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THURSDA I / 2 1', OCT. 1, 1869.
UNION REPUBLICAN TICKET.
STATE.
FOR GoVERICOII
JOHN w. GEARY.
=DOE or Br PREME count:
HERBY W. WILLIAMS.
COUNTSC.
ASSOCIATE JEDGE. DISTRICT COURT.
JOHN M. KIRKPATRICK.*
MISTS= JUDGE, COMMON PLEAS.
FREDERICK COLLIER.
SrATie SameTz—THOMAB HOWARD.
ASSEMBLY—ALEXANDER
8. HUMPHREYS,
ALEXANDER MILLAR,
JOSEPH wevrox.
JAMES TAYLOR,
D. N. WHITE,
JOHN H. KERR.
ortiftwr. HUGH S. FLEMING.
EluLtsuiluz—JOß. F. DENNIBTON.
CLERK or COVETS—JOSEPH BROWNE.
RECORDER—THOMAS H. HUNTER.
COMMISSIONER— 3HAUNCEY B. BOSTWICK.
RF.Guincit—JOSEPH H. GRAY.
OLT.= °Braille* COURT—SLEX. HILANDS.
DIRECTOR OP POOR—ARDIEL MCCLURE.
DX.IINICI P AL.
MAYOR OF ALLEGIMNY,
ALEXANDER CALLtIV7
DIRECTOR OF POOR.
COL. GEORAFE GUEST
WE PRINT CM the inside pages of
this rrsorning's Gewns—Seeond Page:
Letter from Phs7ade/phia. State Items,
Personal, Miscellaneous Reading Matter.
Third and Sixth pages: Commercial, Fi
nancial, Mercantile and River News,
Markets, Imports. Seventh page : Local
and General Neu*.
'II. B. BoNns at Frankfcnt,
GOLD closed in New York yesterday
at 131.
W.,nE well-known Americans, Hon.
Amds Xeniall and Semiter Brownlow
are reported so seriously 111 that the re
,
coyery of either is not looked for.
C.!!WM; in a recent letter remarks of
"the thing which calla itself Spiritualism,"
that it "might more fitly be called' Ultra:
EnumeLrem,' and 'LITURGY of Dead-Sea
APPLES."
REPUBLICAN Cot* tickets arc in cir
culation with the name of Mr. McGKE the
Democratic candidate for Commissioner,
substituted for Mr. Doormat's.
Look out for them.
A Washington dispatch says
The friends of the Adrciinistration who
claim to be advised of the President's
purposes, say to-night that the vacant
place on the Supreme Bench will be ten
dered to Judge Hoar, that Mr. Pierre
pont, of New York, ill be nominated
for Attorney General, and that Pennsyl
vania will have the position of Secretary
of War.
REPOItTB from Nashville continue to
strengtheu the probability that a party
. by
the name of Johnson will be elected U. Si°
Senator. It' another vacancy is created
by the decease of Mr. Brownlow,' it is
difficult to judge whether the complica
tions of Tennessee politics would' be
thereby increased or diminished.
THE 4irii of the Times does not flatter
our Republican politicians, in the follow.
ingt , - -
Pennsylvania has been all torn to
pieces, and the party is divided by a se•
ries of miserable feuds. With a few ea
captions, politicians in thit State are a
small, mean tribe, and but for the cause;
and the'advantage now in our Spanish
and English complication of a strong and
popular administration, we should be
satisfied to see them have a sound whip.
ping•
BniCE the• New York Tribulie has`re
commended the present as a - good year
for_ bolting Republican riominations,. it
has encouraged the German Republican
Central Committee of New-York;to "de
nouncf -the Republican Convention. at
Syracuse for intolerance, and making
tools of German Eepublicans, and to
,solve not co-operate, with the party in the
coining election."'
Tan speech.of Hon. Sag. GALLOWAY,
at City Hall last night, was the most
brilliant, amusing and entertaining of the
campaign. We regret : exceedingly that
owing : to the press of other matters we
cannot lay the remarks of, theAlstin
guished gentleman In full befog.° our
readeneas the Democracy could not have
been better handled by any who would
attempt to eclipsei the efforts of Ohio's
gifted son.
Mlt. Houscg GBEELsx declines to be a
candidate for the, Senatorial seat from
Virginia. He doubtless perceives that he
could not take that part in the;rec.onstruc
tin of the old Deminion, without detri.
meat to the interests of - another dominion
which is of more weight with him—that
of the. N. Travte. It. Is better to be
an' editorW ..soyexejg9, as he le, than it
Senator without a constituency, as he
would be before that term of office could
expire; ' ' '
Tsrs vexations question" as to where the
Allegheny Soldiers' Monument is to be
erected will be submitted to the voters of
the county at the general election. The
tickets have already , been printed and cir
culated, together with letters oof instruc
don to the election officers. We believe
the question to be settled is whether it
shall be located In Pittsburgh, excluding
the cemetery, which has been ruled out,
or Allegheny.. Those interested in the
matter will at once perceive the impor
tance of making a canvass, in order that
their desires may be accomplished.
Two TEARS ago a number of :iron
manufacturers of this city raised a ques
tion as to their liability under the laws,
then in force, to pay certain taxes,
amounting in the. aggregate to a very
large sum of money. The matter has
remained unadjusted to the present time.
Yesterday, Mr. Devis, the Collector of
this District, received instructions from
the Department* at Washington, to the ef
fect that "these taxes were correctly as
sessed under the law then in force, and
that no good and sufficient reasons had
.been shown why they should be abated,"
and that, consequently, he should proceed
to, make collection.
CARALTNUBY B. BO3Tli ICK.
This gentleman is the Republican can
didate for Commissioner of Allegheny
County. Reports have been industriously
circulated to the effect that he was not
fairly nominated, and hence is not entitled
to the support of honorable members of
the organization. These reports have no
foundation in fact, but are based upon a
quibble that has no weight or significance
whatever.
The session of the Nominating Conven
tion was protracted and excited, owing
in large part to the contest between Mr.
BOSTW/CK and Mr. DILWORTH. When
it became apparent that Mr. BOSTWICK
was the strongest man, and not till than,,
a motion was made to declare him unani
mously nominated. This motion was
properly entertained by the Chairman,
who acted in perfect good faith through--
out. No objection was raised, the motion
was put, and carried without a dissen
ting voice.
The opponents of Mr. BOSTWICE now
come forward and aiiirm that tbe marking
by the delegates should have been con
tinued until it was made to appear, in
that form,. that he had . a clear majority.
To which we reply, that if it had not been
apparent that he was the winner objec
tion would have beeh raised tothe motion
to declare his nomination unanimoui,
and voices undoubtedly would have been
lifted up in the negative, which was not
done.
So far as the pretended inflexibility of
rules is concerned, it is enough to say that
the Convention had complete authority
over its own rules, to enforce, modify or
change them at pleasure. Such authority
has been exercised, without question, by
every Republican Convention that has
assembled in the county.
As to the personal habits and intel
lectual competency of Mr. Bosrwrcs for
the position to which he has been de
signated, we are 'constrained to add a few
sentences. In both these respects he has
been assailed, in public meetings, held in
different parts of the county, by speakers
in the interest of another candidate.
We believe these criminations to
be entirely groundless. Gentlemen
of the highest respectability, who
have known him intimately for many
years, testify that his character is above
reproach. As to capacity for office, his
metal has been tried and approved. He
made one of the best Coroners the county .
has ever had.
The County Committee has seen proper,
after a survey of the whole case, to make
an appeal to the Republican 'voters of the
county, in behalf of Mr. BOSTWICK. To
that appeal we eall attention, giving it
out of free gobd will what it does not
stand in need of—our hearty endorse
ment.
CUBAN BELLIGERENCY.
The report that our Government had
ordered the release of the "Cuban 01.
vateer Hornet," in effect thereby recog
nising the belligerencrof the insurgents,
seems to have been premature, if not
wholly unfounded. The latest advices,
at this writing, from Washington, indi
cate the retention of the ship by the Fed
eral'authorities. Either this, or a release
with its substantial recognition of Cuban
belligerency, are the only alternatives
before our Government. There ought to
be ino question as to the decision.
We cannot , recognize the bellig
erent rights, eo notnine, of ' either
Spain or her insurgent subjects. So far
as concerns the former, we have only the
right to know that she le dealing ;with a
domestic insurrection, while her revolted
subjects have, thus far, no international
status whatever. For all that our govern
ment officially knows, Spain is at peace
with every other power on the earth.
Hence. that is a sufficient reason why,
our authorities cannot detain another ship,
the' Euterpe, now loaded at New York
with material of war for the Spanish
Colonial government. We can only em
bargo the latter vessel for the reason that
Spain is at war with a recognized and
friendly power-rwhich the Cubans are
not, unless substantially declared so by
either the , detention of the Euterpe or
the release of the. Hornet. , Thus the
question of reeognition is presented very
directly to the Adininistration.
- The Hornet luta no lairthl place on the
hl Otts, luider the isCubsi Etag."
PITTSBURGH GA 4,TTE i HITESDAY., OCTOBER- 7, 1869
flaghai not been recognized by power
in Cluistendthn except Mexico' and Pero
-certainly, not yet by that at Washing
ton. Moreover, her offensive designs
against a powei with whom onr people
are at peace have been candidly avowed
Here are the needful conditions upon
which to decide whether this vessel should
be detained, by our authority, as being,
under the law of nations, a pirate, or
demitted once more to the free
seas, recognized by our official act
as the regularly commissioned crui
ser of a legitimately existing member
of the family of nations. This is the
naked question. If a pirate, she must be
condemned; If. not a pirate, she must be
released under our obligations of comity
to a'recognized belligerent—and she could
be released on no other ground. The
single issue is thus, either for the Hornet
or the Euterpe, the recognition or the de
nial of belligerent rights.
The insurgent Cubans have neither a
prize.court, an open sea-port, nor any
other of the legally needful requisites for
an admiralty adjudication of her prizes.
She cannot take her'captures to any har
bor on the globe, and there proceed for
their condemnation. She must ravage,
burn and sink—and nothing else. ,This
is not legitimate warfare, but piracy—
nothing more nor'less.
Nor 's this all of the 'question. The
chief officers of the Hornet are American
citizens. Opr treaty of 1703 with Spain,
14th article, reads thus:
Nor shall any citizen,
subject or in
habitant of said United States apply for
or take any commission or letters of
marque for arming any ship or ships to
act as privateers against subjects of his
Catholic Majesty, or the property of any
of them from any prince or State with
which said king shall be at war, and , if
any person of either nation shall take
such commission and letters of marque
he shall be punished as a pirate.
If we release-the /Efornet as a lawful pri
vateer now, what shall be our defense,
for the breachlof treaty obligations and
of international law, against the undi
vided' judgment of the world'? W i hat
legitimate excuse shall we have for -our
pretnature recognition of the insurgent
rights ? Upon what plea could we here
after maintain the justice of our own
claims against a nation which has no more
grievously injured us than, by this act,
we shall have 'prejudiced the just rights of
Spain !
We trust that these patent objections,
to any constructive recognition of Cu
ban belligerency by this Government,
will have theli proper weight with the
Cabinet.
The aunt Ward t;ouucil Question
MESSRS. EDITORS: 1 am no politician
and can afford to be honest In political
matters,
it is therefore with mortifies.
lion that I have heard an idle rumor
started by some malicious person and
extensively circulated-in our ward, the
Sixth or old Eighth, to the effect that
Mr. Thos. T. Ewens, dandidate for Com
mon Council, is not a good and true Re
publican. I have known him since he
cast iris first vote and have ever regarded
him as a candid, earnest and conscien
tious member of our ranks and one who
has done efficient service for the party.
It is cited that he voted for Mr. Blank
more for Meyer.' Presuming he did, is
that evidence that be is not true to
Republican principles? If it is, then rule
out of the rank, thousands of Republicans
whoa u stained that gentlemen and carried
him into office with an overwhelming
majority. I; was not that he was a
bemocrat but that he was a good mu
that caused his election: and faithful Re
publicans voted for him to rebuke trick
ery and corruption in our own' rank a. Mr.
Ewena is a staunch and reliable Repub.
lican, a gentlemen of sound and prac
tical ideas, large solid sense and acute
judgment. Should he be nominated to
the CORITIIOII Council to-day, he
will make as faithful, honest and cap
able an officer as has ever represented
the ward. I communicate this, as I feel
those who are not his friends have used
very unfair means in circulating an un
founded calumny against his political
record as an active and consistent Re
publican. CITIZEN.
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
—The break in the Erie Canal, near
Albauy, will require eight or ten days to
repair.
-A great Independence , meeting was
held at Waterloo, Canada, on Saturday,
which was presided over by Mr. Parmlee,
warden of the county.
—A Colored church in Carondelet, six
miles below St. Louis, was burned on
Tuesday, the work of an incendiary.
Loss $10,000; no insurance.
—The Woman's Suffrage Convention,
now In Session at St. Louis, is largely at
tended, and much interest is taken in
the proceedings. It will, probably, not
adjourn before to-morrow.
—The International industrial Exhibi
tion, at Buffalo, opened last evening.
The display of mechanical, agricultural
anci miscellaneous articles, are of a most
brilliant and extensive character. Can
ada is well represented.
—The Irish Emigrant Aid Convention
met in St. Louis yesterday. The follow
ing States were represented: Missouri,
Kansas, Minnesota, Louisiana, Oregon,
Missisalvpi, Nebraska, Tennessee, Wis
consin, Illinois, and the Territories of
Washington and Idaho.
—A warrant was applied for before
Recorder Martindale, in Jersey City, on
Tuesday, against Captain Hall, the Arctic
explorer,
on the charge of murdering
Patrick Coleman; a seaman, at Repulse
Bay, in the Arctic regions. Coleman wan
a mutineer. The Recorder refuse 4 to
grant the warrant, on the plea of want of
jurisdiction,
Earthquake at Lhna—The People Fled
and Dwelling In Tents.
tEI Telegraph to the Pittsburgh fluette.l
NEW Yong, October 6.—A letter states
that on August 20th, 21st and 24th there
were, at Lime, tremendons shocks of
earthquake. In the lower provinaeson
the ' latter day, the heaviest 'walls and
houses tumbled; and at Iquique and
Arica, a tidal wave carried away mallY
boats and other property. The inhabit
ants fled, and are living in tents. All
goods In the custom heuse have been
transferred to escape any recurring wave
Plsaquei and other places also suffered.
There have beeti earthquakesall through
August in the whole southern portion of
the country. Lltna and Cala° have, not
suffered as yet, but many people are
leaving both . c *Ottimisia is Nerlously
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THE CAPITAL.
[By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh G .szot•e.i
WASHINGTON, October 6,1869.
RIGHTEOUS DECISION BYATTORNEY ors-
EBAL HOAR.
Attorney General Hoar has, in response
to a letter from General Sherman. Secre
tary of War, of the 16th ult., delivered
an official opinion touching
~ the matter
of the suspension of certain claim agents
from practice in the War Department,
under orders issued by the Secretary
on the 11th of the same month, which,
the Attorney General says, appears
to have been based upon information
contained in an official report by Colonel ;
R. J. Dodge, June 121 n, 1869, wherei n
the parties named in the official order
are charged with practicing fraud upon
the United States and individuals, and
with violating the rules of common ,
honesty, in the prosecution of bounty
and pension claims of colored
soldiers or their legal represen
tatives. The Attorney General says
the Secretary is not bound to
recognize or do business with any claim
agent who is known to have perverted
his position for purposes of fraud, and
whose character is such that a reasonable
degree of confidence cannot be placed in
his honesty in dealing with the govern
ment. Under such. circumstances the
Secretary may very properly decline to
expose the interest of the government,
as also of the claimants, to the danger
of becoming a prey i to dishonest
schemes and devices; and when the pro
visions of the pension and bounty act,
designed for the protection of claimants
against the cupidity and oppression of
their agents, have been violated, the
parties should be made, it possible, to
suffer the penalty imposed by law for
their past misdeeds.
A SENSATION EXPLODED.
A report has been prevalent here to
day, and found its way into print, that
Secretary Fish,‘ yesterday, received a
dispatch from the French and English
Governments to the of that they had
notified their fleets to overhaul the Cuban
privateer Hornet and sink her when
found. They were further instructed to
treat the officers and crew as pirates
and hang them. In Inquiry at the prop
er quarter, it has been ascertained that
there is no truth whatever in this re•
port, and further, that it was not known
in diplomatic circles that the Hornet
had been captured until twenty-four
hours after she was in government
custody, when the fact was unoffi
cially mentioned to several of the
foreign representatives, the tiritish_Min
ister included. The Government re
ceived a telegram Sunday night. and
it was in consequence of the facts therein
stated, that an order was immediately
sent to detain the vessel for judicial pro..
ceedinge.
John McDonald, of St. Louis, has been
appointed Supervisor of Internal Rave
riue, vice Morris, assigned to the District
composed of Missouri, Kansas, Colorado
sad New Mexico.
Supervisor Fulton reports to the Dei
partment the seizure of nine stills in the
Richmond District, from Philadelphia.
They all bear evidence . of recent use.
Mrs. Stowe again ou the Byron Trial—
A Second histainient Forthcoming—
Justice, Gratitude and Friendship the
Motives.
(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette,)
HARTFORD, Conn., October B,—The
Courant of to-morrow morning will con
tam the following card from Mrs. Stowe:
"To the Editors of the Courant :—Mrs.
Stowe desires the friends of , justice and
fair dealing to publish for her this an
nouncement : That she has kept silence
here:ofore in regard to the criticism on
her article on Lady Byron for
two reasons. first : -- Because she
regarded the publac mind as in
too excited a state to consider the
matter dispassionately. Second—Be
cause she had expected the development
of additional proofs from England, some
of which, of great importance, have al
ready come to hand. Mrs. Stowe is
preparing a review of • the whole
matter, with further facts, and more
documents, including several letters of
Lady Byron to her, attesting the vigor
and soundness of her mind at the period
referred to, and also Mrs. Stowe's own
letters to Lady Byron at the same time,
which were returned to her by
the executors soon after tbati la
dy's death. She will alsoglye the pub
lic a full account of the circumstances
and reasons which led her to feel it to be
her duty to make this disclosure as an
obligation alike to Justice, gratitude and
personal friendship.
Virginia Legislature.
CST Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette
RICHMOND, October 6.—ln the House
of Representatives today resolutions
were introduced that the iron clad oath
be now administered to the members
and temporary officers of the House,
which were referred to the proper com
mittee, when it shall be appointed.
A protest, adopted by theSepublican
caucus last night, wa presented. It is
framed with a view answering, Atty.
General Hoar's argument, and protests
against any acts of the Legislature .of
this session, the members not having
taken the iron-clad oath. and the body
being therefore illegal. It was referred.
Turner, Conservative, of Rappahan
nock County was elected speaker.
The old incumbent was elected Clerk
of the Senate, when the same protest of
the Republican caucus was presented,
and a resolution adopted laying it on the
table, on the ground that it was mani
festly an effort to obstruct the Recon
struction Acts, an in direct violation of
the interpretation f said acts by the ad
ministration. .
Calamity at Indlithapolls—Coroner,al7er
dirt—Subscriptlane for the sufferers.
(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.) •
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INDIANAPOLIS, October 6.—The Coro
ner's Jury render the following verdict
late last night: hat P. L. Davis and
twenty others to their death from
injuries received by the exploding of a
bbiler attached to ne of E. B. Sinker it
Co.'s portable eng ines, at the Indiana
Pair Grounds on t e first day of October,
1869, which expl on was caused by the
carelessness and culpable mismanage
ment on the part of the engines T in
°tune, John Gall, deceased.
A meeting of citizens was held at the
Young Men's Christian Association rooms
yesterday for the purpose of raising sub.
scriptions tbr the sufferers. Over .1,600
wee subscribed. Another mass meeting
will be held to-night at Mason Hall for
the same purpose. The Conuty Com
misnoners have appropriated 85,000, and
th State Board of Agriculture have do.
udted $5OO. 44
The Privateer Cuba.
Telegreth to the Pittabureh Uazette.]
Wir.smiccrolv, N. C., October 6.—An
entertainment thia evening, on board the
Cuban sloop of war, was attended by a
number of ladies and gentlemen.
There are no new developments con
cerning the Mat= of the Cuba, bat I the
public mind here le' unanimous in!the
opinion that she will be released sa goon.
as SO Enda 1 . -t
, t ?,.r.
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SEIZURE OF STILLS.
NEWS BY CABLE.
CBy Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.)
SPAIN.
PARIS, October IL—Official dispatches
from Madrid charge that Senor Paulek, a
member of the Spanish Cortes, is in com
mand of one of the Republican bands in
the South.
Communications between Madrid and
Barcelona ara interrupted.
The insurgents evacuated the town of
Rena
,on the approach of government
troops.
Salyucha has been captured.
The official reports assert that thtt
.in
surectionary movement is declining.
No aTcounts of late occurrences have
yet been received from the Republicans
FRANCE.
PAnts, October 6.—Prince Charles, of
Roumaino, has arrived in this city. He
was today received by the Emperor at
Tuilleries.
Deputies Gambetta, Raspal and Esgue•
roe intend to preceed to the ball of the
Corps Legislatif on the 26th of the present
month, considering that the legal date
for the assembling of the Chamber.
The ship building yards of Bordeaux
were destroyed by tire.
GREAT BRITAIN.
• LONDON. October 6 The " person
thought to be Belly or Deasy, who was
brought to King's College Hospital badly
injured a few days ago, died yesterday.
A great many meetings have been an
nounced in different cities of Iteland of
those favorable to amnesty to Fenian
prisoners.
FRANCE
PARIS, October 6.—Jules Ferry, one of
the Deputies to the Corps Legislatiff,
elected recently from Paris, has called a
Meeting of members of the opposition - to
take proper action in regard to the delay
in opening the sessiol of the Assembly.
MARINE NEWS.
QUEENSTOWN, October e.—The steamer
Hermann, from New York, arrived.
LONDENDERRY, October 6.—The steam
er Nova Scotia, from Queb 3c, arrived to
day.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCI %L.
LoNumv, October s.—Eries 24%; Illi
nois Central 943; Atlantic and Great
Western 23%.
LIVERPOOL, October s.—Evening.—Cot
ton firmer; middling uplands 11/s; Or
leans 123 x,; sales were 10,090 bake. The
advices from Manchester are more favor
able, but the market for goods andyarns
is not affected. Wheat 10s 7d for white
California, and 9s 3d@9s 4d for red west
ern; receipts for the last three days were
30,000 quarters, of which 15,000 .quarters
Were American. Corn 30s. F10ur.2.3s 9d
@24s. Spirits:Turpentine 26s 6cl.' Lard
heavy and unchanged.
LONDON', October b.—Evening.—Sugar
flat; sales afloat at 28s 9d. Linseed Oil
£3olos.
Lartnosr, October 6... Evening.—Co
nsole for account 93%@933,. American
securities quiet; '62s, 84%; ,'6ss, '678,
83. Stocks steady.
LIVERPOOL, October 6 —Evening.—Cot
ton firmer; uplands 12%; Orleans 12%e
sales .were 12,000 bales, of which 4,000
bales were for export and speculation.
Red Wheat 9s 3d. Lard 73s 6d. Turpen
tine 26s 3d.
• LONDON, October 6.—Et;ening.—Sugar
afloat firmer.
ANTWERP, October 6.—Evening.—Pe
troleum quiet.
PARIS, October 6.—Evening.—Bourse
firmer. Renies7lf.
FRANKFORT, October 6.—Evening.--
Bonds closed quiet at 87 . .,y.
HAVRE, October 6.—Buening.—Cotton
firm at 143 f on spot.
LONDON, October 6.—Wednesday After
noon.—Erie 24%. Linseed 62s 9d. Re
lined Petroleum is 7;.4d(gils
LIVERPOOL, October 6. Wednesday
Afternoon —Cotton firm and unchanged;
sales 10,000 bales. Beef 8s 9d. Cheese
655.. Lard Ts 9d. •
NEW YORK CITY.
The Gold Gamblers it Loggerheads—
Statements of A. B. Corbin. and James
Flak, Jr.
[By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette. 3
NEW YORK, October B.—The steamship
Alaska, from Aspinwall, has arriv6d.
The Herald has the following note,
dated October sth : "I never exchanged
a word on financial matters, either ver
bally or in writing, with Mr. James Fisk,
Jr., from the commencement of the gold
speculation until it brokeon Friday noon.
Nor within that period did I ever author
ize any human being, verbally 'or in
writing, to buy or sell gold for me, or for
any one else.
"A. R. CORBIN."
The World's reporter yesterday re
ceived the following statement from
James Fisk: ' , All I have to say is this:
We have just commenced a snit against
Mr. Corbin for 1300,000, or thereabouts,
difference on gold bought and sold for
his associates. Everytning up , to the
present has been substantiated by affi
davits, and everything in the future will
be so substuitiated. Also, I ,shall not
make a move without five or- six affi
davits being tacked onto it. I have
nothing . to give you now more than the
affidavits. What will come after will be
published. Mr. Corbin has not been the
only party in the pool; there are others
Whose names I need not now mention.
All these things will come in good
time."
The clipper ship Drednaught' from
Liverpool for San Francisco, was lost off
the island of Terre Del Fuego on July
4th. The crew, thirty-four in all, had
hardly time to get in the small boats
with provisions for seventeen. days.
They subsisted on shell' fish gathered
from the rooks at low water. The In
dians treated them ',well, and they were
finally rescued by a Norwegian bark.
Ten of the crew suffered terribly with
the cold, and will lose their toes and lin
gers, which were frost bitten.
The Barton government has finally
concluded the purnhase of .the armor
plated steamer Atlanta, from Mr. Oak
Smith, for 6160,000.
A terrible murder was committed at
607 Cherry street, last evenipg. The vic
tims beift the wife of Henry Aqaong, a
Chinaman, and a compatriot named
Chas. Archon, the murderer closing
the bloody scene by stabbing himself.
Archou, from all that can be learned,
was charged by i Aquoug with having
taken improper liberties with his wife.
In the suit of I Brown against Fiske
Flake and Gould to recover about $2,600,-
000 from defendants for refusing to take
gold purchased - at 160, Mr. Flake has
been served with it caplas by a deputy
marshal. Mr. Gould has not yet been
served.
The World says two hundred and fifty
Cuban tillibasters left this port Monday
morning in tho steam tug Aaron Wilson,
intending to join'a steamer from Phila
delphia with a similar force aboard.
The State Republican Central Commit
tee held a meeting this evening. A corn.
munication was received from General
Robinson, declining the nomination for
Secretary of State, on the ground of ill
health. The comm itteel (adjourned with
the understanding that Gen. Sigel Should
be seen with wvisw of tendering him the
nomination o 4 Secretary of State or State
Engineer.
Tunnel Accident it! Minnesota.
CBT Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette./
MINNEAPOLIS, October . 6.—On Monday
morning while the Eastman tunnel, half
a mile long, was being excavated for the
purpose of making a Water power on
Nicallet Island, the workmen pierced's
sunken water cavern in the island below
the level of the river: The gates at the
head of the (tunnel were closed, but the
rush of water could not be arrested.
Early Tuesday morning a large whirl
pool, near the shore of the Island, was
discovered, disclosing the month of the
cavern. All efforts yesterday to close up
this hole by rafts, cribs, trees, balls of hay,
0tc..1 proved fruitless, and the river is
making a tremendous effort to make a
new channel for itself. The mills on the
Keneben Island are in danger, as the .
ground is caving in from the paasage of
the water beneath. A thousand men.are
at work night and day constructing a
coffer dam around the mouth of the
whirlpool. If necessary a section of the
dam will be blown out to loweithe water
which is very high, or the danger of a new
channel is imminent.
LATER.
The tunnel disaster at Minneapolis,
Minn..; will prove to be of a very serious
character, A mass of the river bank,
two hundred feet long by twenty wide,
has caved in, through which water rune
into the tunnel at a fearful rate. As the
under stratow is soft sandstone, easily
washed; serious apprehensions are felt.o
The • lame of water ra thing pinto the
cavity of the whirlpool and ;thence into
the tunnel has been checked by masses
of trees and sand bags. No damage to
the mills reported as yet. Huge bonfires
light the men at work. The piers of the
new coffer dam, to enclose the hole, are
nearly complet ed. The people have
been excluded from the island, and the
wprk goes bravely on. The hole is sixty
feet long and twenty broad—depth not
known. It is full of trees, sand, sand
bags, etc. ..
From Nashville.
CBy Telegraph to the PitLabargti Gazette 3 '
NASHVILLE, October 6.—The House
completed its organization today,
and both branches are ready far If gisla
lation.
A meeting of editors took place here
to-day. Almost all of the political newq
paper press of the State was represented.
The counterfeit nickel five cent coin in
circulation here is la , ge, and very an
noying to business men.
Pittsburgh Teachers , Institute
The quarterly meeting of the Pitts-
burgh Teachers' Institute will be held
in the Washington School House,Law
renceville, on Friday evening, th e 16th
and Saturday morning, the pith instant.
At a meeting of the Executive Commit
tee of the Institute, held on Saturday,
2d inst., it was decided that "Grading
'Schools" and "Order" should be the
subjects for discussion by the Institute,
the former to be opened by A. Burtt, the
latter by H. 0. Squire. Teachers of Al
legheny, South Side and adjacent dis
tricts are invited to attend, also directors
and others interested hi the progress of
education. These Institutes are impor
tant to live teachers, and it is to be
hoped that no teacher eqsaged_ in the
Pittsburgh Schools will be absent at roll
call.
In the City.—Tom Allen, the noted
western prize fighter, arrived in the city
yesterday and put up at the Revenue
House. He proposes giving an enter
tainment of his &tic abilities at City
Hall on Saturday night.
Documentr.—At the Republica . Head
quarters, 116 Fifth Avenue, a large
quantity of political reading matter, is
ready for gratuitous distribut - ea to those
who call.
THOU BRINGEST ME LIFE
LUNG-WORT.
One of the truest and most suggestive ideas
can be obtained from the caption at the head
of this are de; for of all diseases which impair
human .health and shorten human fife, none are
more prevalent than those which affect the lungs
and pulmonary tissues. Whether we regard lung
diseases in the light of a merely slight cough.,
which is but the ibre• runner of a more serious
malady. or as a deep lesion corroding and dia.
solving the pulmonary struiture, it is atways
pregnant with evil and foreboding of disaster.
In no class of maladies sbonld the ' physlcian 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 ettlelent treat
ment is most desirable, and it is then that danger'
can be warded off and a cure effected. In DB.
4EYSER'S LUNG CUBE you have a medicine
of the greatest value in all these conditions. An
alterative, a tonic, a nutrient and resolvent,
succoring nature and sustaining the recupera
tive powers of the system, Ita beautilhl work
.ings, in harmony with the regular functions, can
'be readily observed by thence of one or two bot
tles: it will soon break ttp the chain of morbid
sympathies that disturb the harmonioui work
ings of the animal economy. The iarrassing
cough, the painfal respiration, the 'sputum
streaked with blood. will soon give Mace to the
normal and proper workings of health and vigor.
An aggregated experience of over thirty yearn
has enabled Dr. Keyser, in the compounding of
his LII.IG CDKI, to give new hope to the con:.
sumptive invalid and at the same time speedy
relief in those riow prevalent, catarrhal and
throat affections, so distressing in their effects
and so almost certainly fatal in their tendencies,
unless cured by some appropriate remedy. DB.
KEYSER'S LUNG CURE is so thorough and efi
ticient, that any one who has ever used it, will
never be without 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, is respectfully Invited to this new and
valuable addition to the pharmacy of the coun
try.
DR. KEYSER may be consulted every day
until 1 o'clock P. It. at hie Great Medicine store,
ny Liberty atreet. and (rota 4. to a and T to 9
at night,.
NOW IS THE TIME
. .
To repair the - inroads made upon the physical
strength by the heated term which has closed
with September. The !HAIRY . that hu , been
oozing through the bores in the form of perspi
ration, for the last three months. requires to be
replaced, as • preparative to the:cold season
which makes soon atiastrons novo° with relaxed
and ontor.ed sytems. The reverse of vigor with
which the stoniest man commences the summer
campaign is drained out of him at Its Close, and
unless by some means he acquires a new stock or
vital .energy wherewith to encounter the shock
of a colder season. he may droop and wither like
the falling leaves whose life-Juices are exhausted.
If It is thus with the strong, how much more per-
Ilene is the condition of the weak and ailing.
Their reason must suggest to them, more forcibly
then these printed words, the necessity for in
vigoration, and the world have decided. after=
«opulence of nearly a quarter of a century, that
HOSTETTER'S EsTomecll BITTERS embrace
such reetorative properties as are not possessed
r.y any other tonic and alternative pr oration
in existence. The Importance of re ins to
that great EtINOYATOR AND HIGHTLAT OF TEM
iftrotom MACKIN; at this critical seaso is as oh
!dons as the light or day, Let all wh desire to
escape IA littla, of chills and fever, MOUS re.
=Meta fever s dysentery . dlarrh" , riPera•
i t
rheumatism, nypoctiondria, or any ol er o the
diseases of Whichlthe Pell Season Is e milts'
parent, have reConrse. Prompt') to Ithis, •slir.
trated prrfelltile Sad restiiiriarills ,