Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-04-23
Eastern Dispatches.
NEW YoRK, April 81.

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Wall street markets are FREQ Of excite
ment and ali apprehension OF trouble
seems to have passed away.
The French mail steamer Gambia, was
wrecked on March the 25th, off the Bra
lillian coast. No lives lost.
In the suit of General B. Davis against
the Times, to recover $4,000 for an al
legged libel, tried to-day, Davis was put
on the stand, when counsel for plaintiff
objected to his testimony, on the ground
that he was a convicted felon; the Judge
sustained the objection, thus ending the
trial.
The recovery of nearly quarter of
million dollars of United States bonds,
which had been obtained by Mcdonald
alias Bidwell. and associates, in the late
Bank OF England forgeries, was effected
to-day; the facts concerning which are as
follows: Onthe 9TH OF March last, q Trunk,
said TO contain wearing apparel, was de-
livered at the Office of the Northern At
lantic Express Company, No. 10, Mar
garete street, London, by a person call
ing himself G. Leasing, of Tuenbridgc
Wells, England, and addressed to Major
Geo. Matthews, New York, to be kept in
bond at the express office, No. II Broad
way, New York, until called for. The
trunk was duly forwarded by the express
company, and reached New York by the
steamship Cuba, which arrived March 20;
and was kept in bond by the company,
as per instructions, until Saturday last,
when woman calling herself Mrs.
George Matthews presented an order for
the delivery of the trunk at the express
Office in New York, duly signed George
Matthews. Meantime counsel for the
Bank OF England had received some in
formation in regard to the trunk which
led to its detention by the company until
to-day, when it was taken possession of,
under an order from the Supreme Court,
by Nathaniel Jarvis, receiver in the Bank
of England forgery case, and, on being
opened and examined, was found to con-
tain quantity of wearing apparel, old
and in use, two gold watches, miscslla-
neous articles, and three packages of
United States $40 and 1040 bonds,
rolled up in soiled linen, amounting in
all to 1920, sos. The bonds were found
to be identical in class, amount and num-
bers with those advertised by the Bank
OF England to have been obtained by the
Bidwell forgeries; and in the trunk were
found cards and card plate, with a
memorandum Of bills, etc., showing con-
clusively that it had been shipped by and
belonged to him. Out of $780, 900 OBJ
tanned from the bank, all but about
100000 has now been recovered.
ST.. LOUIS, April 81.
The President, Mrs. Grant and Miss
Nellie, accompanied by about forty gen.
tlemen and ladies', went on an excursion
to kirkwood, whence the party took a
branch line of the Atlantic and Pacific
road to Carondolet, where they made an
inspection OF the Iron Furnace and
Rolling mills. Thence they were taken
to the residence of Hon. L. 3. Law, and
after partaking OF an elegant collation.,
returned to the city by the Iron Noun.
tain Railroad. Tonight reception was
given to Miss Nellie at the residence of
the Indian Commissioner Campbell,
which, although quiet and private, was
numerously attended. Later in the eve