The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1869, Page 8

FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Fripay, Aprii 2—6 P. M. ‘The bill for the redistribution of the national cur- fency was again under consideration to-day by the House Committee. The Comptroller of the Currency ‘was among those who were heard upon the subject, ‘The bill apportions the circulation of the national banks among the States on the basis of $150,000,000 tm proportion to representation in Congress, and $160,000,000 according to the banking capital, re- wources and business of the several States ana Ter- ritories. New England, New York, New Jeysey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia will drop down from 232,000,000 to $146,000,000; Ohio and Indiana ‘will be cut down from $29,428,000 to $27,238,000; INli- Bois and Michigan, With a circulation of $16,000,000, will obtain under the new apportionment $23,250,000—an increase of $7,250,000; Minnesota, Jowa, Missouri and Kansas, with a circulation of $9,296,000, will obtain $15,500,000—an increase of 96,200,000. Kentucky will have her circulation in- ereased from $2,330,620 to $10,500,000; Tennessee, from $1,204,855 to $5,766,000; Louisiana, from $1,130,415 to $10,581,000, and the other Southern States and Territories in a still larger proportion. Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama and Texas, with 4 present ‘circulation of $2,820,000, will obtain under the new arrangement $43,928,500. The money market to-day was more stringent at one time than it has been on any other day since the beginning of the present period of activity. ‘There was a general rush to borrow in the early por- ‘tion of the day, and the extreme rate of three-eighths of one per cent per diem was paid, in addition to the Jegal rate on cal! loans with pledge of stock collate- ¥als. A simple calculation will show that the lencers ‘mm these instances received interest at the comfort- able figure of 142 percent per annum. As the day progressed there was a graduai aiminution in the mringency, interspersed with occasional! reactions, ‘wntil money was offered quite freely at seven per eent, coin, to those who could make use of tt after three o'clock. Aramor prevailed on the street, after banking hours, that the Comptroller of the Currency haa given notice that he would call for a statement of the condition of the banks for April 1. If it be true % will account for the relaxation im money, as the Motification under the present law is equivalent to ‘the passage of quarterly day under the old system. Late this evening a despatch was received from Washington announcing that the Secretary of the ‘Treasury bad sent word to Sub-Treasurer Van Dyke to anticipate the payment of the May coupons on government bonds, deducting the usual rebate. The fact was not known on the street until after the ad- journment of the Gold Exchange. Rumors had pre- vailed, however, that Mr. Boutwell mtended this prepayment of gold interest, and the price of gold, Which opened at 132, declined to 181};. The range im price was as follows:— ¢ 124 P.M > Loans of cash gold were made at from 3-64 for bor- wowing to 5 per cent for carrying. In the afternoon the rate ranged from 1-16 for carrying to flat. The Sollowing is the report of the Gold Bank:— Gold cleared. . $66,455,000 Bold balances. . 1,215,636 Currency balances. 1,863,453 Governments opened very weak, responsively to the stringency in money and the lower quotation, 63; in London, but gathered strength as the day ad- vanced, and at three o'clock were firmest, the Lon- on price coming better, 833. Subsequent street quotations were “off” from the best figures of the Gay, closing steady as follows :—United States sixes, 1881, registered, 116 a 115%; do. coupon, 115% a 13534; do. five-twenty, registered, 109 a 1093¢; do. do. coupon, 1862 118%; a 118%; do, do. coupon, 1864, 114 @114%; do. do. coupon, 1865, 115% a 116; do. do, coupon, new 1865, 112% @ 113; do. do. coupon 1867, 142% &@ 113; do. do. coupon, 1863, 112% a 113; do. ten- Serty, registered, 1045¢ a 105; do. do. coupon, 105 a 0534; currency bonds, 10434 @ 10434. In foreign exchange there was a litue more doing Jer to-morrow’s steamer and rates were firmer. @able transfers were not salable. The bidding price was 103, but the bankers were anwilling to sell at Jess than 1083;. The range of quotations was as follows:—Sterling, sixty days, commercial, 106% @ 307%; good to prime bankers’, 107%; a 107%; short might, 108 a 1083. Paris, sixty days, 5.28% @ 5.2254; ehort sight, 5.23% a 5.20; Antwerp, 5.30 a 5.23%; Switzerland, 5.30 a 5.23%; Hamburg, 35 a 354; merdam, 39% a 40; Frankfort, 397% a 40%; men, 77 & 78; Prussian thalers, 70 a 70%. Stocks opened with a continuation of the depres- sion noticed at the close last night. In some of the Mast the decline was quite sharp. New York Central sold at 169, Northwestern cotamon at 82\, Michigan Southern at 947% and Rock Island at 126%. The news of the defeat of pro rata in Albany carried Central Bp, and @ general disposition to buy at the deciine as money became easier induced a gradual and meady upward tendency of the general list, prices at the close being higher than at the highest point of yesterday. The following were the closing quota- tions of the last reguiar board:—Canton, 58 a 59; Cumberiand, 35 a 36; Western Union, 39 a 50%;; Quicksliver, 19}, a 21; Mariposa, 17 a 19; pre- ferred, 3435 a 34%; Pacific Mail, 895; a 89%; New York Centrai, 160 a 160); Hudson River, 138; Reading, 9% a 90%; Michigan Central, 118 a 318%; Michigan Southern, 9% a 96; Pi'te- burg, 86% a 86%; Northwestern, 83% @ 64; do. preferred, 93}; a 93%; Toledo, 96% @ 97; Rock Isiand, 127% @ 128; St. Paul, 71h @ do. pre- ferred, 79% a 80; Wabash, 66 do. preferred, 7745 ® 78; Fort Wayne, 123% @ ; Ohio and Mis- Bissippl, 324% a 32\. The following were the quotations of the last open board:—Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, 81 bid; American Express, 41a 42; Adame Express, 58% a 60; United States Express, 56% a 57);; Merchants’ Union Express, 15% @ 16),; Quicksliver, 19% a 9044; Canton Vomnpany, 58% a 59; Pacific Mall, #0 a 90%; Western Union Telegraph, 30 a 49); New York Central, 1605; @ 160%; Hudson River, 1388 19844; Reading, 91 a 914; Chicago and Alton, 1484, ® 148%; do. preferred, 149 bid; Bankers and Brokers’, 107; Toledo and Wabash, 66% a 67 preferred, 77/4 bid; Milwaukee and St. Paul, & 71%; do. preferred, 80 a 80, ® 1%},; Ohio and Mu ippl, 32% @ 32%; Michi- gan Southern, 95, a 96; Iinois Central, 1 land and Pittsburg, 86% @ 90; Rock Island, 128; Northwestern, #4) a 945; do. preferred, 937% @ 94; Mariposa, 17}; @ 18%; do. preferred, 4 a Wy; Bariem, 132); bid; Lake Shore, 97 a 08. Southern securities were dull but steady, the other branches of business attracting and absorbing attention. North Carolinas were an exception, be- img pressed for sale and weak. Louisiana levee eights were without new feature. The levee sixes are 71 bid at New Orleans. Prices closed:— Tennessee, ex coupon, 65), @ 66; do., new, 04% @ 6445; Virginia, ex coupon, 55 a 56; do., new, 68 a 00; Georgia sixes, 1 @ 82; do, sevens, 05 8 4; North Carolina, ex coupon, 60 a 6034; do., new, 82 8 62); Missouri sixes, 87 @ 874; Louisiana sixes, W a 71; do. levee sixes, 70 a 70)4; do. do, eights, 8& ® 87; Alabama eight, 99 a 094; do. fives, 70 a 70%; Sonth Carolina sixes, 72 @ 72); do., new, 69 a 70; Oity of Memphis sixes, 61 @ 513; Mobile aud Ohio sterling, 70 a 72. The receipts for customs and the receipts, pay- ments and balances at the Sub-Treasury in this city for the expired portion of the week have been as follows:— Custom House, —— —Suh- Treasury.-———— Revert nents, Balances. March 20 405,468 $04,468, 161 March 30.. 160,708 87,518,647 March 87,005,447 April! 427,146 86,237,601 April 2. 470,000 3 86,502,769 ‘The value of the importations of dry goods at this port for the week ending April 1 compares with the previous week as follows: — March 2%, Aprit 1. Entered for consumption. ..61,375,481 $1, Withdrawn... 800,548 Warenoused. . 610,514 ‘The following were the earnings of the Chicago and Northwest Railway for the’ fourth week in Mareb:-- 1568. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 18¢9.—TRIPLE SHEET. It ts rumored that the Schenectady and Athens Raiiroad has been purchased by the Rensselaer and Saratoga Company, and is to be put in operation the coming season as @ coal road, and 4 large coal depot to be established at Athens and one at Cox- sackie, ‘The following were the bids at the regular board for the railway bonds and mortgages:— New York Cen 6's, °83.. 903 ‘T, W 4 W concony af.. New York Cen es, 72 8 Great West Int m, *88. New York Cen é's,r esi. S735 Great West Ist m, New York Cen @'s, sub. 88 Great West 2d m, °95..,. Erie7's, $d m, end, "83.. §9 Illinois & $ low: But, N' Imi 87, Gal & Chicago Hud’'s, Ist m, "69-70.. 104% Gal & C1 Hud 7's, 24 m,'s f,'85... 101” Chic & Rk Harlem iat mig. 102 Chic, RE Morris lev & Clev & Clev & Chic & Chic & Chic & 1” Dub & Consol 7 pe convertible 4 = Mil & 5 Tol & Wab Ist m, ex.... Chie & SALES AT THE NEW YORX STOSK EXCHANGE, Friday, April 2—10:15 A. M. $4000 US 5-20, r, "Pex i, 109% 1000 Great West 2d.... 78! Mw US Sade eh Hine © 10” S100) US 5-20, ¢, °65, n.2. 112 3000 do. 26 193g 140000 US 536, o, *87. 08 1195, 3000 US 6% 10-40, cou. 105" 1 2000,Tenn 6a, ex cou... 86 10000'Tenn @%, new 2a 25000 NC 6's, ne WU MOORE RECS inc Oy lo O's, Ha St ‘4 4000 N'Y Ma, bl, reg... 100g, 20000 Alabama 5% 500 Morris&Essexistm ‘6000 Wh EY & vo See ‘800 Qu’ksilver Min Co... 300 Pacific MSS Co. 89 5 do. TO 1bWens Pango ey's $0 00 Wells- “b's Bost a1 20 Adame Express. BS Sig _10 Merchanis'Uni 15 102 * 100 Reading RR #1 9 0 dow hi 10040 Mich Con Bits... 1183 m. 2000 Del,Lack&West2m $1 50 Del, Lack & West... 14 5000 Tol & Wabistm,ex 91 100 Chic & Alton RR..68 149 Quarter-past Twelve o’Clock P. M. £81500 US 5-20, ¢,°62..... 117% $50000 US 5-20, c, "67... 112% ‘5000 dDeeeeee = Hiss Seo) Goes oe sa Hass 5000 US 53th r, 164.exin t10 210000 do. us 7000 US 5-90, ¢, "64..... 115% 50000 do. 1000 do. 113%; 10000 US 5's, 10000 US 5: 112% 1800 US B's, 10-40, reg. 104: 7u000 US 5-205 113% 5000 US 6's, ‘currency.. 1044 Half-past Two o’Clock P. M. 00 Mics Southeracns” Bers lw 9534 180 Chi Chic 100 Adams Ex. 100 Welle-Fargo Exp. s * STREET QUOTATIONS. Half-past Five o’Clock P. M. COMMERCIAL REPORT. Frupay, April 2-6 P. M. BUILDING MATERIALS.—For most articles coming under this classification the market though quiet was firm. Eastern spruce was steady at $23 a $26 for common to choice schedules, and within the range of these prices there were sales of 300,000 feet; stock light. Laths were steady at $3 75, at which price the sales comprised 450,000. The stock though light is increasing. Rosendale cement was in fair request, and firmly held at #275 a $3. Lime was moderately sought after at old prices, viz.:—Common, $1 25; lump, $2, Bricks remained steady and firm at our last quotations. BEESWAX was in light supply and firm at 49c. a 50c., and 2,500 Ibs. were sold at these prices. CoppxR.—The market for ingot was doll, heavy and unset- tled, while prices were lower. The sales were only about 100,000 Ibs. Lake at 24c., 30 days, the market closing . a Mec. for all kinds. se cee Corrox.—There continued a fatr demand, chiefly for ex- port, and the market was steadier. The sales were to » fair exteht, being 2.613 bales, including 1.500 for export, 614 for spinning and 818 on speculation. But little business was done in future deliver e sales only 150 bales low mid- dling: for June; on privale termas We append the quotations :— "Hide “Senphias Sasa jexas. oes nm 2% 28% 29 294 Big aig t demand, but steady inch heads, 82 40 x molasses do. ss 0ogEsenan Br0c ontinued 13 value. We quote: Sugar shoo! A shooks, 38 inch a's do. $B a 88 16; ns tio, 86 Ga 87; green hoops, 14 feet, Bid a HBB; green Looe, IS feet, 840c- nase. 4 oe ‘CANDLES.—The market was extremely quiet, there bein no demand except for retail lots. Prices were unchanged, however, adamantine (Western and city) being quoted Ie. = ‘sperin 4c. a 48c. and patent S8e. Uoboa was slow of sale, and we heard of no transactions, Maracaibo was quoted at 27c. a 30c., gold, in bond, and Eee Oe ok tatu war mandy ob Sige: MRige: f TORDAGR, qui was iy a je. for Manila, and + Russta. Correr.—For Rio there was a fair demand, stimwated by the favorable foreign advices, and the market was very firm at former prices, though we beard of no sales. a ote :— m1 Rio, ordinary cargoes, #\c. a 9yc., gold, in ; fair do., Mic. a Wige.; good do., Ne. Te tad do., Ike. & be. 130, do. Other kinds were dull, 1%c.; extremes for lot bat senerally beld at full prices. We quote, nominal; Java, le. a ige. ; Singapore, Ic. a 2030. ; Veylon, 17 193gc.; Maracalvo, 15e. a %.; Laguayre, 18340. @ 11 ge. mal @ Inige.; St. Domingo, 1440. @ Mige.; Ci Hie and Mexican, Ube. 0 Ibe; ‘and Sava- iil ‘a 17ie., al] gold, duty paid. Dizwoons ibe market wae unchanged. ood was and Srm at $22 a $23, gold, for Jamaica, and $29 50 urrency, for St. Domingo, while other kinds were in good bapply, not wanted and nominal. Fist.—Tbe market for all Kinds was dull, but prices were quite steady. Of dry coda few small sales were reported at 7 25 w $7 60 per quintal. Mackerel were steady ut $28 60 a 27 for No.1 bay, $24.0 $24 80 for No. 1 shore, #18, for No. 2 do., #14 60 a #18 5) for large No. 8, and $13 50 a $14 for me- din do., with saiea of 250 bbia. within the range of these prices. box herring remained dull at 5c, a 40c. for scaled and Sie. a B23ge. f . Eastport and Labrador berrin; were quoted at @ Ps bbl, pickled scale $5 25 a $5 and pickled cod # 15 50. Rece' 75 bbls. flour, 201 by Ts ba 1 497 toe FLOUR AND @ 4o., 1441 bole. corn mi wishels corn and 5,497 do. oats." The flour market riled dull and trregular, some sales being made at a deciine of 1Uc., while most brands remained unchanged. Exporters reduced their prices about I5e. a 2c. per bbi., bat holders did not meet them. California four was dail bat unchanged ; the sales were about 7,000 bbls, Southern flour was duil and nominally uncbanged; the sales were 225 bbls, Rye flour was m y at steady prices, the ug 20 vble. Corn was steady, with sales of 340 sell. For No. 1 $1 2 was bia, both in store and e540 90 61 30 640 6 cy we 0 a» 640 PI 6 oh 7 0 ¥ a Bw se 2H 9 60 00 11 00 oo 10 00 1] perfine and extra. CMa 900 jour (sacks and bbis.). 700% 10.00 5008 70 meal 4m 455 ba 610 Corn meni: Jersey _ 4%— 40 —Wheat was dull and nomial, bui no lower, $1 45 being bid and refused for No. 2 spring wheat for milling. Shippers bid from $1 40 to 44, delivered, but holders would not r ‘The sales (in email lots) were about 20,000 bushels at #1 45 for No. 2 spring, delivered; #1 64 for amber Micnigan, 9170 861 65 for walle Michigan, and $1 67% for Callforsin. which $165 bid. No. 2 spring 43 w Bl 45 for good to was quiet, but steady, at former prices. Barley waa duil, and prices were nominal Corn wae quiet sod steady at Wc. for prime new and (2c. for Old. in store. The sales were 00,000 babeis at te. new nixed Western; Bc. a tHe. for white Western; Me. ‘okt mixed Western, in store, and Yle, a Yue, for yellow West: ern, Oats were irmer, with sales of 30,00 bushels at 75) 8 ide, in store, and 773$¢. afiont. FReigitrs.—The market was stil il) and rates were in shippers favor, while the chartering bosiness was without activity, The en®agements were :—To Liverpool, 600 petroleum at 6e.. per steamer, 800 b o¥6 0 Glaangom, per steamer, 7,600 bushels grain on terms. To London, 700 bbls. rosin at 2s. To Cardi IR ran cP" pre ce rear is. rosin at Sn. Od. per x coffee at ‘ate terme. The charters joan berth) for Havre, Dan Gurwres continued te iis’ dal aod Pi a JUN NIRS continu ru aD lees were ee ‘a #'g¢. gold for cloth in bond, and thee ale. fa for bage, Hors were sparingly, dealt in and prices were b Uy pure! iw. "we uote: mitoner te ed s HEMP.—Manile was quiet; 500 bales were sold at 12i¢., Bred Jute Mp cee but steady at 4i¢e. a be., gold, while Jen! was dull and nominal at 1c. ln, 4H demand ki DRS. — for all wan light, and prices were heavy subjoined; sales 1, ity We Buenos Ayres 6 prevailed, however, Wort America being and No, 2, $88 « bran nil but steady at $86 and nom) LEAD was stend being 88 tone Spaniab, German (in Boston) Abert and pipe ie, LeaTHen.—There was but little demand for hemlock we ele cterings tee marke wae io hacen a ; partic ‘ordinary lots, fir. "Unk was Guil nbd unchanged, while ut) and heavy, cloting a the subjoined’ quotations We Ele aztec. Tight, 87c. a Tz) go § | FFI BERS was light and prices were in buyers’ 125 hb Porto Rico at ibe. ‘Wen juote 1 BP BRRE NAVAL Srorks.--Keceipts, tine was inactive though for merchantable and shipping the low grades being in fair finer were dull but steady in vi common stra! and good arrive) at 2 4734, rained, $2 4736 a a $4 25; and was dulet at $275 for Wilmington, EA OtLs.—Linseed, thoug! jet, Was firm!; 1 105 in casks aud bbls, slo lots were, quoted’ 02. di ie i i 33 EB AF i z 4 : alah & ‘J 2 235 : : #2 z Se $8; 3; 4 ere > P Eee Be $e a > ¢ olive there were a few small sales at $150. Lard was dull and heavy at $1 6) for prime winter, while menhacen was dull and nominal at $36, and We distilled red at $c. a Se. Fish ofla were quiet at $1 93 for crude ew bieached winter do. S120 ommon Sou gallons of ke Inter, supposed jons of the latter, 6u; at Gualy*reported) 1,800 bbis. crue sperm at 5. gu CAKE.—-There were a few small aalea Western at $47. BROVISIONS.—-Receipts, ls ages cut meat G0/do. lard nnd'190 bole beet. Fore wastn lem: demand and with larger offerings. The market was heavy and prices were lower, closing weak at about $31 25 for new mess. The sales were about 1,000 bbls, at $3125 a 481 50 for new mess, $50 75 a S41 for old do. and $27 for extra prime. For future collvery we heard of no sales. Dressed hogs were scarce!y so firm, Western being qucted at 13%c. a ld4c. Live hogs were Sriner, —s quoted at Ie. a 113gc. The arrivals were 700 head. Beef was oe ercenly. dealt in, but #2 09 for 4 . Sales ‘and (not previ: steady in vaiue. Sales 8 at 11a $16 for plain mess and $12 bis for extra do. Tierce beef continued to rule dull and prices were nominal at Py for prime mess and a for India do, Beef bams continued in demand, and sal were made to the extent of 175 bbir, at $26 a $31. Cut me: were only in moderate request, at about yesterday's pr the sales were 85 ackagos, al IBC, a 18isc. for dry sal and pickled shoul nse. a 153gc. for smoked do., 1644: alic.for pickled hams, and 20c. alc. for smoked and Dagged do. Bacon was dull, but steady at our last quotations, viz :—Cumberiand cut, 164¢. a 16340. ; short rib, 16%c. # 17c,, and long and short clear at 17c. a 17sec. For lard the market was quiet, the demand being light, ‘and prices still consinued to favor the bayer: the sales were 475 at 173g. a 19¢. for No.1 le rendered. Butter—The market the de- Can Be (or the local trade at full prices, the market closing strong. We juote :— utter— ‘Chemung, Sussex abd Orange county dairies, ie ‘firk Ib. Ate. Cuenang®, Dea A dairies, firkins. oe atte. 48c. = Broome and Steuben county dairies. Cattaraugus and Yates county dairies, frigns.40c. Ordinary to fair State dairit ft ki Sane Factory Farm dairies, fancy and extra Farm dairies, fair to good... We. Orange county skimmed ciieese, albe. —Potatoes--The market was without activity, but about revious prices were current, We quote:—-Peach blows, 29 a. $4 7B per bbl; Prince Alberts, #2 25 a ; Mer: cers, $2 ogi: ; Jackson whites, $2 a #2 25; buckeyes and monitor, @1 60 and Delaware sweet, 85,50 a #6 U0. Hed and yellow onions were quoied at $6" 88 per bbl. marrow squash, 5.0 $6 0 do. Russian turnips, $1 50 a ii 70 du, ETROLEUM.—Recelpts 1,966 bbis. Refined crude in bulk was in demand, but the sales were light, being restricted by the firmness of ‘sellers, who demanded 18}c. a Is34e. st the inside price; 1,000 bbis. were disposed of. Refined was in fair request, but the higher prices asked checked business; 82ige. was bid, and S8c. was asked, while the offerings were Wery light; no sales were reported.’ Naphtha was more sought after and higher prices were realized ; 1,500 bbis. brought 9: In Philadelphia market was quiet, but the offerings were Samative | id bigher rlces were current, stant at Sle. a white giosing 31 sales were }, 2,500 do. for the frst half of bis. at Sle. and this month at 3ic. seller's option. Rick.—Carolina was in were sol te jobbing demand at full part at Ive. ices ; 60 tlerces SPELTER.—Silesian was dull and heavy and lower, closing gold. No sales of momeat. STEARING was in light demand and lower. There were sales of 15,000 ibs., in terces, at Ike. SPERMACETI Refined was dull and nominal, at 45c. a 46c. Bet doa geald N4c.; "Buenos Ayres, 50c., dbo. 0 bio. ; Cape, 4c.’ n 90c.); Madras, SUGAR.—The market for raw was exceedingly quiet, there being scarcely any demand and prices were rather heavy at yesterday's quotations, iz. Inferior to common re- ining, 11 c. w IL 4c.; fair to good redining, I1%¢c. adc. j fair to yea 12%c. ; prime to chol Y A ce 7 1274C. a ie.: centtlitigal, bids. and bores, Lc. a 18.gc. ; molas Bada Wide. a melado, 6ige. a Bie, Fors Cs 5 Cigc. @ Big 140, a 12gc.; grocery a Isic. The sales were 200 bhds.’ at 12. a Ibe. for Cul and Porto Rico ; also not previously reported, 1, bhds. (be- fore arrival), on private terms, By auction, 100 bhds. New Orleans at 1i%e. a 13%e. | Refined was in demand, but pyices were again lower, closing at 16i4c, « 16Xe. for hard Siyc. m 15%\c. tor soft white, 13%. # 143ge. for yellow and Ibe. w 15'4e. tor extra C. SaL1.—With continued light arrivals, small stock and a fair demand, the market was firm for all kinds at the prices Benes toe es 90 somes Fie weg3 1 bya Ty ba mack; ins’ iJ i.Mar- sbail’ennd Worthington's, #2 75 £82 Ss ground, @2 n #2 10; Evans’, Dean's, &c., $2 65a 82 80, and Turks Islands, 480. a pate ted 92 27% a $2.30, gold, with SEFps.—Lins was quot a |, Ww further sales in Boston of 1,800 ‘bags, ex Pericles, = private terms. Crass were dull, but Cry ey in value, clover being quoted Lise: « 153g. ; timothy, $3 60 a $3 75, and rough fas, a TALLOW.—The demand was moderate, but at steady prices. The sales were 61,000 lbs. at 11\4c. a Lye. TiN. Owing to the favorable foreign advices the market for ali kinds of pig was firmer at the Dutch auction sale in ‘Amsterdam yesterday ; 50,000 slabs Straits were diaposed of at 83 guilders. In Began of Straits has advanced to Its, She sales were 2000 slabs Straits at S¥%4e., gold, clos! at38c. a lo.; small lots do. at S2ige.. id, and 100 pigs Bullitot dage, do, Banca was quoted 880. a ic. gold, and Engliah di%ge. a 82c., do, Plates were mode- rately dealt in at steady prices, the sales being 1,000 boxes ns- hareoal 8 gold, for 1. C.; 200 boxes 1. C. coke at Ag? 973g, do, sizty days atid luterest, and 400 do, charcoal yaa 25, gold. eu terne at 12} ‘Topacco,—The business in Kentucky was only moderate, being checked by the low raies of both gold) and exchange; prices were steady at the quotations appended. len ‘were 20) hinds, at €c.al4c. Seedieal was slow of sale, the searcity of desirable stock restricting business very mn- terially. The sales were 23 cases Ohio at 16c. Havana was moderately sought after at stony prices; sales, 250 bales at Qe.» 81 4 ‘ara was dull and unchanged, Manufactured waa more active, the inquiry being principally for black work, in good condition, Ve quote :— Heo, Wetee Havana Common, &2)gc. a Sie. g00d, Me. w $1; ihe. a Bue. ; two cui at inck work. 1 02g a #110. \ara—One en 8 #1 05; average lot, Bic. ae. ManufacturedBl Common and mediam, 12 e., in bond; good and fine, 20c. a W0c., do. Bright w jommon and medinm, 15e. & good and fine, 50e. a 45c., do. Received ~” Total...... Bat 0 Delivered aince on - Stock on hand March 1, 1860. 13,060 2402 ry MONTHLY STATEMENT OF TUE NEW YORK AND BROOK LYN TOBACCO INSPECTION WAREHOUSES New York inspection :— Ky. Va. Ohio. Md, Total Hho Hh Hhde, Hite, Hhda. Stock March 1, 1899. is it) % = 10,698 Received since........ - ier 1 «18,608 - u er Stock April 1, 1860, i «7 ioe Brooklyn inapect) Btock March Received Total... . Delivered since. Stock April 1, 186¥..... Total e . es Wo ani tor Past, the chief feature of the market for fleece. But little ee that ts almost exclusively confined 0 ote for immediate wants of manufacia hit tatatartory condition of the, goods market. Course grades are in ro pat le except at full prices, while the her are in fair supply and cagnot inde excapt fair to good auper wach tw rater scarce’ and firmly belt, In Texas the Dusioess ‘continues ‘on lim fenle, but. to there is Fall dip Califorsia ie in I to, wae made afew da sales for and l60. for were made at about 9c. for unbleached was prices were nominal at 0c. do., for Gen. No sales. Bag ay ge | sales at theea prices. A CHAPTER OF HORRORS. Another Tragedy Near Philadelphia—A Father Disembowels His Son. (From the Philadelphia Globe, April ie Again we have to chronicle another ly, not in this city, but in Camden, which can = be called a suburb as much as Germantown or rapkford, For three days in succession have the comm been startied by jies until a uni- veneer ier, of dread 19 begin to pervade the pubite ming About half- ten o'clock on Wednesday night @man named John Diehl! was in a peer saloon, at Fourth and Chestnut streets, Camden, kept by a man named Smith, and, together with S00, Christopher Diehl, was drin! beer when a quarrel! occurred between the father and son, Angry words followed and the father left the saloon, followed by his son, who uttered opprobrious words, and when near Walnut street, threatened to kill the old man aud drew a knife. The father fell back some distance and drawing from his breast a large dirk knife sud- denly lunged at his gon, and with the weapon in- ficted a horrible cut in the side of the abdomen, be- tween six and seven inches long. The wounded man fell to ground ana the murderer made his escape. Several men came along in @ few minutes and observed the son lying upon the sidew: with his bowels by his side, pro- truding from the ghastly wound. He had managed to drag himself some eight or ten feet, his entrails dragging through the sand and dirt. He was picked up and taken into @ neighboring house and Drs, Burdsall and McCray immediately sent for. When they arrived at the house they found Dieb) bleeding profusely and in great agony. On examining him they found his entraiis to be much lacerated and covered with sand, dirt and sawdust from a pile of sha’ on which he was found. After washing them off as well as possible it took them two hours to replace them in the man’s body. Inflammation has set in, and the laceration 18 so great that the doctors say that he cannot live two days. The father was arrested several hours after committing the deed, and took the matter quite coolly, assel that he did it in seif-defence. The knife, about eight inches long, with a blade as keen 43 @razor and covered with blood, was picked up by @ man-near the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets. The father is aged sixty years and his son thirty years, and are said to be both very dissolute characters, Tne father was locked up in the cells of the Mayor's Office, where he acts mn the most non- chalant manner. When our reporter visited him he coolly asked him for ‘a chaw of baccy.” He is awaiting the results of his son’s injuries, which can- not be otherwise than fatal. A New York Tragedy—Murder of a Woman. (From the Syracuse Journal, April 1.) This morning our city was thrown into a fever of excitement by a thousand rumors of a brutal stab- bing case just enacted almost at our threshholds. From among the numerous versions of the affair, each exceeding the last in atrociousness, we gather these facts, wnich are confirmed by reliable partics living near the scene of the inhuman affair. A man doing business in the Seventh ward and of hitherto irreproachable character a short time since introduced, on the premises of himself and wife, a young female from the country. Although they were never seen in conversation, some tender lines of the husband’s were more than suspected of being in possession of the new comer. Affairs not exactly suiting the man, he had the female conveyed a short distance out of town, and there taken care of at his expense, he calling occa- sionally to see her. This morning the acquaint anceship came to a terrible and tragical termination. He was. observed to enter @ barn with her, and shortly afterward, a person having business in the building, discovered young female with her throat cut from ear to ear and her skull terribly fractured. The perpetrator does not deny the deed, and even alleges that he can justify his conduct. Enos. as we do, that the well earned reputation of a family is a stake not to be slightly ed, we. suppress his name for the resent. His victim is passed beyond the arena of @ world’s praise or censure, and we may freely communicate afl we know of her. We gather, that she was quite young, of rather a bashful or cowardly disposition, and inclined to be of a silent and rumi- nating turn; this despondency is attributed to a re- aoe of hers having lately suffered death from the alter. A Maryland Tragedy—A Man Killed With a Bowie Knife. & ‘rom the Princess Anne Marylander, March 30.) esterday afternoon @ most shocking murder oc- curred at ton Station, in this county. There were quite a number of persons assembled at the station to enjoy the Easter holiday, as 1s the usual custom, among others a certain Richard Bundick and George Conner. The particulars, as well as we could learn, are the following:—Bundick, being in liquor, said “he could whip any d—n son of ab—nh in the crowd.” Conner replied, aybe not, 32, when Burwick xickea Conner, who stepped back, cutting his hand with aknoife wiich he was whit- ting with. Without Conner making any resistance Bundick followed up the kicking with the drawing of a Bowie knife, the blade about six inches long, and stabbed Conner in the left side of big neck, the knife penetra’ far down in his breast, so as to mn @ way for which he had eaten to escape through the aperture. Conner staggered back a small space fell. He survived only afew min- utes. Bundick attempted to make his escape, and Managed to get off about sixty or seventy yards from where the deed was committed. He was followed by @ part of the crowd aud arrested. When they ap- proached him he prepared to defend himself, but was soon #0 overpowered as to render resistance vain. He had ahearing before Henry T. Tuil, a jus- tice of the in Brinkley’s district, and was com- mitted to jail to await the action of the Grand Jury. Both parties were young men, unmarried, about twenty years oid. Tragedy in Memphis—Jealousy and Marder. {From the Memphis (Tenu.) Avalanche, March 30,) Six or seven years agoa man nanied Gorman kept a grocery on Beale street, in this city. He was doing weil in business and married here. This com- mencement of domestic bliss was fatally tuferrupted by the appearance of a lady trom New Jersey, who, with her family of three children, clauned the faltniess Gorman as husband and father, and he Jeft Memphis in their company. The unfortunate and betrayed woman reuamed behind; a little daughter was her solace in her deser- tion, Such is the account that is given of an unfortunate woman, whose sorrows connected with connubial projects were unfortunately not yet atanend. Some time ago she became acquainted with Mr. John Kenneday, an iron moulder by trade, a steady, industrious, bonest man, wno stands well with those acquainted with him. Kenneday and Mra. Gorman recently became intimate friends, and Kenneday’s feelings ripened into pi mate love. wooed her and won her conseut to & marriage with him, and joyfully set about preparing a home tor her who had won his deepest affections and whom he expected to make his life's companion. He took a house, and furnished it an expense of $700 or $800. Everything was prepared for domestic lite. The very coal and wood were laid in and the arrangements for the supper were completed. ‘Then s! for whom all this was done, refasea his bome an him. That his feelings were lacerated and his brain maddened with wounded pride, disappointed hope and crushed affection it is easy to believe. Unfortn- nately he brooded over his woes. He beileved some intruder had won the heart he aad thought bis own, and he formed projects of vengeance against the serpent that had brought despair and anguish into his bright and flowery paradise. He watched for a confirmation of his fears and de- termined to seek revenge, now that he was denied happiness. On Sunday night, between seven and eight o’clock, he saw her whom he viewed as the cause of all his sufferings, walking on Madison street, between Second and Third, in company with Mr. Peter Crowley, a man of amiable disposition and un- blemished character, greatiy esteemed by ail who knew him. Kenneday, now bitnded and mad- dened with ali the wiid passions of unrestrained jealousy, drew from beneath his dress two pistols, and so armed he approached the man lie had marked as his victim, and in the hoarse tones of fe oh passion declared that he should die and by his hand. be] ean an Wenn deadly weapons presen’ wards them, cau e couple to stand almost stiffened with fear, to which was added the terrified shrieking of the little gin. who was accompanying fer mother. enneday ordered the man he had doomed to kneel, ang so receive his death. This aroused the horror-stricken Crowley, and he sought safety in fight, bounding with the fleetness of a deer toward the unoceu, lot near the corner of Third and Madison. it the maddened victim of jealousy and disappointed love was behind him. His enemy closed upon him, and, plact 4 one of the two pistols which he carried to his back, he fired, The wound was fatal, though not immediately so; the man’s lungs were pierced and death was inevitable. This act of blind and unreasoning vengeance completed, the miserable Kenneday, with the crime of murder piled upon bis mountain of woes, fed. Crowle: ‘was taken to@ room connecte! with Ciark & Co.'s watch store, at the corner of Main and Madison atrects, by which firm he has been employed for some be oe pehind otal There the ball was extracted and tl ions of religion were administered to him by a priest of his church; and there, at three @ next morning, he breathed his last. U ht Kenneday had not been a) rehended, A Kentucky Tengedy—An Uncle Kills His Nephew. (From the Lexington Statesman, March 30.) On Sunday morning, about, one o'clock, & moat Vag 3 ie "Ften ke in oa city Py, Luke isaac rs, nephew. e teu of te ly are the folowing:—Lawe 18 & most minded man and exceed This dis ingly jealous an ini his wife. ‘ition Jed him to suspicion 4 between Peters, his his too great was living with veters was mor- jem dead, Laws county, Alabama, w! ting in hia own house in Greenville, Ala., yesterday after- noon, was fired at and fatally wounded by an un- wn assassin. The Judge wel not survive and there ts no clue to the murderer, ‘The Macon (Ga.) wh of March 27 contains the follo' We learn the Everett plantation, three miles Sunday Tt seems that woman, w! en the boy’s mother, herself with a pocket and sought the woman who struck her child. She soon found her, and fell upon her with the ferocity of a tigress. Using the knife freely, she stabbed her six or seven umes, Uae | instant’ death. . The murderess was arrested sent to the Perry jail. An inquest was held by the coroner, and @ verdict rendered in accordance with the abo' The Shrewsbury (Vt.) Murder Ca se. ‘The Shrewsbury murder case, which has been on trial in the Rutland (Vt.) County Court since Marci 11, was ended on March 31 by a verdict of murder inst Horace R. Plumiey and mansiaughter inst Ziba Plumley, aged Ge eye and erick Plum- ley. The parties are father and two sons, who killed Joho Gilman, Jr., at rma ~ August 1, 186s. The jury were in consultation for five days. The case goes to the Supreme Court on exceptions. Manslaughter on the High Seas, {From the Boston Herald, April 2.) The United States District Court is engaged in trying the case of William Graham, a seaman, chargon with manslaughter tn kill! ‘Thomas Ben- son, third mate of the ship John Bright, at Fayal, on the 6th of February last. m hoisting in a check! wi after dark, armea ‘nite “s The crew was employed of crockery and Graham was engaged in off the crates as they were lowered into the hold. Benson was standing near by upon an elevated platform superintending the business. Graham missed the number of one crate, owing to its being upside down, and desired to have it held a minute until he could learn the number. The third mate, Benson, desired to know “why in h—li’? Graham didn’t get in @ proper posi- tion tosee the numbers. Graham responded, and then Benson proposed to “bast his head” and jumped down and commenced pounding on that organ with his fists. During the encounter Graham put a knife into Benson’s body,,the blade entering between the. seventh and eighth ribs and penetrating the heart, causing death in about half an hour. Infamous Outrage Near Philadelphia. {From the Philadelphia Globe, April 2.) On Tuesday evening a man named William Evans went to the residence of Mrs. Franklin, near the gas works, Camden, to see a young lady named Alice Noonen. To her he proposed and was accepted, He stated that he wished it to be in private and immediately, and proposed to her to put on her things and go to a squire’s office. She assented, and he took -her some distance out the Woodbury pike and turned bs @ lane, when, pointing to a white house, he id it was the one they wanted. They then went on some distance, when he asked her to give him her bonnet, which she did. He hung it on a tree, and while she was wondering at this conduct, caught her and threw her on the ground and attempted to violate her. She resisted stoutly, when he beat her ina aecing manner, breaking several of her teeth and sjllitting her ip clean down tothe chin. he then kicked her in @ most brutal manner, re dangerous infernal injureis, She lay for some time insensible,) when some persons passing found her and conveyed her to the city, As soon as she recovered she gave information, and officers were sent out, who shortly came across Evans in the suburbs, and took him into custody and brought him to the Mayor's office, where he was locked up to await the result of the young lady’s injuries. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. List of Americans registered at the oMice of Bowles Brothers & Co., 12 Rue de la Paix, Paris, for the Week ending March 18, 1860:—New 'York—Mrs. G. Hamulton and family, Mrs, Cuddehy, General Dar- ling, Mrs. C. W. Darling, Mrs. 8. M. gatt, Mr. C. W. Field, Mr. 0. F. Mackim, Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Pur- oy Miss M, J. Johnson, Rev. 8. H. Hilliard. Boston— ir. J. Robinson, E. J. Gardner, Mr.. and Mrs, H. Bacon, Mr. 4. L. Hauscom, Mrs. A. L. Hauscom, Mr. and Mra. ‘A. Hardy, Miss L..C. Rice, Mr. B. Tyler. Sp id, Mass.—Mr. C. 8. Leet. Cincinnati—Mr. . H. Weasner and wife, Mr. J. Resor and son, Frank Resor. Chicago—Mr. F. P. Updike. Constantino- le—Mr. J. H. Goodenow. Kindeshcote—Mr. J. E. Morristown, N. J.—Mr. C. Vail. Portland, Me.—Rev. W. H. irs. W. H, Fenn. Manches- ter, N. H.—Miss Stanton. Phiiadelphia—Dr. Cc. H. Bui Miss R. K. Lovett, Mr. R. Clay. Amsterdam—Mr. G. J. Shouten. Rush—Mr. J. Gib- bard. Brooklyn—Mr. |. Daniels, Paris—Mr. W. F. J. D. Hewitt. New Bedford—Mr. William Roch. Rouen—Mr. J. Sharrock. THE ROTTEN BOROUGH SYSTEM IN CONNECTICUT. How the Republicans Sccare a Majority in the Legislature. (From the Hartford Times (democratic), April 1.) * * * The majority for the radicals m the Con- necticut Legisiature during several years past has een exclusively due to our notoriously unjust and wrong system of choosing the Legisiature. The facts have been published repeatedly. It is not denied that twenty-three small towns of assured republican majorities, and contaming an regate- population of only 33,000, return to the islature every year forty-six representatives, while Hart- ford and New Haven, with a@ population of about 90,000, are entitled to only four! And this is only one sample, and by no means the worst, of the “gen- eral run” of this most unjust system. Bridgeport, with 22,000 mhabitants, has but one representative; Union, with 1,000 inhabitants, has two. Waterbury Middletown, New London, Bristol, New Milford an¢ Litchfield, with a population of nearly 60,000, send eleven representatives to the Legislature, while the towns of Willington, Torrington, Durhain, Hebron, Woodbury, Norfolk, Thompson, Ridgefield, Wood- stock, Redding, Lebanon, New Hartford, Pomfret and Plainfield, with an aggregate population of only about 33,000, return twenty-eight members. ‘The six towns that, with a population of 60,000, send eleven representatives are democratic towns; the fourteen towns, with a population of a little more than half as much, that send twenty-eight members, & republican towns. And so it goes, all over the tate, Tur Late STEAMBOAT Fike at St. Lours—Losses AND INSURANCE.— The following, from the St. Louts Republican, gives a summary of the losses and tn- surance on steamboats, excinsive of cargo, at the great fire in that city on Monday oot last: . Jnsurance, $550,000, Jennie Lewis.. len. 30,000, AN IMPORTANT COPARTNERSHTY Surt.—In the Sn- ~_ Judicial Court yesterday afternoon the suit of loses P. Grant vs. Dexter Bryant, being a case of equity, was decided. A question was raised as to the construction of the following clause tn thetr arti- cles of copartnership:—‘‘the profits and losses of the copartnership are to be divided equally between the said Grant and Bryant, share and share alike, during the continuance of said copartmership.”’ The said Grant,; however (but for the term only of the first year of said copartnership), guarant to the said Hryant the sum of $10,000 towards suci profits, anything herein to the contrary and notwithstand ing losses to any extent whatever. Grant contended that by the instrument his guarantee related only to the entire fits of the business of the coparter- ship, and that he was bound to pay to Bryant only such amount as would make up his share of rofits to $5,000 for the first year. Bryant contended hat he was entitled, in addition to the capital con- tributed by him, to. receive the full sum ot, $10,000 for his profits for “y- LR Re Kes. ad agreement ave sent down the following rescript:— “Defendant is entitled to claim $10,000 as his profita of the first year. Recetver’s com to be $1,000, jue of the fund to be divided between paae. and defendant, There was no ambiguity in the articles of partnership requiring the ald of extrinsic evidence. Defendant was entitied under the articles to $10,000 as his eae of the first year."—Boston Traveller, Aprit 1, ‘THE PRESHET AND THR NEW YORK CENTRAL AND Ente RAtLRoaps.—The New York Central Ratlroad was considerably embarrassed yesterday in conse- quence of the track being completely submerged at between Utica various points, and more particular! and Schenectady. The night ex; due here at thirty-five minutes pen sts qT night, arrived here at thirty-eight minutes past six o'clock last evening, over twenty-four nours behind time. The New York mail, due at twenty minutes past tweive P. M. yesterday, was fixed up at ones ‘and man- aged to get through to this cit; it nine o'clock a it, tee cay exyrene, ly LA og was expected to reach here abou! All freight trains are abandoned. The waters were balding at iast accounts, and Passenge Tae treight traits will move’on tees to-d . On ne between Bat! t 18 anticipated on account of and the waters are receding.—Biufalo Cou- freshet, rier, April, — DRATH AT THE MARRIAGR Feast.—The New Or- Jeans Picayune contains the following announce- ments, in immediate — —On Sunday, ‘A, 1869, at Amite the Rev, Mr. Giranit Oly, La., by Watlam tency Sree 0 Beans, daughter of the late George T. On Sunday, March at Amite City, La, b; the Reve Mr diracht Treaty Bands “Adainon' to ilaj, second daughter of the late George T. Dunbar. Pty Me George T. Dunbar, THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, An Aerial Railway Propesed. All the way from Columbia, 8. 0., P. L. E., sends us anew plan for an ‘aerial railway,” of whtch he claims to be the “inventor or projector.” It is m- tended for the local travel of large cities. He pro- — poses to erect tron pillars or shafts along the curb of the streets, or, if the street be very wide, a third row of columns in the centre, These are to be con- nected by iron crossbars, on which any number of convenient tracks or rails can be laid “rising one above another in regular like benches of rowers in the primitive galleys, until, if necessary, the highest overlooks the loftiest buildings of the city.” ‘These rails are to be so constructed a8 to admit the running upon them of ail kinds of vehi- cles,.even oninibuses and velocipedes, propel! hand or steam. The inventor submits his 01 plan “with some trepidation” and hopes that even if nothing should come of it “his countrymen wit at least give him credit for a tolerably tively imagin- ation,” but he insists that it 18 no more quixotlo than the flying machine of Monsieur Chevalier. Have We a Police or Nott ‘This rather saucy question is asked by the captain of a vessel in the harbor, who states that regular gangs of thieves, well known to the police, are operating on the piers, He gives the following instances:—On piers 43 and 44 East river they were discharging wine from two vessels and a gang of men were stealing the wine with “valinces,” or tin tubes, through which the wine is sucked up, holding halt a gallon each. The watchman, trying to stop them, was threaveued with being soused mm the water. At pier 42 East river six women with largo baskets stole about 500 pounds of soda ash from casks. A policeman told our correspondent that he knew the thieves and gave their names, but would not arrest them, as nobody can be found to urge a complaint. If the “captain” is correct in lis facts the question 13 well put —Have we a police among us? Medical Advice. An “Old M. D.” replies at length to an Edinburg surgeon, ‘touching the evils committed by irregular practitioners.” The “Old M. D.” claims that a piece of sheepskin, covered with elaborate engraving and Latin, does not make a doctor. The fault lies in the Medical colleges sending out “miserable ignora- muses,” who are “generally incompetent to throw physicevento the dogs without poisoning them.’* Most of them know very little, and go out full-fledged he admits that the faculty of the medical schools of doctors after one year’s indifferent study. While this city are second to none in the world. he com- plains that the rivalry existing between them influ. ences the passing of candidates utterly uniltted for the profession. our cal adviser has some honest truths to reveal in regard to the advertising quacks and their suspicious nostrums. He says in general they do very little harm, comparatively, except to the pock- ets of those who apply to them. The greatest in- jury in society, he says, is inflicted by the legitimate medical fraternity themselves. What he has to say on this subject is worthy to be read in his own lan- uage:~“Your family physician, who rides and irives in his carriage daily; and I know from ex! rience that the criminal induction of premature bor or abortion, for the purpose of ving some of the cares of maternity or the result of shame, is practised by numbers of what are styled ree spectable and reputable practitioners. These men possess a double security against discovery, in the event of a fatal termination of their acts, by the ac- ceptance of their certificate by the Coroner without, question, and secondly the scandal of an exposure to the family.” In conclusion he advocates the adoption of the bill now pending in the Legislature, for @ chemical analysis of all patent medicines, with an addition requiring all physicians to write Pee prescriptions in English instead of “dog in. Madison Avenue Improvement. “p,.) writes that the upper part of Madison ave- nue has been graded and 1s ready for paving and lighting. He states that the owners of property fronting on this avenue between Sixty-eignth and Seventy-second streets, have themselves made @ contract for paving that section, and he hopes that municipal authorities, especially the Croton Board. will at once contract for the paving of the rest of the avenue. Our correspondent is right in suppos- ing that with Madison avenue made passabie for vebicles, Fifth avenue would be greatly relieved. The improvement suggested should be taken in hand at once. The Religion of Secretary Fish. “C.” writes from Mauch Chunk, Carbon county, Pa, to correct the statement that Hamilton Fish, the Secretary of State, belongs to the Ger- man Reformed Church. Mr. Fish is an Episcopalian and an active member of that Church. in the late Trienntal Convention, held in this city last fall, Mr. Fish was, as we well know, one of the four lay dele- tes of the diocese of New York, and exerted great influence upon the proceedings of that body. ‘ Perpetual Motion. Another claimant is up, for the thousandth time, to the discovery of the perpetuum mobile, or perpe+ tual motion, This time the claim is set up by ame chanic of Rondout, N. Y., who has spent a fortune and @ iifetime in perfecting it, Whiskey Meter Ring. “Not a distiller” writes that it will be tw o years 15th of May next that the Commissioner of Inter: Revenue compeliea every distiller to pay for a whis” key meter. These meters have been furnished to the, distillers, but are not attached to the stills, and nut a jon of whiskey has been officially counted nor @ dollar of tax collected by the atd of these 1uctors. this be so, where lies the fault? The Hospitals on Ward’s Island. A communication from a “Constant Reader’? dwells at length apon the mismanagement of the hospitals on Ward’s Island, in charge of the Com- missioners of Charities and Correction, who, the letter says, receive $7,000 each. annual salary, and yet have pat a young doctor at $600 a year to inspect the iferent institutions on the island, which tuey sh do themselves, ‘Constant Reader” complains also) that twenty cents fare is charged for cacti person visiting the island. The next com- plaint is about the management of the Ine~ briate Asylum, where persons pay from five doles lars to fifteen dollars board per week and are some- times sent to the common workhouse, Ii is also stated that there is not sufficient attendance at the female department of the Lunatic Asylum, and the smallpox hospital is not properly taken care of, as the nurses and watchmen from other institutions: pass out and in unreservedly, thus facilitating thé spread of the disease. El Independencia del Sempre Fiel sin do Cuba. A Cuban gives us the following as having occurred” in front of one of our large hotels a day or #0 ago. Two Cubans were conversing animatedly on the sub- ject of the fevolution in Cuba, when a bystander stepped up to them saying that his heart ached for the Cuban cause, but he had no money with whic! to aid tt, Yet he had @ valuable gun which ne carried through the late American war, and he would contribute thi The gun was received the same evening and forwarded to assist in the st gle for El (nd *pendencia det Sempre Fiel Ista de Guba, The Market Stalls. Yo THe Eprror ov tHe HeRALD:— 1 wee that your Albany correspondent advocates the passage of the act to regulate the leasing of stands and stalls in the public markets of New York, He takes a wrong view of the matter, and does not seem to be acquainted with the facts of the case. + In the first place, there are no leases given foe stalls in any of the public markets. A permit is all of the present holders of these o pa pO ry shave as invested in their business, Two-thirds of these le have formerly been residents of the city of ‘ork, who, by the increased rates of rent, were ity, Harlem, Yorkville and lke placed; or 10 Jersey jem, ville Mi chs f Washi et jolders of Was! the i, Ly named lace, an helt businees them unseasonable hours location those cities bei ok a law, ie and their money in them is the only support of thee The Obstruction of West Ferty-ninth Streets To Tas Eprror or tae HeraLo:— We trast your apt remarks will be successful 19 rousing the proper authorities to a sense of the com dition of our streets, Fifth gvenue is comparatively unobstructed when compared with some of the side streets—Forty-ninth street especially, because this ‘was originally paved with Belgian pavement, and flows through this street. At eres is filled with either bricks, dirt or i ite width, with a narrow lane nich venturesome wagons can just creep ong. Prt along. Private parties have appropriated 200 or BOS feet to their rock th as in| ie e Lad ‘No eave pe