road company, credit mObilier anG
o,Iers. n. w. Butler, who claims to b.
,,,-,,,.r Of twenty shares of stock, asket
I"5Se Rlatchford to-day, through coun
Sei Ia bs permitted 10 intervene IL
s1it and share IA the benefitsi also tina
suits shall not be discontinued wlthOu
notice 10 him. Decision reserved.