Q ottlittshurnt Ciaifttt orner., 'OHM BILLDIII6, 84 IND 86 FIFTH D. OFFICIAL PAPER Of Pllttabargh, Allegheny and All.. ghomy County SATURDAY, NOV. 2t, 1869 Tim bark Wirralite arrived, on the 23rd, it Cleveland, direct tram Liverpool, withwn assorted cargo. _ Two other yea. IlturreT the — geme Tine will arrive In the On; enlarged =alto the Lake, If weever have one, would equally . give Iwiltietonigh a au . Cfanikii trade.lCl Tin LAW or MIIRDEEL—The Supreme Court WWI", on Monday last, made • dedeton fn a cue which come before them on appeal, that no mere words, however ,alanderous, can rebut the pre Gumption of malice, and reduce the crime of killing from murder to manslaughter. Tbiada)but an Iteration of the old legal doctrines. Tut CArinian Ade...ob., the Methodist Eideropal organ in this section, hes donned a new and handsome dress, which very materially improves its appearance. Dr.-8. H. Nsearr, the senior editor of the ddrocate, wields a trenchant pen, and together with his assistant, Rev. E. A. Jolson, an easy and versatile writer, gets op one of the best of religions tow ns& We are glad to notice this evident of ChibProttPerlty of our cotemporary, and hope that its excellence- and indecent may neve& diminished. --••••••-• I t. A NAVAL oovs4l, NDEII, convicted by a etitln martial for cruelty to hie men, has been deprived of his command, furlough •and ray, losing all rank, for the nest tour years. Undoubtedly a righteous judgment, and a few more like tt might prove occasionally of profit to the am j'lctt Naval discipline la quite harsh .enough, without needing to have ha severities, refined and enhanced by the Pevitlah cunning of educated intellects. Ads= always be made a good seaman Irlarntit She aced for turning our beautiful frigates into Co many "hells afloat." 'OR N4lOlOl IT if AY CONCERN ..Inat stable moment., when the Maur• * gent movement In Cuba bee been driven .tolts but extremity, the rumors multiply .hat our own Government monde In dart lei'of being deluded Into overt acts at sympathy, Indeed of direct aid to that ipirate ausse If these rumors are to be crttlited, a war4sith Spain will be the inevitable ecn .sequintes. Oar own claims, upon England, for the vast sum which represents the Injuries in fliMed upon our material interests by her illegaliand ambit,* sympathy with our Soniiiiin rebels, would be stripped at once of all their moral force, and could 11m baspictively revived. qinmense public debt would be again swelled, and the day for its final liquidatiorrwould be postponed for gen emtkats to came. . The era of irredeemable paper-money, of alum:dal embarrassment, and of a gen aral.natlonal distress, would be hided nitelyprolonged. We should have more taxes instead of lees, and the popular ability to meet them would he diminished in the Inverse ratio to our growing burthens. . The good name which now honors the Great Republic througholat the world would be stained with a blot of interne dons' disgrace which would disfigure our history to all future time. And all this, merely to precipitate, by a few .years, an acquleation which the natural course of even!, is certain to Xraifin.q.igrdstiblY, honorably mid f y, In due time, If left entirely alone. We Prefer to discredit these rumors, for neither the Ex.ecutive nor Congrer. can be so blind as to shut their eyes to these results. It should be clearly understood, in every official quarter, that whatsoever act hi State, In the domestic or the foreign policy of our Government, shall have the effect to Interrupt or to reverse the pres. ant peacefgl, honorable and prosperous course of.thle country, in all Its material . and political relations, at home and ebro4, that act will not be acceptable to the Mae, and the rulers or the party r " tlre 3 Plgaible therefor will find that efr Ita,e terecOverably sealed their owe death•vrarrant. The people will have this great debt had without. needless delays; they will ve the twee reduced at the earliest pos. ethic day; they wilt insist twat the present situation shall be let entirely alone, they cal have peace at home and abroad; theye will not have that peace broken under any hollow plea of republican sympathies for liberty, elsewhere, or under any shameful Uaiiiiition'to 'territorial *aggrandizement at the expense of any unwilling people on .thi lairktie Mei tali have it better under• stood that the day, when such tempts. Ilona were potent for any risk or cost to them, bas gone by, with no possible re• rival during this century; they will have their ; governmemt administered for the true interests of time thirty-seven States; • • tat delinquent servants; be thej whom they may, to a quick and sharp account. Nor would the magic of a graft near!,, of nits, or of individuals, have a che Weiglii of a straw to avert.that just retribatios. RAILWAY@ AND CANAL% • Al population, wealth and science ad. vinee, the necessity for carrying heavy commodities from place to place increases; and this carrying is one of the truest indexes of civilization. Savages carry only shat they can pack on the backs of .thelr wive& or their ponies, for they have no commerce; barbarians carry but little, and, that Dy the rudest and-most primitive means; but as men rise in; the scale 01 advancement, and artificial wants multiply —but 11 Is an error to call them artificial necessity for the conveyance of the thOge that supply those wants presses upon tie, and the Inventive genius of men it - oared into play to meet that necessity. WltiNe said parenthetically that 1413 wrong to call those 'wants artificial which prompt man to labor and struggle for the things which lift him higher and higher above the lower animals, which invest hien with power, develop° his in tellectual and moral nature, and surround ilkins . srlth comforts and things of beauty. Then are natural wants; for it is as much Ma nature to rise as it is for an or to drink *Ater or crop the herbage. His Creator itrade him so, and what He makes is natu ral. The , savage is not a natural man, but- an abortion. The animal ii nature, - hiti. , , ..lower and meaner part, Is daseldtped, and that only as adder le the Inherent, natural Jag within tdm lb/dm:opts Baa.to pfd forth his higher powers to the ,selaciemelif of anything that is tod to rats* him higher and make him happier!. Bat.this is not the subject we propose to discuss at present en wpm toe not•very pd remember rhetimemben Ilsere.yere no: 11116, and when canals were all theme—When 1+1.L11.1,1, tk.Ll I ( •ENt.k... DE WITT CLI: his great batik for a anal troth the flud.oli to Eric and won it , and when lionessla s sember i., ❑ mouth cr pcul , at era, with pernaps more aisai titan wisdom, iri t ;a Methodistic circles, undertook to link the D e laware and the a n.vereanea il.ffereci act i 1 . . Ohio together by s shralier work. The Slicietis, take pia,. The re,uics it 11. e ' co cow Lail, dd..; to or being built in drat, because the ground was suitable out going year are then reviewed, and 18, . o kly,i, Near 1 oth, a st ir c os t tw o an for such a work, wan a great sneers, ; the plan, arc al ipted lid the Ind oaring ;. , ,us of d illus. so l eite• fifteen thousand other, because the ground was unsuitable, year. The hrst days is' the Or nth is ere was a htlinre. Perhaps we ought' not to observed as the suacisersary of the sion. i any it was a failure, for it was of regalia day School Union, at Colutudiis, that lis is hundred thousand's:all children table benefit to the Slate es a chanitiel of icseral days efts, arda the arc t •het A:1,11c faith in th, C un commerce but is wan not a financial sue.' Aid r•ociely air ••= ucnivri- cry at .. Tillsis attroioted ceae.Cincinnati, of whit 1, brict reference Then they will:remember the introduc. I bee already bcen made. Tnanksgtving tion of railroads. i s liow they were gone, day the Fourth Annual meeting of th e into cautiously at licit as good substitutes I Church Extension Society, commenced for canals -wherelltere was no supply I its sessions in Philadelphia, und ea ',d i of water. iuw, in L very few - years, Monday evening last. Seven Bishops their capabilities as carriers wdre round I Were present, besides the Glittered Con to bestieh that the little old Clile , were ference Committee from different parts of unable to compete with them. That the work, and other ministers, and also a brings us up to the present era. ntuntar of prominent laymen. Tne act But is that the end " Are railroads to ual results ir :act yiefir'e labir arc to fol cl ii do all the carrying needed in o r vast and low Ahoui sixty thousand dollars dis everincreastrig internal comme ce ' We Nosed, aiding sixty rise dawdled in think not , but that we are on t e eve"iii twenty three dificrcut States and Territo another revolution. nes, aided by loans fourteen churches That - the meat railroads wilt continue in eight different Slates and Territories, as long se the worldeaands we firmly he additional subscriptions and pledgee to Ileac, and that they will be multiplied till 1 the Loan Fund ot the Society have been they become as common all over the' secured to the amount of one hundred country an ordinary Wagon roads are thousand dollars, and addlUoreal cash to now, we air i believe, but at the name the amount of ten thousand dolliers time we believe that the neCnsity ot The hf.asionary comely miehrated carrying enormous canteen of ponderous , its Filffy . iicef anniversary, at New articles, such as coal and ores, and even ' Turk, begolu:ng Thurptiay 11th add agricultural product,, from fee distant lo closing Monday eVcrillig, loin. IL one ail ' calitlea wffl, 'by and by, be such as to occasion of rate interest, and Is always, compel a return toimater transportation however, an Important time, in view 01 Themlnimum limits at which railroads the weighty intcriats lnva:vtd. The can transport has lave, already reac h e d . Tract Sack ty will hold its annual meet but that is not true of the other mode ot ing at ( lea eland, Ohio, eommincing to transportation, morrow and closing Monday night. The When as many canals were made som e linfacrtauee of the Missionary Sickly's forty years ago, they were adapted to operations are worthy ol aing repro boatsearrying thirty or forty tons each, ductil in a condensed form. Notw itic but when the next canal and slack water standing il•i grave times toll , , rnl era opens, the boats will be of ten times montl t , ago L, the ft isril, that 1110 .-_, .c.ety thattonnagu. This will reduce the cost 0: would close the year in debt, the linetal transportation to Spires greatly below e.aleel. .., in Ow t. niereue.es teeentl: what railroads can carry for without loss, held were nionit to be su m e t en tiy l arge Forty years ago the country wag coma to tarnish the in,iris or rneetia,Z an the penatively poor and sparsely populated claims against the S , clety, and lerl i n and thellttlo canals of that day wer e well' balance Its the tscasui y of sisiu.din..,, offer adapted todhe went! of Commerce. but tour thousand dollars. During a create: now a very dltlterent system is both no part of the year, however, a debt of ralsit 1 unsay and feasible. Then a canal was' one hundred thousand d itiars had been made from the Ohio river at Beaver to the carricd,,,,,nrcli relict come to the closing harbor of Erie, to be navigated by boats weeks et the fiscal year. After careful of 30 to 40 tons. Now It lo proposed to constderation of all things, the ti and has enlarge that 'canal so se to admit of the a'sumed that the Church 5 ill la:: : More passage "or vessels of ray° to 400 tons— money thWeemlng year than the past. veaselathat can navigate the lakes, and The round sum of eight hundred thou thus virtually extend that navigation to sand dt.Larl to A - , 11 . 1,1 I , carry torwar I the head of Lake Superior, to Chicago, the grand wilt in hand this year. and to the great Iron and copper deposits The Trienni it semen of the rt Beira' of the Lake - Superior country. It Is a `-yrnl of the (Ferman Reformed ('adrcii. magnificent project, and one that high commencsai in Carl.; t sarcli, Phitariel engineering authority has pronounced phia, on Wednesday evening, 'ant. lies perfectly feasible...and it is a.srork that is Dr Bernard, •ii the Theological S t ivaa more needed than the present little canal ry, el litereernurgh, l's ,wile elected f tics was in IPSO ident. Nearly two lien truil ili legates trorn Next we shall hare a slack wale! en the aptly : oe Cla4 s ate I:::.r.t, Kanawha of equal capacity, and so the large uuualr r ::1 wiaisury work will go on, until the • ohto itself a actors The meeting Atli he :quo of shall be made a great trunk slacks aler shot Inter,t to the Cher h, as :11,01ona navigation Into wte.cla a ft.:taloa, ecru a ill t• lip coerce 01 vast,amouni will be rlrs•l that w,', from all its principal tributtriu. oit. ; Meantime the railroads, relieved of The anu.ver•ary their crushing border will d mrlsil Pre soiled more ,. than ever , fir th e country will eiety, at da: prosper by a return to water transports wan an o:xession 01 much intereat. tion as it never did before. It will annual report of the Executive Commit be the atm of those who open these new ' tee sbows thy totAl receipts for the year channels to make them reads as far as amount to t1,t,t3:? . .3 90, possible, so that the ,same vessel may li.lance on hand ti: e.:11 418 , il , carry the same cargo, if need be, from 6:: has been expended, I