Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-04-11
For the Times.

For the Times.
DREADFUL MURDER AND FOOLISH SUI
eide.
Mr.. Whsrion-S'r Yoa as well as ever other
person who has paid any aieulIon 10 The business
81 Wheeling. must have observed The very great
increase oi travel through our city. East and West.
since the opening of lho B,lumere and Ohio rail
road. This great increase oflravel was attributed
To seversl causes-frsi, the shurtness Of The une
necessary 10 Perlurn the trap from here to Balu.
more and ries Uersa. secondly. the Gneuess Of the
stage lines OH so good a road and The great Sxeiuons
made by the Proprieiors to give Ihe utmost saIisiac-
lion 10 travellers in thor power: That thus has
been done, none wli deny-and particularly those
who have travelled over tLe ruuie. No expense oT
pains have been SPARED by The stage romranies TO
secure the travel on our route; aud this has been
done very Ofenat n serious loss 10 The owners, for
the writer Of this uD,H kuows.,hai invtry many lines.
passengers have been scHt at a luss To The owners;
rather Than let them go past here. or tot find a
good and ready conV,y ance at all times from here.
Extras have been run. with 50 few passengers Us
scarcely 10 pay the TOLLS on The rold-raiher than
have 1t noised abroad tina, passengers could not At
all lines find a COED ready conveyance east On the
entrul route. Another. aud peril lps the greater
cause fine astonishing insrease Uf the travel on
our route h1s been the lowscss u The fare, and The
great convenience that passengers experience in be-
ing able 10 pay through TO Baltimore nd 10 PhilO.
d lphin. aud also from hose pa ses 10 Wheeling.
The latter advantage has now ceased, by the sui.
c dal and murderou, act ofihe directors OF the Bal.
imore and ONO rail road. IN Iher recent pretended
reduction Of fare ON way passengers, hut by actually
rai-Ing it on all passengers who travel east or west
h! stages. Passenger can now only pay To Cum
brrland, and that ut 8 dollars. making Sl3 to Bal
nmore instead of $40. That tins will at once check
the trade by The route none viii Tor a momenl
doubt, who has paid any attention t. the mailer,
and throw all on the Pennsylvania improvement.
What could have induced the rail rad co. 10 do
such a foolish "nd hurIful act. am really OF q luss
TO divine, "Hless (as I really have reason for bs.
lIeving) they have been humbuggej again by the
carriers oa the Pennsylvania nprovemen,s-0r
their especial benefits. Tnat Il WILL result, 10 their ad
Iuge there Is tao doubt. aud The rail ruud company
Nll discover when pc rIaps it = too late. that in-
stead OiInaking money 10y the operation they viii
lose thousands upon thousands.
Indeed 1t would seem to me-. that If Ihose con.
cerned IN the Pennsylvania re. Is had seen applied
to by The rail road com pany Ior some plan for Iheir
own especial benefit without reference To lhe rail
road, The, could mol have cuncocled n more sure
and rer'ain plan han The one just announced by
The rail road.
Farewell TO the Trade ou the Great Central
R1uie-once VIC had IL now We have not IL, nor
| fear ever again will. certainly noI. unless The r.
X, c. should rccons der The matter. and restore MAJ.
ten 10 their lOrAier urrangcmeni-Ihat they may
speedily 60 so. Is The sIucere wish OF
WHEELING.