New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-19

Certain citizens of Pennsylvania, aided by those Of
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borough Of Erie eastward to the line of our State
known as Tie Erie and North East Railroad They
did this under regular charter from the State Legis
latuTe to which nobody made an objection Every body
whose property was taken was amply recOmpensed
and the right to take it was not disputed 1t became
necessary to cross certain streets Of Erie BY means of
elevated bridges, and full permission to do so was
sought and freely accorded In Harbor Creek small
village eight miles east of Erie it was deemed expe.
dent to straighen and shorten the public highway so
to sbyiate tie necessity for crossing more than
once and the privilege to do so was likewise sought
and accorded. The Company made new and every
way better road ia place of those portions of the old
one they were obliged to occupy, and the new road
readily accepted and has ever since been travelled
Not whisper of dissatisfaction was heard and the
Road went into operation with no shadow of objection
from any quarter Nor its directors are hunted from
their dwellings like wild beasts, or remain there
armed and in constant expectation OF violence and
Outraee-and for what
They hare changed the gaugs Of their Road so as to con-
form It TO that Of the Roads wkeree il connects at either
end That is their sole ofense. "The very head and
front of their offending hath this extent-no more"
They have done with their OWL property not only what
they had natural right TO do but what an act of the
last Pennsylvania Legislature expressly authorized and
invited them 10 do. They have done this in order to
accommodate more perfectly and thoroughly the travel
over their route so that train carrying passengers
live stock or produce may pass from Cincinnati In
danapois or Toledo without change to Dunkirk or
Buffalo, where difference Of gauge WHOLLY unde-
sired and fortuitous) necessitates change of cars
The Ohio gauge being four feet ten inches, while
that of our Erie Road is SIX feet and that of the
Central is four feet eight andahaif it is manifest
that there must be change somewhere But nobody
planned this necessity all this way would be glad that
it had no existence. IfWheat or Cattle could be put
into Rockford or Lafayette and brought without
charge to Baltimore, Philadelphia NewYork or Boston,
precisely as one another of them should seem the
more inviting market all this way would rejoice ex-
ceedingly. Butths csnnotnOw be done. Differences of
gauge exist and the best that can be done to render
them few in number and little injurious as practi.
cable. No where ont of Pennsylvania has there been
attempt to create break of gauge for local and
sectional advantage. Pennsylvania did once enact
law requiring such break on the Lake Shore Road TO
be made within that State, but the last Legislature
repealed that exRction so that the Directors of the
Erie and NOrth-East had as perfect legal and moral
right to make their recent change as any has TO
plcw his garden. And the change they Orderedi
a great convenience and economy to ninety nine Of
every hundred persons who have been are OF viii be
effected by il.
but 1t Goes not tax and every thing passing over
'Ae srea' route OF travel and transportation between
the East and the West for the benefit of Erie borough
that Is Its sole demerit On the contrary il AIMS to
hbez'e Ten Millions Of People from such unjust ex.
action Bat for the Erie felOns the Cattle. Sheep and
Swine Of the West might for the last SIX week. have
passed through the northern neck of Pennsylvania in
two hours, without unloading or reloadnO instead Of
being detained there at least two days tarned ont At
Erie driven ten twenty miles and reloaded at heavy
cost money well as time. This cost was incurred
while the Erie and North East Road was six feet and
those each side OF il four feet ten drOyers declining
to uncar and reear their cattle for ride of only
nineteen miles but tae change OF gauge IN December