The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-03-26

Finances resumed Tnsrc WAS d shart exc
cutive session No Southern coniisllss, Ions
new YORK.
NV York, March is.-Frsderick n
Bailey, principal book-keeper 81 Badean
lockwood < Co, importers and WHOLESALE
dealer. Is a defauiler, and has absconded
The amount viii reach SlC0 O0e. Pending
the investigation OF the hooks, Badeau, Lock
wood 4 Go. have thought it prudent TO sus
pend
The German saloon Keepers OF the Seven
teenfh and Eighteenth Wards held ameetins
yesterday 20 complete aicif protective associ
afiois lll a.i EfflAaiaA
The Germans had an imnicnse meeting lasi
night over the Rhene theatre hall, 10 take
steps to resist the temperance movement
The hall was croteded sud hundreds had e
70 away Speeches were made denouncinr
the wOmens movement
NEW YORK. March I9.-TEe French resi-
dents Of this city celebaied this evening the
third anniversary Of the uprising Of the Paris
commune BIZ a banquei and ball A large
were the workingmen's committee Of safety.
Addresses were delivered in French and
English appropriate TO the occasion. The
proceeds were devoted 10 the heneft of the
widows and orphans Of communists.
NEW YORK, March 10. Prom private al.
vices received from Havana. under date of
March II, Cuban merchants n this city have
learned that Commissioner De 1.aduda has been
engaged in the examination Of the affairs of
tile Spanish Bank, and has ascertaincd that
that institution has issued $iO4, 0O0, 000 in pa
per currency, instead Of $6O, OO0, 600, which
the bank had acknowledged in their published
Statement, and that their capital is only six
million. IL has been further ascertained that
the basis for this over issue has been a loan to
the Captain General Of less than $j0, 900, 900
in paper currency, without the specie to back
up the notes esr 1853
In addition To this immense issue, "A very
large quantity of counterfeit bills have been
discovered. This has created SO much excite
ment in Havana, that specie is going up rapid
", and many persons are exchanging their cur
rency for real estate and building. In the
erection of the latter, there has been great
disposition manifested, the owners of paper
money being much more anxious 70 have pro
perry in buildings, than to hold any quantity
OF the depreciating currency
The effort made to introduce foreign scrip
as currency has not been successful so far.
The specie has only gone into pocket and out
again. Foreign traders having made discov-
cry of all these facts, Cuban letters state, has
thrown the financial condition of the. country
into a state of chaos and destroyed the calcu-
htions Of all foreign merchants trading with
Havana. fli 0f
ST. LOUIS, March 19.-His stated the detec.
tive killed by the Younger brothers in Stella
county, Tuesday, belonged to the party who
left this city privately, in hope of capturing
the Gadshil railroad robbers
HARTFORD, Conn, MARCH, ia white
woman, the wife of colored man named
James Freeman, living at Pennington,
Drained her daughter, aged eighteen, with an
axe, this morning Jealousy was the cause.
NEW YORK, March 20-The British sloop-
of-war NiObe has arrived A committee of
the common council has been appointed to
tender her commander the freedom Of the city.
Officers Of the navy propose formal recep-
ton, in recognition of his conduct at Santiago
de Cuba In the Nirginius affair. q Y
One-tenth of the horses in the city are suf-
fering from the new disease. a - aa
Fifty indictments have been found against
JAS. Franklin for being concerned in the for
gerry Of railroad bonds siaf
In consequence of a meeting of importers
and gTocers, the Board of Trade has adopted
a memorial TO Congress for the abolition of the
moiety system and against Compromising pal
pable frauds upon the revenue.
Another indictment has been found by the
United States grand jury in Brooklyn against
Sanborn, HaWley and lVanderwerken, on a
charge Of conspiracy to defraud the govern
menta ~ ifgiaQ. ifiIH uI0
James Sylvester, a trapeze performer at the
City Opera House, IN, attempting the leap foI
life, last night, missed his calculation, and moi
catching the rope, fell to the floor. Although
he fell distance of only about seven feet, his
head striking the corner of private box, he
was injured so. severely that he died in about
twenty minutes. He was twenty years old
New York, March 21,-The laborers on
the Erie Railroad, at Long Dock, have struck.
Freight is accommodating. iuF legi
The New York Central the Pennsylvania
Central and Erie Railroad companies have adj
vanced the prices. of tickets TO all western
points and the old rates again rule.
NEW YORK, March 21-Two of the stow
aways taken back to Havana by Capt Deaker
of the American steamship New York, they
were garrotted. The third is imprisoned in
New York, March ss.-The freight hand
leTs at Long Dock refuse the terms offered. and
the Eric Company have employed five hundred
others who will come to the Dock by water.
Seventy-five police have been detailed to PRO
tect the men, 1T is said there are three mil
lion dollars worth of freight now awaiting
transportation at Long Dock The company
also suffers heavy loss from inability % re,
ceiye freight.
NEW York, March 24.-The Eric railroad
company has resolved not to reemploy the
striking labOrers. o e-afs 81
NEW YoRK, March 24-Gus. Mayer was
arrested today on dispatch from the Mayor
OF Charlotte, N. C., accusing him of stealing
two hundred dollars and horse from his
employer of that city. The accused was on
the eve Of starting for Brazil
New Orleans. s.
New ORLEANS, March 2O.-P. Harris. who
was indicted IN 1871 for counterfeiting gold
coin Of the United States in 1870, has been
convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary
for three years and fined fifty dollars Harris
has been at liberty since March, 1871, until
his conviction yesterday
During Che contest today, over the applica
ton to bail the Grant parish prisoners, a juror
testified that in the case of Crlikshauk, Had
not, Lewis and Hickman the jury stood,
eleven for acquittal and one against For
all others the jury stood, nine for acquittal
and three for conviction Bail. was refused.
the district attorney stating that the prisoners
would be tried on other indictments at the
next term of court in May. Lewis, who was
acquitted of the first indictment. wi& admitted
to bail. tbf
NEW ORLEANS, March 81 .--THe Shreveport
bridge over Red River at Fulton was in
ished yesterday. The trains Of The Cairo and
Fulton road wlll hereafter run to Texarkana
without change
Theriver is nearly bank full from Shreveport
20 the mouth and IS rising steadily. Il Is rain
ing every day. A heavy rise is reported from
above. An overflow unprecedented.
NEw ORLEAEs, March 2l.-The suits
brought In the United States Circuit Court be-
fore Judge W. B. Woods, by j. L. 8facauly,
Of New York. and Stern Bros, of England.
holders Of Louisiana bonds, against Auditor
Clinton Pnd other State officers, to compel the
collection Of State taxes 10 pay the interest of
the face Of their bonds and 10 enjoin the en-
fOrcement Of the funding bin, was decided
to-day. Judge Woods, IN an deliberately
written opinion, held:
Eirst Thatno mandatory Injunction could
issue 70 compel State officers 10 do an afirma,
tive act until q final decree that an iniunc.
fioa . compel tie lew q iaxcs was 1, nisnda-
tory Injunction.
Second. Thu The circnIt court could 40,
issue miniunction n e1uilr. because manda,
ms was 8 legal remedy, and, altllonzh he
court could not issue q mandainus until 4
final decree, that was no reason for inter.
ference IN equity by injunction.
The suit was dismissed and the injunction
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