trit:Ottch Obstrbtr. Pitl, PA. SATURDAY kORSiNG, DEC. 17, IR"6. r Importaattiiiim . l : ranrsier. -.--, The followisw 77....-- ppr i w, fit. h from Gov. Bicuax 1 . • ..ed by us Monday evening. It bl i Answer to a letter had written him the Fri- i day previous ; and i shows at ones tlusthis'Ex cellency fully a end•rympatitints with Erie in her etre& with the monster corpora tion of Ohio and N w York. It km 'Fond a cooler to the b, of our opponents; it moot also convince every Unprejudiced mind that Erie has been grossly, idtaly and maliciously slander ed by the birling pm of Cleveland tud Buffalo. The Governor..Nl that there is a question kr more important than a . more change of gauge, or _a change of ears. IHe sees that there, is a grave q uestion of State policy—of State rigbk—of mu nicipal supresseyHt right struggling - against banded wealth and arrogant monopply seeking to accomplish its *you, reganiloes Mee eine' tice to the counti of Erie and our great common wealth. Hence hosympathiale-with us, a:a.m. gardleis alike of denunciation) or oensure, will stand by us to 4 last :. Ell • iliAriiimag, Dec. 12 B. P SLOAN,I Esq. anew. of the Erie Obarver. Tour Letter is this moment received, and it is the fret reliable information I have had..— The sfk:tortiey General has been directed to get an injuction agsinst the Franklin Canal Color up at the earliest day Passible. ' My sympathies are with the people of[Lrie, and whatever my at and the laws will permit , shall bo done for them If my presence can bivor any service - I wiij cheerfully ovum out to your plate. Let me uear from you by telegraph. WILLIAM BIGLER. Our ,city Cmcila being in session the evening the above was received, we immediately laid it before them, when a resolution was nnansmonsly adopted inviting the Governor to visit Erie..— This was immediately telegraphed him, and we •h4ve the 'latest certain assurance, since he has received it, that he will respond favorably to the invitation. tire shall know, perhaps, before this taper is iii=4 ; - at all events as soon as we re t mire demi *ormation,of -time, &R., we will take'meens let the people all over the county know it, . - 1 ,r- y '.L , Li: ` 1 Much misrepresentation has gone abroad in have at least strung orretunstantial evidence regard to the action of the people of Harborcreek pointing to it. Not to be ambiguous. Erie owes -lost week in removing the Railroad from the all her troubles to the Directors Of the Erie and public higli-ways iti that township ; end hence North East 'road! Upon their shoulders let the we deem a true statement of the controversy im- blame rest; and while we are assailed from abroad, porteut at ibis time. fu locating the Erie and ' ought we to longer treat them as our neighbors? North East Road' through , thatoWn, its Direc- They have been false to every ititereet that Erie tors tookkimeeis ' on of nearly eighty rods of the, holds dear; they have attempted to barter her pulllie t hihtra' y, knoWn as the stage road between welfare, to sacrifice her fair name for—what?— Erie end Bulfolo. The road Commissioners of We will not say what for that might be libelous. Ithe township then protested against such oceto We may, however,' be allowed to hint that the pawl , ; . they declaring it then, as they do now, days of unrewarded martyrs have passed. Very , 's. nuissucn, and steadily refused to give the coin- few can be found who will cast themselves into • tally the required permission to occupy it. The such a fiery furnace of public odium as these mat Company ihewever persevered and did occupy it, have, without some great and gontrollingtetotive. and had dam so until the present time, although : Whet cost osotfee has been in their ease we will ' their charter expressly declares that they ihall e not pretend to say. We judge no man; we leave not obet any public high-wail. Their /auto 1 4 that to (led Usd pabiie opinion! -... That the direr penny of jtbis road in the - manner they he is tors of the Erie and Noeth East road will have tion"' of the most grievous the ater; an "obstrucjudgement passed , open them in that quarter, we an intollauble anise= that it has log been , doubt not; and it will he a, righteous one. It ; - the dutyl of the load Commissioners of Harbor- cannot be otherwise. Look et their course. Er creek to bate. Many accidents, though form- ,er since the project of sacrificing Erie and the nattily none fatal, hart already occurred there, ' , Sunbury road entered their minds-olver since and theen who ruse the road, and it is a great i Belly. and Richmond whispered to them in the public high-tray, as we before said, over which !losiosiegs Judas was whispered to--their constant `the people ere constantly traveling at all hours i endeavor has been to stir up bickering and cal or the day and night, run iniinent hazard of life Contention among our citizens, hoping therebe to and limb. Under these circumstances -it was i create a division in our ranks,. and thus, when resolved' by the people of that township that if the hour of trial came, array one portion of the • the Contently took up the- . traak, no matter for : community against the other. The plan was what purpose, it should n ot be replaced; hence , well conceived, but it fsiledo-otterly and hope they initructed their Road Commissioners to no- I lessly failed. The people are united as one mut, tify the 'Company of that determination. The', and in that union they should resolve to submit Company disregarded the warning, took up the to this constant abuse from abroad no longeroete track, and put down another. The Road Corto They should retaliate; not upon the press abroad ) ,redationers, true to their word, and backed by 1 but upon the. Directors of the Erie and Nor* the people, immediately removed it. - The Com- East railroad, who are the inatigsters of • that puny again put it down, and the road Cominis- I press. These men have for months been imbue 1 goners , again removed it; and thus it remains I trionsly engaged in creating, what they called at the present writing. That the Company goad i "public opinion azainet Erie'," because Erie would sears no legal rights • upon the high-way at the not submit to their scheme; and it is no more point named is evident, not only because of the j 4 than just that' the "public 'opinion" of their express language of its charter, but because the 1 neighbors should now be turned against them. track, as laid down, very materially obstructs :he . We would not hart one hair of their heads, but free aid safe travel of the road. It is evident, we woald put an embargo upon all social inter- • too, that - the Directors themselves have no faith i course with them; we would trot them as straa- in their rights, for instead of immediately resort- I gas, an aliens,' as apostates. 1 • ~. r ing to. legal proceedings to establish those rights, 1 . in The Voice ot one of the Directors, Duct &came:no of Bid- ; , the People. — 4 ,.....___ 0 , went before the Read Commissioners and i It has been said that the vaiee of the people to have the track remain, offering to ! is, omnipotent ; if this is so, the; the schemes of mprotaisto with the township with an) sum the i l the Railroad men to ride down Erie county must missioners, or the citizens, might name.--] fail, for no question has ever yet arose upon is they very properly, and very indignantly trhich a whole community were so united as that thud, at the same time giving him to 'under , of determined, unyielding, never ending hostili nd that it WILS not - for stower they.were con- ' tie to a break of gauge being established between tending. They told him that nothing short of i Its arid market. Upon this question Erie coon the full recognition of their eights, and the righ'*; t is united as one man. Our people will never of f e Ze, could or would be received as a cony o • ; yield it, seem The proseefinp of the public a" Thisa y b et e a refulad olh a la ' o iuml eme th eu e t re as t t h h e is '7 la,ok a t t er . /meetings in another csolumn proclaim 1,10 -th- in un hie hiuguage ; and these meefugs are cd by en entire community, composed of l aw . cassaba abiding and law fearing men of all classes to be b eing held every &So In fact. the - entire-coat is styled a *undo found- in an , agricultural - diatrict, is being irtisseci, end we should not w elati popcsat less mobs,' them, the ma i d r i t n ega th / e 7 cu o d a se s rv to e a to bat re e a nweeo74 if the whale State did sot soon arts it- it. . de .aze pu n b ge lie r n th n e ita dt 7 ;ertuinati , a "rio ou t." .of " S:elipeoislaniedere self antagonistic oa r schem es _ . o icr, will only recoil upon the heads of till •, . aria their position. • , 7 , __ of . our MO. Its Days are astabared ! The "tall boy" * of Ohio has played one too many ear* he has been cheek-muted by the Heouthrouts" of the old Keystone; and his "hesi tated" railroad, called ilia Franklin Canal, will be the penal y. 'On Tiesday last , in the Su preme Court of this State, Dow in ae s o i n n in phib i d e lphia, on motion of the Attorney General, a rule was granted citing the Franklin Canal Company—•i. o. the road from Erie to the Ohio u 5e ...4 0) &bow ems within ten days why ait iajunegen should not be declared against it. As the merits of this cue were fully argued before the Court at a previous trial, and the Court then derided that the Company bad no legal ex i s t sace , wir have the extrema pleasure of informing . the Forest City Desaccrat, and aU others emus. ad, that within ten days the "nut and candy Teed. an 43 ( pie" wiU have to more up to the Ohio line, if they wish to pursue their business of ad ministering to the wants of the Alry-fed gents of the 'Western Reserve l a. As the people hare hare takes the am atitutiora newspaper, and its paid Editor he band, as per resolutions: Harborareek and Wellsburg, we deetiait quite uauetweewy that we should Wee at all to its article of lest week upon os. MOO We ea& Prom 01011015 , trOM CM WOO of tido bro 44 thlint to tint,lother, our tritium, to- Ora with our city authorities, are just now re ceiviug the curses of a milled and, excited press. We say misled, because, outside of the county of Erie and the railroad men themselves, very few 4, people understand, or can comprehend, in the eh scam of, reliable data, the true merits of the question at issue between us and the railroad monopolies. 'They see a railroad pawing through our town, and they find that road broken up, its bridges dsettoyed,`and its track taken npurrote our streets, and they at once ecsolude we ere a I i lawless and frenzied mob. They do not stop to consider that the streets of the City of Erie are like the streets of every other city, common high. ' ways, the property of the public, and cannot be obstructed by a railroad oorporation any more than they canto by an individual. They forget that, if a private er a ouporite * body should build a bridge across a street in New York or Buffalo, thereby Obstructing the free panne .of that street, it would be the duty of the City althori• ties to risme such obstruction immediately.— They would be public nuisances, subject to be abated at any tnos without resocurce to the slow process of legaltproaredings. This proposition is so plain that it requires neither law nor azgu meat to subsist it. The only position antago nistio to it. that is at all tenable, mast be founded on that obsolete dogma that the King can do no wrong.i. it., that railroad oceporations are above the eutelelpid, and can canna no crime, tat are. omnipotent. However popular this idea may be when railroads are building, it soon becomes as Unpopular when the work is completed, and the corporation, having no more favors to as from the people, bourse tyrannical and oPflzessive-- But we wander from our purpose. We have said that the press all over the country, seeing our position, and not understanding the. facts, have traduced our city in no measured minas.— Ws cannot blame them; it is 'mural; but it is al so natural that our chimps, who are the Irmo -mut subjects of these attacks, and are made to suffer from them, should begin to enquire upon whose shoulders the blame rests. It is time, we repeat, to look about us and see who, in oar own City, is to blame for the odinm just now heaped upon Any one present at the meeting at Brown't Hotel on Saturday night last; will read ily point his finger to the max or fliCit, and if 'we Wive not positive proof of the reasons which have governed those who have betrayed us, we no. We are glad see our _neighbor of the Casette so well pleased with the report of Judge CAMPULL, the Post Master General. We our self have glanced over it, although necessarily a very long doonnent, with pride and 'pleasure.— Pridethat its talented anchor is a Pennsylvanian, and pleasure, that one who has been b 0 vindic tively assailed, has proved hisself as an adminis trative oft..vr, of. which the Report given ample evidence, so capable and popteir. or Tie Buffalo Courier, a paper, by the by, that has eat our exelsange because we would not allow it to abuse us pereonally with impunity, areerta that the Erie "mob" was headed by the Mayor and the,Preabyterian elerdman—refes. ring of couissii to our friend re. LYON. A queer kind of a "web" that must have been which found a leader in inch a pious and exemplary Christian as Dr. Lyonl lint the etwswiersaliant ed of itself? We wee our friend of the Buffalo Rough Notes one for that most admirable defense of our character, which he so kindly voluntsomd, *Ow the attacks of the Buhl* Conrier. We Lops we may wee have a choose to repay it is kind, but if we do, hore is our nor The Beak Weekti , 1%40 idea. Scam liailme ied ad We are glad to see the Poet Mao* (.weal, i n his report just submitted* Congeal, riblike' the railroad monopolise of thifeountry for their unjust and exorbitant demo& upon *e puree of the nation for mail service. It shows that the powersidos-be ass waking tip so aboymeo era injustice those monster railroad corporations are inflicting upon the public; and that, while the Government . may be • powerless to apply a rem.: dy directly to the part affected, it has full reli ance that the people in the end will apply one SIM ti 114401014111 411111 p Orwsa telly *a grees that on the 30th of September last there were in operation within the United States 202 railroad routes; their aggregate length was 18,- - 4101 miles; and. the cost of mail transportation thence 81,645,482 33--being at the rate of 8120 26 7-10 per mile. Include the pay of mail messengers, - route and local agents, the whole expense of thi,s emit* m increased to $l,- 869,264; 78, or 6139 88 6-10 per mile. On es timating ,other kinds of service in the same man ner upon the aggregate length of routes, it is dis covered that the average east of steamboat see- Vice is $34 45 per mile; coach service, $l/2 88 per mile; and of modes not speeded $7 86 per. mile. This shows a most astonishing dispropor aces between the pay demanded by railroads and that demanded by all other kinds of conveyances; and this disproportion -- these exorbitant rates.-- thapeople are compelled to pay. We have heard a good deal of complaint in certain quarters about postage being a "tax upon knowledge," but we never knew before into whose pockets more than two-thirds of this immense "tax upon knowledge" —nearly six millions of dollars—found its way. Neither could we conceive why the cheap postage system had run the Department in debt. Our reason taught us that low postage, like a low ta riff, ought to yield more revenue than a system of exorbitant rates, which like a high tariff, acted as a prohibition; bat facts, the actual receipts and expenditures of the Department teld a differ. ant tale. Judge Oasteene, however, has ex plained the mystery. Railroad monopolies have eaten up the revenues of the Department, and not satisfied with that, like the leach they cry for more. Was this the bouquet to which the people were invited when -they surrendered their rights into the hands of these Companies? We think not. We were told when these monopo- , lies first sought their franchise from our Legiala 3 tures that the construction of their roads all over the Union would give us increased and cheap mail facilities—that they would be the means of spreading among the people light and knowledge by cheapening the transportation of the mails, and the general futilities they would afford for commerce between the States. When those en gaged in their construction passed among our far mers, invoking their aid, ind haggling with them Air the right of way through their fanny, the same story was upon their lips upon every occasion.— In this particular, thee, their promises have been profase r but how they have Seen fulfilled. can be sows by judge CAMPBELL'S figures. They show that these railroed cormorant* ha ve fairly eaten up the revenues if -the Department—that because of their extortion cheap postage is a fai lure, ep far ae the Department, sepporting itself is eel:learned. And what is .worse, the Report of Judge Caetestr.t further shows that while these railroads have actually absorbed one-third of the entire seven-m. 4 of the department--=tho people' s moot'—the netutt transportation of the snails at all is at: the m gey of these same soulless cor porations. Says the Post 31aster General: Al a a•tziie ausobal ( 4 tie rt)1104 0: the %wad Assis tant Postusaner Goaersl, marked D, tie lough aftsilrood un•ics will be soca, said ibo pikees reepmeteily paid to eseb anneirts. The sums paid to them railroad pampa. afes it* fixed undo* . acts of 74 lily, 1114 Jemmy 25, 1539. nal 34 Mardi, 2845. Vadat the lest-mitationed set it is trAdo the duty tithe Poetteastor Gummi to et• range end Linde the alibi:tad routes Into three claws, and to pay them aeamdias to' the she of the andla.tbe speed with which they see eaasayed, sad the hapartams if the sereies. Cousiderabla difficult:Li has always existed with this brooch of the Invite. Same are dratahrliel from tie dspansana, uiial, inieitiot tJ great public iutcrsits it cues. trot 00Itatftt to pay. The importance of the terries to, the pablitt is the great question of considaratiwe for tits bead of the department.; bet If ho, stud the Presidents and man agen of the railroad ocznpanies, do not view its importance alike, Ills nail is tArown down, and tiwystaiic caused thereby sag graciously to mifer. This is done sometimes, too, in ilia atoot - saaaaary manner, without toy notice hoeing giv tis by which the department could be prepared to put on other service; and when . this is done, whether designed or not, the department is sere is stiller. The citizens alas different Stnhu are tit4ily interacted in dal potation; cued if tiley witA to continue to teethe nitir itentre'nnetattwepartre it es Asap raft Vim:age, dry 1111141 i not permit doe compar.ics to dictate to tie depertmeekkeir ewe string. In some of the States of the Union a provision has been interred In the . charters in the railroad companies, providing for a refer-1 mite, in case of a disagreement between the Postmaster (}anent and the compotes. In neither 91 the sets width( I. Immolated is any power given to the Postmaster (knee l . al to area to any such reference; arid if theta were, 4;310 very mach .doubt Its policy.' In England thse agreement to refer has meted anfaverebly to the govern;. meat; and I see no reason why Congress, first /Living each company a full opportunity of being heart, should not Sa the sans which they ate each respectively to receive. In England, also in resume, and% the other *online*. dal States, the time for arrivals sod departures is so Sod .by the Post Ofice irkipartmeou as best to suit the public interests. • In our own ordinary mailicontrsets, the time for arrival and &Fat are is entirely subject to the order of this depart ment, try which it is enabled to maintain an eabrokan link of commotion; but is the groat majority of cam, though aosenuel, Imre lama Laws cad sisketitted to railroad com panies, they have not chosen to sign them. Tho COMM quencohos heen. that, though receiving the pay, they may hal said to be entirAy beyond the control of the department, end tho puh;to Interests Mira thereby greatly suffered. A.f. ter entoriug upon my dutir a+ head of the department, complaints "were tasks rettho , insaSeicory of the mail eery, MA at the *ant of proper secornmodstion,t and so glariug were these defects In some iu tan - , that the mail agents were unable properly to dis=harga their duties, now hacinn ing daily morn important owing to th 11:10"0:1°0 of the rtr.y listribmion. To cstui , ly this evil, I had prepared a model of a mai!. , zar, , thic4 I tad transmuted to the ptetideuts of the different railroad companies, but in very few instances have my wishes I.:er. co.iipliedo att. Io 'hoe cr,..es where the contracts gave me the power to build a mail-ear, Wile* the t. 7120 in ON woo ;lasi:Aced to the purp-ets I base order ed it to dorm, ant the coot charged to ihe companies: bat in that ekes of eases in which they have dectiari ba c /ming parties to coy e+.ntriot. I ate rentedlers." Theses facts hardly need comment- Their bear dugs are so plain- that "ho who runs may read," and there is small china: of any ono being' mis -10 as to their true import. There is onOretne dy; and that is , in the hands of the people. These monopolies must be taught their place,--they must be brought under;, must bo made subservi ent to the people's wishes, and obedient to the dictates OT common honesty. The Post Master G enerr a truly says "the citizens of the different States are deeply interested in the question," and if they wins the benefits of "cheap postage" "they must not permit these corporations to dictate to the Departnient their own terms." Their power must be broken--thrir influence crushed--or this eau novae be. The time may not have arrived to do this effectually, but the day is coming when the people in their might, as they did with that old Monster, the Bank of the United States, will rise up and uvula them. •In this work Zrie has drunk the first 'blow, and in doing so bee pleated a seed thst wBI germinate a club that will eves wally break the beak of. then reload vointop. ohm Our Atedinante Abralit roan ,meats of New York, and en _ that it trol;iis coming from the New ' A rowdy h a "riotous and =Went felines, stint k Erie should be either of the e market, t 4 feet 8/ inches- and that an-_ mid a mob-an "iusembli of inen who do nti i 1 legal act in a tumentuons are discrederly mennet ' the wade inter to be construc ted' from Eric' The citizens of Ee4e, according tense papaws . at esbio line should be of the gauge ti . East and West that arc under the management 1 onilt. Those that it could not terrify, it would : let ; say „rtitedinn . the 0ne5..,.,,...___ _ et ten inches and no other. IN bile. -.: ei if poteible buy No other line of hulloed could : ediealottaY and ostilltY• the law, Eric was safe; the interests of R. to o f th e wes t tet t r e al l e o r p orat i one ei ' Ohionind i 436 li 4 ,, , and , it, beeline of tows a manes of vital imper , ~ vans were protectedand shese c leah aggro: compete witht h e , rC n for trade 1 tance to both Companies to secure a passage scheme of the New Yor k°taper" ! tr ave l.Thewholewould be • - Pennsylvaniaw hich i checked . The repeal of this law h• country at its mar- through) tlueportion of . we New York, are "rowdies," and the assembly of 1 i tie". When one track mild not do thebueinese ' of cars and _citizens who, on the Bth rust ., by or. der of the Meyer, and under the immediate chargeh ave eie fore d esc ribed. Let us ace in what po- means, fair or• foul, was determined s he were placed in reference to the right ;rho foreign Railroad interests It wes eh' , smother would be laid, and so on track after track' shims they aed direetkm ol the Bigh Constable, ezeensed I • a •' of why through this strip separating the states of of one of their prominent men that tie • as butanes and the purse of the corporation- the city ordinance of the th inuly last, direct- I° New York and Ohio yan act of the Legisla. gislatute of Pennsylvania should rep , ...11 lag tie to be efthans i lesenenee t t i t i creased. In enemy yeast its iron heel whnid e liehi nuio e pnnglefees, mused is iihtleh n n e ocilelPeNie -4,Asac ik,itheel iiii(49oo. The wealth of eue h last firmly set upon ' air I ";lmaterrir , htil'erY and ! known as tinTEms - & North Eeet mirrolitc - o - ii: triif Railroad t i o. of New York, end tie „ which °m y had hheenhiiiihieueu.imhred for t he ' °cern 'en byrailroad' corporation would *ilk i l e pan, was incorporated to construct a rai r til t ri4 from ' puloas conduct of dram who have its rir.': , ;:r. bridgesi track ) is ', Pt' Ire. ihss eh North Fast g the are well known. To the lasting cingr-.:-. - two " Ws (i. e. t " ° .....‘“". an t with brazen face in the land and in the b a ll s of the —t • et - township , • Dior - I called a "mob," a"diaorderly mob." But verse :Le • lati Bett en b • k b 1 en e stniae 4 the state of New Yorknei the r-, y Penne Ivania Legielatme the boast r.-_ , . 1_ I than this, when you httempt to convince them , . ~ I g is ° th e „___ --er atme ' ' e n ; hof Brie Thin whatever may have been the By the most corrupt practices the rep::.'. minsion to tne tomer MerCieu of the watemet es . ° Z ' e law w a s A li e ne d en d Eric was t i'. uF leCr 7 d gn of the onginel presage of the n e t, would, ,. .., . . that they are under a mistake, that they do not ell the Reasiess. 1 . . if secured, forninaptireof thelink of railway tem- ' this great support singly and clone tutderstarel the matter in which they iatereet them- .. munication with the West, and carried then- el for her interests and those of Penusylhe. mites so =eh, they still shout "mob," and will Got'. MON and theßstiircad -Press ' • far on their way as the citrof Erie. ',hie interested than Erie heri.elf en:: i. not listen This is the sum and substance of The newsmen, of o,laati and Buffalo do But from the city of Erie Wear : o r ho Ohio ,es the Directors of _the Erie &N . Ea st r: . , eue , lino was dill a distance of aettic,Bo miles. Hew firm, we were safe. But, by a suagh, h e their reasoning, and the final conclusion from k not like the tone and iii,t.he the fhb. - ""n — g re r"'''' wan this link to be comp leted'? Wee there any , hist previous to the passage of the rheice. , which they admit of no appeal To offer (bets dier i tch ei his Baneuh;;7,,,,,e. teem RafiliXhi to the! Charter by which New York could tarty her rail- i ;singe laws; they sold out the coatroae .-.• and IPIPX"RtIi to them is like outing P earhsl l e ilEditor of this-paper. The Expreadeeleres that, ' ways West to connect with those of Ohio ' By •to their read to New York iziterests to th fore swine. They will tot Hates, but to dr own, : Hi t is genstinh; the Governor desereee a e str sighe ,an act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania othred ; time no doubt an arrangement . tra: ». your "tee, again ahem "mob?' "we b: The y ', jac k et- " the Rough -Vohs thinks 'amnia wrietug i in 1848, a wini=awas incorporated tallt:d the which either the Pennsylvania Dehre. Erie & Ohio ' 1 Company, with authority' themselves to change the gauge, it, - .. i roll falsehood, detraction and•vilince.tion *sweet i it ehe has aahnehati . ta making himself 15 , mfg- I to construct a Refined from Brie to the Ohio 1 passive whilst the work should bn eine 1 morsels under their tongues, and judging.from i, mons se mem his went enuaies could desire." 1 state, line. Had this charts : been acted upon; ; foreign Railroad companies . Stir: .-.: • I: ' theielanguagewennust conclude that theyhreathe i i The same paper else (shapes" "that he has not r std properly secured, the line of communicaten N - Eeast Railroad Directors here: - A . e •Quid complete But Philadelphia . , arc move towards the change of eh ; ..: an atmosphere deeply tainted with that moral 's disgraced hiresehi an d ma p osition b y ( per t ly up. 1 w have been putridity which always surrounds a hireling press, t h o m ing inehmehers i sa braribeee n ico i I :how thouengaged . it; the construction of her great the completion of the through . gang= and upon which they who sell thernnellrell to CIO 1 a u•• • ) tinllls %Wry fine, mi so detnat passes in Ed- 1 last,that sestets fee, -- ---°. i Central road to Pittsburh, began to open her net mitt in July ...., . 'Mg) and to look amend her to toe what was do- t tertained that they were about te ni-A..:•; : the unholy work of sm°l444lited e, ._ wealth a r l:gin ' I , fele and malettg mi'sr'ead men as peculiarly se- ' ing ru on the Lake shore. It was manifest that ' tempt . , About four weeks ago neer tie palled wow or later to melee At the time , vete . inthis l • , bat we apprebead it will not deter hia E x . I a R a il roa d passing through Erie County Erie's idamientre first loaned their press and / tel- ' 3 oe in eoare hew bitriesidy doing hie duty . The I way and forming a connecting link between New 1 interests and wishes of the foreign . . . . . York and Ohio was for the sole and exclusive ' To permit this would, in our (pint 7_ °lts t° assist Chew railna4 ac4Vratias ' we 4° citizens d. Eris ° F . his cemesituense i the y are I benefit of New York, that Philadelphia could 1 , tidal to the best interest of Erie; tine , not suppose they for a moment dreamed the I , among thew who, in the hour oi . trial and ati. : hope to derive no advantage from it, but on the : have been recreant to the trust reposed le length to which they would be Compelled, to r , ; orate he meet rely. Their interests are his he-. 1 contrary much injury ; and that it amid not he ' cur fellow citizens if we had permitted °nthe depths of wickedness and degradatiou to i. erests, ni t hi s i nterests are t h ose of o ur g reat safe or - prudent to permit it to proceed; at ill there was a way by which it etoeld hn whieh they must descend, else they would at ono ic o onwea i th wi t „, effects the one affects l eventhuntil the im p rovements connecting Phil- 1 prieFn . . ted The break of gauge we eir. , adeiphia with the West 'were either completed, of -vital:importance, not for the purpose ce have spatted the damnable work of attempting i. the other; hence is it wonderful that he should : or in a state of greater forwardness than they j lug the drippings of trade or of levying i to give a monied combination supremacy over tisrapaddhei. whth the eititens of Erie it their 1 th en were. Accordingly the Legislature of 1849, I tions from the traveling, public, as liar the munieipal and private rts o ighf our cid -1 trouhles.ehaembles,that every railroad man knows 1 through the influence of Philadelphia and the I ly charged upon us, but-for grave and 7 teas- Bus once i n , there is no stopping place. ; has been brought upon them because of theirfirral Central Railroad of Pennsylvania, renege , ' the 1 reasons One or two of which W 6 urn now The cry of their heartless task-masters -is ever, adheres to - the interests of the Suntairy and I 1 Com- ' fore the public: act incorporathe Erie& Ohio Rsi ree . , . pu , ' - patsy , thus breaking the link, and interposing,l Ist. So far lock es before the unmet. "onward." There is no backing out. Their ! E r i e R o hd , a work, * en odd, of vital and over- l as was „ppeeed, an insurmountable barrier to ! which succeeded the specialations of 1?: - .. hands are, and must be against every manialiand r l sbahoning importance to th e whole - Common- j the present progrese of the New York Railroads leas Biddle, then the greatest fin - .nn:. I except those of their, employers. Renee these i wealth: In "sytesetlibing" with tie; inl pro- West !iome • yew previous, however, at vet ' Union, and ever . watchful of the' iniere papers call our citizens "rowdies," and our puhs:l miring her citiseiss that "whatever his duties and had Brea pawed to construct a Canal froth Wank- I native city, Phi Iphia, foresaw the is lie meetings "mobs." Singularly constituted I t h e law, w ill perm i t, e e e n - ee done f„ t h, m lin or near Frauklin, (the County scat of enan- V 1 portance of a rail ay commune:teen - -- - e --- ---- et " go County,) to Lake Erie. By an act passed at I adelphis to the es A chatter : -... mobs they must be, compelled, as they are, of , let us "SIMS- our friend _of the . 1%--test be will not 1 the same session that the other was repealed ' pose was obtained, incorperatiuh a c:.- - -,.. men of all political parties and religious, anion Ihe "openly," or "seemiliky,t i or in teny ether nay, ' (1849) this 'Company was empowered to con- ea the Sunbury and . Erie Eal.r ....., whom you may find our clergymen, judges, law - 1 Henholding law-breakers or law br e aking ." The lehm et a Rsilsint• instea d of ti - Canal, if deemed ether preeimisly existing clahrteri c : _he . expedient Under cover of this Charters ground between Philadelphia ani te yen, doctors, merchants, entwine, and the whole 1 fact that Beside and Cleveland papers avert that west ._ ...., • Railroad was constructed, se - we shall see herean , wing to the reyqintloll in tee tarn. .. • i community of citizens with scarcely an excel:P - 1 our citizens -have broken laws, are rioters, area i ter, from Erie to the Ohio State Line , connect- many other great prospecte was te=7 r_. tion—ell standing firmly together, working for I mob, does not make :the; and this fact Gee. Ruh' in there wi th the Ohio Railroad, and without boned Bat rut the returning t.... _ ... g the same object anti endeavoring to attain the 1 LER knows. As the Chief Xagistrate of , the State going to either of its' termini . - ; pet its yf the country many oft nee::. . same eta—the protection 'of our legal rights . • w ill ' • the on ce car e f u ll y - In this b e examine against a railroad combination extending , from ! lye. and if he finds; as we ate.coifineut he will find, g a u g e of the New• York Reads was either six 1 No t withstanding ail th e t ine e ei te - - feet t fourfilet 81 inches. No other geese was ; }:urn threw= in the wee-, there ii , . Rotten to St. Louis. This combination' k ! twit that the taw has been upon our side. dth ii ii-i -- at mown in the State. The Note York - and Eeie t pent if cat an absolute certiirei i ... - the cony& of the trade that will cross the MM. ; we h a 're acted for the best interests of the Cetn- • was of the former—the Central railroad of the I pletiou of that peat hiehhey, - . _ try from Oregon and California as "1 as a raililmonwealtlz in opposing the. schemes of the rail. I latter. The gauge of all the Ohio railroads in-1 which no doubt hhstened the . vine , e road communication is opined, hence ihs efforts ' i road monopolies of phi() and New York, we ha I ve , eluding that from Cleveland East to the Penn- • eh= es by the fereigehatireiai to crush us and give the business to which our l no do u b t h e w enn * h e h as prom i se d , do all and - line was 4 feet 10inclies. It was man- !We have not splice in hue e.i..: i 2 1Ies h- t then; that between the New York st Ohio ' eniarhe upon the teivanteg.s - f - .- i . position and natural edventages 'entitle ur e toi every t hi ng emus ' tent with the laws arid his dn- reale there must somewhere be a break ofgarige. or its great importance t- Eta: -. .. Clevelmld and Buffalo, stifle the 'Sunbury au- a I .ty for us. .Our friend of the kites must not think It tees so apparent that Erie, being as it were ,to iav that when completed li ire e - Erie Railroad, and secure the trade which prop. 1 that because Buffalo sad Cleveland have succeed- 1 . neutral ground, and from its lemtion in the very; the sherten and speediest v..,:zh:za1....... -.. lerly belongs to that road and to Philadelphia to 'eel in milting a chtmor i agaidst Erie, that the G o v -1 p l ace this should break - - which could he dairei should be the place lihe Seaboard and. the Leitio, ....a if . :. the New York roads and to New Yea city. A 1 miler of the State is bound eojoin in that clamor, h, where ad,,, conceded by ' occur, that it wes at first ; titian is offered, will Ist fize• ' ' both the New York cote- lof the h.lew York reads eche ne .... - ... moment's consideration of the facts as they are 1 and give a Itelpifig hand id the effort to crush patties; and no other idea tram entertained until ', west eeisienainti,eir York. If ee iii ii . known to all, should convince every reasoning 1 us. No, that hewn his 'duty, and we know it is , the spring of IRSI. ; steheed in running past ei • ie. • - 1 man that this stateof affairs could not heist with-' not his inclinatienJ To stud Yntween the weak I ece have. thus seent_ 1 -• e situation of Eric, the I, titetous i gange, we have ee l , out a cause. Can any man suppose for a me- i and t h e n eon& to irate • the power of the Ex. position of the two New York roads seeking the i serious* card if net enemy Hee-. ei I ment that all the citizens of a law loving and lawl Wan and the Ohio roads. We have seen, also, 1 prehertee he defeat of tho t are -he •.-. I eentive between the municipal rights of our sit that t he roads of New York sought to pass prnjewt, e believe to hove beer. h.. -• ~ ; atttsg community, as -- ours Se end shear hue' ani the assusipt l oan of capitalists from through a portion of Pennsylvania without con- object: which the foreign cornier.:.:.. ' be', Could be arrayed in the manner this coot' : other States, is the duty of Wxteeeet Brom, 1 fetTitig any advantage the State—in fact when they determined to force ,L, : _ meshy is, against e person or a corporation thatdrawl away trade trot= own metropolis, and gauge through Erie county at tai r : r ! l i d we byre no doubt he will perform it, regard woe Proceeding according to late and right? Can - I lest of dentsmiatione from any quarter: I no local advantage even upon Erie, I cure. penes monopoly suecevis, '....- 4 z ._ not all see that it is a struggle of right, reason, 1 -h------- - - i unless there was a.break of wage. Bove:adieu- lan unbroken interest from Albany t: 1 hy did them appear, and so just was the claim of effectually , and completely precluei , and law, against oppression and wren? What 1 Erie to this trade that, as we have said before, competition from any quarter It "_. else could engage an entire comaramity as this it was at once concede d to her. We shall see, compleiely the Whole trade et' he community is engaged? The first appearance of hereafter 'that this - break was a matter.of vital nnnburyl and Erie road with' .1: • . the matter to an unprejudiced mind brand,. the importance to Erie, - not on account of the Paltryof distance and grade could not f. - . i• . ' newspaper reports of Buffalo, Cleveland, and drippings of trade wising from the tranship-1 Pete with thiligreat Coinhinatee melted geode, but for reasons of great weight, placed oh the roads of the reehe . New York with falsehood These papers cote- involving the completion of a projectetpon which kept there until it reached e _ : - ~) plain that it furnishes evident', "of the spirit of for the last 15 years her eyes-have been constant- will notide to Say that tee law -: iesabordinatien abroad in the land." On the ly set with a steadiness worthy of a more speedy I trot the shipment and transport'. e t „ - contrary, it prices that the "spirit of auboriiina- reward—the, Sunbury at Brie Railroad. Why I Th,, fie is othetwise. Tire::: - - .', . dais abroad in ten hal ” That a thousand men then was the break of gangh not fixed at .hirie as , free to • t are good; but wiz .c ... ... • at...first cosceeded? In 1850 an agreemen t was 1 the hen of a mammoth Q..l' ' : _ On.ld be assembled on an ozeision of that kind, entered into between the Erie & n orth r...t Ca. 1 e•••ntrel hem and to set th , ..---....: , . ::. With the feelings of wrongs saffered from, and and the New York and Erie, by which the. New ' tier the flint the Sunbuq and 1 .f.- bout to be inflicted by the railroad companies, York and Erie were to emend their six foot trick penury , nia is intent .• ad 1113 y ', ..... end when so assembled ehnuld cenduot-thettnelees • to the State line, there to motet with the Erie of Oita mug at keit a porti Strictly in accordance with the oldest of the and North East, who continued the Fume game 1 trade a d not be left entirely e• • .. to Erie. This gave umbrage to the Centrel Rail 1 tile int rehi, we are boned s , e, . _ Inayer—that not a particle of property outside of Road Co Difficulties ensued; meeting ' were :of our . bility to resist this re- a - the public streets was injured or destroyed — float held among the. various interests , awl it w i a s • , ed. f the foreign compaaie ,• a . , the seeetnldy-peaceahly and without tumult did finally ) agreed to extend both the 4 feet Si, inches I clicme , there. is one great , Anil: , their work mid wenteptietly home ag ain , is such and the six feet gauges to Erie. Thus matters i i intmves from Albany to Chiehte, :.. "rested), The Erie and North East Company pro- r l erful e •itigh either to buy out -.- t :: euponlieetion to law andokeetionteeto.order" at ceeded to grade" their road for a •lanbic track.— lon ifv.- , - rival interest; eon:thin/is , cannot be shown by either Cleveland or &Ado, The .ew York roads were elie prngreisine to- +, ewe hi e: i' without a parallel in , 1:.: .. with all their hosettel morality ward the Penneyleanialine each with ti r,bpc(-- i tL.7",- An!try : We propose mr. Iv az - It is t o he regretted . that the railroad men could not be induted . to forego their purpose, and allow their road to remain as it - was, or carry nut the arrangements entered into at the. time the roads werelailding, to bring both of the New ,York railroad tracks here, and to the docks where they should be' But w , : *old suffered from their sean noyances so long that 'they suppo we. would ; suffer longer awl do their bidding c eerfully.— They have found their mistake. True, the a¢ noyancee of the gayeties , publie are great and 1 those who suffer have our sympathies, but ire arc confident when they learn the factsas they eau ally exist, we shall b... exnulpated from all blame, The /hash; t'ornmrrrial, in the histure it. bi- Dishes for our benefit, sap, "it is a, maxim often - quoted by lawyers, that there is no wrong done to person or property, or to the rights nf citizens in respect toeither, but what has an appropriate and legal remedy." To thin tve atm.:W(lllY rCsscut.— Whatever has been done hat been in pt mataance of I tw,' the majesty of which our slanderers are anxious to see maintained. 'Not abler, way struck except in, accotdance with the law. On the con trary, the railroad, without taw, sought to run over us. Its managers sought to attain their ob. jectin violation of the rights of our citizens, ttene the lecture of the Commercial should be studied by its pet railroad corparations-•-not us! It is true, railroad men: say our Ordinance was a wrong to them. They are not governed bylhe rules they prescribe for us. Instead of tearing the matter to be decided by the proper tribecud, they bring a force or men from . a neighboring State, led by citizens of other States, and m o b. like; attempt to force their way through Pennsyl vania contrary to Law awl right. The fine spun theories of Morality, of law, and order drawn by their alders and abetters, do not apply to them. 0, no: They are concocted for our benefit alone. They are at liberty to trample upon the Ordin maces of the city, the haws of the State, and the rights of citizens, and why? Because they are "a thousand miles of railroad"—e. mammoth com bination of rich and powerful. corporations. The fact that they are "a thousand mites of railroad"' is owe reason why they should be broke here.—, Let the trade be distriouted. Build the 'Sunbu ry sad broad, the Little Vally road, and then, Wag the product .f the Great West here, sad here let the trade *vim its route to market: . itA sir The Buffalo Republic of Saturday - last trade a gout blew because the Post-Master of that city, Maj. DICILIE, - akipped out of the line of his dirty and kceonrparned the mails to this city on that day. If there had been any danger in send ing the mails over this ideate, it would possibly have been very proper for that functionary to hai;_aoeompanied them on the night tun-when there is no agent to protect them, tint for our good friend, the Major, to take the day train; when there is a regularly appointed Route Agent to take care of Uncle'Sam's property is, to say the' least of it, rather ktertreding the mourners!! However, Wake Route Agents can stand the im putations tittle Republ?c, why, as the old man mid by the skippers in his cheese, "we kin."— eir.P: S. The flouti Agent say the Major rode in the coach all the way up, and did'nt come near the insilter ! Bow's that ? 2d P. S. With two good Monte Agente,l a Loenl Agent that net. orsleeps, and a Special Agent or two to %ralee him, and aP. M: that be the advantage of his brother Alicia' it Bulb& by two inches, we rath er inesitthe mails, and females tnafor that mat ter, won't gaffer between thi. and %fain this winter. . - , .i u five ' ge. Bni in April, ICSI. ar t lr , -;:ggr , ,- non f a prominent person in the in rore:i , ~f the Cent 1 Railroad, the ..eheme tn.; formed of run aing kilrough Piatosylvania With the ohi,, ga u ge withgreat ulterior object, not then fully under steo , but now open and apparent. lbis the Eric nil North East Company resisted, and iu , is ce of it , original contract proceeded to E t ylrrnthe isix-feet track. Thus it will be seen that the New York cot:armies violated not only what was just and proper, under the cirettrustan, ;es, but their own solemn agreement. Bradley adhered to their on agreement, there would lr.ve been but one break of gauge between the E.st and the West—that at Ene. By the vio lation of their agreement, they created two addi tional breaks for each road, one at the State Line, common to Nth., and one at Dunkirk for the N. Y & Erie, and:onethen al' Buffalo for the en -8 T'A T 6111 E N T ! . tom. Much misrepresentation has been spread abroad in relation to these breaks, and the olin- Of the AfeWer aitfi 0 Elie in reia'?Un i ion h as b eali h i u str i on ,4 ) . .sail f circulated that Erie 42 tine Rat7roael di ant ics i n eh e ,•,. ay. -, was chargeable with the delay and annoyances Great miareppeentations, and many falsehoods i produced by them to trade passing along the relative to the Railr ad troubles at Erie having road. If what .we have stated is true,cad we been industriously • y i a li t , / and widely natter . defy a successful contradiction, it wil appear , t hat Erie ie, and has,been. in nowise chargeable al abroad, the 51ft , antir Councils of the '" ; Y 1 with the breaks either at the State Line, Dan bare deerztod it a duty, which they owe as 'ell j kirk or Buffalo, but.that they`have been wholly to themselves as to an intelligent public, to sub-; and solely the creation of the New yorkerathem mit a brief statiment l of affairs; confidently be. l Rive° liming, that' when the truth . ii laid before the l I Unfortunately the Erie & North East Railroad public their conduct will meet with its r hearty ap. Co, as well we believe for their own intereets, as " i fo those of Erie, instead of constructing their proval. I road to the harbor, as was confidently expected, That portion of4enturylvadia known u the I thus increasing the conumrce and building up the Triangle' and Wm big the part ofthe oonnty of'. business of the city, locatell their road-more than E r i e h er d es i ng - e p ol , L a k e E r i e li e , b e t ween an d a •toile from the lake, not even extending their 1 ,01l to the borough of Erie, the legal-terminua separates the states of New York and Ohio. I ts r r . 01 their char ter, tuna nuking a q uestion of 1 extent along the Lake is about fifty miles; and i yery oatiaidert a t i e magn i tudi , to to the legality of i front its 'situation i, in the di rect line of the it"' ~ their location. Under cover of the charter of the provements extemling West *out the city of New I Franklin Canal Company, citzens of Ohio con- 1 York. Without peeping through this territory 1 at:meted a rail-way not to Lake Eric as provided i New York could obtain no direct communication i by their charter, bat to the terminus of the Erie by railway with the Great West. Without pass- i k North East road more than a mile front the ing through Pennsylvania she can have .10 cont. i lake; thus ignoring the existence of the Erie manicatioi, whatever on the American side of 1 , harbor, and joining with the Erie & North East , the Lakes The city of Eric is situated in this' hi forining a direct line from Bello to Cleve. ) triangle, on the Harbor of Presque Isle, the most " land, touching on the ostmithis of the city of capemous, safest, aid most cm:mule:it barber on I Erie Hers was erected the joist depot of the Lake Erie. two companies, the Erie & N. East and the In 1850 the two gnat rival Railroad Comp:, : Franklin Canal, both then in tiolation of their nits of Wry York Nei York- & Erie, and i respective charters. Still the Directo r s of th e t h e D erma l un rea d Co m p aq — wets eac h an Erie &N. East Railroad were Pennsylvanians;' tending or endeavoring to extend their' roads f and steadfastly refused until within the last few West. The unease. of Abe Central road -was i mouths to entertain say ' to then Bask!, that the New York & Erie Dna- i their teach . bdsoil, boo 11th of kirk, both as is well known aro Lake; 1861 mirth& 11,th April 1868 . Erie; bat the losing cleat with ice a eon. ; hibited by las ham so_ doiNg. _ lido the Znr wen , lotori r°- ' atam st eiderstde portion_ of the year , it became a matter ', se the pa ge _brie; lost ionindod to pi . ntost dot In. ' of great sad rosorifost ' isrportosoe to emus s : terests of NtistuiPorasylossis, MK 10 'MEI • . . kg" Io consequence of the press upon our cohlluos 1:7 utichas relative to our local diScul tics, we are munpolled forego much general and political news that ore like 0 lay before our readers. • - sir A Railroad me e ting la to be held at: Lock-1 , Fort to-day for the pniose of repodiating the tion of the thirty-five Milroad men who assembled there s few weeks ago and denounced Erie in , the time daft tatiffpruitlg village. - ; break Af this inierft; and it 1 , 7 -i which e railroad oompaaies :,-.• ,• Nr of ga e , old be with them i ... t 4 tien, eters is not for the hr=...--..h ef.ial.-_-.0 I mammoth 4.emibinatiou. We tisel .--..--...-.' the people of the whole Lake S. - i-, ._ one day, if not now, thank u L. ,:... isave them as well as enrselve.: - f moniedcombination. I 3d Erie has always felt :q. t ; • . I roads, (The Franklin Canal toy ..:. fest violation of its charier) -li-•L - • roe& to oar harbor, thus ead.-.5- -,.. off--tnake nos mere wa - a-tat: 1 ..• ... all the commerce of the ` Lake.. .. ....• I Cleveland and Buffalo. We I . I had We pertaittcd the four tent t; -. •.:.-.. I, gau to belaid down, our 0..'•-•.:- :._ ir" 4 .4 to the barber was ver:, :..., • not entirely' taken away These considerations with '1L... - . : • • might be-adduced, and some ~., ,--- 1 lees,; auggesi themselves to :Le - • " ligent reader, are sufficient t: ,-.-- - •:••• l i portjance of the question I:. L.. - : priety of the determination :. • . : • 1 veni it by all legal moans in _-. -. • Let US lbek fur a meme,... -,-. .. :.‘ ourbend!". The Fru:Lich , : .....2. . Ra • way, the Me it will 'o• '•• i ..•-• • Er West to the Ohio lino: ~- ' * - tedwas deelared by a reetut ~.•.,. . - ; pre r.e Court to have been d. .:-•••••••• • authority of law; and that it •,,_,, -- : i and palpable fraud perpetrated n- - ,. ~ ..k nit An injunction then aotli , : - '-- , taiir-.11 by us against this r . ,;:.. ...- , dingly have commenced L b : : against it. But whilst t 5--5, ;.• • . -. &lames of the: Railroad men -..., ,--- at least, be triumphant, and ,- 4•-• -- laying down their through g -u,;•. : ... very questionable, with all AL. money which they ooald con: n.-- bearou the question whether it iLtilmelibit or at least very •1:z:... - - again taken up. Our true :.:.. evidently to prevent at the o-. 1.-: down of this track. This we f..- . - gelly do. Legal counsz: Ti..' • --- question, and we were advised t: ; t,--t -that the Erie & N. E. Railro;. 4 . - s - • - ; :'• the streets of the city wc.r. .. f • -, whicia we would haves rig!). I • be remembered, as stated in :' '--.• this statement,lhat, the Env s\ C<. in order to fuither .. - .r.: schemes of the foreig n R a il l . ', • by l mP l ood their mad t:. :.:: • '-',- *hurter. It heti r; I I, e *__4;_orgin'etits sad the *)..-, ' l O : anmp isithistt, the proteet.ou I