The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1872, Page 9

. — NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, ‘AUGUST 24, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT. », LIVINGSTONE’S CEITICS. | FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, AXONTINUED FROM EIGHTH PAGE. fo the Nile, it is a swamp choked with tall reeda and the ambatch tree, and its source, tive degrees orth latitude, was discovered afew years ago by. eminent German botanist and traveller hweinturth; so that if ave to believe such testi- ony the Bahr el Gazal is certainly not Dr. Liv- Ingston’s waters, Advancing up the stream of the we do not know of a single river joining from he wost all the way to the Albert Nyanza Lake. ‘aving tiis lake by the Nile till we reach the Vic- atoria Nyanza we observe only one river in this dis- fauce, and its source is well shown to be in ‘Uganda. Therefore, I Fopeat where do Dr, Living- Plone’s waters join the leit bank of the Nile? 1 answer, nowhere. If we take another view of the question and ask which is the navigable Nile, the reply is that Mme. ‘Tinne’s and Sir Samuel Baker's wteamers have asceuded the Nile to Gondokoro at five degrees north latitude, passing the Baur el Gazal and not attempting its channel, since it is choked with aquatic vegetation, Were it not for waterfalls and papids these steamers might con- Binue ascending the Nile into the Victoria Nyauza, #o large is the of water. 1 trust you will spare @ space for these my convictions, which have on strengthened more than ever by the recent Interesting discoveries of Dr. Livingstone. His Jukes, rivers and valleys can have no connection ‘with the Nile. They form a basia entirely distinct and to the west of the Nile basin as discovered b: the late Captain Speke J. A, GRAN Natan, N. B., August 8, Professor Charles Beke’s Opinion, You have so recently allowed me to advocate in the 7imes Dr. Livingstone’s sapposed discovery of the true sources of the Nile on the great water. shed of Southern Alrica, running for 700 miles across the Continent from east to west, between ten und twelve degrees south latitude, that it is only fit {shonid ask you to permit me, in like manner, to chonter ina patinodie in the columns of your world- ‘wide ctreulating journal. If the informution now given by ourgreat travelier in his letters and «e- spatches published in the Times and other news- ‘papers be correct, it is physically impossibie tor the rivers running northward from that water- shed and converging in his “Central Lualaba,’ ‘which he traced downward to four degrees south Jatitude, and there left running “right away to the north," to be in any man connected with the Upper Nile. The proof of this 1s very simple. “A Relative of the late cope Speke’ has cor- Fectly stated in the Ties of this morning that the iLualaba oh not run into either Lake Tanganyika r the Albert Nyanza. Dr. Livingstone himself ap- 0 have been conscious of this, when he said his letter, published in the 7#mes of the 29th ult., that the ition of his “furthest” run in the ‘wenty-fifth degree of east longitude ‘makes it robable that the great lacustrine river in the ‘alley is the western branch, or Petherick’s Nile the Bahr el Ghazal), and not the eastern branch ‘which Speke, Grant and Baker believed to be the river of Egypt,” But this is as impossible, physi- cally, as that it should be the eastern branch— more so, indeed, becatise it does not depend on the alculation and comparison of levels, but is a plain atter of fact. Dr. G. Schweinfurth, a German tanist, has explored the basin of the Bahr el hazal, or western arm of the. Nile, and has not niy visited the source of the River Djur—Pethe- ‘ick’s Nile’—but has been beyond it, and as found in the third degree thirty-five inutes north latitude and twenty-eighth flegree east longitude, where he cross » & rge river, the Uelle, having, apparently, its urces in about two degrees north latitude and hirty degrees east longitude, on the western side pf the Blue Mountains that flank the Albert Nyanza on .8 northwestern side, which river runs from poe to west, and is, without doubt, the upper Pea of the well known Shary, running into Lake Chad. Be this as it may, it is self-evident that a river in juch a position and with such @ course as the Uelle ust absolutely shut up the basin of the Nile in that Airection and preclude the passage into it of any ‘waters trom the south. faving under these circumstances, the waters of vingstone’s rivers go to is a question with which It is sufficient to cannot possibly join the Nile. it is mortifying to me to argue thus against what {have so long believed and contended tor; but it ‘would be madness to biind one's eyes to facts. Ketuare, August 10, 1872. CHARLES BEKE. BROOKLYN AFFAIRS, Meld for the Grand Jury. John O'Connor, alias John Smith, who was ar- fested on suspicion of being concerned in tiie rob- bery of Blees & Co.'s sewing machine factory, Bridge street, on Saturday last, was arraigned, and upon examination before Justice Walsh yesterday (was held to await the action of the Grand Jury. need not now trouble you. how that ty, ~ Music at the Park. There will be music at Prospect Park, near the Jake, as usual, this afternoon, The Twenty-third yegiment band will furnish the harmony upon the rcasion. Several miniature yacht races will also ‘ake place on the lake between the hours of three id six P.M. The Camden Club has accepted an vitation from the Brooklyn organization, and will il their little cra(t in conrpetition, End of the "Longshoremen’s Strike. “It isa long lane that has no turn” is a trite pxiom. So is it also along strike that has no ter- joination. Even ‘longshoremen have been made to realize this fact. All theirexpressed determination Lohold out to the bitter end; to beat the non- pociety “rata’? who had been called in by the owners: f the grain elevators to take the places abandoned the silly strikers, has eventnated in a clear ‘backing down." Yesterday, shortly before noon, he ‘longshoremen, to the number of about three hundred, begged to be set to work again. The em- loyers consented, and the repentant grain shovel- | lers resumed theic labors. The police were then kelicved from further surveillance on the elevators. Counterfeit Money. A man named Albert Clark, who says that he fately arrived from Cleveland, was vefore United States Commissioner Winslow yesterday morning on the charge of having attempted to pass a coun- ‘terfeit $20 bill of the Market National Bank of New Work. Clark made a few purchases at Kitchen’s peor at the junction of Fulton and Washing- n streets, and tendered the bill to the clerk, re- eeeing. him to take the required amount out of it. hen arrested by Policeman Bowen $10 in genuine gmoney and a pawn ticket were found in his posses- jon. He asserted that he did not know the $20 ill was a counterfeit. The hearing of the case was get down by the Commissioner for this morning. Umportant Excise Case—Is Lager Intoxi- H cating? ‘ Charles Sonneman, proprietor of a lager beer | Baloon and garden on Filth avenue, opposite Green- avood Cemetery, was arrested on Sunday, July 28, Yor selling lager. Oficer Morrell, of the Fiftn ave- mue police station, in citizens’ clothes entered the place, drank a glass of beer, paid five cents for it, nd thereupon arrested Sonneman, who was locked mp over night. The case was heard before Justice Deimar anda jury yesterday, when ths state of facts was proven. Counsellor Meyenborg, for the defence, produced the testimony of John 8. Lipps, a chemist and practical brewer, who testified that whe average per cent of beer in this country | Beldom reaches two-and-a-half, ‘hat a man above twenty years could not be made jrunk with lager beer of two and a half per cent, inless he filled his stomach within five minutes. aif a dozen Tentons swore that they could drink hirty glasses a day without getting intoxicated, Yilllam Schrader, of 199 Atlantic street, often rank fifty glasses of lager beer in asingle da; fand never got drunk. Witness said, with mucl mMnction, “twas goot.” August Valborth drank so amany glasses that he couldn't count them, and yet mo man ever saw him drunk. The Judge promptly acquitted the accused. ‘tried thus far before a Brooklyn jury has been ac quitted on the gronnd that that intoxicating. SMALLPOX IN JERSEY CITY. Alarming Spread of the Malady—Several Deaths During the Week. At no time for many years has the smallpox taken fuch deep root in Jersey City as during the past four weeks. Wayne street, First street, Second street and Fourth street have been ited with a vengeance. A sort of quarantine xists in the “Black District,” bounded on the Bouth by Wayne street and the north by Fourth street. That portion of First street lying between Branswick street and the hill was quarantined yesterday by the common consent of the in- habitants, and no trafic was through it. The number of cases in the city during the past week was about two hundred, anu the number of deaths from twelve to fifteen, ’ It is HiMeuit to obtain reliable information as to the aaeree, of severe cases, for the people are very can- | t even about notifying the doctors, lest the pa- | as fients may be taken away to the hospital. The city authorities ny move in the matter, except to pay punctually he salary of a health inspector, which was in- reased a few days ago to $1,500 a year. wentive measures whatever hav rescue the people who are taxed f asthe Health Department. Many months ago the HERALD sounded the keynote of alarm, but the convicted Police Commissioners, who still hold the pe of power, refused to part with any of the Ring ppcintess or appoint some one who would grap- ie With the contagion. The people are left to the jerey of the plague. The HeRALD reporter was in- rmed by an eminent physician in the city that he Koows many houses Visited by the smallpox in which no disinfectants were used by the tenants, and the consequence is thut the smallpox is rapidly emgage. No pre- Every dealer in lager beer | permitted | as usual, are not making | been adopted to | yhat is known | He considered | everage is not | | continued firm at 7.9 per cent, the relaxation in Sudden Relaxation in the Money Market. The Rate on Call Declines from Seven to Three Per Cont. + Chicago Well Provided with Funds Now That the Wheat “Corner” is Over. a Gold Declines Another One-Half Per Cont. Falling Off in the Dry Goods imports, -+ oi The Entries for the Week Four Millions. - Gradual Disappearance of tho Gold Pool. THEORY OF THEIR FUTURE PLANS. Contemplated Movement for a Decline in Gold. The Late “Bulls” to Become Ac- tive “Bears.” . ee eee oer aay Mysterious and Correlative Strategy in the Money Market. A Further Heavy Decline in Erie. WALL STREET, Feiay, August 23—6 P. M. On ‘Change to-day a steadier tone was notice- able in wheat and tlour, witha tendency towards firmness and a better demand, both on domestic account and forexport. The cotton market was quiet and without essential change. THE DRY GOODS IMPoRTS. The imports of foreign dry goods during the past week were $4,140,771, and the amount marketed $4,084,231, MONEY SEVEN TO THREE PER CENT. ‘There was a sudden and remarkable relaxation in the money market, witha de¢line in the rate on cali to3 percent, The business at midday was fairly active at 6a7 per cent, with a good many loans at 7 per cent. Up to two o'clock 6 per cent wes the general rate, but after that hour lenders became numerous, and the rate declined to 5, 4 and 3 per cent, the lowest figure prevailing just as the banks were closing. The demand from Chicago has almost ceased, the recent shipments of money from this city having supplied the demand up to the time of the culmination of THE WHEAT “CORNER, which event by its attendant heavy decline has checked the movement of wheat from the interior. The farmers got -thetr ideas of the market unduly elevated oy the prices prevailing during the specu- lation, so that it would not be surprising if the farmers retained their wheat until late in the sea- son, and possibly until winter, thus giving us an easy market, or, at least, 2 moderately active one only, during the ensuing fall. The rates for COMMERCIAL. PAPER money on call having been too recent to exert any | influence. Actual business was on the basis of about 8 per cent for prime names. To-morrow’s bank statement will bean interesting study in con- | nection With the Now and reflow of money tie past ten days, and also as an index of what policy the banks are pursuing with. reference to the accom- medation of the stock brokers. Foreign exchange was about steady on the basis of 108%{ a 1087 for prime sixty day sterling, and 1091s a 1094; for sight bills. The Bank of France shows a specie gain for | the week of 800,000 francs, IMPORTANT TO BANKERS AND BROKERS. A Washington telegram this afternoon says that the Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that the tax on sales of goid and silver, stocks and bonds, and upon checks and promissory notes Stands abolished on the Ist of October. The Treas~ ury currency balance at this date is lower by $10,000,000 than on the first of the month, reflecting | | heavy disbursements of the government on account of pensi®@ns and the civil list. DECLINE IN GOLD—11376 A 113'4. Tne gold market was weak, with a decline from 15% to 11514, and a reaction at the close to 113); a 113%. The course of the market was only the nat- urai result of the changed tactics of the clique—the recent display of stubbornness on the part of those who had not gone out with the main body of the pool having been a necessary stratagem to enable them to get out also. It is doubtful if the pool interest in gold now amounts to more than a trifle, Indeed, it would not be surprising to find in a few days a reorganization of the elements of the late clique into A NEW “BEAR” Poor, to operate for a decline to 105 a 106 in gold this Win- ter, as a consequence of the re-election of General | Grant and the marketing of our heavy crops of cotton and wheat and products of petroleum, pork, cheese, &c., Atleast the late “bulls” were paying om their gold joans to-day and disembarrassing themselves of the débris of their recent speculation. We give the suggestion for what it is worth, omter- | ing in evidence of such a contemplated scheme the facts as cuumerated above, The leading operator | in the late “bull” inovementin gold is the same who turned upon the market just after the Chicago | fire and made a fortune in the succeeding rise of stocks. He probably regards the election of Gen- eral Grant as a Joregone conclusion aiter the re- markable political developments of the past ten days, and hence his sudden withdrawal from the gold pool and conversion to an opposite theory of speculation, The course of the market is shown in the table: THE FLUCTUATIONS IN | GC. and I + 113% 11:39 A, M . i 2M. M. 11885 Jn the goid loan market the rates ranged from 3 to 7 per cent for carrying. The operations of the Gold Exchange Bank were as follows :— $66,145,000 Id balances. 4,317,000 Currency balances 4,926,700 The prepayment of the September interest on the ten-forties begins next Monday. The Sub-Treasury Pat out $44,000 on account of interest and $14,000 on account of redeemed five-twenties, THR RAILROAD BONDS. The following were the bids for tie railroad bonis :— Now York Cent's, Tol & Wal - 9% New York Con 6's Tol & Wab | w York C7's, co Tol & Wab cons, con.... 808% | Erie 7's,2 Gt West Ist m, 138 Sig Mor & Essex atm... 10255 | Mor a Kasex 2d my 00 | New Jersey Cent, 24m. 99 , NJ Southern 7's, Istin. 73 | Hariem 7's, Istin i Pitis, F Wo& Chie tar. 106 | Mich Con Ist m 5's, °82..116 Pitts, FW & Chic 24 mi. 99% Mich pOANISLT Dc... Cley & Pitts 2d m,. Clev & Tol sink fal... Lake Shore div bds. Lake Shore,con, r.. "100 Rac RT's, guar by Mo. 99 Gen Pac gold bids... Ws © Union Puc ine 10's. ‘Sis, Mi Mu Chie & NW Ist n Han € St Jo, con kW ist m &W2d a Tol & Wab Ist Tota W ist m, StL dl BOUTHE! The Southern list continued dull and was seem- ingly made heavy in tone by a farther decline of about one per cent in the new South Carolinas, | 7 which securities w the character of the Convention proceedings yes- | terday. The chan, not of moment, prices closing as follows uessee, eX coupon, Virginia, ex coupon, 46.250; do., registered stock, | old, 38 a 42; do, sixes, consolidated bonds, 51 a | S145; do. sixes, Georgia sixes, 78 North Carolina, ex Carolina Railroad, do, do., 1868, 22 cial tax, 14 a 15; M nibal and St, Joseph, 91 a 92; Louisiana sixes, 69 a | 54; do., new, 48 a do, cights, 70 a Alabama five Carolina sixes, 6 Arkausas sixes, tui GOVER The government list was unsettled, and after considerable weak: 1a, ment both in tone alter the relaxath following were the cul ister five-twenties, registered, May and November, 115 a i 15 '¢; do, do., 1862, 1864, do., do., 115 a all6; do, do, regisiered, January W144; do. do., 1863, 1867, do,, do., Ld 'y 11444; dd. ten-forties, registered, 108); a 108, ; do. { @ 112145 do, fives of 1831, regist do., coupon, 11 ed, 1124, a 112'g; do. do, do., coupon, il2 STOCKS LOWE! The early aviivi fallin Erle, led to change, and a de general market, the impression hu widespread that the usual I ) had set in, and that the immediate future could oiler no prospect stock collaterals, troverted by the actual condition of aitairs in Chi- cago, since the cul it served to occasion a feeling of among the “pulls ment until after three o'clock, When the extr: dinary relaxation to 3 per cent for money seryed to cause a reaction of 'y 2 3¢ per cent and stimulated the hopes of the “b' erratic London ma: to 4634, closing at 47. by comparatively speculation in Kvie being oniy lukewarm and dis | | trustful. The grea consequence of the failure of the Messrs, GLEDSTANES AND CO., of London, but if fluctuation ought securities deait in hypothesis is that few days is due to of the Messrs. Rap! of the return of Mi Tun up the price and unload the remnant of stock which they had been carrying since the times of | “protection.”’ In said THE for the current £90,000, as compar exceptionally strong, and advanced to ton, Hartford and Erie declined to 6! deal of borrowed stock was returned to- “bear cliques, ind on the “short” side. paying off their gold loans their change of tactics in stocks may be the count “The situation” in Wail street is just now | nH | fir gold. unusually interesting. NE and schemes are forthcoming which will doubt surprise the public. of the cliques will Railroad Compan; 460; do, ekghts, 82 a 95; South a55; do., new 2544 a 26; do. do,, Apritand October, 244; a ecovered and closed steady, ng CF 9° 63, “100 * e iv: Bote N SECURITINS HEAVY. ere not favorably inituenced by ges,in the rest of the list were | Ten- new, 73% & 745 293, 1, TA WT4; do., deferred scrip, 155 & WT @ 73; do, sevens, ST a 20; coupon, & 34; do, to North | 46 a 50; do., funding, 1866, 25.4 & 25; do, new, 20a 22; do., spe- issouri sixes, 034, a 94; do,, Han- do., levee sixes, 60a 65; do, do. do., eights, 1875, 70 9 89; , January and July, nded, 47 aM, NMENTS UNSEYILED, ness at the time gold dectined to The improve- marked and prices was quil on in the money mar! The | Anal quotations :—United States do, do, sixes, 1881, reg ; do. do., coupon, LI6Ay a 117; do. coupon, do., 115 & 1154, ; do. di 115°, 3 do. dd.,1865, do., do, 115 and duly, 1a | coupon, do., Ud alld’; do. d a 114% ; do, do,,1868,d0., do., 14 ais. | 1k. | K—-SHARP DECLINE IN 1 ty in money, assisted by a heavy » lower prices on the Stock EXx- ecline “of 3s a 3¥ per cent in the ying become | y in money I activ! of easy rates to borrowers on However much this view is con- mination of the wheat “corner,” DEPRESSION and induced a slow selling move- alls anew. Evie, still chasing the rket, opened at 49°¢ and dropped These changes were attended the domestic little busin { decline abroad is satd bo be the | this theory is correct a wider to have been recorded in other at the London market. Another the rise of eight per cent the last a rapid speculation on the part heel & Co., Who took advantage | cHenry & Homan to London to ; connection with the decline it is | | IE EARNINGS week will show a decrease of ‘ed with last year, Panama was » Bos A great way by the licating a closing of their interest ; As these parties were also art of their conductin W DEVELOPMENTS ‘Tue latest desig) |i repay watching. ¥. announce a new convertible | loan (for about nine millions) to be offered to stock- holders at par in the proportion of 36 per cent of the stock, the tran for subscriptions. years and bear nsfer books closing September 4 The bonds are torun twenty 7 per cent interest, being con- | vertible into stock at option of holders after July 1, | 1876. The proceet is will be devoted to extending | the coal mining operations of the company and to | building freight st enlargement of their coal trade, teamers in connection with the | The stock in Philadelphia was quoted 116%. ‘The carnfhygs of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad for the sec- ond week in August were $49, last year—an incr HIGHEST AXD LOWE , against $21,745 530, ST PRICES. ‘ease of $17, ‘The following table shows the highest and lowest prices of the principal stocks during the day:— Northwestern Northwestern pret. Rock Island St. Paul pre: Ohio and Mississipp Union Pactfie. West. t Highest. Lowest. wv 403, 804, NIAL FOUR O'CLOCKS, A petition is now in circulation among the mem- bers of the Stock already nearly five hundred signatures), asking for ing of the Board throughout the year at four thee o'clock P.M. If-g amend the by-laws so as to open the Stock Ex- change an hour ea between October 1 and May |. ample time for the during the period SALES AT THE NEW YORK STOOK EXCHANGE, Frida; $1000 US 6's, "51, ©. W) Pac MSS Co. su do... 300 do. ww do iw do. 50 Panaina RR 1) Chie & RI RR 400 brie sae do. Erie 4th a. ac 10's, inc . CRA 600 West Un Tel... a do. ghs Wee Un Tel... nion.Pac Ist m. 8%) 1000 Tol & Wau Ist mn. 9 1900 Tol & Wab 2d m.. ui luv) Tol & W H chds 1H Exchange (which has received ranted, the governors ought to lier in winter, viz., at nine A. M., usually large business in stocks specified. y, August 23—10:15 A. M. uz $1000 US 5-20, ¢, 62.sml 1 10 A. M.—Before Call. 400 shs Erie RR. ‘300 do. “ wu 723, is 1300, do 1 NYC & HERR a SER) m do. | 93! S00 ry au Ma 300 7 100 lo. a7 100 LS aM SRR Cod 1100 “do: i) ‘This would allow of | Ue | Family... + Pt 8 | Burley and rye were not deait in, and conse | | 1 | | | | mplasses’on private terms, my Z 20 Panama RR. Ww AN WRR.be 2” do. : .» 130) be ins bt 73! Bs 200 Bost, H&E RR. mM do. aH | Del, Lnok & WR, 104 2 Mor debs Kit... .bG DH dc St do RR pr 00 Ohio & Miss RRC ao (a - 10 do do. «TAS $100 US 6's, ow 1% 12:50 P, M.—Before Call. 500 shy Wost Un Tel. .b3 T24¢ 100 do . a 400 LS & M i do WON Y 1 te tae F 1600 Un Pac RRS. Wo. : a) nn Iho Erie 500 Second Board—1 P. M. BIOS C 6 400 ss Erie RK 4 oO de 500 sunue t 000 Un Pav 2000 B, ILE dows. Erie RR LSA&AMSR Cl ") 200 Mi 100 Mi woCck RK 100 Bie 100 Del, L&W. M X i TH MAC MSSCO 10 do... e WNYCEHR 100 do... Erie RIE 30) do do... CLOSING PRICES—4 O'CLOCK P. M. Western Unio Quicksilver Quicksilver Panama, 2 Mai tra! ‘orthwestern.. 73!x Rock Island, si Paul, 4 wt. COMMERCIAL REPORT, Cotton in Moderate Demand and Firm— Receipts at the Ports 987 Bales—Flour Steady—Wheat and Corn Firmer—Oats Steady—Coffee Quict—Pork and Lard Firm—Spirits Turpentine Firmer—Wool Quict—Metals Quiet—Whiskey Firmer, Frivay, August 23—6 P.M, Asies.—The market was unchanged and quiet. Pots ed at $3 25; pearls nominal. 3 Maneatis rket for brick has exhib- ited no particular change since our jast. Transactions have been moderate and at previous figures, Lime has | been in rather better demand and common was a shade er, While lump remained steady. Sales at $185 for Rockland common and $175 for do, kamp. Cement re- mained aviet at $169 per bbl. tor Rosendale, The mar- tty well sup” We quote changed and the market ‘Sperm, le. a Se.; patent d } paraffine ins to wel; eported and market was a jotably changed. We quote :—Rio, a 1p) fair do., 164sc. « 16! a 18he., hale bass, 9 : ngapore, 15 ic. Iho, : Laguayra, St. Domingo, ir spot cotton continued fi ler very small offerings, ruled firm higher, closing with a continued u muntin Corey xales Were, | little weak, but not qu ordinary cargoes, good doi. Vitae. a Ii mn un ly nd For tutire delivery the market opened , but subsequently ruled easier. The sales sum up as jotlows = 1 Total. To-Day. Last Evening, 1,155) 526 1,691 oo Consumption Speculation... 686 1,760 iddling), the sales have | been as tollow: if alter three o'clock— August, 1U0 at 2054 20 7c. 5 $740.4 200 at 18 L3-lte, + De -y. AN, old form, conirnct, at 18%4°, i7.16e, | paid to exchange 20 Novemberfor 200 September, Total, JF) bales. Grand total, 600 bales, ‘The receipts at the jalveston, 499; New Orleans, Charleston, 23; Norfolk, 34: | This day’ last week, S08. | Rates on cotton to 1 ra n | Fis, by steain, Ae, Ku 3 24, Ale sed on cotton running in quality than halt a grade above or below the grade Aix.—Receipts—Flour, 10.919 bbts. ; wheat scorn, 106,586 do. : corn meal, 465 bbs. ; outs four market ruled ‘steady, with a moderate inauiry for consumption and some deaband for shipment. The sales, compri Il kinds, foot up 8.400 | bbls. all at prices within the range ol the appended quota. | | inued in good demand, with further comprising nearly all déseripti within the range @! our quotations. We qaot 2 State $3 sat | ERSES SS Round hoop Ohio, shipping brands: e ; Round hoop Ohio, trade brands. Lavitis low 1 moet cant ects] SPERFSRNSSUSEST. Southern sapertine, Southern extra, Southern famualy. neal, Western Corn mea), Gorn meal, Brandy . ehespsreapeesenennaseee D1. 0. b. | 499 bales. Sales | 19'4e. | for amber | New 21 212 dh | Wileat, 10,16 from Philadelphia to Havre or Dunkirk, 2,609 bb's. crudo petroleum 7s. Tad. ; an American bark. ‘trom do. to a irect Mediterranean port, 3,20) bbls. refined do., 6s,; an American brig, 18) tons, from Wilmington to a direct port in the United Kingdom, full cargo of naval stores, at Jor spirits and 68, for rosin; a British bark, same voy- age and rate; a British bark to Cadiz, with light pipes staves, on private terms, Guxw1es.—With the exception of gecasional «mall, un- important sales, there is nothing doing in this branch of trade. The offerings are free at the aunexed quotations. We quote:—Domestic cloth, 14%go, # 1c. ; bags, Me he or heavy. jear axp Jurr.—We learn of no sales of any d tion of hep, and prices were unchanged. Manila « atte. gold, Jute has been in light request and stea ithin the range at 3c. a 6 with sales cy, 60 days; OW) bnles rumo 60) bales in Boston at2ige. currency, HAY axp Stkaw.—There has been loss demand tor the past few days for both shipping and retail qualities, and pr are a shade in buyer's favor, We quote »-Old ipping, $1 n $1 19; do. retail qualities $10 a $1 a be straw, Sha $l Od a file. ery little ¢ Ly dea Priine qual nil holders still retain their con Copper has been ont: y in re reported of Eanglastt price. tor tin was quic ae sales of 500 boxes eh and 100 pigs Straits ov private gold for Straits and hs y pid tor Silesian but not quotal i tiv on private terms; quoted at here has been a little more vat today. but without leading to inparant nestic sold im a Jobbing way HL ener: Later 727 hhds, Porto Ieley sold “on private term quote = OuL Cr Cuba—Contrifugal and mixed.1e, a 2e Pe veesecdlt, Be, tees De ae eal ar a spirits turpen rere again A shade truer, 1) Dbl lo arrive, At 520. 600 bbis. in shipplag or as less active but iim. Sales 8. 7 bly. of No, 1. paie at Sta7 0 at $5255 strauied in Tar was very s. Sules » al terms, Rosin w trained at $3 2 Oils. pal at Bs 25, imington rop WW better demand’ tor Sales at ste. a and 3.5000 bbls. Arm and sca) at $575, delivered. = Wilininite WO bbls, W Ons. — tnisced prices casks; OF hange in mater 1 hed W Bas. + Batu cotton aed, 4c ected light, aint OW wn PirKOLKUM.—On "Change to-day there was a little more doing inrefined. aud tho market was a sade drmer el tor Sales were reported of 3,200 bbls, suitable to ye Sis month at 2244 rack 1s Crnad in bulk Lse., wlth gute an roads, The Philadelphia m: standard white sold for remainder of month at 2i4gc., less return, and 1,000 bbls, do. for tirst halt of September at Receipts—Cut meats, 428 packages ; lard 650 The market for mess pork a shade bet- tatair inquiry. Sales, 500 bbls. at $14 a ash, and L000 bbls. buyers September ac $l Sellers Sepicmber could be had at $14 30. about 450 bbls, changed hands, at $14 2 for 1 $1l tor extra prime and $15 80'tor old’ mess, ri a Bacon con- tinned y Long clear quoted at8ac. a Bigc. atid short clear at 1 & Sige. Sa xex short clear for February on” private terms. Dressed hogs were drm” at Gige. a 68 heavy to medium. Pigs scarce” and quoted at Te. Heot continued quiet and uuchanged ; quoted ut $3 0 $10 mess; $10 r extra do. ; $12 a $14 for prime mess, tierces; and $17 a $20 for India do., tierces. Cut With the exception of a moderate jobbing dein: stores there was nothing of importance transpired quote smoked hams, Lc. a 1ue.; do. shoulders, 5) hams, Kiic, a 1d3ge. for Western or city; do. do. bellies, 7c. w 73,c; dry salted shoulders, ‘d—The market tor We inued quiet Lar Pac. Was bid tor 1m; sales $00 tlerces at tor No. 1. City for stcam wn kettle, and 844¢. “continued In fait demand and steady. ‘The sales e about 60 tierces of Carolina at 8c. a Wee., 75 at 7c. a Be and 2500 bags Aangoon at Oc. & ay W bags Pata Tae. eps'—Linsced has been moderately active, with sales yeted since our last of 6,650 bays and c spot 1 4,600 bags, trom store, a for Ohio, lie for Stu rere ing grades, the market ruling steady at pre Sales 66 lhds. molasses sugar at 3gc., 3S hthds. 4.8L dao Rt DTC. 200 bhds, of Bije., and 217 hhds. of imolasses at Be. ostl¥ molasses si ‘i at and 133 atsye. Ketined questat former prices, Wi ine fe) to common, 7)4c. a 8) a BA Me, good, ae 4 9%gc.; prime to choice, 9) ual, hhds. and boxes, Myc, a 1! es, Tie & BQ 435 es Dutch sta d, 3. 7 tod. te. ad) do. to 12, 9. a@ gc. 5 do., 13 to Rae, a Mise. 5d io 1S, Lye. n 11S,c, 5 do, 19 to 20, Te. a do., wh ¢.% 12)e. Porto K co—Retining, comm mh to" primey Ben 8%4c. ro ice, Beet Wc, Brazil—Dutch standard, Nos #9¢. Java—Duteh standard, 1. to i, Manila—Superior and extra superior, 7c. & Acco.—Kentucky has been in active demand, p for export. Other ptions have been ¢ oly dent in, but the market sundries, 1 ly tighout was firm. 1 cases Hew Conn crop, cousln, ucky ate. a 15e., and 3 117. LOW Was quiet of 25,000 Ibs. of outsid Winskey,—Receipt ately active and tin chiefly at the latter pric Woot.—There has been comparatively litt ‘turing the past three days, but prices sikow 0 change, although by no. inéans stron 01 2,000 Ibs, of unwashed fleece at 48¢., 50 bales of scoured Jail clip, California at doe. a $1 02; 10000 Ibs, Cape, 38. a 40c.; 5) bales do. 383Zc. a 40c.; 6000 Ibs. black Spanisth, 2 15,000 Ibs. East India, at from 20¢. a 0c. ; 5,000 lb. ideo, 42¢. ; 10,000 Ibs. do,, ac 400. 7,000 ‘Ibs. do 1 2736025 4,000. Vs, Texas lambs, ‘We. iza, 35. a 40¢ it firm. We have only to note sales The market was moder- ley 20) bbls. at 92tzc. a We. COTTON RECEIPTS, Total Net Receipts of Cotton Since Sep- tember 1, 1871. Bales, Galveston 1%,520 Baltimore .. w Ores 9s Philadelphia. Mobile. Savan Charleston .. Wilmington. Nortolk.... Grand totai New Y Providence City Pomt. DOMESTIC MARKETS, ALVESTON, August 23, 1872. Cotton weak; good ordinary Ic. al7lye, Net rec Veekly net ree Sales, 625, New Onveans, August 23, 187 Cotton dull and little doing; low middlings, 1940. a Net receipts, 243 bales. Gross, 24%, Exports coast- wine, 10, Sales, 118. Stock, 6,774. Weekiy—Net receipts, 6; Zross, 66, "Exports coastwise, 0, Sales, 600. Monin, August 23, 1972 Cotton nominal. Net receipts, 12 bales. Gross, 24. E: ports coastwise, WW. Stock, Weekly-—Net receipts, 435 Kross, 63, Exports coastwise, 45. Savannarr, Auscnst 23, 1872, 1,902. Exports ¢ Cotton quiet: demand light. Middliugs, 19jc. Net re- | celpta, a0 bales. Exports constwive, 71. Sales, 19. Stock, 506. Megkly—Net reecipts, 181. Exports coastwise, Ov. | ale: Cn. August 23, 1872, Cotton quiet; middlings 1c. a Net receipts, 23 bales. Stock, 3672. Weekly—Net receipts, 701; gross, 723. Exports coastwise, 724.” 8: 700. Winmixatos August 23, 1872. Spirits turpentine firm at 45c. irin at $3 15 tor strained ; $3 50 $8 75 tox No. 1; $6 for extra tor low W@ior pale. Crade wrpen- 1y at $2 50 for hard; $3.85 ior yellow dip; $4.35 | ‘ar steady at $4. Oswrao, August 22, 1872, Flour steady ; sales 2,200 bbls. at $8for No. 1 Spring, $9 2 Winte 75 tor white Winter, extra. Wheat dull; sales 7,500 bushels of No. Club at $1 41, 500 bushels new red indiana at lower; sales’ 3,000 bushels at S60. two car Oais nominal, at 4c. for Western. Corn mea bolted, $1 50 tor d per owt. shorts, hipst 32); iniddlings, wines, 90) hts—Wheats, ort 43e., to Albany 38, Imuber. shipments by 1,007 00 feet oF lamber. FALO, August 23, 1872. t, 10, Bor Ports—Flour, 3,900 bbis. : S09 do. ; cats, S895. d anal shipment: do. Wheat, Rail shipments froin ele do; onts, 4,04) do. 5 al Yreights—Wheat, i Ons, 24IN3 W) bushels; corn, Tye, Sw do. barley, 2,000 di scorn, I bats, jour quiet; Wester pring, 87 20g) $8 a $8 W; white, $9 0 $9 ‘amber, $3 90 Wheat advancing; sales, bushels Malwa 1 $1 36; 7,50) do, Winter at $1 45. Curcaco, August 23, 1872, Flour quiet and weak. Wheat steady: sules of No. 2 Spring at $1 1244 cash tor seller August, $1 124s seller Sep- tember; No. 18 sold from $1 16 to $1 19, according to ring quoted at 99!4c. Corn steady ; sales of No. 2m at Sige a 87 %gc. cash or seller August, seller September; rejected lower at soc. ; yellow was ost, hut With a paucity of . » . aplies pr : ity of Guoted ut J8gc. Oats steady ; No. 2 sold ate. tye quiet Pere ee ies Peat an sald ae eget: while Hew. | gud weak; So. 2sold at fac. Warley steady; sales ot No. SC cluwed at ADOULSL BS Bl So eee ees he | 2 Fall at 'éle. Provisions unchunged. Mess pork nomi: yo and Milwaukee Spring. The sal re about ony | nally BB, Me, Coat OF weiier 0 Conran > uae bushels at $1 55 tor Northwest Spring, $148 56 for | steady at Sige. for, Winter, 6¢c. # Bc. tor Summer. Bulk new red Winter—the latter prive 10° No 1 Toledo; $1 4 | Meats im Kood demand; shoulders sold at Oleo. a 67 $165 for inieriur to cholee new amber Western and South. | Snort mb middies dsc Wi btekey qulot a ern; $1 U7}, a $1 70 for choice do. ; $1 89 a $1 Sl tor white fo filee bie. tis, uamed. tor corm fi Western Virginia, and $1 55 a $1 60 for new amber Michi- | 1 Hulalo, 10/46, bid, Ie. asked tor corn, B P Jorn was gidet Dut @ shade nrmer, The saiey ag. | 19 minishels wheat, 346,00 do. corn” Toa ki vou 119,00 bushels mt 6Lige, a 62e, for sail inixed | 24000 bushels wheat, 346,000 do. corn. 7900) d te Routhern do, Oats were | do, rye, 10,00) do, barley. aly i ab He. tor No. 2 SAN MAT ry eont EUROPEAN MARKETS, i pollen tern poor, xed State, and 47 We, tor white nominal. Preieurs: wes am transacted in th berth treights at essentially unaltered " * chartering business was less active. rater rates, TI heing held at figures generally ali the rs. The o nts ined 45.00) bushels grainy at 4c | im, 7,500 bushels grain, at f Ws. and by sail, by steam, 20) bbls, rosin, 7) bbls, ‘38, 6d. ntwerp, and 150'tierees lard, 41 ‘TO Hamburg, 20) cases seed leaf tobacco, S28. Palermo, 06 hhds. tobacco. and ) light pipe staves | on private terms. To Gibraltar, 6) cases of tobacco | cutis and ® hihds. tobacco on private terms. — The charters inglude :—A British bark, quarters grain, to rders, 78, an American bark, reporied 20,000 Bushes grain, in shippers’ bags, wegian brig, hence to Stockholm, 1,500 bbls, products, at 10s. a. ; au American bark, Lowpox Money Marker.—Lonpon, August 233 P. Mi Consois and American securities closed. ' HOURSE.—FAnis, August 2—P, M.. closed at Coron Manket.—Liverroor, Augnst 23—5 P. et closed quiet and steadv; quotations une of > have s ' 1,u00 bales, in: ng 2,000 for export jay have ni spectiation. The sales of the week have been 61.08 bales, of which 10,000 were taken Sport and 3,060 on sj qT W bales, ineladiny J erica week have beon 11,009 pales, inci can, Actual export, 14,000 bales. sea bound to this port is 216,000 bi Atverican. in Mawcrester.—Livenroo: receipts of ig 14,000 Ameri- stock of cotton at including. 1,000 Taare August 2.—The mutrket for yarns and fabrics at Manchester ts steady, Livenroot Breaparurrs Makker—Livenroot, August H-5 F. Mmthe receipts of corn at thin port for the bast three days have been 50%) meluding 31,000 rican, The receipts of wh: bast three day ¢ | on the shore had all disappeared, have been market for 7d. per cental for red Western, Per bbL for Western co: and favorable to the cro} Livenvoor Provisions Manxnt.—Liyerroor, Augtist 2 1aoP. .—Oheony, Gs, per cwt, tor the best grades ofs American fine. Pork, 50s. per bbl. for new prime mess. Lonxpon Propock Manker.—Loxpos, Augist 3— Even. oil, £26 5s. per ton. Pine rosia, 16s. a ITs. per n oil, £35 per ton. roy MAwker.—Ltverroon, Atgust 2%— wamon rosin, Ws. per ewt. Spirits turpentine, 3a, 4 Sts. per owt Nov quarters, includin: oalstuils to-day is dunt Sprin: The we eee PENANciA MON INVESTING The Northern Pacitte nancial agents, offers foi ld Bonds. They falt due o-10 per . payable semi ure exempt from United States tax to tie © secured by fivst and only goon 1. The railroad, its right of way, franchise, rolling stock igs 2. Ls tramic or net earnings. | &/ A goveroment grant: of iand averaging, on comple tio of the road, about 21,00) aeres per inile of track Tho road follows what ts known as the Vatley Route to the Pacific, tanked most or the way by an oxcetlent rr of a vast and profita- The actorily pro- country, and is assured in advan tte traMe, which alceady jon ix steadily and waits its completion. work of construc greasing ; the settlement of the adjacent country ond the building of towns keep pace with the advanes of the roud; a large body of the any's lands is already in eds of sales will constitute a sink- market, and the pri ing fund for the redemption of the Company's bonds, which are convertible at 10 into the Company's Lands at market prices. js. both in point of safety ane Believing that these Bor profitableness, constitute such a security as judicious in- vestors can approve, we recommend them to the public. tte Government bonds and all marketable se: are xchange at curre received in quotations without cvat to the investor, AY COOKE & New York, Philadelphia and Washington. NDP co, REASONABLE, RATE all Kinds etfected y t com OH & ©O,, LY way. K YOR 1 bonus box St, FARM MORT- $1,009 to $20,000 5 Bages, fest interest 10 per @ent; p mortgnges, Address MOR ‘UARANTEED BONDS, payable in this city, for sale at prices that will pay over 12 per cent on the amount invested. THOS. P, ELLIS & CO., Bankers, 14 Fine street. NION DIME SAVI) BANK, 396 and 398 Canal street, corner Laight. Six per cent interest dn $5 0 $5,000). Assets $10,368, ; 88. oo A SWIM FOR LIBERTY. SESE NEE Tee tae Exciting Scene on Blackwell’s Island Yester- day—Two Convicts Bolt from Their Keepor— One is Caught, the Other Escapes— He is Cheered by the Passengers of a Passing Steamer. Blackwell's Island had its little sensation yester- day, About eight o’clock in the morning the guards on the New York side of the river heard some pistdt shots filred in quick succession, The guard boat was rowed rapidly back to discover what was the cause of all the noise, It was then found that one of the perennial sensations of the island—an escape—had been attempted, and in one instance had been successtul. ‘The story of the keepers is as follows :—Mr. Fitch, the head keeper of the Penitentiary, accompanied by the warden, had started at an early hour to look after a gang of convicts, some cighty in num- ber, who were doing some work on Ward's Is!and on. the new Lunatic Asylum. For this purpose Mr. Fitch Yi | had taken one af the two guard boats which are sta® tloned at the island to look after the men who work in the open air. This leit ONLY ONE GUARD BOAT on the place. An order of the Supreme Court came down for a prisoner, and, the keeper being absent, the man in charge immediately had the only remain- | ing boat sent over with the prisoner to the usual | landing at Sixty-first street. In the meantime a keeper named Wilson had started with a gang of some fu. .y men along the river side on the opposite side of the island to work in the quarry, The men were put to their work, and for some moments alt went on quietly. Suddenly, while the keeper's eyes: were turned in another direction, two of the con- victs, both boys of seventeen, respectively nemed Joun Egan and James Kelley, “broke” and started off at a quick run across the island towards the branch of the East River which rune along the New York shore. They had obtained a | pretty good start when the officer in charge be- | came aware of what was going on, He immediately his revolver and fired it off in the air, and set his st spec ter them, Egan was ; some distance ahead of Kelley, and both the guard and the two boys kept on at a Very lively gait, Wil- son calling to the prisoners repeatedly to stop ar he would fire at them. They, however, took no ne- | tice of this, but kept on, Egan arriving at the river | first. He immediately | DASHED IN, | spite of the tide, which was running very strong, ' and struck out manfully for the opposite shore. Kelley got to the brink one moment later, but hesi- tated an instant before diving in. This onc moment of hesitation and be was lost, for Wilson collared him just as he was about to make the leap. He was instantly pinioned. By this time several keepera | had gathered around, and, as they say, rapidly fred off their revolvers to bring the boat over from the opposite shore. They were perfectly helpless, of urse, without a boat, and had the ting satisfaction of seeing Egan striking out | with might and main and gradually approaching the opposite shore. They could see persons om the opposite side, at Jones’ Wood, waiting with clothes in their hands to receive the swimmer when the steamer D. R. Martin passed and cut off the view. When it was gone Egan and the people When the guardboat arrived it was, of course, too late to be | of any service. A policeman was, however, sent to Jones’ Wood tosee after the prisoner, but no traces. | of him could be found. | ANOTHER STORY. | The passengers on board the D. R. Martin, which. | Tuns between Huntingdon and this city, teil a story | which differs in many respects from that of the keepers. The boat Was suiticiently near for them | pe to hear the pistoi shots when they were fired, and they say that the revolvers of the keepers were pointed directly at the prisoners, and that the | prisoner who was captured fell wounded to the | ground before he reached the river side. The revolvers were then pointed at the man in the | Water and several shots were fired at hin, ineffectu- | ally, however, but he continued to strike out, and | Was probably out of range of the bullets. The mpathies of the passengers appeared to be all on 8 | the side of the escaping convict, for the men rose up and cheered him, and some lady passengers waved their handkerchiefs at him and testified the | liveitest interest in his escape. They saw him land | and his friends on the bank put clothes around him. and rapidly make tifeir way through the wood and disappe It appears that these ESCAPES ARE NOT INFREQUENT, though:much less so than formerly. Nothing would probably have come to light about this one but tor the omy lg on the steamboat spreading it about. In the time of Keene, the last keeper of the Pemi- tentiary, four or five escapes happened every week. Mr. Fitch’s severer discipline has remedied the evib | very much, and yesterday's escape would probably not have been so successful but for the unfortunate circumstances which ceused both the guard boats to be away at the same time, The HERALD re~ jorter had a conversation yesterday with one of the under keepers regarding matters in the prison, He said that he considered it quite wonderful that: | more escapes did not take place, as the number of | Keepers or guards was totally inadequate to the | men they had charge of Each keeper had on an | average a farce of from thirty to forty men to look after, Should these men at any time arrange upon @ preconcerted plan of escape it would be IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE KEEPER TO PREVENT at least some of them from getting off in case they scattered in diferent directions, Generally, it was true, a boat Was stationed near the men at out door work, but frequently it was called away. twe boats for the entire Penitentiary were certainly uot enough. More boats and more keepers were neces sary if it was sought to make escapes from the Penitentiary absolutely tmpossivie. There is no wall or preventive to escape of any kind around the Penitentiary grounds. All depends on the sharpness of the guard. Egan and Kelley were both convicted at the Gen- eral Svasions of larceny, and had quite a long term yet to serve.