The Pittsburgh gazette. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1866-1877, December 04, 1868, Image 4
3 gittAfingt Gaittts, PUBLIBBID'DAILY. BY INIKAN, REED & CO.,Proprietors.. 7. B. PENNIMAN. JOSIAH-KLING. T. P. HOUSTON, N. P. REED. Editors and Proprietors. OFFICE •ErrE'BUILDIN9 , NOS. 84 AND 86 FIFTH BT. OFFICIAL PAPER • - Of Pltteburgm, Allegheny and Allegheny .4 1 * County. • \ renar—Deow. tifeeti-Weenty. ireenir, one year.".ss,ool , ?he 7vsr• 'MO Shigte oo 3P9",.st. 97 One month. 76 i Six mot:. 1.63 Ileowlesoseetr. 1.r.5 BY the week Three mos, 76 to -.. .• 1.15 (ftm cutter.) • ' —wade= to Agent. \ FRIDAY, DECEIRBIR 4 4 1868. 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. - _l® 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. I B. altered and Cnred. 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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 • I ' 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 1 I.