el c Octi itiorning t)ost. JOHN lIIGLIR, EDVTOR PITTSBURGH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19 VV' V R rt. Agent for country new.spaper is the Agent for tt.e Pittsburgh Daily Morning Poet. and Weakly :Mercury and Manufacturer, to receive rekrettisenients and subscriptions. lle hap offices in New YORK, at the Coal Offico,3o Ann street, (ad• joining,tho Tribune Otlice.) llosTos, No. V!, State street. PEI tAIDELPRIA, Real Estate aol Coal Oflice, 5G Pine street. BALTINIORr, S E corner Baltimnrc nnfl Calvertcta where our paper can bo seen,l an , . terms of adverti sing learned. THY. 'VATKEI. WORKS —The Chronicle not It-has the projects about to he adopted in the Councils fur the "more efficient management of the lViiier Woi 'as of the city of Pittsburgh." That there is abundant , room for Reform in this department of our city affairs. there is no manner of doubt. The almost universal complaints ngainst Muse who hale hvd the control of Water Works and the numerous evidences of incom petency which have been adduced from tins to tiro , . show conclusively that some change is needed. But is it not poseible to CfreCl. this Cll3/1;:e o:1 i;.,111 SUljt C ng the citizens to an increase of the Watrr 'f axe., which are already burdensome in the cztrenis 1 Could not the *big mfijerity in Councils remedy the crying evils of the system of conducting the Water Works, which was 0rC,311!7.a . .3 11 , 11 maintained by thornselvi s, with out evincing so much party feeling, and without plunging the city into new and extraordinary evp.m. ses7 The otslinances providing fur the new bons, were all duly prepared loy some pow, br6ind tl,at which was to enact thetn: they were briiiii.fit into Councils, all material amendment's sudi.lonly .sea of, and a strong attempt made rush thern thro' Loth bodies of a single sitting. They slid risa the Select Council, but were arrested in the Common, and thus the pahlic arc permitted to kris's,. :hot great reformirt7 enactments ate under considerniien by the haw-making author-it. By the new laws there is to Ito ono Engineer nt the Water Works. who is to have $9OO salary, and a house and fuel furnished him—both about 300 snore. There is to he a superintendent of the Works who is to have $3OO. There is to too a clerk of the Vl'ater Wo r ks. who will receive 500. Anil then the's , is to he an as sessor of Water Rents, alto is to receive $1,50 a diiy, during the time he is enc.:need in rll tking 6 , 6oslfrlCl.ls There is also to he an °file- provided in -some cent] id part of the city," the rent, fai nitute and fuel which, will coot at least $3OO per annein. the yeask bid of et-cense' for officers, Sze, will Grand thus: Engineer's Salary. " House, &c, Sup't's Salary, Clerk's " Office Rent, Scc, A pretty consitleral , le sum• we shnul•i present impuverisliel Fl3te of the public fuuds;arld iew of the individual losses %Lich Lave been ausuu,d during the past year. Some change in the manner ofcondocting the tsar:, in contemplated. The water tsrses arc to be assessed in the names of the landlords and not the tenants, as at present. The greatest objecticn to the project in theinerease of expenditure. There cre,tioubtless, oth er objectionable features, but it is not worth a hilts to: enamerate them, for the labor would be as fruitless us the attempts of the minority in councils to arocz:d any law the majority wish to pass. The nrd. nai ces no doubt go through at the next rneeiiiig, and the offices will be filled by those for whom they are mad And then oar Whig Solari will sit down tiniler the comfortableconsiction that they have donee geoid iherg =for (heir party. it pr I,IIZ 30 55a13 pe r .11 ywr,l kri 24, 25 t 344 1,41 Z,• 11,1 1.7' We regret to see the Urnon tit!, such-decided ground nguir.st the interetoo of the state, Nlazulucturtis of I .1.(11., '2') - and particclerly this city. The editor appeals to . iiutm ue. think with the eastern hot di-older, and steels spec,. rotors, that Philadelphia and n,igithortmod is 2.) • state, and that no act should approved bs the Le- "l ea gislature that is intended mainly for the bereftt of its Mao - cl and biir sew- , citizens. The people are growing tired of the arro. tig F L. gbarn and stray L:us 2, C ; 3 „ , rm gance of Philadelphia, and disgusted at the continued p t s . .•r.;. r , efforts of her citizens to monopolize the odvantages of 'Sew oz std. OU $2 p every public measure, and the time Bill yet come casing tutu:, r i 0 when those who are now endeavoring n> retard the . 14lai ' d.rit's rust over7s '2.5 rent ' . progress of the west, will he brought to a sense of Gk .,. n„, rat 2O Jo ~r e justice, in a manner that will be folly as unprofitable I Plate glass and cut glass 30 Z.", in 12 car tts per •'i and disagreeable to them as is their present conduct 1,, i f.tro. an to the citizens who are interested in the Right of n is 20 21., 10ento „,„ _o per scot. V. ,1:00'14C,Ip, paper 2 , ) I to 17 r".l per pound GEM. M•nxt..c.—Ti..o Commercial Journal has ez• 111 .' " 20 13 ot q t ,ts pressed itself favorable to the re-nomination of (den' „n 1,„„1., , ,!,) 5 par Alarkle as the Whig candidate fur Governer in 1347. It•ut/ in rg., h , rt't r n'tti The Gazette was devoted to Mr. M. in the last con PO it, 4 ,•eitis per pound test because he had killed an Indian and dinnk smr, . k ,„„ 20 11,,9 bush tea, and we suppose din same eminent • r... 1.10 pork.o4 tions will induce it to support trim for a second trial - The American will, us a matter of course, follow [hi lead of the Journal and Gazette. So Mr Mutlfli may count confidently on the friendship of the thro Whig organs in this county. FIRE AT Fliatilt.TOWN. Nllllolk Beacon of Saturday suys:—“We learn flom n genderriiiri from the Eastern Shore, that a very destructive tire occurred at Franktow PI on Sunday last, svhir6 1,11 , 0 to the ground the storehouse. of Messrs. Stitch, il, Oldham & Nottingham, %% ith every thing in it, u yen saving the honks and accounts. I.ovi abut 000—no insurance. 'fins fire was occidental." bill to incorporate the Milwatikie and Mi.- sissippl Railroad Company, says the Slilwnul,ir, Sur tine!, has been introduced in the Council. It will pass, amended, p•-rhaps by leaving the termination un Lake Michigan to be fixed by the Stockhuidera. Title is fair enough, and will give all the towns on the Lake shore a chance to put in their claims. Tho last Corpus Ckraa Gazelle contains u notice, that on the succeeding Sabbath, a dittingui,di ed divine would erench at the theatre in the morning. nod that in the evening, the 'Lady of Lyons,' and the farce of the 'Rendezvous' would be played, a number of songs and dances to conclude the evening's enter tainments. FAtsz Rustoris.—The Union of Sal urday positively contradicts the truth of all the various rumors that ore In circulation relative to anolher Oregon message from the President—of a treaty that has bees agreed upon, es well as the construction which has been put upon the purport of the suppressed pert of Mr. McLane'a letter to 'Mr Buchanan: lionontßL7 ACQITTF.D.—We - learn by agentleman direct from New York, that the Methodist minister who we mentioned a few days since as on trial for cer tain charges made against him of an immoral charac ter, has been most honorably acquitted of all sem blance of guilt. Thu charge against him was made by a female, who wholly foiled to sustain her accusa tion. PRILAPELPHIA AND THE Z.T.—A movement was rattle in the Philadelpia Councils on Thursday night, for the enhocriptiun of two millions of dollars, bythe city risismrtent. to a company to eonsti UN n Railroad hawses Philadelphia and Pittsburgh ' • tom, 2 s t. , ~4 4 ' 4 ' wawiz= Corres,poadenco of the "Morning Post." Hnrrisburgli, Feb. 14, VAG. In the Senate, the BsFirmer° anti Ohio flail Rood bill wad ngain unties. consideration. 'rho substitute of Mr Bigler, for the amendment of :VI- Gibiroes, was debated nt great length by Mossrs Bigler end Gibbons, in favor of it, and Messrs osio, Cr ebb and Chapman, against it. The latter gentleman is very hortile—ho see ins defeat the hill, if leis I .iblo—he ts, if roidsihle, as zeslond in hid oimosillt, 110 this great western measure, it Cribb, 1 Senator Cbb, fr,on iho city. Mr St origin brought to the notice of the Se rate, a letter written nt Flarrisburgh, told published in the r.,.n Argus, in which he was "vilely ed." On motion of Mr Gibbons, a committee of throe ryas a{ pointed to PrlrllJ 011.1 a-certain whether the , VI ,ter of It Wll.ll a f•Tiii ter Or 111 any ether w.l). tea with the Senate. Mr Ilickmv,, after seine time, oircred an amendment n !deft inritides the Reporter fie- the Philadelphia "Spirit of the Tim is," and the Htlaitori Sates Geitrto." The Committee will enter 1„11011 t h e deni e r asri g red ificm nut Nlicalay, it ie gaid• In the lieu,. little of general i‘f groat 4 , 7.01 reeeive.l Iron I) r. Seth Sa I I,lJary. S1:11” Li/mina, in which "divers 'matters oil or; In his Mlle.. were diiicui , ,ed fit h i nt: oi. The eionmeiiictition amen.; oil, or things recomeiends it he mud. , the danO of he I.lhrtlfilifl Ili It flfaistiill TI.„ 'Ai!! see that there is new n 1 , 144, pert or fun" in both le ar.clies. The ptilert'll, C,r. r••ry rind I•e Iv inocn•ntin NFW TAl