11 littAurgij Gap*. MIS ESE M+l BD. BY ranalkiWiflUPP4. 4 k.. ViNt 147071 11040 W5. 1. rzwinsuot, • Josi.An insd, T. P. g"B rid Y lior; , .; OFFICE.' • , • ~ GAZETTE BUILDING`. NOS. 84 AND 86 FIFTH ST • 4 .• CIAL PAPER Ot PiltistalligilliiAlleghipaay 'and Allegtelnay •, . ' . . Totiwr-Thigil. ;liking- Weelay..i • . Weekin , Oue year 1., 35.1)0 One year.V.EO,Slngle c0py...411.50 11 :1 11 :Mtn. ,75 Six. mos:. 1.5 0 . 5 copies, tai 1.75 1 the week, VS Three mos .0110 •• '• . • .15 earlier. ) 1 Ann one to Agent. 31.A.3r 5, 1868• Tni,'WEEuvr GezETTE, used osi-itred_ nesdays and ..,Sata relays, is the best and cheap est fami/inetespaper in Pennsylvania, presents each week forty-eight eoluinni 'of solid rattling matter. It gives the fullest its as the most reliable market reports of any paper in , the ,Stale. , " _its files aro used', exclu sivery bythe Cioi Court,' of Allegheny county for• referenceiniinportant issues to detersnine the ruling prices in the lnitikets at the. time of the business transaction in dispute: Minis : :Single copy, one year, $1.50 ;. in Issii,;offite, ;1,25, in clubs of ten, $1,115i and one free to the getter up of the club. • Specimen copies 'sent free to any addresi. .•. , • . WE PRINT on the inside pages of this snoTning'i 4aAZETTE : &tong page:* Poetry afl Efihemeris.. :Third page: Yynaneial Affairs -in New York, Markets by Telegraph, Ritter, Sews • Ind coal Shipments. Sixth page':" _Muffled and Trade and Home Mar kets. ;Seventh page: Agricultural Depart - merit. GOLD closed yesterday in New York at 180 a. TEE Blue Noses of Nova Scotia have re considered their objections to the Canadian' Confederation, adopting a resolution, sthe other day, by large majority, confirming the princiPles upon which , the new' Do minion has been created. : ' Timm. is" no: longer any fair room for doubt that Georgitti has given ample majori 'ties fOr.the Constlintion, for the Republican' Staaticket, and for a Republican control in 'both branches of the Legislature.`: We have no further' information as to the Congres sional ticket Tam PRESIDENT'S habitual and illegal as- , aaraPtions of authority are imitated by his subordinates, one of whom, Secretary, WELLEs, requires, it is said, that graduates! of the Naval Academy shall serve two years before they are promoted above the rank of midshipmen. Of this complaint is made, as' it is said by an act of Congress the cadets are entitled to the rank of ensign immedi ately upon their giaduation. IT, is understood that Kr. 4 . .931ES L. GIU-1 HAM will accept a re-nomination for the' office of State Senator, but'will not canvass: to obtain it, So far no competitor has ap-; *lad- agninst him for the pities; and it is now probable that nonewillapPear. This is a,visu ;strong testimonial to the faithfulness with which he has served for six years past, and to the unusual confidenoe with-which lie has naturally inspired his constituents. The Revolution is,. of course, a joicrual! -without a peer in its special department "ofi social and political agitation. Owned by Mrs. 8. R Anthony and edited by litre. E C. &Alton and Mr. Parker Pillsbury', it as; SUMO. to be "the organ of, the 'National! Party 'of New America," which we under stand to be . the partyof Universal Equality, , irrespective of race, colcrar sex, The Bei , - otutiort Las undertaken a very large contract, and we Shell make it a point to observe • its pingreas, pledging in advance our admiration if'not our convictions., Mu. BEIZION'r and his friends decline to :mint to the holding of the Democratic Con vention earlier than the day already fixed, July 4th. It is gliren out that this refusal is prompted by a - desire to be acquainted with the Republican nominations and plat form. As these are to be made public as early ss the 21st or 22nd of May, it is fair. to believe that Mr. PENDLETON'S Democratic opponents do not assign in this their real ground of objection. As Pm:Dimon' stock is daily declining, they perhaps hope to defeat his nomination by the largest possi ble del!ty. The situation has a bad look:for . Ma. Billonant commenced his argument I _yesterday, for the prosecution, and closing. the case. He will probably finish to-day. The Senate then assumes the further con trol of impeachment, . deliberating in secret sessions until its verdict is made up. The pending propositions of Mr: SIIIMEIT and• others, relative to restrictions upon the length of debate, will be first settled. It is to be very much desired that the final judgment upon inipeachment may not be. ' 4. needlessly delayed, yet it is eiltmllY proper that there should an ample latitude given to every Senator,-for the e;pre,ssion of $s viOws, iriffsuch a comparison of opinions as will ensure en united vote:upon the main • 'Mee. • , • • 50L411611 13 _ ' Raving disfranchised the students at the institutions of 'learning throughout their State, the Ohio Democracpare making their majority in the Legislature available in the renewal of the old Wartera - upon the sot- diets of the Union. Not content with the hostility which the records orthii past seven yet:WS show triat they have steadily entertain & against the wearers of the ,blue, toy h av e milted once more the Confederate i)Oicy : of attack upon the Wounded had dis abled veterans. It was a ehameteriatic tune of rebel cruelty, that, in this regard, the humane restrictions which were recognized by the'lawsiat dirilized Warfare elsewhere, • were utterly disregarded in their treatment of the -laden' wounded. If one of our hospitab3 chanced to fall into their hands, its unhappy tenant,,73TltcrTitisall)f.e. . L • pr,l posed to the fullest measure of their fero cious barbarity. The Ohio Copperheads keep alive this sort of tactics, asNyell - tiefCan; and are riow shakhig war upon the 6iPPled velerani Who inhabit"tha• National .Asylum at. Dayton, passing through one branch of their L'efp'slature on tiiiaay to prohibit these soldiers from voting. Our Ohio exchanges regard the passage of the bill* the'ether:hiancif, as:ln; and COneur in stating that the Democratic Sena tors who voted ior.it ‘.!are.the same fellows who howlediffeWitie the constitutional fimendment disfranasing draft-inesks and deierters'"' To hstveaerved the Republic in tile diva of its: great peril is Fence whiCh Copperheadism can never a3.l.° forgive, forgive A RAIL ItOAIS' SOUTHWARD. The western" shiPe. of thaAPPalachian Vat , . tern of mountains is ~remarkably: rich in minerals; mid is divided. into several paral lel valleys. Coal, ,irou, lime , and fire clay constitute its nest iiiiiibitint iiineial,pio ductions, while the soil of its beautiful and salubriOui valleys is excellent. Through the most extensive of those val leys which run parallel .with the main moun tain chain, extending ' , fro& , the .- neighl,icir hood of Lake Erie in asouthward treetiOn far into Virginia, the Allegheny land Mon ongahela both have their courses. Coming from nearly. ,opposite , , directions7—tha ' .9 1 e from the north, the other from :the_ south— they meet at Pittsburgh, form 'the Ohio, and thence, having broken through the swell of land which runs froni near the sonthern shore of. Lidte . Erie along the ,ty t estern. ; bar- der of Pennsylvania, And through West Virginia, where it 1 divides the country drained by the Monongahela from , that -which sheds its water into the Kanawha, , , their united watere, no longer obstructed by the successive ranges of the mountain system, puriiiii their way q.aitly.and ginily to the center of the Mississippi hasin. With the Allegheny portion of this great Halley,, Pittsburgh has now excellent rall road corafrinalcittiori; but '..with?Aliat to:the south, which is drained , by the Mononga hela, there is no communication over which the_products of the wintry can lie carricd except to the limited extent reached by the Monongahela Slackwater, the groat success of which attests the native wealth of the valley. 'The Pennsylvania Railreid Titans in connection with the heart of the moun Min system directly east of us, and soon the Connellsville, road. .will open .up Another avenue in the same direetion; but more to' the south; neither of these roads, hoWet - er, gives us access to. the southern end—per- Imps the best end—of our own great valley, which reaches away - down to thh_borders of North Caxolina and into Tennessee. —, Pittsburgh-is- the only great-city-which. yossesses a, direct natal:Biz:into for a railroad into that region ; and to no city would a connection with it be of such vlue; for it, is a region of iron and coal mines' and of - vast .and almost unbroken forests. Moreover its numerous fertile valleys, with their more southern clitnate,nvould add greatly to-our market supplie.S, and l give us many vegeta bles earlier than we can now - obtain them. Two railroads now cross the regibn of which we are speaking from east to west— the Baltimore and Ohio road, which would be crossed by this proposed line;at Gmftpn, in West Virginia ? and the Virginia and Tennessee Milked at liewbern, a feri miles north of the line, between. ,' ,Virginia , and North Carolina. This Newhern is some times confounded. with Newborn, North Carolina, bat, it,)? more than three Imi dred miles 'nd'rth west of that Neivbern;., yet a road to Newlierri,-Tirginia, would give us a continuous communication by rail with the other Newberri, as well as, with all the towns on the Atlantic slope south of, the P otomac, and alio with the entire 'waken of railways of the south-west southof the Cum berland. -; , . . A road`up the Monongahela to its head in West Virginia, thence tO, the Greenbrier, which rises in the same valley. and flows in the opposite direction to the Kanawha, sold thence up the ILanawha,„tobjetylmina would put this city in direct communication with nearly all the South on both aide; of the mountains. Newbem is three and 'a half degrees south and half a degree west of Pittsburgh, . and on no part of the line is there any large deflection from a north and south course. iNo, mountain range has to be crossed ,by _elimbing; but the Kedia,wha, above the Mouth' of the Greenbrier t cuts through one. , That :ls' all,' , The 'distance from Pittsbnrghto Newbemhy . this route would probably lie frorn two hundred and fifty to , three hundred miles, a, little leas ,than one-third of which would be within our own State. The line would ; pass I through the entire length of West Virginia, from north to south, not far from the east- 1 ern border, and about twenty-five miles 1 1 into Old „Virginia, in the upper end of the valley of the Kanawha. Between the Bal timore and Ohio railroad and • Newbern . the country is destitute of any communication with the outer world other than common roads; consequently it is sparsely populated, poor and but little improved. Abounding in iron ore, coal and: 'timber, there are:; no furnaces; and even agriculture. is proseented under great'disadvantages. - - With a railroad built on this route, and a slackwa.ter navigation on the Kanawha, to which that river is admirably adapted, at least as far up' as the mouth of the Green brier, where it would Meet this proposed road, nearly the, whole. of West. Virginia ~ could be .made to prosper greatly and pour ' its immense, native wealth into Pittsbugh as Its natural emporium. , . ~. , . ~. But to make a Blocky - voter onthe Kanawha steadily available will require a, like im provement on the Ohio. Meanwhile the proposed ridlroad, if Made, will have awakened a new. life in the upper part of the valley of that river, and prepared a trade for the slackater that will make the enter: a great success. The two prejects.are by no means antagonistic.: Nothin,gap, 413'404,0d-thitt wiltso.elieer, tilinilletai,t*yiTln4/3 ofXqre4/4111/On country, and sitraihrtCerue-, ,A, Acal perity, as such nor W and south" avenues ef =lli . . .... T 4 :?, Y...c1 i'',; '...1- 19E21 = ISE PITTSBURGH GAZETTE : TUESDAY,: MAY 5, 1 S( intercommunication as the one of which we are speaking: •We haveispo4s of the , de-. iel2pment of iliJ` wealth or wcANrii . gWas ba - iiii r kaantis pit - 4 I N ft ii3iif Seeinitiaiy importancecoratiaredmilh a'dtrect cornice- - tlol4,which this road: would give martvith lhoiismdlt, of miles of, milway already made, but with which i Nve have now no Connection, wluttever: To secure such a connection is worthy o€ i4ietit'eftrirl, lin& 41tat,'-effort, it' made at all, must be made by lE3ttsburgh. This opportunity is like one of tliose tides in the affairs of maw which, as 131mkspeare says, "if taken, ati_the flood; ,kad on to for tune." No other city can, tap that country , so easily, so naturally, as ours, and turn the - fat currents of its trade this wa ; but if our Noilie delay very long We shall see once more what for sortie years past we saw.in ilgill - MgiOni. 'ofifertingo=we ; shall &Le --...-- rival cities, in the face of all their distuin va • r . • . tugeti,qmatelting away ti great Vinbrwhileh naturally belongs , to ps. , , Thanks to the ,nav igationstf Um Aleg4eux pad to the _energy. of t o ol- Tirrxit,iiits ilittfAvitclid iio`t fose all ,t4attnidei, j.C.Rittelmrgh would retain her ascendency she must take care of her own interests and put forth her utmnst strength. HOW *TO BePupo; IHREPRESSI. BLE ,o,EEsfunig. question of Equality of Race ap pears once more in the church. The de libeiinions of the General° Conference Chicago on Saturday were: igorously dis turbed by it; in the shape of a minion to ad mit'pertain Southern Mission Catnierences, composed wholly of colored ministers and people, to an equality of representation. As usual, the question was fairly met, by Some of the delegates participating in the very earnest discussion which the motion gave rise to, and who advocated the passage upon the substantial,merits, which they claimed •for it. Others, 110Wever, evinced the dispo sition often exhibited in deliberative'bodles on this question, to 'give it the go-by as lon{ as possible, evading direct action bY --- Soini adroit side-issue. The substantial point in. volved was really, , this:' Shall Equality of Race be recognized in the MethodistiOliurcli and discipline ? The side-issue, upon which several inffilentlid delegates proposed to send it off, was by way of in objection that no "Mission" Conferences, white or colored, were entitled to represen tation. There are discrepancies between the reports of the discussion as printed in the Chicago papers of Saturday evening and as telegraphed to the press, each apparently supplying the deficiencies of the other. Jus tice to a prominent delegate from this city, who insisted upon the validity of tlie`umis aloniiii" Objection, requires it to be stated that he is officially reported not only as in favor of admitting those Conferences cs soon as it could be done properly, but as hoping that "they would be admitted before the Conference finally' , adjourned." Those del -eitttes who felt prepared to meet at once , tthe grave - questions involved in the mat ter," were unable to get a direct vote ; and upon the suggestion of Dr. DURBIN, of Plilladelphin, the whole question Araff 011 the table to await the oft:Idol report from the Bishops upon organization gener ally. Undoubtedly, it will be again under consideration before the Conference ad journs, and the spirit already evinced by in fluential delegates renders a square and tri umphant vote upon the principles at issue not unlikely. - The efforts of the friends of Eigldity in political rights will be entirely unavailing so long as , any,exclnsions, fir caste or, c 0147, shall berecognized by the leading religions denominations. Until we see the end of this, it is' of very, little use to agitate for Equal fitiffrage, or to combat the social prejudices of the people,, or, to hope for the slightest practical recognition of anyrights for the black tneewhieli the white majority is bound to =meet. So long as a rellgir `denomination which, numbers eight thou sand preachers find More than eleven hun tired 'thousand enrolled inemberividehfs second to no sect of the Protestant faith in its influence upon the thought, the politics, the statesmanship • of the- nation,—which controls the cultivated classes by the learn ing. and the polished oratory of its distin guished divines, which, combining the Bible, the rifle and the axe, has carried the ministrations of the Gospel along the most advanced:frontier of civilization, illustrating_ Christian duty in the midst of pioneer hard- . ships and perils, and setting up the standard IA the_Cross in wilderness and mountain pass where no other Protestant missionary oteircuit-rider had ventured in the lino of Christian duty—a denomination, which is adorned througiunit the world by every Christian grace and yihich, by its' faithful zeal in ministration and by the simple purl- I ty of itsnctive faith, has become a recog- I nized power in the land—so gong as the 1 Methodist Episcopal Church hesitates to de clare for Equality, as a matter of simple and Christian justice, just so long will thnhope of its recognition by politicians or legislators prove vain and delusive. Is it any cause for wonder that the poor, ignorant world's people, the rank and file of political parties, the masses of the Dem— ocracy, with a very large proportion of the Republican party, should be unable to see their way clearly upon a question which seeing to gravel these learned divirm? Are we to be surprised if plain folks, who aro (confessedly • in the, habit of deciding the issues before them Amon such 'simple lights as aro afforded by their own reasonings, the tnschings of their newspapers and the in culcations of such Christian ministerS as they weekly listen to, • should be controlled by their old-fashioned prejudices; and should be'indifferent to the nicer shadingi of ab stract 'principle , or, an elevated Morality, when we see that even their clergymen, whose sacred-duty - it toconfesi and`dl dare the truth, listen -- rather to suggestions of temporary> expediency,. and diplowatise upon troubleiiime qUestions with the cow "MY adroitnes s of small politicians ? The Methodist church has sometimettbeen denounced as an "Abolitlott,ls -46 Blaik publican," • incealarY iirEnnization:' doubt, a very larg e P91,1- rt iort of its clerical membership sympathizes In the sentiment of , • , 1 ISE= *4 fi , i" . . -A-41 loyal patriotism which peculiarly marks one great political ' party. • Uriquestionably,sthe WhynbershiP,Ofthig ilferinithOoll s ekercise a 'Pekverfalliidirieneeliort Republican 'Sew . timenfs. It is idle to hope for any decided progress upon this question of justice to the black race,eo long as itis • scountenanced by so potent a body as the methodist General Conference. -May we n t desire that their deliberations will yet,res It in a conscien tious and bold deelaratio of ,the faith Which is in them?. Let us trust,