4, EDT Tettsbur, Gaitttt. PUBLISHED DAILY BY PEOIMAN,REED & tO.,Proprietors, • 7. 3. PENNIMAN, JOSIAH KING, T. P. HOUSTON, N. P. REED, Editors and Proprietors. OFFICE 6AWTE BUILDING, NOS. 84 AND 88TIFTH ST. OFFICIAL PAPER litteleurgh, Allegheny and Alle. ;bunny County. Wsialy.l Weakly, • ODIIB.OO th:Leyear.42.6lslnglecopy..Bl.sl) One mo nth 75 Six mos.. 1.50 5 coples,each 1.25 By I*, Met 15 Three mos "75 10 '` (fr 005137110.71 =done toAimit. FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1869. ;IMO- REPUBLICAN- TICKET AIRICICIA.TE JUDGE DIETRICT COCTRT, • JOHN M. HIHNPATRIt'II, ASSISTANT LAW JUDGE, COMMON PLEAS. , . ERED , K. H. COLLIER. STATE SENATE. THOMAS HOWARD. • ASSEMBLY. , . MILES S. HUMPHREYS, • ALEXANDE,R MILLAR, JOSEPH WALTON. JAMES TA.YLOR, - D. N. WHITE, JOHN H. KERR- SHERIFF, HUGH B. FLEMING. - • TREASURER, JOS. F. DENNISTON. CAERE OF COURTS, JOSEPH BROWNE. • RECORDER, THOMAS H. HUNTER. COMUISSIONER., CHAUNCEY B. BOSTWICK lIKOISTER, JOSEPH H. OBLY CLERK OF ORPHANS' COURT, ALAXANDER DILANDB• . DIRECTOR OF POOR, ABDIEL MCCLURE. W3ll PRINT on the inside pages •of M s ' morning's Gemorrz—&eond page : Poetry, Ephemeris, West Virginia News, Pennsylvania Items. Third and Sixth pages . : Riser News, Markets, /Twin tied, Commercial, and Imports. Eleventh page: .The New Styles, Miscellaneous Read ing Matter.• U. B. BONDS at Frankfort, 86-87 PaTitoraux at Antwerp, 471 f. Gomm closed in New Yerk yesterday at 134 • TER public debt was decreased by up wards of thirteen millions of dollars last month. COLI±ROTOR Navrs, of the XXIIId or Allegheny District, makes room for Mr. R 1,. 'BROWN, a very capable gentleman milt prominent citizen\ of Armstrong county. TEE card of 4. 31. Lo'sa, Esq., in an other coitunn, will attract Republican at tention. It is a prompt wind manly zefu tation of a - dishonorable !charge against the Republican County Convention. AT Tim urgent solimtation of two members of the Joint jCommittee on Resolutions, the majorit of that Com mittee on Tuesday consented to amend the eighth resolution by inserting the words . ; '"by his ExcelleUcy Joy W. GE.017. 11 The resolution s l were, ether- WlSes word for word, adopted by the Com mittee as they were written, except as re poited in the .regular proceedings of the Conventions. : Tan Commercial attempts to save its supprueitig friend Mr. T.l Steel, by say ing that the "twelfth" resOlution "was not adoPtedby a majority of the Committee" —and that he suppressed it accordingly. A b*faced falsehood is the natural re sortto defend an Impudent fraud. A ma jority of Mr. Steel's oWn Committee (the Legislative) and a majority of the Joint Committee of the Conventions did adopt that resolution. ,See the card of Mr. LONG on that point. Mr. Thomas Steel is in a tight place, and the blundering fabrications of the Commercial make it still tighter. Tzestassice politics are becoming more and more interesting. A recent decision of. the Supreme Court in that State con firm; the legality of the registration made by county clerks under an old systein,, now repealed, and restores the franchise to all such registered voters, from whom a later law had taken it away. This de cision i s egLiected to,expand the franchise by spine forty' th ousand votes: It now seems probable that each of the opposing Beinblican cendidatea for Governor will place himself at once squarely upon a pletform of universal guffaw, and with the - remnd of all restrictions therefrom. A similar tendencyi is apParent fn every I part of the Southern political field. It in diodes the speedy adoption of a broad and liberal policy in wise accordance with the course ` of events. Wmezt the Ommercial undertakes the defense of Thomas Steel, by saying that he "would not outrage the principles of thtMepublieaty party by reporting a reso iutiori which failed to receive the ap irOal of a majority of the Committep"— ouinOlghbor blunders into what we may Clarualtanism• e. he does not state "Alte truth, 'the Whole truth, and notbig . X4ihe.troth." , ' But six of the nine , prjhojoint committee met tog er,' four Of thiuteiktte - d for the ram- . lotion iiit ° etl a.. The b46ilty of Mr. -I,2Cpra sub•committee were among those • C." 4 , ..,04-04 : - t , tr • - four and both of them voted for the reso lution. The Commercial must not tell so many whoppers; or else must form them with a little more regard to appearances. Do he more careful, neighbor ! In the name of your dead "ring," we implore you not to be so sparing of the truth ! A REPUBLICAN LEADER. DrsTurcr Arronszir Carnahan put in an appearance, either in person or by his counsel, the Democratic Editor of the Leader-Commercial, in the latter Journal yesterday. Bat he makes no reply upon the main issue, and therefore stands mutely confessing the truth of our statement that he had suppressed the truth, in his 'wild'. ous attack upon the editor of the GAZETTE in. the Judicial Convention on Tuesday. We are satisfied, if he is, on that point. We, he, and the public equal. ly understand what a suppression of the truth is eqnivident to. So much for thati He boasts that he accomplished his pur poses with the Convention. He has a right to that boast He also boasts, it is said, that "he holds his office as District Attorney in spite of the efforts of the two Senators and of all the Republican Repre sentatives from Pennsylvania for his re moval." He is perhaps right in that boast also. But he is a nice Republican politician, to lead a Republican Convention in Alle gheny county by the nose—and a nice lot of wide-awake and outspoken Repub lican delegates to suffer themselves to be thus led. His proper place was on a very far back seat in that body, and to sing very small. Appointed to office by Mr. Lnicour, and re-appointed by Mr. Joax sox, retaining his place undet the latter's administration, as well before as after the passage of the Office-Tenure Law, through all its bitter warfare upon the Republican .principles and party,— how District Attorney Carnahan con. : irived to maintain himself has always ex cited the curiosity , of the public. Alter nately avowing himself a Republican; and making Johnson speeches, he was sometimes on one side of the fence and sometimes on the other, but always too much a Johnson' man to be trusted or respected by Republicans then, yet always quite enough of a Republican in his public avowals to have ensured his removal from office by A. J., had not some secret arran,gement ex isted, by which he felt sure of his place. This arrangement we propose to venti late at our earliest convenience. And we shall then speak by the book, and will satisfy the Republicans of Allegheny that this trimming politician is one of the very last men whoni they should look to for advice upon Republitan daty. The pastage of the Office Tenure Law made a new man of the District Attorney; it reconstructed the politician entirely. He snapped his fingers at the Executive who could' no longer remove him, but whom he had obsequiously flattered as long as his 'own bread and butter was at stake—and came out again a full-Wedged Republican, the loudest of declaimers and the most radical of radicals. He did not need any more "secret understandings," either with A. J. or with the Democra cy—and he went back on all those ar rangements, under which he had so far kept his place, with the prompt facility of a weather-cock. Since he has seen fit to obtrude himself actively among Republican leaders, and upon a Republican Convention, as the champion of the moat shameful assaults upon the integrity of the party, in its re quirements from its public men, he makes his own political record public property, and we shall deal with it as such. We are amply prepared to present its salient points, and to the public satisfaction. Our readers may expect something very rich—and we shall ask them to read it by way of a running commentary upon the "Republicanism" of this champion of. Andrew Johnson in•years past, and of the Pittsburgh Commeraid, with its wholesale abase of the Republican party, in the Ju• dal Convention the other day. And the people will then agree with us, that the District Attorney was a queer leader for Republican, delegites in this county. Since he is averse to any muzzles upon the freedom of the press, he will himself be gratified with the frankness with which we propose to let the daylight into his past political and , official experience. WHO CRIES. "STOP THIEF I" 3 The Harrisburg Telegraph makes a very Interesting reveltition, as to the per sonal hofiesty of one-Of the 'editors Of a disreputable print, in the interior of the State—one of the two newspapers which haye of late so clamorously assail ed. the integrity of the Republican party and he office-holders. Says the Tele graph: A certain individual who had been constantly.barping in the columns of a certain paper upon the dishonesty of the last Legislature, charging them as a body with the grossest corruption, and indirectly huplicating individual mem bers in the most disgraceful and dam.' aging conduct, bad in his employ a car penter, engaged to do certain work, the payment for which was to come from the State Treasury. When the work was finianed,the bill,amonnting totwenty-five hundred dollars, was made out, and the carpenter, who was in want of fands, desired theligent or assistant of his ern hloyer to certify correctness, so that e could draw t money from the Treasury. The a gent, as we shall call him, who in reality had very little business on hand to eM. ploy his time, was nevertheless always, as he said, too much engaged to examine the.bll4.B - indin't this Wav the carpenter , was for some time deprived of the, use or the money which he bad honestlyi earned. Atlenstkke graW tired calling, onJthe wairtra never hid tiaze.tatlivie:4llll bill, and he finally called upon the State Treasurer, to whom he related the cir .74 ' 4 ' ' .4 '` - ' 4.444 '$ , PlTTSl3tTltgrr GAZE FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1869: cumstance. That officer, who probably suspected how business was conducted in a certain quarter, intimated the opin ion that the certificate could be obtained if the carpenter would accompany his request with 'a small present. To this suggestion the latter promptly replied: "I have offered the man five hundred dol lars if• he would certify the account and get the money; but he wants me to make out a • bill for FOUR. THOUSAND DOLLARS against the State, which he AGREES TO CER TIFY if I will pay him TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS. " This, added the car penter, "I have declined to do. The bill, as made out for twenty-five hun dred dollars, is correct, and I want the money." The State Treasurer, naturally indignant at such a revelation of contem plated fraud upon the public finances, assured the carpenter that', he should be promptly paid, and forthwith sent 'or the dishonest official, (the same fellow, be it remembered, who has made himself so prominent as a denouncer of legislative corruption,) told him of the complaint made against him, and suggested that he might escape trouble by giving the car penter the required certificate at once; which, of course, being unexpectedly caught in his attempt to swindle, he did without further hesitation or delay. In this way an honest man got his money and a roguish officeholder was prevented from robbing the State of FIFTEEN HUN DREp DOLLARS.: The ostensible editor (not the real edi tor who is revealed as.a well-known Cop perheads) of another of the same trio of journals, which have lately denounced Republican corruption, seems to !have been equally unfortunate is one of his own little privaib raids upon the Treas ury, of which we have these particulars from a correspondent: The editor, while in Harrisburg during the session of the Legislature of 1807, was summoned to appear before the Com mittee appointed to investigate the charges made through his newspaper against cer tain members for corruption. It is re ported of this incorruptible "guardian h of the State Treasury that, though in the Capital on other busmesU when sum moned before the Committee, he had hardly given his testimony Until he 'was demanding from the State Treasurer mileage from Pittsburgh for his attend ance before the Committee. - -That Legis lature may or may not have been a .cor rapt one, but its Committee was not cor rupt enough to pay such an imprudent bill as that, and so rejected it altogether. Wanted, the Commercial's opinion on this case. TWINTT.TEIRD WARD. =1 A CALUMNY REPELLED. , ALLIIORENY, June 8, 1869. rMEssns. EDITORS GAZETTE: The un dersigned wishes no controversy with the Pittsburgh Commercial, but he can not permit the statements made editorially in this morning's paper, in relation to the twelfth resolution In the series adopted in the County Convention, to go unanswered, as by implication the honor of the majority of the Joint Committee on Resolutions Is brought into question: The Commercial says In its article head ed "Mr. Collector Steel." that he (Steel) "would not outrage the priiwiples of the Republican party by reporting a resolu tion which failed to receive the approval of a majority of the Committee." (The italics are mine.) And in another place the same article says, "The resolution (12th,) not hav ing been adopted by a majority of the Committee." In the article headed "That Little Joker," it says, "A resolution (12th,) smuggled through the County Conven tion." (Italics are mine again.) Now, Sirs, these are strange statements for one holding the responsible position ot..an editor? of a daily newspaper, to make. And unmistakably prove either, that he has been grossly deceived, or that he writes regardless of truth and careless of the personal clutracter of those whom his words assail. The writer unqualifiedly states that the (12th) twelfth resolution did receive the approval of (6) six out of the nine (9) members of the Joint Committee, and challenges any one to a denial of the statement. 2d. That the said resolution received the full, emphatic and unanimous approval of the County Committee on resolutions, also the approval of (2) two of, the (8) three members of the Legislative Com mittee, and one (1) of the Judicial Com mittee, making (6) six out of (9) nine- This being the case, how does it "out. raze the principles of the, Republican party" in reporting the resolution as in structed by a majority of the Joint Com mittee on resolutions? • Was it not on the contrary, an "out. rage" to pocket and empires* the resolu tion by the Chairman of one of the sub committees,contrary not only to the wishes of the majority of the full committee, but also of a majority of the sub-committee representing his own convention? ' 3d. The undersigned further states that the resolutioes entire, as adopted in the County Convention, were unanimously approved by the committee from that con vention, and, also, that the (12) twelfth _resolution was read by the writer hereof to a leading representative of the Com mercial, and his approval of the same asked, before the report was read in con vention. He made no objection to its passage. This was probably a full hour before the convention adjourned, and ample time was given for any complaints to be made known. Tlui:report of the Committee on Reso lutions was announced while the room was yet full of delegates, was read in a loud, clear voice by Col. Stewart, one of the Secretaries of the Convention. and on motion was unanimously adopted en tire as read. • The writer would be pleased if the edi tor of the Commercial would show him where and when the "smuggling" was done, and if, in the meantime he discov ers his mistake and the injustice done to myself "and the other members of our committee, it will be right for him—and we demand ftor him—to withdraw this charge of "smuggling through the County Convention." It certainly will be better for,the repu tation of his paper to be morel guarded hereafter in making such sweeping charges against his felle4 citizeus, out the , least foundation in fact , therefor, and, in , the writer's \ humble "opinion, thi s is cue _ O f the yeolerrors sought to be avoided by the pow* of the twel ft h resolve, that - ,"Tailnnand indiscriminate accusations" against iiiiisbint,'Whether ,or out of,oll4e,;ttlicould never bei, 7 4/44, without good proaf therefor. Surely an editor shows little know'. edge (or belief in the influence of his paper, whn wil wantonly assail, without the very best of proof, the character of men or their mbtives for action; or. hav ing this knowledgo, exhibits a daring recklessness or depravity, or both, for the exhibition of which a "straight jpcket" would be none too severe, Further, if you will allow me to add, the articles which of late have been ap pearing in the Commercial, "pitching in" indiscriminately against everybody who saw fit to differ with it, and particu larly against Republican office holders, have been the inciting cause and excuse for every weak-kneed Republican to brawl and babble against the and the supposed delinquencies of its officers, the tendency of 'which cannot" be other wise than detriniental to the party, and to its success in the. Fall elections. lln closing, I would expreis the wish that hereafter the Editor of the Commer cial will confine himself to, the facts, when attempting to criticise the pro ceedings of , any Committee, and not depend too much upon the words of those who manifestly have this time de ceived him. HENN!' M. LONG, Chairman of County Committee on Reso lutions. ALLEGHENY CITY, June 3, 1.869. MESSES. EDITORS GAZETTE In read ing the Commercial this morning I find in one of their editorials thc4 speak of "smuggling" through the resolutions in the County Conventions. Now I con sider Tom Marshall too good al man to al low any person to smuggle through any resolution, be it in favor of or against the Commercial. When Mr. Ste Wart, one of the Secretaries; read the resolutions, he did it in a loud Clear voice, so that all in the room he ard them, and they were adopted in as loud a tone as [they were read,' not . haying a dissenting voice. When the Commercial attacks the County Convention and says we were guilty of "smuggling," lit attacks our Chairman, Secretaries and all the delegates. I have nothing to do with the fight be tween you and the Com mercial. as I be long to neither of the "rings," but went to the Convention to "wring" in for Hugh Fleming for Sheriff, and Ve did it too. I hope other delegates will speak out and denounce the I charge against us, of "smuggling." I should like to hear from our Chairman .on this question, as he, so far as I could see, allowed nothing but' what was on the square. A. DELEGATE. NESSUS. EniTons : Permit me to say through your columns that i am a goOd Republican, and have served my party in the field fighting for Its God-given principles before the cannon's mouth. I am not a simpleton and cannot be duped into believing that my vote, as a delegate in the County Covention, was wheedled out of me by any political tricksters. I gave my assentio the 12th resolution, believing it was right. I would do so every hour of the day under similar cir cumstances, if called upon to do so. The delegates to the County Convention i