Odium TraWill. Harrriburyt Irernosiks. The Etie'DSeuity. • The awase twaddle, the inflated insolence, the illiglirity and falsehood that haie character ised the discussion of the Erie difficulty, in a • *dal of the Ohio and New York press, is 4• autslising and discreditable to the whole, Cam,. • try; tad most impolitic as a means of accomplish. int the object in view. The eharacCer of the - „ of her people, and ber executive officer. ' bees, coarsely •tradueedf and disparage:d; . the unequalled degree pf insolence and it!- " •• `' that have marked *ivy movement on the g, ie . ia l bje e f, have occasioned the injustice of present. ing A falseitatement of this affair" in Congress. A simple narrative of the fact.= should, and - ,ere mui not doubt will, excite a Mirth on the cheek of ee . ift7 candid man .who:bas blindlylpoxtieipatedirs tbs dishonorable warfare. In the first place, the State has ',nothing to do 15ith the Ohio or New railroad companies: her controversy is with . oh her own oventstres ---the Franklin anal owat)arsy. which is reckleut lj transcended its legitimate province, in c,,,n -serniting a railroad on the. location which it n o w claw. 'The honor of the State, and the inter com of the people, forbid that the state slithid quietly submit to such an indignity; and if we, mistake : not, she never will, l'he name and, • shadow of this fraudulent 'affair are within our 'State; its substance—the-capital and.dirOtion— are out of the State. and hence the Joull eotn. 1 plaints which we have- heard of a want. of libe l -. I . , ants this month, since the Supreme Court . plied upon the Ineriti of this •affair, and the op, mina of 'Chief Justice Black utterly demolishes the pretensions of, the Franklin canal company. -•-• Be,. eon that •the eompaity • have a right to yoke a rend on, certain location, bet that they • hie lode one on - another and a different lots- • inn; not beginning, ending, or anywhere touch ing..the route which the legislature intended the NsAted should occupy. So completely tettisfuld were the company of the entire weakness of their A . claim, that in . ay lset, they addressed a corn - nuneation to Governor, offering to irty cer tain taxes for t Use ,of the road until the legi lettire should di ose of the subject. Ae no - proper divesitien could be made of the question in - the absence of the legidature, the Seise deeree to restrain the use el the road wse, not ordered, and the tvgripany has been indnlerei in its me-. In ihineondition the whole affair rested‘quiet ' ly, until the North East rtilreati cemPeny at • tempted to change the gauge of their/ road to nit the width of that constructed by fratel,from Erie td the. Ohio line. when the pee:lilt tif Erie, . as they believed they had the right to .do rettwv all the reed within the city limits. eWitiler. w. 4o not eountenanee violence or reeistance to the laws and the orders and decrees of the count, nor agree with the people of Erie that the tem. penny connection which may take place under - the restraints of the courts, can inthienee the dis position of the main question, we must concede that split a bold attempt to emisurnmete fraud, well calculated to create eteitement. t.: pro dace violence and riot. , ' The New York and Ottio, and the North-Etet ' I- riiheautoompaaits, being perfectly familiar with these facts, was it prudent on their part te at eempt the coneammatien of their wishes threugh . the utstrumentality of this Franklin rang cem pany's fraudulent charter? Was it wise to de cide volt a Width of gauge, in the face of the fact that the State had not granted the right to construct a toad of any %sup from Erie to the Ohio line? •We think not. A. decent respect for the dignity of this State should have forbid den nib action. The truth is, that all the in tone% concerned should have remained quiet until the subject was legally disposed of by the Ingishuore. It was presumptuous for the North Vast company to attempt to eensununstt• •or Strengthen the pretensions of the I?ieuklin canal company, by changing the gauge of their read. and they would be entitled to no sympathy should theybe compelled to change it again. .--if ` . We hope the. State'ef Pennsylvania will he ..pernitte;d to settle thi.4 affaii in • her own 'way. and without dictation from any quarter; and however proud she may be in granting the een. nation between Erie and Ohio, we hope she a- never recognise the fraud :attempted by the Franklin cant company. .1f meth a. Pahl/dine " riot construction of railrokel charters be recog- toned by on coulee, then it is idle to talk about . filing Units to the riglini_of similar corporations. ; Then it is useless to grant any more - railroad ebeitere, as those now in existence: could 'cover every corner of the State. . • • The Lebanon- Valley company, under such a ... ewastrnetiop, could make a road from here direct to Philadelphia, or to any other point 'sat of the , Allegheny mountains. It is. a -startling fact that a railroad should be built without tovehing the route granted by the legislature; and io this *aim the Supra-lbw Court is not ?singular, for swath:men noir at, the seat of government, tame to the recent mbvernents of the city of have' said that this is the case with the Franklin Canal Company's road. Now a word mto comity. The State having grated no right, the'questien is ancriginai on , s. New York has her selected gauge or railma•l;— Inlay to her, come in with pat: road, and 'ro `Ohio some in with yours, and we , aball meet L;n equal terms. Pennsylvania uksnO advantage; abeeals. 'asks to stand equal with her rival' , , ra brown terrirory. Surely thcrr cn he nu oak et comity in inch a position. t i We have rerilbt the foots, and are Willing that the world should judge betweenour State and her accusur4. t, Irma the Newirtaryport kletald. Jan. 13 A Votes from . the East. The Erie railroad troubles are attracting the Witintwo of Congress, 9n petitions from the • Wisdom States that feel aggrieved at the deten tion& traveling, at that point._ We do not per, mite what Congress can do in that matter, though it may be a greet. evil. It is nothing t., Osagrem whether Penneylvania will allow ## rnll - road ins certain direction or not. ar wheth.lir the :WEI ow* any charter she has gicvn or not. it has been represented thar the people were marlussonable in tht:ir di mantis, anti had enmutit ted gross ontrages, - as some have beeni disposed to say, bestow they wished us stop, the cars there _in order to . sell the pam..utgers pies, pea-nuts and awn. They may have donerwrong in some partleulars; Int until we knew= that they were wrong we could not believe that as entitorpeop, headed by the Oovereer of the State, could per , illuto mob mete without muse It appears low front Gov. Bigier's message. that the railroad ometpany never had any legislative grant to urn. stroot such a road as they hal and therefore the toad had no legal existence to begin with;—that the_ Week of the railroad gauge.' was not' broken tty_the mot of Pennsylvania' or the Erie people, bat &outfits fact that there is a differenee in the Width of the Ohio and New York roads, and thaeroy must exist somewhere.; ykie wished it to be ere, ae the transhipment of goods would Ism& them and the Pennsylvania roads, while 'e& wished it to be there, for her benefit. ' 14 Pennsylvania holds the key to communication WINOS the East and West, we cannot see why eh* should not use it for her advantage, when she as 4io so without treating additional trouble to oliswo. If she allows this break to be transfer. •: to Buffalo. it will be a fatal blow to Erie; mad the Eric ~.3ple feel as we should at Sew %Mort, if ..ume change was to be made in the -;' • railroad that would carry all the busi. ofthe place to Portsmouth, and knock down *s vane of property full fifty per cent. If the Air *ern railroad could do that thing, and it had so *pa right to put down its track through this aity, wa eau judge - how long we should be in pal the-lulls and throning them into Merri am Ow. The Pennsylvanians are doing about Meg low other people would do in like eiream- Amen SS. It is saisasesti tint 1,600;000,000 eggs are assessed assisally by tbe pordogoo of Grist Beisaa—or *boa 76 toads persos,7 The Id. Gauge Front's. long article in the Meadville Ckradte we take the following eensible and praetiegeiew of the Firielhinge Question: The Diteetton at Bala ° having attained their eitda 6y craft and canning; and the Cleve laud director, theirs by open contempt and dell a {tee of the igiws of the State, have ever sine* been engaged in an enderor to change the gme .if the Erie...it'd North East road to theOhie To de eo it tres deemed ueeessary toereate public otlitun aping the citizens of Erie, and State of Peunsylvauia, 'and the Buffalo 4nd Cle teazel pipers have Leon filled with misrepresentatione of treth. Travelers have been told• that the l tion• b 1 break of gauge which existed was owing to the selfishnete of the people of this State. Bev. lug, as they thought, got public opinion and feel ing sufficiently on their side, and baring parches. ed the majority of the stock, they teroceided this winter to change the gauge. The citizens of Erie. alleging that such change was detrimetal t to the intereststoithe public at large, under the direetiou of the alayor removed the track and 0 bridges where they entered the streets Of the city, and the citizens of ,Harborertek township tenure. ed. i hridee and teetered the track where they in terfered with a former puplie road. TL's - briugi us to the present sit tiou of af • faint. att.i 11. , -` se" that if the attempted . elian of .'gauge will bed'e fi t commerce and s ill ' 'tate the interehange of stomutodities more than any % ae ether arraugement thee let it be made by all flb.:Mil... Whether it will do so or not is, weeem el:lVO, the great question which e . onoerns the btu. ifiess public. To decide it we mast appeal •to feet; and to those who are eonrersant with the 1 opperreienq of the Lai& Short road. Almost all the mereimuse iu, this region who purchased goods in New York liit winter and spring, befor sari geion opened, forwarded them by the New York' 1. and Dunkirk egad. Weeks passedby sad their goods did not 'aitive, and tare were ae......a to meal 1 their buieness to go and. look them up. They I foUnd them ar Dunkirk with hundreds of tousof other mereieindize, waiting an opportunity to be, forwarded over the lake chore road. They found) i 1 alma-ants 'here from all parts of the West ea ; the same errand. On enquiring why their goods were not forward, l they were informed that the !lake :hone road was controlled in Buffalo and I'ne. owned principally by those interested iet the' ' Butfeie an.l Allem) road, and the care were load- . ied iu i1u51., tar rlie matt , line, and were there evil relecided for But/alb s -so that there were no ', care CO !Agate freight Crew Detach* except when i there we not sufficient of it in Buffalo to fill , i them. Now we askif this ernuagement benefits : 't 1 , yeuener e , or adds to :he iecilities of forwarding ! freight ? Direetly ti contrary, fur it leaved but reu eoute available to everk one wjw wanes to l get hit go ids earl} The Sunbary read „ill now Noon be built to ' Erie and :lieu there will be twu leading, roads terminating ift). the Lake Shore reed and depend- i t lug 'neen it liar au Outlet Let US suppose that' the iieffato and Cleveland people obtain theirob- I Pet and hare an unbralie4 gauge between aloes i i rifle-, will it interfere with the freedom of eons , .1 ` - elerce. We think that it will. and that so long as that real ties but otie gauge, and is controlled.: ' in thee , c is:.,,, that their intereat will be to mead ' freight over the whole road, dad that they we ) elsenve forward their eau freight at the erpease ..if ale freiehr at itdtt•ruit..ii ate stations, and that ineteleettelte. eeet ever the New York and 'Din- kiek reed trill be stiff, ed to accumulate at Dun- ' kirk. as it iee.., been, a that freight sent., over i , the Suit'euree road wil b ve to accumulate at ; Erie, until tlic freight • a ll B I. becoming scarce e enablers ice . ile: forsva ed. .sides they will 1 i run their pesteiuger cars, as' they itherto have ; done. tvith the sole object of mimic • g with the : trains: at Buffalo and Cleveland, and *thont any , ' regard to the connection with the New k road ' at Dunkirk or with the Suntory road at • The a u teaue.t of Cuturneree,_ the benefits of : free, uninterrar intereouree demand that this ; s ch eme otteetn ling freight and travel to follow ' but one line Audi be' frhstrazed. Tortutunely ! Peuneelt eel e has the p .wee to de ii. and it is her duty tit ale that power. The interests of bOth the ha-t end 'he West requires irof her. • ,They :shone! pi e: • al4 t tipee an equality and let trade ' end !tact) .seek it. ewe channels. By doing iso she wilt :peeform her duty to hee sitter state: and , t'..l le:. 1191 i CitiZell.. Th7. 7 "raiir. , ad, in New York going West, and . those :ii Otte, Coming Eaerdiffer as we have shown ' 'in melee. Now vA.-roirsr, these 'roads ineetediere ‘, mast tie a change el- geuge. • There is no hope , ' that :he glazes in New 'York and in Ohio will' ever eorreepond, and therefore there is no help for it. • Thte et tenet be one. break of gauge!tome wive. t appears to as that Erie is the proper' ph. e.. fee it. Let the State of Penneylvania grant i Buffalelroad and to the Dunkirk the i Ale le the road. ee she has to the; Sunbury 'road to come there..:tf . - 11 .. .-r require of them if they do come, to ewe.. e e :11 their own gouge, and there le one cote- ' men dep it, en equal terms, meet the Ohio read with its own gauge trout the West. Then every road would reeeite let own freight; and depasita what is brought, with an equal chance of its being eels:Leese., The break 61 gauge will break the eonneetieb of ...xi-tie:ire interests between Cleve land end Buffet.. It may 13.1 KIM that it wilt be expeneire to the Buffalo and •State Line road to alter. the *Pali ,C.thoir track. *To ihi, we have only to reply Iliat w;11 teach them the truth of the old provcris that "hot:rusty i% the bent policy," and that t-,onerasicy is hotter than selfuthnear. We wouici vompA tii Franklin Coma Company to subtler:ix. ta tae Pittsburg and trio road, to atoo.• to toe iuhatitants of the section demo try tic Lateen thosc cities for delaying the building of tiny,. road and to enable them to build it now. Morality rcluir.:• that neither selfish. caning; nor opeu contrav - entionuf law should be success. ful or profitable., The Railroad Troubled at Bea, Pa. O a r r.-...lens are no doubt already aware that excitement has for some time existed in i the, city of, Erie and vicinity, caused by the high. I ,hantic.i ciadittit of a horde of New York specula ,-okjabberb, and railway captalists, who ' hay. unllertaken, without authority of law , to ,titer :lielgiuge of the Erie Railroad, thus draw. ring- to the city of New York the entire trade of the West, and rendering Erie,. coin ' rely speaking, a "Deserted Village." So i thaw buil the excitement became, - that the - pea o of Erie, headed by their Mayor, Councilmen &o turned out en iseise, sod tore up and den yeii the rails of the road running through the cit They say they risk for nothing but wh a t i s r ; h t , and will submit to nothing wrong; sad -a determined t,) guard well their own interests as well as the interestu or their State generally. In doing so, they Will be upheld and supported by every honesttriotie Pennsylvanian. Our State has alre i reo ' o long submitted to the th e arrogant deleauds end insolent exactions of East. ern spectilators and sharpers, audit is high time that our legislators should cease to legislate for their peculiar :tilvantage, and attend more partic ularly to the interests of Pennsylvania. In this matter, the petiple of Erie lave pursued the pro per courue, and they deserve the thanks and countenfosoe of every lover of righi and justice. —Carltle Voluiteer., a A private leiter from California , says the Albany Argus, of Wednesday, January 11th, received from an entirety'reliable source, inform/1 us that the greatest excitement exists 44 1 0 1 4 the people concerning the late revolution or invasion of Lower California. Recruiting troops for the reinforcement of Colonel Walker!, command was going on actively and openly. Our correspon dent further mates that he was present, by invi tation, at a meeting of at least a thousand persons, early in Dommber, who had enlisted under Gee. Flores, for a proposed expedition to Ecuador; and that three times that ntuuber 0( men might be obtained in throe weeks., Sir Ea-President Van Boren is sow in Row with his son, living in a small haws with s wry large garden, so the vita Gregotia. - Brit 'l..Pii trap ethstrinr. 21,111, PA. SATURDAY MORNLNG, JAN. 14. Mt Dee.ttio County Coa~.ntioa. The Democratic voters of the County of Erie ate requeited• to meet at the usual place of hold ing elections in their several townships, boroughs apd wards, on Saturday, February 4, 1854, at 2 o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of choosing tick rto attend a County Convention, to be held • the City of Erie, on Monday, Feb. (kb, 1854, choose Senatorial and Representative delegates repretient the County in the Democratic State onvetktiou. ) - URRAY NV HALION, ( RTHIJR GREENWOOD. .11. TAYLOR, - ALDEN POMEROY, WM. A. .GALI3RAITI4. SHERMAN SMITH, • JAS. D. SMITH, B. W. VANCISE. Erie, Jan. 14tb., 1854. . laedlair beats of tie Week. .Locally we have had egged deal of excitement here this week. On Friday, ifter our paper had been so fir advanced as to preclude a notice of it, a very laws number of citizens, including all classes and all parties, assembled in front of Brown's Hotel to escort the Mayor and Mr. Lowry out of town, on their way. tb Pittsburgh to answer the charge preferred against them of resisting the Marshal—l theme; by the by, the falsehood of which it fully exhiNted by the Les um* to another oetnark. Ne sapposo mere were at least five or six hundred present, and the feeling manifested was alike creditable to the assembled, se well as to the gentlemen them selves. 'lt was not an assembly of *mob, but of pes.mable, quiet °Risme, and yet a Cleveland paper calls it."an infuriate rind drunken mob." who indulged Ai "booting and screeching like PI) 'many' devils." When will theme railroad Dircet - orb learn that half their trouble is ca u sed by such foul libels--libel that all know are paid witb the wealth their monopolies give them After this, matters quieted down until about three o'clock, and- we had about node up oar mind the war was over, and that ere the week was out the four foot tea ears "would go hunk, ing through to Buffalo " Bat the bit lxi schemes fail sometimes, and so . it was with the railroad. About throe o'clock R. Grant, Ksq Judge Thompson's law partner, received a dis patch from him, datsid at Harrisburg, dire tins snits to be brought in the name of Nessra. Kirk patrick, Killpatrick: Sherwin and Jacks, against the Marshal and the Deputies enguged in their arrest, for She imprisonment. The prik ciple upon which this proceeding was ettiumenee.l, we believe to be that the issue betwehn our city and itarborerseit and the Erie turd North East railroaii, is purely a state meatier, Sad therefore the District Oourt of the United States had no jurisdiction, and hence all engaged is taking the gentlemen named to prison, were personally La ? ble for the sot. Whether this ice - proper legal statement of the matter we knOW nut; wit do know, however, that Mr. G. was not slow in`is , suing the proper paper& ' He pissed them in the hands of the Sheriff, and In a felt moments Mr. Wesley Frost, I. G. Sproul, and a man namc,l Reynolds, were brought before a proper osee4. of '.4ie Court, and upon refusing to give bail, were promptly introduced into.the inside of the Erie want)! jail. Twenty minutes sojourn there was ' satisfactory to them, and they immediately sued out a writ of !Libelee Corpus, and upon giving hail, was discharged. Immediately after they left toe Pittsburgh to report that the Marshal had been resisted in the discharge of by dutgee chief track layer of the Brie and North East mei A return, let us add, as 'manifestly fake as anything possibly multi be, unless, indeed, a. l M4sl is exempt from arrest-a proposition we stippose nb candid man will pretend to slur' tain. The truth is, in Sire minutes after the Mar shalbad given bail, he could hive resumed his dignified employment of track laying, and con tinued it to this time, and no man would have went near him. Bat he did not choose to do so, and so that grind jubilee, Whit* was to have come off on Monday in honor of the event, didn't take placi. What npiity, After this things remained in states Teo until Tuesday. On Monday night a request was sent ie to the 6001101 1 / 1 1 to hare tbe bridges the Mar she' had erected removed, as they materially in terfered with the free =mem iu "corn stalks" between the city and country, a load of that kind of_ufedder" having stuck in coming under. the French street bridge an Saturday. The Coun cils felt deeply for the venders of "oont stalks," but could not, without great disrespect to Judge Irvin's court., reader any relief. • So the bridges were, by the solemn vote of Councils, ordered to stand lust is they were. This didn't *nit the "Lacy Stones," and other advocates ofurromen's rights" of oar city. They had more feeling for their mbeetiar than reepat for the injunction of Judge Irvin, so about nine o'clock on Tuesday word ante down town thilt the women, to the tune of 20 or 80, had attacked the bridgei, and that the crowd was 000stently increasing. When we firm heard of it,,we thought it a hoax; but a hoax it was not, for ere the sun went Aiwa, the' obnoxious bridges had come down, and "wanton's rights" and "corn stalks" hai triumphed. The only impious* circumstance, calculated Jo mar the Weir, was the fact that a :ad named Walker went on the ground and attempted to otsL•iate as Clerk of the Tea-table, whereupon some of the "strong minded" gave him a - dish of ..poached eggs," and then eat him home to his ILIA ins to get his pantaloons mended, Vine laCornstalkst \rivals Woman's rights: • _ -....... -........480,.-... is. We invite attention to the pomading. of a "County Maas Meeting," in another held at Girard on Thursday. This meeting was called by the apposeats of the county subscription to the Banbury road, and the position our • had taken in regard to railroad nastmrs general: ly. The call was got oat secretly on Soterday night last after dark, and the conspirators 'were' busy until the day of meeting making arran*. meats to "omac down" on Erie like a "thououid o f brick." But lo ! when rhs meeting assembled the “seveu wise men of Girard" fonad themselves in a hopeless minority. Moral—it is useless to kick against the prick*. ser Hu an Editor a right to be siokf If our :olden sower We gustiest in the allirmative, then we slabs the right thus awarded ea, as a jostifiestios for all omissions liditarially in this week's paper. If they deny the tight, thou we beg leave to say-4111, yelinetift for ski we are with one d the noes tuunittigated and vil lainous colds this eltnniesble weither tin pro bed. in the Ohio leirldstitre. The Iris to a Mr. Osarbell, of the , for a paw containing the body in regard to the rail s; and ere are Seised to learn We are L•2girlat are- proceedings liScul awithstanding all the froth le eland Editors, and Cinein their echoes iD the Buckeye u.ible men in the Legislature besides being gentlemen s a d a question like this in a gen are also well enough p os t e d u p this government to know that to question is which other re right to interfere than they of Canada. Mr. Campbell is e should judge, from hie minor hit him Democracy i s we Ba be used, as may be, to corer cool di es ,. or lead a anod e .ign rights of sister States. He therefrom t and fa{-rho nail it dituro State, there of that Sts capable of t tlemardv in the worki it is purely stalei;i have have in the ung of these it) report, t moitning kir the designs against the ME - rferenee of Ohio, in s ceintro. hied, between railroad cots tistins of Erie, is 1 1-seighboeing Ling or called for is the present controver*y and itch interfer cieited state of public feeling is far from correcting any narrow o may have, or enlarging her n t.lwerds Ohio, could only give 84 on our Part, without hope of "Tnat th Yen; yet patties and State, is not cinditiou of Puce in the ansylvan viewo of poi of tuinet.vig4kry Eitate advan _ r % That the , a and notnagentest by States, of their own I affairs, sbould never, ex cept on ext y 015014011*, and in mutes of ~..... comm a nd' o stiy, be questi mod by sister States;- i rt at t janstanos, until all ha on theirpop& i been exhausted, not by acciden taly and u • tcd acts of Tioleve, but by stud te,l acts. b og wauton disregard of their State obligation - In view t liese facts, Mr. C. recommended an indefinite. tponement of the subject. Mr. Mackenzie k'the mine view. He said the dig. nity of 8 , / n the rights of States, and the cora- . ity due bet States, forbade the Legislature taking any. tion upon the subject . Let us, Kaid Mr. 3 o unto others as we would have others do u 4. Mr. Gest followed upon the balm side. 4r. Eckley did'nt agree with the other sped*. He was for pitching jute the old Kertpi"gome," and dodged that. "the road thrc t 7dErie is a national high-way."— I ,V, wit f, so, •he did'nt see St to tell; per i, spa bees e did'nt know, bat more likely be cause some road borer had hot told him. Mr. O'Neil Pol l .4 4 awl said "he looked upon this quarrel as neon the railroad companies aid the inhabit of Erie. The Courts of Penti sylvania It gone al fits. as they , have the right to go in th tter. It was proven that ' zhe Franklin Gal Companz had violated the terms of its cliarl4t Hu use not sure botthe railroad eunstructedinder duo charter was a amasses; and if so, itonht, or coarse, to be abated, but not by violUe. He wished to see the Midget decided by 6 3)earta. The Legislature bad no right to atolpt to settle the question, much less to attack *sovereignty of a mister state. As to the'tranipthatiott of the malls, no State had ev er bound ink. to afford facilities for their trans. pqrtation. le defied any gentleman to point to sail such aspect betUpen the Federal authori ties and tbeltaves." Me. O'Neil was followed by a Dr. Eltelt, a free Neil pill,padler from Ash tabula. Inset iitu PeonsylVania and Gov. Bigler litri, i"tione of mdta." Ile lint declared that "Erie ixid alone in this matter, and would abon, in thd ild frenzy of the •maniae, exhaust herself;" he hen turned round and swore that "Pittabarghnsd Philithilphia ate beekinghtc op, sad the Gorimor of the State extendingaid and bomfort to hr." He also declared that "the policy of Pentsylennia was marked by a degree of 'niggardly shishriese that ought me &gram, her in the eyus ofitir sister States, and tithe world; and he quotes from the message of Gov. Bigler, with' refereneeto the policy therein avowed; of turning the Saw a , na t ura l ' a d va nta ge . to the beet account, seterting that State was fifty years behind the age. Hers was a Japanese policy, and he feared sine Commodore Perry or Mango Park would hale to be sent there to Meek them the manners ad customs of more enlightened, people." Much this it is presumed the Hones was very ditch mlightened, and the learned and gentlemanly ineeber.fiOnt Ashtabula, °madders bly relieved, if nit more. Mr. E. will probably learn ere many lays that Alfred Holley's road in this State is a "great national • way;" but on the conicity it is a work thd tater possession , suits best. W, 4 .Jri,ffitA, a re tail pettyfugger of North East, is out in the last eonstieweioa with 1. letter in reply . to • something the 'Gazette bad 'laid. about his, in which he lags our name in some how; why, unless he de sires ut to entice lien, and thee give his that for which his insatiate muity has craved for years—via: account?—is more than we cm me. Now -we have no doubt Mr. Wm.. Grifieth— (beg his pardm, Wei. Grifeth, Seq.,) is a very sincere railroad me for the simple reason that he is 4 very sincere bin, has paid for , Hence, we are 'perfectly willing he shall write lettere to the Ontseastioa t orto the : Ural° E4ress, and lug ow name in as often as be 11eases- 7 tbough we bald merely hint that it would look more aunty' ,to say nothing about the christianity of the thine-4f he would send as a paper containing the ate, especial' ly if be should' choose the Eweu with which we do nbt happeitt to exchange. ' cattarno..—Tbe growth of Chicago is unpar alleled in American hikory. A census just ta ken by order of the (Sty Council, shows that the population is now 60,652... In 1850,110M424S to th sited on ed States Cott, it was only 27M20. 'Of 4 whole population 29,134 us of native, an 29,404 of foreign birth; 1531 are seamen en? - in the lake oommerea, and 583 are co 1. There are 7,627 availing' and 7,435 ilies; • 1,184 stores and places of busitteaa--r• 64 schools, 61 churches, and 196 mannfaotories. 184 k) the whole population of Chicago wss Only 0,853. At the rate at which it is growing it will soon overtake Cincinnati sad St. Louis. 10,.. By the'preeeedh4p of a meeting of the Ladies of Brie and Harborereek, published in another coining, h will be seen that they pre pose making 31rs. 3Lagill, the Lady of the Sher if' of Allegheny, a suitable present as a testimo nial of their gratitude for the kindness shown those of our citizens, now incarooration'in the jail of that county, by order of the Hone/rob/0 Judge Irvin. Tbe present&signed we Wine is a tiiiver Pitchdr, with a suitable inscription, and a Salyer. Is e We notice that our friend IL Coirse, Esq. is eo killer connected With the Ornaelagehn. W e are glad to pee this, for he is too amok of a rattans"imy silty to be aleotheimi 'Mk Na map who hoe ocatroisd ten. LETTER DETROIT. Ceram Arm a *I Erie Observe( DinsorrAMicib.) January 5, 1854 article in last Saturday's Observer, published also in an extra of the same dale, containing "some plain suggestions for the consideration of Pennsylvanians" presents many arguments which come home' with force to the people of your State. , A scrims' to these sug gestions, showing the interest which western men have in this controversy—this unequal struggle between justice, public interest, and State.rights on the tine side, and the avarice of combined rail road monopolies on the other—woilld, as I be lieve, do much in correcting public opinion.— That the'people.of the West do nit understand the position which the city of Erie -occupies in this eontest---that they do not see how it will beneficially affect their interest to have you ac complish what you aim at—that they rep:4 the present inconveniences to which passengers are subjected and with which forwarders of western produce have to contend—inconveniences, as they are taught to believe, vastly se-outweighing any ' advantages which can ultimately be gained by them as the result of your acts—are propositions which adroit of no doubt. Should any ; doubt he enteitnined by anyone of the truth of these pro pesitiosa, a very few Jaye intercourse with the people of this section will irresistibly fort* the oonviction of their truth upon him. . -That the agriculturist must pay the . transpor tation of his products to market—that he mast and dues pay the transportation in advance by asking less price for his products in proportion .r.isoagis hunt_ anti the diffs?ulties bye overcome in reaching that market, are po,ittong the truth of which cannot, I think, be success fully controverted. That the difference in -the prise of wheat at Chicago, which ranges now from Tbc. 'WO flit, and its price at New York, rang ing from $174 to 11 perbuahel, is caused by the coeval transporting it from the former to the hit-. ter place, is evident. Every additional. facility, then, which can be afforded the producer to retch his market at a diminished emu is a direct bene fit to him. What then does Erie and Pennsyl vania propose to accomplish by. the policy thiy have adopted? I say Pennsylvania, because this is* t unction in which she is vitallY \interested, and one to the importance of which she is . now twinning aroused. Hirst, you,propose that the-New i l erk Cottral road shall be extended with its gauge -of. 4. feet_' 81 inch. over the Buffalo and State Line road to the Harbor of Erie. Neat, that the New York and Erie road shall be extended by the Little Valley route to the same point, shortening the distance between the West and Now York by that route thirteen -miles, and upon its . gange of six feet. That the first, on be down within six months is plain, and thst the present interrup, bans to the transit of passengers anti freight can be ressowni within ono month, should the mil- reed prase interested adopt this proposal, is equally evident. That the next objett can be f!!!"-a. sin ,' . one year is my • tier by many. ' This is nut all you propose to do, yi,u that the _Banbury and Erie railroad shall also be completed as speedily as possible and ter 'elute at the siiiii - place. ' Hence throe great ri vak roams will be concentrated at one poise, io dating a caupetitiou /kick will reduce the cost of transportation and directly benefit tjie teeming millions of Western and North-western produ cers. Not only do you propose to increase com petition in,transportation but you open to the - West a direct communication with Philadelphia and Baltimore, and shorten the distance between her sad New York herself sixty-nine miles over this new, this cherished Pennsylvania route. In addition to the advantages of diminished cost of transporting western produce the opening ec - this bell route will give the Western co i %timer at-,:., -s to the anthracite coal fields of Perin lvania 4.oci diminish the cost of , this great manufacturing agent 83 per cent. The coal trade will be a large items, and one in which the West is materially interested. True, you do not pretend that Sod hope to reap no advantages from 'the accomplish pent of all these objects; you do .not boast that you are so magnaniuions as to contend earnestly for the promotion of their interests - without ex pecting to be betiefitted yourselves. You do Not claim that your self-love, that y.mr State pride, has nothing to do in shaping lour °our* but you do claim that you have trampled upon lib private rights, that you have violated no liw, and that the ends of poblic s justice will be promatedby your being sustained. You , 10 claim Chet if you accomplish ,what' ynu" propose to do, that the West e gratitude which, notwithi inconre- Diemen to Which cake a long time for her -to It ask the payment of this sr do jou them to give y 0... any way, but you do ask them to give you some "comfort," by treating you as though you belong to the hu man flintily. You ask them not to give their verdict until they have heard your testimony in defense. You ask that you• may be brought face to face with your aconsors and th;t the facts and merits of the ow shall be fully argued, and hilnett you claim an arrest, judgment until your rejoin der is. ut in, end that, it shall have equ il publi city, with the accusation. Yon, demand that the , pies shall not endeavor to teach the world that , . are steeped in the loirest dregs of infamy; I that they shall not exhaust the billingsgate vo- csbulary in applying aprobrious epitbete—and that your execution of law by the proper . officers shall not constantly be characterised aa the pro- 1 . , eattlinp of an irresponsible mob. , But should you not receive justice at the hand ~ those whom you purpose to largely benefit,- should the people and press of the West continue, to beep abuse upon your city, they will not cause , . to alter ourunnee for you are convinced that our "muse is just, your union . perfeet"---aed while you, court the good opinion of the world to gainit, you will not desert the cause of truth nor entail upon our children the despotism of a mon ster's monied combination under whose iron heel their very life-blood would be made to gush from . . every pore. . , To those who &seen that the sustaining of the supremacy of law is of more *seance than any benefit th e y can obiain by its violation, you again answer that you have violated no law. That if the placing and maintaining a bridge upon the public street, occupied by dwellings and stores almost its entire length; the bridge, the timber of which, is but nine and a-htlf feet from the low est grade to which the street can be brought, is a icub2 hou nuisance, then_ have you only done r duty in abating it. If the erecting and taining up on a principal street, feet in width, a bridge idiom timbers ' t fowteen feet from the grade of the street and opening through which the Arise la obliged to pan is bat :am igo" hie is width, with keen ram* wren hei upon theposta and upon the beams, is as 'Attie tion, then in removing it you have only done what every citizen has a right, anti what as public eers the municipal authorities are bound to do. It may be asked why the privilege of Laying down tracks and erecting bridges upon the streets if they are nuisances thereon, was ever granted by the City Councils to the railroad Company.— The answer is that the power to cause their re moval whenever in the opinion of the Council s it should be necessary was resemd by them, and this was aeoepted by the railroad company as an express condition of the grant, and that the pow er of removal was not exercised until due notice had been given to the railroad eampanj to nerve the same themselves, Ludas answer on their part that they would not °amply nor would they ex tend their road to the dock, which they bad pre viously agreed to do, only in a manner -which would continue and increase the obstructions com, plained of. •• Should you consider the foregoing suggestions worthy of publication, you will confer a favor by giving them an insertion in your paper. Respectfully Your's M R. B. lus County gothil A large and ea blade meeting of the sitia•ab of Erin ,inty assembled in Mass Convention in Girard on the hut., for the parpose of taking into eonsideration the prevent railcard dignities, sad the peewit, of increes• ing the County Subeeriptioh to the Sunbury sod Erie Hail. road. • On notion of 1.. J. lialdiein. Lila toasting was organised siipointinAßOlLOß GOLLOWHUR to the Chair; 'L. J. Batmen Trianon! Anus, rice President*: and Aft,Batate and Wilmot Laird. Beetetarite. pa. motive Wl' Wm. A. Gahm Zen., the following gow .....weenaleemaci a sosoustatast far the combination of the meetisc Y. L J. llaldwhi. TownJoao Ryeean, T. J. Kellogg, sal D. S. Clark, who ant rethieg a shat time repoited the fel , tmiog resolutions whieh were adopted by nearly a noon n.out rnci, the only 'wallies bolas by a few railroad thee. The meeting wee Wham! ay Heart' Teller, / Murry aallon. and Wax A. Gathratth. tflerees, The people of Reis musty in deeply iiimress ed 'with the gees. importance of the trirly cornasencenient snit completion of Peneryttlartia's great highway, the Sun bury and Erie railroad, the winetrootioneferhioh Well open threet commaefeetio . n betwese Philadelphia sod the I Idiom, famishing the shortest end beet node between the seaboard and Lake Erie, a rates wkteh , witl be when open. ed vastly saperier in dnwiis mid grade to any railroad now built or projected. And, wham', the building of the S4nbnr7 sad Erie railroad is of vital moment to this coon ty, having bee* the cherished project of our people for insay years, and that upon width we base oarezpeetations ,f commercial &drainages and grolth of population sod to.ineas. And, whereas, the cheering. intelligeoce lately -received of the liberal, acting of the City Councils of Phil: sdelphia in the of an Ordinance for the eubsorip lion of 2,041,000 ofd to at stock of the Company, has gives assairanos of the dawning of s brighter day fur our Rime end for Otte county. Therefore. Resolved, That the action afthriOonunission ers of Erie county in the galiecripy don of $200,000 to the steelt-ur the Sonbrtry and Erie rood insets with our most venligl and hearty approbation, and that we believe it to be ie accordant* with the views and earnest wishes of the people of the county. limited, That the meeting is not now prepared to give any expression upon the proposed subscription to the stock tf the Pituipergh and Ina railroad, and that tha.rontider talon of that question be postponed for the present. Resolved, That this meeting is in favor of the maiote wince of the rights sad interest, of the State of Penusyl- viola against the airreaektnenta of foreign'ilimopolirs, ind that the arm and eorisistent stand taken the aid. Issas of Erie aed k, in taaintaining.tbe laws of the Mate, and - tlie ordinances of the city of Erie. meets milk ear tasks approval. Signed by the Officers. A PIZZLE.—Some few of the busy-bodies of Meadville, whose sympathies all run in favor of New York, attempted to get up a meeting there this weektfor the purpose of denouncing Erie in tier war for Pennsylvania rights. It, however, &rat gp down—there was too much Peuilsylka- Ala feelihg—too much loyalty to tins good old "eonimonwealtb, ailow the intrigued of her en ernies'to accomplish anything. We rejpice at this—not so much, perhaps, because of its im portance, but simply as an evidence of a proper state pride among the Masses in all sections. A correspondent,writes us that after- the meeting convened, 1). Dericksem, Esq. denounced' the call as premature and uncalled for, and moved the meeting adjmirn. The President refused to put the motion; 'whereupon D. 4. Rafts, `Esq., a three-penny lawyer, whose birth-place "was so near the Canada lineup in Vermont that: his nationality is a disputed questiOn, brought forth a set of resolution, all cut and dried, denouncing Erie somewhat in the same faahiou his aneeslors denounced the Yankees when they whipped the Canadians at Platsburg, and urged their passage. This called out our friend, J. M. Farrelly, Esq:, and.tho result was that the meeting adjourned, and Mr. Finny's resolutions were left on the ta ble to "waste their sweetness on the desert air." Not satisfied with this result, these lovers of "law' and order" par excellence, determined to have" al meeting on their own hook, and denounce Eric anyhow; so they re-organized after most of tike people had left, re-road their re.cdution, called fort vote awl --foe Tel tlNeur.elvvs again in a mit . ' nority. And thus fell, stillborn. this attelopt to get up "aid and comfort" tor duffslo. in Craw ford county. $J Who shall say that John H. Walker is'nt a prophet? Not many moths ago ho boastingly declared that "if th . e_ railroad men attempt to change the track the women will pat atones in their stockings and,beat them or." Well, he . and others have "attempted to change the track," and true to his prophesy, on Tuesday some two ur three hundred +mart did assemble, and al though they did not "beatthem off with stones in their,stockings," theyitoie down two of their bridges, and burnt them \up. 'Hurrah for "wo men's rights," and for "wonian'S spunk," no. We cheerful!, the Gazoll, the selection of llessra. TAeotpson and Bull as Directors of the now Sunbury and .Erie Board. Thefy are both men who will give weight and in• fiuence to that project. Judge nompton lute a wide spread repatatioi throughout the State as an able lawyer, while Kr. Ball, as State teaser: er, established a reputation jn the financial cir cles of Philadelphia that will be of vast use to the road. Wu trust the Company may be ae fisti nate in the selection of the President of the road as it has in these directors. The seas to All that position should be a thorough bpdness man --no mere politician—and a true Pennsylvani __, Palm Stortuta►rr.—The New York non eopteuts make poor progrimis in the House of Representatives in kicking up the row they had determined upon. On Tuesday, Mr. Cutting's resolution, calling for wince of the oorrespon &we *watt Bacretuy Guthrie and ea-Collec tor Bronson, was laid on the table by a vote of 146 to - 6. Six votes, it appears, is the strength of the clisorganizere is the Room--a most lame and impotent conclusion. _ A LOUD CILACIL-A few days .ago, as one of la w the clerks employed in a who ' toy establish ment of -Baltimore was nailing a . peekage of eight thousand torpedoes , the wue 'al by the hemmer caused them to eiplode with a loud creek. The clerk' earapsd, fortunately, with but slight injury. _ __._ Mr The Pittsburgh FON is out iu opposition to the publication of the Laws in the neirnmen. The Bator evidently thiab dot "tvitereVw rszoeis bliss,'a hilly to be vise." -4.- - Wu the 'Karshal &list e d: As s part of the history of these rat:7 when men are prosecuted for otf•itie, r s. witted, and peaeeahle citizens dr,, gg „i homes upon the nails of men 16 [ , Court but Judge I.rwin's would 'tr: t h e witn ess b o x, we give the fill ••?? taken before B. GIA.Vr, Esq., C. (_ er, in the case 6f. 11,syerr Kra, 31 P, and G. J. idowroli, now on trial a: z,. Air resisting the .itarshal duty, in the arre*. of KillpatriA, Jacks, and Sherwin, on the night of January. This 1.1 not ali thri Pv"Ai"„ case going to slow that the proneoori t a malicious one, and that the' p ,., who triode the teturn that h•• , 1 guilty of a palpable falsehood. if a , • , Iworse: - Slate of i'aussefeasie,'Count 7 cr E.,,,,. Before the subscriber, a Comm!. ed by the Circuit Court of tle. (7f1it...., ;. the Western District of Pennsyl-.-1,. a 1 : appaued; - Morrow B. Lowry, 1,.1.., duly sworn according to law, .i ft t .-: ~. . that on thusiztli day ofJanuar-, :;,....,_• between eight find nine o'cluei. u 7'l, as he was returning home from li ... friends, be was met in front ~,.,` 1 . ?„. In the city of Erie, by Joltn i .J4 t. ~.., who informal Ida that thes , '.- r. by by Deputy ,Marahal Sproul on -Ju , , the United Stmt.', Court; and :,• , 1 ,.., were under the charge of diever., - . -,,,.- dents, and that Mr. iSproul •4; -. 1 •. -,_ •that these persons complain , , 1 ; 1 from their homes at a late hour n -,. and had not sufficienkelothiug ;, ; - from the indefinite,' sins anus\L'A) sr. tv ) 6 0 E0, theitbisk.sicautdot 41,..; , ,e;ii : . o his coat snot gave it to NT.Ja , :-. on' his own peisa t er and that ad: .. I, 1 off his hat and! off ered it to the pli.,: , t. ors a cap ind ..nt and unfi t for u..! and which - sift rded insu ffi cient cover et head on each night; but that' Mr. Smyth repairal immediately to hit ici fatnished a bat for Mr. Jacks; that -thy told one of tie other persona who. w, 'to put on depirinent's cloak and t:0... A .-. the Marshal, not only without r • without complaint, if require,.4 t. , • deponent told the prison.r, ..... object of the ', ilrotel men wa , and bear dow , upon the peeps resist the 3r.tar y lin the exert • do some other act which woul , -...' , 1, We to arrest itd punish:n..ll', :.:. prisoners so t conduct ti:: n,-• by their actio , or deelarati. , ,,l :. arrest; depo , ut, with pti.,, , t _ , • charge of th•m and other, Iv, ~ .. Messrs. Tbo ~ pool & Grant : who it was 'd was there, .in , ; f office in ch oof a railr•A.l : -• was a oendti tor on the W , .. - - .defendants, ilpatriek and co:7. ~. the tone of he Cleveland p.. . _ course putt; eti by railroad m -- ..- to go throe: h Cleveland; IL. , -• lof violence to their persuns -.- .. I this dePon . t tts ; , arrli them , Marshal h dor had not -i. , : through CI veland, he ..ilo u utysMarsh Sproul woul , l , r - as Mr. M., .hal- Frof-t hr.] t others the he wouldict iny I rl who mig , be committed • ! I ; Pittsburg , through P,:uu-:-....- ; route he he Marshal ) tuiv.to, himself; , epbnent then b 2-t . 1 lug a req est that the Ku... fendants to proceed t , . l'.,•:•: , :.: L 1 private conieyrince, hims.if ..u....,0 1 , I .themselves and tende ri no. H--1:7-,-: I defendan l should quietly au- ~,,:. • theraselv up to tie Criurt au-: 0 same wit out leave,. which !,.,., by • number of the citizen, . ; 7:1, occasion had called together; and paper watt drawn up and sign : :. eat re watt that it e(Aitai.l , , which mi ght be construed. in; , .,, Deputy arshal Sproul. DTI 1,. .- 1 mediatel • drew up another . . ed to co eh it in such term T , .1 , i not be eri to it. and tl: ~ citizens hen present . ha , l :',,1 . • i oond pa r, Mr, Sproui -, •.1,1 that de neat, after sit:l:zit:: • told bin that they wore f, Arr... :- not hue seen hint down ,_ ay_ w.t nentba written him ;a- ‘. :• - ..,: plainod o him under 17),L: .- , • • 1 were teen; deponent ;In; '• 7 •"' the Dep , ty !Marshal ti....t r'... ;•;.•n; }lr. . t should be carriul nfv.. t.co: . '• dents ~ ' ght be permitted t ,, •:,; •, through Pennsylvania; rl:i •1. ; • : suggesti n Of- Dlr. Grant, at ';-' • • Mr. SO ul into an adjoinin . : 7 .. Poaccal , Ir. Sproul, the pris :. Cdunse, . Arbuckle, Mr. 67.1" , ' lilediatel, repaired; depon,n; • 1 Mr. Spul, on the promio of 1 :- - b p _ ri v ao hi n s e i r l•• t l o in g, g4t a p l' it e ts n b u ur 5y g 1 i v , an ti ! , .. ,.. r., ,.. State, pi her by stage of. privat , ‘ c;l:,‘ here de, neat states Chit ucith,,. i conve ion nor tit-auy tune pre: nu , i any th • t made, nor any itrittmi.... any but the kindest of' latye...e 4 - further -.ys that 'Mr. Spr,.:ll. t ILL:, ration s,bstantialli• ai. Inl; ....c.-: •• , - . 1 oners u , ompopy rue peaeeabl . v . i Pittab gh in the morning. and - t o t h e tart;",: whorenp.m dep,T. to , replied, by intimating that thcr r. for any hreat of that kind, ar. , . • • ly the f 'lowing language, v - -. return, larshal Spree', thr. : • ' 'l , against n Erie man; thee,. t , :. . ed tan' ht for Pittsburgh r ~ - • . tail men to enjoy the ::,., . in a..poSition so false cud . ~. ~ - appe.lled to his•feelings a • .'. • prison - to enjoy; the f ~ . I . • ' • time a , . morning With r'.. -1' • ..r. • :lava th m from t h e jeers. n! - 1-. which 'I ey feared if tite , ) IN,: era thr, , ,gh Ohio; dep ,, n , , ,-- ,' ,•:," - - S 'rout received ti:. lc -, l'ldelt ad been prepared li:m, . ~,-,. ... toques whereupon those t. 11, !, :..,...,--, i; for the night; deponent itirt - 4e; -•: Idtard or xnew of no vi;.l , -14:: .; -- threat ed, nor heard any a1::;:,u. , .,... I: the ' ,t, eieept from on. , , 1 , i,c 7....• who s quite, bolicerous 1,:... u , 1 ' damp, iuted in the gratificay.).l . f ) men , gged as raisoners thre"._ll Gist next "orning depment saw tl• pc ! , about he time he was to star , .... - t:;... feud , ts, Jacks. aid Shere "r. •.;;;::: • hunt t Kilpatrick and .Kirizi.c.•;• , ,: - .. ante, but he had no doubt t1.7.t, 'l , '-':'; =ire Mr. Sproul said that ::,,.... Vri: at w Id proceed in the stab , 7!.. , n me d r, and that it was untie'. I th t defendants should fol] , w •.. , ti boat one , b h u o t u w r e a r f e te a r ia )r S f i'- , 'en ants did leave in a pri‘ at , cs' te ie ire es nev t te ll Yi ti ln t li . t eo h ef e aPin de at f t4 : b n ue cl ir e;: •ln n i c l4 r; to resistance to the Marsha. r•,: o ers or decrees of the Intuit '.. 'e to get some tion,e4: , sr an t e • t o leave *di families I: , \ - 1 0 .-c• absence; and deponent -,-1 he did not resist .- .1,c , ... of the United Stat,-- 0 ;Irt,r+ time, nor has h. ~ t :.ny c idled, or ;Ivised oth.e-s, " ; r ,-- -' l 'l of said Court, nor it -. f.c . . ;D ' f theta; and that shit •!-; • 13 :1 i print., in the cunr , i . Ave ateetirtipi, cow:km:l44l t.O .. .:i id obedience to the mautbiel order their time any Ca" , due don and lEEE MB =I
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