The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-16
of De Paris Pyssse says, in one Of his recent
COZ ,muIiicatiops to that journal -:

OF lmuHications to that journal -
must not the subject Of Oubs without ioforus
You q Iunsr .Sass not yet po'sso As me a Sr'
~pt IL confined 10 the circle Of people Who or oariy
have previous intelligence Of Sats secrets twea four
hours in advances Of all others. The United atss u,
prlicall. speaking, q coner that has maze RAPID
in Its -fueaon; avAis iseG SKI fully OF
al cans TO attain Us OBJECT II Is minated tina snst
Inv e.t-us aloud L. uses another tone in hey
fsv. rsble chpk lie collars hero In fact the rssnor
in that tho United states has made such nsgurceDt
oer for the inland Of ubs,nd that too il ready cssn
tina, ceria have been for the moment Eyied With
IT, although cool 'ehtction han Afterwards ied - rs
fusal o, the tempting halt We understand indeed, hat
n Minister Of Finance in view Of the condition o. hs
money chest ban looked with longing eyes o. ,ae
vel, aled pure Of the tempting Yankee We under
stand also that the Minister Of Pubic Works was IN
dused, for moment, to ignore Cuba in his deans OF
rsroads ports snd canals. But the general sentiment
il % against every oonoesoiou, that the
polcsl Members Of the Cabinet have succeed 10 With
drawing Their co leagues from the ecsa7, AID a~As"n
ing Them little rudely and ahrightedly from thei7
vision
The Journal du Hapre in quoting and CON
men'ing upon the foregoing paragraph, admits
that in view Of the penury Of the Spanish trea-
sury, the Minister OF Finance may have delioc-
the offer made to him by the United States; but
states that that minister had not yielded to the
temptation, for whatever might have been his
personal sentiments in the matter, the time was
unpropitious for such an open disregard Of
Spanish popular sentiment.
Locking, therefore, at all these facts and con-
sid.rations we should not be at all surprised If
the important fact reservedly announced by our
Washington correspondent, were really and
substantially correct. We suppose. however
hist we must wait some days longer before we
cab arrive at the truth of the matter, or at the
terms Of the bargain, if the necessities of Spain
have led to one Well, We can afford to wait
FINALE OF THE ERIE WAR.-We publish
the Supreme Court of the State Of Pennsyl-
vapia on the dispute between the Erie and
Northeast Railroad and the town of Erie. The
iorm in which the action was brought was a
complaint by the Attorney General on behalf
Of the commonwealth Of Pennsylvania against
the Erie and Northeast Railroad, alleging that
the latter had overstepped its corporate privi-
leges, by running through Erie insteed Of having
its terminus at the outskirts Of the town, and w
violating the conditions Of its charter in many
respects. The judgment (Which was published
several days ago. was in favor Of the common
wealth, and ordered the railroad to tear up those
portions of its track which lay on the streets Of
Erie and the Buffalo road: to construct new
western terminus on the limit Of the old borough
of Erie; and to pay all costs.
To understand the matter rightly it must b.
remembered that though the Erie and North
east Railroad and the State Of Pennsylvania
were the nominal litigants in the case. The real
parties to the dispute were The Erie and other
New York railroads on the one side and the
people Of Erie and Philadelphia on the other.
The former wanted a clear uniform gauge
through Erie, whereby passengers and freight
rom Ohio might be carried through the
northern part of Pennsylvania from the Ohio
line to the New York line, without disem-
or transphipment The latter in
sisted On break Of gauge at Erie, so as to
compel passengers to traverse the city on
foot or in vehicles, and to secure q tran
shipment at that place Of oil freight con
veyed to Erie from Cleveland and the
West. The object Of the Erie people was
to make little money by feeding and lodg
ing passengers, and storing and carting freighi
from the terminus of the Ohio to that of the
Northeast Railroad. The object Of Philadelphia
was to afford encouragement to the projectors
of the Sunbury and Erie road, which, when con
structed, would compete with the New York
roads in the conveyance of Western produce to
the seaboard. Thus, the dispute was in fact one
Of local interests. Buffalo insisted on the only
break in the Western Railroad line being within
her limits; aud the New York roads claimed
monopoly of the carriage Of Western produce,
which the absence Of break of gauge at Erie,
by preventing the construction Of tie Sunbury
road, would have enabled them to secure.
Pennsylvania would not consent to be used az
a mere place of transit she demanded share
of the Western trade, set about securing it by
projecting the Sunbury road, to tap the lake
line at Erie, and, with this view, made common
cause with the people Of Erie, who only desired
the break in order to levy small toll on pas
sengers and freight. Had the Sunbury road
been built, the merits of both sides would have
been nearly equal in point Of abstract justice
and right. 1t would have been merely quar-
rel between New York and Pennsylvania for
the Western trade; and Pennsylvania having
possession on her side, might without much de-
mar. have had matters all her own Wy. As
however the Sunbury and Erie road only exists
rs yet in the brains of few Spectators and
engineer, the conduct Of Pennsylvania simply
breaks the line Of communication between the
seaboard and the West retards the nails in
creases the cost Of freight on Western produce,
and exposes travellers to a serious and unneces-
cary inconvenience 1t does not benefit Penn
sy lvania or Philadelphia; while it manifestly
Injuries New York. The only advantage that
can flow from it accrues 10 the little town of
Erie, whose inhabitants will make few dollars
oy giving refreshments to passengers aud cart