The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-09
Regulations Of Commerce Be-
tween England and Ame-
RIGA Army Orders.
Democratic Nominations in Mary
land-Indian Outrages in
the West.
ETC., Etc., Etc, ETC., Etc, Etc
FROM WASHING TON.

The ChivaIrous BinclxIey I'm New Light.
Epeotat Despatch to The EUentng Telegraph.
WASHINGTON, Sept. GA private despatch
from New York gives an amusing account OF Mr..
Binckley's investigation held there yesterday.
1t appears that the learned Buckley demanded
of District Attorney Courtney to know what
side he proposed taking in the trial. Courtney
refused to give him a satisfactory reply, and was
about leaving the room, when Buckley rushed
towards the door and shut it, to keep the Dis
trIct Attorney from getting out and in doing so
he shut Courtney's finger in the door, where.
upon the latter rushed upon Binckley and
pounded him until he roared for quarter.
letter from Secretary McCulIOch.
Despatch to the Associated Press
The following, addressed to the officers
customs, was Issued to-day
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Sept. 8, 1869.--By
recent order in council, the British Government
has directed that the merchant ships of the
United States of America, the measurement
whereof shall, after the first of January, 1868,
have been ascertained and denoted in the regis
ters and other national papers of such ships,
testified by the dates thereof, shall be deemed to
be of the tonnage denoted on such registers or
other national papers, in the same manner and
TO the same extent, and for the same purpose
into and for which the tonnage denoted on the
certificates of registry OF British ships, is deemed
to be the tonnage of such ships, after making
therefrom the same deductions in respect
of the crew, space, and engine room as
would be, If such ships were British, be made
from their gross tonnage under the la VS. relating
to British ships. 1t is proper that similar
courtesy should be extended so far as possible
10 British vessels in the United States. 1t is
accordingly directed that British vessels whose
registers indicate their tonnage under the pre-
sent British law, shall be taken in ports
of the United States to be the tonnage
90 expressed IN their documents, with
the addition of the amount of the
deductions made under British law not autho-
rized by the measurement law of the United
States. Usually the gross tonnage may be
ascertained from the register. In such cases
| the vessel Will be exempt from all measurement.
| III the gross tonnage is not indicated by the
register it may be necessary to the spaces
appropriated to the crew and engines below the
upper deck whose capacity has been deducted
under the British law, but admeasuremeat will
be made only when, and to such extent as is
absolutely necessary. Fees will be charged only
| for the service actually rendered, and no more.
Officers will remember that spaces appropriated
to engines above the upper deck to the hull, are
by United States laws, as well as by the British,
exempt from admeasurement for tonnage.
HUGH MCCULLocH,
Secretary of the Treasury,
Army Orders.
The Secretary of War has directed General
Dyer, Chief OF Ordnance, to New York city on
official business, on the completion of which he
will return to his proper station.
The Secretary has also directed that on Octo-
ber 2O the Office of the Chief Mastering and
Dsbursing Officer at Philadelphia, for the
States of Pennsylvania aud New Jersey, will be
discontinued, and all records, of whatever
character, connected Herewith will be for
warded to the Adjutant-Genera Of the Army.