The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-04-02

policy or rather he iup0cy of the drawback
is fully discussed; and in reference to il the iOl-
lowing language is used:
1T is Partial, becausn il tries TO compel all
the Flour destined for the Baltimore market TO
90 to Philadelphia.
SIT is Unjust, because il enables the farmers
of Ohio, and Otlier states, 10 send their -four tn
market 90 cents per barrel cheaper Than tie
farmer of PENNSYLVANIA, while it at the same
time robs him of choice Of markets. Pause
a moment here, aud suppose yourself farmer
OF Pennsylvania, living anywhere east OF Pitts
burg, ana you have 1000 barrels Of Flour 10
send To Philadelphia; when you go 10 pay your
Toll Won find YOU have to pay $500 more Than
The farmer of Ohio pays for the same quantity.
aiken To the same market, and sold al the same
price as yours"
The farmers of the interior Of Pennsylvania
will find that HE statement in this paragraph
describes exactly the operation OF the system.
TIE Injustice of this is acknowledged even in
Philadelphia; for it Is impossible that any one
! can he hlnd tn So pain thing. Here follows
paragraph from the Philadelphia Commercial
List of Saturday, referring to "a lol of Flour
which started from point on the canal east OF
PuSburg:
! About 1000 barrels of Flour have already
been shipped from BairsviiIe to this city By
The present arrangement of the Canal Conn
missi0ners, tins Flour pays a higher toll 10 the
state than that brought from Plltsburg. This
is mantsty unjust. The first boat cleared
from BIarsviile on Saturday last, 2lst inst"
We refer again 10 the Pitlsburg Advocate
article which proceeds 10 consider TO consider
the subject in larger view. After showing
that the arrangement is PARTIAL and UNJUST
as ii bears npon the interior of Pennsylvania.
the article continues
sit is Shorfshghted, in moi seeing the vast
field tie Tide Water Canal opens not only to
the trade OF Pennsylvania but to tie whole
Mississippi Valley. 1t is shortsighted in try
lug to cripple this canal, by not extending th
reduction of toll on four passing into ii iron
the Pennsylvania canals and railroads.
extend the reduction OF toll On -four pass
NO into this canal, and YOU will force iron:
New York and New u leans great portion ol
The immense trade they are now carryl Y OF
with our Southe. coast, Cuba and the Wesl
Indies.
e-Ihe Tide Water Cannl is tie grand gold
n link that connects PtIsburg with This vas
H. III Tor commerce, and our canal CON mission
erS Should, usiead oI lnlurlnG is irade proiec
and encourage the industry OF Pennsl lvania.
We can safely leave the subject TO tive aoot
Sense of the peop'e OF Pennsylvania. II The.
WISH 10 see lDelF CanhfS cTOWutu VIII pIUuuCi
and merchandise, thereby returning ge re
venues 10 the State: above all II they are de
Slrous OF afordng 10 The farmer, HE manufac
lurer and the country dealer of the interior
short, cheap, aud conveneit mode OF acces
To market, they will not fail Ia discover Iha
any measure which throws ob>iructionS in TIN
wav of the Tide Wa.er Canal is dire city in
furious to their own interests. That Canal i
the very thing which the Stale OF Pennsylva
mia has so long wanted 10 make her otter in.
ternaI improvements available 10 their full ca
paciiy. 1t is browning work--a fins.er-
to the great system which with liberal pole,
and commendabi perseverance she has prose
cuted through many difficulties Let her no
now suhcr herself TO be deprived OF the advan
tapes which this work will bestow upon her
hui with true sagacty let her persevere tina
the Tide Wafer Canal is part and parcel Of h,l
own Improvements work which art has
made her own as much as nature has made the
Susquehanna her own.
A general reduction of tol Is on the Penn>y
vania improvements, if made equally s. with
out draw backs, might now effect most i'm
portant result and constitute an epoch in the
Internal trade of the country. The high prices
offreight at New Orleans, caused by scarcity
of vessels and The unusual quantity Oi produce
accumulated in the West, seeking market
would tend to give direction 10 the course Of
trade, up the Mississippi ana Ohio, if the char
res of transportation by the interior routes
were not up at minimum. This direction be-
ipg once fairly given 10 the current, the prnba
bilitv is strong that it would continue-ior the
advantages Of the route, if fully understood,
would operate strongly in its favor. Phila-
dtlphia paper notices the shipment from Pitts
burg of five thousand barrels OF -four belonging
To one house in Boston. Such an item as this
NAV serve to indicate what would be the inn
mense amount of ali sorts of commodities
turned into the channels of the Pennsylvania
Canals, if The tolls on all articles were reduced
after the example Of the sagacious policy Of
New York.
nFAiter the above article was in type, we
received the Philadelphia North American o
yesterday, in which we find the following re-
marks, confrmatory of the grounds we have
assumed in discussing the subject.
'.The Baltimore American Of Thursday last
contains an article on the recent drawback il
shipments of Flour from Pittsburg, and on The
general policy of the State, in demanding
high rate of toll on the public works. 1t con
tends that the former is positively injurious I,
every inhabilaut of Pennsylvania, living cas-
of Pittsburg on the main route, or any of TIN