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chose to. At 245 p. m., Fisk & Hatch suspended. There was a slight run on the Bleecker street savings bank to-day which subsided at noon. At the Second National bank there is no excitement. G. S. Mott, general manager of the Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Company says the suspension of Dimmick and Co., will not involve that company. FISK & HATCH SUSPENDED. Stock markets were firm this afternoon until just before the close of business, when the suspension of Fisk & Hatch was announced and prices broke 1 to 5, and the market closed weak, although some shares showed evidences of strong support. The firm of Fisk & Hatch is composed of A. S. Hatch and Harvey Fisk Hatch, was recently elected president of the Stock Exchange by & unanimous vote. The firm have been the heaviest dealers in government bonds on the street and considered a very staunch conservative and reliable firm. They have been recognized as the fiscal agents of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad and Elizabethtown, Big Sandy and Lexington road and have carried heavy amounts of the stocks of these roads while the market was declining. They have sons and sons-in-law in the stock business. The announcement of their suspension, CAME LIKE A THUNDERBOLT on Exchange. Wm. Lummis is now acting as president of the exchange owing to the disability of Hatch. It is surmised that the efforts to aid his son's embarrassed firm. Hatch has been prominent in religious matters and philanthropical measures and frequently heard as a lecturer on religious subjects. Fisk has just returned from a tour to Europe. The immediate result of their failure on the Stock Exchange was a decline of from one to five points. The weakness of the government bond market is explained by the suspension of this firm. It went to the wall during the panic of 1873, but resumed soon after. Their suspension was not announced until a few minutes before 3 o'clock, the closing hour of the Exchange, but the effect was an instantanious suspension. On the announcement of THE FAILURE, operators rusedh to the office of the failed firm and anxious inquiries were made by brokers as to how the firm stood. Fisk was seen by an Associated Press representative, but refused to say anything The doors were closed and the crowd outside increased. The suspension was not so unexpected, but its effect more than doubled, and the street is again excited, and brokers are rushing around wildly and the situation again assumes a troubled aspect. The supreme court granted an order giving the Chicago & Atlantic Railway company leave to prosecute action against Receiver J. L. Davis jointly with other parties as the company may be advised, for the purpose of obtaining the relief to which it was entitled relating to national or other securities heretofore belonging to the railway company, and held and negotiated or otherwise disposed of by the firm of Grant & Ward. The company alleges that in September 1883 it delivered to the former's Loan and Trust company, of this city, and George R. Bippus, of Huntington, Ind., as trustees, a mortgage on its road to secure the issue of coupon bonds of corporation to the amount of $5,000,000, known as secured mortgage bonds. In the autumn of last year the negotiation took place between the company and Grant & Ward for the negotiation of these bonds. It is charged upon the information THAT GRANT & WARD in violation of the agreement have separated and divided the notes and land into parcels, mixing them with other securities, and used miscellaneous lots in raising money for their own purposes. There was a slight run this morning on the Irish Emigrant against the bank of Chambers street two hundred of the depositors withdrew their accounts. There are 53,565 depositors. The president says he thinks they will gain about $10,000 by the withdrawals. Late this afternoon WM. H. SWEENEY, a banker on Nashua street, made an assignment. The amount involved is not large but may embarrass small manufacturers in the neighborhood of Nashua and Union street. This house suspended about a year ago. From the Tribune of Friday. The state ments of the members of Donnell, Lawson & Simpson Wednesday that their suspension was due wholly to the suspension of the Metropolitan National bank were not confirmed yesterday. The Metropolitan having resumed a similar action on the part of the banking firm was anxiously waited for and toward the close of banking hours, it began to be whispered around that THEIR FAILURE WOULD BE TOTAL. The bonds of the Cleveland, Youngstown & Pittsburg railway company were mentioned as & matter in which they had been most crippled. This was the security over which the Bank of the Republic directors had a difference about a month ago, which resulted in President Ford's resignation. The Bank of the Republic was one of the two banks with which Donnell, Lawson & Simpson did business, Simpson being a director in it. It was also said Seney had unloaded a lot of these bonds on the firm, and that their dependence on the Metropolitan was such they could not refuse to be thus used. At the firm's office, on the second floor No. 102, Broadway,
