The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 15, 1869, Page 2

Jt Rhtnes for ATL. The Sun. ements Toxday, Academy of Muste—L’biwire Amer. Fifth Avenue Theatre-The Irish Heiress French Thoatre—Rowian Opera Troepe Opera Mouse—Lingard. Pi Eagden—The Little Dotactiv New Vork Clrews—New York Cireus Trove, Matines Olymple Theatre Under the Gaslight Neutrality! The Spaniards are enlisting men here to serve against Cuba. We learn that legal ‘evidence of the fact has been offered to the law officers of the United States in this city, and they decline to receive it,or in any way act upon it. The neutrality of the United States under this Administration consists in denying everything to Cuba and granting everything to Spain, We hold the republicans of Cuba Dy the throat with ono hand, while with the other hand we tender to Spain a dagger to kill them. This is neutrality, It is als what Gen, Gnant calls sympathy with Cuba. pestaeaieino hse Plunder in the Next Legislature. ‘Tammany has found somo means of over coming the opposition of the rural Domoc- racy, and it is virtually settled that she is to ictate the organization of the next Legisla ture. Mr, Hitcraan is to be Speaker and Mr, CaLKins Clerk of the Senate. Mr. Canine is in every way tho best man that the party could present for the clerkship, Dat the sclection of Mr. Hrrcuman will sig- nify that the Committees are to be appointed and the Assembly organized for plunder. The more intelligent leaders—unlike Gov. Morrmax—scem to understand that the tu. ture of the party deponds wholly upon the record to be made this winter, and according Jy counsel moderation ; but the instincts of their predatory followers are too strong to ‘be curbed, and they mean to indemnify themsclves at once for their long period of enforced abstinence, ‘Taxpayers and others Interested will ece larger diamonds on the shirt fronts of the city members of the Le. gislature after the next session, + Tlow Much is the Navy Costing Us? The Seeretary of the Navy in his annual Feport omits the usual statement of the bal Bnces In the Treasury on the 30th June, 1860, to the credit of the Navy Department. With. nut such a statement the actual expenditure of the Department during the fieeal year ean. not be reckoned. By the act of June 17, 1808, there was for the maintenance of the Navy and the Navy Dopartment, $17,856,350. Mr. Romeson says ed” §7, ciency ; 3, would give increased eff but € creased eff immense sum, Now, if this same “ refunded ” $7,799, taken from the appropriation of $15,870, current year, thero wae actually on the 1st of July last but $8,071,158.60 remaining to the credit of the Navy and available for this year’s expenses. This sum must be already exhausted, and the Department is actually in or very near a state of collapse. It would have been more commendable in the etary and the Vice-Admiral whom President GRANT detailed to supervise the Department to have conferacd the trath— acknowledged that they had not restricted their expenditures to the legal appropriations —that they had disregarded the action of Congress and were not governed by it, in- stead of suppressing the truth, or trying to evade it by omitting the usual exhibit. Mexico and Coba, WittiamM H, Sewann’s brilliant recep- tion in Mexico, in recognition of his success: ful efforts to drive France and Austria from the American continent, and Hammton Fisw’s abject surrender to Spain, form two episodes in American history which the peo- ple are not likely soon to forget. Mr. SeWARp hailed by the Mexican peo- ple as their liberator, and Mr. Fisk exo mavter, have {identified their names for all time to come with the momentous question of political supremacy on American soil, the one in the sublime capacity of a patriotic Ameri- can statesman, the other in the deplorable attitude of a toady to European powers. The artist who hereafter attempts to deli- neate these occurrences will doubtless placo side by side the contrasted pictures of Mr. Sewanp receiving the thanks of President Jvuanez for the expulsion of European des- pote, and Mr. Fren reeoiving those of Pri and SERRANO for the restitution of the gun- oats, the slaughter of republicans, and the preservation of slavery and the slave trade in Cuba! — We learn that by express orders from Washington, the Custom House authorities yos- prohibited any further delivery of sugars at this port, The reason for issuing these orders has not transpired, but the general supposition is that the Government must have received i formation of heary and extensive frauds among the sugar importers, ‘The following interesting figures of the duily sales of newspapers by the large dealers in this city and vieinity may be relied upon as accuse rat ‘Tho three erent news companies, the American, New as foilo) York, and National, seit tn the agi x vaue., M. Cuaxpien, Newark, Sve. Tuva & Co, Brooklyn, 10,008 ‘ww World, Ne} Summary of Whose #ix large dealers 8,077 Herald Aco W new orc) ‘Pine The entire circulation of Tum Sox yesterday amounted to the handseme figure of 79,900 copies, Accordingly, seven-sixteenths of our regular daily edition is disposed of through the the sum of twenty-seven million eight hun- dred and eighty thousand six hundred and fifty-eight dollars was expended up to the first of December.” But that enlightens no one as to the expenses during the year for which appropriations were made, How much of this $27,880,000 was expended during the fiscal yeur, or what amount was expended from the 30th of J 1868, to the 80th of June, no one is permitted to kno Allis inthe derk—all isa confused jumble. Whether the Depart ment Hmited its expenditures to the $17,856, 650 approprinted during the fiscal year, or whether It has excceded tlie appropriation by millions, is not clearly stated. ‘The Depart; ment shrinks from a frank and truthful Biatement of facts, which has Leen faithfully inade by former Seerctaries, ‘This subject desorves particular attention on account of the almost dally hosannas to the Seeretary of the Navy, and cspecially to Vice Admiral Porter, on account of the wonderful economy practised by the Depart ment. The noisy and constant reiteration of the economy of that Department was iteclf suspicious, The suppression of essential Tacts and the coufused muddle of the report are etill more suspicious, An honest, truth. Tul statement of the balance in the Treasury pn the 80th of June, the close of the fircal year, will enable Congrees and the country bo know precisely what las been expended, and whether the Department bas been munaged within the legal appropriation of Congress. Did the expenditures of the Navy Depart- ment for the fiseal year ending the 80th of June Inst cxcecd $17,250,950, the sum ap propriated by Congress? No one can tell from the Sccretary’s report. If the Depart ment spent more than that amount, it is im. portant to know how much more, for what purpose, and by what authority The appropriation for the last year was $17,356,850, but the Scerctary says: “The yum of $27,280,058 was expended up to the let of December, of which amount $7,709, has been refunded to the Treasury.” How refunded? Did the Seerctary spend $10,524,308 over and eboye the appropria tion for the year ending the 80th of June last? and has he been compelled to “rc fund” $7,799,878 from the appropriations of the current year? If 80, ono of the reasons for the jumbled statement of the report, and for suppressing the usual and necessary ox- hibit of the balances in the Troasury, is ap- six dealers we have nau If they also sell the same proportion of the daily editions of the four other morning popers, their daily circulation will stend substantially as follows: 2m ison et ——— Secretary BouTWELL estimates tho ex- penses of the Government for the year ending June 20, 1871, at 981,097, which is 82,587.01 more than has been appropriated for the present year, Of this inerense the In- terior Department is charged with @19,649, 167.68, This will probably be spent in taking the census, The Treasury Department calls for an increase of 28,431,018, The State Department wants €32,- 520 more than the appropriation this year. This would seem to indicate either a prospective in- crease of the salarics of our useless foreign min- isters or un unusual number of special envo, The War Departueut asks for an increase of $5,621,802.42, It is possible that the most of this money may be wasted in fighting the Arizona Indians, T’resident Grayt's Agricultural Depart- ment ealls for nesrly double its last appropria- tion, Congress wants €1,627,917.43 more, from which it may he inferred that the salaries and ge of the new Southern members are to be unusually large. ‘The President wants $040 more for his personal expenses. The Judicial Depart- ment will be content with an inercase of $62,890, while the Post Office Department calls for « fur- ther sum of €7,759,871.21, which proves that Mr. “WESWELL bas no faith in the success of the ition before Congress for the abolishment of privilege, And last, though not least, the Navy Department is charged with €12,4 095.87 of this €49,682,537,01 increase, from which it would seem that Admiral Roweson contemplates a pleasure trip of unusual magnificence du ring the coming summer, ——— A gentleman at Washington attacking some of the members of the Adminis- tration for what he calls their Secretary Bourwett, he saya, meanness, lives Twelfth street.” § General Hoar com a different fault, on the eodperative plan, “having one parlor, one dining-room,and a kitchen in common !”” Post noral Carswett has gone to live ‘in Gen, Howanp as the headquarters of the Freed men's Bureau.” Sceretary Koueson boards and lodges at restaurant, Fisu and Secretary Berkxar meets with tho ay probation of this critic, ‘hoy live in fine house and give grand dinners and receptions, and w are assured that no Aucrican citizen need bh for them! respondent writes like # snob and a flunkey, ax wo decline to print bis letter, The members parent, The Secretary feared to make pub- Ne the fact that the Department had trans cended its authority, and in these d of national indebtedness had dipped its hands in the Treasury, and taken therefrom mil- Mons of dollars which it has been compelled 05 pefand” from this year’s appropriation. . It ie an unpleasant fact—unpleasant for the taxpayers as well as the Sccrotary ; and it is ‘not surprising that a weak and timid man reluctant to stato it, especially not to cut o swell with gorgeous expend tures beyond the means of any but millionai It is very well for Messrs, Visa and Betknar t entertain as their tastes and fortanes allow, an: they have the saine right to do it ip Washingto: that they have elsewhere, Hut it is their ow private affair, and not a proper subject for publi criticism, ently public journals. of men, our admiration is given rather ¢ those whose style is simple and democratic, Take the case of that sound statesman and up- right officer, Geonce 8. Bovrwett, for instance. He bas never got rich, because he hes devoted his best years to the public service, and has neither speculated wor taken presente, ngress and the country were opposed to this increased oxpenso. ‘The in- | feciety. Onght he to make « foot of himself by | yp eney has cost the country an 531.00, which is the sum set apart for the erated by the Cuban people as thelr elavo. | writes to us with his family “at a second-class boarding house on eretary Cox and Attorney- live under the same roof, and keep house together idated mansion formerly occupied by Nobody but Secretary +h this subject is that our cor. tho Cabinet are appointed to discharge public du. | have been wore severcly devised oF exceuted. s. | been laid, woman €v And those who choose to live differ- should not be blumed for it in the Indeed, of the two classes - | hin tastes are qaie® and studious, and he has little delight in the gowgaws of what is called spending thirty thousand dollar# a year becaut he is Secretary of the Treasury? In our judg. ment, the people will appreciate him all the more for the simplicity of his manners and the unpre tending mode of life which he prefers, What would the snobs of our day have said of Tuomas Jevrensox, who rode to the Capitol to the inauguration on the same nag that had brought him from Monticello, and hitehed the old horse at the foot of Capitol Mill before he went up to the ceremony? Tho best thing that we have seen said in favor of Gen. Grant's Cabi- net is the letter of this snobbish fault-finding wriler. - —— ‘The new Judiciary article of the Constitu- tion provides among other things that the City Court of Brooklyn, a respectable Court of original Joriediction both civil and criminal, shall be continued, and that the Legislature shail have power to inerease the number of its Judges to two or three instead of one, as now constituted. A meeting of the lawyers of Brooklyn prac- tising in the Court was held on Monday after- noon, to consider what course they should recom. mend to the Legislature in regard to it, Some of the speakers expressed a doubt as to the necessity of enlarging the Court at present, but the majority were of the contrary opinion, and the Judge (Tuompsox) was invited to give his views, After @ very brief statemont from him, giving the particulars of the rapid inerease of business fn the Court, and the exhausting effect of overwork on the Judge, all opposition to the increase subsided, and @ committee of nine wa appointed to draft @ bill for that purpose, and | urge its passage on the Legislature, sania es Why haven't the twelve gentlemen ap- pointed to supervise the reorganization of the Republican party in this city published the names of the inspectors whom they have selected to oversee the new enrollment in the different wards and to conduct the elections? Why haven't they published the places where the enrollment is to be made and the elections held for officers of the ward associations and delegates to the new General Committee? It looks as if the new organization was to be carried on in the interest of some ring; and if this is attempted, the gentlemen concerned muy as well understand there will be trouble. Both the political parties here have long been engincered so as to enable a few fellows to make . Tho Republicans and the Democracy have boen equally bad in this rospect. Indeed, the Republicans have been the worseof the two, for they have becn managed for the benefit of the Tammany Ring, while pretending to virtue and patriotism, For the sake of public morality, we trust the new Republican machine will be clean, at least at the start, But the indications are not promising, tines If the Postmaster-General knew what mail matter was delivered under the franking privi- lege, Le might Lave said that the expense of this delivery was $10,000,000 per year instead of 25,000,000, We are informed that one of the New Hampshire Congressmen supplies bis sister with envelopes purchased by the Government in lots of Give hundred, franking them through the mails. Last summer the sister opened a private school in Boston, and her brother franked her circulars, which were sown broadcast throughout men in this city @ year ago, various candidates for reélection choked the mails with franked ap- franked nearly a million medical circulars for the benefit of the firm of which he was the head; and last year thousands ‘ot the Hon. Horace Gnaeevey’s Tribune posters were franked to various parts of the country. Senator Coruna hos introduced @ bill abolishing free postage. ‘The measure i without delay, his own postage, and thus save tho country #10,000,000 a year? —$<—<$<$<s—__- The Woman's Parliament, which met here a month since, appointed a Committee of ladies to superintend the organization of a new movement among the women of this city. This Committee will hold a public meeting in the ball of the Young Men's Christian Association ‘this evening, when Mrs. Perce of Cambridge and Mrs, Dr, Dexsmons will deliver addresses. The ladies of the Woman's Parliament are not in favor of securing the ballot for woman. To that undertaking, as we understand, they are opposed. Their purpose is to bring about codperation among women in respect to education, sanitary reform, the treatment of questions that are strictly social, improvement in the present system of housekeeping, and the like. Their attempt mer- its a wide sympathy, and we doubt not will be regarded by the public at large with respectful inter ——iaiented The reduction of letter postage between this country and Great Britain and Ireland to six cents per half-ounce, to take effect on and after Jan, 1, 1870, will be an important event to many thousand readers of Soy. This is one-half the present rate, and only one-quarter that which existed for many years prior to last January. The postage must be prepaid under the new rate, as all letters not prepaid, or insufficiently paid, will be charged double postage at destination, Cop Bae The Board of Aldermen on Monday passed a resolution directing the Comptroller to make a new lease of the upper part of the premises 514 Pearl street, which 1s now used as @ court room for the Second District Civil Court; the lease to bo for a period of not less than ten years, and at an annual rent not to exceed $7,500, Under- neath the floor thus occupied, and about to be re- leased, is the liquor store of Waxren Roos, one of the Supervisors of the county of New York, Jn view of such a resolution as this of the Alder- men, can there be any doubt that the full amount $7,500 per annum—will be paid for the rent of this place? One thousand dollars is more than any one but the people would pay, and quite as much as the premises are worth, It would be instructive to know to whom this enormous rent goes. It is pitiable to see how the public allows itself to be rebbed by the sworn agents of its service, They A Tue YL Lov ah High Tone of the Press open the Salject. Prom the World, The direction taken by public eriticism upon the © | double tragedy has been more agaiuet thone inelden- ed wilh it han against the persons: it eDY. tally conne intimately concerned, been observed by all’ ren pers, Of the de at wil, bub with The ebivalries of debate have onsib ‘and respectable pa- , entitled to speak aad’ even tenderness, aki a | Whatever his er with his si> lence and his Ife ted his fa f]) A penalty compounded in revenge iteelf could no ‘That sutlered with exquisite pallence to the 4. Nor hae a band wo penalty he i | bitter ve in the way of kindnes #o remotely associated will and, as We believe, Justi attracted away from the prineiy upon ny 0 A a 5 pe BL, Grecley agalust] Reed~M id dicts Reed. From the Tribune of Yesterday Tun Sox appends to Mr, Greele few of the misrepresentations in Isuac G, Reed, Jr.’s, account of an mder 10 | Richardgon case, the followin, “Lhe report of Was brought to 1 ‘We recur once more to this subject on! ily to that the representation above attributed to tale porter is, to office Dy Mr. Isang Besides, * mente speaker, about him ; he never was dronk in his life, one muniention to hy to be clasped waged im the later ate Of the grear do» Greeley Contras card, cor- w with him on the @ conversation with My Greeley , 4 10 it, and Who stated at the time ie iy pal im to" niga ‘his ame to re ‘possible, more false thay bis otber aver- FAMILY GOVERNMENT. Rn. ADMINISTRALION, Joue’s Enrtier Kine to Greninens—He © Cixcixxatt, Deo. 6. battle of Belmont, which set Cincinnat! almost be- aide itself with excitement, and brougist to Its notice for the first time Brig.-Gen. U, 8, Grant, there ap- peared about the newspaper ofices here a stalwart old man, armed with a ponderous hickory etick with a Immediately after the battered silver head, Clad in a suit of rusty black, shuffling along in old-fashioned high shoes, tied with Jeathern thongs, his head surmounted by an old, battered hat, from under the rim of which there peered a pulr of decp-set, strabisiniceyes, assisted by 8 heavy pair of sliver spectacles, there was nothing either remarkable or enurnal in his appearance to attract attention or inipress the beholder that any extraordinary individual stood before Im emong the crowd. The old man's eyes habitually songht the Kround; henever looked any one in tho face while ho epoke, but he was a good listencr, and was al- ways found in the strect corver groups where ti name and actions of Gen, Grant were dircusted When be spoke it was as “one having authority ‘certain sententiousness of manuer and emphatic eelf-assertion always characterizing his utterances. Tho Cincinnati papers commented rather severely upon the conduct of Gen. Grant at the battle of Bel- mont, and repeated storics of his previous life, in all of which he was exhibited as under the influence of drink.’ It was positively asserted by business men ta the streets that before the battle of Delmont Gen., then Col. Grant Ww reen by them drunk in the muddy by-ways of Catro; and more than once the telegraph from that interesting point come hissing hot with the eame intelligence. It was the costom fn those days to read the despatches to the surging crowds at the newspaper offices, as they were received, and it was also customary to sup- press @ great denl that was received. When the news of Belmont wns filing tho public ear, perhaps the mort attentive listener was the old gentleman with the formidable stick, bi one account in which Grant, dismounted, was celebrated as running a raco with his horse to get aboard one of the transports waiting to convey the routed troops to the opposite and safer shore of the Ohio river, feil upon his quickened tympanum, he started sudileniy as if burned bya hot iron, and screamed out: * It's a damned lie, and the man that says so iso liar, I dou't care who he he ts,” Alleyes were turned for a moment upon the fils foce was crimson with rage; he clatebed his Miekory with nervous firmness, and half brandishing it repeated his assertion, Nobody cared, but all were curious, and the old man saw his opportunity and selzed It. “Tam Grant's father, “ Tknow all damned lie,” ho repeated. GRANT, THE PRESIDENT'S FATHER. After this time there appeared semi-occasionally in the papers paragraphs stating that Gen, Giant's father said so and so, or that he was called upon at his residence in Covington, Ky., by this or that Com- mittee, or that such and such facts were stated in private lotter from Gen. Grant to bis futher. Indeed, public interest in the old man went so far that Jen- kins felt called upon to visit the paternal residence of the Grants, and describe the inside amd the out- side of the plain brie honso im (hat sleepy Kentucky town dwelling with Ingering fond- nossa upon the simpli ond dilating with critical enthusiasm upon the the landscape paintings and superb embroidert: that adorred the walls and furnit were the product of the skill and industry of Miss Jenny Grant. Up to this time not more was known of Jesse R, Grant In Covington than in Cincinnati, He had come there quietly and settled down; bought New England. During the canvass for Congress- | nides and sent them to Galena, Ill. and dabbled s Uttle tn trade, but attracted no atteption. aprointments of the house, ‘Decause they ‘Thus affairs whirled along till after the battie of peals to voters, A Brooklyn Congressman once | Shilob, for the conduct of which mapy Intelligent people here held Grant to a bitter account, The Western newspapers were unsparing of him, those of this city blaming him fn the most unequivocal terms, upon the newspaper offices like an infuriated old bull. ‘The Garette was the anti-slavery organ, and Mr. Grant was asubseriber, It happened, however, a sound one, and should be passed | to be specially severe on Gen, Grant, its special cor- Why not make every man pay | respondent, Mr. J. Whitelaw Reid, then writing under the nom de plume of * Acati upon the General with ecathing emphasis, this heresy Mr. ‘This made Mr. Grant furious; he charged coming down For rant not only “kicked the "as jhe triumphantly told editors, but he wrote @ com- the paper giving authoritative some of the rtatements, assigning as Gazette of ‘outdoors, its denial to a clincher that he bad letters from Ulysses, and such and euch things did not appear in them, Of course not, ‘There was something touching in this tender regard for his fon’s reputation, something appealing in his devotion, and the public extolled it, The Fenerable futher would weep, would fight, would swear, Would cat a crocodile if necessary, only so you would eater into ® mutual admiration of his son, Little cared he for the rumors that that son was a drunkard; that he was a loafer in Galen St. Louis, in Covington, and that he bad fallen eo far in bis father's esteem that he refused to bay him his Colonel's outfit, which poor Rawlins did; ltue cared he for the common contempt of the streets that condemned Lim for want of hospitality—the unpardonable sin in a Kentucky town—because he 4id not set out whiskey for the crowd to guzzlo when it inundated his house in Covington to look at the splendid sword presented to Brig.-Gen, U. 8, Grant by tho officers and commanders at the battle of Shilob, a8 a testimonial of their osteem and re gard, And now the paternal Grant looms upon the wide horizon of public netice, is self-assertion and un- flinching purpose to put down opposition lent a cer- tain degree of weight to the vigorous old man, His very words were valuable, for im close business circles it was whispered that this and that citizen of Covington made money as a sutler to tois or that regiment or brigade, on a recommendation from Mr, Grant to his son the General, TOW JBASR R. OPERATED IN MissISSIPPI COTTON, Among the first tradespeople of Cincinnati to Utilize the war,were the children of Israel, While there Were trae patriots among thom, there were others who smuggled arms, uniforms, aud medicines South ; they filled fruit caus with whiskey, and sold it in the Northern armies as fruit. “Permits” were issued for traflc, Corinth was fought anf won, Rose- crans’s star was Dright and his police agents keen Rumor had it that Mrs, Gen, Grant was detected communicating with friends in Mississlppl, and certain letters were intercepted which gave color to the story. Gen. Grant was at Jackson, Tenn, and his father, accompanied by Henry Mack, o Uderal Jew of Cincinnati, was on his winding way down the sinuous Ohio, bocnd for Columbus, K; the raitroad point to Corinth and Jackson, Hen: bad “monish,” and mr, Grant bad “influence, Cotton was ripe and plenty, and #0 undisturbed was the" peculiar institution” by the jar of war up to that fall of 1968, that te penetrating armics of the North enjoyed the wide-mouthed admiration of the mild- eyed “field hand the dirt roads traversing northern Mississipp! were trodden hard by the blue-coated hosts. Holly Springs was the objective point of the cotton buyers, speculators, and thieves, One Col. Dubois, of the regular army, was in com- mand of the port, A telegram was received from Columbus, Ky., to the effect that Gon, Grant's father was there, aud wanted a pase for himself and four Jews to Holly Springs, —_—_—- GRANT'S PART IN THE nd Kentacky—He Likes One was tent for relf mulated. ‘There was probably three millions of dol- lars worth lying there awafting shipment, bat not a pound of ft saw the North. Van Dorn came and Marpby let nim burn it att, and with it dtsap- peared the first grip old Mr. Grant had on ® big pile of money during the war. This fact came to light through a suit the old gentleman brought in the Cincinnati courts against Henry Mack, for breach of contract, in which ho claimed damages amounting to $40,000. ‘This aMir became so notorious, and attracted so mach general attention, that it renehed the cars of Gen, Grant; and as the #uit would certainly involve the disclosure of all the circumstances #nrrounding and making ap the special permit of Henry Muck, procured through Mr. Grant, to trade in Missias! pp!, the General deemed it best to put a stop to the basi- ness, and it {8 sald peremptorily ordered his father to withdraw the suit, and he obeyed. Mack avows to this day that he fost $95,000 throngh bia conneetion with Mr, Grant; this the old gentleman denies. ond thus the matter stands between them. TOE PRESIDENTS FATMER AS A POLITICIAN. Tn the victory crowning year 1964, Mr. Grant bo- came a special object of interest with ward, city, Stato, and national politictans, He was sought and courted on every hand, and, to docredit to his heart, was always found amiable and compliant in attend- ing public meetings, and the Ilke. It seemed wise unto the clilzens of Cinetnnat! to celebrate the national holiday of that year {na beauifal grove a few miles from the city, and thither tradged and rods the thousands to whom the Fourth of Jniy ts glorious, Speeches were made, cannon fired, and cheers sent up in good old-fashioned style; but to the assembled listeners and sight-ecers nothing pos- sessed more interest than the formal Introduction on the platform of Mr. and Mrs, Grant, the father and mother of the Lteutenant-General, ‘The old gentie- man stood It bravely. There was traceable on his face and observable in his manner @ singular mix- ture of trepidation nnd assurance. He felt thata great duty wus to be performed, yet was ancertain how he should get through with it; but heeame forward, and, bending over the rail in front of the platform, addressed a few words of thanks and a few thoughts on the coun- try to those immediately in front. Mr. Grant {9 not distinguished os @ speaker {n pub He; but it is known that he fsa good talker, fespe- cially since the war, and onjthe occasion in question he was applauded into silence, From that day he became famous, for some ot the speakers hinted that his son would bo next President of the United States, A newspaper reporter with as gniz- zieal torn took Him tn charge upon his return to the city, and expended forty-five conts in beer for the luxury of hearing him repeat that his son Ulysses did not think of polities, had no notion in the world of being President, but !f the people wanted him, of course, a8 a matter of duty, he would consent, This ‘was soon nojsed abroad, and Mr, Grant was flattered and fawned npon until his head almost turned, He ‘was waited upon by patriotic committees and ward committees during the political campaign of the fall, and at every meeting was duly and formally intro- duced to his fellow-eitizens and fellow-countrymen as the father of the hero of the war! He now gave up trade and his interest in the Galena tannery, and launched out boldly mpon the sea of politics. Rail- roads sent him free passes cast and west, and he travelled. If there was a big military occasion, « patrlotie display or celebration of any kind, the old gentleman was on band ; and while never known to place lidmselfim the hands of any vartigvlar individ ual, oF sent) te pat forth any special claims, there was that sbout him which seemed to say, “I em hero, and you must take care of me. I am Gen, Grant's father, and be may be President of the United States.” Mr, Grant never offended anyone, by declining his personal attentions. He always accepted invitations, In society he gravely discussed politics, ané sorowfully shook his head at the peculiarities of Andy Johnson, who he hesitated not to say was @ very unsafe man to oecupy the Presidential chair. He now expressed few opinions of bis own, but usually delivered certatn political dicta as the opin- fons of “my son Ulysses,” and it is pretty well un- derstood that Gen, Grant's disavowal of opinions respecting the rebel terms of capitulation as ex- Dressed by Col, Hillyer, an old member of his staif, was really intended as. rebake to his futher, whose karrulousness more than overbalanced the habitual silence of theclose-mouthed son. “What is your opinion of neero suffrage, Mr, Grant?” inquired ‘a pestiferous reporter one day when the question en- gaged the public mind in Olio. “Well, sir, my son Ulysses says this isa white man's goveroment, and T agree with him.” When Gen. Grant really came before the country as the candidate for President, his father assumed an importance and value not to be underrated or skipped. There was no getting over the fact that he had {nfuewce, Happy the man who could flatter him into using It for his friend, CHURCH MEMUERSIIP A GooD THING. In Covington there is a plain little brick church owned by the Union Methodist Episcopalians, Mr, Grant and family are members. So 18 the present Collector of Covington, Mr. Nixon, « tall, sallow, melancholy personage, with a solemn mien and se- pulehral voice, Ho resites across the strect from Mr, Grant, end in the days of Gen, Grant's little- ness condoled with the old gentleman, listened to his complaints by the hour, and in ® word toadied him to bis beart’s content, Nixon was an appointee of Mr. Lincoln, but lost his head when Andy John- son swung tho official axe, Te was a leading Repub- Ucan in tho place, and worked like a beaver through- out the State for Grant, He is understood to pos- sess reas, influence in Washington, for one of tho first oficial acts was to restore Mr. Ni rewdly binted contemplated making joner of Tnternal Revenue, He is or yas a lawyer, a man of very ordinary ability, but a firm believer in the star of Grant, has bis ro- ward, To tis same church eime Mr. Corbin to worship in company with the Grant family on the only oceasion of his visit before his marriage to Mies Viremla Grant, and within its bomely walle were celebrated one fine morning Inst sprig the unpre- tending nuptials that made one, At home the Grants were very plain folk, and tt Je not discredit. able to them shat the social elevation to which their relationship to the President of the United States ‘hrs lifted them has not made fools of them, or made them neglectful of the friends of thelr humbl “ A Me see, pereee, of (Xd a et ter ir, Grant, reeelved & consul ip through {nfluence, but returned from Europe after the Ge: erni’s election to et something better, He was plainly told that that was impossible, for the press ‘was howling about the President's provident care for bis relatives, and therefore Mr, Kramer must Fost content, he did, INFLUBNCR OF THE FATHER WITH THE SON, ‘When Ger ton, he sajourns tn tl ‘and pastes the greater pat house, On such occaslons Gen, Dent accompant him, and, ike an engineer with his hand on ti throtile valve, sits fn the frout parior or lolls about the front door to prevent the General from being: steamed to death by visite eave presence. ft Dont ba to forget one of the fe- Yored, or ts dou! \e Fepeats it aloud and Josse “her upon which Cerberus looks bland and an- vites the party to walk inand take a seat, ‘To the unrecorded unfortunates there is the invariable re- ply: “Gen. Grant is very much engaged now, but will be happy to see you to-morrow.” During the Visita the entire membership of the litte Onion ‘Methodist Chureb are admitted, and it was durin one of thesy visits that Nixou, the Collector, an: Fould, the Postmaster of Cinclanatl, made their calling and election sure, ‘As soon as IL was well understood that Gen, Grant would be President of the United States, the’ pater: nal Jease set his houso in order. ‘The carpet was covered, and preparations made for receptions out- side the ordinary circle, Prominent politicians visited the bouse dally, and took couusel from the father of the house of Grant, It was no idle boast that no could get anything he wanted at Washington, for me President whoever went there letter eame away bappy. The Bhiuklos of Covington, steamboat men, grew rich on contracts, made during tho war’ for vessels used around Vicks)urg in the eventful eampaign of 1863, and friend; and in due time the old gentleman, | eave travelled wp aud down, om, their boats free, With is friend, arrived. ‘Tho Jews tried | he pleased, ‘The Shink devowed to dense the Corinth region for cottou, but Rosecrans | still, and they vie re wre other than was too moch for them; and they held | Seamboss lnlerestecugeging he stiention of those sloof until he was sout to the Department of the Cumberland, Everything that could throw discredit oF Sgnominy upon bis saministration wag done by his successor to the command of the let wing of tho Army of the Misstasippl, Brig.Gom, C, 8, Hamilton; and promincot among js actions wie the appointment of one Col, Murphy, of Wisconsin, to the command of Holly Springs, as a rebuke to Rosecrans for reprimanding that skulking rascal for abandoning Tuk, and leaving ie Government property there to be destroyed by a handful of raid- ers, ‘This eppolntment was also promoted by the futher of Gen, Grant, because Col, Dubois was in- ‘micat to Jews; be Was in fact the author of the famous order against Jews. Under whe ‘ay | rule of Murphy thrifty old Mr, Grant remained in Holly Spriags, buying cotton or weeing it done by his Hebrew friends, The preskous Obre accu: CASES WHERE THE INFLUENCE SHOWED, PU sorting. were wanting to prove that the father ef tho President has in oe whieh he turns to practical account, the intelligent observer bas only yy look at the Ghlo appointments since the 4th of Marcel, 1869, Sinoe thet day Mr. Grant has been in the habit of sending telegrams from Cineinnatl to ‘every member of the Cabinet, expreesing bis appro- dation or disapprobation of this or that matter re- r Jovernuent ofices, in Ohio chiefly, bat atepding occasionally his. attention. to. Ken? tucky and Indiana, As many oa six to have in 8 slngl ‘Seane to Mr. Delano. aE gh RA a a able replies were received, ‘A GOOD DINNER COMPENSATED. Firat the venerable Jesse talked around Cincinnat! apoet the gorruptions in that office, and of the need of Ho vent suggestions of this sort by tel ‘ashington, and kept the Agitated until an agent mt to examine Into the affairs of the office. A very voluminous re- rt was made and carried to Washington, but what t contained was not made public; no one, In fact, ‘was permitted to rer it, Jesse was assiduous in di: recting the matter in an unconcerned, general sort of a way, ae though he did not care for the result, and acted merely out of the purvst sense of disin: terested duty. Hut the milk fn the coconnat of the whole affair came to ii 4 R, W. Clarke, of ed, Clermont o , and turing fore hia election Le visited the scenes of his chit hood. Now Mr. Clarke nappened to know the Juvenile Grant, and when he looked upon the ont- rowth he Anvil General ant his party, Jesse included, to his luxarions home in Cler- mont county, Clarke is and delighis to do the vandaome thing wiere "thrift may follow fawning.” ret wine bevore his cue jalled ox and the fatness to cat, and taey were merry together. JESSE DRATS SCTIENCK. The apoolntment of Johnston in the Third Dis- trict ot Oblo was another case to point of Jes “Influence.” Schenck wanted somebody else, and worked to that end, but no sooner, did Jesse nxcer- taln this than he “stamped It out.” He related the circumstance to a geutleman in Cixelnaatt torsely, ows When I beerd that Schenck was pushing his man, T Jest writ on to Lysses, tellin’ him about it, and vskea Lim wich was the strongest, him of Schenck ; an’ 1 telt you the thing was pat throngh for Mr. Johnston.” Subsequent information showed that Mr, Johnston was the Lusband of Mrs, Presi- dent Grant's cousin, HOW THOMAS WAS DON FoR, Emerson warns people to beware when the ercat God lets loose thinker upon this planet. © ci cutnseribed prophet! why did you not proclaim similar caution ainst @ talker? In Jesse he terrible and toterminable, yet (he lubricationa of speech are necessary to the easy running of oficial machinery, and the fwning incmmbents of Govern: ment offices ander his ase eye love to sit under the drippings and entch the honeyed wor: fall. Calvin Thomas, ex-Postmaster of Cincinnat! was, however, an exception to the rale, and off went bis head. “Whien he heard the whetting of the axe he visited Jesse in Covington, and found him seated in his dingy litle cabhyrtole i the Covington Post lee, poring over forms and signing postal blan piled on a atiaky deal table, ‘Thomancis n thorn folng busines man, but whien Inia eyes encounte: he stalwart gare of the father of the President crouched tn an old arm-chair, bis face indicating a no very amiable mood, his uncertain visuals strained through the heavy-rimmed tacies, he pansed bo- fore daring to address it, Now Jease has a way of neither seeing nor hearing re or anything— when he don't happen to feel Inclined. ie “ow when ho entered, but did nut recognize him —of course not. ‘The clerk understood the case in a moment, and 4 letter to cat, Grant, this ts Mr. Thomas, Postmaster of “Ab, glad to 900 you, Mr. Thomas! Have a cheer, ty well. Iain'vsence I ‘that fall at the Pre t down, ye know, to t ration oi trtee, 80, " fell down thom damned stairs, Well, what’ k do for you, Mr. Thomas. ¥ pala what he had heard of his contemplated removal, and of the appointment of Mr. Foulds, and expressed his could not aid : have acheer! Yer pretty well, ain't yer? Yer look and me; the General would have ‘Thomas gat down and told the old gentleman surprise at any change being nade, urged his Republicanism. Mr. Thomas, to tell you the truth " ire yon there's nothing personal to you pout It, but yo sco dinny iw intimate with, ‘the Fouldses, an' they are neighbors of ours, an’ &l un’ the General fixed it up for Mr. Foulds wen wi Were tothe mogeration, “Hf it huin't been for my fallin’ down there I would have Sam Penn kept in 88 special agent of the Post Ofice Department; but wen Twas lak Sherman poked his nose in, ha tie allays does, and got another fellow in his ‘place, Fact 1s, I was real mad "bout that affatr, Tomas asW the hopelessness of the case, and left, J8S88 GETS REBELS APPOINTRD TO OFFICE. The barefaced fulseness of official decapitations being mado on account of unsoundness in politics ean be seen in the case of Capt. McGinnity, and the ‘appotutment of his successor, who turus out to be ® rebel whore politics were rank t i be ove politics rank with treason. m the July leet '. U. C, MeGinnity, Seiten re Weems eae was seccréd fom the Postmaster-General through the influence of the Hon. Samuel McKee, supported nearly every prominent Union officer and citizen in the vorthern of Kentucky. Capt. MeGinntiy had served iy in the war to suppress, the re- bellion, entering the army as a private tn the Twenty- second Kentucky Volu: ‘aud closing his scr- vices at the end of the war'as a captain in the ‘lee, participated ia’ several ‘battles, and wesverere: i severa and w: iy wounded at the Dutle of Stone Hiver. it wan not a very mar! recognition of is services to appoint him @ route agent, yet aftor just four days’ du: tuch ue receised ine followiog! ieragid Wasmixatox, D. C., July . Sm: Your appointment, under di the 10th inst., as route t from Covington to Nicholas- '# revoked. ‘Tlve Postmaster-eneral has e spe meyers of Joseph Henderson in winge ie made at th case R. Grant, the futner of Presi Very respectfully, &e. [Slgned) G. BORGE EARL, First Assistant Postiwaster-Gener: F Bo Cat: C. C, MoGixsity, P, M., Newport, icky. JESSE AGAINST FRER LETTER CARRTING. On or about the 10th of June last a Mr, F. B.Wake- fleld, a citizen of Covington, called upon Mr. Grant aud asked bim to sign bis Petition to the Postmas- ters ment of a free delivery in that elty, under the net of Congress passed Feb. 4, 1869, Mr, Grant replied that he knew nothing about such an act, and Would not sign the petition because it would take five hundred dollars per yoar off lis salary as Postmaster, He also stated that there was no necessity for a free delivery; itwas an expense Jo the Government, and the ciligens could their mail SF without it, Mr. Wake- his petition, signed by over two handred citizens of the piace, to the Postmaster- General, but it bore this endorsement: “1 condemn me rue system of letter-carrying in ‘ other an unneceswary ¢(xpense, an v! General Goveruucut, Jussx R. Onaxt, Postmaster, Covington. Tt te almost unnecessary to addthat no free de- livery was established in Covington, although the luce numbers 25,000 Inhabitants, and 10,00) enti it to the free delivery ten, Mr. Wakefeld ¢ postulated with the old Postinaster, but he told hun emphatically thet he and " Lysses had tried to re- duce the expenses of the Government In every way ‘bie, but the pesky Congressmen hed’ made oo many oflees, and he hoped 'Lysses would put a L: ? Wakefield published a card tn the Cincinnati pa- roe the time, relating the particulars of the affair, ‘he people of Covington are unsatinfled with the man- ement of Post OMice, but they feel and know complaint fs useless. A one-armed veteran car- ries the mail in a bag from Civelnmati to Covington, and when Col. Terrell was Postmaster at Newport, he pald tulsearrier dollar on Suadays for briuging over’ the Newport. mail on the Sabbath. "ihe Covington, opie demanded the same accommoda- thon from Mr. Grant, but pay the carrier's fare in the street cars—aix cent every Bunday, for the accommodation | Winans took Terrell’s piace, the Sunday mail busi: eo8 Was dropped on account of the extra doliaz, aud now those cities stand equal before the law, JNSSE 18 CAREFUL ADOUT M18 DRINKS, ‘Mr. Grant shuMes across tho suspension bridge from’ Covington to Ciucinuat! two or three tines a ‘ays comes up Walnut street. Cause little drinking hole In = kept by # thrifty German bj hame of ‘and’ the dispenser of office, high and. low, fore com: used to remark every time he left nls" doggory? that he was the meanest old skinflint that drank at his bar; but le found it prudent to change bis ro- ard to & reapectfulwreticence, for the sycophants ffacked ‘the venerable and solitary lover of * bite tera” (o Metzlee's and spent money for * trinks ant xeekars, unt dem tings, a8 mooch he never dit zee.” Al the cheap honors of the street, invi- tations to drink, and introdnetions to every” dirty- handed plebelan, are vlentifuly showered upon the father of the President; but fe never knows any- body the next time “he meets him. This is Mr. Grant, t believe, How do you do, Mr, Grant? Lhd the honor of an Introduction to you by my friend Mr, 80 and So yesterday, and Tam glad tu meet you again, sir,” says one of the fawning plebs, Ah, Jest 80, jest 80, forget yer name, Sknzo me, Mr. Jones; fact is, T see so many folks, It's jest like my son Lyssos, when he was in the army, He knowd all bis soldi¢rs, but couldn't call ther names, ye kvow. JeSHH SAVES U1® MONEY—OE TAKES PRESETS, * When my son U--lysses " (that U always bears sch an emphasis when military affairs are spo! when the old gentleman is coddling the name ally, it is dropped, thus, " Lysses,"” ax thoagh t had been dipped m molasses and the *U" had fallen into the jug" When my son U-lysses was down to Vicksburg, I knowd right away the damned news. papers would have totake everything back they'd suid in lim, Brom that time forrard they spoke respeck- ful of him, Now ther abusin’ him agen because they got nothin’ else to All up thelr columns with but the General can bear it: he's a rich man now, and he's President of these U-utted States, and he don’t keer what they say that don't bike hiih.” Ac» wisitiveness runs in the blood of the Granws, ‘Tho founder of the house 48 quite a8 uotorlous for taking er ink KO. of his chusch tell that it js the most Jn the world to gat the old gentleman ring of his old leather wallet when umde for some era ier aud getting a for keeping and ‘The members aifficult thi ta nest of ‘similar charges alare, nything, from a can of oysters, pickles, or a block of soap, with baereliog bai or the General on one side, to's sewing machine. easy chair, cooking stove, ything cise usefal or orn: fal In a household, ts not declined. Bat wi ever giving is done cunhot be eredited fo the peop of Covington: as a people they cordially desplec the inther of the President ior his lanate meanness, Which, however, they did not. openly com pista (of Motil “he persisted in kewping tho ‘ost OMlce in an inconvenient and ont-of-the-w Place, simply beenuse he eould save money by it. The atiair was loudly clamored sbout at time, and found ita way into the telegraph eolamis of some of the leading papers of the country. The result was an admonitory line from Washington, and OS ts] of locai'ty, Wt might seem unjust to@ifr, Grant to state that he did not deny pa siihnry horse from Mee Erue, here is a copy of his letter to that individual, Which appeared in the Cincinnati Commercial ¢ Tb Stajor Megrue. Covixerox, Aug.;12, 1800. Dean Sin: Tce it stated in the Commerctat you gnvo men horse, “Now, ne nace! signee public uncontrad ic facts, wiren in this ease it is w n lk ho for a day. about bie venerad) foing to th for b T hope, therefore, you will lose no time in having the lie nailed to the counter. ha Yours, &e., ‘J. TR. GRANT. Bat Major Megrue has lost all the time since, and haw not denied the statement, MORE NEPHEWS AND Corstes APPOINTED, Y t another case of his inflnenre at Washington, Col. W. G. ‘Terrell, paymaster in. the army, ri celved ae a recognition of his faithful Trices through the war the Postmastersh Newpo proaes he Postmastership of Newport Tula Anistant mn had formed agreeable, if not Iriendly. re Gen. Grant during the war, and. posses cessary gnalifications for the higher po to the capital to urge bis suit. Hardly, however, had he set his foot within oMeial circles when hd learned that not only wore his chaners very uneer« tain for the greater oMec, but it was next to certain that he would tose tho lerser, Tn short, Jesse Ite Grant claimed it for a Clermont county,Ohio, neph of his wife, one B. L. Winans, a weak, drivele ing tort of person. who ‘looked necdy when he aa. fumed the place, for he got it almost ax soon ue Col, ell reached home, disappointed ‘and disgu And on the heels of Mr. Grant, when lie returned after the innuguration, came the telegraphie an- houncement tint George K. Grant was une of tha Ohio Post Office appointees, Mr. Grant admitted ta ex-Postmaster Thomas that George had made out ® pretty cloar case of third cousinship, aud om that Acgount had received the appointment} might seem it Col. Terrell had no ef ‘upon President Grant, =~] it is proper to state that Always was Republican, and in the Presidentiat ‘campaign was the most active one tn the Sixth Cone greasional District of Kentucky. He spent inoney Very freely in the effort to carry the district, and abe soldtely carried the elty of Newport by 245 majority, and Newport was the only city in Kentucky that gavd majority for Grant. In justice to President Ufant, it 19 also prover to state that he promised Col. Ter? Fell official consideration, but nothing. has.come of it. The indignation of te Republicans of Ne at Col, Terreli's treatment, and the Importauon oF 4n Ohio backwoodsman (6 the city for the purpose OF Alling his place as Postmaster, is something better understood than easy to describe, ‘They curse hears oy and cordially every bone in Jesse Grant's bod: the bitterness and strife, the heartburninis a Alssatisfnetion created by\ the interference of Mr. Grant with public affairs tn this reeion would occu ® volumn if detailed, but cnovgh has beer, shown ta Prove that it ts productive of mischier, and that sean dal is brought upon the highest oMce tn the gift of tha People by the easy access of a spitetul, avaricio doting old me. whowe constant: boast is that “the futher of the President of these U-nited St and the greatest military hero in the world.” parbtoagaisk A ontaetonateh FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, i pana Cache Torspay, Dee. 14—P. M.—The leading feature of Wall street has been the money market, which ‘was stringent, consequent apon the shifting of loans, ‘owing to the bounty loan frauds, ‘This has induced & very close inepection of collaterals, especially among private capitallate, and moncy has been inao- coasible trom those sources, partly through fear ob loaning on fraudulent securities, and partly for the purpose of withholding money from the street for depressing prices of stocks, In this connection, is proper to add that there aro indications of quite an extensive movement to make money scarce by locking {t up, and the unsettled feeling arising out’ of the perpetration ofthe Gray forgeries, brougat te light yesterday, was uscd as the occasion for starting this scheme, We learn that the Broadway Bank has given notice that loans to the extent of two millions will be ealled to-morrow for the purpose of paying the interest maturing on certain city bonds at that tne, this bank being the depository of the funds of the City Chamberlain, At the bunks there has been an active demand from brokers, which was met. ne liberally as possible under the renewod remittances from the Weet and Southwest, To-day, cali loan have ranzed from 7 ® cent, at bank to7 ® cent coin, and i to of 1 cent, in addition to the legal rate outside of the banks, on pledge of Government and other first-class collaceral, In discounts there bas been more activity, though rates are unchanged from yesterday. ‘The gold market has deen dull and weak, and des titute of any especial feature, The premiuin haa been steady, ranging from 122% to 12174. id for having gold balances carried were Hp 'cent. “The specniatore for @. rive a from operating by the conservative ten: Conzress in relation to fartier inflation of curreney, And the refusal of Secrotary B sutwoll tonecent cold bids below 122 also cheeks any downward move: ment, The two elements of speculation, being: thut counterbalanced, tend to koep the premium steady rket quiet, ‘The total clearings at the nge Bank were $37,432,000; gold balances, $1,259,973; currency balances, $1,570,778, ‘Tne prin: cipal quotations were: ICLP. M. 22% (2:15 P. 1204419 P. AL 1 12234 0 P 1a n firmer, loading houses £0 19846 fot. peli for short sizlit Dil rates, however, Wo with $70,000 in ‘reasury 40 Soll ond 3,000, awardd having sixty days sterling, and to 1 ‘of the same grade; from th note fractional conc essions, The Alemania sailed to-day treasure. ‘The proposals of the million gold elicited bids to the amount of. at prices ranging from 121.7% (0 122.38, ‘Were made at 122.18 to 182.28, ‘The steadiness in the London market has tended to counteract tne weakness of gold, anil the bond market during the greater portion of h dull, was steady, expecially under the anti purchase of two millions to-morrow by, tha ury. At the close, Lowever, prices were i to ds @ cent. below the best of the day, and the mar! 4 €losed dull and week, Henry Clews & Co., 32 Wal street, reporting at 5 P. Mu: £2,105, comp 18. Feta, J ded 2. COUD, ‘cotip.. 5-208, "Bl, coup. City bank shares 128, "Merchants’ Exchange at 120, and. Shoe and Leather at 142, State bonds were active on new North Carolinas and new Tennessces, the frst named under free pales declining from 30% to 38M, nud new Tennessees from 43% to 424, New South Curolinas advanced from 71 to 72, and Virginias (old) from 49 to 50. Missourl sixes wore steady at 90%, and Ala- Dama eights at 98. | Railway, mortgages were steady, Union Peeific gelling at 84, and Columbus, Chicago, and Indiana Central frets at 76%? ‘We learn that a movement has been projected at the Stock Exchange for the purpose of changing thé locality of Wall street business. Many brokers, dis« sfled with the exorbitant rents to which they been for several years subjected, have enters ‘otest in the shape of this proposed change, an which meets with general approval. To, thi end the Governing Committee have appointed a Sub-Come mittee of five to recolve proposals for pronerty suite able for such a purpose, and we hear the present sito of French's Hotel fuvorably spoken of, be: cause contiguous to the new Post Ofice, around Wwiich it 48 believed future business will concentrate, Tn the stock market, railway shares bs deen unsettled, thongh more active than yente day, and quite a vigorous contest was waged be tween the bulls and bears. During the early part of the day the strife was about evenly maintained, but after 2 P. M.. aided by the stringeney In mone and steady Tooling, the bears succeeded fokine town the Vea es irom 99% to 8836 BIL to 81h, for the eeline the remainder of the raile 4, but toa less extent nt wecessions to to keep up the ¢ leading feature’ Lake Shore,the rtliwesterns and Bt, K Island, and wing, Lake Shore ra in 80 to 84, Norte the prefertid #4 to mon TB t 0 Toman 1895 Rock Toland 106% Reading 100% to 00M, these lowest been made after the adjournment of cow, and many principal operators had street, 'Pacife Mall Was the most active 0 ellaueous shares, fluctuating berween and OX. Express shares wereffairly active, The Bxecativo Combittecs of the Alama, United States, ond Amert= ean Companies will shortly bold 9 meoting at the ‘Astor House, in this city, for the purpose of suck territorial redistribution as shall give the Ada Fight of way over the Pennsylvania Central an) Fort Wayne roads to Chicago, which right it doce not at present own, ‘The Adains Company sro als Regoiiating the repurchase of the lines release) vo th Merchants’ Union at the time of the compromise with ‘that Company. Closing prices 91 6 P.M. a iia flo Wad... 5” Bh ewer, Pails ey & eS