Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-01-18
Matters M Erie.

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Affairs at Erie stillremain in an unsettled state
and wear an alarming aspect The authorities
of the Federal Government resisted and set
at defiance. On Friday last the U. s. Marshal
and his two Deputies were arrested on a charge
of trespass in arresting the Harbor Creekites and
Others We copy the following account from the
Pittsburgh Post of Monday morning:
| The Marshal proceeded to Erie on Tuesday last,
in obedience to mandate issued out of the U. S.
Circuit Court, ordering him to see the injunction
of the Court obeyed. On Wednesday and Thurs
day, the employees of. the railroad company were
busily employed. under the protection of the Mar
shal, in relaying the track and repairing the
bridges in the city of Erie. No attempt to dis
tturb them was made; but on Friday, while the
Marshal was protecting the workmen by his pres
ence, Sheriff VINCENT, of Erie, arrested him and
his deputy, Mr.. SPRoUL, on capias from, the
Court of Common Pleas of Erie county, on a
charge of trespass ~ ct armis, in arrestng Kirk
patrick and others, at Harbor Creek. The sum
mons was served on the Marshal, in the pres
ence of several hundred of the inhabitants of Erie,
who were witnessing the relaying and repairing
of the track bridges. Marshal Frost immediate
y drew from his pocket the mandate of the U. S.
Circuit Court, ordering him to see that the nunc-
ton enforced-read it, and called on all good
citizens of the United States to see the order of
the Court enforced. No one came forward, and
ed off to Erie Jail in custody of the Sheriff of the
county. The crowd, which was very dense, sep
arated in order to allow the Sheriff and his prison.
ers to pass. The Marshal raised his hat and made
very polite bow, upon which a great cheer was
given, and the prisoners were taken to Jail.
Shortly afterwards, the Marshal and his Depu-
ty were held to bail in $4,000 each to appear and
answer the suits of John Jacks and others, for
trespass.
MIR Frost left Erie on Friday evening, as soon
as he released from prison, and arrived in this
city, in company with Mr. Sprou, Saturday
evening, by the mail train, via. Cleveland.
There also arrived in this city on Saturday, in
tha same train with the Marshal, Hon Alfred King,
Mayor of Erie, and Morrow B. Lowry, Esq, of
Erie, to answer citation from the United States
Circuit Court, for contempt, in advising resist
ance to the order Of that Court, commanding the
Marshal to arrest Jacks and Others for disobeying
the injunction.
Messrs. King and Lowry will have a hearing
to-day, before Judge Irwin.
We understand that strong feeling of resist
once exists at Erie against the enforcement OF the
DEGREES of the United States Court.
Where will all this end!
The Plain Dealer of Monday evening, learns by
private letter from Pittsburgh, that the Marshal
has reported to Judge Irwin his inability to serve
the process Of the Court The Judge, upon this,
makes out certificate. which he forwards to the
President, who thereupon empowers the Secreta-
ry of War to order u. S. troops to the assistance
or the Marshal. .
The same paper says: We have news from
Erie up to ten O'Clock, Sunday morning. The
town was quiet, with the exception of few drunk
Ell loafers, who tore round the taverns, swearing
all manner of vsitations on the devoted head Of
the United States Marshal, should he return to
Erie. The most respectable (using the word in a
comparative sense,) of the people will not oppose
the judicial decree; especially, if backed up by
company two of U. S. troops. They will ab-
stain not out of Difference to law but for fear of
danger. A dozen or more vagabondizing sots
will probably persist in their opposition, till they
are handsomely plumbed through the body.
The Railroad Company will make no more at
tempts to lay down tbs track until sufficient force
comes on to sustain the Marshal twill be sent
speedily without doubt.
We learn that the authorities at Washington
have only been waiting for the requisite certificate
from Judge Irwin. A gentleman from this city
now in Washington says the treatment will be
prompt and efficient.
A JUST TRIBUTE. The Cleveland Herald cop
les and indorses the following just tribute to the
Iaps1 acnuirements ond nersonal worth of SHEP-