EE Ets Gaitttt. roman DULY, BY . • ' REKD & CO,=Proprist,Ors. F. B. rEICSTIKAII..±' " Jos ult rare, T. P. HOUSTON. N. i..F.XIp. MOH' and Propliefort. OFFICE: GAZETTE BUILDING, NOS. 84 AND 88 FIFTH ST. OFFICIAL PAPER, Of Plttsbuigbi Alligheny and Alligheni Donny. Terwar—Datty. ant-Wssktg. Witekty, toy- ye5t.,..415,000neyear.e2.50 Sluts 00py....51.50 1 1 66 0 Month. 75 Six mos.. 1.50 scovles, each. 1.521 • theireek • Three moi 7610 - . 6 . Ll 5 . • • cutlet., 6.15:100110 to Agent. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 11368. Ws i mprT.on. the inside pages of tai. otorninVa Gazzmi----,9800 page: Poetry, ttnee .Raligioisi badly , lifiiiallaneoui Nagar. Thirea;la . • azu Pages: Commerei:2l, Allan- WA Mercantile nd Bit:eV - Wass, Maikerls, Importk fironth page : interestiitg Mad ing Mat ter Amusement Mreetory. GOLD closed In New York yesterday at 185 1851. Tun vErimos z of a distingrdshed citizen of Allegheny county, Hon. THOMAS MAR. alux,L, lay our.columns this morning 'under a heavy contribution. This public attesta tion of their regard is equally honorable to / /them and the citizen whom they would ele. / vote to a position-of greht usefulness to his State and country • A Cortortussrotrar. Cozurrxer. have in- Nestigated the allegttiona that corrupt means were used to procure the passage of the Alaska appropriation, the expense therdof having been subsequently paid out' of the; funds thus realized: The charges are not =stared by the evidence, which shows 'that the amount appropriated was all paid to the Russian Minister, :excepting . $28,000, .the Attorney's fee, to -Robert' .1. *amen, who 'had been retained in behalf of the Russian Goverument. And so evapor ates the last Washington sensation., I This result illustiates the extreme unreli ability of the "special dispatches from the Capital",whiek many journals regard as an attractive feature iu . their columns, and which have supplied the only authority fer the suspicions in the present case.. It is also worthy ofnot%that the t "special correspond eitt's" indifference to the precise acts, in any case, is impartially shown, no matter wlust may be bis own official position: For example, this investigation was under: taken in Vim, of positive and specific charges, appearing in . a -=Massachusetts joturial;i edited by a. member of Congres who was generally believed to know what he was writing about. He turns out to be ne more tratliftil or reliable than the rest" of his non-official brethren of the curb-stone. THE CONNELLSVILLE RAILROAD. It was stated, In these columns, two or three days ago that if the Pittsburgh and Cohnellsville Railroad officers had exhibited proper amounts of skill and enterprise, im mediately tbllowbig the restoration of their ) charter:they might have formed as advonti; geous connection with the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. Upon fal ler thfornuidoit•we are satisfied that we were mistaken,_ and that the connection was not rude because of the other reason- to which we also referred, which was that the Fort Wayne' Managers were fearful of losing their Philadelphia and New York connec t tions if they, entered into the arrangement with the bonnellsVille, which was promptly and earnestly pressed upon them. We understand; farther, that the Con; nellEville Company is tuakirig the experi mental surveys to which we have alluded 'with a view to ultimate necessities, indeed, but with the hope, that their slow freight only will have to take the route which may be disclosed by those examinations, while their through passenger and swift freight may be allowed a channel from their Depot on the , Monongahela front, through the city, over to the Allegheny side, taking con nections as may be established. The preference of the Company is to have certain streets spigned for, its use, to this end, or to have a certain number of streets net apart to be used, for connections, by all the railway companies in common. Fail ing to gain either of these points, it desires to have an arrangement made wherebi it limn be permitted to extend its road from its Depotup to the mouth of the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company's tunnel, and pass ing through the tunnel, leave it on the other side, going in front, of the Grain Elevator and tapping the Fort . Wayne track just be yond. The idea is not entertained that the City Councils have 'power to 'compel an arrangement, but that they could be inftuen tial in bringing it" about. The right off, the Pennsylvania • Company ; to control the facilitfes It has paid for,with its own money is recognized, and as broadly as we stated it. But, an expectation is :indulged in, that the