Wil LI 11 I J!,ilittohut 64itttft pUBLIBIiM) BY , • • 4- IllappkAlk " VOA "lonia innto, T. P. HOUSTON, d i RM. Editor[ an 'Hammers. OPFICE: GAZETTE BUILDING, NOS 84 AND 86 FIFTH ST OFFICIAL PAPER of Pittsburgh, Aliapir *nevus's, 1 .Toeine-rDatts. Heml.Weektij. ' - - Weekly. One Year.. .'. 95.0ng1e 00py....5 1 ..La I. e month. 'ls Six mos.. 140 5 copier , .".." 5 One year.s2.so Si the week. ` l5 Three mos 75 10 '' 4 ." ''' . 'V el ` ) ---- ' and ?Pe t? 4gent• U~tlkoo,':htatY 14. /661 . Tsz WzmacutilizErrz i tined on Wed neltdaidand Saturdays, is the best andehe, ap-, est family newspaper in lienpagirania. It presents each week fortreigla columns of solid reading :natter. It gives the fullest as well as Me view relkible market reportaqf any paper in the Btate. Its files are used craw Kry by the Mal Courts of Ailegheny amidst for reference in important issualadotormine the ridin g prtuts in the markets at the time of the business transaction in &vio ls 'vi le; Single eopy; oncifectrAl.E4 ; in clubs office, $1,26; in dubs of ten, $1,15, and one fires to the getter up of the club.- Specimen copies sent free to any address. Ws Psner on the inside pages of this monling's GArsrrs : Second page : Poetry and Mieeellitneous Reading. Third page: .Ffnaneiai ,dfairs in Irma York, The Dry . Gags Market, River , Retoa, Import& Sixth page: . Home Mark* IYnanee and 7'rade.• Seventh page: The Paithions, iliseellaneous Clippings, Amusement Directory. • GILD closed yesterday in • New York at 1891. LET:the counti rejoice that a majority of the Senate have been faithfial, among so many faithless. The intrigue to throw this government into the hands of copperheads and traitors has failed'in the hoir.of its de. velopment. Try are Republicans who yet main— tain, or at least hope, that the conviction of the President is possible. Thew hopefulin dividua*fall to reflect that noneof the Con servative Senators, who have thus fiir de 'dared hoiv they will vote, 'ien to put their feet in a matter of this kind without knowing that enough are sure to follow to make the movement a success. • t WIEEN Dieu whOulve been held in high repute mab;•up their - minds to perform acts unworthy of their fame, they do not avow the real Motives. by which they are in fluenced, but east about - for plausible rea sons to assign. The reasons so far given in behalfofthe•Conscrvative Senators are so superficial and degrading as to excite just apprehenitionsthat below the depth ac knowledged thee is a profounder deep of disgrace. • TICE treachery or Tumuli: l ml FESSMSIMi & Co., benefits Republicanism by separat ing its tried and reliable friends, its sup porters on. principle and its defenders in its hour of trial, from the guerillas and.buih whackers who have hung upon its skirts, paralyzing its energies and blackening its honor. All this 'class of political plunder ers will - _itcreaut ;Senaters,and the RePublican party once more purified 4 IT BO BEEN APPARENT for many months :that Ma. .ToriN W. Fonstry 'and hampeied 'as a jetunalikt by.his official psoition. So tong BB he held the post of., Secret* of the he could not freely discuss` public res.:or pohttedly commend or! ciOn. the course of Senators. At last the ~ so irksome to his zusture,:lniarThe teralde, and be dastitoff; , At once his recovered _ilia elasticity vigor fpr, (chit Vag iziimerly Most` iemaikable. TALK of the pensonal Integrity of men trusted'with public station and charged their, oaths with the highest , remmsi tes, have, on: two coxelonul/exely. seven ;Its apart, recorded. *dm - selves - On each /of the gravest questions. ; Tliepositions ich they then chose, after. abundant dis on and tune fQr rplectipu, they nox Imitie and ding It Is Baia taistAbo sold themselves, and the!! reputed • hoist-of jhe integrity ! \ Mini/gum, WrwAm P. FAS and their associates in' this shiuneful to rob the people of pe just i ffnita : impeachment which these same men instrumental in originiting,-•wilf usual_ reward 4af. , traitors.. atatrOWW. aN, who uses them as „his Volp hat they' lAki to 'Eli hid nd ing, with its influence ilind..(ttower, r id abstulon themois people : discarded; them already lost and undone. • I • avadve jouirotirhicludingthe of this city, conceile that if WADS IVIIB or id ' of. the -conirletimk oft Iko.;#',4110:410; vanish: thia is to confess in the possible form, • that timtiiiiirve.:• - are not actuate:l'll - that nice ' uustice which , was - recently clahrted Put ere impelled by litgrnal -:What better tam tabs controlled hy Motlyee ,ef 1014 than to put their Totes :or so much Cash?" - CT if I stab:Alike the Ocmsereative -ly after announcing their 7 sa'teciacquit the Prod. dlue .wlth tha Chief -73 2 11" , eat of tinoikinget4e - , ,llopoWipju.„-pooz • diced of Mr: . Pike, : Wirttnif l iOVit of , this'rePresentotiOni ”k 6 / 1 1 0 1 4",./0 4 1i JILZIrtf ' - k GitrlLL ic.Lavre— r , .73.41 mi A l cy ',./1 - vssFse4:7l. '.9orgt . o sui4 €.) • . _ WE wish the projected new party joy of their prospects. A handful of traitors, who, ortheiiiiraiirgaff . ritiMeinailietter been in their' graves befoie" they: aelrieived . . _such measureless infamy, are not the stuff „out of which living and •powerftal_ parties' are made.. Their hopes will be blasted, their expectations will be , Dead . Sea apples, their future livm will termade Miserable, by the indignant EICOIII of every' honest 'Man, and there is not one , of these recreants who will not when dying which all that he had Worth Using ter shall have long Preeeded hire - I,v' WASHINGTON SY iip•CULEI tO PAZ. nos, the 0617397/enfia of this city arhong the number, affirm. that 419. ConserratimSett. ators will vote for theaiiidiial trie Ate,' . ident - aiscordanW with' , the tenrislif a bargain made with him, by which , they are to have the ffispositi of the public patronage in their respective States, and this withn view to the organization4ra tie* **Mimi play. This revelation \ does not surprise us, for we have long ohseried that gentrernen Who make a pamde of eminent social stand ing are apt to use their status as a cover from behirld which to -work: rasetdity • witkr N.ow is . Ehe tinie for Republicans . tO see who are their friends. The sincerity ;and purity of Republican principles Eire decisive ly tested by , current event& - When you hear a man expressing: his. doubt of Joßs son's guilt, when yon see 's. &motor dilating upon the. solemnities of his . oath, when you read it neWspalier Which ipoiogiiek for and extenuates the treachery ofyour leaders, be sure that the man was never heartily and upon principle a**publican; that the &Dar, tor seeks to cover his, , personal villainy , and that the newspaper never deserved belief or respect as an -exponent of the Republican Spoi all such and. their apolo. gists as the most ilaugerous-enernies of your party, corrupt jobbers while In poW er, traitors in ,the hour, of. peril: and ready to rend " yon in ye 'ui s eictirticitirk and remeMber them!, I'HIMPU3I,IO DECAY. The historian 11PaPhes no lesson more sad than that which illustrates the inseparable connection between the ripening of pasonal immorality and social deprivity,in any peo ple and the decay of its political greatness. The annals , of a ll time concur its dating the 'Tlecedeuee„.of the. power wad , influence of States fretu the culmination of private ivickednessits the people, AU ranks of so ciety become corrupt, licentious, devotees of plassare rather than worshippers of justice and truth, all private Mations ;beceme morelizal, Public men =render themselves .to a slitunefld'Venality, the 'Poiier of high place is prostituted to personal profit, to the greitication of infamous &Sires, or the ac complishment of tmworthy.private ends. in the obliteration of all the remaining barriers which restrain the public policy by a sense of natural justice, of respeCt for the Divine law, or of deference to a surviving virtue. Society gives Ulf& Up; to tadusinifhl indif; ference to the obligations of decency, honor and truth, the parental, filial and matrimo nial relations are relaiced, -- or unblushingly dis Carded, the administration of Justice be comes impure and "corrupt, Its dicrees are sold for a vice, rulers no longer study the Hinkle ends, but seek only to make profit for themselves, oppressing the people, rob bing the treasury, makingmerclumdise of legislation, and trampling upon morality, justice and the national ` : good:` The' inevitt able'catastrophe is a general. Public lulu- It is a matter for much doubt whether the social corruptions abd thepoittleal demorali- . tion nationi'Are; either - ortliete, justly istiributableto the other. Certainly no people can be long misgoverned which . 4geseves its social regard for the purer principles 9f morality and virtue: • Nor 'could'any goy ernnient long withstand, in :the interests of_ national justice and public honor, tire de structive influences of private immorality and social debasement. Each reflects,, soon er, or later, with tikideliti; in - Vine be c : comes absolute, the moral. ,status of the.. other. _ Popular depravity., creates, and in time becomes the jut prey of, the public rottenness, aid the most admirable theory of government _soon yields, in practice, to ;thedestructive influences or social vice. No peCipleiaire eirer yet preserved their nation al kreattiess, pr long maintained their hide: Pendence, after they had ceased to. recopize truth, honer ..ais iirtne as the individual, social and, political nblikations. A disregard of all the Divine laws has in variably, preceded, if It did not result in, a corrupted, enervated and hopelessly a - / 'based social senument arid nine and overturned. State.' Apply these deductions from history to the Present state of society. politics and public Of:drain" this RePublic 'of Ours - , and we cannot avoid the most implerisant-zetlec lions. It is not to be denied that , a shame lessiminorality he's - made vain progress In sapping ;the basis-or Ala social-'structure. The marriage relation begins to be. regard .ed as but a temporary conveniese, The administration of justice is reduced to a 'Mete mockery.when it concerns'a , Wealthy criminal; no rlch,pl4 ll l ; wlch con nections; Rills to scape from the just penal `ties of'whatever crime' he may commit. .BeAsuality., the most niablitgliiiig;? dishonetij ty the most flagrant, vice the::Wost abomi nable, provided its surface be refined, have rtaries among all ranks, defenders in a corrupted press, championi in a dishonored Profession' and' Indulgence with venal' judges. Public exhibitioniiisiflinidiriensly vile ea any known to the Roman Egirt•e'or the old Prenthineruitthiriithelidecay; are sustained by our peoples which; his botanic orougtay 4gbancherl that it demands and will be"satisfied w,th i. puthii% ly wicked art 41nrirtli .Fl/8 of Whoa depravity,. lamrthis PI `our 'midst. .Placea or pubic tovii*Alt, 044 mue PRen l ,7-: boughtl r /40 4 die . and, t intetra, betij a r dal Iheir votes and denngdriiiolMl • Perf,,TlAAFOLtliftel***.%4lol,7 PREEDOM OE OPIN ION. • • In the long run; the habit of keeping back much of . what be thinks, actqfieitrUC tively on the man idniself, The practice dims his csnscienco and alters his very 'creed. - Ho suppresses -so much that in the end he blots out part of hienself, and/hard ly knows what he believes as a ermn, and. what as a partisan. While the process of decline is going on; the Man's 'utteran 14oilack the warmth, the clearess, the share edge, Which we find in the ideas that come straight from the heart and brain. That is why partisan r SPliechos, sound so hollowt that is why the writings of able men,A a li leadingVoltiennit &lei of thee/110*i so often laek edge and' distinctnees, 114 seen/ the work of anintellectual machine tether than of living intellect:l.-0a po s e: • • There is anotheeside to this subject, and one deserving of yet , graver consideration. „ Bo far as we are able to judge, the 'suppres. • elon of opinion is not the preeminent fault of these times. t the • c ontrary , the free -441 not to say 'recklessness, with which. r. o P inlollB ;9ol4l44~ 4 sret- MEPreswi t , . one OU - the chief bitnAlhee Pmsi and of individual members of society, ; It Is easy to'wln &reputation for`'t l / 14111 Mel,if 1 . 0710 cat - 59`far smother'hOtker *Meta' . ialet t speak all the shall) and- hitter P Or • thong* Wit,-,comea'ipt9 hisigditik Msiy briMail t7PUSiglarlt hilTe/ris o / l Aer Pun4 l *•l Min, in his labial/Ow .117.14116 fM Otis adopt the Itikk i dua fiefilltria keep unwAmmorts le , he wp,--arthee hfiiftww, no, 0 la, =To '° ~.tre:wtr .arrectic fir LEY , • • "z. • 1 t r 4 vt" A.:;5"4 ;414%. 4.4 ` ":;!"' cie - "^t ' ilia‘E ' r4Veth...7l.t&3l.:=;:k -,- - P.ITTSBUAGH GAZETTE; THURSDA , MAY 14, 1866 hy, - theircpirticipation . in the ime4gigeui tie settees oll,pjiblislltindir enrich them selves and their connections whits rapidity and to a magnitude of petit rieVer before dreamed of. The highest magistrate of the land lives, it is believed and not one denies - it, in the habitual daily disregard of personal morality and official Senators and Representativesliveln the most amine fill relations of personal immorality, and ,still enjoy the public confidence. - They en gage in the boldest jobs of public plunder, bestowing the national domain, the treasury funds, and the lucrative places of the gov ernment upon their creatures, who, in turn, repay to them huge portions of the 'profit. Personal immorality, official dishonesty, executive corruption, an, univepialrotten iies re treyeontiletions features of:Con gressional and Legislative bodies at this day. The assiinibliage: of