~rir 'i~, eekl bserber. J - IRIS, PA. SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 4,,1854 Distsorstk County Contention. The Democratic voters of the County of Erie sly requested to meet as the usual place of hold fag elections in their several townships, boroughs mid wards, on Saturday, February 4, 1854, at 2 &aka, P. N., for the purpose of choosing dale. gates to attend a County Convention, to be held in the City of Erie, on 'Monday, Feb. 6th, 1864, to choose Seeaterisi and Representative delegates to represent the County in the Democratic State Convention.. MURRAY Yr HALLON, ARTHUR GREENWOOD I. B. TAYLOR, ALDEN PO3IEROY, • WM: A. GALBRAITH, SHERBURN SMITH, • JAS. D. SMITH, B 1 W, VANCISE ins, ha. 14*, 1854. 11111"111 envernor has been so harnessed in begun Ism his snivel among aw, that he has not hem able to see all who have called upon him. This bas been more partienlarly ei in .re gard to the Wiwi ; in consequence of which, at the request of a number of friends; he will give a public levee at his rooms at Brown's Hotel this evening . ter We are requested by some of the Ladies who have been interesting themselves fora little boy who bad his leg broke at one of the Railroad bridges, a week or so ago, to acknowledge the re ceipt d shoot $l6, collected by the "Pine Rock et Committee," oo Wedeesday last. The mosey is being daly appropriated for the object contem plated. Is- Zedingt. item meetings -have been held in Nirviesi. Ilirellaboro, sod Springfield, since our last, in fa vor of sustaining Erie and the subscription by the county to tire-Sunbury road. The !ptoo eed-: bp of these meetings have been sent tre, and we would most cheerfully insert them at length, but Sams this week, in consequence of a press of other matter , precludes it. The fret, however, that they have had a very eitensive circulation drisingit the winnow of other papers somewhat *robe' tbh necessity of our, - giving them in fall . ---mgetially when we manatees emphatically that these ilasetings have been the spontaneous ex premien of the popular sentiment in thoise neigh borhoods, mudded, as in the ease of those held is opposition, by secret management and the Hie. By the by, we are aslered by a correspon dent it Albion, that the meeting which purports to have bees a mass meeting of the citasene of Conneaut and Elk Creek, held in that- neighbdr hood a few days sines, consisted of the unparal 7 fried number of twenty-three all toldi tauten tery of • voted for the resolutiqiis, and nine against Sick demonstrations as this will never Erie county from doing her duty to the road; more especially as we understand the Chrianiesionere have determined to perfect the . • .•. n of $200,000 at the earliest pos sible midi. Ihudiary and Erie Road. have truly flattering newa in regard to the Sunbury read. •When Mr. COOP= ao- IS opted "— duiPresidency of the road, he did so with the pledge to raise a million of dollars additictial sobeetiptioa before' the annual meeting of the .. staellsohiers on the 13th; and our information is that be hat succeeded beyond his most sai lplane expectations—in . fact that the -million is already pledged,,end his promise redeemed.— Jobe Tucker, req., President of the Reeding Rood, had who is probably the ben railroad man is tbe i Etate, also - says, we understand, that the rad wants-and aErll ho b uilt, and as -in evidence tbat bet meal what he says his own win, Rich mond, We of the suhurbs of Philadelphia, has juatesside a subscription of 8250.000 to the work. ,1 Spihig Garden, it is understo id, will follow suit; while from the merchant. , and business men of Pialmbelphia a vial large subscription will be ob : teised. Now, with a proper disposition on a w l . peat of the Legislature of the road recently own ed b. the 1 1 'nutklinAu41Corepany, bit noir its . the bands of the State, and such action as may seasseary to cotapsl the roads East of here to slowters to the pages Eeet of thin, we have witisebt that the Banbury road will be in a, few maths wrier contract, mud !be great work CUIZI• utoweed. Ms Franklia - Canal Consay. Ta °bedlam to the it/liken:team of the act of the leitilhoutre, repealing the charter of the *Nadia. Canal Company, the Ciovonior took pommies of the road built under it between Erie sad iho Ohio Use, on Thursday. it is now, thinehee, running under the authority of the ewe, and is superintenief by an agent tot the *ate. We have not yet learuad what arrange• menu, if any, havitbeett made betarren the S:ste and the Nisaville iit.fikshtsbule road; hut pre asse, malt the railroad men us the Lake Shoie are now here oonAiariiig with the avrittuor, that a aatitifaetory '4lkt:tent will be eat red into in ill • ilt% days, • IMO' The Conneaut Reporter men devotes equ sidendda spew this week to Erie is general, and our own humble'self in particular. Of muse he, adls us $ « blackguard," for when did a scoun drel get exposed that be did not turn round and abase none one. In this ease wo do not know bet we en bear the vials of his wrath'aod filth so "A as any one ; nay, better. fot while others night suppose that his ravings might find natl. MI eke would put credence in them, we know diet Ws papa, like his ehristisaity, doe'ut reach a vet ways. But not to waste . words on so ma Gs affair, for'whirh we have neither time war reoss4 we will just whisper in his etr that liars should have good memories, a•A his last tratalte is an exemplification of the truth of the remark. For instance, in his first paragraph, in sgoaltiig, of the Springfield meeting, hi says : « Learning a fete days ago that the citizens of apriagfiehl mere going to lot a Railroad me/t -his," de.; &e. Here the fellow confesses that be knew what was going on at Springfi e ld b e f ore be wait; bat in his fifth paragraph he tarns rowed and remarks that be ~ Sat there (in the mob& a silent spectator Al the proceedings, sad soreaver /clew not the olgsct of the assent- Mgr snail after the sterling was oryassisectr— New a sae who is such a notorious liar that he owl mask five one paragraph to another the lies bees eoeumitted to popes, out all tea "bieek gearlf se eay tkolg eke rile that suits his tar. .ej, awl we will sot eowtigiii• --- *;(110". .1.111.1 iamb,* loseptka by the hi* Wittave seen a good many public receptions of *the men, but never, taking all the circum stances into account, one that equalled that ex tended to Gov. Bzoz.o by the citizens of Erie county on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. It was only knave on Tuesday that he would certainly reach this city in the 7 o'clock train that evening, yet when the train reached the DO pot there were no leas than four thousand people to greet him, and right heartily did they do it. The Ferman were' there with torches to light him to his hotel—the Military were there with 3,4 non to proclaim aloud their devotion to the Com monwealth over which he presides, ..nd the peo ple were there with open Lianas and warm hearts to weleyone him as a friend who had been tried and not found wanting. The prooeasion was farmed at the Depot, the Miliary under the com mand of Gen. Killpatrick and his aid, Col. Mc- Lane; and the civic under Col. Chult and aids; the procession then moved down Peach to Teeth street, down Tenth to State, down State to the Public Square, aid around the Square to Brown's I Hotel. AU along the route handkerchieti were waving from windows, and bright eyes sparkling a welcome, while cheer after cheer went up from the multitude assembled on the side . walks to catch a glimpse of his Excellency. Altogether it was a setae not often wittyassed; and what w a r better, it was a speutaue e epe r i eg of the people—of the einsees—to weleome one who has proved worth; of the treat reposed in him. rived at Browa's I , stel, Gen Whallon, on the pert lithe city, welcomed the Governor in a neat and ardent speech, tv weich hie "Excellency rae. pleaded subetantially as follows: Ale said he was deeply sensible' of the •honor conferred by the welcome which it had pleased the people to extend to him; and iie thanked their representative, for the kind terms which he had employed in expressing their wirles. He said that he had wise bare to perform s difficult official duty impale,' spin the,Loqiels ture—e duty he had desired n. die:harp qaietli, and ifpoisible woefully. He tea uoteupposed that he would be required to eddreas .in assemblage such as t 1.3 now saw before bite; but such a dem onstration was, perhaps, the noural oonacqueuce of tinPrelation which 6,r.• to the important difieultiei which have arisen betw,:en the road Companies and the pt.. , ople, of this city.*- He said that the socue!; of tke last two matelas had made this city the subject of attraction to • the whole country, and the probable eausequen cee a matter of *elicited:, ou the part of the State and National guilwrita•s. So' his own part ho must be perinituel say, that he had watched with deep solicitude inery surge of the =let" sentiment which stiiiined to pervade this wenceueity—solieitude alike for par rights and welfire, and: for your honor and dignity as a portion of the people of Pennsylvania. He felt anxious that these rights should be maintained sortheee . interests promoted so far as involved iu this con troversy, and if possible, still more anxious that no act of violence against law should tarnish the fair fame of your city. But certainly au address in reference to the details of this controversy, said the Governor, will nut he exputtA, n it We it 1 it be proper for him to review them. What he de sired most to impress upon the co.opie, wit that their cause was new fairly in the ',ands of the antborities of the Suite, and he I • hat it Would be wisely dispo3_4' a: - Tit ilature and the Courts have control 4f •rcery'falture of his unpleasaut *Mir sultile,,, .subjez:' .ah Auld R. 3 pi:craned to rest for :Iv: , ;.resent le (tit %minted in , tisuriog Cut; p• Jp!3 that their iatvri este iere new propJrly uolrrstorl and duly up prriated by tbe,tagislatun., .find. thst ev,:ry pro per ta02.941•0 WOCIId bs adoptel prxra wolfs re. 14raid he believed T wts gait? vonlcde nrito say to th , . :hit 4 t , plien e e to the law ie the duty every go ' , 21- sit u n, And thatvioleace to pera,ui nal pr)porty es eountensatioil in , the •i*lghtP.,t d q r .!. it, wee ttnneeesuryfor him 1:3 ,-sporie h on the main features of the e , m9.. , r giveirthem,to the LeglslAtur.i.i a anu age, and they aro nlw familiar pee le , lie said he could not vp.irste 1.-,on th pee le without expressidg his rt cet :ha._ any -i - stance should have oeeurre Ito :n:errapt b e - UAW*, relation; which shated swdr exist - bet ty co dm citizens of roi4hisoring states. The litres which divide tii, ‘ ii.l die a , rernor, do not in tact •Inalte us straliger.i: T.c( are all the offspring of the same emit; Ai parentage, actuated mainly by the same motives in life, and led on by the same objects, and why should we have a controversy. True, collisions like thtt which had for some time disturbed the quiet of'the community may occur, indeed, in this go4-head age, and in this progres sive country of ouni, it wasouly strange that they did not occur more frequently, and that enter rinse of idjeaent states did not more frequently ran eonnter to each other. Whilst deeply sensi ble that the action of the state of Pennsylvania, of thopla of Erie, and of the State authority, ltad, , ....extensively misunderstood and greatly toiskressated, he could not minister to the air .. • , . oit prejudice against neighboring states, i which,' ff too long cherished, could not fail to alienate thew from each other, and lead to tit... !waist ensequences. The effort on' all hands abould be to conciliation, and to promote the ends of jamb* and the general welfare of th? country." Be also felt that the rigida of the star,. had le:.o; I infringed and he was determined that her dignity and berYights , of sovereignty should be unfalter ingly maintained. Fellow citizens, said the Governor, I must now beg you to rest satisfied—to trust your interests and rights with the constituted anthovitiesof the state; let there be no farther excitement, for he felt assured that their welfare would be properly oared for by the legislature. The above is but an imperfect'. abstract •of the Governor's remarks, but sufficient perhaps to give the reader an idea of their bearings. Re was most vociferously the throughout. After he had retired Messrs, Faso, TEIONIPsoN and. Low. ILY were loudly called for, and each responded in his usually happy and telling style. About ten o'clock the Governor and suit, the City Councils, a somber of invited guest% and a large number of citizens, at down to supper pre pared for the occasion. After the cloth was re moved the Mayor was called to the Chair, and Judge THOMPSON called upon for a sentiment. The Judge reopondechin a strain of playful ban dits' well suited to the occasion, and then gave, "Our distinguished guest, the Governor of Penn sylvania." His Excellency responded ''socially," he raid not uotteially;" and a right social res. posit it vu too. Before he got through his an &toss, us lan so doubt, concluded that he was "rod at accruing jokes es at divorcing railroads. Igor a NO bile don, sad had a moat ascii. tsl elect. He wee socesedisd by Judge Rao; Gem. Paean, Judge TlMllreolt, Messes. Low- AT and Vwraswe, of this city, and Mesas. Ha w= sad Wirers of Cleveland. Bat the welcome given the Governor on Wednesday, by the people from the country, was perhaps the most impobing, both in p'aint of unm beraand arrangements. Early in the morning the people commenood coming in by hundreds, so that when the procession formed about 10 o'clock there wore perhaps mom people in the city than ever before upon a similar occasion. • e procession was formed by the Marshals of the day before, and waisted of the Military, Fire Companies, and a body of over twelve hundred horseman, and en immense concourse of people on foot and in carriages. The horsemen formed four abreast, and the precession thus formed was at least a mile in length. The Governor rode in 1 an open carriage, accompanied by the committee of reception and arrangement, and after riding through the principal streets, addressed the pso• pie in front of his hotel. We were not in hear• ingdissace, oonsequently *unapt give an abstract of his re but they doebtleas most happy, for thee m g wee most vociferous. . He then retired, and the Military hqd given him a abate, the " 4 cm disbanded, aid the people diapers. 'edas t • homes. The Governor was accompanied to this city by Judge Knox, of the Supreme Court, Gen. Wm. F. PACKIA, of Lyeoming, Judge Gnus, of Elk, SAMUNL F. Bums, of Harrisburg, and Mayor KIN° and M. B. Lowly, Esq., of this city. He was met at Painesville by a committee of anisette oo■sisting of Wm Enzszv, Jam= C. MAR SHALL, E. BARlarr, Jur. M. Elimnairrr, Eihicnt JanKsort, Wallow LAMD, H. F. sums, P. alums= and Wm. G. Atßucuar., Eeqrs. - Xs pars Somarks on Promoting the Petition eithe Ladles of Brie On the .113th Mr. Ball, of Erie, presented to the Logi::latitrn the petition of over 1700 Ladies of Erie county; praying for relief far their hus bands, fathers Mid brothers, against the encroach ments of tlie if f ailroad monopolies ofliew York. Mr. B. la. resenting - these petitions, remarked: "Mat t i& was a rare Occurrence fur the gebtler sex to uringle in seek exciting scene as have taken platie•ste Erie. The fact that - they have addressed themselves- to the General Assembly o f Pennsylviuna is the-beet evidence I can give the House of Representatives of the deep, ear nest, and determined feeling which preemies that community. They express themselves strongly on this exciting subjcot-because they feel strong ly. Their doing so is an evidence of their patri otism. Women are ever patriotic, ever true and devoted: They raise their voices only in the cause of justice. Husbanda, fathers, sons and brothers, are, .ins and all, engaged in the earnest endevor to uehold the laws of Pennsylvania, and the rights sod, sovereignty of the State, 'and should any ems of them falter, or hesitate to go '4.111 with the good work, the women would cry shame: and point onward to the post of duty. glow me to say, in this .conneetion, AM all the proceedings at. Erie have been placed in the worst possible light by thuties laminated in nriarep el resenting the action f the eitisesu tif that city and county, and th , false statements seem to we iu iu malignity they are copied and re cap: for publicatio The resources of wick edly fruitful imagi time seem to have been drawu upon to supply :gay supposed defect in in formation, and espee ily is this the eate when ever it is likely to a pear that the et Sens of Erie have earefullytained from. tit: commis sion of those sets of outrage which it has been the aim of r!tiiread en, try a o)cetuaTio course of exasperating emit' or, to goad thin tosorstimit. ISo great an azu9aut ot EL*, and .a . ilini untruth has ueverbefere bee published in so short a pe ' nod of time. Malignity must have nearly ex hansted its store of spite and venom. .So rt h ily, se steadily, so pertinaciously, and with subh continued seal have these lies been tald, - and ad , hered.to, that the public mind has been startled, its jwigement misled and persuaded to condemn. Truth, with slow but unerring progress, is ad isticing to eorrect public sentiment, to vindicate dad u plift -,ur cause, and the hour is at baud when the State and the eitisetut of Erie will rise above the calumnies which have been so studious ly and with so mach of obloquy heaped upon 'them. nziat l b • I. 14d In aid of truth, I ask that due weight may be given to these petitioners, I ask that their voice may be beard,—l ask that their advice way be listened to and heeded. I pray you to heed their appeal, grant their prayer, and you will priveut bloodshed, the danger of which is great and im minent. 1 vie Az, ii., Lid it um.- Ile' The wise man of the Westfield Transcript gives it as his deliberate opinion that the fact of the State taking possession of the Western Road "will all amoral to **Wag." What a pity our representatives at Harrisburg were not as wise, or could'ut see as far into a mill -stone, as this chap of the Transcript. It 'would have saved them a good deal of trouble, as well as re. tiered the Governor from the necemity of , his predent visit. Hotiever, for the information of the people we will just remark that the constitu ted authorities of the State are acting just as though there aster was such • wise chap as our eotemparary. Gen. Packer, appointed by the Gomm, to take charge of the work, commenced 1 14 oSieial duties on Thursday, and we shouldint wonder if he would continue to act in that eapaci. ty for some time to come, notwithstanding the Transcripts idea that it " will all. amount to " I nothing. ser Variety we kauw is the spice 'of-life, but teeny there hes barn, in much "noise and cue fusion" this week--so much azeitommit, and withal so much to be seen and heard out of doors —that we have been unable to gire that variety to our columns ire - usually desire : Excuse as ; thaw, dear reader, fur Editors must sometimes we and be area as well as " common people." The follow* Is s copy of the oaks served by Ooe. }NOLL', ape the President Red Mem of the Fraaktia Caul Oomplayt— Ts the Praebient, Dillow" sat fair OSIIIII 41 tie Trazklin Qua Company: Gear LL xsa :—lt 'has become my duty to cell year idasetioe to the aeoompsnying Act of the Legislate» of Pennsylvania, entitled "An Act to areal the Char. ter of the Fraultlin Canal Company," approved the 28 tli day Janam7, AD. ltifit. You will perceive that for reasons prelim:tad in the preface to the said law, the Legislature have deemed it proper to exercise the power reserved to them to the Act wider which the Railroad claimed by your Cowie n7 sou constructed, to sit :—" That If the Corompany shalt at any time abuse or . misuse the privileges grant. ad by said act of incorporation, the Legislature may re voke all and singular the rights and privileges granted to ouch Company." In pursuance of this right, the Legislature have " rt eluded, revoked and %early and forever annulled" the charter of the Franklin Canal Company. You will also perceive that it is made the duty of the Governor, to take suck " measures as he may deem mummery " to carry out the tree latent asd roeseirrig of this act—to take charge of the property of old Com pany aid to appoint such person or persons as he ma seem proper to superintend the operations of mead R ai l. road, "until the same shall be further disposed emu eroding to law." Yoe will Aerobes retard the Ransil and appear doge; lately claimed by your Company, u hi the pots IMAM of the Cossenwealth, and wi Fi rowe place to the per. son or WOW OPPOiaged by se. d the to maid "te isperintesill the ripsaws of the resk" of kir the *me being. WiLLLUI MUIR. Eshawnre Esekimstiohatiltna. Ufa Sawed LETTUI PlOll 11111/11IVILL2. We notioe by the yoklishoi Prxisallis "I an immense misting of the "merchants msd hind. Nen men" of Philadelphia was held at the Mors chants Exchange in that city on Saturday last in reference to the difficulties at this place. The North American lays: "The meeting was 001111* posed of our bast known citizens, and the speak ers were listened to with an earnest attention, which showed the deep interest felt in the quo time presented." FIIZDZICL FRAM, Esq., presidal, assisted by fifteen or twenty Vine Pres idents end Secretaries. Upon taking the Chair Mr. Finley, among other things remarked, that had the corporations of New York and Ohio, "used the link through our own State, which by fair or unfair means has enabled them to join their roads, according to their contracts, there would have been no Erie troubles to trumpet through the Lind. They are the aggressors, and upon them rests the responsibility. As the truth is shed upon the controversy, Pennsylvania and her citizens will stand cleared of the foul stain which falsehood and an unscrupulous desire of monopoly have oast upon her." He then intro firmed hi. "B. Lomat' and 'Mayor Sxrro, who proceeded to address the meeting, and gave a fall history of the "Erie Difficulties." The re marks of both are very fully reported, but we have not none for them; neither is it necessary, for they relate to matters of history that are "fae wilier as household words" to all oar readers.— The effect upon the meeting, however, may be judged by the remarks of one of the speakers, Morrow Atiblicakst,, Esq., of the North Amer ican, who followed the gentlemen. from Erie, and also by the resolution adopted at the close. Mr. 3l'Michael, among other things, remarked: "That he recognised the right of a meeting of citizens of Philadelphia, convened for any mar- , pose legitimately connected with its business in tercets, to retinue of him any service he was competent to perform, and he had, therefore, in obedience to the call, ascended the platform.— He did not, heel:ter, occupy that place with any view of making a speech: the meeting bad been convened especially to listen to others, and as they had already spoken, he was not willing to protract it. Ho would say, nevertheless-e-what he was sere was not merely the utterance of his own opinion, but the conviction of every man in the company he was addressing—that, after lis tening to the explanations of the Mayor of Erie, and Mr. Lowry, both of whom had been-cogni sant of all that transpired from the begiumug of the recent troubles, and whose statements are in entire aecordancewith the facts as they have been gathered, from the legal proceedings and other authentic sources of information, it could not be doubted that the people of Erie had been grossly wronged, that theirenwnicipa/ rights had best in vaded by insolent corporations, and that their franchises as citizens and their feelings as men had been recklessly outraged. Under these cir cumstances, Mr. .Olc?d. said, it was not only nat ural. but just that they should claim and receive the sympathies of their political brothers' throughout the Commonwealth, and thgt bent in Philadelphia those sympathies were earnest and cordite]; and that all men of all classes, now that i the mister had been forced upon theta by the scandalous- worse which hid been adopted in other places in regard to it, were ready tosve them encouragement and aid, so long as- t hey stood upon the defensive, resisting. by lawful means, even to the uttermost, aggression upon them, and willing to submit to the properly eon stitntld tribunals the settlement of - the grave questions which had . disturbed their peace and threatened their security. Bat, and in this Mr. MoM thought he was expressing 'the general sentiment, it was only when they were right, and because it was believed they were right, this oommunity was prepared to sustain the people of Erie, or any other people. The business classes of Philadelphia were proverbially order-loving and liw-abiding--men who know the value of their social and political institutions, and &chew"- ledge their obligations to maintain them--and while, at all sacrifices and hazards, they would stand by and protect their fellow citizens in all other parts of the State in an honest quarrel, they would lend no countenance to voluntary tumult or violence. Mr. SloM. was quite aware that, in this respect, Philadelphia had been grossly ails represeuted and calumniated. He was aware that, throughout the West and Northwest, the most sedulous efforts had been Made to abuse the public mind—that the agents and emissaries of the railroad monopolies, who had, by their own misconduct, initiated all these evils, were constantly engaged in spreading scan dams reports, end that public, presses, generally distrait and iutiligent, had lent themselves to promote the circulation of what they ought to have known were base falsehoods. One effect of all this had undoubtedly been to produce an ex cited state of feeling in portions of Ohio, and the neighboring States, against the citizens of Phil adelphia, and public meettngs had been held at various places, at which denunciatory reeolutioas had been adopted; and combinations in some , quarters had been entered into--at least it was so alleged—by partie- to withdraw their trade from this city. Mr: MeM. said it wu greatly to be regretted that even this temporary exacerba tion should have been produced among those with whom our relations had hitherto been intimate and friendly, but iu the nature of things it was impossible it could continue. The spread of truth and returning reason would soon correct this. evil; and at all events the laws of trade were as fixed and immutable as the laws of the spheres, and rose above all considerations of possum and prejudice. Mr. Meal. went on to say that the conduct of New Pork throughout this %fair And been most discreditable. Every means she could employ to affect public sentiment had been used to vilify 1 Philadelphia, and day by day she reiterated, through her press, accusations as unfounded as they were infamous. Mr. MoM. entertained no jealousy towards New York; he admired her ' spirit, he honored her enterprise, he rejoiced in her prosperity; but be was not willing to see that prosperity promoted by unworthy attempts to traduce her neighbor& The allegation that Phil- 1 adelphia had in any wise instigated the people of Erie to the course they had pursued—legal as it was now apparent that course had- been—was utterly false. The difficulties that existed there became known to her only in common with the rest of the country; her citizens had neither act i nor part in them, and the whole West was in flamed with the story of her complicity before 1 the mass of the 'itizens had any definite idea of what bed taken place. In this game of detrac tion, however, it was beginning to be manifest that New York had overreached herself. Alrea- I dy as onsbf the consequences of her vehement and reiterated assaults upon Pennsylvania and Phil adelphia a cordiality of sentiment had been crea ted between the country and the city such «i had never before prevailed. Under the pressure of these foreign attacks, all domestic dissension wer e giving say, and a spirit of brae/ter/wed/tad been di/used/roan the Delaware to the Lakes, which, he traded and believed, Rooting hereafter could ;moths. Another happy result was the obvious stimulus which this perpetual and indiscriminate abuse of our people had imparted to them to unite together in all movements intended to promote the common interest—to stand side by side and shoulder to shoulder, not only in defending them selves against unmerited attack, but in the pros ecution of the means which nature had so bona welly bestowed upon them to make the city what it ought to be, and ultimately would be, the first among the foremost. Mr. Idefil. dwelt at length on the necessity for ardor and effort in the dis ' charge date associative duties of citizenship, and concluded by an earnest appeal in behalf of the great rablie weeks which will - open to Philadel- Tin Scott Dort..—Ths Marquis de Timm ' Phis ule 'We _ids and dams taintaginable . ~ treasares of the valleys et the the lakes of has had his leg ampataigd, sad is . 11 a evilest t i ts N oe * a m d ie iikominehe dubs souk, i essilitioa. .1 The hem* imilaiis me dm usaimmoi , , Currespombesies of tbe Zr(. Obserror. MIADVILIS, Jas. 30, 1854 Duo suppose you have sees the ism eeedings of the Railroad meeting held here last Saturday, as published in the papers; but as those proceedings are not calculated to give you a correct idea of the affair, I propose to " Paint the picture true to nature," in order that those who sympathise with Erie and are true to the State, may not be misrepresented. In the first place the meeting was conceived in fraud, for its getters up pretended that their object was to con. salt upon the best course to be pursued by the people of Crawford county in order to secure the building of their road, when in reality the object was to denounce Erie, and abuse the G o v erner . It was very appropriately organised by c a lli ng Mr. KINNICDT DAVIS, to the Chair; and it is perhaps well they did, for it is very doubtful whether he could have stood qr. After the or pnisation wan completed, your Vermont friend, D. A. FrwarT; Esq., was called upon to state the object of the meeting, which be did in his usual style, indulging in a strain of invective agai ns t Erie that well entitles him to be a companion of the notorious correspondent of the New York Man While Mr. F. was speaking a committee, 'previously appointed to draft resolutions, or rath er to report those already drafted by the D u na . Sees, same in and laid before the meeting the series published in the Democrat. Before their adoption, Mr. Derickseet called for a division on the preamble, but this motion was declared by the "man who contends that a motion to adjourn is not in order when the President's private opin ion is against it," to be out of order, consequent ly it was not put, and the resolutions preamble and all forced down the throne of the people by the chicanery of an inparlimentsry presiding officer. I have no doubt, with fair plaY, the 010, jectionable preamble could have been stricken out. By the by, I must not forget to tell you that during the meeting Judge Canon made some remarks about Erie in genets!, and your own humble self in particular, in which that em inent jo=ist solemnly declared that he " would'nt treat yon with his shirt" Now, I don't want you to feel hurt.at this vans of confidence our the part of the honorable Judge, for really we of Craw ford county, who know him a good deal better than he does you, would be far from trusting him with half a shirt. And this, let me add, is why all our railroad projects have languished. Ile has had bii.band in every one of them, and they I are where they are 1 -More than this, you are I not the only .person the Judge expressed his I want of confidence in, for when the news was brought in that the billrepeAing this Franklin I Canal Charter had passed, and had been signed by the Governor, As called calleBltistib for three groans jor • doe Governor ! After this Ido not think you need_ make yourself unhappy oti account of the Jortge's opinion in - regard - to your moral hon esty. Tray Yours, SIX PERT. The laretDoctrix). The interpretation given to 'the . Clayton and . 111,11wer treaty by the Roglish goveriummt, will probably lead to a practical solution of this es sential feature of our policy. The meaning en deavored to be given to it by Lord Clarendon, if admitted, would he utterly subversive of every pi iuciple ountended for by the Meads of the Mon roe Doctrine. It is iheimed not only that British ,Honduras and its dependeacks, and the Mosqui to Protectorate, are not inoluded by the terms of the treaty, bat that England beep' right to march an army into Central Ameriea, fix the protection of any of the States, provided no act of dominion be exercised.' This proviso would be but a weak defame against the rapacity of Ragland; her pi ratical policy would overleap it, the very first convenient opportunity: Give England such a foot-hold as thii, mad those weak States would soon fall victims to her lust for dominion. Injudicious as thia.Clayton and Salver treaty was, and reprehensible as was.,the conduct of the Secretary of State in entirely changing its import in a most important particular, after its ratifica tion by the,Senate, yet even the contumacy of a Whig administrition did not date to barter away the rights of the country to Lb; estent elaimed by Lard Clayendoa. • We regret one inability to lay before onr rea ders the masterly speech of. Gen. Cam upon ‘ tiaiti subject, delivered In the Senate a few days ago. It is an elaborate review of the entire ground oc cupied by Mr. Clayton, and the English govern ment, as to the right of England' to;interfere in the affairs of the Central American States. He disposes of pretension after retention of the Engliiii gorrernment td sovereipty over any part of Central America, midi the intelligent reader is forced to the conclusion that it does not possess the shadow of a claim to terrimirial control ovm one foot of the soil. The only • ht ever elaiined, mail these &beard pretentious to he proprietor. ship of Honduras end its depend 'es, construc tively admitted by Mr. Clayton, was the right -to cut log-wood at the Haase. The e=-Secretary had been consigned to his political grave, by the voice of the people, but it has reseed thi State of Delaware to ildnune him by sending him to the United States Senate, and be now thrusts himself forward as the opponent of the Monroe Doctrish, and the apologist otEngland. A pr- Lion of the Wbig press ue attempting to enshrine this retie of the defunct whig party; &correspon dent of an Eastern paper has even gone so fir as to suggest him se a popular candidate for the Presidency, in 1866. Gen. Cam has gibbetted his, and placed him upon an anisettes of folly, from which the 'big party will Ind it very diffi cult to take him down. It is gratifying to see the venerable statesman of Michigan battling, as he has ever done, in be half of the rights sad honor of -,his (*entry, sod ?suing, with all the earnestness of youthful seal, the enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine in its largest acceptation, and to its fullest extent. Wedecat it fisculiarty fortunate that, at this time, when momentous nuestions of doenestie and for. eign policy are to be determinal--questions, the sehlement of which will shape, to a greattxtent, future legislation, that the destiny of this great confederacy is under the guiding induces of Democratic principles, sad that the administm. Lion is en thoroughly imbued with those great truths taught by the founders of the Dc znoers ti e party—Jefferson, Monroe and Jackson. Those Democratic potiti:ians and primes, who are waging war against t he administration, by a system of mi.erable quibbling, would be more honorably a well sa,moro usefully employed in devoting their taleuniand mew to the ful achievement at these important results. Grist Ism* is llblisildipids. • adopted. Raoind, that vs have listened with much retiasettssi to the statemeaM made by Mayor Kist sod Kr. Lowry, and that while we depre• Gate all meanies and movements sot sanctioned by law, we earnestly sympathise with thepoople of Erie it their attempts to resist insolent foreign aggression, and trait the Legislature of the State wlt adopt efficient mum to protect the sover eignty o fthe Commonwealth and the rights of the citizens. On motion, adjourned. Ant - cis Gispow. Truths Canal Coasay. We have displeasing satisfaetke of aenceacleg the passage Into a law of the Bill annulling the charter of this Road, and tranallsrring it to the State authorities until arrangementvan be made for its permanent position. It went through the two Houses, finally, last Saturday afternoon, by an almost unanimous vote, and immediately received the signature of the Gover nor. It virtually secure. to Erie a complete victor} over the Railroad COmpanies. It places her on Well and independent ground, enabling her, as it does, through the good offices of the Stale, to indicate the particular method and extent of settling the question. The Sixth Section, witch prohibited any Company heretofore chartered ftom building a Railroad from Erie to the Qhio State Line, was voted down through *mistaken fear - that it might curtailtba privileges of** Pittsburg and Erie Railroad. Omitting the preamble, whirl merely recites at eon nderable length tie Talons mum of the forfeiture of the rights end pdvilegee claimed by the Franklin Canal charter, we give the different retinue of the bill trit.m en official copy, before tut Whereas, It is pr,vided by the act entit)oi "An act regulating Railroad Companies," passed on the 19th day of February, A. D. 1849, that if any company incorporated by special act of As suably, thereafter to be passed, shall at any time misuse ir abuse the privileges granted by the said act, or by its own.special act of incorpora tion, the Legislature may revoke all an,d singular the rights and privileges so granted to auelt cent- WY. And, whereas, It bath been judiciously after tamed that the Franklin Canal Company, ebeidy corporate, authorized by the laws of this Com monwealth for the purpose of re-constructing or repairing the Franklin Division of the Pennsyl vania Canal, with the privilege of constructing a railroad and using - the graded lira or tow-path of the said canal as the bed thereof, and of extend ing from the north end thereof to Lake Erie, and from the south end thereof to Pittsburgh, and I made by ita charter, expressly subject to all the provisions and restrictions of the said first above recited act; bath, ender color of the authority and privileges thusconferred, and without reconstruct. , iog or repairing the said Franklin Division, or constructing a railroad thereon, or along the simne l and on the pretence of en extension of a work noteithercompleted or commenced, hod dowri and constructed another and independent rood along and nearly parallel with the lake shore from the depot of the Erie and North East Railroad to the western boundary of this State, at the eastern terminus of a certain railroad within the territo ry of Ohio, and so is to form acontlnuous line with the said last-mentioned road, and to coati care, as declared and represented by ihriumel wee, a part or section of another and di'latinct road, designated by them as the Erie en 4 Cleveland Railroad, the same being a road not known to or sanctioned by the laws of *this .Commonwealth, and being Intended exclusively to facilitate the transit of passengers, and •merchandise to and from the cities of Cleveland and New York, over and through the territory of this State. And, whereas, It bath also been. sstiifactorily ascertained that, in the pursuit and consumma tion of the said illegal object end put means constituting the alleged capital stock of - the said company have been aluret exclusively furnished by the said Ohio C.)nspany upon 4 CfP/: tract which limited the applicutioq thcroof to the said illegal purpose, and whereby the said Frank lin Canal Company lath abdicated and transfer red a large part of its corporate! powers and du ties to the said Ohio Company, and hath moreo ver placed itself under a voluntary disability for an indefinite period to carry out the "great ends and purposes of its creation.l _ And, whereas, It bath been further ascertain. ed that in the construction of the said unauthor ised and illegal road, the said Franklin Cruel Company bath, in alldition to the disability afore. said, estimated its whole alleged and authorized capital stock and resources, and incurred a con siderable debt over and beyond the amount thereof, without having performed any of the ob ligations imposed etion it by law and bath :Acre by also stripped it/elf of all its legitimate and available means for the accomplishment of the great primary and substantial object of its incor poration.. And, whereas, It is the solemn judgement of this Legislature, that the said Franklin Canal Company, by the said several acts and omissions herein before first iecited- and described, hall procoetied lit bad faith and in frsuil of law aad purposes of am creation, and bath boon guilty vf a wilful and preinediated perversion, abase and misuse of' the rights, authorities and privilege a conferred upon it, su gross and pliable as to call imperaitvely for the exercise of the aumm iry power of revocation, reserved as aforesaid, in tite incorporation theiek Now, tla•mefore, e•losideration of the prerni 1110*-,- -Sscsto:+ l l. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaiires of the Comniontsprith of Penneyroma in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the atehority of the same, That all and singular the rights and ix.vileges heretofore granted to the Franklin Canal Company by the act of Assembly authorizing the Governor to incor porate the same,passed on the twenty-seventh day of April Anne mini one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and by the act su,uendatory thereof passed on the ninth day of April lowa Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. or by any other act or acts of Assembly suppleineutary there to. be and the same are hereby rescindecrrevoke d. and utterly and forever annulled. Seerzos 2. That the Governor of this common wealth be. and he is hereby authorized and direc ted to take such measures as may be deemed necess ary for the enforcing and carrying into effect the provisions of the foregoing sectioueogether with all such incidents or consequences as may legally be attached to the revocation aforesaid, and to appoint a suitable person or persons to superintend the op erations of the Railroad claimed by and now ut prossession of seid Com ;deny. running West or South West of Erie to the Ohio State Line, until the same shall be further disposed of according law. Beeriest 3. That it shall be the duty of such person or persona so to be appointed by the Gov ernor to take procession of and keep in repair and good running order the said Rail Road, for the ac. commodation of the public travel and business, at rates not greater than heretofore charged, and to deposit the net revenue thence to be derived in such banks as may be designated by the Gover nor, et least once every week, not to be drawn there out without checks countersigned by the Governor, and any accumulations of such money's shall be in vested iu the loans of the State of Pennsylvania, in the name of the Governor, under the trust of this act ; and such person or persons so to be appointed shall give adequate security to cover any money's that shall come into his or their hands, and receive for his or their services a compeusation notexeeed ing_fifteen hundred dollars per annum. beeriest 4. That it shall be the duty of any Sheriff of any County of this Commonwealth, and of all good citizens thereof. whenever wanted_ or re quired by the Governor, or the person or persons so by him appointed as aforesaid, to aid and assert in he discharge of the aforesaid services, and they shall be and are hereby indemnified by the Com monwealth in all that they shall lawfully do under and in obedience to such requisition and command. Sezerices 5. That the trust upon which such rev enue or collections, or the investments thereof made as aforesaid, shall be to hold and dispose of the sum as the Legislature of the Commonwealth may hereafter declare and enact, subject to any rights or obligations which may exist under the provis ions of an act regulating Rai reed Companies. pass ed Februiny nineteauth. one thousand egh:h hun dred and intrains. E. B. CHASE, Bpaalta of the House of Repel. 51.'CASLIS, Speaker of the Senate. ,MOs* tb. Nasty eight day of isisaary, aina thalami aid* hairiad mad y foar. MUM ARRIVAI OF TRH Ati lt. New York Al k 11. The stestnehipi Asia with Limp* iutt, , he 14th inst., arrived here about /1140, this morning. . Latest rumors from St Pstersborgi ftt , , peeific, and had tendod in some mph t4 7 w store centidenoe s speedy adjust aan of 4 eui tier. The allied bets to theid ins t. eould ut ,_ owing to storms, but on the 8d all the Black sea except aix loft at B e i d 1 ~i 4 guard the Bosphorus. The first divin es Turkish fleet accompanied the allies. T a l t • end division remains anchored at Therap i. • The Cur is supposed to view the l e t , ll fleet u a declaration of war. hu (4 .4,4 :Lis fleets to return to Sebastopol. On the 6th Jan. the' Turks gained . success on the Danube. They stormed tb i :tired the Russian entrenched camp at r,* Ind put 2500 of the enemy to the sword, also attacked holy of 18,000 Buseitssii relieve Cetila, and after a sharp menu pelted them to retreat. The Ruadans are thus driven Inek f wal position at which they proposed to a t o m , übc. The Turkish forge of battle was KO% and 15 guns. It is admitted that brilliantly outmarshaled the Rust* ~ derv. in Asia the defeat of the Taint , mode weak generalship of Abdi Paths is =t it But ,General Guy has gone to the Army' , full Powers and • the spirits of the Twig h a rived. Now that the allied fleet are in the Irs e k re•enforeements. can be sent in•esfety t o A l i, Schmyl had sent a messenger to the Pss nouncing that he is prepared to act e against the Russian.. It is confirmed that Persia has rem tiationa with Britain and will not at preser. tack Turkey, The infant Princess of Spain had died es Rey J. G. Richards complains that he I taiped, a prisoner by the Austrian police is . gary, and calls on the 'United States for Vienna, T It is rumored that the Emperor of will leave for Warsaw in order to haws a ferenee with the Emperoi of Rini& From Persia wo learn that the Afghan 7 had left Teheran before the arrival of La Russian 3linister, with a thieat that if formed an alliance with Russia, tie , would invade Persia. Itarda at Eraaklin, We learn from the Advocate of Lett . that a murder was eomnsitted in Frant:i: :tango county, on the night of Friday the iust. It appears that a bed feeling for some time betwee=n two yonn; men . John Hope and James Hili. On tie in question tiaey *ere both at the )1;• • Church, where a protracted meeting su on. Hope and another boy went ism:zee : . rather' late, and soon 'after start. t ; and a young man who sat near t.z, wee; o about the same time. 110p1.1 in at the door, and Hill remurkel to ben him. One of the bop ir.et to to Ca , and told Hope that Hill wanted ate hi s Hope did not'wisit to see Hill, an] r!",ciei tt 'for some little time, until told by tra othe r Hill had gone_home. He soon after left Ihome hiitiself, and near 'the Chan: net :1 who was t.tripp.d ready to fight. I Hope, &tying that he (Hope) ha.: cateltel long enough, nr loraethiug to nut that cow he must strip and Law:. .tha mute I Hope refive t., fight; bu if 'rated • had a knife, d and if lie tn i btu is on would let it into him. Scapi farther al , . ensued, and in short tima Hill tried on: • was stabbed, and started in die dirmues: Suowden's office. He ran about aft. l:. -it fell. Some boy.e who were sten:hg DM, diatoly followed; but by the dm: taey him life was nearly extinct. He ;‘eie once or twice and did not speak utters::: coroner's inquest was held, and it was I four wounds were inflicted; one on of the neck, just above tho collar b,: was the cause of his death, oue t 0....: breast, and ene on 'each arm. Ia I these, his left arm was broken. Boa LA done, is a mystery. Hope ba.l n w I than the knife. Hope is tow 12 j.:), with the warier. The Disturbances at MA Rot withstanding nll that hi- ha , n ssid the Erie "riJters," their "cy of law," $Ps., lite., the buri . touo still usairit:du their TPOSi"''. 2 *lna p against the railroad ecar,.•atil...fs, :lad, dm hive proverited thew frous laying th throwili tile' town. This fdet is, f it,: evidcaee iu favor of.thu &lila-. Were '1? : "fioters" and "viotatois" of it that :. been represrintcil to be, tie ra.l,-Jad would 1. , ug,,b..:f0rc this time have pat tlisa and triumphed, over them. expact, when the wholo truth - is nit witl bo seen, that the Haifalonians are ZL' in.tigators of this disturhau,.. news from the seat of war comas fur Buffalo papers, anti great allowance ~... made for the party interest end bias of 4. (limns of inf. .rtustiont Wo ozpezt it will turn out in the ruiirJail companies have .no right wha:e;-- a four.f,ot ten inch truck. ..., sylvaui., Ls granted t charter for a str : tv maid./ !h.:: of the !irk , railroad, feet eieht inch track to match thae York tittat; aul the ten.c.l-'-: hare givcu a privilege to lay tracks ttrottnii that town: But c:.•c'r •• ' gauges will suit Butralo,n2 is eit : pass through that city without Buffalo altuts a break there. ears eta rut up to Erie or Clevei.aii feet eight iu.h thick, they• will d. J.) ehaugnag a ; Buffalo. The Erie people say, "lift , up rStliug you go to Sew York Altav• • uuti we will accommodate Fu; 14; w, going to be compelled to go to &IL ears there, just to put matey .0 1" - the Buffaloutarial" And ht.t:auet: v.• do th4,—beciuse they wilt n :L , people ride over them ruugli shed, 3n i own war without law or charter, tn.: pert brand them as " onda .‘ri abets, "lo ., 40 , dud our pipe, , iug or eareiug anything about. Ibe U cane, take up the cry, and pour th. •r i,rr ' iuW Erie without stint ur treaz-a:e 17 • to see that the President it wine en u r n the Eriaus to light it out theru,4l:, Large corporations tire naturally overrate small ones, and we am u .` them find strong and effectual ever t hey attempt to :do it to. t'oe interests and rightzi.—.C.X. Di: The President and the Erie Trento We perceive that natueruu3 jaw agining in behalf of Au wore zeal than good sense, are to :r.:Dx ttori4,l thunders :IL Prebidinic Ptzack:, terFiesiug with the United Statts tv:zo 4owu the vitiates of Eric and c. , a7p= l aiquieace in the laying of the It tv"ui.l appear the better'pr for pions, before Lunehing oat in r ipialt , tiattous of the executive foritotti„,rfor... lo his cinty, to take A look at the cut s atull.s , ' . tioitat States and enlighten thous:.% . ' viwer stud obitiptloUS of the I premises. The seetiou of the Cuust. , athi' w highthe President Ia intharized to sc: I , P luwa - Art. IV. Sec. 4. The Uni:.t-.1 9wi ,l guaranty to-every Stato in out Unica Jima taro af , e L and wadi pr ,4 f:. Nam% en • ou.l (4 aril am hivutis44 th 4 liltaentive ( ~..i,11.11. : , is ra:A.
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