fuse islitial Pi. AIMMAL 02 TIM AILAILTA AT EALIIPAZ. Om 'noir Wow fruit itaropc Ibaisfax, February 4. Tim Lod Mall steamship Arabia, Capt. Jill- Ms, fins Liverpool at, noon on -Satnrey, the . !Lt ei January, arrived hers at 121 o'clock this elbsridtm, bringing seventy-nine through paasen rm Tits Timms WAIL—We have further se estate c the battle of Tshetal, confirming the Takla ratelseses. It appears that the Russians were eosaratreting a force at Tshetal in order to attnek &Wet on the 13th, but on the 6th 15,- 000 Turks marched out of Kalefatc attacked a a r etenaed Tshetal, had a conflict with the Rossi s in the field on the 7th, and renewed the bat le on the Bth, ending in the evening with the total discomfiture of the RUMillaiwho confess to 4,- 000 killed, and Ili& generals, Aurep and pik e/at/ itosaded. On the 9th the Turks, having remained dyer sight on the field . beyond Tshetal, attacked the reserve of the Russians, and drove them back spa Krajova ) with the loss of cannon and hi:l -mam slaughter on both sides. On the 10th this Turks, Laving razed the Russian fortifications, mimed to Balefs.t. The Turks were comniand sd in this action by' Pasha, Zodlinaky, and liar* Pasha—one of whom, probably Mehm ed, is reported killed. The above vietoriee_were eficially announced to the Preach and British Timbassies. There is very little news from Asia. Letters from Trebisonde of the 6th December say that Shanty/ had organised a Polish rifle regiment, 1,200 "rig. He has plenty of provisions and and is organizing an army in Dag -1 The Abassians are in alliance with Ida. The Rungarials and Poles who had been wait- Ealkst Coastaetioople for employment were shirr = .ere 2d of January for the Army in Asia. declined an Asian command, but offers to serve in Europe. -.- On the 25th January the whole of the allied _La were in the Black Sea. Two ships had been ant with the follpwing to the Rusin Goveriment at Sebastopol,. con fononly with the orders 'of the British and Preach Governments: ' . - • "The British squadron, in- concert with that of Prance, is on the point of appearing in the Black lea. The object of this movement is to protect the Ottoman territory from aggression or hostile,- seta We apprise you thereof, with a view to prevent all collision tending to disturb the arui selli relations existing between our Govern ante, which we are desirous of - preserving, and whin, no doubt, you are equally anxious to asintaitt. To this end we Should feel happy to lean that you, animated by these intentions, had deemed it expedient to give the requisite instruc tions to the admiral commanding the Russian *nen in the Black Ses.;lso as to obviate any oc current aleulated to endanger peace "REDCLIFFT, ' . "BAZAOCAT D'HILLIZILS." It wee fret intended to send a portion of the Beet only into the Black Sea, but a rumor was . anent that the whole of the Russian fleet had • sailed from Sehastopol, consequently the whole" of the allied fleet entered. It was further ra gweed that Russian ships of war wens off Rm. i rum, probably expecting to intercept the Turk- igth convoy, (which was under the protection of the allies,) carrying 15,000' men for Asi tl ti. Merchantmen at 'Constantinople on the 9 re• port not hexing seen the fleets; they are oon.se. Tandy supposed to have sailed toward Batun where it is surmised the Russians have alit; gone. - Anna Sebastopol and the coaskof Crimes the Russians are erecting batteries, and have ex tinguished all the light houses. ' On the 31st of December the'Potte made the following modifications to the note of the Four Powers. Tuet--Instead. of the evacuatiot of the Principalities as soon as possible, say within fif ties to twenty days after the acceptance by Rua. , • - e•' 1 :Line lorate its •• • adatiaistrative system alone and spontaneously.. O• the receipt of this at Vienna the English, trwark, ♦aetrian and Prussian representatives met and drew up a pro wool, stating that the pone's taw were:good sod satisfactory. They were immediately sent off by courier to St. Pe tersburg, where they would =lye "bout' the The Porte's demand is, that the note shall be delinitely accepted or rejected within forty days from iest. 2, and the Principalities evacuated within from twenty to thirty days from the date of the Czar's letter of acceptance. This demind ii on the way to St. Petersburg. On .the 12th of January, the British. and ?Mich Ministers at St. Petersburg also comma eicited to the Russian Minister of Foreign At the entry of the allied fleet into the Black see; The Czar's reply was not kuown when the Arabia sailed, and all Eur Ope wax anxiously waiting it, MI indications had already transpired that he would at once withdraw his Einbassadots inns France and England and formally (leapt. war. Nothing else is looked for. . Tau VIIRY LATesx.-t-The signalpf Admiral Nudes on entering the Black Sea was: "Our du ty is to protect the Ottoman Marine andlertitory from ihremiona in the Euxine." A mar was circulated on the Paris Bourse, that the lest had returned to the Bosphorus from atrasi:of.weatiter. but it previd to be tin true. 41) GIJAT BRlTAlN. — Parliamentary prepara . ikons are beginning. Lord Aberdeen was to read the (Nevi's speech to a private meeting of Government supporters on the 30th January, the speech being previously revised by the Privy Council. Lord John Russel': has :ient.e. circa. lag to members of Commons, requesting a fiftll attendance at the opening of the tfoust. England is actively recruiting herrn volun teer artillery and coast defense guard. 'Ten thousand men 'are wanted. Exertions are also making to man the navy, and more ships are lit. intuit., but appar , Ltly to i4d forces. - ]utter.—The Bank of France hal raised the rate of discount to five per cent. It was mid the bunk would loan the tiovertunent from two to three hundred millions of francs an treasury beads. Another important rumor prevailed, that ar momenta were making to effect a fusion of the of France with the Credit Mobilier, and by a bold anpansion of currency to prevent the ne eseeity of a loan. Tax Iteeeiver4generally would • lift bi suppressed, and the whole revenue be Smisivad by the agents of the Bank. It connec tion with this, it is said, M. Fould would retire sa d be esemeiled by M. Persigny. The above is believed to be authentic. The Afouiteur publishes a decree extending the free admission of breadstuff, between France and Barito the 31st July. ffteDUS from indirect taxes last year shows an Mamie of four millions over the pre of Orleans, on the 10th Deceit seira=sesThe llst dishe d a letter to the Duke d'Nemours, one* 'vely to join the recent fusion of the family, and holding firmly to her set's tit to the French throne. Kr. Mame, the American blinister, had arriv ed at Paris, but bad not yet been received by the li r r gressest activity prevails is the French yards. The operatives are ordered to work an and emery ship is to be hued for sea lauestrately. A, levy had also been made of all the swam between twenty and forty years old, sad all the Newfoundland fishermen are drafted into datum. Stores for forty thousand moldier, see may for shipment at Toulon. MilllW--Trance is understood to regard it as Mika that Austria shall prelim the MAW asultinty in the sweat of war, and .that Paw tbss usstraliq. Oftit ttkil ebsattr.\' IRIS, PA SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 11, 1854 Do not Fail to load this Special Notioa In three mouths the present volume of the Ma Obeervic wilt olook and as there is a large amount due upon oar Books, we deem it a proper time to oil the attention of those who are so indmited to the necessity of a settlement. To •large number of ikisede eke have promptly p&4 daring the poet nine monttui we are mainly indebted fur being able to melt thus far the Liabilities we entered Into in order to enlarge our paper last taping; bat as we maid before, atre are many wAo mete.. To those we especially ad. divas ourselves, said earuestly urge them to call and settle., We are now posting our Books to the end of the present ,tams, and will endeavor ere It is oat to send to, or dull) upon each of dote Indebted with a bill for the amountdmi us. To all who will save us the trouble and expense of eating personally, or by agent, we shall charge at the rate of 01 50 per year; otherwise it will be $O. We wide this explicit dedication that no one eon have jut moue to grumble should $0 per year be charged. Elnainuy and Erie Bslfroat We publish, as a part of the history of this great enterprise, the very able and • ii. dress of Hon. J.upts COOPER, President of the Sunbury and Erie road, to the citizens of Phila delphia. ,The renney/scution, in noticing this document, says: "it shows that New York owes htr. superiority over Philadelphis, both in popu lation and trade, to the monopoly she haaaoquir ed, by means' of her gigantic railroads and canals, of the immense trade of the fruitful Vest; and he pertinently inquires, 'Why should not s great thoroughfare of commerce, such u the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, do for Philadelphia what like work has done for New York?' We verily believe that.the opening of this channel (the Sun bury and Erie Railroad) will give an impetu to the ssade of Philadelphia, which. will cause . her to regain, in a shorten period that has elapsed since she lost, her position es' the first city in America. We are glad to find Mr. Cooper tak ing hold of his new duties with so much energy, and we trust he will be supported by the whole strength of our people. We have the fullest confidence in his capability to successfully ad minister the affairs of the Company, and the strongest faith in: the rectitude of his intentions towards all interested, either directly or inaireet ly. All attempts to embarrass the tiforts of Mr. Cooper and his coadjutors to push this great work forward to speek . completion, by bringing pert. sonal grievances to bear against them, ought to be indignantly frowned down by this whole com munity, as an attempt to retard the growth and cripple the prosperity of Philadelphia." sor The "war" being over, and our. "inaig nificant hamlet," as the N ! Y. Tines calls our city, having whipped "all the world and the rut of mankind," particularly Alfred Kelley and the New York Central Railroad, we hope to de vote oar paper more to general news gum we have been able to do for the past three months. We have had a stormy time, truly; but we have got our opponents - upon their knees, and putting our faith in the Supreme Court, the Governor and the • Legislature, Se can look with a good deal of confidence to as ultimate triumph in ev -4 particular. • ,•• . mar We are pleased to record the app;iintnient of MURRAY Witaucia, Esq., of this city, as . As sistant Superintendent of a,. Western road.— With such a head as Col. PAOLKIL, and such an assistant and co-worker as Mr. W., we have no wuutnXINCP! znc partite id electively as she d`id wa der the management of Kelly, Stone & Co. . Mr The Pennsylvania Patriot is to, be the title of a new journal about to be established at Harrisburg, by Andrew Hopkins, Esq., for= merly of the Washington Examiner, but' more recently of the Pittsburgh Union. The first number is to be issued on the 22d inst., and we hope tc sees journal worthy of the seat of gov-, erament, and of the Democratic party. The Plot tuttookee ,Two weeks since, in noticing one or two points in the "unwritten history" of our railroad diffi culties, we briefly alluded to a plot we had reason to believe existed on the part of the railroad mo nopolies to form a combination of interests and enter into' a grand banking scheme, the securities ~ f which were to be the stocks of their several mprovements - The existence of inch a scheme might haie been doubted by some perhaps, but that it actually existed we are as certain as of anything of which we are not actually a partici pant.. The Philadelphia North American ii al. so of the same opinion. In an article under the head of the "Plot Unmasked," the Editor says: "'We have said that the New Yorkers, in ask ing _permission to extend their road to Erie, sought the privilege merely as a stepping stone to more important advantages. We go further, and say, that it was but a part of a grand plot, which, hadsii not been frustrated at Erie, would, in hs ultimate development, have given just oc casion for alarm and resentment throughout the country. The programme of operations, as com municated to us from an entirely reliable and re sponsible source—a person to wliwn it was con ies* by a New Yorker, was as foilowr. It was arranged that as soon - as the through track of four feet ten inches, crossing Erie coun ty,, was sturcessfully laid down, the whole twins of railroads reaching from Buffalo to Cincinnati, should be consolidated, and a mail contract for a fast line entered into with the government for a term of years, by which mans the chinas of Pennsylvania for the trade of the Lakes were to be absolutely and utterly cut off. It bad also been concerted that the Western, the Hudson riv er, and the Albany and Buffalo railroads shoed be consolidated with the roads leading from Cleveland to St. Louis, and with this coalition =I, a bill was to be pasted through the of New York amending the free bank ing law of that State, so as to make the stock and bonds of the above named railroads the bank ing basis. Buffalo was to have been the mat of the'great banking house of the companies, whose means and energies were to be concentrated, with the aid of the State, in the event of the of Sensor Seward'. bill, for the purpose of bi lm ni l ing the Pacific railroad." le. NOT AT ALL COMPLIMINTART.--Gefo ral Houston, in his beam at Providence on Tuesday evening, said—" From early boyhood I have lived on the borders of civilisation, and have seen much of lodise life and character, and I never knew an Indian treaty violated lest what, when sifted to its bottom, it was found that the first violators was the white suea."— This is not over ocimplimentary "to the homely of the boasting. AngWilazon nice. air Our friend, Cowut, Lab late of the Cossnaniat, of this city, bee hexane one of the Editors and repneten of the Rep% Nate, is Seale; seeennetisa,./ea at add, fe: Am how arab in aver 7 pectiesbr that; *ease Warned in Brio, ad we hopes sosi4•l pea**. dmi 111,11, The most haportaat meemue of the session is thskintrodueed by Senator DOMAN, of Illinois, for the origami:sties of the Territories of Nebras ka and Kansas. This bill answers, in effect, the query at the head of our article. - It rays, in so many words, that the people are capable of self govevemment—that they shall rule; that in all things relative to the future of these territories, those who settle them—the hardy pioneers from the States, both North and South--shall have the same right to determine upon the form of gov-i mama they shall establish when they . seek ad-, mission as States as their forefathers before them in the other States of the Union. In a word, the bill for the establishment of these territories is based upon the principles laid down by Gen. Coa l in his Nicholson letter, and subsequently estab lished as the future policy of the country by the compromise of 1850! But, say those who op pose Mr. Douglas' bill, the proposed territories .are NOrth of the 86th paragel, hence by the pro. visions of the Missouri compromise slavery or involuntary servitude is prohibited in dose tern- Caries. Now, while we are as much opposed to slavery as any one, and were we a eitisen of either of the proposed territories, would oppose its in troduction is an established institution, we must be allowed to say that we deem it a vital and es sential principle of our form of government that the people gall ride; that Congress shall not in terpose any restrictions to prevent the people of a territory from establishing just such a form of government as they please, not inoospetible with the Constitution of the Union. Slavery is a lo cal, not a national institution, and hence should be left, as we do all such questions of local le gislation, oi the . disposition of the population of the State or Territory wbidh is particularly inter ested is its existence or 'imbibition. This rule, belied upon an affirmative salwer to our query above, is the only one consistent without national safety under our vast sad varied congesting inter ests. This is what we call "freedom of opinion," "freedom of thought," "free soil," sod "free speech," for it in effect gives to the people for ming a State the privilege of aping their form of government to nit themselves. There should not he, sad the bill of Senator Douglas says there shall not be, any restrictions upon them, except such" as are imposed by the Coastitution of their counts). We are well aware that this doctrine is unpal atable to the free 'oilers of the country: They "claim to be sticklers Tor the largest liberty, yet are unwilling to allow the people of a territory CO enjoy it. They claim to adhere to the doctrine 'that the people are capable of self-government, yet dolomites the practical application of the prin ciple in the case of the people of the territories of Nebraska and Kansas. But this antagonism be tween precept and practice is nothing new. It has been their policy from the beginning, and we 1 rappoee will be unto the end: As an instance, Senator Douglas says, the first time that the principles.of the Missouri_ Compromise were'ever abandoned, the first time they were ever rejected by Congress, was the defeat of a provision he in troduced in; the Senate to extend tkeillissouri Compromise indefinitely westward to the Pacific. By whom was that defeat effected? By northern . votes with free-soil proclivities. It was the de feat of that Missouri .Compromilte that reopened the slavery-agitation with all ite fury. It was the defeat of that Missouri Conapromire that ere aud the tremendous struggle of 1850. It was the defeat of that Missouri Compromise that ere. ttt fB5O. elfair we been faithful to the principles of the Missouri Compromise is 1848, this tioll would not have stun. Who was it that I was faithless! We undertake to my it was the I very men who now hoist that the 3filmouri Cow promise was a solemn compact, and should never be violated or departed from. Every man who is now mailing the principle of the bill tinder oonsidsrition, so far as we are advised, was oppos ed to the Essouri COmpromise in 1848. The 1 very men who now arraign Senator Douglas for i a departure from the Missouri Compromise are the .men who successfully violated it, repudiated it, and mused it to be superseded by the compro. mist, measures of 1850 It is with rather bad grate that the men who proved false themselves should charge upon others who were ever faith .fnl the responsibilities and consequences of their own treachery. The Compromise of 1850, remarks Mr. D. es tablished the principle of Congressional non-inter yention, and set aside the goegraphical line as no longer practicable. By the act of 1850, fixing the boundaries of Teias, a portion of that State /yirtg worth of 36 ° 30' was taken off—a portion nearly as large as New York and Pennsylvania, and which portion was included in the bounds of New Mexico; by the act creating the territory of New Mexico, it was expressly declared, that she might be admitted.* a State, with or without sla very, just cut her people should tietertnine. Hence, the epeitirer argued, the Missouri CoMpromise was annulled, by the act establishiiig New Mex ico as a territory—which territory was devoted to Slavery, if the people therein should so deter mine. If the Nebraska bill repealed the Missou ri Compromise, why did not the New Mexico bill of 1850? The senator insisted that the Compro mise of 1850 was not intended to be, nor was it,- confined to the territory acquired from Mexico; for by the Nee- Mexico bill, that bill actually co vered territory purchased of Texas, lying north 36 ° SO'. New Mexico was made up of a por tion of the old territory. of Louisiana and the portion taken from Texas as beforesaid. Utah, when organised as a territory in 1850, was left to tolerate or exclude Slavery within her as her people might see it; and yet Utah was formed out of territory-acquired from Texas and from the former Louisiana territory. If the Compromise of 1850 was not a repeal of the one of 1820, and also a final settlement that territorks hereafter formed should be admitted without the Slavery test, why then it amounted to nothing; as Slavery agitation would arias ev ery time a territory was organised, and nothing was definitely settled. The Senator also argued, that the ordinnace of 1787, never had a practical existme---the ordi. uses was pained, but never enforeed--as illus trative: Illinois, when formed into a territorial government, established Slavery at once and maintained it, in admen of the ordinance d'B7 —When she wu admitted as s State, she of her ow* semi abolished 'Manny. The territorial set of lowa did sot prohibit Pinery, and some slaves wets to he toendialhat onantry seats as. 1850. laamaimiam, the apealoor ha , was wills( to gaol bz the aogramila at HMO, if it azist. ed, bat he isoiriarai it day that aospirnas tosawmihoi ti do arid MO. yf Ohnewer. may artheadlbiwe yeentridoh r %Po read ilia eitidems of yam emempondent 1 feet," mp i g sea mush inursoit Mlihttain coleeing Broffrilirta to Ilse promedings of the seethag of oltiriehe ofSolorford comity an itanarday 28th alt In the remark* attributed to me as the meeting, kind which were merely incidental to • few esplanatory observa tions made relative to the probable' effect of the uncondi tional repeal of the Franklin Canal isompany'a charter up on the Railroad Warms of oar county') I made no per sonal attack upon you whatever; and I can scarcely un derstand the writers object in this attempt to disturb the friendly feeling heretofore believed to eziet between na.— It is true I expressed ea strong distrait of the morel hon esty of the paean who meld really esteetaili melt sett meet of the heart as had been that moment exhibited to me from an Brie paper by a person present. But I h ave yet to learn that your views of the moral doctrine of Ali OM and mow are of Ghat desoripdon. The allegetion that I originated the call made for "groats' for Governor Bigler" is entirely destitute of truth. Peritsyst as Loewe mistake of your informant. After the proceeding of the meeting andibe passing of the rerolu tiOnd, but before the excited crowd Lod dispersed, a-tele graphic dispatch from Harriabarg wee read by Kr. Heide. toper to the effect that the repeal met bad passed and was immediately signed by the Governor. Some other per m , 1 in the crowd then called for the "groans." The only pa r t that I took in it was to join in the general laugh of those around me, excited by the very amusing efforts of some, and the hideous bons fide groans of others. On the oon mazy I said that Governor Bigler had scarcely within the commonwealth a more sincere personal Mend than my self. The anxiety Weems understood to have been Ulla. ifested by him for the immediate passage through the House of the repeal bill ru it came from the Senate, with the (to us) odiou 6th section in it, (but which it seems now the House negatived) was to me anaccountaVle, and mere especially as it was said be was making tt his admin. titration measure, and for tune reasons that he declined giving to a member of a to-ordinate branch of the guy ern. went on request. This I ventured to say indicated that his ~OW W.fe unsound or diehoneet For I cannot con. mire of an honest, Bapablican Governor having honest reasons for an avowed. administredsoa measure that he a eedutared or refutes to give when asked for ander such Mr cornstanom , I am now assured however that our eitiseni were under a misapprehemion altogether respecting this and the Governer' supposed hostility to our med. But time may afford the evidence of it. We felt then and so moat every true friend of the prosperity of our *WON, In dignant at a Governor who, alter receiving such "Matta- Mal evidence of favor and support from us, would bring his ollieialialuence forward to debt the preepteity we had been etruggiing so long to maintain. I bops however this may prove otherwise. I ewe nothing about the ecuriloas elusions to myself If wholly cuseouneeted with others hitherto deemed friends. Believing them as Ido to be the dicta tion of thaw byezus charameriatki of those whose comma nications of like order have been recently refused a' place in the columns of respectable prints at boas where their real position Ls better known. Yours truly, Erie, Feb. 7th, 1854. G. CHURCH We cheerfully give Judge Clinua the benefit of the above disclaimer. He of course knows but whether he used the language attributed to him, in regard to us, or not. For our own part ' we care very little whether he did or not. We have been too long in our present position, and have been compelled too often by our sense of duty and Of right to differ with min of all degrees of greUness, to care much whether the man who saws wood for a living or he who has worn, the Judicial ermine, assails as publicly or privately. The fact is we have got shove censure or praise from those engaged in Railroads; for we know full well, by dear bought experienoe, that so long as we pander to 'their interests we are the "prince of good fellows," but the moment we hesitate to endorse all their schemes, and our pen and time ceases to be at their service, we are just as loadly o condemned by our heretofore ardent admirers as we were before praised. Reece we say to Judge Church •in all candor, we did'rit care a "row of pins" about the remark attributed to him, sad are willing to take his denial that it was never made. Nay, we belies" it never was, thole our ourespendent was akikilv*Eirty t ifi i keoralrudklil by the Judge in the remarks he acknowledges he made. But Judge Church also disclaims having called for "three groans for Gov. Bigler" in the meeting alluded to upon bearing of the passage of the bill repealing the charter of the Franklin Canal Company. The Judge is truly unfortu nate. both in being misrepresented by our corm- . pendent, and in the explanation above. He ac knowledges that the 'groans" were given, and rather exultingly, we think, claims that they were "bona fide" groans,at which he "laughed." From the tone of the above letter we shOuld in fer that the "laugh" ie indulged in was a most hearty one, and that he approved of l ike gross dignity thus offered to the Executive as hear tily as he joined in the "laugh." Now we say with due deference to Judge C. that we do not dispute his right to "laugh" when he pleases; but really it does seem strange to us. that one who had just eidorsedit preamble in which other citizens as honorable is himself were denoneced as reit , - 'dies and "rioters," should have so nearly played the rowdy as to have even "laughed" at she row dy and "riotous" efforts of those he had just ad dressed to cast an indignity upon the Executivei especially when he professes so much friendship for the per thus assailed. We give' Judge Cnuacit, we repeat, the benefit of his denial— we emphatically say that we do not believe he is the man who proposed the "groans," and that our correspondent was mistaken—but we have him here upon paper, over his own sigriature, acknoirledging that he encouraged others by his smiles and his countenance to the gross indigni ty then and there offered to Gov. Thome In reference. to the hopes and wishes of Craw ford county iu regard to Railroads, except ea far as relates to the Pittsburgh road, we have noth ing to say. Nevertheless there is one thing we cannot exactly understand in their course.— Judge Church, and other eitiesus of Mesdville appear to think that the repeal of the charter of the Franklin Canal Company, is a direct stab at their Railroad interests. How, the Judge does not see ..fit to tell us. Will somebody explain this. We call for light. If we understand the matter correctly, the road in which Judge Church is engaged, and in which through his in fluence Crawford County has embarked amid erable means, runs, or is intended to run, from East to West—in short, is intended as a great through Railroad to connect New York with Cincinnati. Now, how such an enterprise can have been injured by the repeal of the charter of a rival route is beyond the keen of oar phileeo phy. To a superficial "observer," not rand in the laws of and MOM," it would certain ly appear that the more obstacles thrown in the way of the Lake shore road--the more breaks of gauge there were in it--the better it would be for the enterprise of our Meadville friends, and of their able advocate, the Judge. Viewing the matter is this light we have always bees st a loss to conceive the motive of hostility to Erie which seems to balm with peculiar vehemence is the ,hearts of a porlime..—o o t all—of the *i sms of Meadville. ()melody it causes be the, bans of Meadville to have the break et geap awl Nab* if see suet be, seines Ibex •A is* of the eolauery is it sal, tebieg far pealed that their aweigh red in to he beat, OdidivelimemOmmissolpideWmusio high It at Erie iatber the** Buffalo iii 14 kb* We may be mistake., but it di, op* to to tbat thia prepopition is tee plaiettrer eigu- Ma 1 A few words upon another matter and wi leave the subject. It is a matter of history that the Railroad bridge, and trick across the public streets of Erie were removed by the constituted authorities of the city. This assumption of au thority over the streets of Erie by the Mayor and Councils, the preamble of the meeting of the 28th, in which Judge CHURCH was an active and earnest participant, denoinces as a "riot," and stigmatises with a great many other epitheti equally as ungenerous, and, in Judge CHURCH'S cue, uncalled for. We sly uncalled for, because we intend to show that Judge CHURCH, while upon the Bench, decided the illegality of the claim set up by the Railroad men, and for resist ing which he has chosen to denounce our Mayor and Councils as "rioters." In the Coiirt of Quarter Sessions of Erie County, on the Bth of August, 1848, before Hon. G. Cnvzcn, then President Judge of this District, Col. DAVID S. CLARK, one of our most respectable merchants, was indicted for causing a nuisance. His place of business was - yn French fineet, and he was in the :habit of using a portion of the side walk in front of his store for the display of the different articles he kept for sale, and had set awning posts along the walk. For this an in dictment was prepared against him at the in stance of another eitisen who complained of it as an obstruction and nuisance in the public high way. The cause came on for trial on the day above mentioned, and was argued on behalf of the Commonwealth by Wm. A. Gemuurrn, Esq., thee District Attorney, and by John IL I Walker Esq.; on part of the defence. The de- / ifence set up was two fold; namely: Ist. That the boxes, barrels, posts, and other things in front of Defendants stare, did not make such ob. structimn as to constitute a nuisance, ample room being left for free" passage along the side walk and in the street. 2d, That by an ordinance of the Borough of Erie all citizens were allowed to use and occupy four feet and six inches of the sidewalk for cellar doors, or for display of goods, storing of salt, he. The ease was very fully in vestigated and thoroughly argued by the so...gn i sel before named. 'Judge Church, in givingthe lease to the jury—this same Judge Osumi, rec d olletst--charged strongly against the Defendant lon all the points raised by this counsel. - He said, in substance, that the acts of assembly erecting the town of Erie and fixing its streets had made those streets public highways in the broadest sense of the term. The street in ques tion, French Street—one of the very streets over I whichthe Railroad company had erected abridge only nine feet high, with a bent in the centre of the street—was by law sixty feet in width;— the entire Space of sixty feet,-therefore, was de voted to public sir for the free and satobstracticl passage to and fro of the citizens on foot, or with carriages, wagons and other vehicles. He charged that no part of that space would be le gally wed except for the purpose designed by ithe act of incorporation; and that the placing tbf boxes, barrels, - posts ho., on the sidewalk, al (though it might not be a serious obstruction or public. inconveniences was nevertheless an in dictable offence, it being at least technically, a nuisance. He charged that the evident intim- - tioa of the set of assembly wan to provide s highway sixty feet wide, the whole width to be dear and free frost ebstrzction of every kind.— As to the ordinance giving and a half feet wea inoperative and void, the law having in ex press terms made:the" whole sixty feet 'a public highway, hence the borough authorities could not legally pass an *ordinance allowing the use of any portion for another purpose, and in . effect narrowing the street to fifty one feet. If there fore the jury believed from the evidence that the - defendant had kept boxes he., in the street or on the sidewalk, even if piled - up close to the wall, and had set posts it the edge of the walk, as charged in the indictment, it was the duty of the jury to convict, and find the defendant guil ty in manner and form as be stood indicted. On this charge and under the direction of Judge CRvnoa do the law, the jury rendered a verdict of guilty and Cot. Clark was sentenced to pay a fine and costs. ' Now, if this was law in 1848 it is law now; and if individuals had no right' to occupy a por tion of the "sixty feet" set apart by the begin. lature for a "public high-way," the railroad tont pany has no such right moue and our Mayor and COuncils, were doing no more than their duty in !removing such obstructions. Catahthey were not "rioters," as asserted by the r 4ble adopt"- ed by the meeting of the 28th, in the proceed ings of which Judge Cannon was sutdi an active participant. We have alluded to this matter with' no unkind feelings towards Judge clrvaca as su man, but simply to, show the world/the - gross ini. consistency of at. least one whose legal decisions show that the Owns of Erie were not "rioters," but were simply contending for their legal rights when they removed the bridges of the railroad company from their public highways. Ws al- lode to it, too, in order to braid:the preamble of that reetin as a.falsehood--egroae . .and wiper dortetile. fatenhood, b . uranded so by the Judicial decisions of Judge Caliaca itimmdf.! :, Oar The Buffalo Room* Notsir threatens to bring down upon Pennsylimois 'a tesseendoos 44 outsicle pressure" if a break of pugs here is prO • sted in. We know our goof friend of the /Coifs 1841 powerful with these "outside pres sures," hence iy really seems to us that if he is a friend of the railroads kelt stop 'ens. 'The pres sure from without has been so great that it has forced our Legislature to abrogate one charter, and that, too, almost unanimously; and it may, if pmisted in, force the Abrogation of another— the Erie and 'North East. These railroad men have got their arm in the lion's' month, and the sooner they get it out the more unlikely its amputation Sir' The Girard Express thinks that if the citizens of that village wish to rillify t _ heir neighbors, wme other pines is more proper than a public newspaper; nevertheless t