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Show GENERAL. New York Intelligence. New Vork, 2 The specie export for the week is $1,172,000. There was a report re-port on the street to-day that the secretary secre-tary of tho treasury sold yesterday and to-day five and a half millions of gold, but the report is not generally credited. In responso to a letter addressed to O' Brien, Lawrence and Havemeyer, these gentlemen all t&y they are in favor of city improvements, opening streets, completing docks, finishing parks and the like. The ceremony of unveiling the Scott statue took place in Central Park this afternoon, in presence of a vast throng of spectators. The presentation address was made by Richard Irvin, and the ac ceptance by a speech by Comptroller Green. Win. Cullon Bryant then delivered de-livered the oration, Broadway presented usual activity to-day, Ehowing tho abatement of the hnrse distemper, Tho mortality in horses, however.con-tinues; however.con-tinues; no earn will be run in Brooklyn to-morrow. Philanthropist Borgb publishes pub-lishes an appeal, asking a total cessation of equine trailic to-morrow in this citv. Woodward, Cahoon & Co s luinlsh-ing luinlsh-ing atoro, and Ives & Co'g lamp manu-racturing manu-racturing store, in Barclay St., wero damaged by fire this p.m. Losses about $75,OCO; insured. A coroner's inquest was held to-day on tho boay of Samuels, whose death recently was alleged to have been the result of ill treatment. The evidonco showed that the patient had received brutal treatment. The case IB adjourned to Thursday. Thomas Donahoe, supposed to have shot .Florence Scammell two years ago, was shot dead to-night by John Scammell, Scam-mell, brother of Florence, in a saloon on the cornor of Twenty-eighth street : and Broadway. A New Hampshire Horror. Concord, N. H. 2, The body of a young girl, about 13, named Day, who pas beep missing in the qorlhwood since Friday of laflt week, was fMund last night. Franklirj B. Evans, who was arrested on suspicion, accompanied the sheriff to some woods near by, and pointed point-ed out the spot where the body was buried under a stump. An inquest is being held. It is probable Evans has made a confession. Great excitement prevails in tho village. The Woodliull Clsflln Trouble. New York, 2nd. A groat deal of talk was occasioned about town this evening oyer tho arrest of yoodhull and Olaf-Ijn. Olaf-Ijn. Tho proceedings against tbem wero first takon by L. O. Challis, tho well known broker, who last night applied fir warrants for their arrest for a gross, scandalous, and maliciouB article on him. These warrants wore accordingly accord-ingly issued, but before tliey could be executed, some one. actintr on Dchalf of anothur libelled party, as it I is raid, and securing the aid of Corn-stock, Corn-stock, the famous enemy to obscene literature, had warrants issued against the mosdames by U. S. commissioner Osborn. The affidavits in the case werp made by Albert Anderson, post olflcp olork, aalr. Woodley, of Brooklyn, and T. W. Kees, cork in the "Independent" newspaper otllce, who swore lo the i sending of onpnslve publications I through the mail by the accused. The ! witnesses in the casa, Wm. Moody, a ne-1 ne-1 gro, and C- I). Miles, who mailed the I papers, were sent to the house of deton-' deton-' tion. The two women were taken to I toe cow is ji oner's office in a carriage 1 and thence to jail, lint)! Monday niorn-l niorn-l ing, when the hearing comes oil'. They manifested their usual boldness, anrl 3. t canted on the way lo prison on the outrage out-rage of their arrest and confinement over Sunday. They insisted upon suitable suit-able apartments at Ludlow street jail. This afternoon, upon the' warrant of mayor Hall, Bei.ure was made of the establishment es-tablishment of Woodhull & Claflin, together to-gether with the books, furniture, and so much of tho edition of the publication as was found. The indignation of the community genorally has been aroused, at the brazenness and audacity shown by the publication eom plained of. (Jballi? ba? aiso caused the arrest of the so-called colonel Blood, charged with being an accomplice also l)eryso, the sterootypor anU Smitb, the printer of the scandalizing paper. The statutory penally for sending obscene literaturo tbrugh the mails is imprisonment for one year, and i"X) fine. Tho "JCxuross" says the arrest of "Woodhull Jt Claflin. for cirrulatinp obscene ob-scene literature, was to be expected, for nothing more obscene in the way of words and atrocious charges ever obtained ob-tained currency in any community than the attacks of thee women upon dis- |
