13960. Freedman's Savings & Trust Company (new York Branch) (New York, NY)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Run → Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
federal
Start Date
September 1, 1873*
Location
New York, New York (40.714, -74.006)

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Contemporary articles describe an earlier run on savings banks (Sept 1873 era) affecting the Freedmen's Bank, followed by enforcement of a 60-day notice rule. In July 1874 the New York branch stopped receiving and paying out money by order of the national board; litigation and appointments of trustees/receivers were discussed and branches suspended—indicating winding up rather than reopening. I therefore classify this as a run leading to suspension and eventual closure/receivership. Dates are taken from article datelines and text (suspension early July 1874). OCR errors in original texts were corrected (e.g., Freedman's spelled variously as Freedmen's / Freodmen's).

Events (4)
1. September 1, 1873* Run
Cause
Macro News
Cause Details
Part of the broader run on New York savings banks following the Panic of 1873 and general public panic; appeals to ethnic pride helped temporarily check withdrawals.
Measures
Bank announced enforcement of a 60-day notice rule and paid small sums to depositors in need; appeals made to depositors (Frederick Douglass' card) to refrain from withdrawals.
Newspaper Excerpt
Shortly after the great run was made on all the savings banks in New York one was started on this institution
Source
newspapers
2. July 1, 1874 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Order received from the national board of trustees in Washington to stop taking in and paying out money; trustees/examiner actions and impending receivership or winding up.
Newspaper Excerpt
Affairs at the Freedman's Savings Bank ... no deposits being received nor payments made ... a despatch was received from Washington day before yesterday ordering the refusal of all deposits and the stoppage of all payments.
Source
newspapers
3. July 3, 1874 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
This order has already involved the company in a law suit, and proceedings will be begun either for the appointment of a receiver or else for throwing the concern in bankruptcy.-N. Y. Tribune, 2d.
Source
newspapers
4. July 20, 1874 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
MRS. ARABELLA R. MAPPIN has obtained judgment for $260, with $25 costs, against the lately suspended branch in New York of the Freedmen's savings bank of this city. If execution is resisted ... to test the constitutionality of the law authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint trustees to wind up the bank.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (13)
1. October 2, 1873 The New York Herald New York, NY
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$101,963,604 75, which is evidence of a pretty considerable business. THE CITIZENS' nas the same story to tell of returning confidence among its depositors, and, as a consequence. the return of money lately withdrawn. Last week the deposits, which are increasing daily, reached $70,000. THE ATLANTIC has a favorable record to show also. There is an excess of deposits over payments, and the accounts show a surplus of $189,204 16. THE MECHANICS' AND TRADERS' looks serenely towards the future. Deposits exceed payments, and only ten persons have expressed an intention of withdrawing their money at the expiration of the thirty days' notice. THE NEW AMSTERDAM has no dimeulty to complain of. Deposits increased $13,000 during last week, and the demands were so light as to be hardly noticed. The foregoing record is calculated to inspire much confidence, and as the savings banks are so intimately related to the monetary interests of the poor, it is satisfactory to find them so well situated. During the panic the savings bank officers decided unanimously to enforce the rule requiring notice, if necessary, before deposits could be withdrawn, yet all these institutions have paid daily small amounts to depositors ID need. The 10llowing con anunication from Mr. Edgar Ketchum to the manager of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company IS of interest as regards the validity of this proceeding:NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 1873. SAN. L. HARRIS, Esq., Manager:MY DEAR SIR-I have your letter of this morning, with a printed copy of your rule "6" attached as follows:"The company will, as a rule, pay all deposits on demand, yet reserves the right to require sixty days notice of intention to withdraw deposits, the intent of this rule being solely to protect the bank and its depositors in times of public excitement and danger. "You inquire whether, having announced the enforcement of this rule, you may pav to depositors in need small sums, or whether it will endanger the application of the rule. I answer, such action to. ward such depositors in need of small sums would not endanger the application of the rule. The rule is reasonable, is tor the best interest of the community and each depositor. It is applied just when it ought to be, in the very emergency provided tor. The indulgence granted, in respect to small sums to depositors in need. IS likewise reasonable, is merciful and just. The case put is. one of good faith and of wise and prudent action under an established rule common to savings banks. dealing with gentleness toward the poor, wo might otherwise suffer for want of bread. Yours, EDGAR KETCHUM. very truly,

2. April 30, 1874 Chicago Daily Tribune Chicago, IL
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assignment Into yesterday afternoon for the benefit of its oreditors. -On account of the storifi and muddy condilion of the road, the runuing of the Greenville horse-care from Jersoy City has been stopped by the Bodiety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animale. -The Now York State Sonate line passed A bill providing for the compulsory education of children. -Tno Froodmon's Baving And Trust Company, of Now York, has informed depositors that sixty days' notice will be required before any money can be withdrawn. Arrangements are making to rollove the needy depositors. -The Treasurer of the Evangellonl Alliance acknowledges the receipt of nearly $7,000 for the relief of the family of the Into Rov. Emilo Cook, of Parls, lost in the Villo du Havre. -The Orango Lodges will colobrate the 12th of July this year by an excursion to & neighborIng grove on Monday, the 18th. On Sunday, the 12th, the members will moot, and, without rogalia or other insignia, march to church. -The election noxt Monday in Jacksonville, III., on the question of & probibitory ordinance, excitos much hot discussion. It is hardly probablo that prohibition will carry the day. -A little daughter of John Maddox, at Philo, Urbana County, was burned to death a fow days since, by her clothes taking flro in the field where corn stalks wore burning. -A committee is hard at work in Fort Wayne, Ind., getting subscriptions for the Exposition Guarantee fund. The prospects look flattering for a successful exhibition, beginning Sept. 7, and Insting four weeks. The Northorn Indiand Fair will be hold simultaneously. -Liconso to organize was Issued yestorday to the American Insurance Association, of Ohicago, capital $100,000 also, certificates of organization to the Alliance Publishing Company, capital $50,000, and to the Northwostern Pogging Machine Company, capital $250,000, both of Chicago.

3. May 4, 1874 The Portland Daily Press Portland, ME
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NEW YORK. The Freedmen's Savings Bank. NEW YORK, May 2.-Frederick Douglass publishes a card in one of the New York papers to-day, in regard to the suspended Freedmen's Saving Bank. He says this institution has been in existence less than ten years, and during that time it has held and handled, with profit to its depositors, not less. then *comes beroid the půblic, after the severest valuation of its property, rating articles at their lowest cash value in these dull times, with its liabilities $217,000 in excess of its assets. Every businses man will see at once that with assets amounting as th y do, to more than $3,000,000, if only tolerably well managed and let well alone, a few months only would be required to enable it to overcome this small excess of liabilities and pay all the depositors a small amount of interest.

4. July 1, 1874 The New York Herald New York, NY
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THE FREEDMAN'S SAVINGS BANK. Application To Be Made To-Day for n Receiver-A Depositor Refused Her Money After Having Given Sixty Days' Notice. Application is to be made in the Marine Court today for a receiver for the "Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, of No. 185 Bleecker street, at the instance of Arabella R. Mappin. For some time past a great many depositors at this bank have been put off with excuses and told to call again for their money, at the same time receiving eloquent assurances that the cash was all right and would be northcoming in good time. On the 28th day of April Mrs. Mappin made application for her $591 75. which had been deposited at different times from March 29, 1873, to August 9 of the same year. Notwithstanding that the following announcement"All deposits are payable on demand, with interest due" in three languages on the circular, the gentlemen to whom she applied told her she could not have the money, as the bank claimed sixty days' grace. The lady not being an expert in finance allowed the clerk, a colored gentleman, to write in the credit side of her book. under date or April 28, 1874, the following ntry:-"Notice of sixty days received for tull amount" These sixty days 01 notice expired on the 29th of last month (Monday). Mrs. Mappin made application again for her money and was told she could not have it. All efforts on her part to induce the payment of the money proved utlie and she has decided to apply to law for a remedy. A SKETCH OF THE INSTITUTION. This Freedman's Savings and Trust Company was, according to its own circular, "chartered by the government of the United states on Marcn the 3d, 1865. It purports to pay six per cent interest on all sums deposited, interest to begin irom the first of each month. and the following is on both bank book and cover:-"Deposits are payable on demand." To induce frugality It proclaims in suggestive print the sum to which ten cents a day will amount to in ten years, and recommends every one to deposit $10 a month and at the end of ten years draw $1.700, principal and interest. For some time past It nas been notorious that payments have been remsed when presentation has been made. Several colored persons who have taken country, hotel and steamboat engagements failed to get their money when they went alter it. and having no time to light It out they trusted to luck for its safety. Snortly after the great "run" was made on all the savings banks in New York one was started on this institution which was saved by an appeal to colored pride. They refused to draw their money, not withstanding that much was said in public print about the unsoundness of the institution. THE TRUSTEES OF THE BANK in Washington are the following gentlemen:Mesars. D. W. Anderson, J. W. Alvord, A.T. Augusta, M. D.: General George W. Bullock, General B. W. Brice, Chief Parmaster United States Army: Savies J. Bowen, Hon. F. L. Cardozo, Lewis Ciephane, John A. Cole, William P. Drew, Fred. Douglass, E. B. French, Second Auditor United States Treasury: Moses Kellv, cashier National Metropolitan Bank: John M. Langston, Law Professor. Howard University; William Lewis, Charles B. Purvis, M. D.: Zalmon Richards, Auditor District of Columbia; Rev. L. Talbot, Bishop Zion Methodist Episcopal church; L. R. Tuttle, Assistant Treasurer of the United States: General E. Whittlesey, W. H. A. Wormley, William Claffin, of Boston: Thomas Davis, of Providence, R. L: William Hocker. of Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry Samuel, Philadelphia: W. J. Alvert, Baltimore, Md.; J. J. Stewart, Baltimore, Md.; Samuel Townsend, Baltimore, Md.: J. C. Underwood, Alexandria, Va.: Bland Builard, Lonisville, Ky.: Joseph H. Bowett, Cincinnati, Ohio: Levi Codin, Cincinnau, Onio: Henry Harwood, Cincinnati, Ohio; Rev. J. M. Waldon, Cincinnati, Ohio; Colonel James P. Low, Columbia, S. C.; General Rulus Saxtom U. S. A. The trustees in New York are W. C. Bryant, R. R. Graves, Rev. H. C. Garnet, pastor of Shiloh Presby terian church; Walter T. Hatch, Samuel Holmes, seta B. Hunt, Edgar Ketchum, E. A. Lambert, President Craitsmen's Lue Insurance Company; E. P. Smith, Rev. George Whippie, Secretap of the American Missionary ASSOCIATION,

5. July 2, 1874 The New York Herald New York, NY
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THE FREEDMAN'S SAVINGS BANK. Affairs at the Freedman's Savings Bank, in Bleecker street, are at a dead standstill, no deposits being received nor payments made, yet, strange to say, the depositors, composed though they are of the poorer class of people, appear to manifest but little alarm. All day yesterday the doors of the bank were open, but the number of callers was small, and these all seemed satisfied with the encouraging statement that "government" would "fix things all right." This institution is one of thirty-two chartered by the government of the United States, under the title of the "Freedman's Savings and Trust Company," and is the second largest in amount of deposits, its depositors consisting mainly of negroes. The manager or the bank is Samuel L. Harris, of Brooklyn, and the cashier John J. Zuille, a venerable gentleman of color, with short curly hair and most courteous manners. An interview was obtained with this gentleman last evening upon the bank steps, where he stood, a dignified monument of the Civil Rights bill. Mr. Zuille asserts that the institution is by no means in a collapsed state. He admits that several bad loans were made in Washington, and that the institution has had enemies for friends, but it 18 his impression that ninety-seven cents on a dollar can be paid to-day, and dollar for dollar a few months hence. When asked the cause or the bank's suspension, he stated that a despatch was received from Washington day before yesterday ordering the refusal of all deposits and the stoppage of all payments. The trustees are holding a meeting in that city, and in all probability further orders will be received to-day. In the meantime the creditors are comforted with the assurance that the "big men of Washington" will "NX things."

6. July 3, 1874 Evening Star Washington, DC
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THE NEW YORK BRANCH OF THE FREED MEN'S SAVINGS BANK.-It seems very likely that the Freedmen's Savings and Trust company will wind up its affairs speedily. Orders were received from the national board of trus tees managing the institution at Washington to stop taking in and paying out money. This order has already involved the company in a law suit, and proceedings will be begun either for the appointment of a receiver or else for throwing the concern in bankruptcy.-N. Y. Tribune, 2d.

7. July 4, 1874 Memphis Daily Appeal Memphis, Hernando, Grenada, Jackson, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Griffin, Macon, Montgomery, Selma, TN
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MONEY MATTERS. Why L hat Bid was withdrawn-The New York' Freedmen's Bank Saspended-Wall Street Astonished. NEW YORK, July 3.-The exact facts as regards the withdrawal of a large bid f or the new five per cents with which Wall street was yesterday agitated are: The secretary sent a circular to all the prominent bankers of the country, inviting them to submit & bid for the new five per cents. In the meautime he received a number of individual bids, and among them one from Van Hoffman & Co., which was not, however, the highest. The secretary declines accepting till all have had an opportunity to make their offers. In the meantime Van Hoffman & Co. withdrew their bid in the interest, it is believed, of another house. whose bid the secretary was strongiy urged to accept at once. The business at the Freedmen's savings bank of this city has been entirely suspended. A number of persons applied yesterday for the payment of drafts made upon the bank by depositors. No application has yet been made for the appointment of & receiver. The attorney for the bank has put in a notice of the appearance on suit of Arabella Mapina, who sues for her deposits, and is entitled to six days time, which limit will not expire before Monday next. Th. cousel for plaintiff asserts that the TO of the bank, by allowing themoffice. selves be sued on a just and equitable claim, ha ve voluntarily put themselves into bankrebtey. The leading bankers were surprised this morning to receive circulars from the secretary of the treasury inviting proposals for the remaining one hundred and seventy-nine millions, or any part hereof, of the funded loan, bearing inerest payable quarter-yearly, and the

8. July 4, 1874 Nashville Union and American Nashville, TN
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Company, of No. 185 Bleecke: street, at the instance of Arabella R. Mappin. For some time past a great many depositors at this bank have been put off with excuses and told to call again for their money, at the sametime receiving cloquent assurances that the cash was all right and would be forthcoming in good time. On the 28th day of April Mrs. Mappin made application for her $591.75, which had been deposited at different times from March 29, 1873, to August 9 of the same year. Notwithstanding the following announcement, "All deposits are payable on demand, with interest due," in three languages on the circular, the gentlemen to whom she applied told her she could not have the money, as the bank claimed sixty days' grace. The lady not being an expert in finance allowed the clerk, a colored gentleman, to write in the credit side of her book, under the date of April 28, 1874, the following entry: "Notice of sixty days received for full amount." These sixty days of notice expired on the 29th of last month (Monday). Mrs. Mappin made application again for her money and was told she could not have it. All efforts on her part to induce the payment of the money proved futile and she has decided to apply to law for a remedy. This Freedman's Savings and Trust Company purports to pay six per cent. interest on all sums deposited, interest to begin from the first of each month, and the following is on both bank book and cover:-"Deposits are payable on demand." To induce frugality, it proclaims in suggest. ive print the sum to which ten cents a day will amount to in ten years. and recommends every one to deposit $10 a month and at the end of ten years draw $1,700, principal and interest. For some time past it has been notorious that payments have been refused when presentation has been made. Several colored persons who have taken country, hotel and steamboat engagements failed to get their money when they went after it, and having no time to fight it out they trusted to luck for its safety. Shortly after the great "run" was made on all the savings banks in New York one was startedon this institution which was saved by an appeal to colored pride. They refused to draw their money, otwithstanding that much was said in public print about the unsoundness of the institution.

9. July 4, 1874 The Portland Daily Press Portland, ME
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NEW YORK. The New Fives. NEW YORK, July 3.-The Tribune states edi torially that the exact facts as to the offer and withdrawal of a large bid for the new fives,con cerning which Wall street was yesterday agi tated, are as follows: "The Secretary sent a circular to all th prominent bankersjof the country, invitis them to fubmit bids for the new five per cent bonds. Meantime he received a number o united bids, and among them one from Va Hoffman & Co., which was not however th highest received. The Secretary declined to ao cept any until all had an opportunity to mak their efforts. In the meantime Van Hoffma & Co. withdrew their bid in the interest as is believed, of another house, whose bio the Secretary was strongly urged to accept a once. There is little doubt but the treasury de partment will resume the exchange of six pe cent bonds for those bearing five per cent in terest. A Slight Discrepancy. The Tribune's Washington despatch say that instead of $99,007 xpended by th United States for the avenues in Washington except Pennsylvania Avenue, as stated in th report of the supervising architect, the swor statement recently made before the investiga ing committee shows that $8r2,041 were pai by the United States to the Board of Pubii Works March 18, 1873, and $147,958 additiona on account of Pennsy avenue. Plymouth Church. It is announced that Plymouth church, at it regular meeting to night, will simply trarsac the ordinary business of the society, such as tb admission of new members, &c. So far as is present known, the church, like its pastor, it tend to adhere to the policy of silence wit reference to the Tilton scandal. Beauty of Postal Cards. Moses Chamberlain, a wea'thy merchant, ha been arrested on the charge of violating th postal act, probibiting the send ng of scurri'ou matter through the mails. The scurrilous ma ter consisted of postal cards sent to Aaron Va Valkenburgh and other parties, in which Va Valkenburgh is described as a swindler wi has defranded his cieditors in general, Chamberlain in particular. There are seve indictments against the accused, upon which 1 gave bail in $15,000. A Senseless Circular. The Freedmen's Savings bank in this cit which is virtually a branch of that in Washin ton. has closed. A circular is given to depos tors, signed by Fred Douglass, appealing to t1 honor of the colored people to support the i stitution, and laying the blame of the su pension upon the prejudice of the whites, of the colored race and senseless runs on tl bank. The Police Commissioners. Gov. Dix is reported to have said last nigl that the ppoint ent of Charlick and Ga diner to the Police Commissionership is entir ly illegal. He considers their conviction rendering them ineligible to office. The Herald denounces the re-appointment an outrage on the community, and says "Go Dix must be called upon to remove May Havemeyer.' The World calls the Mayor an "imprude old scoundrel,' and says he has offered a fl grant insult to the whole community. The Sun treats the act as a cunning trick ex hibiting remarkable coolness on the part of ti Mayor for such hot weather. The Tribune thinks the act both natural an to be expected, SO long as political offices a bestowed to serve partisan purposes, and sa the city will be fortunate if it ever gets poli commissioners who will be guilty of anythir more than technical violation of the laws. Grand Sachem Kelley says Tammany H: will take all possible legal steps to preve the re-appointed commissioners from servio and will test their eligibility for re-appoin ment. There is some apprehension of a dead lo in the police board, owing to the necessi for an election of a president and treasure and the possibility of a tie vote, as the boa is now composed of only four members, a Disrecker and Duryee may refuse to vote replace Charlick and Gardner in their old pos tions. Mad Dog. A girl named Louisa Vieny was bitten by dog unmistakably mad in Lexington aveu vesterday. Ten mad dogs were killed in this city yeste day and about the same number in Brookly Seven persons were bitten in the two cities. One hundred and forty dogs were killed the pound this morning. Various Matters. The appointment and acceptance of t t Postmaster Generalship by Mr. Jeweil is souree of much satisfaction in this city in circles. In the post office the utmost enth siasm greeted the announcement of the fact. The through Australian mails for Gre Britain per steamer Wyoming were landed Queenstown this afternoon at 3 o' clock. Th were overland via San Francisco and Ne York. Judge Westbrook has decided that the harb master cannot order the removal of a vess from any particular pier while under repair when such removal be unsafe. Two young men,John C. Harmon and Har F. Wilkes, aged about 18, were drowned la evening while swimming in the sound ne Port Washington, L. I. The first division of the State National Gua will be reviewed on the 4th by Gen. Gilmo the President's engagements not admitting a visit to New York. The steamer Cuba took out $339,350 in spec Miss Laura Saxe, daughter of John G. Sax died of consumption in Brooklyn yesterd aged 17. The Brooklyn Commissioners of Excise ha dismissed the remaining charges against t liquor dealers for selling on Sundays, in whi Fred English and his mother were the or witnesses. United States Attorney Fisher to-dav, at t suggestion of Mr. Harrington, the Assista Attorney, wrote to the Attorney General questing him to designate some one to ass him in the prosecution of the safe burglars. There will be no celebration of independen in Washington except by the oldest inhabita of the associations. Boating. e POUGHKEEPSIE, June 3.-In a five-mile r: in double scull working boats at this place ti evening, Edward Wood and Christian Eng hardt defeated the Wendell brothers by 1 lengths in thirty-eight minutes. Fire Record. Henry Laths' mill in Philadelphia, for manufacture of sewing machine cases, V burned Friday. Loss $60,000; insurance $4 000. By the explosion of a Chinaman's kerose lamp ursdavnial dwellings

10. July 8, 1874 New Orleans Republican New Orleans, LA
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The Freedmen's Bank. The Freedman's Loan and Savings Bank of Washington has apparently come to grief. Its assets are supposed to be sufficient, if the businees of the bank were allowed to proceed, to more than cover its liabilitiee, but it is now unable, if the opinion of eminent counsel is to be relied on, either to receive or pay out a dollar. One of the last acts of Congress was to amend its charter, and in order to fully understand their position under this law the board of trustees propounded six questions to Hon. Thomas J. Durant. and he answers them in substance as follows: The bank must pay depositors who have given sixty day's notice of intention to withdraw. It may make an agreement with a depositor not to draw out, provided the latter is willing. If the bank pays fifty per cent of an ac count it can not modify such payment afterward. If the bank does any of these improper things it goes into the hands of commissioners who will take charge of all the property. The bank must invest the funds received from branches according to the law of June, 1874. Money deposited since June 23 is in the nature of a special deposit, and can not be used to pay depositors of a previous date. The effect of the opinion seems to have completely upset the policy of the trustees, for the company has done no business since, and nine to four directors voted to close up its affairs, by placing them in the hands of Robert Purvis, of Philadelphia, ex-Postmaster General Creswell and R. Leipold, the head of the independent treasury. Examiner Meigs reported some time since it could pay ninety-three cents on the dollar, but it will take two years to wind up the bank entirely. The New Orleans, New York and Memphis branches have already suspended, but how many more will be compelled to is not known.

11. July 17, 1874 The Jasper Weekly Courier Jasper, IN
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taken to washington for trial under the law passed at the last session, known as the Poland bill. EAST. Gold closed in New York, on the 7th, at 9 3-4. The Social Mills, at Woonsocket, R. were burned on the 1st. There were-50,000 spindles and 1,000 looms in the mills, employing some 700 hands. The loss is from $700,000 to $800,000, mostly insured. Henry Grinnell, a well-known New York merchant, who became famous by his liberality in fitting out two vessels for the Arctic regions to search for Sir John Franklin, died on the 30th ult., aged 75. Baltimore celebrated the opening of the ship canal between that city and Chesapeake Bay, on the 2d. Major George Daniels, wife and grandson, were killed by a passing train at Milford, New Hampshire, on the 2d. The verdict of the Coroner's jury in the Mill River (Mass.) disaster investigation is published. It censures the Legislature for inadequate and defective legislation on the subject of reservoirs, the mill owners for their parsimonious disregard of life and property, the engineers for ambiguous and insufficient specifications, the contractors for manifest delinquencies, and want of thoroughness in their work, and finally the County Commissioners for accepting a dam so shabbily built, when they had the power to order its entire reconstruction. The Freedmen's Savings Bank in New York City has suspended. Following is the comparative cotton statement for the week ending July 3: 1874. 1873. Net receipts for past week all U. S. ports 7,384 15,181 Total receipts from Sept. 1 to date all U. S. ports 3,709,879 3,496,984 Exports for past Week from all ports 5,161 19,515 Total exports from Sept. 1 to date from all ports 2,726,189 2,467,603 Stock now on hand at all U.S. ports 242,422 219,104 Stock now on hand at all interior towns 36,497 35,484 Stock at Liverpool 993,000 917,000 Stock of American afloat for Great Britain 80,000 130,000 Over one hundred houses were burned at Allegheny City, Pa., on the 4th, leaving many families homeless. Supposed to have been caused by fire-crackers. President Grant and family arrived at Long Branch on the 4th. A passenger train on the Shore Line Rail. road ran off the track just after leaving Stony Creek Station, Ct., on the 6th, causing more or less injury to 107 passengers and instantly killing Mr. W. M. Wilcox, Superintendent of the road. The accident was caused, as is alleged, by the carelessness of the station master in regulating the switches. The whole train, with the exception of the locomotive, was thrown from the track, and three of the cars were turned bottom side up. Carrie Ostrander died at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 7th, from injuries received by the falling of the Baptist Church, on June 23d. She is the fourteenth victim of the disaster. Dr. J. B. Jennings, a prominent physician of Nashville, Tenn., committed suicide at a hotel at Narragansett Pier, R.I., on the 7th. Cause not stated. The freight agents of the Erie, New York Central, and Pennsylvania railways, have adopted a new schedule of freight rates, on the basis of 55 cents per hundred pounds from Chicago to New York, being an increase on the present schedule.

12. July 20, 1874 Evening Star Washington, DC
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MRS. ARABELLA R. MAPPIN has obtained judgment for $260, with $25 costs, against the lately suspended branch in New York of the Freedmen's savings bank of this city. If ex- ecution is resisted, Mrs. Mappin's lawyer in- tends, he says, to test the constitutionality of the law authorizing the Secretary of the Treas- ury to appoint trustees to wind up the bank.

13. September 3, 1874 Puget Sound Dispatch Seattle, WA
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LONDON, Aug. 31.-The new ship Sierra Nevada, which sailed from Liverpool July 2nd, for San Francisco, took fire and was destroyed. The crew was sav. ed. The Great Eastern. up to yesterday noon, had paid out 647 nautical miles of the American Co. 's cable. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. The follow. ing postal changes have been ordered: Name changed: Ship Island, Whatcom Co., W. T., to Ship Harbor. NEW YORK, Aug 30.-The sixty day's notice at the Freedmen's Savings Bank expired yesterday, but affairs remained unchanged and business is still suspended. VIENNA, Aug. 30.-The New Free Press publishes the text of a note from the Russian Government, dated August 19, declining to recognize Spain. The note says that Russia cannot recognize a Government which is unrecognized in its own country, that she has no wish to interfere with the internal affairs of Spain, and favors no party there. MADBID, Aug. 30.-Gen. Copez Dominguez is marching with a large army to the relief of Puigcerds. He arrived yesterday at Vich. The Carlists made a night attack on Puigcerda, and were driven back with heavy loss. They burned their dead. It is reported that the Carlists suffered heavily in an engagement near Ripelio. LONDON, Aug. 31.-Quarantine regulations have been put in force atQueenstown which cause great hindrance to commerce. All persons are prohitted from leaving or embarking on vessels from ports in America, the West Indies, and the Mediteranean sea until it is ascertained that such vessels have a clean bill of health. SAN FRANCISCO, Cept. 1.-Yesterday at School-House Station, about 9 miles from this city, on the line of the San Jose railroad, Dominie O'Garra and Edward Keigery became involved in a vuarrel. O'Garra shot his antagonist, who sprang upon him and stabbed him twice, inflicting dangerous wounds, and then fell dead. O'Garra was removed to the San Mateo jail. SHREVEPORT, Aug. Reported here that the prisoners. including the sheriff, deputy-sheriff, and two tax-collectors, captured by the citizens at Coushatta, on Saturnay night, were taken from the escort who were bringing them by fifty armed men, supposed to be Texans, who killed them. Later.-Reports just received tend to confirm the previous rumors, and leave little room for doubt that the Coushatta prisoners were murdered at McFarland' plantation. 25 miles below here, on the East side of Red River. LOUISVILLE, Aug. 31.-A number of men who went from Stanford to aid in suppressing the troubles in Lancaster, were indicted by the Garrad County Grand Jury last week and will appear to-morrow to answer. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-The sugar cases in which the Bay City Refiner and Falkner, Bell & Co., of San Francisco, are principally interested, and which were appealed from San Francisco to the TreasuryDepartment at Washington, have been decided in favor of the Government. The question involves $10,000 customs duties, which will be collected by the Government. COLUMBUS, Ga., Aug. 31.-Lee County, Alabama, riots have been very much exaggerated. No person was killed and only one church was burned. All is now quiet there. MADRID, Aug. 31.-The Carlists made two determined but ineffectual assaults on Puigcerda to-day and finally at their repulse, set fire to and destroyed the houses outside the walls. ROME, Aug. 31. - Mount AEtna has been in a state of eruption since Saturday. Streams of lava are pouring from craters. Several regiments have been sent to Sicily because of the increase of Brigands and general troubles there. A Court Martial will be established for prompt punishment of offenders. NEW YORK. Aug. 31.-The steamship Constitution arrived at Panama August 30th.