Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 31, 1875, Page 1

;» VOLUME 29, FINAKOIAL. TELBR MWerchants', Farmers', & Mechaies’ Savings Bank, 76 OLARK-ST., OHICAGO. INVESTMENT CERTIFICATES. Perfeet Security—Liberal nterest, TABLE of fncreans of **Investment Cortifle eates,’” necured on Improved real entate, benrs fos Interest, payable In quarterly inaenil- monts, nt the rate of 7 310 per cent per nne mum. Bhowing tho mecenmulation of sums lue weated for the benefit of Children or othersy Amonnt gAmmsp Timo. Accurmniated. s 100 8 14201 100 v B4D9T .100, . 3231 500, . 31040 500, L 1,740.85 800.11. L 216165 1,000... . 1,420.10 1,000. . B0 1,000 . 4,323.10 &stimsted upon the basls that interest, whon due, Is eredited on savings acoount, and invested in INVEST- BENT ORRTLFIOATHS whonerer 8100 ts thus accumu- lated. Any holder of & Certifloate ha the privilegs of examin. {ng the condition of the trust at any tizmo on oalling nt the office of the Trustes., Cortificates farwarded, and nteroat, when dus, roln- veated, it desired, or remittnd by drafL or expross to any partof the United Bates. Address BYDNEY MYERS. Managor. MONEY T LOAN. Oueh in band toloan on Ohicago and Hyde Park prop- erty in sums of sestmé $600, $800, $1,000, $1,200, $1,500, At current rates. 2,000, $2,500, $5,000, and $10,000, TURNER & BOND, 104 Waabington HORTGAGE LOANS For a term of yoars, in large orsmall sums, seoured upon {mprovod Ohlgaro Xoul Batata, negotiated at lowost ourront ratea b, « D, HARVY] 80 Washington-st. LAKE VIEW WATER BONDS. Aftor careful investigation wo fully rocommend theso on ers and inveators e & safe and dealrable decurity. IRESTON, KEAN & CO., Bankers, 100 Washington-st. CHICAGO MORTGAGE LOANS, At current rates of intereat. JOSLAIL EI. REED 20 Nassau-st,, New York, represented by JOHEIN H.AVERY &CO., D Lasintlo-st., Oldcuno, First-cluns facllitles e 73 10 TP YA R e b MISOELLANEOUS. LAST DAY ! 1In which BDWARD ELY & CO. sell goods S0TEN PER OBNT DIBCOUNT, Hot g rtisemont thi e. WEDDING OUTEITS A BeROIALHE, <A word ta the wiso.” &o, EDWARD ELY & CO., ARTISTIO TAILARS, WABASH.AV,, CORNER MONROE-8T. Entablishcd 1864, T0 EXCHANGE, ¥ A highiy cultivatod farm, olose to tho city, with valu- #ble stock and new machincry, for Ars nntncium. hhml:. c; property. Prico §130 por ncre. Valoe of ho! 2 000 clear, A, PATTEIRON, % 102 Wanhington-st., lioom 11y ~ PROPOSALS. “NOTIGE T0 CONTRAGTORS. Blda will be recedved at the offica of John C. Coch- #ane, Architect, No, 16 Nixon Bullding, Chicago, untit 23 o'chock m.,, Boptember 7, 1875, for the carpenter ,work, slate roof, and galvanized iron work for tho i water works tower at Riverside, 11l "\ Bpecifications ean bo seen at Gago & Collls’ Grocory 8lore in Riverside. \ By orller of tha Board of Trustoes. ARTHUR 0. BLANEY, Clerk. NOTICE. YORTHERN PACIFTC RAILROAD COMPANY, Notico of Sale of Lands. +. The undersigned, Master Commissioners, spocially Sppointed as auch in an action pending tn the Circuit Court of the United States for the Second Judicial Cir- ‘cuitand Bouthern District of New York, sitiing in wquity, wherein Jay Cooke and otliers are complain- auts and * The Noribern Pacific Jisilroad Company ** Isdefendant, horeby give notico that they will well at P suction, within (he Btates and Torrliortes in which they may be ituate, All such of the landa and land-granta conveyod in tho Morlflr{l or Doed of Trust tn the Dull of Complaint in sskd action mention- g 4w are situatad oa e complatad portions of sald ‘Thie times and places of such sales arc as follows, uat 18 to say : At Tacoma, in Washington Territory, on the 15th Qsy of Bsptomber, 1875 3 e s'un? r;:x'.!\. I3 the thato of Minnesota, on the 184 |, <ay of Octol 18765 \.Il Fury in Dakota Territory, an tho 21st dsy of #ctober, 1835, unioes 'sugh’ sales may be adjourned by the Mastor mmissicners under tho power of adjournment given them in sald decrce). These eales will commence st 20 o'clock 1n the forencou, sud contiuue untll 4 o'clock 1n the afternoon of sald dsys, and be continued on esch of thesucoeeding days untll the whola of said lands #0d land-grants shull bo dispossd of, Schedules of all tbe lands and laud-grants to b disposed of may bo found and tos, st tho offices of tho Land Agonta of the Company In tho respective places mentioned abovo, at least two woeks beforo the dato when such salea are horeby advertised to tako place, No lands will ba sold Ly ua which msy havo been dis~ posed of by conversion of bonds ini lsnd; by suy contract for sals thereof, which shall have proved ind oguntaraigued by tiis 1 o this causa Letoro the dats of tho sale ts Lerolly al- v ; or otharwive under orders o Court, bafore tlie dals of (he ¢4les advortised heroby, The'terms of the salva aro es follows, that ia to say : ‘The purchasar or purchasers shall pay o tho undere #igned aa Master Commisaloners at thetime of the salo thesum of fAive (5) per cent in cash on the stnount of the bid, such aum to ba forfelted in csse of non-oome with iha terma of salo; and within sixty days ereafter, or upon confirmation of such mle or salas by the Coirt, the balanco of tho smount of auch bid albbe ceab, pro owever, n the Poymant ot Selinco, Hir Morlgage Londe which have been sanctioned by tho Court,may Lo daken sacash; sach boud in such cass to ba taken only for such an amount as would equal the dividend to Bh.mi 1t,would be Anally entitled under the decres in B s and o sat d-grants will Le sald under the dermd and condillons na above presoribed, in alngle Soctions or subdivislons thereof, to the bighot aud Pldder, ia scoordaco with Fubilo lisolution, No. 44, of the Forty-frst Congroas of the United States Becond Besalon'; aad the privileges t the time of m glvou t0 any person who shall off » single or aubdlvision thoreo?, of taking at tho sawe Price any numbar of additional ana adfoiniag sections gr subdivisions up lo, wnd ncluding, forty-siae, subs Joct, however, to the right of the Maater Commission= ars to withbold 6‘1‘:‘% %‘fi“{fl{ Eu thoy spall deem . NETH Q. WinTa, Mastor O —_—— T Commissioners, Bolicitor aud of &)unn'hfll for Complainants, o TOILETINE, DETLA BANTA, f TOILETINE for tho complesion, i % His sultn, consleling of Geonpa A Teak and ire: Grundy. the and Mrs. Gruudy. Lkoa; San, Busan B, Aulhokuoe and Ely l‘ullnfi and Gyux's Baby, with its nures, at the Ciifton, all (o altend tho Expouiiion In tho intereat of Toiletine, . DISSOLUTION NOTIOES, DISSOLUTION. The firm of Kirkwood & Dunkloe s this day dis- solved by wutual conscut, T, 8, aud A, J, Kirkwood Ssaume all Uabllitics aud collect ail w“x‘x?}‘( the busi. { . 8. K Basa, (Bigued) P §h WOUD, 3 W, A, DUNKLEE, Gultagoy A 25, 18k, 4, 3, KIBEWOOD, THEAS. 5,000 Ohosta Now Japons, only thirty daya from Yokohama. 1,000 Chosts Young Dyson, Imporlals, and Oolongs. Syrups & Molasses. 4,000 bbls in store and arriviog. 5,000 kegs in atore and arriving. TOBACCO. 10,000 pkga Plug, Fine Cut, and Smoking. CIGARS. 600,000, from tho flnost Importod down to the choapost Domentic, Gunpowder, ‘The abovo goods we offor st vory low prices. JOBBERS will find it for their intorost to look through our large stock bofore purchasing. Cricauo, August 24, SHIRTS! To ordor, of tho best fabrics in uso. Full lines in stock of our own manufagture. We are proparod to malko Shirts to order in eight hours, when necossary. LSON BR0S, MEN'S FURNISHERS, 67 & 69 Washington-st., Chicago. Tike's Opera Wonse. Cincinnati, ____ARTISTIC TAIL( 10 Per Cent DISCOUNT On all garments onderod of ue during Joly and August, 1876, We ars prrparod with our AUTUMN STYLES and FADBRIOS to exocuto orders for FALL and WINTER &oods a woll as for tho ramalnder of sumunor, WEDDING OUTFITS A 8PECIALTY. EDWARD ELY & (0., IMPORTING TAILORS, WABAEH-AV., CORNER MONROE-ST. FATABLISIIED 1854, &o. COOLING DRINKS usB Champagne Cider, Nicersteiner, Fiochheimer, Marcobruner, Rudesheimer, Steinborger Cabinet, Barton & Guestler's Clurets, Sauternes and Mant Snuternes or Nathaniel Johmston & Sons, ST.HRSTERPEE A Clarst Wine, imported and bottled by myself, and uoranteed oqual to any Claret costing G0 por cent ,.(.}.,:, '?X&UM,nggoMgmhant, RESTHEY ORGANSB Are used and recommended by oll the of tho world, Pricos low, Terms easy, STORY & CAMP, 211 STATE-ST. OYSTERS. OYSTERS. A.BOOTHE, Cor. Lnke and State-sts., Tl have full npply of OVSTERY Wodnesday, Bert, 1. Allordera ied omptly with goou stock Al lawest co. Ginger Ale, leading srtists WO HOTEL, Opp. Flold, Lefter & Co.'s Fetall Dry Goods Store, and wdjoining D, B, Fisk's Wholesalo Millinery Btore, GEQ, 8, PALMER (late of City Hotal), Olerk. 0. BANDS, Proprietor, $2.00 per Day. THE OLD SALAMANDER DRUG LOUSH QUARANTEES THE SPANISE CREAM o be perfectly harmlea to the skin, snd o give satie- faction. 1 s the unciraled BKIN PURIFIEIL sk druggist for ‘holesals aud re o m:lAg( BCHAACK, BSTEVENSON & n:.’m. FOR SALE. The Frame heds or Warchouso coruer West Water and Canalsts,, formorly oocupled by the Union Staam- boat Co. - Apply at oftice of The Union Btoambaat Co., 162 Bouth Water-st. = D¥EING AND OLEANING. Tadles' aud Gentlomen's Garments dyed and clesned in & superior manner at t the BOSTON FANCY STEAM DYE HOUBE, 190 South Clark, 168 liinols, sud 363 W, Madison-sts WANTED. For ossh, a woll-rented piece of business property, not to exoaed sg‘%ouo. e Dosat. OIL TANKS. ‘WIiLsoN & EVENDEN'S OIL TANKS, MEASURING PUMP, 2 47 & 40 Weat Lake Bt COEICAGO. E9 Send for Catalogue, utacturers of Pt | BVENDEN'® WOOD.GOVERED oaNs. FINANCIAL, Conflicting Reports Concern- ing the Condition of the Bank of California, - An Official Investigation Results Favorably to the Gold Bank. The Comptroller Will Allow the Latter Institution to Manage Its Own Affairs, Settlement Day Fasses Off Without Serious Disaster. A Spirit of Mutual Accommo- dation Shown by All Parties, Tho Funeral of Ralston fhe Most Imposing Ever Seen in San Francisco. Failure of the Well-Kuown Book Firm of Leo & Shepard, of ~* Boston, Which Carries Down the Branch Firm of Leo, Shepard & Dillinghan, of New York. The Man of Splurge, as Illus~ trated by Ralston’s Carcer, SAN FRANCISCO,. WIY DALSTOR WAS DISMIASED, BAN Fnaxotéco, Cal, Aug, 30.—A prominent bonker roporta that the fmmediato causo of " the domaud by the Directors of tho Bank of Cali- forola for Raluton's resignation was the dis- covory by the Directors, during tho Investiga- tion, of a lot of bills reccivable from irrosponsi- ble partios, aggrogating in tho uelghborbood of $1,000,000, with no coliaterals, It in alsoreport- od that it was the tntention of the Directors to havo subscquently called Ralston into their counsels (o avnil themeelves of his intimato kuowledge of the business of {he bank. A¥PAIRS OF TUE DANK OF CALIFONNIA, TRuomom are afloat, this moming, of attach- ments lssuod sgainat tho Bank of Californis, but a roference to the records shows nothing of tho kind as vot. It ia roported that some heavy stock-brokers and othars who havo borrowod largo sums, in one caso amounting to $500,000, for tho benefit of the Bank of California, socuring their own bills payable with tho stock of tho bauk, ara likoly to bocomo heasily involved. The atockof the Bank of Caltfornla cannot bo given away ot progont. ) A1D. Half s million dollars waa transforred by the Trossury to-day to tho banks, additional to the amount previously roported, but It is not stated to what banks it Lins gono. BALSTON'S PROPERTY. The deod of Balston to Wiinm Sharon con- voys all his proparty, roal fua ‘personal, wheraver found, and sbeoluta ownership, with the right to dlaposs of tho samo ‘*on such termsnnd at such pricoa a8 ha doems bost, and o apply tho same and the proceeds thoreof, and of the proporty horeby conveyed, to atch purposes and uses as sald Wilkiam Sharon may in his judgment deom bost for our joint and several interests.” ' THE SUPBRYISORH, Tho Board of SBupervisors met yosterday, with closed doora. It tranapiros tbat a heated dis- ousslon aross on the poliey of taking no action with regard to Ilalston, and resolutions to thls effect wero adopted with only one dissenting vote. A majority of tho Doard siguified thoir iotention of attending the funeral in o privato capacity. THE OTHER DANES, Tho Morchants' Exchangs Dank doos not opon this moruing, in accordance with the almost pos- itivo sssurance of Beoretary Given yosterday, but it may poseibly do xo during the day; but it will dopend on the success of the nogotintions now pending, ‘Tho officors are apparontly somo- what lesa confident of their immodiste resump- tlon than yostorday, but say that sny delsy is moraely terporary. Tho National Gold Bank snd Trost Company {aatill closed, aud 1s unable to say when jt will rosamo, but saya that the outlook ia favorablo. *'BOTTEN THROUGH AXD TULOUGH." The Ban Franclsco commaercial correspondant of tho Record-Union, & woll-known writer, and ono who has horetoforo takon s protiy favorable view of all the movements made by the man- agors of the bauk, makes the following signitl- eant statoment, which the Iulletin repnnts: ‘' Meantimo the luvoetigation by the Truatoes into $he aftsirs of the collapsod bank has pro- ceeded, and somo new facte havo gradusily bo- come kuown that exclte a geod doeal of snxioty to recelve tho forthcoming ropors nud koow tho worst. It can_ be stated that the condition of the bask's affairs iy far worso than droamed of, and that tho Ezecative Committes of the Doard of Trustaos, whoso duty it Is to venfy the mouthly oxhibit of tho managors, has boon !ulnrmticllllyx decetved, For soma time paat these monthly exhibits havo fallod to detail $ho trao state of tho sccounting oven. If the utatomants that are mada in woll- informed circles as to improper entries upon tho books, and importaut obligs- tious imcarrod but not entered at all, aud overissues of oapital-atock {or puflum of hypothecating, should ultimately bo qualified, the fact will romain that st tho time of tho crash the bank waarotten through and tbrongh. Tho whole capital, €6,000,000, and the wholasurplus, $1,600,000, on top of that, aro 006, aud a aad balauce of indebtedness ramaine for which tho atockholdors in their individual capacity aro liable to bo calied on. Assots to large nomival amounta are discevored upon which & small percontsge only can be resdized. Many aro worthless, “The bank bLas lattorly been & boavy borrower in a quist way in thiw market, and balt a score of the wealthiest cap- itallsts havo been recently viotimized fn sums counted by $250,000 aud $500,000, At least ono who oan sfford it has been bled ovea more yily, MUTUAL AGCOMMODATION. A numberof cssca are roportod to-day in which commersial paper uas gone to gmunt. in some instancos oo promicent firms, but no dis- rumlon is sbown {0 take any aotion on the pro- osts or punish the indorsers. Iu the majcrity of cased tho notos have beon partially pald sud renowed. TUE FUNERAL OF BALATON was tho most imposing ever witnossed in this cily. Tho wervices wero conductod ab Calvary i —_— Chinrels, Nhich wan crowded to ita utmost ca. paciby. Tho intorior was decorated with flownrs and funoral wreaths, A concourso of citizonn numbenux‘nmhlbly 20,000 gathored around the cburch. After the sorvices at tho church a pro- cereiun was formed, conainting of a hattalion uf cavalre, throe ragiments of infantry, a battory of srtillory, Templar Lodge, 0dd-Felfown, clorgy, sud boarso with tho following pali-hoators: l}. » Motrow, William Burlivg, D. 0, 3, H. P, Wakaloo, Williain T, Coleman, George Il Howard, William Sharon, D, D. Colton, J. M. Wilnon, William Alyord, John O. Farl, Lonia A, Gnenet, M. Livingaton, Thotnsa Bell, Goorge i, Tiodge, Pater Donrhno, Col. W..H. L. Barnes. 4ho Hon, Ogden Hoffma, tho Ion. Cornelius Colo, W. K. Vandorstice, W, K. Diotrich, A. A, Colien, Charles Clayton, Compsuny C, Firet Infautry. acted an a Guard of Ifonor. The hearao was foliowed by clerknof the Bank of Cal- furnin, Regonts and Faculty of the Univoraity, tnetubors of the Chamboer of Commorco. tan Fraucieeo Btock Exchaugo, I'acific Btock Lx-°] change, mombers and frionda of the family in «arringen, afticers and’ omploges of manufactur- ing concerny in which deceasad had bean inter- exted, and a eoncourso of cilizenn numboring thouaandy brought up the rosr. The sorvicos at the cametery wero couductad according to tho rites of the Odd-Follows. The atroots on tho Totito of tho procession were lined with peoplo, aud thero wns & great gatheriog at the cometery, CONDITION OF THE GOLD DANR. At the request of the Com]nw“nr of {he Cur- roucy nt Washington, Dr. Lluderman, Director- Goneral of the United Staton Mint i this_city, hag mado a thorongh oxsuination of tha baoks and assets of the National Gceld Bank snd Trust Company, and found everything in satisfactory condition. 116 will roport the samo to the Comp- troller. Tho bank will Le loft free by tho Uovernment to manago ita own affairs. DAMAING BN, Thero wora rumors on the stroet to-day of o Iarge ovorissus of stock of the Bank of Cait- forpls. Tt was also rumored that collatoral sg- curities havo mysterionsly dlsappesrod, tho culy trace of them left being the envelopes In which they wero sealed ot tho timo of deposit. The cuveloper, ou examinativn, were found to cone tain worihlees papers, D. 0. Milla, i an ioterview thia afternoon, etated that Lo know of no such overissue or dis- appearanco of coliaterals. It i boliaved thnt tho Untversity of California will loss lttle, it nfm_v.»by the suspension of the Dank of Call- urnis. THE 1XQUEST in tho enro of Raloton will bo resumed to- nuorrow. ‘Fhe stomach hias boen eubjectod toa chomical analysie, THE PEELING {o-day is cheerful amoug business mon. Col- lection-day han caused no failuren. Tho Londou sud Ban Fraucieco Bank has bau'i(m exchange {from prominent graln merohants duriug the dsy to large amounts, aud many deslors have paid amounts not due until next oollection day, to eagiat thoso who aro short. LATEST. Onarles Bharon is credited with the statoment that unless somothing unforesoen turns up tho Divactors of the Baukof California will resume business, An attorney stated in tho rooms of tho Bar Associntion to-day that sue of tho Di- rectors of tha Bauk of Californin informod him that tho affairs of tho bauk wore in much bettor condition tban ho autioipated when the Diroctora commnenoed their oXsmination, Pt et NEW YORK, RUNORS. Spectal Dispateh ta The Chicago Trivuns, New Yonx, Aug. 80.—A rumor was started on ‘Wall etroot this morning to the effect that sov- eral londiug banking-honsens iu Baltimore wero in trouble, owiog to the recont frilazo in that city. On private Inquiry boing mado in Balt{- more, thoso nunom were proved to be incorrect. ‘Various other rumors wero eot afloat, which had tho effect of woakening tho stock market. One waa that tho banking-houso of Drezel, Morgan & Co, bad called in aloan made to Jay Gould, the amount of which was vartonsly stated at from $1,000,000 to §3,000,000. Upon inquiry it waa aacortained that Gould had nover contracted 8 loan with the bouse. BENDING GOLD TO SAN PRANCIRCO. It wos statod at tho Bub-Lreasury of the United Btatea thas tnstractions had beon roceiv- ed doring tho forcnoon not to sond any more gold at presont to California, This, it was stated, menot that the Treasurer had decided to eond no more gold to banks thars unless ho had somo otler facibitloa for transmitting it than through tho Sub-Ireasury here. 1t could not bo sscortninod whother the Treasury in California was short of gold or not. BLOADDING TUE DANK OF OALIFODNIA, Mr. Laldlow, of Laidlow & Co., maid that the only pews received by him from Califor- nis was tho reassuranco of tho deter- mination of tho Dircctory of the Bank of California to placo ils affairs in liquidation, but what courso would be adoptod, be had not yet learned. Ho said the firm here would continue business as horstoforo, and woro ready to meet all thoir own obligations at maturity, or, if holders desired it, they wounld disconnt atl obligations not yot due at fair rate of {ntorest, Iosaid, further, that many who Liad drawn therr monoy ont of the bank ‘on re- ceipt of sho first news from Callfornia, had slroady bogun to roturn thelr doposits, hav- ing heard of their relations with tho Bank of California. It was stated to«iay fuat- the rnmor which was started Natur- day regarding the difficulty that hsd arigen botweeu counsol forthe Dank and the {firm, on acconut of rolstions that have existed botwoen them, was o mistake. ‘I'ho Bank bas no counsol hera at present, oxcopt thoso who aro acting for Laldlow & Co. Several attachments hava beon jssued againat tho property of tho Bauk of California in this State, Judge Brady, in Bupreme Coart chambere, issaed au ordor to-day attaching auch proporty, at the suit of Matthow B. Hail, Plaintift’s claitn s for $16.000 gold, and tho writ was at onco put in the banda of tho Bhoriff. Slmilar warranty of attachment wero also lssued to-day in tho following cauos sgainet property of the Dauk [h this Btata: Henry A. Tuzo and others for £87,500 ; llnn{llmln G. Arnold and others for $134,746; tho British Bank of North Amierlos, $100,000; Drexel, Morgan & Co., $20,000: Sinion and I'tod- orick Ublman, 1,440, besidea several small smounts, AN DNSETTLED AND FEVERISH FEELING was manifested in tho Gold Room, and gald, which e&lno{l stroang at 114, advancsd to 114!, On tho Black Exehango, moat of the leading stocks fell off from g to 4 per cont. Western Union declined B¢ per cent, tho lowest figure being reachied at fho cloao, [£'0tae 4 saocrated Press,) THE GOLD MAKKET, Nrw Yonx, Aug. 30.—At the Stock Exchange pricos aro lower o of tho rumorae of the unsottled character respecting Baltimars intor- ests. 8o far as known, thie rumors originated at the Btock Exolango, ‘The gonoral fecling that cash gold 18 to be locked ur bas stiffoved tho prico of gold, and weakened foroign exchango, which is down, aud also tending to weaken ox- chango is the belief that the syudioate haves large amount of billa to put on tho markot, Liere was nothing uow or atartling from Calle fornia received in the street up to 11:30, There is somo anioty to kuow the fecling in 8an Fran. cisco to-dsy, A privato telogram laat night in- timated that the Mining Stcck Board would not reopen for somo days yet. BILLA OF CREDIT. It {6 eald that a3 loast £43,000, and roport esys £00,000, of the bills of the Bauk of Califoruia woro sold hote the weok befare failuro, and oould nob have reachad London: for presenta- tion for acosptance befors the failure was known by cable. AN ATTAOHMENT GRANTED. In tho suit of Natbaulol B. Hall vu. tho Cali- foruis Bank, Judge Drady to-dsy granted plain. ¢ an sttachiaent against the bank’s property in this Btate, to recover $15,000 doposited withi'the bauk, ANOTHER SUSFENSION, Usion Adams, wholessie dealor In men's fur. nlul::iu‘ goods, muspended to-dsy. Liabilities uuknown, —— WASHINGTON, %0 MORK GOLD. Brecial Dispatch to The Chicagw Trivuns, Wasuinetos, D. O, Aug. 80.—Tho farther tranufor of coin’ from the Bub-Tressury at Han Francisco to tha banks in tbat city and Stato, through the New York Bub-Treasury, has ceased, Tho amount of coln in the hands of the Asmst- sat-Treasurer in Bun Francisco in ooly adequsto to the domands of the bullion fuud, and, what- eror sywpathy the Becretary of the Trossury bas DAY, AUGUST 31, 1875. for the embarrassad community, kLe is obliged to eervo Unclo 8am firat, Tho temporary suspension In this connection of tha Natioual (iola Baok aud Trust Company of Bru Franeiaco {a now boing inquired jnto, It raisen an important quostion to every buainess community aud evory National Bank, The bani, it in admittod, may have volnntarily closed its doors, bat not to go juto liquidstion, and after a caroful oxamination of is assots anud Lahiltien MAY BE RE'GITED DPERFRCTLY BOLVEAT. Csn the Comptrolior of ths Currency, then, permit it to resumo business? Thin fuos- tion, the Acting Comptrollor to- By said, was aakod by tho Bureaw. 'The near- est approsel having beon during tho panic iu 1879, when the Chicago banis proposod to temporarily suspond, Thoe matter Lsd hore ad- ditional intercat to-dsy, growing out of reporta from Baltimora that acverai of tho leading Na- tional Kanks of that city might oxperiencs tem- porary difliculty on sccount of the failure of Bliritug, Abrona & Co. Until the roport of the 8au Franciaco bank 14 received o ofticial ex- preeaion of -oplnion will bo given. and perhaps not thon, until tho noten of tho bank aro pro- sonted for payment under protest from officors of the bank, M'GARTATIAX, Thie one man whem thie failuro of the Bank of California has made happy is Bullv McGiarzaban, Ho hua aiways cinimed that tho New idris Min- ing Compang, which bes thus far succossfully defoated hia claim, las obtaiued ita muccess througlh tho Influcnce of the Baok of Californis, McUarrabiau ia now confident that hia claun will be auccorsful in the noxt Congress. It in proba- bio, also, thiat Sautro, of tunnel notoriety, will not shed tears ovor tho failure. The luoraturs whieh ho ban used for vomo years post for the education of Congreus in rogard to tho claimm of his tennel alvveys teemod with assertions that the Bank of Cslifornia wna using its enormons wealth to defont him, 170 the Assoctated Prear.) Wasnixatoy, D. C., Aug. $0.—Thoro have been eovara! applicntions recoived to-day by the ‘I'reasurer for tranefera of gold from New York to Han Franciuco, but they havo all been do- clined. DANE-NOTE TRAYSPORTATION, Tho Treasurer and exprems companios hava Acttied tho questious concerning the trausporta. tion of National Bank notes, by sgreeing on tho bazis of 87 cents por $1,000. THE GOLD DANK. Tue National Bank Exomiuer for iho Prelfic Coaet bLos boon directed by thg Comptroller of the Corrency to axamine into tho affwrs of the Nationsl Gold Bauk and Trust Company of San Traucisco, —_———— BOSTON. XO LXCITEMENT. Bostox, Aug. 50.—Tho slight excitement in- cident to the Culifornia failures of last weck siems to bave subsided. It does not aprenr that this section of tho couutry will suffer much by tho {ailure of tho Bank of Califoruia, DOOR-FINM FALIGRE. Kew Yonm, Aug., 80.—The well-known pub- liehing-biouse of Leo & Sliepard, of Loston, ans- peuded payment on Batmrday, Tho suspension involvos tho New York firm of Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, and this morning the scting part- ner of the house, Mr. Dillingham, made an uu- conditional aasigomont to Jamos Miler, thepub- lishor, No. Gi7 Brosdway. A privato tolegram raceived from Doston, this morning, gives the uabilities of the sonior firm at #1,000,000, but Mr, Miller snd othier prominent publishers who sre woll informed in rogard to tho busi. ness of the homso, ssy that tho sum will not exceod €850,000, and that thoy will probably bo abls to pay &0 conts on the dollar. 'The Now York branch is a com. paratively now concorn, of which Messrs. Lo & Bhopard ars two-third owners, tho romaining eharo being owned by Mr, Dillingham. ‘Tho debia of this house amonut to about S150,000. Mr. Millor, Aegignes, took possossion of tho os- tablishment, and ofter making & liberal allow- anco for bad debts and dopreciation of utock ho catumatos that the concorn will bo able to pay its debts in ful), Tho parens tbouso of Leo & Bhepard wag establishied in 1863, and did s verv snccernfal buginess up to the time of * tho Boston fire, tn which calamity its losses woro moro than $100,000. -They made o detormined effort to recover themaeives, but ow- ing to the goneral stagnation of trado they bavo becn at longth forced 10 auspend payment. Tho ovont will cause gouernl regret, as the firm, though voung, was oue of tho most popular iu the trade. Boston, Ang. 30.—-Nothing detinite can yot bo ascertained as to tho oxact statua of the afairs af Loo « Bhepard, of thiscity. The firm aro en- gaged preparing a statemont for their croditors, who are mostly contined to Boston, New York, and London housos, rnpn\dunlam and binders, They placo their linbilitioa under 600,000, and oxpect t0 pay above 50 conta on $he dollar. —_—— CANADA. EXAGGERSTED HTORIES. MoxTREAL, Aug. 8U,—Reports sent honce rola- tive to numorons failures sppear to have beon oxaggerated, Only four or tive emall dry-goods houses nasignod during the last weok, MoNTREAL, Aug. 30.—P. O, Brown, broker, has assigned, and M. i, Boymour suspended, Lia- bilitios, $200,000, —— SPLURGE. A8 TLLUSTRATAD DY PRINCE BALSTON, JAY COOKE, DUNCAN, SUELKAN & 0., AND L. By Andrew A homely but expressive word 18 splurge, and o pecalinr folk arc the eplurgy peoplo. Wa find them in every part of tho world and iu overy de- partment of tho human activities. The Man of Bplnrge as a writor {8 a man who “pproads himsolf” ovor all croation, wilhont knowing exactly whers he is or what ho i about; as an orator, ho eoara that ho may roar and roars that ho may soar, without having any dofinite ides what ho is roaring at or whera bo is soaring to; s s member of socioty, he is dasby, flasuy, and splashy—anything to ateract attention to himsell or impross tho *comumon hord of Lumanity " with the idea that ho is some- body of cousequence—of great consequenco; and, asn man of business, he fs bound at all haz- ards to be the whalo among the fishes in tho gon of commecoo or flusnco. In other words, tha Man of 8plurge is & man of magnificent 1duay snd thinga. Thore is nothing emall or mean about him: his concoptions, aims, and outer- priscs are all of a stupondous biguoss, TUE MAN OF &PLULGY in the rolo of fluancier Is the partioulsr ons we would speak of at this timo. We have scen, and heard, and felt B0 much of him of late yoara that we lLave como to “kuow Law liko a book." o floanished and sproad him- aclf in Phusdelphis and Washington not long 850, aod iy name was Jay Cooko. He happened to fall into o nice, soft thing by securing the sgoncy of the Govornment some years ago, whon it neodsd money, and disposod of millions of its bouds for & haudsome cominission, snd thus got a good etart fa lifo, With the proceeds of his commiasions, bo splurged at once,—aplurged tremondously : 'speat hundreds of thousands iu buildiug a prinoely palsce for a howe, and thou- sands more in building and * fizing up"” a wum- wmer residence, to which all the world—ospocially the religlous world—1wero invited, to accept Liy unbounded hospitality, And he sproad his bank and his wonderful financls! entorprise all over Puiladelphis, Washington, New York, the ¢ proviuces,” and even London, p NOTHING WAS TCO OBRAT for bim to undertake, He could capture Presi- donts, Cablnets, Cougrosscs, and all the nows- papors Lo needsd at home, and any number of capitaliots abroad, with no more effort than that » oat puts forth to catch mico that are alroady ceged for its maw, e wau tho Great Financier of Americs, and thonsands of emall-fry finan~ ciers immediately drosmed they wors in heaven it hie would but deign to give thom a kivdly swile or » friendly nod. e even undertook tho emall matter of sonstructing railroads across the Continent to the Pagiflo—for lum it was u smail undertaking : issue bouds—sell thewn to houest Chiristinus and Christiau widows, and sucl other crodulous Christian Eaaple a4 biod & littlo money usved up for a raivy day—that is all, Big things can be accomplishicd by tho tivaocial Man of Bpluxge, by weans of bouds, certificates, noves, —_— coupoy aptances, and other printed or writ- t:u plt < paper that promisa or cortify valua, s Aper 3 dkare choap. aud will ro great way * 10 way of all Lo carth,” nometimoa, thie way they went, * up the apout, ?‘Iflgyl:len;:‘e‘a"mnx ficent ” North- Ailrosd—his 1ast groat yenturo, for, anolf muddenly - © S .~ IN A CLOSE gonNER one without mouey enough to buy bis way out,—... aont enough of Atsown to Lny o loaf of bread evan, —tha Man of Splurgs throw up his hands in 'Lelplersness, Hin hanks—the,r deposita of millions having beon snnacently and spottively ewptiod juto bLis princely privata palaces and dead-beat achemos of Juxitrious i 1og and balioon spoculations—closed their door and the world was informed that this great, ig wind-bag had burst—that this stupondous hum- bug Lad hummod itself out—ipat Jay Caoke's **maguiticent ” tinancierlng bad, after all, been nothing more or ks than robbery— the arpropmating lo his own porsonal and sumptious uges tho moncys intrustod to Lis safo-keeping by his banks' customere, Those princely pulaces sud paradises ho called his nonses, and that sumptoous oxiravagance ho called *Gispitalicy™ had eaten up not only his owa little futune, but tho fortnnes of his con- fdoutial fricnds and neighbors, aud, indirectls, s the offect of tho wide-spread panic that fol- lowed lun failuro, forced thousands of peoplo throughout tho couatry into Lavkruptey. Tha Mau of Splurge DOES EVERYTIIING ON A BIG ACALE, and In this cago, lus fuilure waa tho “biggest thing out.” Bhuttly attorwards—tho battorng.ramof Panic hasing Leen brought to hear eiaiLs all gores of Tails and notui—many auother air-castlo of tho fiuancial Bplurges enccumbed snd fell, Wall stroat is to thin day full of tho debris of their rums, Tho Men of Nubstance withstond the shock, a8 they do all such emergencice, Lat tho Men of Splurge collapacd, some of tham instante ly, but all of thom inevitably., Doivg mere crap~ turos of chianco and holiow secming, who, hko the Cannibals, subrwt upen thoir fellow-men,— parading ostentatiously with borrowed plunics and stolen baunors,—it needs bus s tempest or w0 of advernity to alitter them to pinces and EXPUSE THEIX UTILR NOLLOWNESS AND WOLTH- 3LSHXEE. Tho dashing, rocklees, end brazen Jim Firl: Wud & conspiciious exapln of their tribe, wm' his cudiug was a fairspecimen of Low they cowne out eooncer or later. ‘tho great tinsncial firm of Dancan, Sherman & Co,, tho recout failure of whrch sutonised tho world, owes it fate cutuoly to splurge. he mon Duncan expendea more money—ha cus- towere’ depusite, of courso—in princely Louscs aud lusurioud “ sivle ™ in oue yoar than lus Lanic enrned legivnnadely in fivo years. 116 was ono of your “magoificent” fellows, who wau nover mitinGed or bappy so long 08 other Mon of Splurgo inor around the metropois drove fastor horses, hed bigger Loues or Iarger i grounds, ** outortainca '™ more brulli or made o greator kocil or * fashiomablo " sensa. tiou than bo. Bucl ** stylo™ cokts monoy. anipy ¥aeL amount of . Not ovou tho Rotlmclulds, wish all thoir stupendots wealth,—noy, not evn Kings nud T'rinces, with all tho willions they squeoze out of their abject subjocts for Lher own eupport aud gretincasion,—conld adord, for so umuy contivuous naud extravaguut years of ostenlation, to livo aud carry un as o onr Men of Bplurgo, We caunot {u sdence pass ovor B E, ALLEN, the *‘great financios" of fuwn, who locsted In Chicago aud bLougiit a bauk, aud who gloried in tho fact that he oavned the fincst reeidenco-pal- ace west of the Misaidsippi,—at Desdojnes, — aud owned and oceupiod wnother great palacs on this mde of tho big river,—iu Chicago,—and whoen ambition it way to have hin haud in overy speculativo potpic that he conld hear of, Vhnt s “simashup ™ his way! How uttaiy bollow and baseless his protencions of weulth wern found to be when he wa pushed to the wall and forced to show Lis hand! A delumon and & goure—n bay of wind—ou uwportor, who by Lis groat protonses and oxtousivoe oporations voil keores of his vest fricuds, and Spiurgo did 1t—persoual ance and =00l ambiiion to be ro- ided as AT THE YEIY *' TOP OF THE HTAPR." In Lis case, B8 1o the caso of overy financial Man of Splurgo, it was only o question of tiuo when * tho baseless 1abric of & vision” which conetituted olt his pretended woaith and great- ness shonld bo knocked ot trom undor bint, aud Lus glory suddeuly end in the most ludeous dark- noss. But tho Intest and most appailing termination ol tho carcer of a fuancial Man of Bplurge is that of Raluton, wilh bis Baul of California. Hero wos o * mnguificent” man w tho superlative degres. ilis like has never beon kuown, probe ably, minco tho time of ung Bolomon, with all lsglery. He wad a builder of temples and tho reputed owner of vast possesoions, Ilis homey —oue i tho city and suother in tho country— outdazzled the shining and lusuriaut palwes of tho oriental Priuces of sutiquity, costing mull- ions of dollars to establish snd millions wore uuslly to maintain, 1lis counirr-seat was 1ke tho home of n King—unsurpasecd and un- surpasesble, o had A DUOVE OF PAST HONSLS, and an army of mou-sorvants and waid-servante, Whatevor ho wanted ho bought, whotlier the purchaseablo thing was a silwer nune, a railcoad, s political party, s thoatro, n farm, s wanutactory, & uewspaper, a botel, a Logislaturo, a Cougreas- msu, or 6 stoamship lino, Nover was thero o man of such megnificence, munificence, snd— splurge. Ho was a very King,—the King of tho tribe of the Bplurgus,—dashivg and spreading hinwolf tremendourly. His bauk was onc of the groatest sud most powerful in the world, and in thiat batk his word was Iaw. Its vast deposits ho regurdod ns Lis own, and uwed themn accord- ingly. Mo himeelf aud hils great residences and Lis royal “atyle” had to be kept wp, oven if overyboly and everything olse should bave to Ro down, But this splondor, this priveely ex- trayagauce, this stupeudous * sproad,” could not bo kopt up aud go on furover. Thero is AN END TO ALL THINGS, i aud capecially when they aro splurgy things,— and oue day Ralston, whose annual exponditures ozesoded the entiro capital of his bunk, and whoso brilliant mightiness had been maintaincd thens dozen yeass or wo by tho frew uss of other poople’s money oud the help of other pooplo’s foolish worship of a vory false and a vory pre- teutions idoi, was pushed to the wall, and up bo Boos, with his big bank and all his grandeur, like su explodod powder-magazing, A buge bag of wind again bursted and vanished! Andihe Puciflo 8lopo, which had for years pluned it tinancial faith to tho skirts of thia Man of Bplurge, now sud- deuly wakcs up to tind flsclf onu vask empiro of Lankruptey and ruin, With his fall thonsauds Lave lost thoir all, and * thp end s not yut,” WIAT DU ALL TUESE FAUTH PlovE? That tho Mon of Splurgoare very unsafe men,— very daugorous to have xnv dealings with, By thew is the country tiled with wbuculatious and iutlationary schewmes, aud by them is tho com- mercial, iudustrial, and fluancial world ‘Lroulpl- tated into perivdical wreek aud chaos, They aro mon of * wind, not substauce; men of gauza and glitter, not wsolidity; men of bluster, not braius, DBogiuning with nothing, they succoed by tho sheer forco of brazen impudence tn Lulldtog themselvea up on he credatity and folly of their follow-men, and thon launch owt lo a caroer of pergonal, domes- tio, rud sovial oxtravagance that makes thom conspleuous sbove all other mon—and still proplo are thoughtless enough not to woe that this sort of thiug is tho preoursor of sure dis- aster, Nouo but resl P'rinces can livo hko Trinces, and oven they not unfrequently find it rumous, 1t costs Leaps aad heaps of wouoy to keop up tho * stylo” of these Meu of Hplurge, aud if 'you aro a croditor of theirs, look out—it i» your monoy they are using, and it is your monoy that will be lost when their day of Feck- oning cowmes. It 18 & salv ploce of advice to give, whon we say, = AYOLD THE MAN OF [}il'l-l‘lllll a8 you would a mad dog, & lhighway robber, or Auy other enomy of your porsonal safety, s tory, over tince the world began, emphasizes this teunon, And tho Man of 8plurgo is by no means con- fined to bankers, writers, orators, or politicians. Horo and thero you wili tind him jn simost overy departmout of” affmry, in oty aud country. Howotimes bo is s morclant, oftcu s -ostate speculator, often & stock-jobbe: G casioually & manufacturer. Whorever you may chance to fiud him, you will readily detoct tho peoutisr symptoms and .;mualemnc-‘ |nr tha Splurgo tribo,—biustor, Lig 17“”“"'“""- (TO8E: pitlcence,” contiuanlly doing *great thing aud coutinually about to do sull greator thiagu, ‘Thg verb Lo apiur g¢ iv synonymous with our det- inition of the vorb to sprvad—oand wo thio iv the actual self-spreading capacity of the greatest of mankiod, thas thoso engasiug in that sort of ex- perimontatiou, wither fOr $ueir own ot other peo- ole’s deleciativn, gonerally burst thewselves, or }hmy thomaelyos out ¢0 cowpletely that \Lny ueyar sooover their normal equilibrinm, e Chicago Dailp Teibune, CHICAGY, Ty NUMBER 7. FOREIGN. The Rehellion Becoming Gen- cral in the Turkish Fo- JTopean Provinces, Four Thousand Servians Com- mence Active Operations Against Their Op. pressors, The Bosnians Also Preparing to Join in the Struggle for Emancipation, Herzegovina Insurgents Establish an Independent Government. Eighty Thousand Christian Fu- gitives Seek Refuge on Anstrian Soil, The Servians Pt the Forfress of Belgrade in a State of defense, ‘ e Kumeor that Prince Milan, of Servia, Has Abdicated, Favorable News from the En. glish Arctic Explorers. ' A Proposed Sledge Journey to the North Pole, TURKEY. REDELLION SPREADING. NA, Aug. 50.—Three battalions of {ho Turkish expedition which landed at Kleck have reached Mostar witliout opposition, Four thou- saud Serviauy bove enfeted the Turkieh territory nnd encampod at Navi, whoro they havp seized tho telegraph linos, Bauds of Serviana bave ap- pearcd in tho Baliar Mountaina, and are endoay- oring to incite tho Bulgariana against tho Porte. Losvox, Aug, 80.—A Derliu correspondent telegraphs : ** Bosuia s in full robollion sgainat tho Porte. Tho justrgerts of Hlerzogovina have established o National Government, Montoue- £r0 w1 Sorvia Aranow actively preparing for war. The ofizial press of Montenegro doos not con- canl its sylapathy with tho movemont. NONTHENN HCRVIL. A epoctal to the Timesfrom Derlin eays thers isno doubt that all of the Northern Busuia along the River Saveisin full robellion, ‘Tho fugitives who have sought eafely un Austrian soil nuuber 80,000, and are mostly the wives and childron of rabels who have deserted their vile lages and made for the bills, L1 UERZEGUINA tho insurgents bavo formed a Nationnl Govern. wout under Lynbobratick. Tho insurgent load- ers havo beon pssured by thelr Montonegrin fricnds that very shortly sll Moutouogro will coms to their asistanco. In Bervia the military preparations continne. Al Belgrado tho War Oftice has ordarod arma and accoutromonts of militia, including surgical apparatus, to be made rendy for immediate in- spection. Tho Bervain mwilitiamen bLave boen dircetad to provido thewsolves with three doye® food siould thoy bo called out. Provisions aro being storod lu tho fortress. Arrangemonts Lave beon mnde to seize all tho horses in the country. TUE UTZADY GROWTI OF TIE BENZLLION may be iuferred from tho following paseago ia the Montooegrin ofiicial jourual, the Glas Cer- nagoza: *The insurrection is fast assamiog formidable dimeueions, Symptoms of sorious dosigns maltiply. Mon are yearning for war, and oily-tongued diplomacy is 1npotent to provent thom. This time 1nsurroction is sure to rosult in emancipation. Not tho ralers, but the nations, will decido what is to bedune. 1f the rebellion becomos geuoral, Horvia and Monctenegro will uot bo idle apcctators. Now or naver ! WILL BEMAIN NEUTHAL. Viexwa, Aug. “30.—The JFolitical Corre. #pondenza says Montonegro has comploted nogo- tistions with Turkey by which the formor bindw Larself to remain noutral botween Turkoy and Hleregovina in consideration of certain territori 8] ooncossions, FUGITIVE CURISTIANS, VIENNA, Aug. 80.—The f‘ressy says 21,000 Baeuau Cliristiana have lod to Austriun torrito- re;. ‘Ilio whole distsict from tho mountaius to the Rivors Unna aud Sanna have been abandoo. od by Christians, and devastatod by tha Turks, Runiors, deemed unrolisblo huwever, aro atioat 10 tho effuct that Princo Milan, of Bervia, Laa abdicatod. Nikitka, of Montengro, Les beon appoiuted Genoralissimo of the Douuisu insurgonts. s GREAT BRITAIN, TIE POLAR EXPEDITION, LoxnoX, Aug. 80.—Late advicos from the English Governmont's Yolar expedition have been recoivod from West Qroenland. The Alert snd Discovery had arrived at~Disco, after a ploasant paseage from Eoglaud, Both sailed from Rittoubonk, July 17, for Upcrnavik, all woll. Proparations Lave beou made for pushing northas far ad possiblo in tho Alert, and fog slodgge oxpoditions to the Pole. A lotter written by s member of tho Polar ex- pedition on board tho steamer Discovery pre- sious to Ler departurs from Rittenbenk, Green= Iaud, ways: * After leaving Upernavik, we strike aut in the ice in Melville Bay, which is the moy. daugorous part of the voyage. When we roach opon wator at the entrance of Buith's Houud wo mako for Carey lsland, and then pro- ceod up Smitk’s Bound, making & running aure voy of both shores. We aball viuit Capt. Hall's gravo at Yolars Bay, ond thon make for our winter quasters. The Alers, howevar,' will push on a8 far towards tho Pol 84 possiblo without boing besot, and subs quoutly return towards us, wintering not mors thau 400 milos from tho Discuvery. Doth ves sels will then survoy with sledgos before the sovere winter comes on, In the upnuf two of our Lieutenants with elodge partios will jolu the Alert, when a atart will bo msde toward the Pole with six sledges. Ououledge will leave thepasty aud return every woeok or o, transferring its surplus provisious Lo the others. hon the ex« ploving party is thus reduced to one sledge, that will push ou'along, and roach the Pole by i.xclt, Who will bave this distinguished bouor & dc r:et kuow, but if any, 1t will bo Commau Divike bam, of the Alurs. If this is dono satiu torily, and all survoys are completed, lhu{ruluru bhome durii AL thu autumn of uexl yuar, but if uoi, we suall stay out & second win tor. Undor suy circumstauces over which we have coutrol, we shall not stay out longer that.” PAPAL HONORH, Dusuy, Ireland, Aug. 80.~'Lho Popo Las ees