Year: 1868

zil delivered an interesting discourse on 'he Coast
OF Brazil"


The Massachusetts delegates to TIE National Demo
cratic Convention organized In Bostonyesterday but
expressed no preference for any Presidential candL
date.


The Cincinnati delegation to the New York Con-
vention in caucus recently, determined to insist
on the nomination Of Pendleton and in the event OF
Chief Justice Chase receiving the nomination they
will arrange to have Pendleton in his Cabinet


Slas and Charles T. James, brothers, were SEN
fenced to death In the court at Worcester, Mass,
yesterday for the murder Of the gambler Clark.


The Board Of Audit yesterday heard the claim OF
the New Haven Steam Navigation Company for
$4,000 for expenses incurred In repairing their
steamboat pier at foot of Peck Slip destroyed by fire
In July, 1865.


The Comptroller has already disposed OF some
$2 900 worth OF stock In the city and county
venue bonds.


new trial was ordered yesterday by the Supreme
Court in the case of Margaret Welsh, alias Fanny
Wright, who was convicted In December last of the
murder Of police officer McChesney in Canal street.
near Mercer. The woman was sentenced to I'm
prisonment for life.


suit was commenced in the Supreme Court yes
terday by Charles Knox against the Mayor and Com
monaty, for $4,000 damages. for losses sustained by
plaintiff In his business in consequence OF the
ton of the Loew Bridge at Broadway and Fulton
street. Plaintiff also sues for the abatement of the
bridge as nuisance. Decision reserved.


John G. Winter sues N. II. Chttenden in the Su-
preme Court for the recovery Of the value Of horse
taken by the defendant from plaintiff in 1866, after
the surrender Of the rebel armies. The defendant
was an officer in the Union cavalry, and the plain
tiff was citizen OF Alabama The case came up at
Chambers on motion to discharge Chittenden from
arrest Motion denied.


The stock market was dull but firm yesterday.
Government securities closed strong and active,
after being dull and heavy during the early part Of
the day. Gold closed at 140K.


Extreme inertia was the ruling characteristic OF
the general merchandise markets yesterday, as 1t
was during every preceding day this week. The
depression in the Liverpool market for cotton and
breadstufs was reflected in marked degree in this
commercial entrepot, and the influence extended to
nearly all branches OF business, but especially was
1t felt in those branches which are more nearly con-
nected with and dependent upon the foreign markets.
The revenue questions appear to be far from nnsl
solution now as at any time since Congress assem-
bled and the probabilities that though bill be
passed at the present session, it will be rushed
through at the last moment and the pernicIous IN
duence Of hasty and unwse legislation, formerly
evidenced IN the hasty passage OF the crudest
measures occasions apprehension lest the evil con-
sequences which almost necessarily emanate from
hasty Congressional enactments to be again ex-
perenced from the passage Of the important but half
digested Currency and Tariff and Internal Revenue
bills which now before Congress. Cotton, bread
stutfs provisions and other leading commodities
steadily favor the buyer and are lower, almost with
out execution,