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I NEW e livery to Fernando Wood of the leases, they being as the time completed and signed by Mr. Connolly. The old Hackley street sweeping contract turned up yesterday in the Supreme Court, Chambers, on a motion in the case of Devlin vs. Hope, to vacate an order setting aside the authority of the receiver in the action to sue for damages. The right of action is vested in Devila by Hackley, through assignment, and the plaintiff sues for $100,000 damages. Decision reserved. An action was commenced in the Supreme Court, Clr. cuit, yesterday, by Sichel, Alexander & Co., of Manches ter, England, against Waterhouse & Co, of this city, to recover the sum of £213 88. 9d. sterling, for goods purchased in 1864. The case involves an interesting question in regard to the payment of drafts made payable no British bankers. Case still on. In the Supreme Court, Circuit, Part 2, yesterday, out of a panel of one hundred and fifty jurors, but eighteen were available, the remainder being foreigners with unpronouncable names or persons affected with blindness, doafness or other physical disqualifications. The Court ultimately requested the Clerk to beg the Sheriff not to send all the malformed or disqualified men in New York to serve as jurors. On Monday last this branch of the court was compelled to adjourn for the same reason, as but nine jurors were qualified out of a panel of one hundred. In the Court of Common Pleas an action was commenced yesterday by John T. Lord, et al. against Thomas Greggie, for the recovery of $5,825 40, which the plain tiffs claim is due them as forfeiture, and on account of salary overpaid to defendant, who was manager of a department of plaintiffs' business, and left their employ be. for the expiration of his term of service. Caso still on The North German Lloyd's steamship America, Cap tain Meyer, will sail from the Bremen pier, Hoboken, to-day (Thursday), al 12 M. for Bremen via Southamp ton. The mails for the United Kingdom and the Conti nent will close at the Post Office at half-past 10 M. The Atlantic Mail Steamship Company's steamer Morro Castle, Captain R. Adams, will leave pier No. 4 North river at 3 P. M. to-day (Thursday), for Havana. The Cuban mails will close at the Post Office at 2 o'clock P. M. The stock market was unsettled yesterday, but closed strong. Gold closed at 137% a 138. The inclemency of the weather tended to check transactions somewhat, still in some commodities a fair business was consummated, and at full prices, in some cases at higher prices. Coffee was steady. Cotton was dull and lower. On 'Change flour was moderately active and firm. Wheat was steady. Corn was 1c. a 2c. lower, while oats advanced 1c. 2c. Pork closed steady. Beef was firm. Lard was steady with a fair demand. Whis key was dull and nominal. Freights were unchanged. Naval stores were dull and heavy. Petroleum was a shade lower. MISCELLANEOUS. Chief Justice Chase issued a writ of habeas corpus yesterday, requiring the persons having Jeff. Davis in charge to deliver him up to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Virginia, at the next term of such court in Richmond, on the second Monday in May Advices from Japan to April 4 have been received The French Minister had returned to Yokohama from Osaka. Captain Hatfield, of the American bark Swal. low, was drowned at Yokobama Yellow fever and small pox are reported at Nassau, New Providence, no efforts being made to quarantine the vessels on which the cases have appeared. The South Carolina Republican State Convention was held at Charleston on Tuesday night. The delegations were all dusky, only one white man. Marshal Epping, being allowed to participate in the proceedings. Ad. dresses were delivered, one of the orators being a Miss Hooper. colored. The Maryland State Constitutional Convention met yesterday at Annapolis, and organized by electing Richard B. Carmichael, of Queen Anne's county, permanent chairman Congressman Ashley, it is said, has been closeted with Sanford Conover, the purjurer, several times during the last few days, and the belief is current that he is trying to obtain some evidence from him sending to favor his plan of impeachment. Governor Orr, of South Carolina, interests himself in the emigration of New Hampshire people to his dominions. Senator Wilson spoke at Augusta, Ga. yesterday. the audience, as usual. being of a variegated complexion. He was introduced by a former captain of rebel artillery, and in the course of his speech again threatened confiscation IC the freedmen were oppressed for voting as they might think proper. Hon Elijah Hise, late democratic member of Congress from Kentucky, who was re-elected to that position on Saturday last, committed suicide at Russellville, Ky. yesterday, by blowing out his brains with a pistol, because his advanced age prevented bis doing bis country any more good. In the trial of Winnemore for the murder of Mrs. Ma gilton, now in progress in Philadelphia, counsel for the prisoner sets up the defence that his client is at times insane, and, as a spiritual medium, does many curious things. Several witnesses, relatives of the prisoner, testified that be saw spirits plainly, and was almost always under their Influence. A colored conservative addressed the freedmen at Augusta, Ga. on Friday, and abused the Loyal Genrigian newspaper in such terms that his audience became indignant, and it was necessary to give him an escort to save him from violence at their hands. A mob in Taylor county, Ky., hung a man named Gebhart on Monday, alleging as a reason that he was murderer and pest to society, whom the quibblers of the law have prevented receiving his just dues. The office of the Treasurer of Baltimore county, Md. was robbed of $7,000 on Tuesday night. The master mechanics and manufacturers of St. Louis held a meeting yesterday, and refused to accept the eight hour work and eight hour pay proposition of the strikers. A fire occurred in Memphis yesterday by which the United States infantry barracks and the quartermaster's a storerooms were destroyed, a private soldier killed and young lady perhaps fatally injured. Loss $200,000. Four men fell from a scaffold in front of the nfth story of the old Lindell Hotel, in St. Louis, yesterday, one of them being killed instantly, and the rest severely in. jured. A Presbyterian delegation from Scotland and Ireland are on a tour through the United States 1 A wool growers' fair is in progress at Auburn. The Winooski and Kanawha were at Key West on the 1st inst. ) The City Bank of New Orleans failed yesterday. 3 The Ninth of May.
