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THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE; Consols 88 1-2 a 88 3-4. DECLINE IN COTTON...BREADSTUFFS QUIET. Financial Panic in Hamburg, Holland, Belgium, Vienna and Portugal. Interesting Details of the Last Indian News. AMERICAN STOCKS ACTIVE. THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROP ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA. Further Shipments of Specie for the United States. $1,200,000 in Specie Arrived. Improved Tone in the London Money Market.
October 29, 1857, Wednesday
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The Cunard steamship Persia, Capt. JUDKINS, which sailed from Liverpool at about 9 o'clock on the morning of Saturday the 17th October, arrived at this port yesterday morning, bringing $1,200,000 specie. The following is the specie list per Persia: [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]
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The Charitable Institutions--Effects of Hard Times.
A tour, yesterday, among the Charitable and Criminal Institutions on the Islands, gave us convincing proof that the effect of the hard times has spread into that locally. Not only does the Penitentiary show a large increase in the number of convicts sent up for small crimes, such as theft, assaults and batteries, and the like, but the Workhouse and the Almshouse are full to overflowing....Cont.
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