The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-04
NEW YORK CITY.

NEW DIRK, August En- TegAEu u
The seizure by the sheriff Of two vessels
belonging to the Pacific Mail Steamship
COMPANY, President Bradbury says the
attachment was rather miStake in the
"snsp" matter, arranged for the purpose
OF influencing matters on tho street. The
amount claimed was $780, 900, to secure
which, bonds would be given today,
President Bradbury states that x.Presi'
dent StOCkwell should have paid these
taxes, as he had funds for that purpose,
The matter, however, would DO inVCsti-
gated, and as bond had been given, the
departure Of the vessels would not be in.
terfered with.
Tho World has a double.leaded editorl.
al on tho Democratic party and its allies.
The article begins thus: 1.-THE natural
allies Of tho Democratic party at tho pres.
ent time are two more or less imperlectly
Organized bodies of citizens, namely,
Liberal Republicans and farmers oranges,
and are Classcd as follows: Tho true
thing 10 do Is 10 encourage the other or
ganizations, but resoluLely maintain the
Democratic standard OipOliLiCal doctrine,
for unless democracy can be again made
a living conviction in tho public mind,
reforms Of government will never be more
than skin deep"
A stay of proceedings has been granted
In the case Of Murphy, sentenced to be
hanged Friday next. A reprlcVe is cx'
pected from the Governor,
Christine Durer, aged l9, Of 9l7 Spring.
field Avenue, Newark, has been arrested
on the charge OF killing Edward Lawley,
aged 4, by wilInlly throwing him down
stairs. -. ... .-.. -.
Tho Directors have suspended the llo.
bOken Savings Bank, but say that
the doors were not closed for the
want Of funds, but TO allow an examina.
ton TO be made 10 ascertain the exact
amount OF the absconding officials defal-
cation. Tho liabilities are placed nj
81, ,O23 900, and the assets at 81 OBI, ,743.
In the insurance libel suit against
Stephen English, he has brought in the
names Of Winston and Hoops. English
has given bail In the sum Of $4,000.
Boston dispatches say General Butler
will publish, in few days, an elaborate
legal and historical defense Of Congress
sional back pay, and that tho document
abounds in flashes Of sarcasm.
From foreign files lust received are
culled the following:
The Jesuits expelled from Germany
havo in part found a new home IN Lam
cashire, England. After they had wan.
dered through Belgium and England, the
Brothers Of st. APPLETON placed an estate
at their disposal, aud tho fathers at once
q Convent at Dillon Hall, with
nearly 100 inmates. Other colonies of
German Jesuits have established them
selves at StrOnghurst and st. Buenos, IN
North Wales.
The explanation all Berlin of the story
recently started in the Vienna newspapers
that the treaty between Russia and
Prussia providing for q new partition Of
Poland was signed in 1868, is 10 the effect
that after the Polish rebellion Of 1868 had
been suppressed the Russian Government
offered to cede 10 Prussia part OF the
troublesome country, but Bismarck de.
clined the acquisition because he was ol
the upinion that with still greater num-
ber Of subjects belonging 10 that
nationality, iuimiCal to the Pfusslan
Government on tho principle that con-
stitutiOnal government would become an
impOssibiliIy.
The health oil King John Of SaxOny 10
such as 10 occasion spprehensions OF
dropsy.
A counterfeit OF tho English hAlf.cGglC
coinage of 1872 is in circulation in this
city and Boston, and so closely initiates
the genuine as 10 almost defy detection.
In weight and coin the counterfeit Corre'
sponds with the legal coin, and is made
OF S4S-100O gold, sllOyed with copper
and minimum silver; intrinsic value AL
1000. The outlines Oi the letters and eagle
In counterfeit are not as sharp, square and
angular as in genuine. The chief Of tho
secret service oilers reward oil $5,OOO
Tor information leading 10 tho capture oil
the dies from which the spurious article
was made and 10 the arrest and convic-
lion Of tho parties guilty Of making and
putting it into circulation. The counter
ieit twenty dollar gold pieces arc in Circu'
lation and efforts arc making TO trace them
10 the suspected persons.
Three hundred lAborcrs, guarded by a
large police force, made a clean sweep TO.
night Of the booths and stands around
Fulton market. Agreat crowd witnessed
the disposition Of the old haunts, but
made no disturbance.
General Quesada is said 10 have enroll
ed iu this city about three hundred men,
mostly American, for service in Cuba
against the SpRniards.
II Is officially stated that application
has been made Ut the District Attorneys
office for copy Of the testimony 10 the
WalWorth case, which Is tO'be sent TO the
Governor.
The Cholera has appeared at Union
Hill, New Jersey, opposite New York.
In two cases reported, ono proved fatal
One fatal case Is reported at Pleasant
vile, on the Harlem Railroad.
Twenty-three thousand SIX hundred
emigrants arrived at this port last week.
Tie London Telegraph Of the 24th says
an argument in support Of demurrer TO
a bill filed by salvalan Khan, a Persian
noble, against Baron Do Reuter-, was
heard yesterday by the Lord Chancellor
The plaintiff alleges thats concession was
granted him by the Shah OF Persia IN
1860, and that In fact he has rights which
bar those OF the Baron De Reuter-.