D . E PUBLD3KED DAILY, BY - • PENNIMAN, NEED .IE CO., Proprietors. P. R. nonrairAN. 1 JogrAn limo, T. P. HOUSTON, IR. 1.. REED, • Editor* and idannsrens„ GAZETTE BUILDING. NOS. 84 AND 86 FIFTH ST - OFFICIAL PAPER Of Plteseargh, Allegh en y and Allegheny Cotuaty. -- Taixs—Dally. I Semi-Week hr. i meekly.. . - ove r year-4SM One year.V.3o,Blngle c0py....5.60 One month. 15 Slx mos.. 1.50! 5 copies, each. 1.25 By the week, lb Three num '73,10 • ,•• 1.15 1 : (b'onl - Carrier. 1 and one to Agent. SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1668 TIIE WEEKLY GAZETTE, Issued on Wed— niedays and Saturdays," is the beatamtcheap est family neispaper in Pennsylvania. . It presents each week forty-eighi columns of solid reading matter. it glees Use fullest •as Iva as the most reliable market repots of any paper in the State. Its files are used mitt sirely bythe Cicil Courts of ..41kgheny county for referentoin important issues to determine the ruling prime in the markets at the time of the business transaction in dispute. Terme : Single copy, one year, sl.4p ; in clubs office, $1,25; in clulat of ten, $1,15, and one free to the getter up of the club. Specimen copies sent free aillay cairns. WE PRINT Ori the (nude' pages or this morning's GAZETTE : Second page, Ephem eris,Corutensed Yew s Third page, Markets, Financial and :Ricer News. Third page, Some Markets. Seventh page, Interesting Miscellaneous Reading Hatter. Goth dosed in. New York ydsterday at 1391. ' RE RESULTS of the elections in Georgia and North Carolina are still in doubt, at this writing. The defeat of the Constitution in the former State is claimed by the Demo crats, Who boast, nevertheless, that they have elected a Governor under itsprovisions. We must wait a few days to know the truth. The Associated Press reports frem the South I are remarkably uniform in their rebel lean ings, suppressing as far as practicable any , news which could gratify Republican& The majorities of 10,000 to 20,000 in Louisiana and of 43,000 In South Carolina place Re construction in these States oat of danger. Tun REPORT that Messrs. Groesbeck, Evarts and Stanbery are yet to make speeches in defense of their client, and that Messrs" Williams, Stevens and Bingham are severally to be heard for the managers of int peachment, is very likely to be correct. Of • course this Will delay the final submission of the case to the latter part of the coming week. If the Senate concurs in the propo sition for an official report of its secret dis . cessions, the delay in the vote will be still longer protracted.. Very few of the Sen ators will bp able to resist the temptation to spread their individual views upon a record .of such.general interest, and we may look for at least three days to elapse before the first decisive vote is taken. We have an ticipated this vote as early - as May AV, but the country will be fortunate if it be reach "ed even in the very last hours of the week. Washington advices sustain our estimate that thirty-nine Senators will vote for Mr. Johnson's conviction. The proposition that the discussions be taken down by the ottela reikerters, is very significant of - the _ _ opinions of &IWO'S, who would not court such publicity in the interest of the accused. El Flamm of the President, who have fill, ed the Democratic newspapers of late with confident. predictions that impeachment will fail :of a constitutional majority of the Senate, may succeed in deceiving die credu lous for a'few days longer. But the course which events will take is plainly, enough foreseen by Mr. Johnson himself, and by all the leading 'Democratic politicians. It is understood that he is already engaged in, his "personal preparations for leaving the White /inure ; that.the members of his Cab inet are occupied in the same way ; that all efforts to anticipate the order_ of, the public business in the Biecutive departments, or even to dispose of such matters arising in . its ordinary course as can be left °vet with out serious inconvenience, have been re cently discontinued, and that the spetidy close of, the present administration is re garded by all concerned, whether superior or subordinate, as a certainty.with the close o: the present month. It has even been proposed, among the opponents of the Re publican party,.to urge Jefferson Davis to leave the country before the :new adminis tration goes into power, the apprehension being that he will be hung,' irhe___Comes fairly wfttin the Republican clutch: COuld, riva have ?froncer indirect evidence. of the PeIIM9MUC, bell 4 in MP iaPvitilltle results Qr titg impel:lament"? ' IF TILE latest. advicesfrom Japan, are be credited, tie government of that empire has been radically refolutionized; "c: The off . hifiq supremeal?tlitni'4 - Of thy Ali.w2 7 --which was in thedity tirAi only apinttial but temporal, but which, in fact, has been,. beyond the memory of foreigners,mere; sbadownider the usurpations of the great-, est of thersemi-independent princes holding the power successively as Taicoons---has been at last re-established, by the comPlete defeat of the present claimant of the' latter title and his retirement 'tram any _flintier contest. The war has been brief but Ban . raillery, until:tits couree; the treaty privi leges of foreigners have been frequently in fringed upon. The 1440, itieguniug pow; the undivided authority, promises.that these wrongs shall be atoned 'for, and titer:6ls good reason for wnfiding in the sincerity of his pledge • The restoration in this myste rious empire;of a responsible gbiernment, with a altigte head,4lll be a long step for wan, to the etitablishinent of, those pe neatly amicable rehltione with the Christian world which;. of 'Mclean, it has been' clearly the Japanese' poilcy 'to cultivate. To no fordigrirration has this fact more important signlflcaace than to our own widch, upon its Pacific folnt, is established as their,near est neighbeind with regular steam coni zmunicatoitir - - .. OFFICE In Pennsylvania two Asylums for the Insane,. mainly endowed from - the public _treasury, have existed for a series of years. In them about six hundred patients are steadily under treatment. It is not pre tended that this department of medical science has attained unto perfection. Such a condition can rationally be affirmed of no science, or of any department thereof. Whatever may be said of the comparative certainty or positivity of surgery, as much cannot with truthfulness be said of medi cine; much less of that department of it which undertakes "to minister to mind diseased." Mental philosophy is confessedly the most intricate and perplexing' of all studies. This was wily Coleridge affirmed that "metaphysics is the science, the evil spirits in hell delight to discuss." Its sub tleties and intervolutions, he assumed, sharpened their wits, afforded the wildest play to their faculties, and left them after all in teasing uncertainty. But the medi cation of insanity involves more. It neces sarily takes cognizance of that intricate point at which the intellectual and physical —the spiritual and the material—touch and blend, so that it is the most difficult of all prOlems to tell where the one ends and the other begins. Nevertheless, the modern treatment of the insane has reached such pitch of excellence that vast advantages steadily result therefrom. Ameliorations are not only numerous, but a very large proportion of all the patients who are brought proMptly under treatment upon the first manifestation of the malady are re stored to the normal use of their faculties. Nor has an end been reached in the line of improiements. But these two establiShMents have been found inadequate to the proper detention and treatment of that portion of the.insane for whose welfare the Vommonwealth, ac cording to the prevailing conception of its duty, onghtlo make provision. Not that insanity has increased in larger ratio than the Population; but that numerous classes of insane persons who were formerly nn- cared for, and_ either allowed, to roam at pleasure or else were confined in out - buildings, are now brought under beneficent su -pervision and treatment. Nor is this all. A better understanding otmental diseases has revealed the fact thatmany intellectual :conditions, once rated as annoying idiosyn crasies, or something of that sort, es sentially abnormal and unhealthy, and are amenable to remedial instrumentalities. In consequence, a bill was brought before the late Legislature to provide forthe eree tion of a new asylum, especially intended to accommodate a score of the northern and north-eastern counties. It was felt that the location of this additional house ought not to be determined with a view to-aggrandiz ing this or that borough, but SO to be , • reached most speedily and cheaply by pa tients frinn the respeCtive counties directly to,,he benefited; and therefore'corrimissioners were named in the hill, who represented the best medical idea's bearing on • the 'subject, , find altogether disinterested in other pp- - • culaxs. .In this form the bill tree passed inte-'it law; the locati;: a 101 l be. fi xed, and the Houle m . lll .in Olitibl as the State shall furnish the Indippensable maticy. But, tho.bill did. 'not go through Without serltiii~ opposition.,. Some .of, the 'members were -resolved to strpngle it, if they could: Thei did nothesitate to aVowthe belief that ,the insane were better off with no treatment, ,than, with such care as the , best medical knowledge of the age can furmsh. ln fact, they seemed to halt hetween two opinions ; the first regarding Lnnatic Asylums as a sort of inquisitional lock-up, where unfortu nate men and women were imprisoned and plagued to gratify mischievous. curiosity or mistaken benevolence; the second, regard ing such establishments as palaces where a species of profeSsional dilittanteism, luitiri ously pampered at pablic cost, displayed a frivolous or mischievous activity. Rather than this, they did not hesitate to avow that It was better to turn the inmates of all Alsy. luins into the highways, . or drive, them out' to consort with wild beasts. When the high civilization. of the present is spoken of , itwill not age, Ja.thia . ,aaltPtryt do to infer that . ell the popilition shain-in that advancement. But from our popula tibb can be picked specimenk:of;all,the Civi lhations that are Or arkirq',44o.;:•Tliknoie• - i , o• - MEM ~ '' .~ , ~?c: : t:in- , so~~ .~~uJs7s +IV i I LUNATIC HOSPITA e„, .44. tarqrtrt. In few particulars does the civilization of thq present age stand in, stronger or, more favorable contrast to that of ancient times than in the treatment of the insane. The great nations of antiquity made small ac count of what are now known as the hu manities. Citizens thereof made famous repuiations by acts now esteemed of ordi nary' decency and morality. Individuals, and nations were hard, exacting, imperious, unfeeling, blood-thirsts The animal in their nature was not even measurably tamed. Wild beasts not nnfrequently fall upon such of their kind as suffer physical misfor tunes; and either drown or drive them into solitude. In like mariner, men and women smitten with insanity were anciently driven from among their fellows, into desert places, as frowned upon by the Alirdghty and possessed of unclean spirits. Afterwards, as the notion of demoniacal possession dis appeared, the insane, instead of being driven into "Wildernesses, were shut up, manacled, _starved, scourged, and subjected to the most revolting barbarities. At length civil ization rose so high, in advanced and ex ceptional individuals, that a wiser and better system was conceive.' and introduced. By these, insanity was pronounced a mental disease, and treated accordingly: Now, conunonwealths build palaces for the custody and treatment . of those whose minds are disordered. Communities have risen to the plane occupied only by the foremost among them a half or quarter of a century ago. How vast the change! Formerly forts, cas tles, dungeons, amphitheatres, highways and acqueducts; these, and such as these, only. Now, they erect and' sustain schools for the ignorant, hospitals for the sick, homes for the destitute, and asylums for the deaf and dumb, the blind and the insane. Civilization never attained this altitude beforte. 11111 ~"47P1.7,11`,9-4.."-,, 73.; - ,Iz*,,,""ZrEal An article entitled, "The Morality, of Hop-raising," in the Advance, (a Congrega tional paper) of Chicago, presents the obli gations of professing Christians in rather a new light, and will be unsavory to tlMse Christians who believe in making money r at the expense of correct morals. Hops being moderately - narcotic, they have a tendency to quiet the nerves and Induce sleep. This „Element enters into beer manufiictured from hops, and produces more or less effect on the nervous system, and classes with tb- liacco and epium. Hops are not used for food, clothing and fuel. They are not needed for the support, comfort and elcva- Ition of human life. Their culture not only works against the interests of the beer drinking poor, but the teMperate and indus trious poor. Every acre put to hop raising enhances the prices of progucts by pre venting the -raising ofgrain or corn and other useful articles. Hops are needed for yeast, but' very little yeast is ' needed. Many Christians and temperance men have been induced to raise them because it is said they are good for tanning, but this is denied, as tanners cannot afford to pay over six to eight cents per pound for such purposes, and they are not used. The assertion is a mere trick of the trade to induce rood men to . Iraise them. Their commercial value and profit arise solely from their use in the man ufacture of beer, and beer drinking being on the increase in the !United States, their value is enhanced accordingly. Hop raising for commercial purposes is a labor promo tive of intemperance. The duty of Chris tians and temperance men is plain not to I raise them, as there is a responsibility in volved that will work to their spiritual det. I riment. Some persons attempt to justify hop raising, 'by classing hops with corn. Corn is made into whisky—hops into beer. But corn constitutes food, and is mainly cultivated and used for it,- Probably nine teen-twentieths is thus consumed by man or beast. But hops do not constitute food, and every "hop-raiser must know that nine teen-twentieths of his hops go to swell the tide of drunkenness." The great pecuni ary profit, is the source of temptation to raise hops. and professing Christians and temperance men are induced to hush the throbbings of ‘ conscience, by imaginary arguments, without any real foundation for them. iQuite a number of distinguished ministers and educators have been removed by death Within a short time past. Rev. Dr. Baugh man, for forty years cOnnected with the Pennsylvania Lutheran College, at Gettys burg, has been suddenly cut off. For, eigh teen years he was its Proident, - tilling the position with signal ability. Nearly abbut the same tinie,.Rev.- Dr. Johnson, President of Dickinson College, under the care of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died after a brief illness. Scarcely more than: a month ago we sat near Lim in Exeter street Church, Baltimore, during the Session of the East Baltimore Conference, while he WaS arrang ing work connected with the College, for the ensuing summer. Little .did we think he would be called away suddenly and so soop. Intelligence has just reached us of the death of Bishop Hawks, of the Protes tant Episcopal Diocese of Missouri. For twenty years he has filled the office of Bishop, during which, time the Episcopal Church in Missouri greiv to large propor tions in numbers and wealth. Ho was very popular and fraternal with the clergy of St. Louis, of every Emme. It is not a great while since Dr, Maclean, President of. Princeton College, passed away from earth to the better land. His loss was keenly felt._ . ' I. Five years figo the Liltiiatith -Synod of 31 -, a uef..bta.tvas cot posed of two English had two German ministers. It has now twenty-two ordained ministers anti about fifty congregations. Rev. Dr. Henry—Kendal, , formerly ipas= tor of iThird Presbyterian church in this city, now Secretary of Homo -Missions of the New School bodY, sailedfoi,:Europe:mt the 11th, to have rest from the ardent labors in which he has bectc•gngaged ! • -: .` The discourse of Rev. Joseph H, Pressly, of Erie,'Pa., to, the Afunini of the United'.Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Alio gheny, Pa., Wednesday, of last week, 14 represented by the Banner as an able ond, but its purport, as was evident from its con! clusiop, may be comprehensively stated "as a plea for the divisions j eitisting in - tile . ' Church, and a protest against present tif. forts at re-onion.": ' ' ' There are fifty Methodist Churches In Philadelphia, valued at over'a million'pr dollars, and with sixteen thousand otli . membership.' The pastor of-the Second Presbyterhin Church; at ,New Albany, ladian a , a s h n i p it f i, the ordinance of baptism by immoral44' We believe this is lluuslJal• . i At the recent session of the Allegheny Npiled PresbyterlaniPresb*r T ßi ry i i:,R.' Itiii, of Allegheny City; *ached a:4)er.t . , mon on oath-bound societies, founder, -On' Pird Thesssionlans;, filth''CllSPtei and titeiz! ty-Secead verse. :Dr. I B. Clark femictid d MI • •k • - Maa..f-ek PITTSBURGH. GAZETTE : SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 18 numerous specimens are not of the higher types, but of the. lower; ,nten. and, women who 'contrive to live, holding 'on to all the ignorance, Passion; prejndfce; and of the darkest ages, and yet fancYinethey are bright ensauiples of . the best thll-orbed mental enlightenment and moral cultivation can produce. It will not do to judge the age by these. No age has been known but would be utterly discredited by such a test. To illustrate—when the Elizabethian age in England is spoken of, the design is to mag: nify, not the mass of the people, but the com paratively few choice spirits o y made the age illustrious. The bulk of h the population were of another sort, who would have found a congenial social and civic atmosph re thousand years before. Those members of the Legislature I could find no good; but only harm, in L n tic. Asylums, may properly be regarded specimens from remote antiquity, who hal come down to these times to retard as fa i r possible the progress of society. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. =EI =1 MI ___ ... _..... that he Lad organised, iu' February last, the .congregation of Etna, consisting of . forty four 'members. Sdnieeirelitifakellthe' 'tioribletiiimik - throUgh the list of the:: Episcopal Churches in. this country, and reports that there ire 287 St. John's churches and 270 St. Paul's; while St. Cyprian, St. Augustine, St. Am brose, St. Polycarp, St. Cornelius, St. Thad deus, St. Columba, St. Margaret, St. Wil fred, St. Sylvauus and St. Chrysostom have one church each. The time 43 near at hand for the usual May anniversaries at New York. We find an nounced that the anniversary of the Amed , can Bible Society will take place on Thurs o day, the 14th, the business meeting at the Bible House at 9 - A. - 31., and the public . (0 meeting at Steinway Hall at 10 o'clock: i. The American and Foreign Christian Union is will hold its anniversary the same evening 8 - at Steinway Hall. -Dr. Joseph Duryea, Dr. 8 Lachlin Taylor, of -- Canada, and Rev;Mr.. .Pilatte, of F ' nce, W 11 address the meeting. Dr. J. P. Th imson will preach the annual sermon befo a the merican 'Home Mis sionary Sod ty on Sunday evening, the . . 10th. The P otestan Episcopal Children's- Missionary S ciety will convene at Stein way Hall, Sa rday, 3Oth, Dia. Tyng and Newton, and . ther clergymen, will speak. The American Tract Society Meets on Wed nesday, 13th, at Dr.lHall's church. Dr. Hall, ; Dr. Jessup, Of Syria and other speakers are engaged. Th6H annual re union of the American 'Congregational Union will occur at the Academy of Miele in Brooklyn. Senator Wilson will preside. A number of addtesses will be delivered,- Dr. John Hall, Rev. S. 11, Tyng,- Jr., and Others. Dodsworth's Band will .discourse sweet music. : The twenty-fifth anniversary of Rev. Dr. Spear's settlement over Pie South Presbyte rian Church, in Brooklyn, will be observed with appropriate servic6s to-morrow. The church then consisted of but seventy-two members. The additions since that time have been about sixteen hundred ; the pres ent membership is about seven hundred. According to reports of exchanges re ceived by the Independent, there have been eight thousand accessions during last week: Of these thirty-seven hundred: are among the Methodists, thirteen hundred among the Baptists, and twelve hundred among the two branches of Presbyterians. During Lent an Episcopal Lenten service was held daily, at Library Hall, Chicago, at quarter before one o'clock. The Seventh Day Baptist MisSionary So ciety supports sixteen missionaries in the home field, and has a single mission .church in China of twenty members, with a native pastor. Among the translations of the Lather n Obserrer from its German exchanges we learn the Episcopalians after various efforts. have at last established (place not mention ed) an Institution for training German Ministers, whose mission will be to organ ise and supply Episcopal congregations among the Germans. 'pier Mater anniversary of the Sunday, School of St. James Chuich, corner of Penn and Mechanic streets, will be held Sunday afternoon (to-morrow) at 31 o'clock, when the children and congregation will be addressed by Rev. Mr. Allen of Christ Church, Allegheny City, Rev. Mr. Wil son of Calvary Church, East Liberty, and Mr. P. it Brunet. A cordial invitation is extended to all. 1 Rev. Elbert S. Porter, D. D., who has had editorial charge of the Christian Intel ligeneer for the past sixteen years, in com pliance with the earnest wishes of his con gregation in Brooklyn, has