The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-26

THE ERIE MsuRRHcrIoN-Al our news from
Erie tends to confirm the belief that the Erans
are about to triumph, and riot to prevail def
nitely over law and order. The acquittal o.
Lowry and King. the two individuals who had
molested the United States Marshal, and the
release Of Kirkpatrick and the other rioters
were naturally received with great rejoicing
by the Erians. Mass meetings had been held
at Erie and in the neighborhood and the law.
less proceedings Of the rebels lauded in vocit
erous terms. Meanwhile from HARRISBURG II ,ex
receive encouraging accounts Of the prospects,
Of the bill repeating the Franklin Canal Com
pany's charter, and seem to entertain very little
doubt of its passage. Governor Bigler is quite
active, it is said, in advocating the insurgents
cause at Washington and through his aid the
| insurgents hope to succeed in their nelarious
| purpose without molestation from the United
States authorities In one word, the State of
Pennsylvania has openly and frankly espoused
the cause of the people Of Erie and there would
be affectation in making further attempts to
discriminate between them.
We therefore look now to the delegation in
Congress from the Northeastern and the North
western States for cure for evils which seem
to have bafled the President. Their course is
simple, plain and clear. Pennsy lvania declares
war upon New York, the Eastern States and
the West, and refuses to allow any communica
ton between them through her borders unless
she is allowed to levy black-mail by the way.
She adopts the instruction at Erie. and
brings all her power to bear to carry out
the objects Of that lawless movement. She
thus succeeds in intercepting the natural
flow Of travel between the West and tn East.
and for petty object of private gain inflicts
serious injury on her sister States. The pro-
per mode of proceeding under these crcum-
stances is to convince Pennsylvania that if she
places herself in antagonism with the whole
country she will herself be the greatest loser,
Three simple measures cannot fail to produce
this desirable conviction. One is to remove the
Mint from Philadelphia to New York, so as to
save the expense which importers of gold now
incur for the transmission OF dust and bars from
this port to Philadelphia. A second is the re-
moval of the present duty on coal. No boon ia
more needed by the poorer classes than this.
Year after year have we of New York, Ohio,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, Vermont and all
the other Northern States, been taxing our.
selves for the support and protection of coal
mines in Pennsylvania, Hundreds of thousands
OF dollars are every season extracted from our
pockets and poured into those Of the Pennsyl-
vanians, solely from our consent to foster this
branch Of their industry. Now, if this thirty
per cent duty were removed we could have aa
p,,ob g..
of q much better quality, at less price than
we now pay to Pennsylvania. In like manner
the repeal of the duty on iron would be a sen.
sible benefit to the people of the East and
Northwest. 1t would be quite consistent with
the course Of our commercial policy, and would
confer g boon on us that every man would bc
capable of approaching. Of course Pennsyl-
vania might suffer from these changes; but Il
she prefers petty interest of hers at Erie, she
cannot complain that the North, West and East,
should follow her example. We expect the dele
cations in Congress to move without delay.
THE INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT LAw.-We
see that the Senate has again taken this sub
ject into consideration. Great hopes were
reused last year when the Senate took up the
matter, and there seemed a chance of the stain
Of piracy being removed from our national es-
cutcheon Time wore on, however, and no
thing was done. Finally the Senate adjourn.
ed, and it was then understood that the pub
fishing influence had been too much for the
Senators. The project had been thrown over
board on legal bubble Dare we hope that
such will not be the case this session? Reason
and Insfica small MIA ipl,-
The property of an author in his book is as
much his as that of a shoemaker in the results
ofbis craft, or that Of an inventor in his inven-
ton; and to say that we ought to be allowed to
steal any one Of these because the author, shoe
maker. or inventor happens to be foreigner, is
too absurd to be susceptible Of reputation Yet
this is the pretension of the publishers this the
pith marrow, and siuew of Mr.. Carey's argu-
ment against an international copyright this
the great stickler in the minds of last year
Senators. day will come when the authors
of this country will be strong enough to COM
pei the Senate to protect them from piraticaI
publishers in England when it does, some one
will not be wanting to do Justice to the memo
ry OF those who, from error, timidity, or baser
motives, betrayed the cause of literature to-
day
The FIRE DEPARTMENT ATTAcKEp.-Some OF
the Sunday papers have been making serious
charges against the volunteer branch Of our Fire
Department, and these charges begin to be
worthy of attention when transferred into the
daily papers. as they have been. If they are
anything like the truth then indeed is there
an al
teer iiremen that should instantly be smoked
cut. The charges simply amount to this that
there is regularly organized gang of petty