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TEE WEEKLY GAZETTE, issued, an Wed=
leg f iya and Saturdays, iss the test and.ehsap..
eat famiirnetospaper in Pennighar4s.
Tres me sash week forty-eight colusitis of
solid reading matter. it gives the fattest'as
rash as tke mBstreliablesfaarketreports of any
paper in the State. Its files are weed facia
bythe Moil Courts of Allegheny county
" for reignites in important issues ate determine
the ruling prices in the markets (4 the 4ime of
thebusinese teransatttion in disottee. Yams:
kfingle copy, one year, 114.60 ; in clubs of, ive,
in,25 ; in dubs. of fen, and one free
todhe getter up of 'the deb. /*admen copies
-sent Free do any cdtirass.
WE TBIWr . on instYli pages of this
-mernir.g's-Glaavnt-'-:Seeonii page: Ephem
qtris, Miscellaneous. .Thirci•afid Sixth pages:
&owner:ski, 'Financial, RitszaNews; Imports.
.Bei)ektli page: ;interesting Miscellany of
wing Ifetttcr, Asnusemer,t Directory.
GOLD closed \in 'New York yesterday
at 'lB5-Itigl3sl.
Iows: has castn popular vote of about
196;006, whichjs considered, to .indicate
- population of over 1;100,000, an'increase of
.100,000' in eight `years..
AMONG ,Tllll - financial questions which
will occupy Ccragfesstat its ensuing session,
will be that di legsnzing contracts made
payable in gad.{l; It will be warmly urged,
and, we trust, 7iviraccess,
A xt.nczyr judirill decision in West Ches
ter comity, 'New Ycrk, held that a. woman,
who'had lived with the decedent for years,
without actual marriage, but as his wife and
thelnotheref three , of his children, was le
gaily' his widdw, and the offspring were
legitimated.
•'TAKE icAß.E.cif the rich, and the rich will
take - 'are ot the poor," was a saying of
Daniel Webater.—Post.
This maxim '4;vas invented by a lying
',Democral, and cput, affoat as coming from
While living, he frequent
ly, :under his own signature, branded the
attribution , of the sentiment to' him' as 'a
gross libel. - With these repeated denials
fresh in recollection, there are' not wanting
;plenty of Democrats to perpetuate the cal-
UMIly against the memory of the deceased
statesman.
Tem - enonT session of Coiffeur -only
• time • months—will be busily occupied in
• diseussions•updh the finances, indudingthe
• question or specie-resuMption, upon Indian,
affairs, the. Pacific Railway and, probably,
- the Alabamatifair with England. The suf
frage issue is also likely to come up, pend
ing Whielkatisposition will be exhibited to
'finish up •all matters connected with the
.Xl.V . th Amendment, before . doing, much \
with the proposal for a XVth. It is evident
that members will, have their hands full of
businees, t
Tnar,D'ltalutu 11..m7snly goes out of
office, and the. Government of Great Britain
i passes into Liberal hands. It remains to be
seen.whethertthe new Premier shall be Kr.
<GLAnsTonm, .or some other ;leader of the
new oPinions,.who may be personally more
_acceptable to the Queen, because less offen
sively identified •with a movement which
~she b3llllOWb to.regard as at variance with
.the dnty of.the:l3overeigt as the Bead of
TtheEstablished , Church. It is not unlikely
tbat.Her Majesty may summon more than
.one endue* Liberal to her closet before she
xesigits herself to accept thd counsels of 'the
..admitted leader of ,the popular party. The
mew Premier, be he whom he may, , will as
aume office with a sapport in the Commons
mare powerful than ,has been accatided to
any _Ministry for the,pree,eding generation,
and which , espressea.a decisive demand fora
zefaim in almost the.entire domestic policy
of the Empire. It isperhaps fortunate for
England that she is thus -Well prepared at
borne for -the bursting of those clouds of
Nisi. and popular commotion which have so
long hung over Europe.
We= Cr93r. MORTON insists that i the
Treassuyshall provide for-the honest pay
ment'of a .elassof its obligations ichich.have
been over-due-for years, before engaging in
the premature adinstment•of another class
of debts whie,h are not due until 1881, or
even lit,ar, he afforas a valuable illustration
or Practical statesmanship' 7iireowe $390,-
000,000, in United. States notes,' on which
we have, heretofore from necessity, repudi
ated the payment contracted - Air. Every
holder of a legal 'tender note is entitled to
its redemption in specie on demand, by the
terms stipulated on its face—arid can't ge
it.. 'The holder of our bonds, oa the other
.land, tuts no ,fight to demand a dollar of
th, principal . for some fifteen years to come.
r Fen of business will'agree with Goi.
A t m Joie that, after we shall have paid our
overd,ne tuadlshonored debt, then ,will be
time ech lugh to anticipate the'other. The
aish-rede. mption of the one will leave noth
ing in the other question to embarrassi us.
Reader, ask , yourself, or any good business
.. man among y our neighbors, as to the prior
ities that gover.n you in meeting your own
private debts, and you will perceive the
holiest and complete solution of this Nation
-411 queotfou, •
EM
THE ERIE RAILWAY
MEN T.
The Erie 'Railway Coinpany was char
tered to construct a line ‘of intercommuni
cation liking th• 4 Southern border of the
State of New York, starting on the Hudson
river, %t a point just above the coterminous
line of that State and New , Jersey, and
traversing the Southern tier of counties up
to Lake Erie at Dunkirk. ;This line was
originally selected by Mr. DE I WiTT Cutuon
for a grand turnpike. the best form of road
known in his day, and as a cUmpensation
for the burdens laid on the - 'southern coun-
ties by the construction of the Erie Canal
from Albany to Buffalo. The invention of
railways changed the character of the road,
but not the route thereof. This railway was
completed, after such a succession of strug-
gles as ordinarily fall upon iente,rpriess of
great magnitude. •
Wheb.the road was finished, it was dis
covered that two serious disadvantages beset
1. The districts immediately e,ccomino
dated by it did not abound 'triage towns.
were thinly populated, and destitute of
the natural resources . essential to a Troftt
alge railway' traffic. 2. That the broad
gauge, which had been selected fork&e road,
entailed .a cost in running expenses of ten
per cent, beyond the min reqtiired by a
narrow-gauge road. Having to depend
mainly upon business between.the East and
West, it was forced to carrif at such rates
as the competing lines established; . and
while they made money atl those rates, this
one was continually failing behind. The
more business done upon it, the - worse
became its financial condition. ; The result
was a sale of the line by foreclo:sirre of
mortgage.
Meanwhile, a system of branches had
been conceived and in good part e: tecuted.
OneOf these extended from the En sin line,
at Greycourt, to Newburg, on:' the Hudson.
A second from Elmira to Buffalo. The
third branch extended from the New Jersey
boundary, at the point Where. the main line
deflected to the east to reach tie's Hudson,
down through Patters - On to • Jen" ey city.
This branch was contracted by an inde
pendent corporation, but Stain passed under
the management of the Erie Company, On
permanent lease. Upon the, execution of
the lease, this branch became the main
line, and what hSd constituted the main
line from Euffern •down to Piermont, on
the Hudson, became a branch. Here were
three long branches, neither of • which
yielded a proper :mount of revenue. In
•deed, the only portion of the line that paid
well was the section between Port Jervis,
on the Delaware river, and Jersey City, and
on this section the Local traffic, consisting
largely of milk and butter, was very great.
These .circumstances led to various
iichemes for-throwing a considerable and
compensating traddin anthracite coal upon
the road. The 'first of these schemes in
volved the extension of the Delaware and
Lackawanna road west from Scranton to
intersect the Erie at Great Bend. This
scheme was executed without cost to the
Erie, and gave it anew business whl , chnow
amounts to three hundred thousand tons a
year. This coal goes from Great Bend west
to Binghamton, where much of it takes the
Chenango canal to Utica, other quantities
the :"Binghamton and Syracuse railway to
Syracuse, while other quantities co west of
•Binghamton to various points on the line of
the Erie. •
The second of these schemes was a con
nection between the Erie, - at Laciiiiwaxen,
and the road of the Pennsylvania Coal Com
pany, at Hawley, fifteen miles above. This
link was built by the Pennsylvania Coal
Company, and leased . to the Erie. Over it
are transported yearly 900,000 tons of coal,
which reach the Hudson either at Newburg
or Piennont; none going downthe main line
to Jetsey City. .
The third scheme involved the construc
tion of a railway 'on one of the banks of
the North Branch Canal, from Pittston, in
Luzerne county, passing Tunkhannock
and Towanda, and intersecting the Erie at
Waverly. This line was made by the cap
italists who own the Lehigh- Valley Rail
way. This fall the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company commenced running coal
over It, thus competing With the \Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western in 'supplying
Western New York, - and the lake country
from Buffalo up to Chicago.
_ The past summer the branch above dee
cribed, from Leckawaxen to Hawley, was
extended up to Honesdele, nine - roles fur
ther, or, rather, stopped short of, e\bor
ough half a mile. Recently, this extension
was permanently leased to the - Erie, the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company'far
plaiting money to connect with their Canal
basin in Honesdale borough, and i their rail
way, extending thence over-the kloosic
mountains, way of Carbondale and
Scranton, to Wilkesbarre. Over this•ex
tension at least two hundred thousand tons
of coal wpl be sent to' market yearly.. This
market to be the region lying between
Port Jervis and Patterson, along the main
line of the Erie, but not 'teaching' dOwn to •
Jersey City. •
Another arrangement has.
c I
been enteredt
into betleen the Delaware and Hudson and
the Erie, whereby a lino pf railway-is to be
built next-year, extending from Carbondale
up the Lackawanna Creek to the water-shed,
and thence down the Starucca Creek to the
Susquehanna river, some thirty miles above
Binghamton, there tapping the Erie.• This ,
new line will be thirty-three miles long.
The design is to sun from three to four hun•
-
dred thousand tons of coal yearly over the
Erie, west of the , point oft intersection, a
large part thereof going as litmus Dunkirk,
and destined to -be fiord alorg'Lakes Erie,
Huron, Michigan, and Ontario. Other gnats.
titles will besent from the point of intersec
tion with - the Erie up the Busiushanna Val
ley to Cooperstown, and beyond to Albany
by means of the Binghamton and Albany
Railway, which is approaching completion.
These various schemes give the Erie from
1,500,000 to 2,000,000 of. tons 'of local
freight So vast an -increase of businese
makes corresponding requisitions for motive
power, rolling stock slid general account - O.
dations. Hence, the Directors ore causing
PITTSMIZGEI GAZ'IYPIT, F.KIDAY, DECE.MIII,II 4,_ 186 S.
a great number :of locomotives and cars to
be constructed, and are, doubling the track
as rapidly as possible, Already they have
secured the best pdssenger equipment of
any railway company in the country. Late
ly they, resolved to put down a.third rail, so
as to carry narrow as well as broad-guage
rolling vAdek, and are making arrange
ments to that • end. This will enable them
at orrze to make western Connections with-.
out changing bulk, and when the broad
gunge equipment now in • use shall be worn
out, to use the narrow-guage exclusively.
These things create a demand for 'vast
sums of money, which can to raised only
by creating new stock and selling it for
Whatever it will bring. As several power
ful cliques have been, and are, struggling
for the control of the Erie cornration, it
had not been difficult for the- Directors to
put afloat many millions of new stock, for
which they have realized from thirty-five to
sixty cents on the . dollat. At first sight,
this would seem to involven vast v.:Once,
'but. it must be remembered that 41/ie Stock
as it, stood before this inflation was really
worth nothing, and that this stock as j ut
now stands is worth precisely the same, and
will never be any better. The powerful
combinations of stock gamblers, who are
contesting witheich other forthe possersion
of, the road, are some of them made suffer
er's; but the general public Rave not the
slightest feeling of sympathy for _whatever_
anaoyancep Or losses they may sustain.
It is quite probable that the Managers of
the road find. means dishonestly to enrich,
themselves through the vast transactions in
which they are engaged. It is clear they'
succeed - equally well in finding complaisant
Legislatures and Courts so-called of justice;
and these are expensive luxuries to indulge
in, as the few know andthe many suspect.
But the road, as an artery of internal com
merce, is rapidly assuming a condition of
excellence satisfactory to' all persons who
- have occasion to use it, and. they are legion.
But, it is asked, what is to be the upshot
of the matter? Justfthis, that the 'road,
sooner or later, will again be sold on mort
gage, the entire stock and most of the
bonded indebtedness being wiped out in the
operation. The property. worth from forty
to sixty millions of 'dollars,- if the current
projects shall be completed, may be hold at
from five to ten millions of idollars. Then
a new Company will be organized, whose
stock ever after, with fair management,
will not be surpassed in value by that of
anY \ other railway company in the United
states. .
EMBROIL.
This is the prize for Which the great
stock-gamblers "are, contending, reckless of
law, of morality, and of decency, and ab
sorbed only by the two ideas of making
gains and of overthrowing their rivals.
These cliques have subsidized Legislatures,
bullied such of the Judges as they could not
corrupt, and corrupted many of them.
Thus far they have acted their - infamous
parts, looking .the State-prison in the face,
but confident that they are stronger thanthe
laws and sure of a virtual impunity.
This presents one of the most extraordinary
and saddening spectacles formed through
these late years. Legishitures have been
been charged with corruption ; Courts
have been popularly incriminated as often
• listening , to improper suggestions and fall
ing into scandalous practices, but in this
case is disclosed ,a rottenness \ which per
vades the consequential business cir
•cies of the country, and which excites the
earnest inquiry, How far does the demoral
ization extend ? It has always been safe to
infer that if Legislatures' were sold, some
body bought them; that if Couits were
bribed, soma individuals paid them the
wages of iniquity. Who are these gigantic
wrong-doers ? The chosen men who man
age the great business interests of the coun
try; who judge of all questions not by the
principles of morality or the requirements
of the laws, but by the momentary results
to be attained. The corruption, then, has
struck so deep that it may well excite-. the
most profound apprehension if not alarm.
OUR ELECTORAL COLLEGE
Twenty-six Republican Electors of this
Cornmanwealth assembled at Harrisburg on
Wednesday, December 2, 1868, all_ pres
ent. Hon. T. M. MARSHALL, of Allegheny,
was selected to preside, accepting the honor
in a brief but pertinent address which rec
ognized the principle of Liberty under the
Law as the secured fruit of the recent polit
ical struggle. After prayer by Rev. Mr.
MITCHELL, a Committee was appointed to
wait upon the Governor, and, pending this
report, the subordinate officers of the Col
lege were seletted. 'he Governor then
communicated*the names of the chosen Elec
tors,. duly certified by Secretary JORDAN,
after which the College proceeded to ballot,
and the entire vote was successively cast for
President GRANT and Vice president Col,
FAX. Certificates thereof were prepared in
triplicate and signed by all the Electors,
one copy to be :delivered at Washington,
being entrusted to J. S. Rirre.N; another,
to be delivered to Judge CADWALLADER,
U. S. Judge for the. Eastern Distribt, at,
Philadelphia, was entrusted to,J. H. BRING
zuRsT, and a third copy, to . be deposited in
the Harrisburg Postoffice, for transmission
to:Washinkton by mail, was delivered fdr
that p)irpose to B. F. WAGONERCLLER.
Those three messengers were alsb Vectors.
This terminated the legal business of the
College, which was then dissolved. The
proceedings _were , ' marked by a grave, and
dignified decorum, entirely in keeping with
a proper official expression of the will of
nearly six hundred andfifty thousand voters
of a great Commonwealth. - I
Two leading politicians of the Ohio Da
mdcracy endorsed the eleventh-hour move
ment, to change their Presidential ticket, in
the following dispatch, to their State Com
mittee at Columbus: 1 6 .
."'" • CINCINNATI ' Oct.
! , E. F. BINGHAM: A. dispatch from New
York says that Chase, with the assent of
Seymour and Blair, has been informally
nominated. Excitement here is Intense.
Oar people will all support the move with
enthusiasm. We hope the Committee will
•
interpose no obstacle.
WASH MCLEAN,
- C. L. YaLLARDIGHAY."
THE' UN :ON PACIFIC RAILWAY.
The te7it of the Report on the Union Pa
cific RP:ilway, from. the Government Com
mission which has recently inspected that
work, fully confirms our anticipations,
while it abundantly refutes the unfriendly
allegations with which rumor has lately im
peached the good faith of the managers of
that corporation. The Cominission con
cludes its detailed report upon the entire
work, as far as the present track extends,
with a just and decisive vindication of the
Company from all these charges. - There
are manifest imperfections in the work as it
stands, but these are fully explained by ref
erence to the difficulties attending a first
constriction, : and will be effectually cured
by the Company itself,, which has made
ample' provision for comOleting all its en
gagements. The Commissioners say:
"Under the •ircumstances, it is much
more a matter f surprise that so few mis-
takes were made, an so few defects exist,
than it would be had serious deticiencies
been of more frequent oocurrence, and the
country has reason to congratulate itself
that this great work of national importance
is so rapidly approaching completion under
such favorable auspices."
LETTERS FROM MSS. SWISSHELM.
NUMBER FIVE.
Correspontlenee.of the Pittsburgh G a7ette. 3
Who Is Respuitsible
Two gentlemen recently expressed their
opinions, to me, on the subject to which this
series of letters is directed. One thinks no
man ever made improper advances to any
woman until she had giver' him reason to
believe himself at liberty to do so, and the
other, that a woman of true self-respect is so
far removed from all that is impure, that
the most debased libertine would be awed
into silence in her presence. This is the
beautiful, old faith of the white wand, and
the gold ring, which were warranted to
defend the daughters of Erin, when saints
slew dragons, and warriors . were re
warded, with the hands of princesses, for
killing giants, and disenchanting castles:
It was unknown to those shrewd philoso
phers who invented the old mythology, with
its story .of the lascivious Satyr, in whose
Presence the goddesses were not safe, and
who, when caught and taken before the
celestial court, for trial, turned out to be
this poor hunianity in its half bestial state.
The chastity of Lucretia failed to, teach
Tarcminleverence for virtue, and if purity
had been esteemed a suflicienk protection,
there could have been no foundation for
that system of knight errantry which
formed the staple literature of the middle
ages.
If purity would always awe licentious.
ness into respectful silence in our own times,
Victoria would surely have escaped the ma
lignant slander created by her attachment
for the faithfnl servant of her dead husband,
whose death she appeared likely to mourn,
to the loss of her reason and her crown.
This argument of woman's responsibility is
a continuation of the old story "The wo
man whom thou gayest to be with me, she
gave me and I did eat." Not as she did, to
gain wisdom and become like the gods—
not because my reason told me it "was good
for food, and a tree to be desired to make ohe
wise," but because she told me; and I was
too indolent to inquire the teason for obe
dience or refuse to obey.
It is very pitiful to see a creature, made
in the image of God, and endowed with
dominion over an earth like this, sit down
and whine because he feels that he is not
:master of the little mud cabin, assigned him
for a residence, until he is fit for a permanent
mansion in the Kingdom .of his Father. I.
can scarce imagine • a more contemptible
sham than man, assuming to be governor of
the earth, and acknowledging that he can
not govern a hundred Or more pounds of
matter, given him as a habitation, and an
instrument by which he is to execute his
will. A. soul which cannot govern the body
in which it lives, is a very feeble representa
tive of immortality, and. should try to get
out of its lodgings and into a smaller
tenement; for it must have rooms to let in
its present abode.
But, all such pleas are false, and a direct
arraignment of the wisdom and justice of
the Creator. That of Adam, didnot , avail
Or his justification; and the law delivered
:op Mount Sinai is addressed alike to man and
women; and makes each individual respon
sible ler him or herself. Had .that law been
incompatible with the nature of man, it
would not . have been prornulgeted, and
Christ, being a man, having taken our
nature, and .having "a feelings for our
infirmities," never would have , enforced
and applied It, especially to man,Pot only
in the letter but in the spirit, as He did, in
His sermon on the mount. Absolute purity,
in thought, speech and behavior, is essen
tial to; the perfection of, mauhood. The
man who, in-any degree, modifies his obit
gition to keep the divine law, on the con
duct of the woman he - happens to meet, is to
that extent an imbecile—a feeble-minded per
son—resigns his claim to sovereignty, and
takes the place of a ward; but such volun
tary abandonment of place and power can
procure no abatement of his responsibility,
his obligation to keep theolaw, as Christ has
defined it, and his liability to occupy aplace
in the kenneLwith the dogs, outside the walls
of the New Jerusalem. "For without are
dogs and sorcerers, and whoremongers;,
and
whosoever lovethi and maketh a lie."—
.Revelations..
With that sentence of condemnation star
ing every man in the face, it is marvellous
how they have attempted to shirk the respon
sibility of their sins, and shuffle it over on
some woman, who has failed to reach the
highest ideal of a poet's dream. \
That men are more guilty than' women,
would appear to be proved by the many
artifices of abduction used to supply houses
of prostitution with female inmates. To
take men.there, only the arts of allurement
can be applied; but force, fraud and vio
lence 'are freely used, in addition to all the
arts of enticement, to supply a sufficient
number of victims to lust. In other depart
ments of his army Satan appears to depend
wholly on the volunteer system for his re
cruits; but, in this, he is ' reduced to the
necessity of sending out press-gangs.
Enough men volunteer to keep ti t p that sys
tem of licentiousness which is fast under
mining our whole social fabric, and threat
ening to destroy our e • vernment, as it has
all other Governments eh have lived and
died on earth; but th • . de of the women
enlisted under, the black flag of doom were
brought into the service by the press-gang
system. of recruiting.. This is one of the
proofs that women are less guilty than men.
Another is, that crime is so common among
men that, it has created a public opinion.
which sets the laws of God at defiance, so
far as he is concerned, while a vast majority
of women have co-operated to. create and
keep alive a public sentiment which holds
them accountable to the strictest interpreta
tion of the law of chastity. When the
mass of women err on this question, it is
through ignorance, =ignorance which has
been fostered by their guardians, and teach
.
ers of the other sex. That ignorance which
is so beautiful an ingredient in unconscious,
purity, is often the sole eallse of much flint
is converted into incenti. - fes to impurity, on
the_part of those men. who feel that the con
duct of others may prove some apOlogy for
their own, when. .tiey, come to make their
final reckoning,
We may ,ay what we will of society, and
the responsibility of society, and the duty)
of society; but there will be no society in
the Judgment Day. The Great Lawgiver
gave no commandment to society. The en
tire decalogne is addressed to individuals;
and each one must square his or her own
account; for keeping or breaking its rules.
He, or she, who causes another to sin, or
fails to do all in his or her power to prevent
the sin of another, or bring the sinner to
repentanctE, has that particular sin of com- ,
mission or mission, but takes nothing from
the responsibility, or penalty, of the other
party. No licht house, on the most desolate
.ocean-washed rock, is more alone, than
each human soul in its accountabilities to
the Creator, and all the pleas, that someone
"enticed me," are as hollow and false as
the ancient idea of,the mermaid's call, which
lured sailors to destruction. Nothing but
individual virtue can reform the world, and
a sense of personal aecountability is the
only sure foundation for public credit.
When our churches shall have groped
their way out of the fogs in which they
sa,nctioned, apologized for, or winked at,
that system of Wholesale concubinage which
has debauched our land, when that great
brothel, south of Mason and Dixon's line,
shall be scraped out and swept out, and pu
rified; safer as to secure all the, inhabitants
in the rights of marriage— when the relig
ious teachers north and south, who have
been defending prostitution as divine, on
two-thirds of our territory, shall get awake
and begin to "measure the temple and they
that worship therein," with the 'reed like
unto a rod," when they begin 'rt.° preach
Christ's gospel of purity to every individual,
with a power 'Which says to each sinner
"thou art the man," we shall advance in
this war against Satan's kingdom. Onr
churches have let down the standards of
chastity, by sustaining a sy stem which open
ly and defiantly denied the rights of mar
riage to four millions of our people, and
made their women a legal prey to lust; and,
when iniquity sat in such high places, It is
not strange that so many men have con
cluded that It is safe and almost harmless, to
cultivate vices which corrupt the fountains
of human life, and show our poor humanity
as li - cloven-footed satyr instead of the supe
ric,r of Plato's 'gods. - 1
'!The coming man"will not lay down his
crown of dominion, if he should meet a
woman less dignified than Juno. He will
be able to stand erect, and extend his hind
to the weak, the wavering and the fallen.
He will not eat every apple that is offered
to him, or whine when called upon to an
swer to his whereabout.
JANE G. SWISSIIELIt.
Spain
The electoral law of Spain, which has
just been published, provides that every
citizen of twenty-five years, who is not'de
prived of his political rights, shall be enti
tled to vote for the election ,of town cotm
clllors, provincial deputies, and deputies-to
the Constituent Cortes. The general
.elec
tions will be by provinces. - Provinces send
ing not more than six deputies are divided
into two districts for- registry; those send
ing over six and not more than ten, into.
three districts; and where there are more
than ten deputies, the province will be di
vided into electoral districts of 45,000 in
habitants. The voting is to eontinue three
days, and the electoral lists were made out
between the 15th and the 25th of Novem
ber. There ,will be three hundred and fifty
deputies in the Cortes. A special decree,
indicating the manner in which elections are
,to be conducted in the Spanish possessions,
his to be published.
The decree relating to liberty of religions
worship has not yet been published in Ma
drid, and great chagrin hasheen expressed
by the public at its non-appearance. The
Provisional Government, it is reported. are
not united in opinion on the subject, Prim
and others being for perfect and complete
freedimi and total separation between the
Catholic Church and the State, while others
desire Catholicism to remain as the religion
of the State, with toleration and protection
to all other creeds. Olozaga is believed to
adhere to the latter view, but the whole
question probably will not be settled except
by a decree of the Conslituent Cortes.
FORT LAFAYETTE, in New York harbor,
has suffered a scorching, by . which nearly
all of the combustible material within the
walls was destroyed. The fire was acciden
tal. The fort is on the Long Island side of
the Narrows, about two hundred yards from
the shore, faced by. Fort Hamilton and Fort
Richmond on the Staten Island side. It won
prominence during the rebellion by being
used as a place of confinement for rebels.
It constitutes a part , in a systetn of defen—
sive works by which New York harbor has
been made as impregnable to assault from
the sea as Sebastopol was. . The • amount of
the damage cannot be told until we leant
how far the granite has been affected by the
fire. • -
Ti answer to a letter from the Secretary
of the. Sunday Lealige, Mr. John Stuart
Mill writes : "I have repeatedly said •at
public. meetings of .the electors of West.
minister that I should vote for the opening
of places of instructive recreation, such as
the mbseums and libraries, on Sauday . ; but,
in ,the present state of the pablie mind, not
of;theaters ; for although, in my opinion,
theaters might be places of instructive re
creation, I think it more wise arid right not
to offend the honest feeling which at pres
ent exists in the mind of so many worthy
persons against opening them on Sundays.'
IF WE may believe the Boston Banner of
Light, the spirit of the late Thaddeus Ste
vens presented himself at the office of that
paper'one day last week, and sent word to
his political associates that he bad come to
the conclusion "that impeachment was not
only an impossibility, but, had we succeed
ed, it would have been the worst thing that
could.have befallen the nation." ,
TIIE COURTS.
District Court—Judge Hampton.
.The jury in the case of Samuel McKeown
vB. Felix 0, Negley; found a verdict for
pfaintiff for X5OO.
Ardesco Oil Co. vs. Richardson and Tack.
Action for breach of 'covenant, in failing to
return an iron tank in as good condition as
when obtained. On trial.
Common Pleas—Judges Stowe and Mellon.
The argument list was continued in this
Cdurt yesterday. '
Real Palate Transfers.
The following deeds were tiled of record
before H. 'nicely, Esq., Recorder, Decem
ber 3d, leas.
EMllip Bushyger to Ellen O'Connell, Nov.\ de, 1868:
lot on Railroad street, Versaill. s townebip In
Wail's pia., wio b buildings 61 600
Elisabeth Valentine to .Ihumas Watson, Nov.lo.
1868; lot on Brown.vlile road, in Lower St. Cla.r
township, M by 139 feet .300
Joseph Lament to Lambert Hang, April 17 1868;
ten lota in plan of East Liberty Land Msocle
s tton.
1 350
J. J. Shutt•rle. trustee, to dimeen Bu f‘rd, veto.
per 114863; lot of ground in Hoboken, Indiana
town.ldp, 40 by IGO feet ' $3OO
YORTGAGZEI.
Zilaumortgages were olio filed for rooold.
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CUBA:
The Revolutionihts nncourageil Cuba
Junta at Madrid Repudiated— arrival of
Prisoners—Great Sutfering Among the
Poor. • •
(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.)
HAVANA, December 3.—The revolution
istsrreport that the future of their cause
looka brighter, and they will not surrender;
that they expect reinforcements of Anaeri.
cans and Doi:Weans.
•
The Pays newspaper, in •an editorial, ob
jects strongly tb the `title of Cuban Junta
by certain y*o4=B ins , bladrici, and says
they are uuauthorized persons and do not
represent Cubans.
The Pays is the organ of the Liberal
party.
Troopi have left Clego de Avila and
Puerto Principe to pursue and give• battle
to the insurrectionists.
The steamer Villa Clare arrived at
Havana yesetrday with several chiefs and
agents of the' surrectionists, as prisoners
of war.
The suffering of the poorer classes and
and others in the Eastern Department, on
accOunt of the scarcity of provisions, is de
scribed as heart rending.,
The Florida Trouble.
(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh, Gazette. I
TALLAELLSSE, December 3.—ln the Su
preme Court to-day Attorney General
Meek's motion to make the rule nisi ate>.
lute was granted, and the process was or
dered, when Lieutenant Governor Gleason
appeared, by counsel, waived the pro
gessind filed a demurrer. He then pre-
Cnted a petition; under the United States
ivil Rights bill, to remove the case to the
United States Circuit Court. The Court
adjourned after Col. Sanderson's argument
against - the demurrer. A decision on this
point will proliably be rendered to-morrow.
• ,
—A Constantinople letter to the New
York Herald gives an account of senti
ments entertained by the Turkish govern
ment and people for the United States and
their anxiety about the policy this country ,
may pursue toward the Ottoman Empire.
The Turkish government appreciates the•
greatness and power of the. American Re.-
public, and geeing no probable cause for
-any serious+ difficulty between the two•
countries, it is desirous of maintaining
most friendly relations, and of disabusing•
the public mind here of any erroneous im—
pressions with-regard,to Turkey.
—Senator Cameron, in a reeenteofiversa—
tion, told a Washington correspondent that
on the night before the vote was taken on
impeachment, General Grant visited ,Ben
Wade to urge the matoration of General
Sheridan to his command id Louisiana ' as
soon as he (Wade) became Prestdent
Butler. he said, came near being the pres
ent President. jMr. Lincoln wanted him to
run on the ticket in 1864 for Vice President,'
but General Butler then thought, the Vice
Presidency an exceptional place.
.The Christian Temperance Convention,
at Boston, continued in session yesterday.`
Opinions were ',expressed by, some of the
leading sneakers that all Christiana should
withdraw from fellowship with those min
isters of churches that favored the.use of
intoxicating drinks. Upon the question of
a prohibitory law there was some division,
and a very warn debate, but no action was
taken. Resoltitions were adopted recom
mending the general circulation of.piedgeei
and the caliingl of other Conventions.
—Within the last two weeks there has
a marked advance in the market
price of the various State seturities,of South
Carolina. Bills receivable have risen from
70 to9o, old bonds from 57 to 65, and new
bonds, from 52 to 57. Charleston City
stock has also advanced about ten per
Cent. The facts are regarded as an indica
tion-Of increased . public confidence and
the' ie ginningi of brighter days at the
South.
—ln the Primary Convention of the Epis-
copal Church of, •new Dioceses, now in sess
ion at St. Peters Church, Albany, the sum
of $3,600 was pleflosd by the various
churches for missionary purposes. The
first ballot for Bishop resulted in no choice.
D YSPEPSIA IN ITS WORST FORMS.
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B. altered and Cnred.
S ick Headache and Derangement or the Stomach,
A ttacks of Jaundice and Biliionsness
Removed and permanently cured.
Genera] Debility, Hnb'lnal Cositiveness,
E very tonic of Liver CoMplaint,
N ansea, HeartbUrn or Water Brash, and
T routres of the Diger ive crgans
S peedilY t surely' and efficiently cured. • .
L aver Complaint, Swimming of the Head,
I ndigestiOr, Depression of Spirits, . .
V triable lind uncertain Appetite, ' • •
E very symptoin of Dyspepsia
R elieved by Dr Sargent's Anti• Dyspeptic & Liver
P illa. They have effected many curd.
I n every cave they hare given relief.
I. et no family be without this remedy.
L ook to It that you get no other and much
S icknese and pain will berevented.
'PREPARED AND SOLD' BY
GEORGE A. KELLY,
WHOLESALE DRUGGIST,
EMI!EMMEtIMS
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REVOLT IN THE INTERIOR.
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When the stomach Is reberions, the liver coots-,
maclous, the lioWels disordertl, the brain confused
an 1 the nerves In a tumult, II in the aid of HOS
-4,8.
'UTTER'S STUMACEI BITT S, if you would re
store quiet, regtilarity stud harmony to the action of
these troportant!organs. A large proportion of the
complaints to which the human family are sub. ea,
originate la ladigestion. For this distressing mala
dy, and parent of innumerable animas as distress--,,
log as . itself" the BITTERS are the only a tide'
proved by experience to be a, universal and unfail
ing ruitedy. But although it was as a 'remedy for
dysptpsis and bill:loneness that they. Brat obtained
prestige twentyyoars ago, It is new pretty well un
derstood; both by the public and the m talcs' profes
sion, that their i l curatlve properties take sitar wider .
rangi. In nervo us complaints, spasmodic erections,
fever and ague,' and' every variety of general and lo
cal debility. their sheet is most salutary ; and as a
means of preparing the system to re rlst damp, cold,
poisonous eleMents in the water or the air, priva-:
tion, exposure: &c., no medicinal agent at present
known can be ijuitly compars d with this powerful
vet harmless tonic. The feeble and senshive, who
'can ill withstand the Inclemency of . the winter sea
son, will find the BITTERB exactly the attic:tether
needlo fortify and sustain them. - '
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A FAT OF GREAT VALUE.
No one cart be too often impressed with the truth
of all disottlet i s which mankind arc prone to, none
are of more preialence at this season of tie yew
than those which manifest themselves in the lungs
and pulmiinarj Organs. Dr: SEWER'S pECTOII...
AL SYRUP Is a speedy and infallible mire in re
cent cues of coughs a n d lung disease': and DR.
ILEIS[RTS LUNG CURE in cases of longlstanding:
and great \ obstinacy, will be found of Matthaei:lle
value. There ] , Is scarcely
"booster family in Pitts
burgh that, cannot, testify to its merlis, andlnstead
of a person wasting time on other Inert and illin•
proprlate remedies, let them walk themselves to
.Dr. Keyser4, 140 Wood
,street. where t h ey will ,
find the right medicine 'adapted to their cure. i The
Doctor bask long experience In Medicine, and its
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these lung cases, he bas given signal pr of, of hie
•
great ability and thorough knowledge of all those
diseases in which the lungs take a prominent part.
His residence, in Pittsburgh Is over twenty fears, •
and the valueofhls remedies is extended wherever
coughs are prevalent and Intig.diseasea to be cared.
DR. KRYBER'S RESIDENT OFFICE for. LUNG '
UMNATIONS AND .THE TREATHENT QA
t rr
INATE CHRONIC DISEASES, ISIG. PENN'
ST . PITTSBURGH, PA. Office hours Rosa
-9 A. 3E. UNTIL 4s. 9. ' ' .
November SO. MIL
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