New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-25
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NEW YORK.
Suspensions.


NEW YORK.
Suspensioes.
NEW YORK, December A.-Dolaud 4.
Burrell, -four dealers, and William II. Car
penter, millinery goods, have suspended.
The amount involved is believed to be about
$500, 900.
Fisk & Hatch have resumed.
A The Case Of Morton.
The case of John w. Morton, charged
with appropriating to his own Use $ll5,OOO
government funds while employed in the
mOaey order department OF the city post
Office, came up yesterday, and a molten WAS
made to quash the Indictment on the ground
that Mrs. Morton had turned over all her
property on the ground that criminal pro-
ceedings against her husband should be
abandoned. Decision reserved.
The Wyoming Goes for the General Sher.
man.
A Key West dispatch says the Wyoming,
under special order. left last night for AS
pinwall to fetch the steamship General
Sherman to the former port.
Tho Attack on ManzanilIo.
Advices from Cuban sources relative to
military movements Of the Cuban army.
state that in the attack on ManzanillO, ON
the six tn Of November, the insurgents cap.
tured twenty-slx rifles, 5000 cartridges, 40
quantity of gold and Spanish bank notes
clothing, provisions, ETC., besides destroy
ing $l,0O0,000 worth of property and cap
turing 100 prisoners, who were paroled. :
The losses of the Spaniards were esti-
mated at over two hundred, while tho
Cuban loss was thirteen officers and sixty
>privates killed and wounded.
On November 20 the Cuban army went
into camp at SaDja, making q further cap
ture OF l5O,0 cartridges, seventy six rifles
and a number Of horses.
The Cuban agents in this city state that
orders have been received that no more
rifles are needed by the Cuban forces. as
they have captured more than sufficient to
arm all the forces they can put at present
in the field. ...-.
All a Mistake.
1t turns out to be mistake that the Sec-
rotary of the Navy has ordered all extra
work to cease at the navy yards. The order
is that extra hours of work shall cease.
The Minnesota will not 60 into commits
CLOSING Of the stock Exchange.
The Stock Exchange closes to-day and
next Wednesday at one o'clock.
The Trial Of Ex.Mayor Hall-He Il 40.
quilted.
In the Hall trial to-day the defense
up Judge Daniels charged the jury, and ex-
planned the duties Of the members of tho
board of audit and the requirements made
of them by law; that they should have in
vestigated all claims before auditing them,
to prevent fraud; and the question for the
jury to decide upon was whether the
defendant had discharged his duty. The
defendant being q lawyer and man of cul-
ture, should de held to the strict conform
ance with the duties imposed upon him. Ifa
public officer willfully neglects his duty he is
guilty Ota misdemean0r. The duty required
was personal, and could not be delegated to
others. An inspection of many Of the bills
presented would have revealed frauds of .
gross character, the judge mentioning one
bill from which was omitted the creditor's
name. The public had q right to expect
the examination of all these bills. He In
structed the jury that the defense made Of
the duties being too arduOus would not
stand as an excuse, for no officer can un.
dertake duty and willfully neglect it,.
If the jury were satisfied that defendant
had committed the offense, no matter how
painful it might be to defendant's friends,
it was their duty to pronounce him guilty,
and uHless they had an abiding conviction
of his guilt they must find him not guilty.
He instructed them to cOnfine themselves
to the indictment charging defendant with
unlawfully and Intentionally emitting the
performance of duties prescribed by law.
Judge Daniels also instructed he jury that
there was no evidence of a conspiracy be-
tween Hall and his associates, and nothing
connected him with the fraudulent bills.
The jury retired at six o'clock and ro-
turned at eight o'clock, and were instruct
ed, in answer to queries Of the foreman,
hat the simple fact of the neg lect Of duty,
If willful, would warrant verdict Of guilty,
and that the jury we're themselves tho
judges whether the act was or was not will
ful. The Judge told them that if they did
MOI find verdict within an hour or so they
would be locked mp, and the jury retired
again.
Later.-The jury in the Hall case returned
a verdict of not guilty, which was received
with great applause.
BiIiia at6s-Ubassy Beats Daily.
Maurice DAILY and Francois Ubassy
played the third series of games Of tho
grand billiard tournament, this evening.
Ubassy was the winner, scoring 29l while
DAILY only made 24l. Highest run made by
Ubassy 81, while that of DAILY was 81.