The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-25

u SOUTH-HAuVAx, IN. C.) 0cIol # 1911, 1870
We, the Undersigned passengers from Baltimore South
here by caution Tie public aginsI the Misrepresentation
made by the Bay Line Of Steamboats, and the Ports
mouth and Roanoke rail roaa from baltimore, via Nor
fnk to WeldeH, NJ CO. in favor OF their unrlvslIed exPt
dt0u.
We were assured hat The Bay Line was the only line
by which passengers could reach the WlTiuigton raj
road Weldon, thereby leaving the ppreasign that thu
was the only roue ny which passengers cooid reach '
Wilmington rail toad and also that we would be twenty
four hours in advance of the PASSENGERS by the Grea
Mail Line But to great astonshnent, on arriving
Weldon too late for the cars for Wilmington
and Charleston; and instead of being "tWenty-f0u
hours in advance OF The mall" we were thrown baci
twenty four hours behind II.
It is true the Gay Line via Portsmouth, is the onh
line running TO Weldon, but passengers by dh'
Great Mail Line are landed by steamboat " Halifax,
point equally pleasant the Wilmington r;ll road
sc, eral miles below Weldon.
If there had been any unavoidable accident 10 preyp
our getting through time would most willingly
the detention; hut nVthng OF the kind occurred
de night the bay calm and pleasant a. W.
ever Witnessed, aud nothing 10 prevent the steGalce
gliding the smooth uTace of the water as fast III
/ steam could drive
tseems TO u therefore, that they have failed ii
complying with their promises under the most ia
v-r.bIe cirrumstances the traveller place hut It
reliance their fair promises or Their Naming hand
bills.
CLEMENT EARL. Geneva N Y.
W. II. SMITH, MONTGOMERY, Ala.
G. TAFT, HawkinsviIe, Ga.
r. ROBEKTS, do do
JAS F. FARRToR, ApalachicnIa, Pa.
C. W. GLENN, Columbia, ). q.
JAMES W. BURKE, Mobile, Ala.
o. w. 1oMLINSoN, do do
The original OF the above card be NJ the OF
ice of STOCKTON, FALLS Co, Baltimore, ucK
daor above the BALTIMORE and Philadelphia rail road Of
flee. ola IL
61AUgIUN 20 IRA VFiLLEIIs COMING
" SOUTH.-Traveers going South are cautioned
sglst irving credence to the hRndb and plncards ia
sued by the Bay Company brtween Baltimore and Nof
ok WIN to all sorts devices to deceive the pub
tic and induce travellers to take their line publishing
nong other Things statements pnporibg be fiOm traV
eers that by the mail routes passengers going South are
"a hours than by the Bay line, and that they sub
etted personal superntendence OF their luggage al
the risk OF losing il, and that 'ley arr copp He'd at the
North Anna River walk considerable distance down
steep hill and up another in the middle of the night,
involving both exposure and risk.
All those statements enIirey false Passengers
by the mail are, stated in the bills OF the Mail
route, soften ID hours in GdUnHce Of those by The bds
boots in reacbng Charleston, al eee (nless in some
extremely contingency behind them. So far from
having any troue with baggage, this Is eketed b"ard
Potomac '.boats companies The route iu'
becoming Responsible for ) and is delivered on tiaIr
the Wilmington cars, ard the passengers have 0iy a
points where changes occur to trInsier Themselves tnn
one conveyance another. Al the North Anna, II Il
rne The, are obliged for few day l. walk short di
lance cioss temporary but perfectly secure bridge fon
one set of cars another; but This IS at half past eigb
O'Clock in the evenings instead ofat midnight, ~ SateC
in the lihes on the Mail route In The course OF
the expiration of that Time tie rll road bridge now ia
pidy demonstrating across the Nerh Anna VIII he pa
sable.
Il will be obvious to All rejecting persons that the great
Mail reute being the shortest by 20 miles, an hrg NEAR
Nv all rail road must b. the most certain and expeditions;
ihat il would no. be employed for the conveyance ottt
great mail unless and that there must be m0Tt
risk on board hHy stebnats out of sight OF and urged
60 the top ct their speed compete with the Tll road
line, in which the bGE+tinE oil boiler would ptobab!
destroy all nearly MI nn board, than there can be ~
rail road cars, where, in the event even o an engine be
VIg thrown off the track, the engineer and bTenan only
would be injured.
AS pr of the great safety Of the great mail route
may he mentioned dat of more 300 600 travellers
conveyed on il within dc last five years, not sngl
passenger has been seriously injured
In conclusion the companies on the great lHah route
woAld respectfully ASK the attention oil travellers TO the
wording of tile libel IN d. It, lime purpdd2 lone sred
Dy certain persnls from tie 7aI:h Aey VII $50 ~ or
ro liz parlizan character that il not Forgery, the per
sons signing have FROM motive bean l.Gacsd c
becene pWrans Of the 9aYboIs, and tiz tt1s7f icuR
tan and .ot thu inrest IT teller sas siroe,s ca 70
alsach their sigiatdreto
Office of Richmond & Fredericksburg Il. K. Co
and Washington do do Steamboat do
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