Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-26
NEW YORK.
Wholesale Indictment Of Keepers Of
Sailor B0arding.H .HOuses-The
Indian Commission
Commissioner Van Buren's BOnd-Rm-
per0r williams Present to
the Lutherans.

NEW YORK, April 25.-To-day it trans
pired that the oyer and terminer grand
jury had found indictments against one
hundred and twenty-seven keepers of
sailors boarding houses, charged with
violation Of the act of congress known
as the new shipping act, passed in 1872,
for the protection of sailors. About six
O'Clock seventy policemen, armed with
warrants, made tour of the fourth and
sixth wards and succeeded in arresting
fifty-twO of the indicted parties. The
arrests produced much excitement, and
but for the overwhelming force of po-
lice, resistance would doubtless have
been made. The arrested parties are
locked up in Oak street police station,
and viii, tomorrow, be arraigned at
the Tombs.
The Indian peace commissioners met
this evening, and made awards for sup
plies to the amount of over half mil
lion dollars. Among the successful bid
ders were George s. Bowers, Minneapo-
lis, Minnesota, blankets; Cahue, Wam-
pold d Co., Chicago, shirts; J. II. Hoi-
ton, Richmond, Indiana, dry goods; and
Logan, Gregg & Co., Pittsburg, hard
ware. Prices were very low, there
being about one hundred bidders.
Hon. F. r. BrunOt, chairman of the
board, and Robert Campbell, one of the
members, left tonight for Washington,
at the request Of Secretary Delano, to
confer with him in regard to visiting
various sections of the Indian country,
and holding a conference with the diff
ferent Indian tribes, during the sum-
mer.
An examination of the bond OF Colo
mel Van Buren,, commissioner to Vien-
nR, shows that it is not signed by him,
nor properly sealed, and the state de-
partment will not honor his drafts till
the mistakes made are rectified.
The EUent1g Post has a letter from
New FOundland which states that a
clause in the charter of the New York,
New Foundland and London telegraph
company, which has passed almost un-
noticed, provides that at the end of the
first twenty years the government of
New Foundland has the right of pur-
chasing the line at fair valuation.
The first twenty years terminate in 1875.
The company recently applied to the
government to have this clause rescinded
and their possession be thus continued
for the next thirty years, but the gov
eminent, under the most eminent legal
advice in London, decided that they
have the right TO purchase the line at
the cost of the plant, without paying
anything for the good will or valuation
of the profits, and refused. The receipt
Of this intelligence in London caused
the stock of the company to fall from
twenty pounds to fourteen pounds, but
after the panic had abated somewhat
it rose to seventeen pounds.
The board OF police granted officer
Henderson permission to bring suit for
damages against Robert Crawford, broth
er-in-Iaw of Commodore Vanderbilt, for
ahooting him over year ago.
The grand jury has indicted Assist
ant Deputy Marshal Moses Moritz for
murder. Moritz, as alleged, in attempt
ing to dispossess Margaret Gordon, of
No. 20 Goerck street, last January,
kicked and pushed her so violently that
she died'in February from the effects OF
the wounds.
A cannon, weighing nineteen hundred
and fifty pounds, has arrived here from
Berlin, as a present from the emperor to
the Lutheran church of Titusville. Penn
sylvynia. This cannon was captured
at Sedan, and will be cast into a bell for
the church b--------- -