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WEDiESDAY,:9CT.• 6, 1869.
UNION -REPUBLICAN TICKET•
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FOR GOVERNORS
JOHN W. GEARY.
=Don or sr PriliE COIJP.T !,
ItENRY 11 7 . WILLIAM ' S; ►.
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kSSOCUTE .71,DGS DISTRICT COFTIT.
• JOlni TaREPATBICK.
ABBTBTANT SIIDDR, COMILOIT
'FREDERICK H. COLLIER.
VrATs Brawrz—THOHAS HOWARD.
.Laßramy—STEEß B HIMIPIIREYr,
ALEXANDER MILL.A2,
JOSEPIA WALTON.
JAMES TAYLOR,
D. N. WHITE,
JOHN H. KERB.
Bezonil HUGH B. PLR - WING.
Trsestrarat—JOß. V. DENNIBTON.
Chas or CotraTB—JOSEPH BROWNE.
Itscoßosa—CHOHAß H. H - lINTER.
ecnousstortsp.-IHALINcEY B. 1108TIMIE.
Rromrsa—JOßEPH H. GRAY.
Maas ORrruacs , Cousr— LUCE. HILANDB.
DlBscroß or Poon—ABDIEL McCLURIL
311(714 ICI PAL.
XATOIt OF ALLEoini.: S Y ,
ALEXANDER P. CALLOW
WS PRINT on the inside pages of
this rnorning's Gelmrrli—Ekeend Page:
Latest Styles for Fall and Winter, How to
Pay the National Debt. Third and Sixth
pages: Financial, Commercial, Mereantt7e,
Pittsburgh Markets, Petroleum Market,
Markets lg. Telegraph, River News, and
Imports by Railroad. Sevesth page:
Poetry, "An Old Story with a Nei; Mor
al," General News Items, Personal, State
Items, Amusements.
IL B. Boatia at Frankfort, 879
GOLD closed in New York 3esteriliy
at 130.
releasing the Hornet as a Cuban
privateer, the Administration have settled
the ; question of the belligerent rights of
the insurgents. They are once for all,
thus recognized by our Government. We
have . reason to deplore this as a serious
mistake. -
IN NOVEMBER the Free Traders will
take the field for an earnest and active
campaign on this side of the Alleghenies.
Public meetings will be held at Cincin
nati, St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, and
other important towns. Speakers emi
nent not only for their gifts of oratory,
but for their special knowledge of coma
martial theories and the Argmnents by
which those theories are upheld, • have
been engaged to attend these meetings.
The intention is to give a certain,direc
tion to puhlic opinion, and then to brink
that opinion to bear as forcibly and
speedily as possible upon Congress.
The Free Traders are in earnest, an d
mean to make the most of their opportu
nity, What do the men whose business
interests are directly involved in the per
manence of Protection think of doing ?
Is it their.purpose to let the issue,go by
default, or to meet their opponents
squarely before the people, contesting the
ground with them inch by inch ?
THE REGISTRY LAW.
There is high authority for believing
that the !Democrats of , Pennsylvania,
through the skillful but unscrupulous
maniimlation of their committees, polled
at the Presidential ele.ctipn laat year'over
twenty thousiuid fraudulent votes. Men
who were prominent in engineering those
frauds have since, in the freedoth of: pri
vate intercourse, confessed not only' to
participation in - the swindle, but to its
gigantic propprtions. For many years
the Democrats have at no time had an
expectation of carrying a State election
here that was not inspired by plans for
= polling thousands of fraudulent votes.
This is why their representatives in the
Legislature have steadily resisted all at
tempts to secure an honest registry of the
voters, and to exclude all others from
using the franchise. This explains, more
over, why their representatives on the
bench of the Supreme Court have exei
oised tli the ingenuity at ,their command
to find pretexts for setting aside as un
• constitutional array registry law that has
been enacted. Instead of straining a
point, according to legal rules, to correct
a shameless, abuse, they have availed
themselves even of the flimsiest techni
calities to extend complete immunity to
the rankest offences , against the purity of
elections, thus endeavoring to sap the
foundations of popular government.
• Notwithstanding all their malign efforts
a Registry law is in existence,,and its ef-
Sciency is to be tried next Tuesday. By
all means, let the experiment ben fair
one. No voter ought to be excluded from
-depositing his ballot. Rut, it must be
e
borne in mitudthat no man is alegal vot
unless he ippgs..disiseif clearly within
tieprovialoai of inch fax's reßolatinß
t e suffrage, as may be in force on the
day he claims the ~ ight to cast hia ballot.
Attempts will be made, under various
pleas, to nullify the law.' AU such en.
deavors should be counteracted. Let
there be a square and honest etpression
of the will of the legal voters, and there
can be no doubt where the decision must
• fall,
THE ALLEGHENY MAYORALTY.
The Republicans of Allegheny have
nominated Aix.x.INDERT. CALLOW,EBCI.,
as theireturlidate forthe hig,hest municipal
executive office of the city, to be supported
at the-polls next week. His; .majority at
the primary meetings, over his principal
`competitor- 3 7 4 in a total vote of 8,342
is a, decisive indication of the present
preferences of his Republican fellow-citi•
zent, and isfairly Vgcepted as such in all
Republican quartes—by none more
heartily than by many of the most active
friends of his rival in the primary can.
Van.
The present Mayor, trott. Smolt
Dfium i 'Ow holds his third term of that
While his first terffi was still in
complete, he resigned the office and en
tered the military service of his country,
acquitting himself with much credit. Re
turning home, he was again elected to
the Mayoralty, and re-elected at the expi
ration of that , term. Once more a
candidate before the primaries of
last week, he gracefully acquiesces
in the success of his competitor, - accept -
lug the disappointment of his own
wishes, not as an adverse judgment of the,
citizens upon the efficient rectitude of an
adtninistration which has commanded their
universal respect, regardless of partizan
preferences, but rather as the not wholly
unexpected expression of that popular
inclination for rotation in cffice which
is so marked a feature of our electoral in
stitutions. Saying -so much, it is not
superfluous to repeat that Mayor Dnuu's
official career luts given the highest satis
faction to the citizens of Allegheny. He
has been a vigilant, faithful and discreet
officer, of untarnished integrity, and a
more than usually ripe judgment. He
has enforced the laws and ordinances,
administered justice, maintained the peace
and upheld, in every particular, the inter
ests and the honor of the municipality
with a success which crowns his final re
tirement from office with the grateful
acknowledgments of all his townsmen.
The Republican nominee for the ensu
ing term, Major A. P. CALLOW, is widely
and favorably known in these cities and
county. By occupatiofi, a pressman, he
is in name and in fact a worittngman.
From Sumter to Appomattox, he followed
the flag and kept step to the music of the
Union through all the war of the rebel
lion, enlisting as a private soldier and
rising from the - ranks by the force of his
conspicuous merit. His' military career
was of the most honoraide character, and
is so remembered by the' host Of his
friends. Of more than ordinary mental
capacity, and with 'an education superior
'to the average, there is no question of
hie completa fitness for theplace to which
he is nevi& be called.
The Democracy have nominated a very
worthy citizen, Mr. Johin Awann, for the
same office. They talk of him as a
"citizens% candidate —that being
_their
usual dodge when they find themselves in
the popular minority—which always has
- ;been, and always will be, their hie* in
' 'Allegheny politics.
VIRGINIA.
Meeting of the- Leglsiature—Protest
Against the Admission of Disqualified
`Members—United States Senator.
(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.,
Rlcamosii, _October 4.—Considerable
excitement prevailed in this, city to-day
over the meeting of the Legislature. To
night both parties went into caucus. The
Wells Republidamt adopted a resolntion
to enter a protest on - the journal of the
Legislatttre, againat thf.admission of
members who had not taken the iron
clad lath. The Walker men, at their
caucus, were engaged .with .nominations
for officers of the Legislative, and no
mention of a United States Senator was
made. • .
• The Walker members of the House of
Delegates, adjourned till to-morrow,
which ls, taken, as an indication that
John R. Crenshaw a member of the So
ciety of Friends, will be elected Speaker.
The only new name presented in politi
cal oirelei for the Senatorship, is Douglas
Wallack, of Washington, who is now in
this city.
Much excitement was created in polit
ical circles to.day. by a rumor that Hor
ace Greeley, whose name ban been men
tioned in connection with the Senator
ship, had arrived in the city
Of the members who applied far certi
ficates election, General Canby has
refused twenty-seven, on the ground
that they were charged with being inel
igible under the Fifteenth Amendment.
Nine of them afterwards; received them
upon making affidavit that they were not
disqualified.
Tennessee Legislature.
ttly Telegraph to thq Plttsba •gh tlitzette.l
Nasavmr..x, October s.—The Tonnes-
See Legislature Is not yet fully organ
lied. but will be today. Gov. Seater,
in his message, will recomwend the call.
tug of a State Conventien to amend the
Constitution, 'and the removal of
all political disabilities. 'He will urge
the ratification of the 15th amendment,
the modification of the school system.
and tue payment of the State debt.
Nothing has transpired touching his
views as to the proper disposition to be
made of > the defaulting railroads. The
Senatorial question continues to excite
great interest. Johnson, who is here,
is evidently the strong man; his sup
porters feel sure of his election.
—A telegram from Fort , Benton an
flounces the arrival there of a party from
the mines in the British Possessions.
They report the mines rich, 'WWII.) In
dians very troublesome. They found
thavemains 'of three emigrant wagons.
captured bythe Blactfeet Indians last
year,,together with the remains of wo.
merelfZut aildren murddred* thou.
PITTSBURGH GAZETTE : WEPICFSDAY, , OCTOBER 6, 1 , 1869.
NEWS BY CA4B.
Battle Between the Government Troops
and Revolutionists—Fight Gbstinate—
Latter Retreat to the hilountalns—
Stehle' Withdraws His Note Tender
ing the Friendly Intdiation of ,the Uni
ted States.
)By TtlegraPh to the Pittsburgh Gitetteo
LONDON, October 4.—There 'has been
an interruption of the telegraphic com
munication between England and Spain
during to-day, attributable in part to the
storm on the coast, but in main to_the
vatting of tha telegraith wires communi
tnting with various parts of Spain by the
surrectionary forces operating at car
in points inward from the shore line in
/that country.
Latest advices to hand report a battle at
Espera Guerra,
between the Government •
troops and the Republican force, muster
ing 1,100 revolutionists, who retreated to
the mountains after an obstinate resist
ance, during which they lost forty killed
and sixty wounded, and had twenty
three made prisoners. The Government
troops lost twenty killed and thirty.
vi .....
wounded.
catty i s reerded as terminated. The
The AMerican Cabinet diplomatic diffi.
refuses . all offers
Spanish . Governmeni:
In ivg the
of foreign mediation, ma im s._
positim I
that the condition of 'aireire n
Cuba is a domestic question entirely:
Mr. Sickles has submitted to the Madrid
Cabinet an official note formally with
drawing the tender of friendly mediation
by the United States between the Span
iards and the Island revolutionists. • .
MADRID, October s.—The Cortes are
discuasing the bill suspending the con
stitutional guarantees during daring the
insurrection.
A Republican band has been beaten In
Murcia. The troops have retaken the
town of Reins which bad declared for
the Republicans, and the authority of
the Government is now completely re
stored at that point.
P.i.ms, October b.—The Emperor will
soon go to Oompiegne.
FINANCIAL AND COMIERCIAL.
- LONDON, October 4.—Evenisg.—Ameri
can securities firm. Bonds: '62s, 8434:
'6ss, E(.3%; '67s, 82%. Stocks firm.
LIVERPOOL. October 4.—Wheat lOs 7d
@lOs 8d for California whie. and 93 4d for
No. 2 western.
FRANKFORT. October 5. t fling.—
Bonds closed firm and cadet at 87N. '
PARIS, October s.—Evening.—Bourse
closed dull.- Renter 71f. 30c.
HAV RE, October s.—Cotton closed firm
er but not higher.
AsTwnar, October s.—Petroleum
is
. uiet.
THE LATE RAIN STORM
Further Details—appalling LOl4ll of Life
—lmmense Destruction of Property—
Frightful Bail Road Accident—The
IV eters subsiding.
[By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.)
PHILADELPHIA, October s.—The water
at Fairmont dam has receded nearly six
feet since yesterday. The streets which
il
were flooded are now nearly dry i
t lut
covered with mud and debris left
water. Hundreds of cellars are ,
and at the large establishmeuraP. ..0
_
tire engines are engaged in pumping out
the water. The turbine wheels at Fair
mount will probably resume work this
evening. •
BETIILEITENt, , October s.—That
portion of llttulehem, between Lehigh
river and Monocacy creek, is under
water. An immense amount of valuable
lumber has been swept away.
Weireport is completely inunated.
The iron bridge, opposite tun da ted.
House, at Mauch Chunk, was swept
away. Thirty-seven coal barges went
over the dam at that point, and were
completely wrecked.
Broadway is entirely under water and
several houses were washed into the
stream.
The booing at White Haven &midi
broken, and a great number of rafts of
timber are floating down. The loss to
the lumbermen at White Haven is very
heavy.
Toe Lehigh Valley Railroad, at Cate
sangria, is washed away. The Lehigh
and Busquehana Railroad will sustain
heavy damages being washed at many
points between White Haven and Beth
lehem. The canal is washed east of
town. • .
ALBANY, October s.—The water in this
city is still over the docks and the streets
parallel with the river. South Broad
way is navigated by small boats. Near
ly all the basements and cellars 'east of
Green street are flooded.'
TneT, October s.—The flood is unpre
eedented. The water in the Hudson Is
eighteen: feet above low waer mark.
Great destruction of, property t has been
done along the Portenkill. In this city
the mills have been greatly datnaged.
Up north the country is flooded. Three
houses were carried away at Mechanics
ville, and a woman, named Humphreys,
drowned.
A Frenchman at Ft. Ann was drowned
while trying to save his horse.
Three men were drowned in the Hud
son at this last night, named James
Donnelly, city
Michael Riley and James
Flynn.
There were two accidents on the Troy
and Boston Railroad last night. The first
was a collision between a freight and
express train. Three of the employes
were injured. •
SPAIN.
FR. Nt;E.
LAVER.
The same passenger train was thrown
into the Fl oosie river at hsio Falls, by
a wash on the railroad tra o c o k, and three
lives were lost. The names of the killed
are Dr. Fowler and wife, of Booslo Falls,
and Charles Aiken, of Band Lake. The
conductor, H. J. clark, was seriously in
jured.
The loss to the West Troy lumbermen
by the freshet will reach $lOO,OOO.
HARTFORD, et, Oct., s.—Reports of
damage by the storm continue to come
in. The damage in all parts of the State
is very great. The town of Manchester
has. suffered more thaik any other place
in this vicinity. Not a bridge is left in
town and not a water wheel unnin
'there ,
to-day. The loss to m is ill r s, dams g
and other property is estimated at PO
000. The loss to roads and brides is
530,000.
Sena: mow, October 6.—Acconnts from
the surrounding country say the storm
of Sunday night and on Monday morn
ing did more damage than any ever
before known. Scarcely a bridge on the
country roads about here has been left
in good condition. Great damage Wag
done in Ballston. One boy was drowned.
Cheney & Bros.' loss is $lOO,OOO, in
which is included one hundred pieces of
silk worth eighteen to twenty thousand
dollars. At Broad Brook the old factory
building occupied as atin shop below,
and a tenement house, was swept away,
and' a young nianomman and five child
ren drowneW. A man was . aliso drowned
L in the Higganama. The Hartford, Provi-
I sane and Flehkill Railroad is open to-
day to Waterbury, but the breaks be
tween here and Willimantic have not
been repaired. The New London North
ern Railroad is open from New London
to Willimantic, above the latter place.
It is impossible to run trains regularly
on the Hartford and New Haven road.
BALTIMORE, October s.—The , damage
to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is
fully repaired. ,
Auousva., MBE., October s.—The -storm
has not yet abated. The river is very
high and rising rapidly. Every boom
between here and Waterville is broken,
and the logs are running freely.
Lzwisroie, Ms , October 6.—The rise
in the Androscoggin River is unprece
dented. Several millions of logs have
gone over the falls. J. M. Thompson,
proprietor of the Glenn House, White
Mountains, was drowned in his mill,
which was carried away by the flood.
The farms along the river are much.in
iured.
BOSTON., October 5 —Reports from
Maine and New Hampshire represent
the storm as unparalelled in severity.
In Concord every street was badly wash
ed and guillied, hundreds of cellars
filled, and sidewalks caved in. At West .
Concord one house was carried away.
Long Pond rose two feet. . At Farnum
Crossing the highway • was gullied
to the width of twenty feet, and a depth
of fifteen feet. Nearly one hundred feet
of the bed of the Claremont Railroad
was washed out, the rails in some in
stances sinking ten feet. The Montreal
road is'also reported !n a bad condition.
Very little damage was done in Boston
and vicinity. A small portion of the
root of the Coliseum was blowd off. I
CONCORD, N. H., October s.—The - Mer ,
rimac , is higher than last spring. No
train' f:Zini '225 north arrived, aim none I
left to-day. The culverts of the different
roads are badly washed. The trains be
tween here and Boston run regularly.
Saw HAVEN, October s.—The most la
mentable consequence of the flood in this
vicinty is the giving way of the great
dam over the Housatonic river, at Bir
mingham. Two weeks' work would have,
completed the structure. Three hun
dred feet has been destroyed, and more
than half the labor of two years is swept
away. One man was drowned.
HUDSON, N. J., October s.—The flood
of yesterday was more extended and dis
astrous than at first supposed. The total
lose of property in oW county is esti
mated at half a million dollars. 'The
town of Claverack suffers most.
Among the heaviest losers are Jacob C.
Esseltyn, woolen mill; H. J. Rowe. grist
mill; Geo. W. Phillips; hosiery mill; N.
H. Aiken, knitting mill, Harper M:
Rogers, paper mill; D. Si. Fete and W.
A. Harden, cotton mill. The loss in the
town will exceed.6o,ooo. Jeremiah-Car
penter's cotton mill in Valatie was dam
aged to the amount of $13,000, Alex.
AWaott .t Co paper mill, same place,
suffer to the amount of 14,000. The
Messrs. Stabb suffer to the amount of
slo,ooe, and others less amounts.
A large number of cattle and hoross
were drowned. The devastation of fruit
trees is beyond computation. At Colum
biaville James Hood and Francis Wads
worth were carried over a dam at Wild's
Mill and drowned, yesterday afternoon,
while endeavoring to save their proper
ty. Communication by regular turn
pikes are completely rut off. in
,In,soe
places ravines twenty feet wide and ten
feet deep have been cut by the rushing
flood.
MILWAUKEE, October 5.—A serious
disaster oecurred at St. Anthony Falls,
Minnesota, this morning, from high
water. The tunnel in course of construc
tion under the bed of the river, from
Nicollet Island to the East Band river,
caved in, leaving the water full course
through the excavation. The Summit
Mill, capacity of 200 barrels per day,
was washed away. Other mills and fac
torte.; are in dancer. Exertions are be
ing _made to stay its progress. 'The dam
age is very hea vy, but the amount has
not yet been ascertained.
WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. a.—The dam
age by the freshet at Brandywine will
reach several thousand dellars. The
water was higher than at any time since
1539. The gas works at Jessup and
Moore's cotton mills were destroyed.
Several cotton factories wereinjured and
the lower part of the city flooded.
Sagarocia., October 6.—There is a canal
break at Wilker's Basin, on the Cham
plain canal. A mill dam gave way
,and
carried off D. Smith's Grist, Saw and
Planing Mills and about twenty feet of
canal bank with ten feet of canal bed.
It will take ten days to repair the break.
ALLENTOWN, Pa., October :6,—The
bridge on the East Pennsylvania Rail
road, below Ewana', which was washed
wa will be repaired to-nih and
travel between Reading and Allentown
reopened tomorrow. One train came
through this afternoon. One of the tracks
of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, between
Catasauqtui and Manch Chunk, is badly
damaged. It is also badly damaged at
several places between Allentown and
Easton, and will take several days to re
pair the damage. The passenger travel
from New York-to Wilkesbarre was re
sumed to-day, and to-morrow travel will
be reopened upon all railroads except
the Lehigh dtSuequehanna Road, which
is badly washed away, and will , require
considerable time to repair.
Bosrosi. October 6.—The embankment
at Wilbraham, on the Boston and Albany
Railroad, - three hundred feet long and
seventy feet deep, with, a stone arch
bridge, has been swept away, and the
Boston trains cannot run west of Wor
cester before tomorrow night.
MANCHESTER, N. H., October 5.—A
bridge crossing the Ritcataqua river at
Gaffstown was carried away last night:
The damage by the flood in New Hemp
-
shire is estimated at 51,000,000. •
Porrevlldere Penna.,.October
storm damaged none of the lateral rail
road to any extent, except the 'Little
Schuylkill * ? between Port Chato and
Tamaqua. Six bridges were carried
away, and the track badly washed.
It will require three weeks to re.
pair the road, and coal transportation
will be saspended during that time. s
he canal is ' mall brakes not
are b repor adly ted,ured Rhree
which will
be repaired in about three days. A num
ber of colleries ,were drowned. out. All
the mules in Repplier's mines, at New
Castle, were drowned; The 'water is
subsiding in the river.
POUGHKEEPSIE, October s.—The report
of damage by the flood increases. In
four counties on the litidion the loss
cannot be less than three millions of dol
lars. There are several serious breaks'
in the Delaware and Hudson. Canal, in
cluding one of two hundred feet and one
of one hundred feet. In the interior of
Ulster county.• bridges and barns were
swept- away and whole fields of grain de
stroyed. Nearly every bridge in Greene
county is destroyed and; farm lands
devestated. Reports from Duchess
county are also bad. A. series of
bridges were washed away. The condition
of the Hudson River Railroad. north of
Stuyvesent, is deplorable. For along
distance the track is covered with water
to the depth of eighteen inches. No
trains are expected to run trqugh.to Al
bany to morrow. The road south and as
far north as Hudson, however, is in good
order. •
Litlarierowle, Me., October a ; 6, -e-The•
long toll bridge across the Itennebeo at
Waterville, was carried away by the
freshet this morning. The loss near
Waterville by the flood la '• oath:dated at
;100,000.
THE CAPITAL. .
(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 5, 1869.
APPOINTMENTS. •
The following appointments were made
today: Gustave G. Jarecki, of Pennsyl.
Vania, Consul at Augsburg; Francis Le
non, of the District of Columbia, Marshal
of the Consular Court at Hankow, China;
Clarimundo Martins, of Porto Praya,
Santiago, Cape Verde Island.
HONEY ]L RS.
Disbursements from tfie Treasury De.
partment during Septernber were, civil
and miscellaneous. $5.0, 250 ; War De
partment, 11,381.159; Na vvy Department,
12.308,671; Indians and Pension, $1,218,-
277—total, $12,925,857. The above does
not include the warrants for redemption
or payment of interest upon the public
debt.
DISTILLERS ARRESTED.
Supervisor Presbery, of Vitglnitt, has
received andforwarded to the Revenue
Department report from one of the
squads of theleifth Cavalry, Capt. Burns,
piloted by Collector Wilcox, to the effect
that they have seized forty .stills and
about one thousand gallons of spirits,
and arrested thirty.five 'men found oper
ating the stills.
WILL NOT BE RELEASED.
A. private telegram from Wilmington,
N.V., is to the effect that the United
States officers say it le not probable that
the Hornet will be surrendered to the
Cuban parties, An official account of
the seizure is expected to-morrow, upon
which the Government will take action.
•
,SUSPECTED FOUL PLAY.
- na the Sixth Tennessee Dis
trict a nnounces A report ft ounces :.?"0 mysterious disap
pearance of Collector E. T. McGee. Fears
are entertained that he has been assas
sinated.
ANOTHER CUBAN EXPilfaioN.
Information has been received here of a
Cuban expedition, consisting of 400 men,
with abundant war material, which will
leave the vicinity of New York.
• ,
NEW YORK CITY.
[By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gatette.i
NEW YORK, October 4.—The Tribune.
of today. says: It has been ascertained
from authentic sources, and may be
definitely stated, that tthe following are
in substance the views entertained by
the President,' and sure to be carried'
out by his administration, with reference
to the questions involved in the Enturpe
case. The shipment of arms and muni
tions of war to either party' engaged
in the Cuban struggle is not prohibited.
The revolutionists have an equal Tight
to buy and ship arms with the Spaniards.
It is upon the fitting out of a naval or
military expedition that neutrality
laws operate. It is an entire mistake
to suppose that the United States
&limns have ever been instructed
to stop shipments of merchandise
even though it be in the form of articles
contraband of war. The owners and
master of the vessel must in all cases
take their own risk. But if an expedi
tion, whether of armed men or armed
vessels—or if a vessel fitted out and pre
pared and intended for naval warfare—
is started from our ports, then a question
of our duty as neutrals, or as a friend
ly power, arises, and even if we
had acanowledged the independence of
Cuba, oar duty and our rule could be no
differ a
ent until we hd directly and pub
licly espoused ono side
by making war upon the other. It must
be remembered that we constantly
bought arms of England during the re
bellion, and no onil questioned the right
of England to sell to us or the
Confederacy. Blockade runners took
their own risk of capturet• but the
Alabama was fitted out as a ship of war,
to destroy our commerce. The. Cuban
Republicans must learn to draw this
distinction before complaining of ou
conduct in this respect. As before r
re
marked, the recognition of their inde
pendence will not alter the law.
_ Horace Greeley, in the Tribune, says
he could not accept the Virginia Senator
ship, and asks the press to forbear from
naming him as a candidate for any office.
The fbat learns that Jay Gould to day
sent notice to Mr. A. R. Corbin, Genius!
Grant's brother-in.law, that unless he set
tles today for the difference in three mil
lions of gold and two millions or
stock bought and sold for Corbin, and
his meociates, legal proceedings will be
taken against him. It is claimed that
the difference in the transactions which,
it is alleged, Mr. Corbin authorized Jay
Gould to make for himself and
associates; will amount to paw°.
Mr. Fiske; who is understood to be as
sociated with Gould says additional facts
will be forthcoming in case Corbin
denies the assertions already made by
him. The Post also says that Mr. Corbin,
who lies seriously ill, is preparing a
statement in reply
, to Mr. Fisk's letter.
Its 'nature may be gathered from! the
statements of friends, who have
te n ta en in comnaunicatio with him.
These deny that Mr. Corbin
ever, from the beginning of the gold
speculation, for many weeks to noon
of Friday, when the gold market broke,
September 24th, had.. any conversation
.With James Flake, Jr., on financial sub
jects of any kind, either alone or In the
presence of' others. They deny that
Corbin ever authorized or instructed any
person, either verbally or in wriling, durell
-
ing the same 'period, to either bby or s
goods or stooks: for him or for 'others.
,Mr. Corbin's friends say that the letter
of Fiske and the affidavits accompanying
-it, show a deliberate , attemptto place
Corbin in a falsepo sition. pl a ce
affidavit shows, they say,
when , analyzed, th eses engaged t for three
months this man win
watching Corbin's house in order to
be able to swear that Fisk and Gould at
different times actually passed in and
out of Corbin's door. They add that du
ring the whole course of the late gold
speculation, Fisk was not once invited by
Corbin to his house for any purpose, and
that, in short, the impression that Cor
bid was, during the gold excitement,
with Flak is not true-. Corbin's friends
say it is true both Fisk and Gould have
been in Corbin'zilouse. Tbey made var.
ions calls there with the pretent or ex
cuse of offering railroad and steamboat
acornmodations to Corbin's family. It is
asserted that one of these call was
made by Gould at Corbin's house
when President Grant was staying there.
It is added that Gould conversed with
the President, and asked himi isolate
miestions abont the general financial
policy of the Government. To this
Grant, it is asserted. replied that he bad.
told Mr. Bigelow, editor of the Times, in
a conversation, all he thought the public
needed, to know, and that Bigelow bad
put it allinto an article published some
days ago, to which Gould might refer.
This ex.plains the Presidents patience
with Fisk's interrogating him on the
boat, as well as his reference to a Previi
cue conversation. The Post says: The
above statement, we have reason} to be
lieve. contains the views of Mt. Corbin,
and Belli be repeated in any reply he may.
Make to Mr. Flak's ,letter.
,: ; The Sheriff hae apPraised, the Grand
:opera House, attached at the suit of se',-
, s . t
eral parties against Fisk, at one million
dollars.
The capias in the suit of James Brown
& Co., against Flake & Gould, have not
yet been served, the officers yet being
unable to find the defendants.
The argaments of the raorlons and or
ders to show cause in tha suits in which
injunctions have been granted again.;
the Gold Exchange, and others which
were expected to cows up today, have
been adjourned.
Bishop dr Rein, who do lin:di:tests under
Fifth Avenue Hotel, to-day reported to
the detective police that their store had
been robbed of diamonds valued at from
'twenty-eight to thirty thousand dollars.
The Republican State Committee, who
are holding a sessi o n in this city, will
probably nominate Gen. Robinson for
Secretary of State and Mr. Behn, of Buf
falo, to fill Gen. Robinson's place on the
ticket as State Engineer.
A report that Judge Pierrepont is
about toresign the EL S. District Attor
neyship is unfounded.
The land wires connecting with the
English cable arestill down.
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
—Three persons were drowned at Nor
ristown by the flood.
—Senator Morton spoke to an immense
crowd at Mozart Hall, Cincinnati, last
night.
—The Union Pacific Itailioad carpenter
and car shop at Omaha were burned to
the ground on Monday evening.
—Garrett Daley, mate of the steamboat
Flirt, against whom Frank Mooney en
tered a criminal snit in the United States
Court at St. Loitis, has been discharged.
—A man named Davis was shot at.
Omaha, yesterday, by Major Sothis, the
father of a little girl of twelve years,'
whom he (Davis) had infamously as
saulted,
—The New York Tribune publishes an
alleged authentic statement of the views;
of President Grant on the Enterpe case.
All parties have a right to parches or
ship arms. Tne Govermi , ent can only,
feel bound to prevAnt the sending out of
an armed vessel to make war upon a
friendly nation.
—A Washington dispatch states that
on the reception of the news that a
privateer had put inta•Vllraingtori, N.
C., and was under the seizure by the
United States Marshal, the President
called a / meeting of the Cabinet, and after
consultation it was decided that a priva
teer could come into the port of any
nation under stress of weather and re
main twenty-four hours withouVmoles
tation or detention. She will be allowed
twenty-four hours to remain and obtain
supplies, and will be released by the
Marshal after the expiration of that
time, deducting the time she was under
seizure.
A Portion bf the Cuban Cable Out of Or
der.
(81,Telegrittih to the rittaburgh essette.)
HANANA, October b.—The first Cuban
cable is at present unserviceable—the .
second cable, which comes in at Cojimar,
a town five miles east of- Havana,•com
mewed working this afternoon, and is
now works well. All telegrams have to
be carried from Copier to Guanabaco9. ;
on horses and thence to Havana by gov
ernment lines.
Connecticut Local Elections.
[By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
HARTFORD, October 5.—A1l the towns
in the State except Bridgeport, held elec
tions' for town officers on Monday. Re
turns have been received thus far, from
only iltly•txo towns, of which twenty
eight elect Republican offieers; eighteen .
Democrats, and six are divided.
THOU BRUME:ST ME LIFE—
LUNG-V* ORT.
One- of the truest and most suggestive ideas
can be obtained from the caption at the bead
of this art cle; for of all diseases which impair
human health and shorten human life, none are
more prevalent than those which affect the lungs
and pulmonary tissues: 'Whether we regardlung
diseases in the light of a merely slight cough.
which is but the fore-runner of a more serious
malady, or as a deep lesion corroding and dis
solving the pulmonary structure, it is always
pregnant whit evil and foreboding of disaster.
In no class of maladies should the physician or
the friends , and family of the patient be more
seriously forewarned than in those of the lungs, •
for it is in them that early and eitieient treat
! meat is most desirable. and it Is thenthat danger
can be warded off and.a cure effected. In DR.
'KEYSER'S LUNG CURE you hays a medicine
of the greatest value in these conditions. An
alterative, a tonic. a nutrient and resolvent.
succoring nature and sustaining the recupera
tive powers of the system, Its beautiful work
ings, in harmony with the regular fanctions, can .
be readily observed by the use of one or two bar'
ties: it will soon break up the chain of morbid ;
sympathies that disturb the harmonious work
inns of the animal economy. The harrassing •
cough, the - Manful respiration, 'he sputum
streaked with blood, will soon- give place to the
normal and proper workings of health and vigor.
An aggregated experience of over thirty years
has enabled Dr. Keyser, in the compounding of
his LUNG CURE, to give new bone to the con
sumptive tnvalhf and at the same time speedy
relief in those now prevalekt, Catarrhal and
throat affections, so distressing in their effects
and so almost certainly fatal in their tendencies,
unless cured by some appropriate remedy. DR.
KEYSER'S LUNG CURE is so thorough and ef
ficient, that anyl one who has ever used it,' will
never, be isithout It in the house. It will often
cure when everything else falls, and In simple
cases will cure oftentimes in a few days.
The attention of patients, as well as medical
men. 14 nrespectfully invited to this new and
valuable addition to the pharmacy of the conn
try.
DR. KitriEß may be consulted every:day
until 1 o'clock P. M. at Ms Great Medicine Store,
161 Liberty street, and from 4 to 6 and
. T to 9
at night.
•
NOW I% THE TIME
To repair the Inroads made upon the Phi - deal
strength by the t 'sated term which has closed
with September. The vitality that has' teen
oozing through the pores In the form of perspi
ration, tor the lest three months, requires to be
replaced, as a preparative to the cold mason
widen maces sump otasstrout Davos with relaxed
and untor.ed sytems. l'ho regents of vigor with,
which the stoutest man commences the Summer
campaign Is drained out of him at its clove, and
uidess by acme watts he acquires a new stock of
vital energy wherewin. to encounter the shock
of a colder semon. mAy droop and wither like
, fal:lng leaves whoee ces are exranst.-d.
If It la thus with the strong, bow miter more per
ilous is the tortilLtton of the weak and ading.
Their reason must suggest to them, more forcibly
than th.ge printed wotda. the neces,ity for in
vigoration, and the world have Oecideo, afteran
ocr of nearly a quartet df a ceutur3'. that
• HOSTETTF.R . S' eiTt)hiAtil BITTY.II 4 etu'lrace
such rtetorailve protratio s a. are not pouetaed
t - it env other tonic and alt-runtive -preparation
In existence. The importance of resorting to
that great NINOVAIOIt AND RCM:MA.7OB OF TIM
HUMAN, NAClftigit, at. this critical soma 1a as Ob.
vioes as the, Let all who deldre to
(seam, an attack of chill. and rer.T, Itons re
mittent fart% dysentery. dtarrbata, drspeptis,
rnetunatima4 tyadria, ot •Ati:olbet or the
Mae* ea of whic h' Fall sessint ta tue
prolinc
parent, have recourse protanily . lp th is 'or
Diigated preteatlyq sad restoptirt;