. . _ i 1 . 5. r - • . • ~, . . • • I .\\ • -. • : e ., , • 4 - - . . . • • -4' t • ,• 4. ' • I , I r.. • n • • . • S Z ) " "3" 4.1• "' • • . ft , . NI , es. .• • - - g- • • .. , 5 ., .„., - „ - . 5 „ T iv• tr., / • • - - - - • . ' - • 7.- . I • . . „. _ VOLUME LXXXIILi FIRST EDITIE V.EALIVE O'CLOCK _TIIE CAPITAL. , Gangers and StOrekeepers AP - pointed—Executive Order Con , cerning Ala.ska—A Masonic Re quest—khe Alabama Claimsi— : Politics in North Carolina. - rZßy. Telegrarh to the Pittsburgh Gazette.) WAsitiNuTorr, August 25, 1868: TICE ALABAMA CLAIMS Mr. Seward sri3rs that there is no reason 'to fear any new difficulty in regard to the ' .Alstiama - dilute and it will be unriec' - .... , essary to .referthem to_the arbitration 'of a third powe in the mariner desired I,y Louis Napoleon The instructions- to Min , later Reverdy, hnson; from Mr. Seward, ere full'complete , nd• unbmited, and le • =can therefore 'e'er his own judgment -and consider the crai and the ''questions ',' of International leaf' therein involved de *owl, and entirelyirithont reference to the - ibriner Comidleatientivthat have arisen be twizien the two governments: When Mr. --Johnson left here a few weeks ago he eix k-'''presseilthe.belief that within two months thetedbients 'after bis arrival in Eng land, ho will have settled nisin the basis or e r.an.,Nmicatde and honorabloadj man:neat the Alabama claims. EXEOUTTVII ORDER—ALASKA. The Tollowing - executive order , was issued to-day: - • Undetand In pursuanci3 of the authoritY *Vested in the President of the - United States ;'"by the provisions of the second section of the act of Congress, approved on the 27th day of July, 1868. entitled an act to extend the laws of the United States relating to • customs, commerce and navig agation over the-territory ceded to the United States by ,111:taEda, ,to establish a collection district :therein, and for other purposes, the port of 'Sitkain said territory is hereby constituted and established as the port of entryz.for i ythe collection district of. Alaska, pro • vided fora by said act; and under and in kmrsuance of the authority,..vest ,: ed in him by the fourth section of said act the importation and use of fire ammunition and digtilled spirits Into ,„and,within the said territory, or any por tion thereof, except as hereinafter provid e , ed, is entirely prohibited, under.the pains .and penalties specified in said last named ~,section; provided. however, that under • such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasttry may prescribe in accordance ; with law such articles may in , limited quantities be shipped coastwise from the .United States . ports on the Pacific coast tp • said port of Sitka and to that port only in said Territory, on the shippers giving to AO i Ccolleetor .of „Customs at the, port of shipment bonds,.inoshich.,ltehalLbe; con ditioned that such articles will, on arrival . at Bitka, be delivered to th e Collector of _ -Customs, or the person there acting is such, to remain in his possession or •undar control until sold or dispostsroi to such r., as the military or-chief authority in said Territory may specially designate in a permit for that purpose-- signed by hinittelf or a'subordinate duly authorized. by - . POLITICS IN NORTH CAROLINA. . . . The Chairman of the Republican State v.43entral: Comthittee 'of North Carolina, writes that Nathaniel Boyden, Conservative ~member of Congress - from the Sixth dis ,trjet, htiacome out in a strong letter for Grant and Colfax, and that the prospects in ~,that State are cheering. A distinguished gar officer who- has just arrived' from South Carolina, says that the Democrats in that: State, finding ,that they are too ' , largely in the minority tosuccessfullv over .awe the colored voters, have changed their -:-'tactics, and - now' treat the negroes with marked kindness, and aro holding out .to them promises' of increised ,pay, a suit . of clothes at the end-of the year, and vari - one similar inducements if they vote -tin) Democratic ticket. lie represents that this „54aterti 16 beingprosecuted With. a consid erable show of success. • A MASONIC REQUEST. A Committee,on behalf of the Washing ton Cemmandery No. 1. Knights laza of the DiStriet of Columbia. have ad- . 4:ll.eitaKi -a letter to, the President respect- Ifitllyreqiikqting that he will cause an order to be issued panting leave of absence fot - nine days, commencing on the 12th of Sep tember, to such Knights Templar in this Executive Departments:aa may desire to de present at the triennial conclave of this Grand Encampment of the United Stated, to be held at St. Louis on the 15th proximo. The President has referred the request to Ake different heads AA* --Departments and ,'recommended it to their favorable • contact - oration, in'as far as may be consistent with ' the law and the public interests. STOI.IDTEEPE II3 AND GADGEIIS APPOINTED. The following storeklyperstinder the In ternal Revenue law worn appointed to-day: For Cincinnati, Ohio,,C. F. Lake, Francis Delock, -Jas. IL Herne and Wm. Duffey, John B. Jones was appointed for Scioto county, Ohio. The following gaugers have been appoint ed: James Jackson, Jacksonville, FloridA; J. R. •-Bloorn, Twelfth • Pennsylvania Diit• trict;"Thin.T: Williams, Eighth.Neir York District; Howard Dunlevy, Third. Ohio; Thirry Keolker, Fourth Maryland; Wm. S. McOolEri, Eleventh Ohio; Wm. 14. Dank*, First Illinois; Ely S. Prime, Third Mary land. The President' has appointed Henry 1. y - "fvb-grugh co the Pitt burgh 'Gazette.) CIIICAGO, August 2.5.—A draft for -14,400,- 00, was seat to New York to-day, from this city, by W. F. Coolbaugh, ..Treasurcir. of Chicago, Rock island and Pacific Rail , . road Company, to' meet cheeks for divi dends on Rock Island Stock, payable Sep tember first. The road is now running 52' miles west of ,Des Moines, and will soon reach Council Bluffs. Twenty barrels of tobacco were seized by order of Gen. Corse, at the ,-warehouse of Messrs. - Reid, Murdoch QL Fisher, No. '5O River street, yesterday. The goods were shipped from Ohio some days ago, and re ported to the Collector as improperly pack ed and unbranded, which was found to be the case. A tie maliciously fastened across the rail road track,about four miles west of Free port, Ills., last night, resulted in a serious accident. An eastward bound freight train, loaded with grain and stock, was thrown from the track. The engineer, John Wood, was so badly injured that he died today. The fireman bad his arm broken in veral places and nine cars were comp!etely wrecked, killing a great many hogs, and scattering the grain in 4bundance. No clue' to the perpetrators of the outrage has been discovered. RICkMEOND, VA. Republican Mass Meeting By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh eszette.l RICHMOND, August ,25.--A Republican mass meeting commenced at noon to-day and lasted four hours. A procession of about two thousand colored men and fifty whites, including large. deputations 'from the surrounding country, marched through the city with music, • flags, banners and magehs bearing- implements Of labor and banners inscribed--" Grant and Colfax or Blair and war," "Labor must be respected," etc. City Spring Square was densely crowded and sae meetings were held. Governor Wells, General W. C. Wickham, formerly Confederate General, and others addressed' tno meeting. The meeting passed off without any disturbance. Base Ball at Cincinnati. City Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Wizened . CINC.IriNATI, August 25.—The second, game of base ball- between the Unions, of Morrislana, champions of the United States, and the Cincinnati Club. was played on the grounds of the latter this after noon, and resulted in the defeat of the Unions, the score being, Ciucinnatis thirteen, Unions twelve.. There was a larger crowd in attendance than yesterday. Both clubs wore loudly cheered throughout the game for their tine playing, and at the end of the ninth innings the wildest o& thuslasrn prevailed, the ladles participating in the excitement by clapping their hands and waving handkerchiefs. State Convention of Colored People. By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gaaette.; • BT. Lours, August 25,-A / State Conven tion of colored people, to consider the sub-. pet of impartial suffrage and devise a plan to aid in securing 'equal rights before the law,. was held here to-day. The attendance of delegates was not:large. After the elec.: tion of P. L. Wells, of St. Louis, permanent Chairman, the appointment of two or three committees and listening to a speech or two, the Convention adjourned until to morrow: ' New Orleans Market. J EnY Telregr;f l Ph to ttio Osiette.i NEW Qui.nAns, August 25.—Cotton quiet • add eteidy, with middling at 299; sales 135, hid* receipts 82 bales. Sterling Exchange . '67)4a59. 'blew York Sight prerniuuq.' Gold 144. Sugar 'and. , MolawiFs dull and ,nominal. Ploys dull - And deolified; . auper- Zne, 7.211a7M: -market unsettled. . Corn $1.05a1,10:- thud dull at ` - d2 , lflay firm at $2B. Bran easy and unchanged. VerkAttliittS3P.Ri gulel;shbuiderli 14e. clear eides 1130. Lard' quiet with tierce at 114(019)4c. • ` 7 ';-The COri . necdlent Ilipublican State Ccm- Vontfon. which '*ha coiled.: to be ',held in Nnw littvon on tGo 2d .of SePtentlier,,,in postponed until the. leth'of that month, a tlio Now England fair la to be hold In that city at the Milo ttrat announced fol , thO'Coii• 'mutton. CITY .AND SUBURBAN. Plstrecslug Suicide—A Young Man,Drowpg 111inn•elf While Tempoi-arily.lnsaue. Coroner Clawson held an inquest yester day afternoon on the body of a young man named John Chilten,who droWned himself in -the Monongahela. river, at Saltsburg, early in the morning. It seems that the young man,', who hoards , at Salts- burg, has been ill for .some time. past with typhoid fever. For several nightsit -was found necessary to sit up with him. Shortly after. midnight: the persons who had been watching over him retired, leas-. lug the young man, who_seemed to be in, a sound sleep, apparently much better. About four o'cloek In the morning some of the family arose and on entering the sick room found it empty. Search was imme diately instituted and the coat of the cuissing man found on the bank of the river. Grappling irons were procured and the river dragged, by which means the body of the deceased was recovered. Every effort was made toward resuscitation, but they Were of no avail, the body having been in the water too long. -.The .The deceased was a native of England, a . coal miner by occupation,. arid bad been in' this country only a few months. He bore an irreproachable char acter and was highly respected by all who kneiv him. The pry returned a verdict of suleido by-drowning while laboring under a fits of temporary Insanity. . AllegUeny Temperance League,* A. regular meeting of the Allegheny City Temperance League was held in the Beaver street Methodist Episcopal Church . last evening, with Vice President Rev. 'A. X. Bell irr the Chair, and the Secretarie4 W. G.. Warrenk and G: W. Bradley, officiating. The meeting opened with prayer. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. _ Rev. Mr. Milligan, the speaker of the evening, spoke on the question, "Is it just and right to promote to office, in Charon or State, those who are addicte d inteniker ance?" The reverend gentleman, quoting retain the Bible, endeavored to- show by facts, _scriptural and historical, that it is not right to put ,in place or power those who use strong drink. Stimulated enthu siasm is abnormal—not real. He said that there is a responsibility resting upon the peilple, the church, the State and the arn* - as to whom they pot in power, and also as to hew they that aro in-power act in regard tothe use of intoxicating drink. Asa peo ple we are now suffering from the intem perate habits id' those are in high au thority and reover in our beloved country. The_ reverend. gentleman's • address was well listened to by a large and interested audience. . "- On, motion, it was resolved that the Bo clety endorse the proceedings and action of- the County Convention „held yester day in Pittsburgh wad the nomination of Mr. _lsaac _ Charles as ..the 44itizenis Tetripehned" - e - ariftidate for'roianty . -Ceii missiener,lind Pledging him hearty sup port. Remarks on this resolution were made by. J. B. Clarke, Mr. David Blair and others, when'it was adopted unanimously, after which the League adjourned with benediction by Rev. A. K. Bell. Wild BuWon the Rampage A wild bull got loose in the streets of Al legheny yesterday afternoon about, four o'clock, and raised quite an excitement and consternation among pedestrians along his line of march It seems the animal was being taken, in company with a drove of others, from a stock car at the outer debut of the Fort Wayne road to the cattle yards, when by some means ho broke away and roinmenced his antics. At the corner df Ohio and Federal streets he attacked a•man named Fred. Keyser, residing in the Fifth ward, Allegheny, tossing him into the air, goring quite a large hole in his arm and . otherwise severely injuring him. The in jured man was taken into Dr. Rhoads' office and his injuries attended to. Continuing his course down Federal street, the infuriated animal attacked several other persons, one of whom, a boy, was badly wounded in the head and had the clothing /LIMOS , torn from' his body. A shoe store near Stockton ave nue, next attracted his attention, into which he bounded, Making the circuit of the prem ises inside and emerging into the' street again before the affrighted proprietor could do ,anything toward , , his own defence.' Tdrninground nis bullship start.' ed up Federal to Water Street . and peram bulated that thoroughfare to the East Com mon. By this tme .a ;gun. had been pro . cured and his career was ended of a well aimed shot,. 'Mr. Wm. Welder acting as Nimrod on occasion. , _ , So terminated another tkulbr affair.. Further Test of a Cast Steel Boller.'; Yesterday' aftornorni We met at Messrs. , Carroll dr Snyder's works, and witnessed a renewal of, the attempt to burst a, boiler Made of Park Brothers & Co's steel, which we described in our issue of Saturday. At that lime after reaching a pres Sure of 665 pounds, it was found impossible to raise it any higher because of the Three pump by which water was injected and the leakage, mainly from the manhole joint. This leakage having been reduced, and another pump added, the trial Was repeated yeater. day, four times, in which 610,675, 720, and again 720 pounds previure were succes sively reached. The same cause as before prevented the production of a higher pres sure than 720 pounds, equivalent inaboiler of this size RN inches in diameter—to; a tot:wawa' rain 0f74.0001bs to the square inch of section. There ware no•inalcations but that the holler would have - stood: , a much higher pressure notwithstanding its, great tensile strength, the ductility of the steel was such that the - boiler was increased three inches in circumference by, stretch ing. Another attempt to burst it will, soon be made. Enough has already been done to prove the steel of which' it is made unsurpassed in the qualities re quired in boiler making. r A Disorderly Negro. Yesterday' evening,-Jackson Jones, an Idiotic negro, who should , be in an insane asyluni, waagolag up Clarke street, and meeting a young ;lady, whose Dante we omit, seized hold of her in a rude manner. The girl, who Is ab out elzteen.years of age, broke away from tire and ran, and"meet lag ofilaerilllyna.• on the street, some dis tance frow i wbere she;bed been accosted by 'the negro, informed bite of the .circiitn atanee and'deseribed the negro as' well as she could:, The. oilicer,;startedin pursuit, and at the head of quote street' arrested the negro, who Was just emerging ,from a house where he had shade's similar assault on a little, girl betWeentwelye and thirteen year's of ago. The negro, was brought to the lock-up, and%the mother of the little girl whom he had' infitilted 'came' to the Alavor'l4 °Moe to make information against him for assault arid "'battery with intent to couunit a raps, NTTNIBER 204. steamboat Racing ,on the Monongahela. In charging the Grand Jury in the I Tni ted- States District Court yesterday morn ing, Judge MeCandless stated that he had received a communication from the Board of Local Inspectors of this port, complain ing of the manner in which the boats of the rival Imes of Monongahela river pack ets were run, and the obstractions eaused to navigation thereby. The Inspectors re- t ferrect to the fact that on one' occasibn the locks at Dam No 1 were obstructed! for several hours, and stated that such pro- ' ceedings were net - uncommon.. They also stated that passengers were placed* danger in consequence of the prac tice of racing-whichwas daily indulgetlin. Judge McCandless read the letter of theln= spectors, and commented at . some length,. He referred to the laws governing the nav igation of the rivers, and also to the risks. which passengers - .Avere forced to as sume by tha officers of the boats ha tho:ef forts to break down competing lines.. Ile instructed the Grand Jury to make a care fnl inquiry into tine matter, and to make such presentment on the subject, as, under the law, they might deem proper to,:re move the cause of eemplaint. . Unltett State& .I]lparle.r . Cost:--Jilage McCandless... Court met at ten• ofelock Thesday morn fag. The list of Grand Jurors was called, and some•twenty answered yo their navies. Ex-Geverrior W. F. Johnson Was designa ted as foreman, - after which' this Court charged the-jury, and they retired to enter upon• tho.duties devolving ,. upoli them. Ihe traverse jurors were thew called;and the case of the United States .vs. twenty barrels of whisky, claimed by E. V. 'B. Bevan, of Pittston, taken up. The whisky was seized by C. E. Wright, Collector , of Internal Revenue for the Twelfth District, on the 24th of March , last, on the-grmind that the government tax had not bepn-paid. . The case is still on trial. • District Attor ney Carnahan appeared for the United States, and D. C. Ilarrington, Esq.,. for the claimants. In the bankruptcy branch, final dis charges were granted and certificates awarded to Webster A. Stephens, New Ca.s--- tle; John Me Levey, New Castle; Ecirrarcl W. Stephens, New Castle; Hugh D. Mc - Co.elb, Law ence county; Nt. r. Scott, New Brle..:hton; Ezra Cook and Tesepri of Titusville, Crawford county. Real Estate Transfers. The following deeds were filed of record before H. Snivels, Esq., Recorder, ...kugnst 2.5, 1668. • M. Krebs to Samuel. McClean. Angrat 111 , 1933; lot in the lwentletii ward. Vittsburgh, etintaintrm. '2O and 1-10 pyrclies:„. John y to Y11011.21.$ Col•ins. Angus t 1668; tract of sand in 1 outb Fayette townsuip, contain ing 19.a , •res end 40 erches... -- St. Bob. rt Barrett to George (Ass?. 'Augu st 20. 1368; part of lot No. 0 on Tunnel stret t. Pittsburgh,l by 75 feet *.5:500- Executors of John A. Nesbit to James 11. Nesbit, April 13, 1331 1 • tract of land In South Faye' te linen - ship, containing 1. 4 i. arres 17,620 Elizabeth P. 'Jenny to W. F. Casey. August 20. 1568: Lot ilia Webs er street, Fifth ward, Pittsburgh. titr by B' , f'eet... ...... . . ... • 4.500 John Zln.er to ........ Ebert.Juo.- 53. 1363; lot in the Maple .11v1,Ion of Bead lock's Fields, on Hall road street. 1.V.1 by Part James Dlmpy to Robert Barr. August 14. 1866; lot No 30 in Francla p,an, Wallin ;station ' Ir regular teria litton Rankin to John °win .rs. A 1363; half August of lor. L 3, m Ulu street, Mc ff.eesport, 30 by 140 feet .••—• cros C. Ewing to Geo W Johnston; August 14, 1,68; lot oil tire aouthwnst corner of linnean and Kirk , It ir i t e r ,.. e L k streets, Eleven h ward, Pittsburgh.: gr i, Joseph lite.'ing to Watson Whlttleld, August-15, ISsf;' two loss in 'Bloomfield, Thirteenth ward.. Pittsburgh.. No. 56. as i 57, 40 by 100 feet 12.'2C0 James M. 13bortall to Watson Whidleid. A.ugu.t 16, 1868; lots numbered from 51 to 55_ t..cndrd In Wray .rid iloevler's yEanAhlxteenili ward, Pittsburgh. each shyloo feet ...... - Joseph Stumbll Ig • o Ada,: Kuntz, August 20, 468; tot lb 1. In Bill's plan, Fifteenth ward, PPts burgh, '24 by 100 feet , • V,300 MORTOAOES. Same day slx mortgages were tiled. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. —Gen. Longstreet is at New York on railroad business. • —Earthquake shocks were felt in - San- Francisco, California, on Monday. ,‘ —The fears of an epidemic among the cattle at New York are subsiding. —Commodore Jas. T. Armstrong, U.' S. N., died in Charlestovrn, Mass., yesterday. —The leaders of the Fenian Brotherhood. are in New York arranging a. plan fort- a. campaign in Canada. —James Van' Holland, of Philadelphia, was killed on Monday by jumping off a. train while in motion. --Samna J. Beebe, one of the, founders * of the New York Stock Exchange, died Je cently, aged eighty-three. ' ' —The Chinese Embassy visited Lawietice. Mass., yesterday,_ accompanied by' 'a large nurnber of prominent citizens. , r —Charles ,L. Elliott, the distinguished artist ) , died at Albany, New' 'York; lest. evening at half-past eight o'clock. c • —A Vienna letter says one of the sharp shooters from America has won a goblet. His name is Mr. Timothy Guirse, - of . . High iand, Illinois. _ • —Over ten thousand persons. were.pres ent at the Baltimore Schentzenfest on Men day.' - The day was bright and cheerful and everything passed off pleasantly. - - E. H. Detrfee, of Leavenworth. Kansas, has presented to the Commission ers of Central Park, New •York,, a fine specimen of the American black bear. • . --John Roffman a French chemist, com mitted suicide in New Yorkor Monthly, with corrosive sublimate, dyingin,horrible agony. ' Domestic difficulties wasthe cause. —lt is reported in Rome that Covina. • Bonaparte will be ai pn by the Pepe to he. Arch Bishopric of A asendorf, Tran sylvania, which will make him'primate t of the United Greeks. • • —George Clark, John Ray and Moses Lee, three New ;York thieves, were ar rested at Buffalo,yesterday. Gold certifi cates Or $ll,OOO, stolen, from Robert ,J. Walker, Were found in their, possession.' —Rumor says the -sudden death -of a keeper of .an up-town (New York City), fashionable brothel is being investigated, and. suspicions are en ermined that her death was. hastened by poison, adhainla tered,byn boarder. • 6`- --John Bulger, sentenced at NOW :TOrk last spring to fine And imprisonment for thirteen'years for carrying on iffistillery without paying a epee's' tax, hiLIS been pkr doned by .the Tresident. The fine .Ibs3, however; to be p a id: 6 - —The steamboat train, near 'Cambridge crossing, Connecticut, collided • with: a butchers' cart t the, driver : of which _was asleep, yesterday Morning. The herse,was killed and three' bassengera cars thrown from thelfack,•but noTersMtvraaleriously hurt:- • --Judge Cadwalladerof the - United States Court at Ph ladelphist - has 'raft' of to ad 'lninis,er e - oa h of • office to John P. O'Neil et. , United States. District- Attorney for the Ea-tern D t rict of Pen limVivania, 2n 'the ground that file President had no right to make the appointment during.tna rernats or Congress. Judge Grier, it is said, SUS. tains tho decision of Judge Cadwallader.