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Show New Vorl Si o les. New York, 2. Captain Tiukle-paugh, Tiukle-paugh, long known to California travelers as a steamer commander between here and Aspinwall, died recently of pneumonia. Colonel Piirdy, eon ot ex-Governor Purdy of California, bag just been promoted by tbe kbedive ol Eypt from the grade ot bey to that of Uiwha. .During our late war, Colonel Purdy wb assistant adjutant general upon General Franklin's Btfttl. Hti ..ei-jmpanied General Stone to Egypt, uut recently returned to Cairo, alter an absence of eighteen months, in command of an expedition for eciru-lific eciru-lific purposes. The members of the late mercantile mercan-tile and coilectiug agency of Fuus Hershberger & Co., cannot be found. It is ad muted they have left the city. Their counsel says that wbeu they made their assignment, yesterday morning, they promised to return in tbe afternoon to give a statement ol their condition, but failed to keep tbe engagement. Tbey have considerable consider-able liabilities for moneys collected, which fact, together with tbe knowledge knowl-edge that additional warrants were out for arreat on legal proceedings, is believed to have led to tueir departure from the citj. I General Ewing, in a speech here yesterday, instead of allowing why Bund's silver bill should pas?, devoted de-voted his attention to oppoaiug resumption, re-sumption, thus confirming the conviction con-viction that bis aim in inllriuon. George Walker, the financial expert, ex-pert, although a zealous bimetallism publishes a strong letter in the Tribune practically against remonetization until alter consultation with other nations. He says, on a question so largely attesting interualiun l aB well as UuLLiesUc commerce, uatious can not with safply legible atone. England and Germany nave tried it itud we see tbe result. France and ner allies of the Latin union have come to the wiser conclusion that ceupuration is better than compe-i:icn. compe-i:icn. Shall we lollow their example, ex-ample, or go plunging uu by ourselves uuder the impulses of ignorauco and lolly into outer darkness and to ctr-um ctr-um ruin ? Totlav's Sun ar; a!s thus to its half million readers ol the laboring cittsars: Anythm that damages the general business ot the country U injurious to tho geuerttt UitwrfrtUi oi the wornininan. Wh.it he wants is employment at gcod wages. Business Busi-ness men and capuaiisia hava to employ em-ploy him. It business m n au eap-i!i?:s eap-i!i?:s hav to employ him, it busi-. busi-. miJ pital are alarmed or Kiiateu, r ia any way thrown out ol gar, all labor is correspondingly damaged. Courpa is thus doing, at ttiis moment; nil it cm to increase ttie ButJVnngfl of tbe lartoring people, it in diminishing employment by increasing the uncertainty ot trade lunl business, and is reducing laborer.-'p.ty by making cheap dollars to pay him in. Xne Sm a:su cuUimenld ou Aemblynuin Swift's auti-fce bili, as worthy tbe attention of older i communities than California, |