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We like the spirit and sentiment of the following article, which we find in that able and independent paper, the Philadelphia TNOrIu AnIcTlOou.i

 "Appointments to ofSce.-We haveshoped and still mean to expect that the present administration will pay unflinching respect to purity and integrity of moral character in their appointments to office Other qualifications are not unimportant, but we hold that this is the only solid basis Of the countrys prosperity, as we'll in official sta tions, as in private life.

 We regret to observe that men wanting in moral worth, will sometimes succeed in obtaining force of recommendation, from political and other connections, which give them perhaps better chance than modest pure, and eqdally or more competent per sons. We regret still more to notice, that some mistakes of this kind have already been committed, since the accession of the present administration We are resolved, as conservatives of public morals, as well as advocates of what we hold .o be sound political doctrines, to be earnest on this point, and to lift our voice in stern remon- strance against disregard of purity of mo- ral character in so important concern.

 We have heard, and we believe, that ap- plicants for important positions under the Federal government are now waiting with high expectations of appointment, and strongly supported in their recommends tions on political and other grounds, whose private, moral, and social character vii notbear investigation It is dshonor equal ly to the Government and the country when such men are put forward over the heads of the meritorious and the good, othel things being equal.

 We have much faith in the present Gov ernment of the country, as to their respec for religion and sound morals, and thei sense of the sanctity of the social relation: as ordered by God and man, and we warr them to know as they are bound to know whether applicants for place, claiming thei consideration, as pure men. Ii they have not virtue and independence enough to dis regard all recommendation where purity o character is wanting, we mistake the men and shall be sorrowfully disappointed.

 We may adopti it as an unerring maxim that purity has to do with integrity ant that he who will invade the sanctity of thu minor circles, of which society is composed and where its holest sympathies reside, il not to be trusted with public interests on ; larger scale. Itis the disgrace of our coun try, that our Government has helped tt people Texas with rogues and Europe witt runaways, by disregard of those consid erations which we now urge upon their at tention.

 The moral sense of the community is shocked, and the character of the country lbleeds, when men corrupt in their princi