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(By Telegraph 53 the Pittsburgh 0 az Ette. SPAIN. LONDON, September 26.—The reports from Spain to-day are of an exciting, and even an alarming character. Popular disaffection and disloyalty in the existing gove?oment prevail very genernlly throughout the nation, and 'both have again been expressed in the shape , of an armed counter-revolution. There was an insurrectionary demonstration made by the volunteer troops in Barcelona last night. It was occasioned by the receipt of the Government order commanding the volunteers to disarm, and an attempt on the parkof the local authorities to en• force it. The fact that the volunteers of . Tarragona, which refused to disarm pro. Iviously were suffering imprisonment for the offence was made a cause for another 'excitement. In a short time five barn'. 'cedes - , one built by the public cartmen, • *ere thrown up. The cartmen' burl 4icademas assaulted by the regular troops :.land carried by a bayonet charge, after a _.,very desperate resistance on the part of . :its defenders and a heavy loss of life. r iDuring the engagement the insurgents .; ;had. twenty-four men killed, a large ;number wounded, and seventy of their "dnost active members made prisoners. The.troops lied two commissioned offt ', cers killed and several soldiers wound ';'ed. Order;vras subsequently restored. .`" A Radieal Republican Democratic •• demonstration is announced to be made 'in Madrid during Wednesday the 20th inst. - . More trouble is anticipated on the occasion A Paris correspondent 'of the London .Post,says: The interest in, the Cuban • I matters is increasing at, Paris, but the public must not expo% to learn precisely ;the intercourse, between Madrid!, and , Washington. There is a difficult game !to be played in order I to avoid wounding Spanish pride. GREAT BRITAIN Lottnon, September 27.—Mr. Glad! - Nine, in reply to a petition for the Fe promises to submit the petition to • • ° the Queen. Mit does not pledge the gov ernment t.:Kriy Particular 'ste.tion on tbe subject. He acknowledges the ;sound ness of the judgment exhibited by. the petitioners n attaching the true charac ter to the offences committed. Jefferson Davis sailed for America on Saturday in the steamer Baltimpre. The Daily News to-day reports that the object of Lord Clarendon'a viait to Paris was to announce to Napoleon an arrange ment between Austria, Prussia, Russia ;, and England to preserve peace and check i the contagion of revolution in France in case of the Emperor's death, but not to ' thwart German unity. , LOIIDON, Sept. 27.—The Times of to ; day, iu an'article on the cotton question, says: If cotton is dear with its increased production, because of new -spinning countries bidding against ns, then the Liverpool quotations are unintelligible. If spinners not only carry off the raw material, but curtail the demands for our manufactures, the state of trade is unintelligible also. On these supposi tions it is useless to cry for more and cheaper cotton. The evil arising only from the loss of the monopoly, theicotton demand is limited, and competitors di minish cur share of the manufac tare. We cannot discern ' that cot ton at six cents per pound, I would bring trade back to 'England. We lost it by the loss of the' - raw material. But since then so many events have occurred affecting the great industry that it is necessary to distribute or apportion ° their several results in the state of things before us. . Brotherhood meetings have been held ; at Dublin. Roscommon and Cork, in , favor of amnesty to the Fenian. A meeting In support of tenant rights bee been held at Mary boronsit. The Times in an editorial on the relations Of England and the United States says: The progress and re . ! suit of . the negotiations on . the . Isigets Sound question show that .Amerisans and Englishmen can keep ; ! sufficiently above the mists of national i prejudices and apply the common prin. oiptes of equity to the Isettle went of -!_internatienal disputes. The work arks - a trying one for the . arbitrator& Any decision would have been satisfactory. The ; aetnat one is not unsatisfactory. The most agree ; able feature of this negotiation is the pi dials.) temper - displayed by ; the, gentle . enenjeondacting the inquiry. .! The San Juan and the Alabama difll- j oiWaili are the only questions now le ft .anding. These, if ever brought to 1 arbitration at the same- hands,' could scittcely resist the anxiety to observe the terms of their commission by doing justice and equity without fear, favor or affeetion,•;for their own country which basdiatingeished the arbitration ',of this claitn. TURKEY.' COVISTANTLNOPLE; &WWl:Ether 25—ilia .French eabte.—The sembollielal journal, Tuiquifs, of , this city, publishes in its • Issue to day. a violent article against the Vtomiy of Egypt for his action in .resist ing the terms of arrangement with the Sultan embraced in the second letter transmitted to his highntlas by the Turkish Government through the Vizier; and also for his proposal -to refer, the whole subject matter. In dispute to the arbitrament of the great Europead,powers. The Goma Vizier's newspaper organ objects, in , the name of the Sultan,' to the propositions of the Viceroy. and insists on the complete ac , eeptance of the second letter by the latter. ,-; The Tarquta concludes this editorial ' attack by recommending the Porte -to at once dismiss Ismail Pasha and appoint Mustapha Tazil Pasha as Viceroy of Egypt. FR %NCE. PARIS, September 27.—Reports from Rome Katt+ that the case of Pere Hya cynthe will be submitted to a Canonical investigation, which will probably result labia excommunication. irALr. FLORENCE. September 27.—Mount Eatna is in a state of violent erruptlon. Streams of lava ar6 pouring from the crater in the Val Duoe. MARINE NEVI'S. LONDON', September 27.—The steamers Liberia, Minnesota and Cella have ar rived out. FINANCIAL A 1 ,71) COMMERCIAL. LONDON, Sept. 28.—Consols, 92%; on account, 92%@93. American securities firmer. Five-Twenty Bonds: '62s ' 84%; do. '6ss, 83%; do. '67s, 82. 10-40 s, 75; '62s at Frankfort, 87k: Eries, 2534; 9334; Atlantic 07. Great Western, 2734. Rentes, 70f. 87c. LIVERPOOL, Sept. 27.—Cotton market firm; sales of Middling, uplands at 12% @l2%s and Orleans at 1234@12%5; sales 12,000 bales. California white wheat 103 8d; red western, 9s 3d©4s 4d. Western flour 21s. Corn 29s 6d. Oats 3s 6d. Peas 455. Pork 111 s. Beef 89s. Lard 755. Cheese 635. Bacon 65s 6d, Spirits petro• lenm 8d; refined Is 734 d, LONDON, Sept. 27.—Tallow 475. 34., and quiet aid unchanged. Calcutta linseed -631. Petroleum at Antwerp 5734 f. Cot ton at Havre 14%f. and firm. BRIEF TELEGLIDIS. —The break in the Erie Canal, a , Pool's Brook, has been repaired and,nav igation is fully resumed. —The new buildings of the National Military Asylum at Milwaukee were dedicated yesterday afternoon. —The Hair House of Steinberg and Mauer, of Cincinnati, was . robbed of 66,000 worth of stock Monday night. No arrests. —Reports from the interior of this State say a heavy storm his prevailed since last night. The Schuylkill river, at Reading, has risen four feet. —The corner stone of a new Catholic church was laid at Marvintown, a suburb of Erie, Pa.,yesterday, by Bishop Mul lin. The asholio societies, in regalia, formed a procession half a mile in length. —A. farmer named Samuel Barton. Br- ing on Gunpowder river, near Baltimore , was murdered in his house on Sunday night by a man named Wm. Brown, who married Ws niece. He has not been ar rested. —An extensive gang of horse thieves, embracing it is said, several well known and hereto'ore.respectable citizens, has been discovered in Chariton county, Mo. Their operations extended to and acmes thelowa linet- • —Advices from St. Thomas to the 18th suite that three shocks of earthquake oc curred on the 17th. All the stores were closed and business was suspended. No lives were lost as 'far as known. Great alarm prevailed. —John D. Culver, a 'broker 'of St. Cath slues, Canada, absconded Saturday night, taking with him $29,000 or 25,000. Several banks are aufforers, as well as a number of business men. —Thomas S. iftearns, alias Thomas Carter, charged with obtaining several thousand dollars in Boston two years ago, by selling counterfeit bonds, has been arrested in New Hamp3hire anti committed, to jail in default of $lO,OOO —George Lightfoot, a negro. was by J. D. Barber, on the latter's farm, on the Boonesboro road, about nine miles from Louisville, on Thursday last. Lightfoot was stealing corn, when Bar ber fired five shots, three of which took effect —On the 22d of the present month, seventy Tr asked men rode into Lancaster, Garrard county, Kentucky, took a color ed man from. jail and hung him. The same Regulators, a few nights before, cowhided Walter B. Sutton and Mr. Hutchinson, and ordered them to leave the country.' - —A Richmond special to the New York Herald says: The excitement over the struggle for Senators from 'Virginia In creases every day, and it is intimated that possibly a Radical Republican may be chosen to fill one of the places. Al exander Sharp, late Postmaster at Rich mond, and brother-in-law of the Presi dent, has been brought prominently for ward by the Conservatives. • Horace Greeley is also spoken of to represent the Old Dominion in the higher branch of our National Legislature. —At a mass Convention of colored citi zens held in Chicago yesterday, the fol lowing resolution was adopted: Resolved, That we appoint two of our I ablest citi zens, capable of creditably representing our interests, to attend the coming State Constitutional Convention, and there, as opportunity may offer, by voice and pe tition, beseech that honorable body to favorably - consider our neceseities, - and submit to the people of the State such amendments to the State Constitution as will remove the various disabilities un der which we now labor. Distribution of the Avondale Relief Fund. • [By Tele graph to the l'lttitiorxh 0 fate.] Pturatourn, PA., Sept. 27. The Trus tees of the Avondale Relief and to-day adopted a plan for the distrlb 'lon of the funds that have reached them. Theplaa of distribution for the first year , is as fol lows: Each widow will be paid the sum of #2OO in equal monthly payments; each male orphan child - , under fourteen years, and each . female orphan child utider sixteen years shall be paid , for the sa e- period i ii /100 in the same manner. C ildreA Over the ages the, will be aid in fall a sum not exceeding 1300. Five thou sand dollars was voted to Inset skeial oases not embraced in the foregoing. These provisions are (made for the aid and relief till the - first day of October 1870, and will atraorb all but 'IPIO,BOO. - The remainder of the fund is to be carefully invested In gcx,d. securities 1 that can be converted into cash when required, and to constitute a fund divia: able upon the folloiring basis. Onethird to constitute a widosi l ,a fund, \and the re. matning two-thirds - air orphan's fund. From these funds widows and orphans are to receive quarterly pay. eats until 'the whole is exhausted. PITTSBURGH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1869. ECM EMIR FOUR O'CLOCK, 4. X. TO PENNSYLVANIANS. Address of the Republican State Central Committee. ROOMS OF THI COMMITTEE, 1105 Chestnut St., Phila. To the People of Pennsylvania: The approach of an election for ,Gov ernor of the State and Judge of the Su preme Court calls upon us to address you. That election, although confined to State officers, may have an effact beyond State limits, and exercise an important influence hereafter on the politics and destiny, of the nation. Arrayed against us, and endeavoring to secure your votes for its candidates, IS the same Democratic party which was overwhelmingly repudiated by the peo ple at the last Presidential election. It has charmed none of its principles and reformed none of its practices, but is as odious to-day_ to all loyal -men as it has been heretofore. Its southern wing caused the rebellion and strove by armed force to rend in twain that glorious Union which was cemented by the blood_ of our fathom. Its Northern wing gave all the sympathy, aid and comfort to the rebellion that it dare, by resolutions in its State and Na tional Conventions, and by the votes of its members in our State and National Legislatures against all propeitions and bills offered by loyal men tending to strengthen the arm of the National C4ov ernment in its efforts to crush the re• bellion. That party caused the expenditure o four 'thousand millions of dollars of the public, money, and is the guilty author of the heavy debt that is now pressing down the national industry. It is an swerable for the blood of half a million of los al men sacrificed in the effort to crush out its wickedness, and for the wounds and misery of hundreds of thousands more. Recognizing the duty of an enlight ened government to provide for the en couragement of the industry of the peo ple, it has enacted tariffs to :prevent un due coMpatition by the pauper laborer of other. countries with the labor of the American citizen. -. . Regarding the plighted faith of the Government as the moat sacred of obli gations, it has determined that the debt of the nation, except where otherwise agreed upon f attallbe.paidlu Bold WSW) last dollar. . ' ' It is responsible for the sufferings and the poverty of the wives made widows and the children made orphans at Demo cratic hands. In its national convention the northern wing permitted the aouthern rebels to dictate the National Daniocratio platform and policy, and has again taken to its arms the men whose hands are not, yet cleansed of the blood of northern pa triots. That party is in favor of free tradein commerce as fully now as when its Vice President (Dallas) gave the casting vote against American industry more than twenty years ago. It favors practical repudiation of the national debt, by paying off interest bearing bonds redeemable in gold with irredeemable notes bearing no interest, and which from their excess would be come as worthless as Continental paper. It presents as its candidate for Govern or a man thoroughly impregnated with all these abominable - heresies, who, though rich beyond the necessities and wants of any reasonable man, evades by shifts and artifices the payment of his taxes and throws upon the rest of the people of the State that share of the bur dens of the State which he is legally bound to bear. If he should be unfortu. nateiy elected, he will be as clay in the hands of the potter. In the hands of that unscrupulous set of men, too well known to the State and nation as "The Coffee pot Democracy" who have so persisently•endeavored for the last few years, by wholesale fraudu lent naturalization papers, and fraudu lent election returns to destroy the value of the elective franchise. It presents al its candidate for the highest judicial office a geutleman un known to his profession, and whose lira itea experience renders him unable -to grapple with the great questions that are continually presented to our. Supreme Court. Such men surely are not entitled to the support of loyal and Intelligent freemen. On the other hand, we asserts that the Republican party is the 'party of loyalty, of devotion to the Union and to the rights of all men. It stood by the Government In the hour of its great extremity. Its young men went to the battle field and offered up their lives in defense of the Integrity of the Union, while itsoppo-, nents stayed at home and rendered aid on rebel victories. Its capitalists, when the, credit of the Governmetit was lowest, offered up their Wealth to support our armies in the field and to provide hospitals for the sick and wounded. • It has voted bounties for the soldiers and provided pensions for the disabled and for the -widows and orphans of the patriot dead, and Is now in the State of Pennsylvania alone expending hair a million of dollars yearly to educate the orphans of deceased soldiers. In the national. administration it has redeemed its pledges to the people by dismissing useless office holders, by re ducing the number and expense of the army. by pitying off in in the first six mouths of its existence fifty minions of dollars of the national debt, caused by the Democracy, and with the prospect of paving off five hundred millions there. of during Grant's administration, whilst in the State administration, under the skillful management of Governor Geary, - it has pald'of tivelnillions - ordolblis' or our State indebtedness, arid had relieved the people from all-taxation on real es• sate for State purpose. . Such are the principles and acts of the Repubilemi_ Party. • A jl oittrep"mitative of-those_prlaci plos s ^ - iie prima to the people as aoo42Gil• date for GoTornor. the -,statesman and patriot Jolla W. bleary. His history is well known to you all. We need not re peat it. Hi military military exploits are writ ten on the cks of Cerro Gordo and the walls of Chopultepec. Tbey are inscribed on the ridges of our Gettysburg, on the passes of Wanhatchie, on the forests of Ringgold and Missionary Ridge, and above the clouds on the heights ol Look out Mountain. He rendered service In sixty battles, received four wounds, and lost his eldest son in the service of his co" -' Anintry. He has betn scarcely less distinguished as a statesman; and to his intelligence and firmness we are indebted for the prevention of hasty and unwise and unconstitutional legislation, and for the punishment of murderers whom a less firm Executive would have allowed to escape., In Judge Williams we present an able and accomplished jurist, who has sat long on the bench, and has a large and varied experience, and whose nu merous decisions, supported by the Su preme Court, have been recognized by that tribunal as being sound law, and ex pressed in a manner worthy of its high commendation. In his hands the rights of the people will be secured, The election of those two mon will be of vital importance to the people. It will destroy the sham pretensions and professions of the Democratic party, al ways arrogant and never fulfilled. It will establish the prosperity of the people on an enduring basis. We expect every friend of genuine Republicani,m to go to tho polls and vote for Gesry and Williams. Di not wait to tie solicited. Do not vial for your neighbor. Da not let apathet o in. ' difference render you careless in tb ex orcise of what is not a mere priv • ege, but a duty. Remember that the-, election of t eary will give ns an honest Admintatrat in of State affairs, whilst the election of : man who evades the payment of his axes to would be likely to be the a i vent o power of dishonest men. Re member, too, that the p -sent election may have an im i irtant bearing on the next presidential el .ction and if Pennsylvania should no •• fall into the hands of an effete and e rupt Democracy, it may throw the next national administration into the , ewer i of rebels, free trad rs and repudi• tors. A lull Republic• n vote is a fu L Re publican victory. et every Repa , lican do his duty and all will be well. JOHN COVODE, ' Chairman of Repub. State Central Cornmitte. THE CAPITAL. (By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Dazette.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 27, 1869. EXTRAORDINARY ARRIVAL OP Pessros GRAS. The efficial returns of pasdengers ar. riving in the United States during the quarter ending June, shows an extraor dinary increase. The whole number is 177,682, of whom nearly 66,000 were CS. SAM/. OF *WARTY. In pursuance or act of. Congre , the property of the United States, a Bar per a Ferry and vicinity, is to be s id on the 30th of November. 3114. J. HAGGERTY HAS AN INTERVIEW. Major Haggerty had a long and sat isfactory interview with the Presidhnt to day on the subject of his rejection by the British Government as Consul at Glas gow. NEW YORK CITY. B y Teegraph to toe Pittsburgh Gazette.] NEW YORK, September 27, liG9 Dr. Albert L. Simmons, who it was es alleged, was unjustly incarcerated In Cuba, and whose estate and other prop erty on that Island was confiscated, ap plied to-lay Co United States Consul Os borne for an attachment against the Spanish gunboat, but • was directed to apply to the State Department. The United States steamer Powhattan, flag-ship of Admiral Poor, sailed yester day for Key West. There is a rumorlin circulation that a Cuban expedition, numbering 300 men, lett this port last night, but it is not traced to an authentic source. CliBA. By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.l HAVANA, Sept. 27„ . —The telegram sent from. Havana Saturday, relative to the • surrender of Gen. Jordan and his troops upon payment by the Government of a certain sum of. money, was based upon an olUcial dispatch. It is re ported that the insurgents in the neighborhoods of Yaguaromas and Parts, and, between Cienfuegos and Colon, are treating with the Spanish au thorities 'I. olative to surrender. Ttliti sur render is important; if true, the rebel bands in this quarter being nearest to the sugar dristricta of Colon and Cardenas. Advices from Porto Rico on the 9th inst., say the new tarlif 9n merchandise imported and exported will go into op eration on the first of January. • Additional Markets by Telegra •b. Now Unix:aka, September 27.—Cotton: demand .fair for middling at 26%e; sales 1,425 bales; receipts 5,298 bales. Flour dull and lower; superfine 85,70, double and treble extra 513. Corn firmer; whlte 11.07%©1,10, Oats 600. Bran 51,2% Hay 527. Pork 53375. Baton firmer at 1.734 ® 20%®210. Lard • 'l9%©2ll4c."Sugar 12%@14150. Molasses 60@)70o. Whisky 51,80. Coffee unchanged. Gold kW. Sterling 44%. New York sight pariW discount. ALBANY, September 27.—The supply of beeves to-day was, not aklarge as last week, but the eastern market being com pletely broken down,.the market is the dullest for several months, the decline, in all 'grades being frilly ;io, _and the sales were effected with diffidulty at that reduction. The highest price paid f or Kentucky steers WaslBX. • Last week the same quality would haye bripught. $93. brAsaymt.E, Sept. 27.—There was a heavy frost this morning, but, did no se rious damage. Wheat: red st,2o: amber $1,25; white 11,30. -Oorn 11.05.. Rye 95c. 'Omit' 70c. Barley $1.30. Flour $8 best brands.! Bacolt: sides •19340; hams 20c; shoulders 17c. Lard 22c. Cmcbtoo. Sept. 27.-At afternoon Board the attendance wisjighSand sales limited. Wheat t .qpiet and weaker. Corn, `seller the mootti; opened •at :709 knd, closed at 75@)75g0. Oafs qrilett,nottli , sally .12mo; Barley quiet ,and Attn. The market closed dull. - • CITY AND SUBURBAN. CM COURT S. Regular Monthly meeting—Reports of Committees—Tne Retrenchment and Reform QuesUon—The New Market House. • A regular_ meeting of the Select and Common Councils of this city was held yesterday morning, September 27th, '69, at 2 o!clock r. m. Select Council, Members present: Messrs. Armstrong, Brown, Burgwin, Coffin, Craig, Dickson, Edwards, Gallaher, Grose, Heilman; Hartman, Herron, Jones, Kirk, Lauf. man, Litton, Lloyd, Morrow, Murray, McClelland, MoEwen, McMahon, Ogden; Rafferty, Rees, Rush, Schmidt, Scully, Shipton, Torrens, Wainwright, S. J., Wainwright, Z Watson, Wilson, Zara, and Prestdent McAuley. The minutes of the preceeding meet ing were read and approved. INFORMALITIES. 2 The PresiSent on taking ,the Chair called the attention of the members to the fact that cettain ordinances had been presented at a former meeting and after action sent into Common Council, which had been returned by that body in con sequence of informality, said ordinances - having no title as required by the rules. The following were the ordinances : Fob paving Forty-third street; opening of Crescent street; repealing an ordinance for the opening of Hatfield street. The papers were referred to the City Engi neer for correction, who corrected them and they were returned to Common Council. UN FINISHED BUSINESS. Before proceeding with the regular order of business, it was on motion re solved to take up business from Com mon Council passed "at a former meet ing and not previously reached in the Select Council. The following business was concured in : A resolution in relation to payment of the Commercial bill fur printing the Record. Resolution prohibiting oil refineries on the Allegheny River from depositing refuse in said stream. NON CONCURBNOR • A resolution appointing a committee to . investigate the action of the Board of Health was nonconcnrred in. RETRENCHMENT AND REFORM. The report of the committee on Re trenchment and Reform with accom panying resolutions was then taken up. Mr. Shipton opposed the, resolution relative to taking up water pipes laid last year. ' He said that it would be a useless expenditure of money. Mr. Morrow desired that the committee might have an opportunity of complet ing its work. Mr. Edwards moved to concur. Mr, Zeta amended by moving to refer= to-the water 06140ttttOC -- - • Mr. Brown, submitted the following communication from Mr. William Smith, the contraetor for furnishing. water pipe to the city, as a reply to the report of the committee on Retrench. meat and Reforsh : To he Select and Gammon Councils of the City of Pittsburgh: • GENTLEMEN : The undersigned begs leave to submit the following statement, and protest In reply to the paper submit ted by Mr. B. W. Morgan to the - Coun cils at their last regular meeting. From a Careful investigation of the matter, I am satistled that it is not, true that tn• more reached the Chairman of the "Com mittee on Retrenchment and Reform" "that irregularities had beenicommitted by the contractor to furnish the city with vigor pipes and miscellaneous castings," but it is true that B. W. Morgan, Chair man of the Committee, pretended to have received an anonymous let ter charging such "irregularities," and it is believed to be equally trim, that , the same anonymous writer was none other than Mr. .B. W. Morgan himself. That is to say; citizen B. W. Morgan 'writes an anonymous private letter to Councilman B. W. Mor gan in his official character as Chairman of the “Committee on Retrenchment and Reform," for the very pnrpcse of creating rumors injurious to the under signed and furnishing an excuse for a pretended examination into the transac tions between the city and the subscriber. Before any report was made on the sub ject, I begged, the privilege of seeing and reading the said pretended anonymous communication, and having an oportn nity of defending myself before the ii: Committee but • Mr. B.W. 'Morgan de nied bath and proceeded, as informer, witness an judge, to proseente E try and decide the ase against me, without even allowing; e theporiViteste of a hearing. The flag nt injustice of defaming me me whilst efusing me the privilege of proving the integrity of my conduct and the malice l and falsehood of may, anony mous accuser, Illustrates the performance of the "Chairman of the Committee on Retrenchment and Reform." In his report Mr. B. W. Morgan says that fdur 20 Inch - pipes found on Butler street were weighed and found to average If 2,668 pounds. the truth had been stated it would have appeared , that 'those four pipes weighed 2,629, 2,680, 2,776 and 2,815, res pectively making a total of 10,880 pounds, and an average weight of 2,720 pounds, and not 2,668, as stated by Mr. B. W. Morgan. - It is also stated-that the , average weight of eight inCh 'pipes as "charged by the contractor to the city . averages 720 pounds," whilst in fact' the real aver ageler Moroni': scales was but 684, "ma lug a difference" against the city of and in favor of the contractor of 66 pounds per pipe. lln.trash :and in- fact the bills rendered .by me to the city , show that the average weight of such pipes is 675 pounds. ,and Mr. B. W. Mor gan eltber did knew or .should have known that fact before he published lila slanders.' He flarther stated that they "weighed - throe eight 'inch pipes on my ecales," and found - that they weighed from four to six pounds more than they were marked, and he grstuitonalv adds: "These last pipes were not made or marked for defivcry . to the city," yet be well knew when he wrote that sentence that the pipes were' made, for; delivered to the olty,,and that the weights charged were 'loss than the so tug weight of the pip*. • "t' ~. In' regard to the twenty mob • pipes .which weighed. 2.575ti0and4 Mr. ttOhatr ,inan Morgan" ogght,tolusie known, and perhaps aid know, t4qt ! they wage ma pip equal in quilitjr - With the , Imager, es, • and therefore heavier pipes, yet he states NUMBER 221. their weight as evidence of irregular ities. . The weight of twenty Inch pipes (ex cepting the cut pipes) varies: from 2,664) to 2,940 pounds, and that is a fair range and within the letter and spirit of the contract. - The variance is not fhe fault of the contractor, but the fair and natural re sult of matters over which he has no control. The city his net been charged with a single pound of castings beyond the honest weight of those actually de livered. Any statement to the contrary is untrue. The undersigned neither desires con cealment nor fears hones.; investigation, but be' protests most earnestly that he should not be condemned unheard.; , Re has been maligned and slandered whilst being denied the right and privi- , lege of meeting his accuser "face to face." A cowardly and anonymous attack upon his reputation has been made th6basis of an official report to Councils, wh Ist the facts have been carefully kept fr m pub lic view. Whilst the undersigns would be pleased taco-operate with a mmit tee in any investigation the Coun cils in their wisdom may be pleased to order, •he emphatically protests against the indecency, injustice and malice, of Mr. "Chairman- Morgan," whose Billingsgate vituperation and abuse of members of Councils generally and city officials, was ventilated upon the public street, many days before his report was presented to the Councils, thereby exhibiting his utter unfitness and unworthiness to represent your. t.hon orable bodies. i With; assurances of my respect and es teem. I am, gentlemen, very truly, your obedient servant, • Perromßoa, Sept. 20, 1869. The communication was! received 'and filed. Mr. Brown stated that he desired to have an investigation of all the charges made by Mr. Morgan, but was opposed to the resolution authorizing the raising of water pipe after it had been laid un der the supervision of the Committee. He was informed that Mr. Morgan had said on the street that there were a num ber of men in Councils who were filch ing money out of the people's pockets,' and that the city officials, from the May of' down to the lowest officer, were ras cals and cheats; and that 'he-(Mor gan) was going to clear them all out of office. He had been ap proached by several _persons, who were willing to testify that Morgan had used much disrespectful langnage and if he had done so he thought the re port made by him as Chairman of the Investigating Committee should not be considered until his conduct was inves tigal el, as it was unbecoming to say the least of it, for a member of Council to speak in such a disrespectful manner of his colleagu is. If th 3 report mai adopt ed, it would be ostensibly admitting Mr. Morgan's charges 'against Cannella to be true, which would be a gross injustice to Mr. Smith, Contacts and the. City. " iQ rnoved, tcfrion..cautaur witipCommon Counbil in the adoptien of the resolhtion andappoint .a committee to investigate the charges made by Mr. Morgan, and have a fair and impartial hearing of both aides of the case, and not only one' Wale, as had been Bono by-the chairman of the Committee on Retrenchment and Re form, then have its report of the com mittee. not of the chairman, presented to Councila for their consideration. Mr. Morrow said the Committee had made no charge against Mr. Smith. They had taken pipes of various slam and weighed them and diswpancies appear ed, and they now asked for power to continue the investigation. Mr. Ogden desired to _know chose - duty it-was to receive and inspect the pipes when delivered. He thought the Water Committee censurable for not . weighing the pipes. Mr.Shipton replied that Councils elect- ed a el erieto the Water Committee whose . duty it was to see the pipe weighed. The President stated the question would first be taken on Mr: Edward's motion to concur with Common Council. , Mr. Brown moved as a substitute, to strike out all after the word "resolve" in the lint resolution and insert the follow ing: "That a Special Committee of two from . Select and three from Common Council be appointed to investigate all the charges set forth in the report; to hear both sides of the case and report the same to this Council." Mr. Morrow hoped that such a Com mittee would not be appointed. that it was intended to smooth over the matter, according to parliamentary usages the gentleman offering the resolution would be made chairman. • Mr. Brown—l would state ere Mr. President that I will , not serve on that Committee, unless compelled to do so by Connell. • . • Mr. Kirk favored retrenchment and re form, but he was of cipinion that injus tice had been done Mr. Smith, in 'this matter. He thought that the Chairman of the Committee on Retrenchment and Reform. was like a horse rushing Into bathe, he went headlong; and was not a proper person to sit as judge in the investigation. He favored the motion of Mr. Brown, and would- submit the fol •lowing resolutions, which he thought embodied it : liesolved.- That a Special Committeepf two ftom - the Select and three' from 'the Common Council, be appointed to inves tigate the charges against Mr. Smith, and that they have power to raise any pipes they may dente, for the purpose _ , of weighing, .and that they also hays power to send for persons and papers and that the Mayor be instructed to issue such summonses as they may require. Mr. Rafferty moved as an amendment, that the COmmittee be instructed to act in conjunction with the Retrenchment 'and Reform Committee. Mr. Gallaher said that he bad not signed the report "of the committee, al thought lie Was a rdembilr bf the'commit tee and had attended the meeting, and he' desired' to state why he had not signed it. The report, he said, was that of the chalrroan t rand not of the commit tee. The,committee had instructed Mr. Morgan, as chairinan, to inquire and as certain if there was any ground for the charges against certain parties connected With the city, in official capacity and as contractors, and to - report , , 'the facts 'to the Committee. -Mr. Mor gan had, instead of • doing ea he jwas instructed ,by the Onomitteei pro., ceeded,Withont the knowledge and con 'sent of the *other , iuembers of the Coat tnittee to 'make ilivestigatione of certain inatters,:of which' investigation be pre pared& report and desired the Committee to sign it, which hei as a member of the Committee, declined to do. He hoped (Continall on Mlgath Page) , U 13 WM. SMITH