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Show GEIVKliAL. Speech Jiy Gtueral Sllerman. New York, 8. Thomas W. Conway, secretary and treasurer of the Union League club of New Orleans, writes to the Tribune, on the 22nd ult. : "At the reception to General Sherman, the General made the following" speech : 'Mr. President, am not much of a speaker. My forte is action, not speech-making. speech-making. I do not wish my remarks this evening to bo reported in the papers, for I see what I said on the occasion of'auother reception extended me since my arrival, have been entirely misrepresented; and 1 am credited with words I did not utter at all. Therefore I hopethere are no reporters here to serve the present interview as they served the other to which I have alluded. al-luded. My duty as commander of tho army of tho country, keeps me employed in military matters, and by that employment I may be enabled to assist the nation in its civil and political politi-cal interests; but I do not wish to be considered a politician. I strive as well as I can to do what my official duty compels, and in doing that find myself employed. 1 do not seek any civil position whatever, and do not wish to be suspected of doing so. Indeed I should positively decline any offer of a civil or political position. I mean to devote my whole time in the future to the military art, not with a view of destroying de-stroying but as a means of promoting the good of all, even the lowest classes of our country. " British Kobles Coining West. Chicago, 8. Lord De Laski, Lord Walsinghani, Lord YV. Campbell and lions. Chaplain and Laird, all ofwhom are making the tour of the west, bit hero yesterday for San Francisco. San Francisco News. San Francisco, 8. Varm, dry weather prevails. Strawberries are a drug in the market. Six hundred chests arrived on one train on Saturday, Satur-day, acd they are wholesaling at four to six cents per pound. The bark Come', from Honolulu, reports re-ports the ship Liebeg wrecked at Baker's Bak-er's Island. She had not gone to pieces and might be got off. The California press is disposed to be somewhat severe upon the medical association, as a congregation of impracticable im-practicable old fogies. Travel on the Yoseuiite river never was so great as this season. AKuKlui Story Officially Contradicted. Contra-dicted. St. Louis, 8. General McDonald, Supervisor of Internal B-evenue, has just returned from a business trip to the Southern portion of the State, and denies having called on the President for troops to suppress Ku Klux in the second district of Missouri as reported from Washington. The General states, however, that he did some time ago ask for authority and means to employ the necessary force to enable the collectors col-lectors to collect revenues from illicit distilleries in the south eastern part of the State. Collector Murdock has several times been opposed by armed bands of these illicit distillers and their employes and friends, and once or twice has been fired upon, and McDonald McDon-ald has asked for an increased fores of deDUtV collectors: so as tn ennA wilh armed resistance to the enforcement of the law, but at no time has he called for troops either to suppress Ku Klux or collect revenues. Town burned, Pittsburgh, 8. Fifty-four houses in Fugundas city, a new wooden town in the oil regions, were burned last night. The fire made a clean sweep of the entire en-tire town. The telegraph office was burned, so we can give no particulars. The High Commissioners Scattering. Washington, 8. Lord Tenterden, Lord Goderich, Professor Bernard, and others of the high commission, with Hon. James Brooks and wife, left in a special car at noon for New York. These gentlemen of the high commission commis-sion go to Boston and Niagara before they return. Telegraphic Transfer. The Treasurer of the U. S. made a ! telegraphic transfer to-day of a quarter j of a million in coin, from the Sub! Treasury in San Francisco to the Sub 1 Treasury in New Y'ork. j Heavy Fire. ! .Wilmington, Del., S. A disastrous: conflagration occurred here to-day at noon. The fire caught in the kindling! wood factory of Geo. W. Bush, from ihe engine furnace, and communicated to the oil house attaohed to the Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad shops, and thence extended i to the patteru shops and the round house. The round house contained some fifteen locomotives, which all took fire and some of them will be ! badly injured. Two locomotives out-i side, one of them just built, are supposed to have been destroyed. The loss to the railroad company is very heavy, including the oi( house, pattern house and round house, which were destroyed. - . The Fire ( ,he 011 -cg,on- . Fp,iundas City, Pa., . 8. A fire oroke out here last night, and in four hours the town was in ashes. The losses are not known, but there was little or no insurance on the property destroyed. About fifty buildings were burned. No lives were loit. Treaty Signed. Washington, 8. The treaty was signed to-day by the high commission, at the department of State. The gen-ilemen, gen-ilemen, after this was done, exchanged congratulations on the result of their labors, expressing the belief that they had done the most they possibly could for the peace and honor of the two countries. Although the commissioners commission-ers have been cautious in talking to persons outside their own circles, the following points will be found of interest inter-est : First, there are to be two boards of arbitration, or commissions, to one of which will be referred the Alabama, and other similar claims, which are recognized re-cognized as national, and to be settled on the principles of responsibility for such depredations, when the government govern-ment has not exercised the utmost diligence dil-igence and possible precaution to prevent pre-vent privateers being fitted out in its ports to prey upon the commerce of a power with whom it was at peace. The other board is to take cognizance of miscellaneous claims, British and American, confined principally to the period from the commencent to the close of our late civil war. |