The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1854, Page 3

ive them no control im the matter, is hardly fitian'we setae ge ng + ‘Ae to the sabseription THE RAILROAD WAR AT ERIE to the Pittsburg aad Er: Bk, tes oe > Our Special Correspondence, Benton fotnow ia conuection with it. The principal Exis, Jan. 20, 1853. | Satter now is the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, aad the Mase Meeting of Girard— Opposition lo the Sunbury and Erie of Masrs. Teller and Whallon—En- Railroad—Speeches @orsement of the Project, &c., do. the, os if and I have not met ‘A mass meeting of the people of Erie county was held position they took thea, s in Girard im accordance with the call, a copy of eens ee the action of ts, and been, emphatically which I enclosed in my lastjletter. The Eriansssy that of the § ate-to ¢o, that for ar 00 tie r the counties surroundi: ‘the whole thing was got up secretly by the men in the has been SO ee Son vou cowed raikoad interest, and that it was their intention to pass a peries of resolutions epposing the construction of the Sun- Dury road, belioving that there would be no one there to \vete against them. Some persons in Girard, however, be oted. oe would subscribe, a ond carina slready subsoribed, ing 8 Gentlemen, Ihave been absent ‘ors nearly three mon ‘who are favorable to the people of this city, geve them | and my sole business has been to talk to the citizens X setiog ofthe # the aight before, and abont two | mambersot the Dont tke Council of Pi ‘isdelpiinoes: pundred Erians cetermined to be present for the express scribed two millions to the stock of that road, but for parpese bf defeating the resolutions and of substituting | reasons best knows to Shows x saspeniod ‘the ora, others prapared by themselves. The meeting, though got | ances giv: amenn com missioners were no! 1 satisfied with the directors; them Erie ard Philadelphia Bp atthe call of one man, © farmer, named Teller, who | ftoo4 giike upom that question. I met with Philadel resides near Girard, was evidently called for = had phisor—men ‘whose feelings as Pennsylvanians and men voring mea, and of 0; jor—they a:@ what we should hope to every of favoring the views of the railroad men, abd OPhmoby | section af the country. They eald the faith of the city the construction of the Erie and Sanbury in pledged, and that ita credit would be given to this work MF tee eas con aan ta pect actuate | Bg i eRe pea och a pation eee 1d that the project was st ye guilty of the g act of re) a, 80 faras the ; pcthedrararce eit whose ditt design was to cheat Efe ‘and Sun! road is concerned. You ask what if mpee yen follow the advice of the gentleman who has just ad- the stockholders after they had received # certainamount | dressed you, after giving your pledge and inducing others by subscription. In the eeursg, of his remarks it will be bdr oy upon it [tis said this is a local questiosn— seen that he complains of the extravagance of the people that alone is interested in it. Bat I don’t think Erie blie buil the cost would bring here citizens of different townships if they were ~»- @f Brie in the erection of their pul dings, not ¢qually interested in it with her, quietly as this meet- of which is defrayed by tax assessments on the whole | ing was and quietly as it was attempted to be got up. j count He contended, as s proof of what he ssid in There is but one course of policy left us. If we calculate to j ‘to the fraudulent intentions of the men who were | #¢t upon good faith suena gurasives, ia faith to the at head of the movement in favor of the Sunbury | sitisens om the line of the Sunbury Erie road, read, that it was impossible to get a sufficient sum sub- | must answer with becoming promptness the ge: 8 seribed for its construction; that they kaew that, and | band offered by Philade!phia to resist the ons of that when they got the money of the subscribers intheir | New York and Ohio. We must stand together, we must posseasion they would cheat them out of it. keop our faith, we must show men East and West that if About eight o’clock the Erians, seme of them in wa- they come here to construct railroads they must do so in goas, some in carriages, and others in buggies and accordance with the pelicy of Pennsylvania, We must set cut for Girard, whieh is about sixteen miles distant | respect ourrelves, acd others will res Tt ig said | from Erie, with a bend of music at their head and » ban- ® local matter, and that the benefits aud ad | ner upon which was the following insoription:— rantagee rena) sone ag lice aed ip Lesewooccececcoceseocosedes Te oe Ae cotte be mils clase tad it ota e@. Hurrah for the ry little pains to examine they will that the ri o | valuation of property in the city of Erie forms a very ° Erle ard Sunbury Railroad. © | considerable item. Gentlemen, I have but little patience e ° question, and I trust tl 200000000000000000000900000 prepared to go back When they arrived at Girard they appeared to have | combinations formirg against us we ai taken that little town completely by surprise, Every one 7, shoulder to out of doors to see what was the matter, and | Ohio say tous they Girardians learned then, for the first time, that the | with us, ve will put quiet of their pretty litule wu was to be cisturbed by | them know that nnsylvaniae way for the conmerce BQ mass meeting. Bofcre or the Erians wisely de- | of the country will be opened up, and that neither will ‘termined cn making 9 demonstration of another Bind, | control the lakes which are opened to us eight months in and repaired to one of the hotels, where they fortified | the year. The gentleman who preceded me talked some themeelves for the eaching contest. It was amusing | thing about the prices of Erie bonds—how cheap they ti could be Dought. If he knew anything about the subject the six foot gauge and those opposed to | beside mere rumor, I tnow he would not state what he it, Before some of them would consent to patronize either | did. Iknow something about that matter, and I know ‘the opinions of the proprietors shoulo be clearly under- | that no bonds have beem sold for sixty cents; that no stood. One man, who had » remarkably large brick in | bonds have gone beyond the control of the Sanbury and his hat, amveed himself and the spectators by canvassing | Erie Railroad Company, except three thousand dollars, the views of every one upor the ah important subject of | which have gone into the hands of our own citizens— the gauges. He said he was ia favor of the broad track, | two thousard dollars of which went at par and one thou- ‘fand he certaixly required a very broad one while in that | sand st ninety cents om the dollar. And these bonds vent eondition. out at a time when the Sunbury ani Erie road, asa Re: The Erians had considerable difficulty im procuring » | ject, appeared to flag Let me say to the gentleman that fora meeting. Mr. Hart, who appeared to be the | no man can get a dollar of the bonds of the city of Erie stee of every public buildiag im tre town, having re- | for eighty or ninety cents to-cay, (Cries of “Good.””) ‘Y fased toallow any of them to be ured for the purpose. | Let me sy toat if the condition of the subscription of In lieu of a datier plase they concluded on organising in | the city of Philadelphia ie perfected, without front of Martia’a ‘six foot’? hotel, baving ingenious! which it is not expected s d will be taken from , Teoted the balcony for rosti Batweea five and six | the treasury of Erie county, she will then have an ef- hundred persons assembied—a large number for so small | eciive capital of over four millions, snd with that town. The meeting was called to order by L. J. Batd- | I should prefer the stook of the road to the bonds of the ‘win, on whose motion Mr, George Goliowher was called to | county of Evie, I believe the feelings of the people of the obair, L. J. Baldwin and Theodore Ryman officiating as | this county are ig | for the road acd thet they will Viee Presidents, and Asa Battles and Wilson Laird as ected believe that that feeling is more Becretaries. pe ted, more general in the county of Erie, On.motion of William Galbraith, Esq., the following ing apon any o\her subject. gentlemen were appointed s committes to draw upa re- lion having concluded, resolutions were rt for the consideration of the meeting:—S. M. Smith, follows:— Freodore Ryman, T. J. Kellogg and 0. 3. Clarke, The 1 people of Erie county are deeply Impressed meeting was then addressed by Mr. feller, who spoke as | with at importance of the early commonosment and follows.— . completion ot Pernsylvanis’ high Fellow citizers—I appear before you and before a | S24 ms larger crowd than I expected to find at this time; and I ‘am pleased te see 8 good many of our neigh bors here from Brie. 1 cid not know that there was courtesy enough among the people of \hat city to induce them to visit us a great numbers. I will row state the objects for which I called thi: meeting. In the first place, itisa we “y fast, and it is perhaps known te the most of yo thet our tages and growth of populatior eas. And, wh Legislature in the year 1852 passed an act, by which they | the cheering intelligence pay ovived of the libsral or pretendes to authorise, the commissioners | of the City Councils of Philadelphis, ia the passge of an fof the several. counties along the proposed line of the | °Fdi for the subscription of 19 to the stook of Sunbury road to subseribe stock to the butlding of that [ear riper aa ple thera a road. Anether act was prssed, by which they authorized esol action of the Commissionors of Brie ‘ommissioners to take stook for that purpose om the Brie | county, in t: tion of $200, ph Sod eieenag T0800. As a citizen of county amd Penn | Sunbury and Eile read, meets with our vaphy, 62 S man who has always contended for the | Sesr'y epprobetice, 9 ae A i s ‘That the iOettDs fe Lot new prepared to vo any ‘ago agreed to subscribe $200,000 forthe | expression upon the Proposed subscription to the stock of the of tl aanbay road; they drew bonds to tue Kailroed, and that she consideration of amount of $40,000, an: them iu the hands of their for the prevent. attorney, J. B. Johnson, who was started off to Phila i meeting i in favor of the maintenance » SESE “Paere they "ore "golng’ to chavo aa aerate, the Shae, of Peauyiranit election rt and I think he weot with orhdiy de pdr Suis Sone of the peopie were in favor of aintaining tae of the 81: and ‘M.-Reed, of Erie as one of the direetors, and it | the ordinances of the city of Brie, meets with our satire ap- wes it that Lowry might im to be a director, al, Dat his chances were rather for Walker stood in the When the foregoirg wore read # resident of Girard, na- way; thcugh, by-the bye, thirgs hive ha since that | med David Olin, said he protested sgainst the last reso ‘time— Lowry is more po; mow than Walker was then. | lution. Weill, vr you Ww, was to subscribe two mil- ‘Suvanat Vorcrs— Questicn, question. Hons; but as it was not fortheoming, the commissioners Mr. O1uw—With regard to the other resolutions thers @id not band in the bonds. [ believe it wase fight be- | will be meetings to cppose them in every part of the tween Lowry and Walker, [think the road which has | covaty, asd I know thereare plenty who are « pposed to eeaséd 809 much troub! ww as Gov. Bigler viewed it x | Greg to =I think it would be of very little advant to Erie EVERAL Voices—It sin’t so. Let as have the question. eounty. I believe the whole project is a fraud, and that The Paseipxvt— Be all good hi There is no use ia the company want to get your money, to cheat you out of | getting inte » passion about this matter. Take it quietly ft. Let us see what was the further setion of this com- Mr. Ouin—Let them serateh off that last resolution. paay to defraud the stockholders. At the last November | Strike it cf; this ain’t a railroad meeting. eourt we find the combiced influence of wealth brought to Mr. Gatsrarnn, of Erie—Scmebody has called « mass bear the subject. Kelly, Richmond, aad the other | meeting here, and now they have got it. (Cries of railroad men Cirected their agents to go before the Grand | “ Good.”’) It was not intended to bes mass meeting, and make their statement of tne case, that they | but, like the Lockport men, they thought to passa few t, by means of false statements, deceive that body, | resolutions, and then give them out as the expression of 40 rob the farmers and mechanics of the feelings of the county. hard-garned money, They coaxed them for three Voices— Pat ¢ff that last resolution. beurs—all of them, Galbraith, Marshall, ana the Mr. GatsRarrH—This meeting was called as a macs rest who were in the Erie interest. Walker was also | meeting of the eounty, and yet not one sicgle handbill there, and they were all trying to put the people im for | was seat to the city of Erie, Now you sée the effect of $150,000, although come of these men told us before that | this thing. Mere iss call for « county tbe for it ‘that road would not pay Atty cents on the doilar,and they | goes abrcad to Philedelphia that it refuses to build this said if it was ever fornizhed with cars and locomotives, it | road—to support the interests of the county. And will ‘would not ruc one Cay. But there is more about it thaa | » mass mee’ . a8 this is oalled, repudiate Will it that. The understanding was this:—They were trying to | give the oold shoulder to a resolution ted here. I four foo: ten goon Albert may 18 io right, and if it ie not right, vote down. jhould be run ito the Mercer line, ‘A Voice—I move the resolutions be adopted separately. ‘while he wanted to get rid of building through to Fraok This motion was carried, aud the resolutions were Ea, bat Dean Richmond said ‘‘No—it will mot go south | adopted separately by am almost unanimous vote. Three @f the Mercer line.” This all took place prior tothe | cheers were gs ‘and the meeting. adjouraed. The Rovember court; at that court we see this interest ga. | Erians them detook themselves to their vehicles, and thered together before the Grand Jury to procure sutho- went on their way rejoicing, headed bee long as * muslo. je Ear, Jan. 21, 1854, Firtt Triumph of the Erians—Acquittal of King and Low. ry--Rejoicings Thereat, and Preparations for Their Rec tion—. Hung in Effigy, éc., &c. 4 whole county. What are they doing now! They are 4 Rattroad Director buiking a scart hehe im. thee city for their exclusive | The Brians are in a high state of exultation just now 7 = at hoe ete Mes : 3 a Semmens it | at the aequittal of Lowry and Ki: ho, you may remoex J was a only , bal is fal row that it | will take $100,000. Now,’ follow citizens, you see this | Dé, were brought to trial s few daysisinoe at Pittaburg ‘will add about one-fifth to our tax bill; but of this we | om # charge of interfering with the Depaty Marshal in the would Pat x mp)ain if the; + = encaeree to make the | discharge of his duties. The following despatch was re- of the couaty psy for the: nent, in eaterprises are got up to cheat us, ard mas us afterwards pay | °#ved to day, and the news spread through the city = the oost of their failare. They wantto move the bullae wildfire :— inp out of the public «qoare too at our expense, Now [ Lowry and.King are discharged without costs, They this bad eoonomy and extravagance, and we must not | will leave for home om Monday. Mendel balding at Coe Sees aa te name for the pre; | ‘The whole city, {t ix anid, will tara out to reotive then, help me to get the permission of the Legisiature te baild da grand banquet is talked of. This triumph, for it the road to the Mercer line, and let me off from going to regarded as such by the people, has given them renew- the Franklin, an you may take the $100,000 whioh Doan | 94 strength, foolish Richmond was going to give Yoa, but it won't pay. strength, and it would be te talk about such & Row, west no opyored to the Sunbury road if it would | thing now.as s compromise, Besides, they are in daily pay. an been is mageting was gos upto throw | expectation of receiving intelligence of the paseage ofthe e Erie tee | Oe ea Gal Mew toad tier The ‘vopinsing, 1 | Dil repealing the charter of the Franklin Canal Com- believe abe bad rights that were trainpled uyon, but while | P&2Y—8 measure which weuld have the effect of putting Jem with tags La 3 be Med boyd : ap A that | anend tothe present difimlty. Judging from press: § ‘were wi 5 8 bas perhaps put hersol 8 wrong penny ew, with regard to the Sunbery road, I Lo sppearances, which are decidedly in their favor, they can’t sell bonds for sixty comts on the dollar, | *ré too powerful for the railroad men, who must mnee wae be to build bn ‘epee ety, eventually cuopumb. It fe well known here that the these! Mahe MR» ha ne | “ed President bas refused to interfere, and it is re- men—I know nothisg of them; tut if the angel Gabriel . were to take the management and control of that roai1 | Ported that the Attorney General hae given his should be temas taking free A bd We should not | private cpinions that the Brians were acting in accord- eahee into these stock jodbing apecalisions. Snce with law in rem orig (he bridges emd tracks, The obs Getmition, Se ne ae et ate eee Governor, too, ia svowedly on their side, and they have ‘Mr, Tmuxa—Never miod, I am not dome yet, don’t be | th¢*ympathies of nearly the whole State of Pennayl- tna harry, Lealoulate to fake jast aa much time ay 1 | Yania. With such powerful support they foal nite aan q wact. “Th in my meeting. woghter.) Have nothing guine as their uitinate success. But, meanwhile, the bu- fo do'with the Seabury road, take care of your money. | "ness of the town is totally neglected: the bootmaker Nov | will give my Erie friends » chance, I am wiliing to | leaves hia stool, and the tailor his to talk of the hare this matter fairly dizeun oportaut iauee involved in a change of gaage; you will ‘At the conclusion cf Mr. Teller's remarks the oommittes | hear of nothing bat the four and six feet tracks then. reported @ series cf resolutions, bat before adoption, | barber's shop; and, as I have slready etated, old 9 MM: Teller sgain addressed the mosting in oppomtion, | Sbips bave been severed by s difference of opinion on this Gentlemen, said he, thisis one of the most damea | Vital question. Even the ehildrem have sides im ble frauds that was ever attempted to be passed of | the quarrel, and woe betide the hapless schoolboy whows upon s mesting. (laughter.) Fes, it in & most dem- mest sre known to be ussousd on the great question. mable fraud. Taey have been talking to us about | indeed, to such an extreme extent is this feeling carried the San’ road for the last twenty years; don’t | that even party politics are over! and men who cadores anything of the kiad. If Erie sadorses it, let her. | Fe? formerly inveterate political opposeats joa bands ‘This meeting war not got up either to endorse the Erie | Over the six foot swear to live and die by it. Ose people in thetr difficulty. It was got up for @ different | Of the New York daily has, I understand, lost about parpore, Now I will give way. a hundied of its subscribers tm this city tn consequence of Load calla were here made for Mr. Wratzow, of Erie, im | {t# bitter opposition to all whojparticipated in the destruc” gespones to which that guatioman came forwasd, to the | thets prejudioes wo fer byetect Une Mmsis in comand couse "7 eo meet jd = ve. of thelimaaner in vhich it speaks of thelr proceedings Thee resolutions fore the meoting, In | for they say that whatever it may about them the first piace, Needle cinera in connestion® with | is alwaye willing to give both sides of theeubjects It is what I heard when I came here from a geotloman whom | but patural that they should feel indigeant at nome of Thighly respect. They seem to think that the people of | ridleulcus stories and falsehoods are published Erie have noright here; bat1 sxe before me not only | about thom, amd assert their belief that they are fabri- eltivens of Kiie but citisous of several townabips. Let us | cated by im the pay of the railroad ST, see whether wo were invitel hers, After stating some | The trutit te certainly bad enovgh without making it still matters—(reocing from « Mill) headed | worse by false statements, Such a course oan possibly 000 scheme—the great mass meeting—look to your | ¢° DO g00d, and bas only the +fisct of exarperating the taxor—justios and reform—no railroads built by coun- | minds of the people in and out of Erie. | tes,” comes the clause upoa which we rely for our | lt was not J. H. Walker whe was egged om Tuesday ' ht to come here:— last, bg an from Damiio, but his son, @ young mags meeting of thy man al janty years ‘here are so many con: pebid as Giettd, Thuday, Jane io ise! er she urpoee ot | tradietery stories Current about the omuse of it that it pen | oF Fey oy ta Td ney is Imporaible to ascertain which is trae it is said, by tata! smisalon a to sbi enbury Haltvad, TG ‘isteburg Raiiroad, or caeck pets tat is Gotsbensliowed tolreaeeomanen 2 re mee A Par comemteaen © q fhe ben got tho paper with his handwriting upon it. This are ia ooriainiy strovg evidence; but there sgain, who are willog to testify under oath that he nochicg whatever in his bead et the time he was as- raulie, All, however, seem to agree in saying that he caught hold of one woman A the throat beosuse she rbock bey plenched band in bis feog+ Ho was pot, how- : . months; and, after deducting a dividend of seven per cent for the frst six and ten per cent for the last six months, they have still on hand an undivided surplus of the net profits of $26,249 68, which they have placed to the credit of ‘ imterest and exchange.” ‘We annex an official statement of the earnings and ex- of the Alvany and Baffalo Central Railroad Compaay for the nine months ending February 1, 1854. ‘The figures are partly estimated :— Jan.7. Jan. 14. Jan 21. American Exchange... 985 $4,703,800 $4,745,425 Atlantic ee aso) gaeos ara bee: enmity; but it is impossi! his fate if be bad got into such ® crows. There is suffi- cleat evidence to prove, however, that his reception by New York Canrrat RAILROAp, feclinge ul worming ie Zacy ons te Gangs roms | Wreus passoagethes cee sceresessan sors DRA10496 98 ‘mors! e F cine" tren inthe public sane with For frelght...... 1,512,497 85 - ‘The fether of the guage la Total receipts. $3,923,863 12 ternity in this esse Iam afraid Disbursemen’ ue corigus amnoyanse and trouble WAHOM. creereereresserereeres 2,042,028 96 6 pas sancti “twill Renooforih be too ho $1,880,684 85 who bave been im favor of Deduct nine months interest at 6 per cent on debt certifcates ($8,885,210) and oa debts under the the month«—two long, weary months—have now elapsed since the difficulty commenced, and as much feeling exists up- of the old companies assumed on the matter as if it hed but yesterday, Some conso\idation agreement, (' sre certainly becoming tired of it; they see their business | _ all a} ke , is negleoted, and that while the excitement continues it of sinking is impossible to get the people to their attention to to pay debt certificates, at the ". re per cont per annum.......... Total receipts for aine months, after pay- memt O86 BDOVO........... essence eens e+e + 91,818,619 58 ‘The earnings of the road for the months of May, June and July, were received by the former companies. During that period, and while consolidation was being per: and even , large expenditures were made forjrepairs on portions of the line, and in renewing the track where the raile had been worn out, im equipping the whole line, and in various other waya{found indis- the more serious concerns of life. It would be well, in- deed, if Brie was the only place that suffered by the im prudence of her le; but the whole business west and east of her for many hundred miles is paralysed, and more than balfs million of dollars has been lost by the unfortu- nate f Seibe! between her and the Northeast and Erie Rail- Toad og & Tam told it has so ivjuriously affected the stock if the Erie road that it oan be bought at present for 8734 cents on the dollar, while six months age the same stock sold for 118. The Western road bas also sustained material damege in the same way, and the travel on the New York and Erie and on the Central road: pemeable to put the road in effici king a Somsidaze vir rdneed, If the act repealing the eharter Lan ay the dy dicate by jroyltg incom of the Fran The amount charged to expense account has thus been Canal Company should pass the Legisla- ture of this 8:ate—and, I believe, contrary to Dy —— —its ter- much larger than it otherwise would have been, and tatiens, it has already passed a seoond readio; larger, proportionately, than it will be hereafter. : : mizus will be located at the hurbor of Erie, fs the t New Yerk Dry Dock... 90,636 17,217 conviction of the ind it is probable that it will be | 7h¢ steamship Niagara, at Halifax from Liverpool, | ney york Bohaoes + 84,604 88/418 it there must be a break here, and jater inte/ligenoe from Europe. Com | Cosan .. + 769,988 781,387 Fetsdopen capable Linn) ghey have | mercially the news is favorable, finanoially unfarorabler ue anae #0 long, and to secure whioh they have | .14 politically interesting and important. A speculative ~ 7 f the whole them. bias ies 7 bd Lleageielllest res 814,678 602,688 I liam aa movement had commenced in breadstuff#, and prices had pasties Lere'oas advanced materially. Quite an excitement prevailed, and 478,848 647,450 TELEGRAPAIO. 408,979 408'697 THE RELEASD OP THB RIOTERS, no deubt is entertained but that the Improvement will be srs aracst Prrranvac, Mimday, Jan. 23, 1854 sumained. Quotations for cotton had also advanced, with 80,171 74112 Meter, Sherwin, Jacks, Kirkpatrick, and Kilpatrick, | ‘Tamesctions to some extent, Advices from the seat of 7 cb . hoa who were imprisoned on the 9th inst. for ccntempt, have | War had depressed the market value of stock seourities. pac ah a ee to-day been discharged by Judge Irvin on their own recog: | Console had declined about one per cent, and it appeared Total,....... +++ $60,835,862 $68,896,966 $59,071,262 nistmoes for $5,000 each, to make their appearance on the | % be the general impression that any ifort made to pre | raion, second Mon¢ay of May, toarawer for the offence, and | Vents general war throughout Eurose woald prove un- $996,578 $308,225 $319,241 meanwhile to observe the irjurction. The Erians address | SViling. Nothing decisive, however, had taken plase, 108,425 99,649 97,406 mass meeting bere this evexing. . and all sorts of ramors were afloat. We shall not get the 160,989 148, 498 Enre, Jan. 23, 1854. Nisgara’s mail until Tuesday night, and must wait aotil oe ano ans There is great rejoicing here in consequence of the dis- | then for details of the news. The effect of the telegra- " 281,496 20; 2.47 obfarge of Mr, Ki Ipatrick and his associates, phic sccounts from the Niagara upon our market for 78,0 80,105 All is quiet here at present. It is understood thatthe | breadstuffd was highly favorable, Transactions in flour bel brash Marshal will be here to morrow to commence rebuilding | were made to some extent, at an advanoe, an will be seen 103°718 ‘94982 the railroad bridgesyin which case we shall probably | by our market rep ort in ano‘her columa, nite apd nema ‘183,978 bave another exciting time. ‘The following table will show the amount of United | Broadway yp 210.048 12.62: 212,919 ——— States stocks redeemed at the Treasury Department | Sarcher® and Drovers’. vb? 8.658 10,740 The Bedini Troubles ta Cincinnati. during the week ending on Saturday, and the amount of 126, 124,786 BXAMINATION OF THE POLIGE—BINDING THEM OVRR | the public debt outstanding :-— 192,381 isa FOR TRIAL. hn’ On the 20th inst , after eleven days had been consumed Fog Cuno sig Oo ir a 192042110364 in the examivation of the Cincinnati police, for al teases Sau VA Be ‘aie Jan, a1 38be 76,779 = 77.138 riot and arasalt upon tke German Freemen of that city, 96,021,688 64 © $12700 '90448,026 b4 84,294 83,192 Justice Obidsey gave the following decision :— maser eT} Bu Te ae 00 106,307 108/556 We have littered pationtly, aud with faterest, tothe | i¢45°°'"""'’ 3.625'800 00 37.900 8,687,400 00 18,562 84,244 testimony in the case, and the very able arguments of * 19°768'860 00 85700 «19° 717" €80 00 103,656 104.725 counsel on both sides. This is the eleventh day since the * 34'079.001 80 18:00 -14°061°601 80 169,759 176,296 investigation commenced. It has been characterized by 7°788.000 00 i’000 7977 000.00 173'350 174170 connrelas one of the most deeply important trials that $,000'000 00 pa 8,000'000 0 88,700 86,907 {or wo have heard evicenoe of toh things aa houla never Rita Gis | Twos Nea for we have evicence of au gs asehould never . ; Creape investigation and punibment in @ government pa Se oinay bat n jyiPh Caer ROR EASiSGT BA 88400 80.674 like ours, Ibave earnestly considered sil the suthorities | Old fond d’t, 114,118 64 = 114,118 64 ++ 88,207 84,482 85,043 ted by the learned counsel for ihe defence, and | Treas. notes r Manufacturers’ 865 289,413 258,061 ave examined such others as have been withim my reac! outetand- ae 361,455 having in view, throughout, the humane mazim reseed Ing........ 114,661 64 - 114 661 64 98°66: by Mr. Smith, but i have been able only to satisfy myself | Debt ofcor’te 110,733 that i conscientious Lets cary = oy nah = os ex- = 24,000 00 Bids emia! Court requires me to hold t! ant bail, banger Se to answer the ebarge before a higher tribunal - Twill not $54,078,607 62 $176,400 $54,800,007 62 11,097 The annexed statement exhibits the gross earnings, ex- penditures, &o,, of the Philadelphis, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, for the year ending Novem- ber 80, 1883:— PHILADELPHIA, WIMIXGTON AND BalTiMoR® RAmLRosp. Receipts trom passengers... $506,613 00 & ight and expresz 120,236 64 enter into any discussion of the amoant of force jastifia. ble in making any legal arrest, or unto tne morality and propriety ‘of fom ny processions and effigy burnings, but ly say that force and violence in making arresta ly rescrted to in cases of extreme neseasity, s +paringly as possible, and that my own pri nd judgment are t all Sunday proces- ‘and demonstrations, particularly such as that which afforded = pretext for the crimes committed on Christmas night. We are cati:fied that some among the vi rete... 18,683 20 126,715 defendants are much less culpable than others ; but io “ ) mails, &o 87,600 00 90,976 the eye of the law all stand alike insoferas lam call oe 108,633, ed upon to administer it, and hence all must be held. It * $866,037 84 124,067 in therefore requested that the defendants give bail for Tranapeatation # nges, includin, 207,57 their appearance before fa celcalnalovurt of this county, bo. tenarce of way and gener: amen aan ‘answer ‘sam of three hundred 16s OMB 2 sath ey nrc a ee ped luding Judge Spooner and Captain Lukens there are fed (OMA. 66. eeeee uses , 86.450 sixty thee defendants, al of whom gave the required interes Penpsccnet onsets: Biso1 Scih gad tha cece aN 7 OR ‘and Wilmingtom Railroad......, 172,000 00 ascbidl — $8522, 959 82 $8,608,235, = Annnsr oF A Munpanen— A young man named hich, deducted from revenue, ‘ocke e D arrested lobmon @., on ae! ‘ge L) for the n rnings of the — ¥ of murat, iv_¥ill_beirospembared tint Ores im. 1801, | railroad for the year..." -., $345,088 02 $259,210 $820,753 $612,658 st Holly Sprivgs, Miss., shot a young man named William Add surplus of inst year.. 54,750 67 28,090 40,661 B. Sanderson. The arrest was made by Mr. James Reid, ice 1,018 977 722,963 & watchman in Richmond, who received information from $390,838 69 100,064 his brother, that Coeke was coming towar¢ Richmoa. He | Recelpts of the New Castle Company, 1853— 120,12 bad been for some weeks in the seighborhood of Falling Parsovgera and table 672 260 36 446,878 ‘The circumstances of the case sre, we understand, a» 846 66 74,886 follows.—Some time in 1861 Cooke was engaged to be it 71,081 married to's yousg lady at Bolly Soriogs, Miselastp pl $74,490 29 35,6: Sanderson being » most iatimate friend, he requested him scat 220,197 to mddsean this young lady himself, merely to test her $474,203 88 faith tobim, Sanderson ly acdressed her, was | The expenses, including tax on cap!- accepted. and they were married. In about tweaty min tal, and bonus, been for the utes after the consummation of the ceremony, Cocke "i 174 asked Sandereon to atep out into the street with him a Chatham, 1,868 45 minute. Having (pes & little distance from the house, 105,485 23 al 686 Cocke drew 8 pistol from his pocket and shot Sanderson — ——— | Citizens’ dead—the ball striking just abeve the mouth. Cooke Joint surplus. ss+++--808,788 65 mate hia ecospe. The Governor offered $200 reward for | Dividends, 2 per oent. in April, 1853, $77,000 00 his arrest, and the relations of Sanderson, $600. We 8 per cont. in Ootcbor on understand that Mr. Cocke says he has been residing in old and new stock, and ba. TOK.s.ceserseeseree sees 161,501 66 ——— 2238, 591 66 FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Barplus after dividends... Carried to renewal] fund for Phi MONK Y SARKE®P, Monpay, Jan. 28—6 P, M. At the opening of the board this morning stocks were dull, and quotations ruled a fraction below those current at the close of the market om Saturday. Before the ad- journment prices slightly improved, and a better feeling prevailed, The appearance of things im Wall street is at present rather discouraging to holders of fancy stocks. We must admit that the bears have matters more their own way than the bulls, and that the differences in their favor are scoumulating, in the shape of interest, if in no Also for New Castle Compan; Surplus after dividends and renewals,.....$80,191 90 The expenses of the last year have been charged with about $26,000 more than properly belong to them. Owing to a different method adopted in paying for labor, twelve snd a half months instead of twelve months are fucluded in last "sexpenses, Materials acoount has also been charged with },981 04, being for an error that occurred im that soeount in former years. A compro. mise has been mace during the past year of the old tax cases in Hartford and Cecil counties, which have been other way; bat the bulls must console themselves wita | accumulating for ten years, one balf of which, or $8,200, 8 the fact that prices have been wonderfully sustained un- | has been charged to current expenses of 1858. wry egftl ‘Boat 90812 101,014 98,467 der the circumstapoes, that the bears have made great | 5.4) TT 16; tm. 108d Oko zoe on tee were | New Jor! 800 1, 388 41,870 ; $120 236 64, showing a of | New York Exchan 10,938 10,345 10,928 efforts to Gepress the market, and that the course of | $23 858 68. The cater from the mails, Cee, in ~ 86,108 67,300 67,403 events generaliy is calculated to ma/ntain » dull state of | 1862, were, $18,648 17; in 1808; agen aor spas re 37,788 = 36.966 = 85,171 gain of $2, . Total gai ta on the rail- 66,356 ©=—71,667 «7,291 things at ays Stock Exchangs, without producing actually | 1,5 ling in 1869, as compared with 1862, of $200,252 09. 13904184’ 63'837 eny very unfortunate results. In the absence of s more | 4 comparison of the revenue of both lines, for the year i 865,043 = 351,825 446,805 active aemand for stocks, 1 {8 extraordinary that | ending Nov. 20, 1889, with that pe AE 30, 1852, | Seventh Ward. 91,818 = 95, 116,040 shows an increase 0 aggregate o! 6 , wi oe and Leather. 961 64,481 39,421 poet Sere On ote Sere gree. ae aon of the receipts of the New Castle line for | St. Nicholas. 42,583 3 26357 have been sustained entirely upon the strength of riod shows w decrease of $17,647 52, thus | Suffolk 10637 12917 11,248 holders. Had not the fancies been im very strong hands | proving that speed and certainty are more important to 62,296 63 O11 wo should have seen long before this # lower range in the | te travelier than seaving in fare. Soe eee ‘We annex official statements exhibiting the average condition of the four leading departments of the various banks in this city, at the close of the frst three weeks in January. These returns give the average amount for the week, and not the actual condition om the morning of the sy the reports are dated :— New York City Banks, market than that realized last August; but we see mo in- dications at present of hok ers giving way. Ne one will nell stocks at current rates unless absolutely compelled to, and there appears to be no want of means to hold: The money market is daily getting easier, aud there is mow no more demand than is easily supplied. The banks ++ $11,606,174 $11,704,463 $11,455,156 Total.......00. The condition of the principal departments of the New York City banks, at the close of each week within the laet six months, compares a follows :-—~ 964,106 sia frat do not vary much from week to week their line of dis- Jum. % Jan. 14. Jan. 21, } counts, Woat changes de occur are of « favorable char- $4,508,132 $4,618,006 $4,654,103 ae 9,746,487 acter, and there is very little probability of any great 534,020 '518'863 —'610'105 cai ndaiteg Ute 8812/8308 8,866,006 9,864 410 or rapid contraction similar to that resorted to by these | Riok of Commerce... 7986173 8;111/396 7/850,021 institutions lest August and September. The only clou! Commonwealth 1,241.87 1,248'688 — 1'224.278 in our financial and oommeroial horizom is the disturbed New York .... 2,749,725 2,766,684 2,776 996 stato of Europe, Bat for the politieal aiffoultios exist- Baw No Tak aeoales Gatran veeeans k , ‘the Union .. Rey State N. York. 3,893,142 ing on the other side of the Atlantic, which threatens to “ "4 aa! iH 64,160 involve every nation of any importance, we should at this moment be in the most active state of progress ap‘! py 56, expansion. It may be for the good of all that events 1,679°425 Les have occurred of sufficient importanos to act aa a check 559,605 I to the rapid extension of public and private credit on both 1 51990 87, sidon of the Atlantic, "663,377 58, Quotations cwrent at the frst board to-day compared 767,741 ie 12 493,760 with those ruling at the close of the market on Satarday, ara | 68) 13,168,020 show # decline in Nicaragua Transit of 3 per cent ; Cam- 616'608 5s, 12,074, 409 derland Coal; New York Central Railroad, \; Erie 46,413 pois OTbONe. 11°608' 124 Railroad, 34; Resding Railroad, % Hadson River Railrosd, apulewe Se'bon'oes Biessi aie 11704460 1; iaole Contral Boads advanoed 34. At the seoord i SCROTE SED GUE AS 18,008 /108 ‘board some of the leading fancies improved » frastion. Nicaragua went up 3%; per cent; Goll Hl, 43; Erie Railroad, '; Harlem, 34. The market olosed with ao upward tendency, After the adjournment of the board, the following sales of stocks were made at auction by A. H. Nicolay :— $2,000 Lyons Iowa Central Railroad, Ist mort.. 2.000 do do 40 shares Beekman Ina Co. We notice am imerease in discounts and deposits, and a decrease im specie and circulation. In deposits and specio the variations have been of some importanes. Increase tp loans, $68,726; deporits, $674,296. Decrease in ciren- Intion, $63,119; specie, $839,204, The banks appesr to be influenced im their operations, similar to th» brokers | and all other outside financiers, They appear to be dis- pored to continue as quiet as possible, and preserve about i — 7 ¢ Third Avenue Railroad, ‘the eame average movements. The discount line has not 6 Boru pa. cus! varied « million of dollars since the 24th December lasts 60 do Ratlread 109% }329 | sad the circulation is now smaller than we have reported By 5 10155 iL | ateny time within the six months. This policy on the it 100% fit | Pertof the beaks, must exert a coaservative influence 2 do 1,183,920 | upon all speculative operations, and tend materially to % & 446,160 | restrain any inflation im the stock market. It is a} all @ & EER | events « sate course of ection, one which cannot be at 40 do "438 246 | tended with emything disastrous. There is very little | danger of our doing too Httle, and the benks are always on the right side whem they avoid expemeions or sudden changes. The receipts at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of thie port to-day smounted to $182,102 90; payments, $08,620 98—halames, $3,600,430 38, ‘The Bates Manufsctaring Company of Massachurett Dave Coclared o somi-ammnal dividend of four per cot The Baok of the State of Missouri has declared s semi: annual dividend of tens er cont, bertdes placing one per cent to the credit of the contingent fand. The net profits of the psrent bank and its five branchesfor twelve months amoun- ted in the aggregate to $256,176 40, Out of there net earn ings the directors have, as required by the charter, ap Propriated $24,866 10 to the contingent fand of the bank, being one per cent upon the enpital stock jor each eix Potal..,,. 3 z ts E2828 900,133,687 990,610,013 990,008,798 Monpay, Jan 96000 N York 6's '60. 107 ahs Pot?e Cop 8000 Ind 234 prot.sB 0e NY Con RR, 1000 0....... 60% ‘do 1000 Erie © Bde ‘71. 92 do 1000 Erie Bds of ’82. 96 Cen 4000 HR IMbds exdiv 1000 Had Con Badr. 105% 87 we z SSSSeuussas i E do do. do. 100 do, 50 do. 50 do. 100 do. 200 do. 100 do. 50 do 200 do 0 do 200 do. Nf Stonlngvon 15 200 Reading 100 do, 360 do, 100 éo, 100 do 80 Hudson 200 do. do. 15 6636 8 Rome Watert’a RR 96 BOARD $1000 Brie Ino Bés... 9734 200ahs Reading RR. 124 T00mns D-&HCCo.0 108% 100 Mich Con hikes” oo 20 Hanover Bank... 90% 65NH& Hart BR.. 126 102 10 Mich 80 Con... .. 26% _50St0 RR..o 96% 100 Eris RI 100 4 Mines and Mining. Monpay, January 23—6 P.M, Gold Hi)! was the most active stock at to-day’s Mining Boar. Besides the sales in the atrest and at the Stock Exchange, some elsver humired and fifty shares changed hands av 04 to 3}. Parker Vein remains at 63, and Ulster at }{. Phonix shows « slight rising tendency,’ Toltes and Riploy sold at former quotations, The bids at the mining board were not #0 numerous as usual. Lehight was offered st 2{, 234 bid; North Oarolina at 6, 474 bids Fulton at 1, 13¢ bid; Mineral at 40¢, 800. bid; Dolly, Hide at 6, €3{ bid; Lindmsy st 80¢., 720, bid; Ooara@ Hillat 7, 700, bid; Retnerford Gold at 7%, 72e. bid, Tho Boston Copper Ore heid at prices not materially differs ent from those of Saturday: Mianesota, ex. div., wag: offered at 176; Copper Fails at 60; North American a¥ 70; Tolteo at 1834; Dongias Houghton at 6; Isle Royale at 25; Ripley at 4; Windsor at 6; &e. ‘Advices from the Rutherford state that on the day fold lowing the date of the letter, ‘he machinery would be ig. full working order, and goli would soon be turned out, ‘The Gardiner crushing michine company have beem meking exporimente upon some ore from the Gardines mines, Virginia, and express themaelves satiified pots with the ore ead the crusher Inthe last experiment 62 dwt of gold were extracted from 860 lbs. of quarts. The powder into which (he ors is reduced is finer tham that produced by any machine we have seen. Mr Lowell Holbrock baa again acorpted the Presidenoy of the Oum- Derland Coal Company, Vice Mr. Sturtevant, who ims tends for the future to be the were agent for the sale of the coal. It is said that Mr, Holbrcox’s Presidency wi} not be of long duration. MINING BOARD, JAN. 23. 1€0 sha Phoenix Gold,.8tc. ov san Ripley ‘ 700 Gold Hill, iM Do... Oe Bales during tbe past week 18,732 beles, viz.: Export,’ 5467 bales; home use, 5,662 bales; speculation, 2,183 bales; in transitu, 1,070. The Board voted—“The market, closed quietly at the annexed qnotationa”:— NEW YORK CLA*SIFICATION, Uplands. Florida, Mobile. N.O. & Tes) Ordinary. + 1% iK 8 8 eg o% 0 10 10: fiddling Fair...21) 10% 0G n iene... Oe Ne Le 13 Ordinary and middling cotton is confirmed at the pre- vious quotations. Middling fair upland, Florida and Mo bile is advanced }c,, and fair upland yc ; others com firmed. CITY TRADE REPORT. i a nee it 23—6 P.M. snes —There were is. at $6 26 for pearls, and $5 16 for pots, per 199 Iba, ne ‘ ergs ‘k¥ADsTUFFS —Flour, curing the forenoon, was im faig demand at 6%. abc per bbl. higher rates. Subseo quently, when the Niagara’s newa transpired, purchaser ger to secure ecpplics, and, im order to do 10,' farther advaace in prices of about 7bc pez thie day’s improvement im the price of four arly 8734¢ per bbl. The transsotions amoanted bbis., cloging with ordinary to choice State at $8 54 xed to fancy Western at similar figures; and H ot grades at proportionate qaota' ‘the it waa difficult toc btain cue Hate of pose gee i ta the excitement which prevailed. Before the Earopean scoounts were published, 1,000 bbls, Canadien, im bond, were procured at $38 06%. thie the the owners bbls. dese Lars beech tre wihiog sell it excepting at extra y Oe, The ‘diy's "movements in: Souttora resahed 4-000 bbl elo! ith mixed to straight brands at $8 81 a and other kinds at proportionate rates—a rise singe Sae turday of 600. a 62,0. per bbl. Rye flour aad corn meal were quite nominal. Wheat, too, was rare, of uncertain value. Before the steamer’s adi circulated, 1,600 bushels Virginia red were obtained af $1 86. We heard that 8,000 bushels rye changed hands, obiefly at $1 23.0 $125. Barley aad oats did not much. Corn continued to toad upwards. The day's business included 57,000 bushels, at 860. a 886. for damp Jersey and Southerm; and 900 a 94. for all kinds of mer- chantable new and old. Subsequently, still higher rates were claimed. Cartis.— At Allerton’s Washington Drove Yard—Offered, to iny 2,172 beef cattle; offered daring the week 2,276, We eubjoin the returns for the week in detail, together with the rection ef the country whence the supplies cane 4 Beef Casile. Hudron River Railrcad, it Keatncky, on cara..... 17% Erie Ratiroad... . 600 N, York State, on os Harlem Raflroad.. N. York State, om cars. 618 Pepneylvanis, on foot.. 163 Ohio, on cars...... 14 Virginia, on foot......, 254 Connecticut, on foot... 100 Stock Ha: lom— Veal calves... 150 Harlem~— Sheep &lambe 928 5 Hucaoa E-Hloge (Obie) 180 beem dine during the week at those quoted im our last Other Erie RR-Sheep (tr’m Ky) 160 Erie RR—Hogs. 407 Harlem—Cows & A goot business prices about the same —say from 80. to 100. per lb. Cows and calves at from $00 to $60; veal calves from 42. to Te, and hogs at frm 4%@ to 50, At Chamberlain's (dadson River Buil’s Head )—At market, 300 ba 20 veal calves, and 2,300 sheep at from $7 60 to $9 50, from $26 to 40 #65; veal to $9: and of the latter at from per head, At Browning’s—At market, 43 cows and calves, ard 2,733 sheep. Prices of the former, to $60, asin quality. Sheep brought from $2 60 to $4 60 # $7, and lambs from $% to $3 60 @ $5, About 260 lef} over unsold, Reca pitulation, ves. Cows and Calves, Me Allerton’s, 276 163 4 Browrip - 43 2,738 40 2,800 60 - _ — 207 aol 148 7,408 — = -—= Decrease... 177 © Inc., 49 «= Deo..2,78 Corren—There were £00 packages Ji brought 180. per Ib ee ee B® Corrom— Was quiet but firm. The day’s sales conaiste! Of 686 balos, an iollows:—For export, 466; home use, 207; and on ayecutation, 14 baler. a PRKOHTS—Were unsettled by the higher rates demanded. We natied enue of 12,000 bushels of corm, im balk, for Liverpool, at 123, After the news'higher rates were asked, but of wheat were checked by the scarcity of the flour 48. & 4s. 6d. was asked. Some 200 or 800 balee cot. ton were at 3(d., and 3,000 bbls, rosin, sald ta be at about 4s, Havre, flour wae at 960, and at 2ic., and about 100 bbls lard were taken at California rates varied by clippers from 606, @ foot measurement. Fatrr.—The sabanoed price acked by owners of raising impeded businers in such. There have beea 80 bales tate tes a0 Sie tr cage hand ‘ay.—We heard that 1, ver at Saturday's quotation Ixon.—Seoteh pig was im request at $40, six momtha) Fer ton. Nayat, St0Rss —Rosin, tar, and crade turpentine were vpaltered. Belen of 700 bbls. apirita tatplotine wane spirod, at 670., cazb, and 68¢., short time, ‘allow. ‘Ona’ —We have nothivg new to in ral pra or olive, There were 7,' rullour laseed veld formes. Provisions — Pork moved to the prices. $14 8754 @ $14 LO for new mens lb. Gutmeate varied little. Some 260 pkgs. 95¢0. @ 100. per Ib. The eales of beef reached 400 ‘the same. Rica Sales of 000 tieroes good to prime wore reported The day's embraced 190 436 0 40.; 90 Texas on 4S ; and 400 casee yellow hid 28 18 160, pee Db. 460, per Ib, Wren ry,— Some 600 bbls. Jersey and prisom were Pay $12 76 tor new etn $11 50 ales of at unaltered rates. Butter aad cheese appeared at $4195 0 84376 per 100 New Griamn egy damaset (Gy eadion) New Or! patly ds: Gy ) ot 6-16 rtd wana, aloo by auction, Tonscco —About 60 oases Florida found buyers at 20@ chases wt 66 0 1056. por gale,