The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-11
TIAyELLERs' REGlsTER.
1=1iATTION 40 ava \ L4LLNAs COlIIN

| ~ TTTT,T(5y 20 IRA y IILLRci&S COMING
s0UTH.-T'ravelIers going South are cautioned
,ranst giving credenee tote handbs and plaeards IS
DSrd by the Bay Company between Baltimore and n or
k who resort to all sorts OF devices To deceive the pub
lie aud induce travellers to take their line, publishing
nong other things statements puTporing be from
eersthat by the mail passenEGs going South
"a later than by the Bay line, and that they sub
ected TO personal superintendent of their luggage al
the risk O losing il, and thar they compelled the
North Anna River to walk considerable distance Down
a steep hill and up ano;herin the middle of the night,
/ involving both exposure and risk.
All of those statements entirely false. Passengers
by the mail route are stated in the bills OF tho Rail
route, soften "a hours IN advance Of those By the Bay
boats in reaching Charleston and Hcre unless IN some
extremely rare contingency behind them. so far from
having any trouble with baggage, this is ckce3 on board
the Potomac steCrboats, (s companies Tie route thus
becoming responsible for it, and is delivered uH board
the Wilmington cars, ard the passengers have only at
ponts where changes occur to transfer themselves tu
one conveyance another. Al tie North Anna, il Is
true they Obliged for few days walk short I'll
ACROSS temporary butperecty secure bridge from
OF another; but this hali past es!
O'Clock ia the evening" instead of az midnight, state
in of the bels on the Mail rOEfe. In the course OF
week at tarthcst this difficulty VIII cease to exist, al
the expiration OF that tune, the rail road bridge now IA
pdly demonstrating across the Neh Anna viii be pas
sable
IL will he obvious to all rejecting that the grea
Mail route being the shoyest by 20 miles, ami heng NEAR
y all rail road must be the most certain aud eXpedouS
that would nc. he employed Tor the convey othe
great mail unless it were 50 and than there be more
risk board bay steamboats, out OF sight OF land, urged
10 tbe ton of their speeI; 10 compete with the I road
line in which the bursting of boiler would probably
destroy all nearly all board, than there be
rail road ears where, in the event even at an engine be-
ing thrown of the track, the engineer and fireman only
would be injured
As prof of tie great safety of the sFaat mail route
it may lie mentioned that of more tuan 100000 travellers
conveyed on il within the last five years, not single
passenger has heeu seriously iuuTtd.
In conclusion The companies on the great mail route
would respectfully ask the attention OF travellers the
wording of the lib Il on the ne p-por,iE ists sgnss
by certain persons rem the south they vii see I once
ON lis pariIzan character that il not forgery the pee
tz-tg trRsf have from MO HT 10
become pai t2auS Of The Ssy5oEE, aua IL QLEcrcuH
lance and the II eres t;fcr sAssE,s sAla
attach their signature 10
Once of Richmond s FrcdericlsAug R. L. Co
and Washington do do Steamboat do
oct5
6IAUTION 40 TRAVELLERS GOING
~ SOUTH-HALTAx, IN. c. 0ciotrS le'h, 1870
We, the Undersigned passengers from Baltimore South,
here by caution the public against the mtsT presentations
made o. the Bay Line OF Steamboats, aud tie Ports
mouth and Roanoke rail road from baltimore, via Nor
folk, to Weldon, ~ c. in favor OF their uHrVailed exPe
ditiOn.
ewere assured that the Bay Line was the only line
by which passengers could reach the Wilmington raj
road Weldon, thereby leaving The Impression that this
the only rouie which passengers could reach the
Wilmington rail road and also that we would be twenty
four hours advance Of the passengers by the Great
Mail Line. But s our great establishment, arriving
at Weldon were too late for the for Wilmington
and Charleston; and instead Of being "lweny-fogf
hours in advance of ihe mall" we were thrown back
twenty four hours behind It.
1t is the bay Line via Portsmouth. is the only
line now ruuajng to Weldon but passengers by the
Great Mail Line are landed by steamboat Halifax, 4
point equally as pleasant the Wilmington rail road
seN erdl miles below Weldon.
there had been any unavoidable accident TO prevent
our getting through in time We would most willingly ex-
the detention; but nothing Of tie kind occurred
the night on the bay calm and pleasant as we |
ever Witnessed, and nothing 10 prevent the steamboat
gliding the smooth irtace Ofthc Eatar as fast as
steam could drive us.
ltseemS TO u, therefore, that they have iiled in
complying with their promises even under Inc mns ia
Vordble circumstances, the traveller place hgl little
reliance on their fair promises their flaming hand
JiIls.
tsigned) JAMES W. BAILEY, Macon, Ga.
CLEMENT EARL, Geneva. Y. Y.
w. Ii. SMITH, Montgomery, Ala.
c. TAFT, Hawknsville Ga.
X. ROBERTS, do do
JAS. f. FARRIOR, Apalachicnla, Fa.
6. w. GLENN, Columbia, 5. e.
JAMES w. BURKE, Mobile, Ala.
ID. w. TOMLINSON, do do
The original of the above card be seen at the of
fee of STOCKTON, FALLS s. CO., Baltimore, next |
door above the Baltimore and Philadelphia rail road of
Ace. ola st