Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-09-22

Labor and Capital.
Some weeks since, we published COM
parative view Of the tolls charged on the
Canals of New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Virginia, and insisted lin that and other
articles on the INDEPENDENTLY pub
lished) that the taxes imposed by the james
River and Kanawha Company.in the shape
of tolls or transit charges, were both bur-
thcnsome to the producers oftonnagc and
destructive of the best interests ofthe Canal
Company itself.
In proofofthe correctness Of the posi-
tons taken in the articles referred to above.
we publish the following from the Rail
Road Journal of 18th inst
The Southwestern Carrying
Trade.
Continued from page US.
The writer recommended that the different trans
narration COMPANIES invite the attention OF the South
to this route by authorised publications of adver-
tiscnents 1t requires degree OF effort to turn
the channels of trade in new direction; but II the
proper inducements be held the carrying trade
est and most direct. Much Of the merchandise OF
those sections already takes this route and it is the
prodaciag interest which must be operated upon and
Influenced in order attain the tuD results desired
The tobacco and hemp grower and the cotton plan
ter must be led that it is for their interest to
seek this outlet for the products to their indus
try; and ere long the effects will become visible IN
the large accession to the business oil our channels
Of western communication.
The writer also propos.s a small discriminating
rate Of toll in favor of all tobacco manufactured and
manufactured, cotton, hemp, pork, lard and Hour
shipped from Louisville, and points south OF tnatto
the Atlantic cities overthe northern route 1t is not
the amount of discrimination made in the rate OF tolls
that will exert the desired influence upon the agri-
cultural interests of the south thpt is wanted to Sc
cure the success of this project; but the mere tnct
that discrimination is made in their favor at all,
will co,nfnoud their attention and tend in great
measure to remove prcconceivea prejudices against
all other modes Of reaching the scaboard han by
way of New Orleans.
He goes on to assign some reasons why TINS ac-
ton should be taken by the canal board and the dii-
fcrcnt transportation companies, as follows:
at should be borne in mind that the Ere canal
is by no means the only artificial avenue by which
the southwest can reach the scaboard. even when
they have determined to ship by the northern in
stead of the southern route. And tits proper that
the canal board should bear this in mind, well
ton they may conclude take, should this vast
trade be considered worthy effort their part
to secure it, During much of the navigabe por-
ton of the year. tobacco. cotton and hemp, can be
be sent direct from Louisville to Pittsburgh, and
thence bv the Pennsylvania canul 10 Philadelphia;
but your route has the advantage in time and cost
of transportation, if you fit to employ it. There
is also another immediate rival route in the
Erie railroad md which must claim public atten-
ton in our section unless you oerto the southwest
the SUPERIOR advantages cheap tolls and cheap
portation upon your canal will hold out. There is
also n choice whether, upon reaching Toledo from
Cincinnati bv the Ohio canal shall send our sta
pie products by sail vessels to Oswego, and thence
by canal TO Albany, go by steam to Buffalo and
thence through the entire length of the Erie canal
The Oswego route is the cheapest, owing to the
lake transportation sail vessels afford from Toledo to
Oswcgo but the delay by sail vessel navigation, and
its increased hazard, will always give the preference
to the Buffalo route which is not only more speedy
but can be made the most economical And although
il may matter but little to the State of New Nora
whether the products reach the tidewater by en-
countering her public works at Buffalo, or by strik-
ing them at Oswego. yet in either contingency, it
requires some exertion should be made to turn the
southwestern carrying trade over either the one
route or the other Groceries have been sent by the
Oswcgo route this season from New ork to Cincn-
natl and Louisville. in the space of thirty days, at
while drygoods hats, boots. shoes, and other light
goods have been carried to the points in six
teen days. from New York, to Buffalo by canal then
by steam lake navigation to Sandussy or Cleveland
and thence by railroad to Cincinnati, at from dol
lar dollar and ten cents per hundred pounds
The Albany route, therefore. has double advan-
tage ifrightly employed by your public functonaries
and citizens over either the Erie railroad route
the route by the Ohio river and the Pennsylvania
nal. This must appear Obvious to the most casual
observer"
There is another article of perhaps equal impor-
lance with and tobacco. the freight on which
would Yield "A handsome revenue; this is the article
of pork During the last season, there were slaugh-
tered and packed Cincinnati 250, 900 hogs, and
Louisville nearly 200, 600. Whatever portion of
this large number of hogs goes into mess prime
pork. into lard that is rut northern account,
or destined for the New York. Boston or Philadel-
pbia markets, well canvassed hams, should
by this route; yet the southern route now gets
the whole oft.
With regard to the rates of toll, the remarks Of
the Journals correspondent welltimcd and
appropriate that we give them entire:
Upon examining the rates of toll charged upon
different articles freigbtcd upon the canal, find
very great distinction made between unmanutactu-
red md manufactured tobacco. The toll upon the
former is fixed at mill per mile, while manufac-
turrd tobacco not being specifically enumerated, is
cnbricc cd under the head Of -cnumcynied Gri-
clesa merchandise ard is sub ectcd to atoI of eight
mills. This would subject Kentucky manufactured
tobacco which has become q large article OF
export owing TO its successful competition in mar
kets the scaboard with the Virginia and Mary
land manufactured tobacco, a toll seven times
greater than the mcteria has pay, and would
drive it entirely from this to other routes Here the
canal board make discrimination in favor of
Kentucky manufactured tobacco reaching the tide
wafer either by the Buffalo the Oswcgo
route that would designate othc southwest the pol
icy Tic great State of New York intended pursuing
to invite the carrying trade of that section to avail
Themselves of the advantages Of the northern rosie;
and which. in my ud ccmcn would turn at once lnrge
quantities Of this species of freight through the Eric
canal. II is no longer doubtful problem whether
Kentucky successfully compete with Maryland
md |irginia in manufacturing her product, and
sending il even into the markets Heretofore monop-
ozed by those States. The character of her to-
bacco is established, and there has b"en no diff
Guilty in her selling advanageousy all that has been
prepared for immediate use; the consequence is,
that there will beat least double the quantity manu-
featured the coming season in kentuck for export,
that was put up before in that State. And rs
item of freight it is worthy the notice that pro
pose the canal board shall take of it, in discrimna-
ting by arcduction of tolls upon all Kentucky manu-
featured tobacco going from Louisville or other
points in the State. to tide water by the northern
i""'c oNti oui nihtt Tupic "oihs. tpoii
same article coirg from tide water, the toll could
of course remain as il is.
As an excuse for delay, it may he said that il
will be better to await action until your canal en-
largement is completed l cannot look it in this
light. In the rivalry that is going between
the different States to the advantages to be
derived from the southwestern trade procra stina-
zion will be defeat the State that adopts it.
notice tina, Pennsylvania is already contemplating
an carly revision other canal rate oftos and large
diminution from those charged; and may it
not be from the apprehension that their canal cannot
compete with yours when its contemplated en-
lorgemcnt is Completed Penns ylvania know. that
if she can once get the carrying trade of the south
west turned over her canals, and commercial rela-
tons fully established with the tobacco hemp and
cotton grower. that it viii in all probability lie
struggle Of years for New York to get il nwav from