There was more fighting in the courts over Erie. Justice Sutherland vacated Barnard’s order making Gould receiver, and Noah Davis was made receiver. Barnard stayed Sutherland, and Sutherland granted a motion to show cause why Barnard’s stay should not be vacated. Gould and Fisk sued August Belmont for $1,000,000 damages, and Frank Work and Richard Schell for $429,250, paid to them at the time of the settlement with Vanderbilt. Gould and Fisk even went to the United States District Court, and on a petition of one of Gould’s clerks, Henry D. Whelpley, a stockholder, Judge Blatchford appointed Gould receiver, and directed the Erie company to place $8,000,000 in his hands to protect the rights of the plaintiff, Whelpley, who protested that he had been injured by certain issues of stock. The marvelous business acumen displayed by the manipulators of these properties was aided by the blind zeal of certain foreign investors for American securities then as prevalent as now. The wonderful financial operations of the Drew and Gould regimes in Erie could not have been possible but for the extraordinary fascination which the stock possessed for English capitalists. While Americans looked with more than suspicion on the Erie securities, England was possessed of an irresistible craze to get as many of them as possible. English capitalists would not take the United States bond even when selling below par, but they bought with avidity every share of Erie they could get hold of. At last, however, the eyes of the English stockholders were opened to the true condition of affairs, and under the lead of James McHenry they organized to get the control of the property. At this time Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, one of the heroes of Gettysburg, was Minister to Spain. He was engaged to lead the anti-Gould forces against the Erie strongholds. He did his work well, and it is said was paid a very big fee for his labors. He obtained a leave of absence from Madrid and returned home to conduct the operations in person on the ground. This was the last of the Erie wars.