The New York Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1869, Page 8

"| eite Mail, Port Wayne and Michigan Southern.” first mentioned went down to 100 amid much excite- ment, reacted ubout a haif to three-quarters per cont, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. ‘Torspvay, Feb. 23-6 P. M. ‘The patriotic sentiment aroused by the recurrence of Washington’s birthday etimulated tlie “bears” to begin @ fresb attack on gold, which resulted Ina reduction of the price to 132%. ‘Their action, how- ‘ever, was not entirely disassociated from the fact that fve-twenties in London had touched 79 again ‘To-day the street was inclined to “kick the dying | lion” by starting all sorts of rumors. Prominent ’ Mem Ta Tt COMM7ARACIAL. REPORT. whew ny y Tuxapay, Feb. 98-6 P.M. then went down to? and finally closed at 91%. TRE | pypowax ans quiet at 400.8 @c,, but we beard of no Joases entailed by the “drop” in this stock @Fe Very | ssiesof miowent, unt large, and there fs no smal amount of indignation | Corraq—rve market for this staple was fairly active, the | at the action of the prominent directors in advising | demand teing cbicity from spinners and speculators, and ite purchase at figures twenty per cent above par. | pricegeppreciated to ihe extent of Hie. le. per Ib, as will Semece e aee DeE een tee cor May were sold at Sabjolne ‘closing quotations :— ‘en Monéay. In the absence of the news that these t ne of the steam- are the reunites hd susfered a relapse o-day, and in the | SAH ne nad ‘en lost and another diablod, : . 0. ant presence of large sales of the metal by the clique s ie gee Jo, got funds to operate with im another region of | Another and s very lively contest 1 Dreparig Oe | One artioary # 4 ‘Wall wtreet, the price, wnich opened at129%, steadily | Mistigan Southern, The sunual election comce of | Tot iting : So declined to 1325. oe ® s aeie next month, and the veteran Commodore has ce pane me dears retraite ne announcewsent tat | Pe Present Sa ak Clee ee ui Calo to ta had decided not | come very near accomplishing ® couple Stacie eae dow tbe w iiijert extrseoee wring to the briet | or eure ago—an furtherance of his plan for | forimmbe, nic. There woreals’of ex Mian. term of the present | x greene he tipple ah Tae, gold, in dowd: - Son don a8 sn conned opus @ consolidation of all the railways connecting the Boe a ee cere the basi- was regarded as | Central with Chicago, thus making Out one corpo: | (ior, "iegue. Wiliam Scott & Bone the stock ct tic ration between New York city and the metropolis Baltimore, 28,00); cold gainbling pro- and iiagiona) Representa: of the West, Rumor has it that the Harlem Hudeop River are to be consolidated with the New York Central, and these in turn with the Buffalo and Erie Railway, which connects with the recently con- soliiated Lake Shore road, extending from Erie to Cleveland. The Commodore’s possession of the Michigan Southern, whith runs between Cleveland and Chicago, would consummate his plans. The tight is going w be a hart one, and will be ail the more interesting that it RTT up of the bonde. “YG _ . .ness of the United States, has been skilfully employed as @ means of specula- tion. A few woeks since, when this Congressional ring and their Wail street coufederates were “loag” of governments and “svort” of gold, the Hooper bil was taken up with a grand fourish, rushed Abrough one house and Introduced in the other. Eu- Tope was deceived. Bonds in London went to 79 and | yo, tnree sidea to it—tirst, the Vanderbilt party; gold here began to decline. The profits must bave second, the Northwestern party, who control the been immense. Afler realizing on governmen® | roaq at present, and third, the Hrie clique. The Fe eae, gy wei | great struggle will be between the first and second qovoraniniite “uncer? anil beak fica! ok guid: we | Saeen ee eee ieee: wiayicande 8 lesen OF eaeP find tne secret to-day. The bill is virtually kitted, | With the Central pariy on condition of ete sina g the secret of the recent scrip dividend, will use their Sard Saibeed te by pected Teen Lnsaed arg 24 influence on the Vanderbilt side for the sake of the sé fits hkely to arise from “cornering” the gold. Our London fnends were evidently not in the pe rye ig te Rong clique. The — y ingto 5 party aeores ye: nd aid yeaa! lone ted or are also manipulating Fort Wayne, and the indica- povy sccpedt ye od aa e. ‘To-day there was & Yield- | hong are that some of the directors of the latter com- ing in the foreign price to 787%. ‘The effect on the | pany are inciinea to desert the Pennsylvania Central beme market for gold was a recovery of the price ® | on account of the bad faith of the latter in making 383, an yust stated. At this figure the clique took ad- vantage of the opportunity to unload again from the remnant of goid now in their possession, and, over- coming the natural upward tendency of the price by ‘their free contributions of the metal, reduced tt at ‘the clone to 1324. a lease, through the Pan Handle Company, with the Celumbus and Chicago road, and aid the movement of Erie for a through connection to Chicago, What- ever the strategy underlying the present movements of Fort Wayne and Erie, there is an interesting time coming, and the street is evidentiy on the eve of considerable sensation. That the Erie party are entering largely into the contest both in Michigan ‘The range in price was as {ol- to-day :—In New York, 61,201 bage; bile, S000; ‘Galveston, 9,000; 4, CoorkEuAGE Brock, though Just, quotatations, —vi:— * 35 inch heuds, 2 50a 82 BH; sugar shoo! 0.) 43 a B16; moinases do., do., $2 75 a $2 cd; pipe 9 $7; rum do., 5 bi, box ops, B45 a dou, GEO; green bo Candice were neglected, but unchanged p-value, West: ern and city adamantyne were quoted at Ife, @ 2lc., sperm 4¥c. and Bie, Copren.—American. ii was in active demand, partly speculative, and the pte col jarge, but at lower fate the BU 5, was, market firm, however. There were: of about PiUKO0 be at Soe! a. B8ige" for Decoit and Lake Superior and $3iyc, for Balttinore, ¢! at Bike. w B8340, Cocoa was quiet 3—Guayaqu) but We lige., gold, in bond, and Maracaibo 26c. a $o., JORDAGE was steady at ic. « tte. (or Manila ann 17. for tarred Russia, ‘DRUGS AND D¥Fs.—The market for all kinds was quiet, but prices were generally without ebange. Mi soda aah at $2 3 $1 72 caustic Sales, 100 ton ‘8 82 3745, cold; 75 do. nal sode at 11 10 0 do. ; 500 kegs bi carb soda at 4c., do,; %) drums ‘soda at be. a5 20-100e., gold, and 7346. a WW casks bleaching powders at 4'4c. a 4%yc., 68 cases sheiiue and 50 do, gum kowrie on privaic terms. Fisut.—Dry cod were in light uj and being in moderate demand prices were Sima at? b)& 81% for Bauk and 8 4 $825 for George’ ‘200 quinta’s at these ices. = For mackerel there was jerate detamnd at Cull prices, viz. ‘a 228.0 for Nu, | bay, #24 &) for No. L shore, si8 & #1 OF No. 2 Jo., Bib {or Jarge No. 3 and $1950 4 @14 for medium Sales 300 bbls. Box berring were dull, bat held at 45c, « Sue. for acaied and 20¢, a 35c, for No.1. Barrel were ee ee Se do, cod, 2a Figg ann Guatn,— Receipts $084 bbie, Gann, 9814 necks corn meal, 2,000 bagh do.. 374.5 bushels wheat, 22,841 do. corn, 6,62) do. dats and 12,000 do, malt, The tout market was without improvement. ‘There was very little de- mand and that little was at prices considerably nominal quotations below. No.2 State tour and the lower ‘of super were rather more sought after, but the mar was cull and nominal. California four was almos: unsalable; the sules were 4,50) bbis, Southeru flour was slow of sale acd prices continued to favor the buyer. ‘The sules were only anout &0 bbis. Kye tioar was doll aud scareely so firm, the seles being only 274 bbis. Corn meal was in impro demand, but Cd iy Sales 1,500 bbis., a $5 tor Brandywine and $4 7 W for Western, Soathern and Fort Wayne ts betrayed in their heavy | Neds 96.00 0.85 50 > on sales to-day of gold and of Obio and Mississippi and Entra Sate tae eB 139%, other stocks, which they seem inched to throw | Choice do. ; 3 1225, | Overboard, in order to get funds with which to sus- HOn 800 1323, | tain their efforts in the two stocks mentioned, \ os ed 132% | The “Vanderbilt stocks” were strong in sym- | su Louis low extra.. don S00 emannia, of the Hamburg line, to- | nemy with the Michigan Southern movement 8 OR @ay took out $85,000 in specie. Cash gold was in | gnq the Erie stocks correspondingly weak, 021300 good demand and loans were made at 7 to 4 percent except Fort Wayne. Prices closed at the last en rad 4 for carrying. ‘The transactions at the Gold Exchange open board as follows:—Cumberiand, 36 & 600 a 10 00 Bank were as follows: 39; American Express, 43 @ 43%; Adams ie ae poop pring Express, 634 a 63%; Merchants’ Union Express, ime 500 Currency balances. 17% bid; Quicksilver, 24% a 25; Canton, 60 a 61; der Foreign exchange was active under purchases | Pacific Mail, 98'¢ a 983,; Western Union Telegraph, stimulated by the decline in gold. There are few, if | 373s #3744; New York Central, 163% a 1631¢; Hudson any, cotton bilis on the market, and those drawn | River, 136% a 137; Keading, @2 @ 9214; Alton and against bonds are equaily acarce. Prime bankers’ | Terre Haute, 38 a 30%; do. preferred, 65 bid; Toledo @xty daya’ wore advanced by leading drawers to | 4nd Wabash, 6644 a 66%; do. preferred, 77 @ 78; Mil- 109%, but the bulk of business was done at 1093;. | Waukee and St, Paul, 655; a 6544; do. preferred, 77 a Rates closed as follows for to-morrow’s steamer 77%; Fort Wayne, 12234 a 122%; Ohio and Missis- Sterling, sixty days, commercial, 108% @ 108%; good | Sippl, 33% @ 3474; Michigan Southern, 9 @ 9634; to prime bankers’, 108% a 1094; short sight, 1094; a | Illinois Central, 143 a 147; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 109%; Paris, sixty days, 5.18% a 9.1634; short sight, | 9% @ 90%; Cleveland and Toledo, 105% a 105%; &l5e 5.13%; Antwerp, 5.18% a 5.164%; Switzerland, | Rock Island, 126% @ 127; Northwestern, 82% a 6.18% a 6.16%; Hamburg, 35%; a 36; Amsterdam, 403; | 40. preferred, 90% # 90%; Mariposa, 653 4 95 @ 4X; Frankfort, 40% a 40%; Bremen, 78% a 79; | Preferred, 20% a 20%; Harlem, 156}, @ 18734; Lake Prussian thalers, 71 a 71%. Shore, 105 bid. The value of exports (exclusive of specie) from In subsequent street transactions the market im- New York to foreign ports for the week ending to- | Proved upou these figures, especially a8 money was day Was $3,261,173, against $3,225,065 for the week | quite abundant at the close of banking hours, previous. balances being freely offered at four and five per Governments opened with a steady feeling in the | cent. The ruling rate during the day was six and market, the result of the high quotation yesterday | Seven on call, with exceptions early in the day at tm London, but soon after began to droop with the | S€veu on mixed collaterals. The closing street quo- @ecline in gold, and followed its fluctuations until | tations of this evening are appended to the list of ie was announced that the Hooper bill was virtually | Stock sales. rejected by the Senate Finance Committee. There is An Albany correspondent writes:— very large short interest in the market, and the is- | __ Jt is the intention of the 8} nes Of ’62 and '67 are very scarce for delivery. Con- | receas that will commence on the 29th inst. cerning the speculative influence of the Washington | fact goes far to incline as to the beitef that the Erie ring an evening paper inquires: — road will find Have speculative interests anything to do with this matter? Why should such important measures encounter delay? Measures which are so sound, 80 4p harmony with the tenets of the re; at yen and so calcu: idence in our finances? Their the value of oor markets from two Ratlroad Com- against go’ car. ried on in Wall street. Some of the hitherto most prominent financiers are known to be short to the extent of millions. Certain in Washington are likewise on the same of the market with them. Is there any relation between this circum- stance and the delay to print the above bills? The effect of this announcement, as well as the anticipated result in London, weakened the market. ‘The fotlowing were the closing prices at five o'clock thia evening:—United States sixes, 1881, registered, | 113% a1134: do., coupon, 113% a 114; do., 520s, regimered, 110% @ 111); d0., coupon, 1862, 114% a WI4%; do, 1864, 111) @ 111%; do, 1865, 12% « 112%; do., new, 1865, 1103, a 110%; do, 1867, NOX 2111; do., 1868, 11] a 1114; do, 16-40's, registered, 103% @ 103%; do., coupon, 109%, 4 1093,; currency Donda, 101% 4 101. ft will be remembered that a few months ago there ‘Was #2 controversy in the boards on the sabject of ‘he particuiar bonds of North Carolina Known as the Chatham railroads, After some deliberation they Were declared a “good delivery,” but were orfered to be ¢alied separately im fature. The Raleigh MALES AT THE NEW YORK STOCK ExCa4¥sE Sentinel of Saturday says an injunction obtained aaa against the Chatham Company has been suscained | ‘Tuesday, Feb. 23—10:15 A. M. and made perpetual by the Supreme Court. It adds:—-The bill appropriated $200,000 for the road. Thix decision will cripple or stop many other wild schemes which the Governor and his irresponsibie Legisiature are now struggling to impose upon the people of this state. ‘Thiet Legislature, paying 1ttie = freights proportionately, aud not water the stock. fiderent as to the tax they Impose upon the people,” Yue market for Southern securities to-day was va- North Carolinas and Tennessees declined \ while the Loutstana levees advanced 1 to L's per | ome cent. A private letier from a member of the Ways | 10 and Means Committee of the Lousiana Legisiature | iano to some friends in this city say* that the joint Com- | 1%00 SE h 233 - ge * $ SJ do. mittee on Finance have introduced a bill to allow the wo aay Governor to pledge vonds for the purpose of borrow. | e by ing money with wioch to meet the paymentof the wo 6 Maren coupons on (he levee eights, the Chattanooga | pI my and New Orleans Kaiiroad Company standing ready to | S M4 tuivance the loan when the bypothecation of the bonds | ie duly sanctioned. Certain legal dificalties eriemg it out of an appeal to the Supreme Court agaist the | 3 Hndaon, ist m. ~ payment o! the one per cent State tax are the occa | 41) funmontal iene, way ae sion of this step, Should the trial referred to result | ® BY of Com m favor of the State before the juterest is due | zs it will not be necessary, perhaps, to put the pro- | 9% Canton visions of the Loan bili fn operation, The market | ‘go Del 4 Ai was weak at the end of business, Prices closed:— | Spd laalte OF at Fennessee, 6x coupon, 67 a 67)4; do. new, 6554 AOB%: | IW CumdCoaipl doe Fy do, five per cent, o9 a 62; Virginia, ex coupon, | Quarter-past Twelve oCleck P.M. HG WETI: lo. NEW, A), 46254; do. Feguinr SOCK, | #200 US Fx,°%, rog..c 119K S1IG00 TS 5:00, ¢,°87 WSs @ G1; do. registered, 1866, 4 a 55; do. registered, p..] Us Fa, % C0 HOR 4000 do “a = mp ut : 1000 | i's, 7 ° do... Ww 1867, 61 8 9144; Georgia sixes, $053; do. sevens, 98% | Stun Us 59), cM... Heyy T0008 40. i * payable n 114 14000 U8 6-80, &, ibs . do, sevens, interest payable in Georgia, 87 & 3 ie. fod fs] Here 4 ny : North Carolina, ex coupon, 68 a 634; do. new, | Hioewe ulti 110% © 4600 Iibsy Wy @ 50%; Missouri sixes | DH... TY OO do... m and St. Joseph, 87; bon Haif-past Twe &Uleck P. M. levee sixen, 6) a 69:4; to. do. exgnts, 84 a 86; | flgn0e Tenn a. Alabama eights, 94 & 95; do. fives, 64% 0 653; do. | 34009 Tenn 6, 163 \ éo oxen, sterling, 0 a 05; South Carolus sixes, 71 @ | ju Ta: do, MEW, 60 & O60); do, regilar stock, 65 «67; oe City of Memphis sixes, 51 4 62; do. Atlanta eights, 78 | y2000 8 60; do, Savannah sevens, 90 4 01; do. New Orieans | 300. CAT Cle consola, 78 @ 80; do. do, tssned to railroads, 70 a 7 | Mobile and Ohio sterling, 64 a 66; do. eight Mississippi Central Ratiroad, first mortgage, 0 a 70; Go. seeaad mortgage, 53 a 54; Memphis and Charies- ton, firet mortgage, 89 a 91; do, second morigage, 77 @ 78; do. stock, 48% 49; Greenville aud Columbia — guaranteed, 54 ‘The National Stock Hxchange held a meeting to- ay to hear the report of the committee in charge of the récent ciection, the resalt of which was an- | nounced s few days since ip thin column, The board, | after @ discussion of some portions of the new con- stitution, adjourned to meet again at the call of the ehair. ne Up the gevera) stock market the features were la- 2 tf ; & az Port = fe STREET QUOTATIONS. Halfapast Five o'Clock P.M. Welle Parse tr. 8 Baxpress. Pacite Mail, meal, Jersev. —Tnere was more loquity for sprig wheat tor un Gack ansncrear Geek dil temiion, amet emie ae, vement for chdice wheat, ordinary selfing litle if any bet. ter th Satur ia was somewhat mt choice was peneraily beld firm at 81 Bi, The sales part were about bushela at but choice was on Sati 1 SU a $1 9 for Nos. 3 and & in store aud de- iwered ; wl 56 for No, 8 do. in 1 5839 for com- iered'$ 81 65 for Noel spring; #1 aber Wenarn ve for No. ; arn! ; $1 1a #1 90 for common to Shcloe California, Corn was more active and Ic. better, —- ‘firm at 9c. for new, The sales were about 60,00)’ bushels at 90c. & le. for new S92 08 for Old Ae 6) sane ana Callas) jlow Western and Southern and Wc. a 8c. Oats bushels at 78'c. {n store and 7c. afloat. ull and prices were énttrely nominal, proved demand and fea, w jor extra State and #2 tor was dull and wueh: ) trem bbls. We, and charters were :—A rit 1500) bb, fat a:; au Amveriean brig, 2,000 DUin: capac: back, and a bip an at ls. 6d. The ipecial iP. tb sales mittee to bold sessions in New York city during the Faiee in eee, ot toes prea Ste das slcudy att + & Be, Hops were tu light demand from all classes: jor heard of no sales of moment. Prices were steady, however, at Sle, a ¥1 10 for Madras, $1 75 a §2% for Kensal, The. a $1 05 (or Manila and $i 204 $145 for Gaate- ions, but the market was steady at #650 a $8.33, gold, for or: Yinary forelgn. Lrarurn.—Yor hemlock and oak the market was moderately active aad prices were stewdy and firma at the foi lowing qngtations: ~ — Hem'ovk B ayren &* Gigrle Giri Light. Mie: tar was 4 ot. OU, Cae was dull and heavy. the demand being A aale was rumored of 40 tous ai 858, ‘OfUA.--Linaeed was steady x: $1 08 » #1 fo In cankeand bbis., with anien of €2°,000 gallons for April delivery nt #1 08. Lard was quiet and scarcely ey firm, the sales being 40 bbie. within the range of @1 rime winter. iy dis- ove there were « few sail eaten halen was stem: NM at ‘ab of steady. Spores ttesahea "winter whele, GUS A ot 3; craic Siuuree uate: —Bleael ae a0; & jeaone | # 5“ 0 bbls. at 9fe. OF it and voter do, We PRovistons. - . y ‘652 bbls. pork, S085 do. beef, 664 pockages cat io. lard and 820 dressed boss.’ The meats, a Market for pork was fairly wctive, but prices were again de- ewetly tower, clusing frm, bowerer, Tere were halen of about 2,800 bbls, at B51 25’ Gl d'g for new mens, Sale $5) % Cor old do.; #9 a B27 for prime and extra. prin sino. for future delivery, 760 bola, new meen, for Apri, 831 7A, selier’s option. Live were slow of sale and Weak al Mice, a ile. Dressed were . 8 ide. for Western and Iie. a lage for jae qaiet, but unchanged in value. The salee at BIL A $17 for pinio mess and #12 4 $19 for do Of beet hams, which were steady, there were waien OC 75 boing at Sad a Tierce bee! was slow of sale, och sea in valve. Prime tones waa quoted at 826 a 80 Ha do, ol & $3 Cut mente were duil and prices and were generaily io favor of the purchaser dry anil Pickled shoulders being quoted at I4e. « 14iic.. emoked do, 4 ed to. Rage. a 50, piokled do. Nhe. bagged tres ao tong for Crimbes Ve.’ » ec. @ lTige. for The basiness wan very light and prices ware heavy were confived 10 avout 400 pacicaces, 4 keule rendered. » # 196. for Ne. itnire delivery we Light supply was firmiy heid at our quotations appended. ‘ was in good request, end the being moderate holders were rm In their views. We quote Wo priine....... Be. skins, good to prime Me. fait to good te. ined firm, with sales in Boston of 171 SH) gold, duty paid, and to ary STEARINE wea hat Sprsrex. Silesian was firm, with » sales being 100 tons at 6ige., gold. ROAR. "Oantiles thous! ‘autet, was at 14e. 8 le. TaLuow.- The demand was light, and Tavored the buyer. The salea were 40,000 ibe. at Ilo. a 11%. for inferior wo ani a! ka RE EE gold, and alatabe in Boston at Ste and pomina) av sara, gold and Eng! old. Piates were dull and we beard Maton Gia Borlan Tor k'C coke; Se ce * ty for i cone | 6 a GB Sy don fe small was steady at D0c-, f no enles of moment. old, for 1. C. 25, do., for sales, at 31 . Bulter wae in guod demand, and belng io | coke terae; and for charcoal terne. TonAGcO.-'The bnainess in all kinds was light, but prices were steal jmotations below, ‘There were sales of liv, | tc. a Ide, ; 60 canes 1887 crop Ohio seed- leaf at fic.: 10) vais Havaga ut 2c. 0 900. ; and 50 do, Yara ats] 10. We quate» eRe Kentuchye Light Loaf, and Clarksville Aung, per i Tie. a Bige. “age. m Sse. ye tne Mes le Be. a Me. Ihe. 8 160. 45.3 Sine o's Oe 1c. wre re, ots, i Ls ; wrappers, a i New Vor states Bllern,. Tier a Se; Ararege lot Be. a Bj wrappers, Ie, we, Pennaylvania and fillers, 63ge. & Frees averae told, Bigc. «Bio. ; wrappers, Ie, @ Bbe., did erop. Havana—Common, ‘ic. = Bie. 5 foot, Me. a BI; tine, G1 0239 4 $1 U7. Yara—I out, 70. » Soc. ; HT ont, 81 03 a 81 08; average lots, Siiyc. m Aéc, Manufactured--Black work, com mon and medinim, 12'9c. « 1ée.; do, good and fine, Me. & 80. ; bright work, common and medium, a Mc, ; do., good fine, us, a b60,-—all In bond, WHALEKONR.—Aretic was held at $1, gold, but we heard of no transactions. WHALEFoOTs were quiet, but steady, at Ie, a le. for leached and unbleached. emnaly quiet there veing scarcely any dena treme! ule ere being scarcely any conntderabie fruanena in vr ot all rates, femss is also met, bat beld at fnll prices, wi fornis is mo seen her aad hulle’ slenay in, wetoe | Perege te songht after and slow of wale, bot the market is firm for de- scriptions. We quote:—Oblo, Peaneylvanis and Virginia hete |S Bien; hi bic. a Sed “én ake arter do, and common, dc. a ble. ; New 48¢, ; full & éo.; ‘Texas, fair to good medium, Se. Jow medinm, 20,’ a, Hic. Inferior nailed wt 42c. a Sic., 29,000 tba. T Jed ut 48c. Yo, fall elip Californie within th 10,000 Mexfean at 24c. a 26e. Of foreign significnnce to report, rule heavy, though the demand was more active. + There were saies of about 135 bbls. at 95c. a 98c., tax paid. THE NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE. Meeting of the Board Yesterday—The Officers Elected—Brokers as Parliamentarians. The several hundred brokers who do not belong to the “regular board,” and who, of course, wouldn’t belong to it if they could, met again yesterday at No, 54 Exchange place as members of the “‘Nauonal Board of Brokers.” The meeting was held on one of the top stories of the building, in a large room redoieut of new paint and shavings, where a huge red hot stove in the middle of the apartment did ex- cellent service in steaming the wet garments of the brokers, who crowded about tt as though each one was “short” of coal and wanted to make the most of the article in the heater, at no person’s particu- lar expense. When the meeting had been called to order, and, by extra inducements from the chairman’s mallet, general attention had been distracted from the stove, the minutes of the previous meeting were read and voted not bad. ‘The secretary, a gentleman who knows the value (not hairdresser’s vaiue) of a pair of long mustaches and a quantum supicitt of promiscuous whisker, read the result of the election held last Saturday, which was as tollows:—President, James Baker; Pirst Vice President, C. C. Parks; Second Vice Presi- dent, E. R. Tremain; Treasurer, Charles Unger; Secretary, C. M. Delmar; Assistant Secretary, John RK. Lansing; Chairman of Arbitration Committee, George P. Clark. A good natured member, with an eye to the fature, advised that the temporary Executive Committee should be retained m power to pass upon the names of the applicants who hadn't as yet been allowed to be dubbed members of the new board. A gentieman whose name was too k for the secretary to write in one sil fy belt from the bottom of nis heurt that such a was an impos- sibility; because why: Hadn't a,consiitution and bylaws been adopted, and wouldn’t it be contrary to the constitation, either of the board or the ited States’ Besides, what it the new Executive Committee which had been put ina high place by the election The chairman didn’t believe that the reta of the old coummittee which bad been disci would be unconstitutional. He didn’t exactly know why it wouldn’t, vut he felt that way anyhow. A young gentieman, with # note book with the word “Ere” written on the margin intimated that he always beticved the way the majority believed; at least in the present instance he believed the adop- tioa of the motion would be a sacriligeous violation of that “grand instrumenc’” of the lta con- stitution. The geutieman who made the motion at this Of the proceedings became frightened at the parti mentary storm he had raised aboat his ears, and very kindly remarked that he would withdraw the motion If nobody ovjected, when the chairman, in the most pieasant way imaginable, expressed his high caGon at the turn afuirs fad taken, 2, which he was relicved from the great responsibility of de- ciding the question at issue agataat somebody. The old conunittee was then discharged honorabiy. A tall young man, who prided himself on his strength in technicalities, mtmated that there was no chairman — presiding we im at which the sourteous supposed to he the ehatr looked pleamngiy toward the techaicality man, and said, with moch that he supposed that whoever was in possession o! the chair bad i, but that he fett much pleasure in resicning it to the First Viee President, which be did instanter. ‘ The First Vice Piesident said he never made speeches, and wotld cousequently not do ore than thank the members for aaving thrust 40 pon him and promuse that the board would Coss, tary just elected be, in paid his salary fr which was carried — ceiving buck pay, and on rising -to respoud had veen one of ihe fathers of beng ap- pears boara had several fathers.) He the apartments in Broad street some time ago in onier to yet up a sort of bankers’ and brokers’ ineet- iug room, bnit the project fell tarough for want of proper support. His friends advised him to make a “long” room of the aparunenta, and he received some thirty signatures in favor of the enterprine, bat that is ai (tamounted to, [Probably because tne root Was aot an inch longer in the long ruo.| The idea of the new board, where “Erie” could be called, presented itself to him end others, and it was seived apon bodily and Mr. Pisk, Jr., Was consulted about the matter, who of course gave it his warm support, He velleved Mr, W! was one of the fathers of the board, and he that Mr. Wheip- ley atonid be voted very my The man of technicalities that the reet- | tng badn’t been called to A A seriout-looking broker from street moved as an amendment that everybody stiould be thanked, Another individual, who t# said to be constitu. Houa'ly opposed to moved af aD amendment joking, { to the amendment that everybody and his wife <uould be thanked, which was thought not only a very original but also # frigitiaily funny remark by wll it. “7 oman of techatcalities remarked that his de- | light would exceed ail boands did somebody inform him who had the right to Gx the salaries of the RATION bers. A thougatiul member raid that he felt it his duty the of salaries be re(erred to ihe Executive Committee. yt iroperuineat young man hinted that he would know a deal more then than he knew before if wa would wll oan bow many of the Execa- t ittee were salaried. rhe ae rather a stinner, and the mo- the table, said that since the jast 650 applicants whose cases had me helt, respectability, nie av not constituted “respectability” in a uroker's t that it wae anjuat that the Now on the books of the be wy aad lower. Tot amall sales at Sc. 0 18 hea lower. There were & no fleece and ed is ex- but there fs ba. Teng at BUcr a. Ser, and 40,000 2 e range of 6c. & 28c., and we have no sales of VHISKKY. Receipts, 76 bbls, The market continued to known as the Golden Harvest, of which he was the master. The cargo consisted of coal dust, and there ‘Were also on board his own clothing and that of his family, Wishing to have the poat removed to New- Richard Wiison vs, Elijah Bruce.—This action was brought by plaintiff, the assignee of one Lyman Crooke, to recover $1,000 damages of defendant for injury done the house and grounds No. .210 Bridge street by removing shrubbery and fixtures in the house of various kinds, The defence set up was that the defendant removed nothing but what was his own property. ‘The jury returned a verdict for the Pl , assessing his damages at $150. Action to Recover the Value of a Brick Machine. Henry Bower vs. William Pottion and Another.— The defendants were copartners under the firm name of Poillon & Co. On the 3ist of March, 1860, plaintiff applied to defendants, as claimed by the latter, to purchase a brick machine, represent- ing that it could turn off from 500 to 800 bricks per hour. Defendants refused to urchase without ap ET Nehingis 2 of the machine. Upon the payment of $100 to let defendants have the machine on trial for the Lam Pa we eyoy who were to accept it if they ed it. Plaintitf set the machine up and ax soon a8 it was started it broke down. It was several days before it was repaired. and immediately upon start- ing it a second time it broke down again. The de- fendants not pai the machine returued it on the 6th of August. ¢ action was brought to recover the sum of $500, the alleged value of the machine. Verdict for plaintiff and damages assessed at dfty COURT CALERDAR—TWIS DAY. Unirep Srares DistRicr CouRT—IN ADMIRAL- TY.—Nos. 20, 22, 41, 39. SuPREME COURT—CiRcUrT.—Nos. 310, 311, 344, 224, 286, 350, 234, WEAKLY Monrauity.—The mortuary reports of the Board of Health show the number of deaths in Brooklyn during the past week to be 155—an increase of two over the number of the previous week. Of the deceased 41 were men, 31 women, 51 bova and 35 INCENDIARISM IN WILIJAMSBURG.—The firing of stables in Williamsburg has become so common that owners of valuable horses are kept in SERIOUSLY BURNED BY A LAMP EXP1Os10N.— Mrs. Albert 8. Farand, residing in Lafayette ave- nue, between Tompkins and Throop, was severely burned on Monday night by the explosion of a kero- She core eeaennioeg ecm Sagi as ico as Ceti Ch eect her hands, arms and face. NEws iN BRIBP.—Mrs. Creagan fell down a flight Of stairs at No. 42 Willow place on Monday evening and was seriously injared. She was takén to her home, No. 228 Columbia street. Peter Duffy was arrested and locked up yesterday have directed that for repaving thoroughfares with pavement be advertised for, an that the Common Council be requested to assign the district Of aswesument. : OBITUARY. Jeseph Vaill, D.D. This well Known minister died at his resistence in Palmer, Mass., on Monday morning, the 2241 inst., m the seventy-ninth year of his age. Dr. Vaill was born in Hadlime, Cono., July 28, 1790, and gradu- ated at Yale in 181), with S. E. Morse, jate of the New York Observer, and the late Governor Baldwin, of Connecticut, with both of whom he was on inti- mate terms. In 1814, when twenty-three years of age, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Brimfeld, Mass., where he remained twenty-five years, with an intermission of four years, during which he was pastor of a church at Portiand, Me. In 1821 he was elected trustee of Amherst Col- lege, @ position he held tli the time of his death, in its early years the college struggled under pecuniary embarrassment, and Dr. Vall! was appointed gen- eral agent to collect funds for the institution. He devoted four years to this object, and collected gy oy piaced the school on # good founda- — tae ay his work at Cae rst he over Congregatic mal church Somers, Conn., August 6, 1 where he spent a ie He received, at his request, a dismision the of December, 184, and on the 6th of the same month was installed over the Second Congrega- tonal church in Palmer. Having labored in the ministry over fifty years, he resigned his charge in Palmer tn the spi of 1868, but continued to preach io Yartous paces Ult elected # member of the Legia- latare last November. He was the oldest member of that body, but alinost as vigorous aud earnest in his Jabors as the He was one of che #pecial committee on the f. jaw, and took an active the vega importance. Returning from Legislature last week he was saddeuly taken in, and died after five days of suffering. Dr. Vaili ieaves ‘& wile and five sons, two of whom are ministers aud one @ merchant, In this city, His funeral will take re on Thursday, the 18th, when Rev. lr. Stearns, lent of Amherst College, will preach the ser- Mon, A WHITE SIAL THIRTEEN YEARS OLD SEDUCED BY A NEGRO, j Attempted Tragedy in a Court Room, | Thomas Dowden, a colored man, was tried at Ca- | 4, Harrison county, Obio, on Thursday last, on a charge of sedacing & young white girl by the name | of Lydia M, Amos, daughter of a wealthy former of | Harrison county. He was found guilly avd sen- tenced to the mild panishment of hard labor tn che SS, for five years. fn the course of the triat iss AMOS. Who is but thirteen years oll. being but a few feet from the prisoner, tm the preseuce of | judge and jory, rested upon him with a loaded re- Volver ana attempted to fire it, bat throug some | MiamMahagemeat on her part it failed to gu of. | ANOTHER REGRO SUICIDE, It was proverbial & few years ago that the negro, however terrivie hw condition, Sry rarely iu thin country committed suicide; bat the equal rights mania bas produced itsefect, We have observed « number of cases of negro suicide recently, the latest of which, and “ail tor love,” is thus recounted by the New Orleans 7'imes of the isto: cag cite Tumis fa aoe A nited Statex colot ini try and an orderly to Cotonel Warren, who two inf Oren ded yest in "ie ent y in the rear Colonel Warren's residence, No. 192 Carondelet rejections are given The toronet 305 | Orthe last sts. of his life wan totudite hora very | esd ‘and rather well written epistie, tn which the | il é i MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. am of Henry Sargood, Greenwich, land) papers please copy. —_—_—_— Died. Boyp.—In m, on Sunday, February 21,.of Brookly! Mr. JOHN R, Boyp, aged 25/ years, orn tends and relatives, also the relatives of his father-in-law, Mr. N. G, resi invited to attend the funeral, ths peway) 9 " ns at ty Pe a: fo, the reai- Srookiyn. ‘The remains -will be taken to the Ceine- ‘of the Evi for inverment. tice, —On Tuesday, FObrUary 2 Cuameney fot tne late Colonel Joka ¢cayand, E The place from Methodist igcopal church, West Twenty-fourth street, be- tween hand avenues, on after- Tesnect vi 4 BUNTING.—At Spruce Run, N. J., on Mon Bway. ruary 22, Wi: YRNES, YOUNES son of ind Magvie M. Bunung, aged 4 mouths und 18 days. BROWNELL, —Sudi , &¢ Clarkson, N, Y,, on Monday, February of J. A. Brownell, ter of the late Mian Graves relatives are and ited to attend the funeral, on ‘Tt , at three o'clock, from the residence of her mother, Classon avenue, second north of Quincy sireet, Brooklyn. Curtis.—in ir, OD roesiay. Febraary 23, We. LT Ebb depron po gon of Wm. V. and Amy Mcintyre Curtis, in the 17th year of his age. Funeral in Rochester on Thursday, CoRNING.—At Brooklyn, on Sunday, Febraary 14. Cnan.orre, wife of John H, Corning and vonay od of the late J. D. Cusning, of Great pret ase. GraHaM.—On Tu , February 23, Mrs. ARABELLA GRAHAM, of Janes Graham. Her relatives and friends, and those of her sons-in- in Henry Liebeman and Samue! 8. Wood, Jr., od ited to attend the funeral, at the residence Henry Liebeman, No. 4 Hamilton pl West Fifty- first t aire, Near ‘Eighth avenue, on Friday, at twelve noon. Giovan.—At his Fendetioo in Fairfleld, Oonn., JOHN GLOVER, aged 75 years, * Hayson Mond ay Peoraaty 22, Jassie, youngest A’ Ly child of Samuel and’ Marla Hays, aged 1 year and 4 mont ths. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, her parents’ resideuce, No, 854 Ninth avenue, (Wednesday) afternoon, at one o’clock. HOLLAND.—On Tuesday, February 23, ELLEN Hole LAND, widow of Thomas Holland, of Newcastie Weat, county Limerick, Ireland, in the 47th year of her age. ‘The friends of the family are invited to atiend the from her 8 2 faneral, rates : ae renee veucsduy, Pebreary 26 after a lingering of his uncles, me at one 0” erate in, Tuseday sg ‘The friends and relatives are respectfally invited to attend the funeral, from her late 183 ‘West Houston street, on Thursday afternoon, at two o'clock. Lewis.—On momar 3 22, RicHakD Lewie, ‘The spdetvee and friends of the are respect- ng funetal, frou idence, 332 West -third street, this (Wednes- ‘tn the funeral, this (Wednesday) afternoon, at haif-| one o'clock, from his late residence, No. 6 street, .—In Brook! Tuesday morning, Feb- ees acer ra ct of Henry Mardn, aged 85 Moses J sentry C. Maniny a in bipy . aD are invi the funeral, on Thu afternoon, at two from her late residence, ary Wanstaa MIX, of New York, aged 30 years. TLLLAM relatives and vad Hae don f bers of Com) B, Seventh regiment and members to attend the fune! Aposties, corner of Ninth avenue and relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral se! (We ) afternoon, at four o'clock, at her late residence fifth house, north side, and east of Second ave- nue. Her remains will be interred in Greenwood on ‘Thursday. MoKinstry.—On Mon Wits A., eldest son pr ya Fyrom i] McK: 6 6 months and 10 ‘The fuera wil ‘ake piace from the of : his parents, avenue A and 122d st Hariem, on ‘Thursday afternoon, at one o'clock. relatives foo gga the family are respectfully invited to wn agar ofuompn aka Rael, Rta AY, LP. Mi 9 months and 7 days. m family are invited to atvend the faueral, from the residence of her parents, y street, between Bedford and Nostrand ave- ues, on Tht ‘at one o'clock. PaYNe.—On 23, BLiaapere , February PAYNE. raat hy nied § months and 8 days. ‘The friends of the family are respectfully mvited pareuss No. eo East Ninth sweet Tnaredsy 24 0. on ee eo o'clock. YKR.—On Tuesday evening, February 2%, Gnoncu Puyen, inthe sith yearothis age, Notice of tapasal ee ne” iNN.—In Broo! esday, lebrunry Mane QUINN, @ native of county Longford, Ire! aa 52 years. relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfuily invited to attend the funeral, from her late resi , 206 Water street, on Thursday afier- oon, at two o'clock. Raksvkn.—At Stamford, Conn., on Monday, Feb- rnary 22, ANNE, Wife of Alexander Raeburn, fo the st ta Ralf r lay, Febrnary 23, Evn, the be- ANOUX.. loved wife of James M. Ranous, 35 years. Her remains will be taken to Poughkeepsie, for interment, from her late residence, 115th street, be- tween Third and Fourth avenues, on Thursday morning. keepsie papers please copy. Ross.—On Monduy, February 22, Many Ross, the beloved wite of Joseph Hoan naive of the parish of Knockbridge, county ireland, fa the sevt bc of her 32 Mott to church, juiem mass will be for the repose of her soul at ten o'clock, this (Wed! thence to Calvary Cemetery. at one in + . relatives and of the family are invited to attend, ie Lodge, No. 235, F. and A. M. Roomr.—On Si 21, Evimasera, widow of Frederick Koome, a“ ‘The relatives and friends family are respect- falls invited to attend the fune: m her tate , No. 117 Sullivan street, (Wednesday) at one o'clock. SaVAGe.—At his residence, 321 Henry street, remus, on Tuesday, February 93, Conns.ius AVAQE. Notice of the funeral in to-morrow’s paper. SCHLUMMFRM FY eR. —On morning, Febra ary 23, at four o'clock, H. SOMLUMMERMBYKR, aged a and 4 mouths. Kelatives and friends are respectfully invitea to attend the faneral, (this (Wednesday) NOON, wt one o'clock, (rom nis brother's residence, No. 18 Wert Houston street. ScyDAM.—In Brookiy, on Saturday at one o'clock, Feoruary 21, MINNB SUYDAM, ” years and 9 months. ‘The relatives and mets ot the family are rengeot. fully Invited to attend funeral, from the York atreet Methodist Episcopal church, corner of Goid street, this (Wednesday) aficrnoon, at two o'clock. Titrox,--On Monday, February 22, after a briof i1- wie lens avo respectfully Invited to attend er friends are inv! attend the funeral, from the residence of her brother-in-law, F. ©, Mooney, No, 301 West Fourth street, corner of Bank, oo thursday morning, at eleven o'clock, with- on Tuesday. afte Feb. 28, M DT lay afternoon, Feb. 23, Many C., pinks Theodore W. Toad and daughter of Poul A, Notice of funeral hereafter, Waitin Jersey City, on Monday, February 22, Josera Warr, in the 63d "year ge. Notice of funeral to-morrow. Pree Witgon.--in Baltimore, Md., on Monday, Febroary 22, HWNKY Prreas WILSON, younest son of the inte Dr. James Wilson, of Rye, Westchester county, N. Y. oa Sins en ee zac ‘000, The friends and rel of the io reapect- fully tnvited to attend the funeral, dence of her son-in-law, Charles Stut First street, near Cole at three o'clock, without