14itt5bt4116.tgrite , FRIDAY, ApAIL 12, /S al_ --------------- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE:S. Though too early to nail a Presidential ,_ .nner to the mast head, or even, per .ps,'to hoist one, it Is not too early on m4ratively unknown seas to "take e nun," dud our exact bearings and -eta co, and note whatever may clearly t. cm o promise favor to . t the voyage. ri WI at, then, in the caseas now as plain as It peer can be made, either by lapse of time or other cireumst n •e, is this: that the American people Ye. fixed it In their heart of hearts to el viite hereafter td their highest place, 'man t'on trust." Nor do they want aim ly and only a_man who, in the political r ice, has been found under the national fl g. This they. will demand; but, also, man of true and tried moral worth; a man who has faith in justice and in God; who will do right because it is right, because his heart is . fixed to do right, and not because' it may seem politic to lean that way: The bitter present, full of doubt and dread, In which one may say with Jugurtim,. when he looked back upon the Rome he was leav ing, "All there is renal;". in which office, place and power are held or given by bargain and "dicker;' where whilome avowed traitors, pretended patriots, polit ical tricksters and unsexed (or worse) wo men leer in their painted rottenness at the elbow of. executive treachery, and direct in doling out offices to the right and left—to Jack and Gill, who have dropped each their vaunted "principles". at the White House door, and come into "the presence" for their "peek of dirt" . —these and all thPir concomitants of wickedness which might make an angel - weep, plead trumphet-tongued to the heartof every good man that he pledge himself anew to the Republic; that he give no rest till this Augeau stable be cleansed; till the 101 l altars of this Ahab be thrown &ram, and white robed Par ; ity and Truth return once more to the _ chair of the martyred LtNCOLN , Let us all then lie this in mind, that the an tecedents of the next candidate of the Republican party must be clear as the light, both politically and morally. Our present trials also show the im - .., :, . _are In the selection of a Vice ' ..:-.::' • candidate. All we might is subject could impart ion° to the simple adjure tioa. Behold A.ISDIItiNV Jottssozzl Re'• member Lox's wife! We are convinced that what we have thus said indicates generally the views of the leading men of the _l,publican party. We believe our nest nominee for the presidency will be -a man whom We can trust and confide in, and that in his great office he will prove himself so true that the dreary four years of our 'Chriatophero Sly may, at . some future time . , seem to,us as did his hour of glory to him when he awoke from his maudlin stupor—a dream when it ifipast—a watch in the night. In that view we suggest as a noble and worthy man who has already given his right arm and his whole heart to the Republic, the name of Maj. Gen. 0. 0. Howann, and we would associate withhira on the ticket, the noble, gener ous SCLMILEII Cot.r.vv. We have here the christian soldierl,l whose name is link ed_with all the great battles of the rebel lion, and in a manner especially honors. ble with the historic fieldvf Gettysburg— the grand turning point of the great civ jl war—and the christian civilian; whose services as Speaker of the House, whose abilities as a presiding officer, as a Rep resentative in Congress, and as the ad "meat° of Republican principles every where, have given him a just and envia ble celebrity. The east with her • manu facturing prosperity, her comderce and her culture piesents her chosen rson side by, side with the mighty teeming weet— the seat of 'Empire, the land of plenty, where a nation is born in a day. While prepared to adopt the ticket of the coming Convention, whatever names it may bear—provided those names rep resent the ideas-of manly integrity and moral worth here hinted at—we would as cheerfully nail this banner at our mast head as any that is likely to be selected. WHAT IS CONSTITUTIONAL It has become fashionable for men who have nothing else to urge against a government measure to which they are opposed, to contend it as unconstitution al. This cause has two advantages. It enables a man who does not want a par ticular thing done to defy, as inapplica ble and impertinent, the soundest argu ments and appeals that may be advanced in Support of it. What the objector has to do—is, not to show that the measure is totally harmful, or that more evil than good will result from it, but stoutly to affirm there is no authority under which it can be ordered and Sustained. The oth. er advantage is that the objector is ens bled,'if he so elect, to run off Into inter • minable disquisitions, by which he en 'snips himself and the subject matter in impenetrable fogs, where sensible people will not follow. In thu early day the Susquehanna river Servedus a substitute for pork bar rels in all the families residing along its banks. Civilization bad not progressed so far as to dam the stream with formi • dable structures, aad fish were plentiful. If a pioneer wanted breakfust.he went to -the river, caught it, and soon had it in the frying-pan. As population increased this primitive arrangement was inter fered with. In the progress of events _stalely dame were erected, to serve as 'feeders for canals, and though chutes were put In to accommodate the descent of rafts, they were not so devised as to permit fish to go up, The, effect was to depths people' Using above the danis of fisheries. Now we are far from believing this to be a slight deprivation. As ail article of common diet fish is decidedly wholesome. quaint writer urges the rigid obser- A. vance of lent by the force of phySiologi cal rather than spiritual considers - ions maintaining that. the lenten regimen cures more cases of dispepsia than all the resources of materiamedica. At the session of the Legislature for 1866, a law was passed to compel all ins-- nrovement companies owning dams across the Susquehanna river, so eon . greeted as to prevent fish from going up to put in chines, under the direction of a - Coinmissioner to be appointed for that purpose'. One or two dams, on the low er division of the stream, were altered as prescribed Early in the season it was heralded that the alteration promised to be a success, but as no farther proclama tion has been made, we conclude the re sultant advantages were small or none whatever. This impression is confirmed by the position assumed by the Central Cunt ice that dams arc unconstitutional. The argument is plain enough. The Consti tution does not contain so much as one word on the subject of dams. Bence the. Legislature has nq authority, expressed or implied, to allow their erection. ILI the Creator had supposed dams to be ne cessary, he would hav'e made them. He did construct some, which shows most conclusively artificial dams are in con travention of his designs; a kind of prac tical profanity or blasphemy commonly framed of logs and planks, mitred and spiked together, but sometimes of stones fastened with .cement. lumber has a natural right to float unimpeded down stream, rind fish to go up unhindered. This case scents plain, and is much better fortified than most of the ergo- Merits . against the constitutionally of Special enactments. People dwelling along the upper waters of the SllEtille . harms are grbatly tkken with this view, and arc making up a purse to fee lawyers for starting a ease, and carrying it up to the Supreme Court for decision. Now, it is easy to see the Courts will rule streams so declared by law are public highways, nil dams or bridges .crossing them must heconstructed with ; reference to - the use they are or may. be nut to in stick capacity. Whether a stream mustlic recognised as a highway depends uppiVtlic legislation respecting it. Stranger things have happened than that the lawl making the Susquehanna a a highway should be repealed, provided the contest waxes hot. When the k`ourts shall have decided how short Civilization and ,its works must stop in deference to the apostolic and vagrant employment of fishing, tt May ho well to ascertain what right Civ ' illzation has to contract and impovefish the natural domain of hunters. When the Puritan first put his foot on that his 'torte stone at Plymouth, what excellent stalking grounds filled with all sorts of game, stretched away from the sea coast to the Rocky Mountains! The axe of the pioneer and the plow of the farmer has spoiled the sport, in a large part of this once delightful territory. A mau of the genius of Thoreau could conjure up ninny cogent and eloquent reasons for holding this disturbance of nature in her solitudes to be unconstitutional and detrimental. THE INSA?iE An apprehension is quite prevalent in this and other countries that Lunatic Asylums, are used to a considerable ex tent, by malignant relatives, for the in carceration of those who stand in the way of the gratification of their selfish desires. It is a fact that instanceslof this character have occurred, especially in private hospitals. In public institutions, at least, such cases have been of rare oc currence, and in 'private establishments they have been altogether exceptional. Taking a different view of the matter, however, the Legislature of Illinois Las passed a law prohibiting the incarcera tion of any person in any hospital or asylum for the insane in that State - who has not been declared insane - or distract ed by the verdict of a jury and the order of a court. The law also provides that all persons now confined as insane shall have a trial as above, and if not pro ' nounced insane by a jury, be set at lilies , ty. Not having seen the bill in full we are unable to say what provision has been made, if any, for speedy adjudication in this-class of cases. If spicial care has not been taken to have courts con. vencd, and juries impannelled as soon as a case shall arise demanding atten tion, the members of the Legislature who voted for the bill, and the Governor who approved it, have gone sonic way to wards proving, in the judgment of sensi ble men, that it would be safer to commit them in a body to an Idiot Asylum than to entrust them with the making of laws. Every man and woman who has even a superficial acquaintance with the nature and treatment of mental diseases knows that unless appropriate remedies are up pli-d at the outset recovery is difficult, if not altogether hopeless. About the only chance the patient has is in prompt measures. Comparatively few cases are successfully handled if a delay of months is permitted to occur be tween the manifestation of the disorder and the application of restoratives. This preEions interval, we apprehend, the Legislattire !of Illinois has seen fit, in its lack of wisdom to ;take from the DEM YESTERDAY KM made memorable by , the adjournment of both branches of the 'State Legislature. The people Will breathe easier. It is to be hopeil that Pennsylvania - will in the future be spared the disgrace of having a similar body of d sreputable tricksters assemble In her legislative halls. Few of the members Will succeed In whitewashing their course during the session into the semblance of honesty. Their constitu. eats are aliVe to their own Interests and are about to inaugurate a reform in the selection of representatives, .which will preclude the posinbility of the return of the great majority of members who com posed the recent corrupt gathering of lave makers. L 01719 SCEIADE, of Washington, the Attorney of the Andersonville monster, Capt. Wirz, has written a long letter ad dressed to the American people in vindi cation of the felon's memory. Ile may succeed in tickling the fancy of the south, but similar writings heaped moun tains high will fail to create any better opinion in the northern mind of the bar. harems prison keeper, who only partly expiafed his horrid crimes in amigno minions death. As unfortunate child of Kentucky has been burdened with nine names at the baptismal font. Among them be bears Gco. I). Prentince's, and that old joker earnestly wishes the boy may live to bec,me a member of Congress! What a cruel punishment neon the mother to wish her son, with the long name, such degradation!' Murder and, Robbery—The Body of a Binning . Cttleen Found In the Canal —The Coroner'. lognest—The Par ticular...o Far as Maoism about a month sumo wo published the fact of the mysterious dbiappearanee of Mr John Martin, a citizen of Fairmount., who Mut comp Into the city to sell a piece of property, end had never been seen again by his 11151.20sSelt I trolly. ' Testorthiy afternoon do unfortunate maws igdy was found in LLu canal near Eistneris mill, on Broadway, where It had been thrown, doubtless, by those w lio tour , dvred androbbed Lint' on Chu very night upo whiny lie should have rater find to his wife n and children. Coroner Emmert was called upon to hold an Inquest In tan case. Three incised wounds were found to have been Inflicted upon thovictimis right check and forehead, one of which haul been dealt with such force as to cut through the bones, as was as certained UpOn a post morlein examination by Doctor.blead. White the Investigation was In ‘re 1 gr e i Coroner's t the Coner's ofllce, the wifis o[ the ceased, who hail Beard of the discovery fir the body, called and identified the zuntilaii ted face as teat of her husband. ficcetood was Clout forty.nve years of ~,,,,,--a shoemaker by trade, and worked at the ti lobo Shoe factory, on ity 0 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,, Eight street. Nothing Is known of the car cumstancea under which Mr., Martin met Ills death, It seem that at the time of ins murder ne had with him $47 . 2. or a cheek for that llMOtint, and $1.5 or $3) Ln small hills, and that /s 0 *as last seen in a saloon on Central Avenue. Tile supposition Is that 00 0.13.0 Seen tO display manor, nail the thieves, who followed him, knocked Itini senseless. turned Lis pockets Inside out, and then threw him Into the canal.—Clocin• . nott cmtimertftz{, Foreign Minceliar'''. Aullv,i,lan , 1 g. , pra , n, at Ely, in G n ~1_•••••n ,ntrnr , ,l to lii 3 ,.ars p-nal p.rvitullo for pnsonlng trio Natual,,•• ht•lon:.:inr; to one of..llis Th••••vi.1 , 1, ,, v..: 1 4 vireurn s,ultlal, and no umtive rottl‘l ol for the crime. • man named • Hyatt re,ontly gtno Izl,lf up to the pollee at Nenagh, iu elate!, eottf t ,sing to a murder eollllllit- tel thirty-fo , ur years ago. Th, widow. son and dautzin, of th,, murdered min identined the prisoner in the jail, and the son, who was only tTevott yi•ars old at th,. then of his father's (loath, testified that - a, tiooll :Di he ,aw Ryan "Ills ld,,d 11l at ttpo tif rts t•h•e‘l aditiit the ilrhemer e•tell , late- Ittlit, ill evident. , att,tiust him, :net lie cpn 0111, , 41101111y al , I kit Yorkshireman; e4umonly known'l six "Flint Jack;' has ju...t lson sent..nr4l to a year's itniri-onnient mr then. For 1.30 h.( Rventy-threv years he has am.- rorWl himseif by the numufaeture of splltiothi fossils , R , llllllll,lllllilig, of ins, flint implement., and other forged relies attic Roman and aneient British periods, still, w hich 110 has deceived many of the most eminent :uniquaries of Um kiln:- dom. itt IS - al, having been detected by Prof. Tellllllllt,ll , NVZI , induc,yl In ex hit dl bafiire various learned sociality hi, meth- od of manufacturing spurious flint,: —A subterranran eit v has been diseo, °red in the river Sir-baria the nm•ient Jaxartes,) in Turkistan. 1 , 01011'4 . 11g ph'. hap, to the ancient Parthian period. Some Kirgheer settlers hod undertaken to supply the garrison of a Russian fort in that region with bricks. The com mandant, Major Yuni, Wos so strutdi with the curious appearance of the arti cles furnished that lie was led to inquire where they got them.' 'rite result was the discovery of a buried city of vast ex tent, which the peasants had 'mud as a quarry. A - guard has been placed Over • it to prevent furthr depredations. —Tho Naples paper, I.' httu/s, gives an aCcount td a frighttnl max.:acre eonnnitted by the renowned lvricand, Domenico Fuses, and a select few of his followers, on an unfortunate family suspected ,t 1 being hostile to the interests of the horde of desperado,. In a few minutes live unhappy members or the PiAoln inhabiting a ntrur house near Poggily, lay dead upon the door poignarded, ur their skulls split by the hatchets of Fuoco. Two little children were its, attacked, but their wounds were not fatal. It is good to liar that the Pope t: entering into amicable relations with tilt G,vernment. of [looney with referen., to the :special point of brigandage. tun with a 'flee; to eoneert Measures fir it; die tent supprcion. ‘ —According to a manifesto issued for toil probably by the aristocratic repre ientatives of Poland, the number of Poles mg.. to Nit,,ria since J anuary , tumulus to 15,11,2, .ttnoug whom Mt are WeMell and 11.1 priests. All were trans ported for political delinquencies, and, according to the offense Imputed. are sentenced either to fitreed labor in the mines, colonization in the Villages, or more residence . tn villages and towns. In addition to liaise, :1.1,7 so persons Were mi 41,1 to Its , steppes of .the Ural, as Severe a punishment as removal to Sibe ria, but nearer home. Furthei . roore, 1 . 2,556 persons, .imong them . ..It. , vonten and 161 priests, were forcibly made to leave their homes• and accept a coattil sory abode in the interior of European Russia; 2,410 Were plao.td in the ranks of the t unic; ttr,: - .0 in houses of cornet ion, (the greater part of Whom were sobs , illiently removed to Siblria;) and ca in the churchyards of dicers penitentiaricA, having I,efor., trial. on tins battle. fields of ;he rehellO.ll;as tutiong show, 33,stio l o ts list re were hung or shot - by the courts-martial - , and I,eoe forced to sea, refuge forelgn centuries, the mud at Ito Mel:1110101y ii-.t is sweilt,i to I IttISIILER'S REIM BITTERS The great FactlS ted'clue hh.l llo.ehold v. m dr Thera Bitter, arc emphatkally .tha (MEAT 10126XU9LD I:EMEUY ter all , Il,,asce Orli; nal Int; la,ru an impure ntsto of 1,'.00d, I.lr EEO filet the herb yo wills I=l JUVEI . II Ung ttd cico 1/c roe arll:Tra NO. S f Market etreet:l'lltsburgh GB AY HAIR, BALDNESS. DAN 0- 111 W. ANY 1•1,1•.Ati% , or Title. 11 A L.V.—Nr 111.S1,1."1.1t1 CAN , PAL , . 111.111 • 1.. , N DON II Ulfi COLUI!.I:F.,TOIIEIt AND ." "Loudon Oar Ile, lta rotor !test.. r•• •Loodun till Color It.tort• , tsolor K.9t.rar•• .`bontlun 11 Alf Kr.tuter" "4.00.1011 ebG tot flar oter. "London fla i r Color It..fitorcr , ••hontlqn flezomtnend It. air Calor F...gturcr ., l ( h r falls to Impart Ilfo, groAtl.. and limo, to th. , h,r. 41:4i atop. faqtar. and I...tir? to produre I new growth uf r.a r. ustn, r,row thick and strung. t'nly 70 Contra Gott, 44 tim ht:f toil 14 . AL:CLAM:IAN .S 1 NIcIiENNAN, etre., t:Eo. A- KELLY. 37 W0.,. , 1 •¢1 ILEHINO, 141 NlArkut atre,t, tits burgh. KANE, IntUITT. r. 7. MR. W. MILLER SAYS: I'rrr-:A:1: , •11, Scptc.Lcr 1, ti ' ?7CciltS•. rtllAPlrgh Pc.--tionti: I thlol.:1311.1 niS doinc tit, port or goof citizen whoa] toFilfy to tb..Fre.st benefit• liett by one frow thr 0,0 or your :1,.012131./1 duritg the lie, ,0/-“,Plog or a time In :Le 011 T,,? 'Tv, In 1./I. I ha.] • se re D.111..1 titavlr...v.,lcti, In conuectlon - tvlth Tape pets. 14 ft me. In • veiy west as siivlac.l to try your Miters, and, l?ylng returrda b, tile, foun.l that they worteil charm upon me, eight into , to twiny betn 1a,..101 my vir , lght In the rpm, ~ne ivrck, nd nriv Ilfe seemed to have ode Infused 11410 ny system, au much so that I hot, hi,un luduct.l use them every outu Luce co that time. Aa tonic. 1 tionliti.ey are Invalu >hie. This sommtr. having hag a similar attar, (and defore, mueb rtrlueed, although undcr the treatment of an A No. I phyalrlan, I was again obliged to bare recourse to the old Bitters, and wito the tantr, good result,' harlug gained alr pounds wlthro a .ft-rr nays. I purchased a half ,forrn lorttlea a Itrry ',eta n:ner, and pur pose to use them regtrarly as a tome. Whhing you ereef mere ", I remain. Yours, gratefuPy, WILLIAM t111,1.61t. on CANADA PILAUS AUIEN, PINE. There t audes Irian the inside bark of the White lelric. wile, flow. iterinilantly In all the liartern Stew, and Carotin a lioneyellle i sweet suustance. highly Irn'tri with that terebturtil, nate principle which Las lug been ' , duce as • rinnerly, In redone eircisca ufihe human st especially those of the 19t1 , 120113 hones. -weer, of Horton, has compounder. , from this matins' nierlicluti called r 111.7, traltTE PINE Cllklrt)l;:ripi which nee met with grcat favor In throat rnalirolles where the turpentines and haw., are actipotril lo he taitrable.. For Waver) . Affect Inns. EISSE=I illaticies In 010 Deoido. Etoppige or the urine. - The earn.: di:lenity . in children during the night. (liavel. kidney Trouble In old people. Ulcerated l/Innems. Ulcerated li ludd,. mcimrge or poet., orrius, or blood from the bladder. height's 1/14eate of the Ithintys, Fain In the K Macy. or tonsil or the back. Pain 114, the ltiadder, Heat and :lending. AC.. Voland, Whitt Pine Compound will be found c ' atocedy and tH•rinantnt cure. It Li no leas to to valued a 4 a general and bracing cooltitetional tnt, which mr. , it 4 nentil-gg pr 11 3 ,1- We. to all the tipeuesuf tbo: boa, WlLltunt sick .r,ll2,, wc•Cenlug Lytton In any way, or dl hang any ene In his won at. 4ratlon4, - Atk for POLAND's Wittig Pica 0014 rupee. For sale be the eroe.. doted,tangl e bottle, at jilt. it F.YI-4tilt . H Herat Med icine inure. 140 -Wood street- _ 002 NEW ADVEATISEXENTS WM. BIWOHASI, Jr., Adams 13:rpross f 100,541, IVA an nal/writ,' Aven.o to eocsre Adorralemenis for the (442.1.:77 . E. and nll *Mar papars Oroughont am United taaks and Ma (bnadas. rl s ir - 111ELP: HELP' = TICE A. , E. 8. L. WILL HOLD A. Grand AnniverSary Festival, IN CITY HALL, Pittsburgh, MONDAY AND TUESDAY EVENINDN, April 2244 , 23d, nt 7!.1 ocloCk Tlie °hie els of Ihl Nth: poor. n t r , e l VATlVre ' ,WeTr " ;..l.le. d T anyd he Aud Intellt att. cleratlon of the coiored re..., Wo. thercfore I hvate the geoCfutsl putlic Al' I" it b l;3e ' VZl l , l ,W...... ' r i f!.ll . l .stletlAtwe. tancc and alt other R ole mean, of atoug.inent.lll n.• Cup plied by toe Cotnto , ttee. Pr h‘tmtselon, 140 I'I:NTS rischt I teeelee yen... cKS TS pact, For al! the ,e - omlnr. 01 lea, a of the two Otte,. h. A. NEALE. Cb•lrethrt of COISIII/ Mee ,Im'et Mea t/7.11. V. W.l/11.1 It. Itontu. MARKET RATES =Ea Government Securities, GOLD, SILVER, AND COUPONS. AS, T. BRADY & CO., Bankers, Con Fourth & Wood SIN. - SION-ENDINE IN TEE WINDOW THE • UNDERSIGNED CALL 1 especial attention Cu their Stock of Pure Spices, Uround and silted undo; their immediate super vision. and sold without adulteration. AL4O;TO THEIR LINE or, cc•vuJLS, c