EIiTUADA.Y..DICOEiSBEFS, 1885. IMSEELrIy,RRE TEL. COSTAMAGNA. kuLDrrs°l:—",ol,l GAZETTE ASSOCIATION NO. 841 FIFTH STREET. PITTSBURGH CIONEDNICATIONB INTENDED FOR TILE ‘,7 , 7;triALIG4rARODLD DE ADDRESSED To -- 4,l vbrltonB CFAx.r..l E." GORRESpOND WOE RELATING TO BUSINE. , I3, SHOULD HE ADDRESSED, SIIIIPL.Y .1 /AZETrE," PITTeBIIROB, PA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER ft, 1885 • -'I7OIOE O 1 THE PILILerF. • • - _We give this morning aynoptical rep orts Of /patty of the sermons delivered in Pitts" burghand Allegheny on Thanksgiving day, It will be seen that these utterances covered T.llleiv?ulle field of thought specially appro. ptiabi to the occasion, and that the great matters under consideration were treated with a - tallness and faithfulness worthy of all commendation. To the honor of the :;:puntit theloyal states, throughout the terrible ordeal through which the nation has passed, be It said that it was, wits ex t'ixilleett sweely worthy of note, true to Rod and Humanity—to Lihcr:y and the Right. THE UNION PAcieriC RAILROAD. z, This ill'Ona of , the most important enter priseaot the age. Its design is to connect the Atlantic slope with that of the Pacific - ..te bind the widely separated extremities of tdulfstion'togefler by community of inter. eats and relations of interdependence. For vastness of emteeption and for the magni tude of the enterprise, for the beneficial „,,.ransensertege which must. icertalnly result `" k " -- Irolltits completion; It has no parallel on this continent or on any other. It stands ohms tn,tts magnitude and importance. • r Minfmistipfeliensione are imehenlation touching this work. In some minds an nn 'mountable confusion exists es to the na ture and direction of (he route and the pro . mai made upon the work. The _line cov ered by !the act .of incorporation extends from the Missouri river to navigable waters flowing into the .Paellie Oman. It is the great northern tine acroak the continent. By the fifteenth - day of the present month the first forty miles of the road, running west from Omaha, in Nebraska, will be reaAyfer Alto . Commissioners to examine. The grading on the first one hundred miles Is completed, and iron for the first sixty :l[B=lles has.been delivered at Omaha. The Contractors, who are energetic and ...roponsible amp, are bound to finish the fist one hundred miles by the 27th of Jane, 1861, which is the time fixed by . the set of incorporation . Although the mate yials for construction, whether of wood or other articles, are only obtainable at ex cessively high Prices, the Contractors are - resolute man, and will do doubt fulfill their engagement. , The grading on the second section, which Is two hundred miles in length, is well tinder way. The Contractors have hadmany boats chartered, aid employed in transporting ties and other materials to Omaha, wi ii as much celerity as practlea. ble. They are now having boats of their Own built on the Monongahela river with Which to do their own transportation next spring. At Omaha they have erected exienslve works for Burnetizing wood, that is. mak _ ing it comparatively indestrucible by a process patented In England, in 1828, by a *AA named Runiterr. "At s misting of the Board of Directors of the Company, held in New York, a few slayengo, a Committee was appointed, of which Mr. SPRZIWEII lIARBA CG/1, of this city. who Is a Government Director, is • Chairman; to confer with Companies now eorestriciing railroads through lowa, from ;the Mississippi to We Missouri, or any new . organisations that may be called into exis• Luce, with a view to the obtainment of an early eastern-connection -.with lines com '' Prated - foam the MississipPi to - the chief At ' birdie cities. We learn that he is confident of being able" fo consummate such eonnec tion eta near date, as all three of the corn -,,C.;pplieti L i engaged in constructing roads whose western ends must touch the Mis. - shudepi, perceive the importance of connect ing as speedily as possible with this great trunk line across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific ocean. :- Itioarbe ferther - stated that parties of Clltiftears have been engagedin surveying 'Ake 80114 Fork and the country 443 t from Atli Lake to the'ittNey of the HuMboldt ; •'" Op the Cache de la Pon t‘e to the 'L l aramie r • titter; and from the one-htmdredth mart - slien west. No choice of line across this wide stretch of territory has been deter . mined bet as yet; but - the determination is to find the one offering the largest advan tagee -• Tn Sputter's' .Republican Caucus held • Wednesday last did not come to a vote en the Stevens resolution from the Rouse, bat alloumed to meet on Monday. `Vona Were' mnde, net ierinuch to the spirit, at!to,PO.forni of the resolution, upon the inst;thst the passed in 'site present dorm, would be a publle law, __rand require the t!stauval of the'Presi lent ; and, necorld;that it-WOuld render the ad. mission of members ir t e i t h er Retire de pendent cIPPti 033 c 6 / 16 tLINice of the other, Would be derogatory to, the e3nsti 'Atittorial privileges of" either. ItAt believed. , thittbs . reioltition will not pass the . iie tta t e - • Inns present form, but that there 4. be no doublet its passage when so modifisk: u the above objections. •lvtltb Carainian, a journal of Clutrieston, says that, se for choosing men to eoiigroii who can take the test oath, they "quire no ouch individuate in South Caro : line, arlf they OZER tifelr _ammo! are un known." Well, the`Governtitent can get - skulls for twenty or thirty years without Zoitth Clazollita; and by that time, perhaps, totem triaf be able to tied men erho can :La put in aimed claim to loyalty. • Paittionso the vote tho House for Chap. tioi s of Penneplyania, took ~,ellese:mt to say that, while ho should vote ..., ,A'4i3OlMi..ll4oonseort, he regarded the PAIN Mi. geocrrorr, who had bmst nomi• ::,.,Tig* l 7 - 3*A0 1 6117.. se PM° most eloquent di. D., I vsrineln the opory, :sinee the lintaktble !ot the - ... 4 kwantrotherliMtl notice thid the ReliabllO,'. Issued by iPiranolrfir4o. the amount or $60,000, have been hoftt without authority and wilt amber rebograised:' , , There gripe* to &big, tight totweenthe President, O'N.s.- ; ' 4 #5.11404)11r Penate• - •:. t.gr,l an - _l4l_,cidllstants_. abumpd be. 7 i coif) the negreellittbsiviehdti heirs been i su#4) l l 3 Angt/Pa.ftwaTi and fears an In. jfarractift , By the same token we should .." 341frait3. l ot's sew instrrrectiOit among the Flattall, for they have been buying =nal - I iknareely toribasig.a umen tb st . - .mtseis ITaw Worid and other D emo I' rat ic organ a are devoting their energies to coaxing the President to set the constitution aside and dispense with Congress altogether. The World says : - It is for Mr. Johnson now to choose whether he will push on vigorously the work of restoration, by him so well begun, and in which he has had the moral support and hearty approbation of every Northern Democrat, or whether he will lie down as tamely as the conservatives have done, and submit as pusillanimously as they, to the rough riding hoofs of Thaddeus Stevens and his radical crew. As Congress is ten law-mating power, and the President the Executive of its laws, the President can do nothing coast , ' tutionally but carry out the will of the na tion, as expressed through its ileprocnta• elves. The only way in which ',e ran fol low the advice of the Mzeld logo vet Con gress and the Constitution ,fde, and teat is the last thing Axons' Jailicac ' N will think of doing. democrats were ter During the war u , se rtbly afraid of m ala g a sin g le 'al" not warranted by oe strict letter of the Consti tution; bat sow they are anxious to repu diate our otire frame of government and set ups -despotism in Its stead. vePresident, fortunately for the country, Is made of different suff from this. He recognizes the full authority of Congress in I the premises; and after stating what he has done during the period of its recess to bring the rebel States back, submits the whole matter to Its decision. The World and its coadjutors are wasting their strength for naught in trying to tempt him from hlsline of duty. TEE Lebanon (Tenn.,) Register gives the following as a summary of the wants of the South, in preference to tho aid proffer• ed by the Cooper Institute meeting : We can sum up the "wants" of the South as follows : 1. We want the military removed. 2. We want the Freedmen's Bureau abolished. 3. We want lobe allowed to elczt men to office who will represent the wishes of a majority of the people. 1. We want these officers, When elected; to be allowed to exercise the functions of their respective offices without interference fromthe central gtiverninent 0. We want a general amnesty, and 6. We want the protective tariff abol ished. There is one want not enumerated here he want of ihe gallows and plenty of hemp STATE FINANCE a Democrats not onfregnently complain of the national debt incurred for the atppression of the rebellion. They do not take Into account the fact that the war against the Gotornmemt was instigated and engineered by Democrats, be cause a oonstitutional majority of the people, acting strictly within the rules of the law, saw Ht to repudiate their policy and eject them, as unworthy servants, from the high places of pow er In the Government. No doubt a east public debt is an evil, to be arolded whenever practl. cable. But there are evils mach more serious than any public debt yet Incurred. National dlstutegratios—sibyertlng the principles of pa, nlar Liberty, entailing the loss of National dignity, and preparlag the way for anarchy— is Immeasurably worse. But then, wool have been no debt if Democrats, when beaten at the polio, :had submitted, as they ought to have done, to the solemn verdict of the potpie, Rath er than submit they pretext - id to plunge — the na tion into toe horrors of chili war. Now, they turn their displeasure against the existence of a burden imposed on the country by their own area. But, if the arohisatio of a ?ohne de'3t is eye a reactor of congratulation, why do not tee.sc censorious democrats consider the presnat con dition of the State Finance.? No mea, charged in trying and critical times with the manage. meat of grave public trivia. ever performed their disks tinier than she men who, on.ing the last Gee years, have controlled the Finances of Pent - s3lvania. The State Debt is actually smaller than it was before the war began. Tills Is not because of nlegardlireas In disbursement. es sential to tte ...Damon defence. Na State, with the possible exception of Massachusetts, has a., noble a record for enthusiasm, alacrity and elf ciency as rceneylvanfa, In all efforni, throagh out the War, for stuttaining the Just authority of the natle - neJ government. The men who man aged the affairs of this Commonwealth, through CI thin difficult period, evinced tact, talent and patilitism of a superior order. Why do not the democrats who make the avoidance of s public debt the twat of capacity and worthiness In the admlnisiration of the fed eral government, lilt their bate In honor of Gov. Curtin and his arsoelatesi REPORT OF TUE THE 4.SURY In his report the Secretary of the Treasury discusses the finances with the utmost frank r,ess. All his recommendations faros a con. traction of the currency, and, consequently, a speedy approximation at least to a specie ba sis, Hs does not advise au immediate repeal of thelagai Tend, r Acts, but he dee, urge that currency obligations, now legal tender, be de prised of that power at maturity. His idea is that the Compound Interest Notes should ulnae to be a legal tender on maturity, and that the bead of the Treasury be given power to sell Mx per cent. bonds to retire compound loterost notes and United States non a Ile further urges the establishment of a Shaking loud, Into which all surplus revenue shall go, to be used In extinguishment of the public debt. To make this Fund affectire, lie would surely Increase the IRc. me beyong.lhc 'excel:Abu:es. Tile admirers of Expansion, High Prices, Ir redeemable Issues and Wild Speculations will not be plen.cil with there suggestions. But er..n of old fashioned Ideas—that a dollar meas. one hundred cents, and that the promise. of it should be eonrerti►.o Into the tiring Its.l , at the option of the holder—will cordially approrc. The sooce} 130 little gas is :e. out of the curren cy balloon. the better. Tim Denuocratie candidate for Speaker of the Reuse of Depresentativea was Mr. Jae Snooks, of New York. Origteeny en editor at Portia ad, Maize, he afterwards la 1836, started, aril ever since edited, the New York Ezpreu. lla has beg several times in Congress. First, as long ago as 1846, es , a whlg, afterwards as a know nothing of the most violent typo, and latterly as is democrat, with strong Southern proclivities, Always professing to be a coo ser tvalive, but like mcst men who place partici:ler on conservatism, fierce, 'talent, demo. b ., * .wil—cretin excels, whether abnsiog Gen. ' 4444 5, archbishop Throats or Roy. Mr. Bm ' Cill ' *, ..t Descending constantly from one de p th tal 4w, leer he has now, by gravitation, found his ssrs 4rid the democrats their Attest representativit. , ... Tim Si IRE 84 ' 14°1° 2 -24.4 %.. ". 'ten of the 4th Instant contains some valuable - ovations as to the Int. P cltanee manalactnr Vending np com entities. Among other thle m.,it 631 "The Great -ilreat world graio, - - . .at by sharply feediegxhe world with corn, Mau p r pri. ees. Every large eoMEltutti , holds free intercourse endtradis w the wittdo,„,_ wolidoilimuld yet be as independent as to far as regards ssuPPIY or all lho aaca a saai..• of life. New England ha. gslned its em u weahb, lot merely by manutamnring, but by s etillivatiog:lti hard soil and supplyiog Its do Meette wants to the point of partial indepen• -dame." Tms Conservatives are alibis themselves a vast amount of annecceeaq trouble In regard to •Mospeellia collision between tha President and the Radical majorities of the two Hanses, Better spare your anxieties, gentlemen, at:Lithe collision shill 'Mud], occur. is the matter stands you are winning pathos' eaeramel. prrirmar : Aitoutattar. —The Legislatmli of Geolgia liss.railded the Amendment to the mi nimal Constitution abolishing 'slavery. This mean thatwentreighth.State that luta ratified the amendinent. Tmegenisc Arius Mates that on Mist will be made to lndaee the reit Legislature to argad zo a new judicial Dbariet, to be composed of the counties of Beam and Washington. The Treasury The Secretary of the Treasury, In begietieg his report, refers to the importance of the mat. tyre order his care, and while romMircenting the aisdoin of.Congiess and of big predecessors In ofti.ie In the adoration of measurestorais e _ mon, for the expenses or a protracte d seer, inggests teat be lepisiation which seas proper and wise In time or war may not ho ap• 'sortable, In time of peace. to opriate, or eyed./ The right ef c.„4lct, t o r r , r,e w Money 16 tin qctEtfoLaqe, sat the authority tolasne gh,g , mo ,y, sea snake these ohlizatlons a rtes} rt , eon only be toned in the written law that eat elm, 6 whateeer the reprererustlrea , to" 'pie. slime duty It is to maintain the cgatn6l, its enemies, may consider Li ~a; .mergeney necear ary to be done. The pr,keLl 1 , gal Larder nets were war measures, and while their repeal is rot now recommended, the uf.tarj is of the optnicn that they should not Low amain In force one day longer than shall be t Ott eau to enable the pconio to prepare for a return to the conttitutlonal entrenCV; that those acts shruld be regarded only as temporary, and that the work of retiring the notes Issued under them should be commenced without de lay. The re pidity with wtieb (beat notes can be withdrawn will depend upon the ability to dis pose or securities, but It is believed that the in ductee of funding ulxn the market will pre vent their too rapid withdrawn!. Tae calamity sure to ',stilt from au Irredeemable paper cur rency Is forcibly described by a reference to the well-known laws of trade. The financial crises or 18:17 d ISO 7 are declared to have resulted from the tinhealthy extension of credit, Linda, compsubson of the bank deportee Cod !Once for a st nes of years shows that the present capon aion If continued must result in rlailar Mass. Mrs. The areretery then replica to some of the popular objections to a reduction of the cgrren cji, tech as that It would operate disastrously on trade. reducopnblic revenues and embarraes the national banks. Ho argues that there Is more deer to trade from the Inability of Gov ernment to reduce Po circulation rapidly enough tbna f om a too rapid reduction of It; that rev enues derived then troseactlens based upon a 151. a standard of value are not those upon which reliance can be placwl far maintaining the public credit, and tout It I. better that the banks should be embatrasato now thou book. rnpted hereafter. The Secretary, the: efore, respectfully bit ears eslly rt ecnimetaf Flret—That Cergrese declare that the r ma pound interest notes shall cease to be legal ten der from the day of their maturity. Second—That the Secretary be authorized. is his discretion, to sell bonds of the United dwell bearing Interest at a rate not exceedlog ail per cent., and redeemable and payable at such pert. ode as may beneath:mire to the interests of the Government, fur the purpose of retiring not only compound Interest notes, but the United States nate. Tao subject albeit:a:tonal debt Is not consid ered, and the Importance of in:Lintel:clad the public faith urge d. The debt of the United fita.es was incurred by the people themselves :or the preser ration of the Government.. While it to the debt of the nation, It Is also the capital of the citizro, for the means of the merchant, the workingmau find the soldier, have been In vested In IL 81111 It. lug &epees are anti-rept:lb lican and dangerous to public virtue. It le dis tasteful to the people, became et Lille the Isrel with lefornrera tad tar-Latham, and the work of rerce.ring it shocdd not be load pastpotcd. The drat etep to be taken is to institute mean_ urea fcr !uedteg the obligations that are Coon to mature, and the beat, to provide for raising the resennes necessary to pay the interest on the debt, and a certain definite amount annually for the reduction of the principal. On the 31st of October, 1505, the public debt, without deducting fends to the 7111psury, Tres:Airy, amounted to $2,508.519,427 So. ram Items of which It conslece a:e rent in tie r, port. Dude g the bear ending Jape 20, Isis", Lhe debt was Ina:ad.! t9t1,002537 Ot. The Y.:flowing la • statement of Ito recaip's and Imp: nditterea for the quarter ceding 8 p4, , 10- bte 30, ISOS Ba•aaer. Treasury, agreeable to w. asata July I, .... Y.e