=BIM Al. 4it P.N. tlgiebn ki'vtc L)Otc,lito O`ostratr, ERIE, PA SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1855 ZOTICE. TEI Jurors who have been summoned to attend Court ego the Fifth llowilay of July aro hereby notillod that their onsadssoo is not required of) the Court has been di& eastiosed. T. B. VINCEST, Shoal Sitorirs Ome., Ktio, Jul! 21, Itigo. The Gaut** sad CousinOuoa pleas* insert *noosed pre seat bill to this oars. MS. The Democracy of Warren county in 0011tSati00 assembled, on the 12th inst., put in nomination the following ticket. For Repre• sautssi Te , J. D James; Prothonotary, Thomas Clemons; Sheriff, Geo. N. Palmer; Commission er; J. Berry; District Attorney; Isaac Alden; Auditor, W W. Hodge. The ticket seems to be well received and will undoubtedly be elected by a handsome majority. Tim Leer STRUGOLE.—The whig party of the State, or what little is left of it, seems to be snaking a desperate effort to be .eeu and heard, at least through the newspapers In several coun ties, committees have called whig meetings, and appointed whig delegates, and held whig donven tines for the avowed purpose of nominating whig alms, but upon close inspection it will be ob served it is for an entire different purpose. In this county too, where "Sam" swallowed the en tire whig party with m few honorable excep tions body and breeches, including its organ, the Gazette, we see there is a call for a trhiy conven tion. Now why is this' Do they intend no nom nate a ticket and run it upon whig principles, and depend upon that alone,,for its support? No, they intend to do no such thing, but after passing Jong strings of resolutions ii-elaring the exist aloe, nay the power of the great whigparti, you will see one at the last 'end declaring that the Amerieaa or Know Nothing party is just the thing, and that they arc willing if not anxious to enroll themselves under that Danner Now, while the last fact is not doubted by any one possessing the least intelligence, the wonder is that a new attempt should be made to drag the poor old wkig party out of its grave where it has been slumbering hr the past three years, for the mere,-purpose of again witnessing its expiring agonies. :There can i4e no other reason unless it be to finally and publicly to paSs themselves over so the American party This has been done in every county, so far as we have noticed, where whig meetings have b ;en called lately, and the 12th of September will witness the same result in Erie county or we are much mistaken stir Let the press an I the people Venango, Mercer ' and Lawrence counties speak out as they should do—let them stlittllU tue Governor in his =t effort to force a compromise between the and the Erie and Not th East Company, yids-the understanding that this Road shall re ,OI6ITO some benefit in the trausactton,and we will soon see tha effects of a determined and resolut, stand on this subject in the shape of "material aid"—Cranford Democrat. That is what we call decidedly cool impudence. "Lot the people of Venango, Mercer, and Law rence counties speak out and sustain the Gover nor to force a compromise " It -has been and still is the constant effort of those who never learned to mind their own business to rail at Erie, to point out to her the proper course of con duct, and to libel her upon every possible oppor tunity Among those are the Crawford Demo crat. If the Editor of that papor bad been as in dustrious to do justice to Erie as he was to find fault with her, he would know and publish to the world that 'Erie has ta ,- ...ept,Ll through her coun cils, with hardly a dissenting coley the only com promise offered by our great Chief Magistrate— that while we in common with, other rides of the State /e.! the cl.gredatton to vtilLtch the race of its chief magistracy is brought by the present incumbent, in bargaining away the rights of its own eititons to those of foreign and rival States, —while we can but think there is some great unseen lever behind the •-erew which is operating to prevent jasti,(l,eing done, yot f ttie the sake of pause and good will the city of Erie has man fully yielded, or offere I to yield her rights to the force of circumstance, and accepted the ~ ,ily coin. promise the Governor ha,- ever offered to her peo ple. And yet the D. 1110 , 1 , 1 i begs of the press and the people of "Veuaugo, 31ereer and bilr• ream" to "sustain the Got, in hi 4 present effort tofurrea compromise between t heErianl and the Erie and North East railroad Verily the wisdom and patroti.m of ems nien is hard to be accounted for FEMALE EQuEsritias:-. —Connected with t , fle next County Fair, we beg leave to otter the f.,1- lowing suggestion in the f Tin ~f au extract from a Mereer county paper: "We see by i-ouic of our xeLanges, that, in many counties a premium will preseuted at the County Fairs to the best fetualo eluistriau. Now, why cannot we du this at the approach ing Fair in this county? We flatter ourselves that there are se good Lady riders among the fe. sales in Mercer county as in au) of the adjoin ing ogee; and we also believe that we hart. as clever sad enterprising young men in the borough sad toasty as are to be found in the SUILej then why me we not compete with our sister counties la this respect? Let each contribute what he es*, raise the purse, buy the preuiluin—and the arena at the fair ground wi,l ito doubt, next fall will be filled with as many sparkling eyes, plum ed hate and prancing steed' as have graced a fair! for a long time What say you, young meal Will some one set the ball to rolling' We are not entirely satisfied in our winds of the propriety of the introduction Of exercises of this sort into the proceeding of County Fairs; but we have deemed it oot improper to make the suggestion, leaving the managers to decode as in their wisdom they may think best.—Ga:.../te We hope for the pke of modesty and decency shat tie managers of our county lair will not cou gister the m%tter for a moment If any of our ladies are in want of a present we would f jel dWde l fi n illy contribute for one, to beprivately be - stowed upon her, but the idea of a young lady, aneinet esd a‘tride a huge horse riding a s fa speed around k ring filled with a gap p ing of idle, and perhaps in a great measure Tul a, 1101014011 for the sake of a silk dress or any other patty premium that may be offered is sim ply Adi ell lo4l . in the extreme. Would any of the prepasus or the thing like to have a wife or a Mow step kaki the ring and contend for a prise? 'halt' them is so accounting for taste. We ex port, the next dist will be for the lady that can fake the "biggest ohsw of tobacco" without m g * b ar I da ar awry the greatest amount of Mid hatiliarly Imows as "red eye," without shilwring• They are either just as useful as she lost these days, and in oar opinion would b e rag as sensible to propose. Ix roe IT.—The whole body of the Louisville (Hy.) City Camila were the other day eontnite ted to Priem for three days for contempt o(Coart, la refuting to gnat certain tavern lienees after rag Circuitbee a instructed so to do by hie weer j e a n ua at the Court. Th e ashen or& I* ie maid to be tally eastaiard era a isle et Haber Comet Brio mad Mow York City Sail This projected reed through the 8001 l pert e the °may, hos resseined tor mos time so Men quo, though its film& do not despair of its lasi oompletion. When mosey mitten become eas ier, it may be finished. lo regard to tbe Went. ern oonnestion of the rood the - Jamestown Jour nal whys: The citizens of Erie, have mime very far short of Wining their portion of the contract. They have not yet turned a sod toward the construction of their portion of the work. The Directors of this Company waited in patient* for some action or the encouragement of rome hope of action on the part of the Erians, but have thus far waited in vain. Meantime, inhabitants of Crawford and Maw commi es in Pennsylvania have projected a road from the Ohio State Line through _their counties to connect with some road in New York. That road is now making fair progress, and as the Erie end New York City company mast find a western connection, even though a different one from their original design, they will in all prob. atittity connect with the Crawford and Mercer road.— Westfiela Transcript. We notice the above for two or three reasons First to caution the Traxxripe and lourotal , that in the future, when they have occasion to speak of the "Western connection" of the "Erie and New York City" road and its prospects, they may blame "citizens" of their own State for the "deep decline" that seems to have settled upon the project. It is said that a certain Railroad Dean, a resident of Buffalo, has his fingers on the Road, and intends to keep it there as long as money will procure tools or artifice dupes, to ad vocate and perpetrate the arrogant and selfish pol icy that has characterised the management of the Lake Shore roads since their opening. And when our Chautanque county neighbors speak of "citizens of Erie coming very far abort of fulfill ing their portion of the contract," they must be a little more specific. They should inform their readers, that the "western connection" of the above road, was from the beginning in the hands of those very men, "citizens of Erie" nominally, but long since aliens in heart and purpose, with whom the mass of the "citizens" of the city and and county have been waging war for the lied three years. These nominal citizens are Stock holders and Directors in the Noad running emit. from Erie to Buffalo, and are in the habit of re sorting to Buffalo in every emergency for "or ders." They, and their masters, the managers of the Buffalo and State Line,and the New York Central road, know that the "Little Valley road," as we call it, would advance the interests of the New York and Erie road, and divide the hiAii ness with the Buffalo and State Line road, at least so much of it, as lies between Erie and Dun kirk. It is generally understood in Erie, that so long as the present Directorship and manage ment of the road referred to in the above article, is continued, its slumbers will in all human prob ability be sound as the "sleeg of death." If the management of the Road repining unaltered, we are very much afraid that Liebriel'e horn will find it prostrate and deaf. Corporations being repu ted "soulless," it will not even then be permitted to enjoy a consciousness of momentary existioce We know that many innocent men who had in vested in the road in Chautauqua county, in full faith that it would be completed, according to con tract or understanding, to the City and Harbor of Erie,have been ruined and beggared by the broken pledges of those who were managing the project in Erie county, and most sincerely regret the fact, but we must enter our protests against charging such oonduct to the "citizens of Erie " The "cit izens of Erie" are to-day anxious that the Road should be built, and are willing to assist, no doubt, to the utmost of prudence in its construe tion, whenever they are satisfied that a bona fide intention of constructing the work is entertained at "head-quarters " There is a little meat in the same nut for our f Crawford county neighbors, particularly those who are just now basing their supposed salvation on theelection of Finney, end the building of the late,-u/ Pittsburgh and Erie road. They ex pect, as they boast, efficient aid from the votes and other means of the railroad men of Erie county With their help, they expect to sweep the District and build a heavy section of a great trunk railroad, which if built would be a direct and eternal rival to the Lake Shore riot's We ' ask every wan in Crawford county, who has for a moment imagined that the railroad men in Erie county would assist them in their railroad schemes, to read and pander the extract at the head of this article. It ii full of meaning fir the present case of Crawford. It is certain that if railroad men in the Lase Shore road felt it to be their in terest to choke a proposed connection with the New York and Erie road extendingody to Erie, they will be doubly active and determined in choking every other project that looks to the ac complishment of a similar purpose by a route be yond their control. The Crawford project, in addition to being distasteful to the railroad inter ests cast of Erie, will be met likewise with the hostility of the road running from Erie to Clove. land. Just now, the Company owning the road from Erie to the New York line are in trouble, and they will promise almost anything for a i chance of escape. If they could locate and man age the Pittsburgh road, avoiding the harbor of Eric, it may be that they would favor its con atrueti,m But as to their aasaistiug in building a road to compete powerfully, or at all, with the road from Cleveland to Buffalo, its all moonshine, au don the wane at that. Let Crawford remain- ber the fable of the viper, that was warmed by unsuspecting kindnese into deadly activity Sale of the Public Works. Tt seems to be pretty well settled that the pub lic works are to be sold to a company out of the State who have no interests in common with Pennsylvania, but. on the contrary entirely op- posed to the growth of oar old Commonwealth, and her great commercial emporium, the city of Philadelphia. We arc unable to see the advan anvantage which the State is to reap from this sale, and much less a sale to a company of New York capitalists, more than likely those who I control the great public improvements of that State. With New York oontroling the grand chain of public works through the centre of the I State, sad, by the help of the chief magistrate, retaining the only channel from east to writ on the lakes, it is easy for ns to imagine that Penn sylvania will stand but a small chance is the race for the trade and commerce of the west. In deed it is binding her bead and foot and laying ber thus bound at the feet of her rivals to be run over and crushed at their leisure. It would be far better for the interests of the whole State if the works were given to a company of her own cities= than to sell them to a company out ef, and hostile to her interests. Philadelphia has felt somewhat the far-seeing and over-resabing Polley of her neighbor on the Atlantis, and we should suppose that she, would hardly di still and permit ite °kisses to take the life-blood frost her whitest a einisl i s. It may be mM that Obi Lan mishosisiag the ails is se void WI •ko jury cooed work to any pis* of tbstatais, no mat ter who garshased. l'bot may* me sow, hot bow long will an objestionable Where lb the kw stand in t►e way of an inowpondsn of seqp shade? Poodbly till the sitting of the Bert foe. ilhalattirs. We fear sorperatienk—tear their mighty influence upon the lawmaking power,— fear their power to crash the weak, which .they never fail to exercise whenever interest requires it. We fear it the more because we are to-day suffering the penalty of offending against one of their number. For two years our little city boa been struggling for an existence against the will of one of these mammoth monied instittu.ions, and yet we are being strangled, unaided by the laws of the State, which are made to bend or break at the will of a New York corporation. We have fought valliantly and well—have proved ourselves right before the Law-making and Law-deciding tribunals of the State, and yet the foreign corpo. rations which we are opposing, carry out their de signs, and those whose duty it is to protect us, in our rights, consent to the outrage. These things teach us to fear foreign corporations and their in. fiueuoe, and we can but feel that a company of Sew Yorkers owning the public works through the State, would operate in the same way upon its interests, but in a fargreaterdegree. It seems ' fired however that such is to be the case, and we will submit to the powers that be with as good a grace as possible, but we cannoi sit still and see the coils of the serpent wound round the vitals of the Commonwealth without at least uttering a warning voice. SIENATORIAL CANDIDAr6B.—Among the per sons named in Erie as candidates for the Senator ship are Judge Thompson, O J Ball, James skinner, M B Lowry, and Wet Kelly, Esqrs., Of the latter gentleman, we learn on the most reliable authority, that be is in every way a suit able person to fill that office, with honor to him self and the District Mr. Kelly is an accom plished scholar; a strong advocate of temporame, in theory and practice; a firm adherent of the anti-slavery cause; is well versed in the various questions, local and political, which would be likely to claim his attention in the State Senate; and bears an unblemished character. He is spo ken of in very favorable terms by the Erie Ga zette, as also by numerous individuals of 0111 par ties'. in that place. The other gentlemen men tioned. have all been before the public enough to be well known, therefore it is unnecessary for us to say anything in regsd to them —Conneaut. rille Courier If we are to be represented by say other than a ,Democrat :in the Senate for the tint term, we know of no one to whose election we would more cheerfully assent than Mr Kelly. lie is a whig of the old school and we think we should know where to find him politically as well as up on the Erie questiOn. Pittsburgh & Erie Railroad Mass Meeting We arts) ded a meeting of canteen , of Bever, Lawrene*, Mercer, Crawford all Erie C.saues in Erie, on Thursday Last, and regret mach that a larger attendance was not had froui this locality. No Western Crawford wan was present but left “liitti a aes in Ca.latti la Courier. We are right glad that the Courier was re presented at thd "Mass Meeting," and that it was enabled to furnish to its readers, at home and abroad, so complete and intelligent a report of what way there said and done. The Pittsburgh and elrie Railroad has figured considerably in the controversies that have sprung from the "Erie Nihonlties " It has suited the purpose of cer tain parties to misrepresent at all times the ac tual feeling and disposition of the people of Erie towards that important project. At certain cri tical periods during the "war," the necessities of those parties appeared to demand increased activity in the fabrication and ciroulation of those misrepresentations, and consequently we have had, time and again, fresh supplies of false hood and preversion in relation to that Rnad We have never failed to warn the friends of the Pittsburgh Road, that, in adopting these slander ous reports,they were doing not only the citizens of Erie county a most grievous wrong but actu ally striking blows that were, at no very distant day, to fall with redoubled power and injury upon their own heads. We have always felt and known, that if any proportion of the iuhabitants along that Road through the Counties south of us were inimical to Erie, it was from ignorance of the true motives anddeaigns of those pretended friends of the project, who, having undertaken the wants sod wishes of the "railroad interests" in the "Erie War," assumed, and seemingly were accredited with the especial guardianship of every projected, or prospective Railroad that was to be located upon Erie County soil. To say Railroad, we; apparently sufficient with the "outside world" to suggest alone all that is pure and disinterested in individual conduct and the affairs of commerce and trade, while on the other hand, the man who said Erie, was in danger of being struck, and the city was looked upon as but little better than a "den of thieves " '1 he tide began to turn when the Supreme Court of the State solemnly adjudicated that Erie was right in her legal position, and the flow of opinion has been steadily in the same course since. We have been patiently awaiting the occasion that was to put "a flea" in the ears of several sections, and gradually they are being put. At the "Mass Meeting" which was so faithfully reported by the Courier, it was the turn of "Western Crawford" to be presented with it's "flea," and we are pleased with the shrewd sensibility that disC'Overed the trick, and the bold, frank discharge oNuty that instantly devulged it. The Courrier, in re porting Mr. Reynolds as saying "that all the people of Meadville wanted, was the East and West Road, (Cross-ento" has btruek the very nail, to clinch which the Finney Senatorial move has been innitiated. This name Mr Reynolds was in Columbus, Warren Co., during last winter, soliciting subscriptions to the Pittsburg Road, all of the subscriptions to be expended within War ren Co. What business a Railroad from the coal mines of Mercer and Lawrence to the Har bor of Erie, bas in that vicinity, is a question for the consideration of every "Western Crawford man " tee Hiss. the late "Worshipfsi Instructor" of the Know Nothtaga in Massarlansous, says he me prove gAat owe ktsisarod awl e4kty ossildiers of tAe Inssaci t raett. Lergielanet, /tore, dewing the late sanest, visaed Assam of penetietaion!— Ono of the visitors, he says, is a reverend gentleman, high in Whets, who was closeted for half an hour with &lag of easy virtue, who woo forums-1y member of his outgro w:lot. We take the above from a Boston paper which shows clearly the character of the Massachusetts Legislature of Know Nothings as given by one of its prominent members. A aces God-defy ing, unrighteous, set of aen serer primed to (ether to make laws for any free Brats. We hope to hear nothing more about the.. croakers about the inunoralities of the Catholic Churches, after producing such testimony of their own wicked. new Does not our "neighbor round the corner's fed r.roeid of its Boston anti-Nebraska friends? -. Counterfeit 10's o a the Bonk of Mont pellier, irt., ere mid to bs is eiresimios. Look 04 he them ♦ mime liamieg to mom arms el . ' siwnsi. lismOtoespleftall4o" . The followiag yam& from alude*, if *waited 131089 . 1 Y, s as eye ores be sad spas the weer, of parties es Erie musty, for rev, will be foquidito commie a easieal blei of gwerw amity and "diOiseewwwwiseee." "As for the !retitled party with wide It is soesseted, it desires as reward for lime of its awabors who kayo tom ass MIN WOO aml mem velem fa 114, Illite Ws: as ma mmas itt shoo Own, Can Abe Observer give • ha ter proof of ft/ t ee Is it 1104 @emery for the "political party with wiiich foe Gametes is connected" to claim any "reward liar those of its nimabers who have been most prominent and *ticket in the Erie War on account of those services alone " The most of them hate already been quartered on the County Crib since they were able to compute a column of figures or copy a deed or mortgage.- 1 The "divine right of whigges7 has provided for them with abundant generosity, and at the same time has never failed to shudder with holy hor ror at the heterodox proposition, of giving a "l000f000" so much as a smell of the steam that is generated from this local pap. To oppose the Gazette or its party has always Veen more than enough to keep an individual from a profitable proximity to any public employment. If a "bird scratcher" voted against them, he was struck off the list of the faithful so quick that it made his head swim; and some substitute, deeper dyed in the wool, and warranted never to hang—fire, supplied his place. In view of a long uninter rupted course of party nil' of this character, it would be useless for that party or its organ to claim preference upon special grounds. We would like to know how the Gazette would go about to manage a claim of the kind, if success ful. Tne "prominent and efficient members of itepkrtrin the "Erie War," are either now hold ing lucratioe county offices, or some have but just stepped aside; to let another take his turn at the office, and til breaths a little, preparatory to taking a fresh.„and a bigger hold themselves. The only way that the share of the Gazette friends could be possibly increased, would be,-by annu ailing the laws'upou "in compatibility of offices," and permitting one to hold the offices of Sherif and Prothonotary, at the same time; another, County Treasurer and _ Register, and so on, until the whole plate was dished up This new idesof "disinterested" generosity, re m.ods us of a rrmrk which the late fir. Astor is said to have nude, in regard to what amount of money ...onstituied a rich man. It was his opi nion "that a man who was worth fire hundred liwasaad dollars was just as well off as if be was rich." It is the Gazettes opinion, that a party which holds all of the offices, is singularly generous and laudably disinterested, if it does not ask for etor•A If this notion doesn't "knock the horns off of die animal," we never expect to life to see it a money. vr Robbery azid Shooting Afllnir.—Our citi zens were a good d 4 agitated on Tuesday morning by the intelligence tot Mr. Msaa Mists had been shot, and probably totally wounded, while in the act of robbing Ci.easas dt vette r's Store, on State street It appears that sineeethe taking of $6OO belonging to Mr Ci.saa, which hid been deposited with them for safe-keeping, their Store bad been entered at various times, and small minis abstracted, so that, in order to detect the thief or Were, and put a atop to their pilfer mg, they determined to keep watch About SI o'clock on Tuesday morning, Mr. We Carting r, a member of the firm, and thee ou watch, was aroused from a rude slumber by the reflection of a dark lantern from the passage way below—he being above—sad satisfied that some one was in the room for an improper por pnee, cried out to him to stop or be avoid 'hoot him The request not being hooded, be fired in the direc tion of the lantera. Nos kerwisig whether the shot bad taken effect, he bestowed down and fouud the hat of the robber, with marks of blood on the paresueot in the direction of the LAO as far as DODIA ell Grocery, and thence across to New Jerusalem. In a short time a boy in quest of Dr BItANDIII' office, brought the intelligence that Mr. MARI Mixan, of New Jerusalem bad been badly wounded by a shot, so as to need the services of a Surgeon. He, of course, proved to be the rubber, having opened the door by weans of false keys, Lod abstracted from the safe some $l5, with which be was making his wey out when discovered by Mr Cwc;oner The couteat