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Show OUR LONDON LETTER. The Bears bearifig on Emma. The " Argus " Aim. The Ashantee War and the Prah The Nuptials Nup-tials of the Sailor Prince. A London Mist , - -. . .! . (Special Correspondence of th Uerald.) London, Jan, 23d, 1874. Of all the mysteries in the world, from the time Thesus penetrated the secret and intricate recesses of Dcedaluses Labyrinth, and slew the cannibalistic Minotaur, to the present pres-ent time, the mysteries counecUd with the Emma mine are most mysterious: mys-terious: 'The wiro-pulling, stockjobbing, stock-jobbing, market-rigging tricks, etc,, employed on the -London1 Stock Exchange, Ex-change, in connection with this mine are, to say the least, most astounding tn an'-nntstidpr. . T hav aeon within the pastfew weeks numerous cablegrams cable-grams from Utah, all tending to the one point, that the Emma was improving, im-proving, a new body of ore had been j struck, assaying 1,000 oza. per ton, debts had been paitl off, Ac, Ac, and strongly advising the shares as a good buy at present prices. In the lace of all thitthe bears retain pos session of the market, and the greatest great-est bears appear to bo; most Grange to say, the people in the Emma oilico themselves.' A well known broker on the Stock Exchange here, by the name of Rosc-wsrne, Rosc-wsrne, has been making some remarkable remark-able statements in regard to the mine, on the strength of '''reliable infornia-tion" infornia-tion" he says he lias! received from Salt Lake, ci: that there id nothing but limestone on three sidos of the winze (I), that the ore is nearly exhausted ex-hausted only streak of it remaining in the bottom of the mine that only thirty tons were raised during the jiast week, assaying but 11 in silver per ton. Furthermore he asserts that the company will soon bo wound up, as they cannot raise the IS,000 said still to be due to the' Illinois Tuunel Co.; besides this he asserts Ajie mine lost from 16.000 to :!0,-wK) :!0,-wK) on ore which had been sold to a Chicago lirm that failed. He backs up these statements by 1 his acta on the Exchange. lie gave lis.6d. to put 1,000 shares of Emma at 3 on the 2Sth of February next; he ollered to put 1,000 shares at the same price at 2, by April prox., and finally ottered ott-ered one shilling per share to put it at 1 -by; the 1st ot June.- ; No one, since his first offer, has been found courageous courag-eous enough to take him, and he has kept the prices down. - t I Surely there is something rotten in Denmark. I went yesterdny with gentlemen who cabled to Salt Lake to learn if this were all true. The answer ans-wer came to-day that it was false and that the mine was improving; but the bears laugh notwitlistanding, and truly they appear to hold the game in their own liands,: The dosing prices are as follows:" Emma, 'M; flagstaff "3J; LariV Chanco," li; Ki'chmond, 6 fo 0?nJtah, lT." I would 5U0 Btate, while on mining min-ing topics, that there is a new weekly published here called the Anus, whose aim is to expose so-called American mining swindles, and notably not-ably Utah mining frauds. The Emma and Flagstaff' receive great attention, and are heartily denounced, tho author au-thor taking occasion to give the Salt j Lake prc3 a severe hit. saying that they are no better than the dishonest vendors themselves, and that puffs, etc,, are willingly inserted for a consideration. con-sideration. v - The British forces on tho Gold Coast have at hist crossed the great bugbear, bug-bear, the river Prah, and are in march on Cooniafsie, distant some sixty-rive miles, r From all accounts one would have supposed that Che Prah was an almost impassable and mif.h'y river; but it turns out to be an insignificant stream some tbrty feet wide and five feet deep; yet it is but now overcome. What with the large reinforcements, and supplies the Commanding General, will doubtless bring the war to a close as noon the Ashantees are whipped. The public are heartily ashamed and tired of this costly, inglorious Ashantee war; it is, iu fact, much like a war in a shanty! The marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh Edin-burgh engrosses attention, though, judging from the artie'es iu various papers, a stranger would be led to believe be-lieve that there docs not exist much eve or veneration for tho sailor Pnnce. Some of the press go so far as to biggest that he and his bride be onittirule over India, thus killing two birds with the one stone, i.e., getting get-ting rid of a useless and expensive family, and preventing Russian encroachment en-croachment on British possessions in As-ia; the Prince's wife being the beloved be-loved daughter of the mighty Czar. I sec by New York exchanges that that city has been visited by a "severe fog," when nothing could be seen at a distance of twenty yards; benighted New Yorkers I Do they call that a log '.' Why, when London is visited by a heavy mist the Cockney dodges around a lamp-post, shins up it to see if the gas is lit, and then only can tell by the warmth of glass panes. A person becomes obfuscated after a time living in this "beastly" atmosphere. atmos-phere. Dr. Holmes said that all good Americans go to Paris when they die, and I say alt bad ones on their demise arc condemned to writhe and gnash their teeth in London. Yours ever, Cl'-TOS Morvm. |
