Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-06-11

r last year, amounted to eight millions {
dollars, which, at an average rate Of tol
{ paid into the State Treasury one hundre
r and forty thousand dollars in tolls. Irepea
sir, the Pittsburg trade that passed owe
t your main line Of canal for the Baltimor
/ market, added to the Baltimore trade tina
! passed west, over our improvements t
Pittsburg, amounted, during the past yeal
to ss,0OO,0o0, and paid tolls upon tn
whole line Of Improvements from Pitts
burg to Columbia. When the navigation
of the Pennsylvania canals is closed, thi
important trade seeks market by way Q
the Monongahela navigation and the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad, and portion O
it goes by way of New Orleans. l oh
serve Mr.. Speaker, that since the close O
our canals in December last, the increas
in the receipts of the Baltimore and Ohi
railroad for January, 1851, as compare,
with those of the same months in 1850
dcrivable from this trade, amounted to tn
handsome sum of $4,000. By the sys
TEN of marimum tolls, adopted by tn,
Canal Commissioners of this State, tn,
tonnage of the main line of canal is deter
mined to Columbia, so that the road from
York to Harrisburg can not be regarded
as competitor for any portion of its legit
innate business. But when the main line o
canal is closed this road will form an i'm
portant link in a line of railways between
Baltimore and Pittsburg; making Pitts
burg the commercial entrepot for both tho
Philadelphia and Baltimore trade In tho
summer, by means of the Pennsylvania
canal and in the winter, by means of the
Pennsylvania railroad, and the railroads
, from Harrisburg to Baltimore.
! Mr.. Speaker, to show Senators the ex.
tent to which the trade between Pittsburg
and Baltimore, by way of the Pennsylva-
MIA improvements, has arrived, and the
arrangements now made for successfully
carrying it on, ask leave to refer them to
the enterprizingPittsburg forwarding house
which have established extensive branches
at Baltimore. i find among the number,
the following well known aud highly re-
spectacle firms David Leech n Sons
line; O'Conners & Co.'S line; the Penn
sylvania and Ohio line: Ringham's line !;
Atkinson d Co.'S; Taffe Il O'Conner !;
Dutilh, Humphry Il Co., as well as sun
dry portable boat lines which tranship at
Columbia. These firms are known to the
entire business community, and if they
were not, could refer to the Senator from
Allegheny (Mr. Carothers,) or to the
Senator from Butler Mr. Haslit,) to bear
me witness that they are among the most
extensive forwarding houses in the city of
Pittsburg. Sir, all these various lines and
doubtless others, run regularly between
Pittsburg and Baltimore; paying tolls up
on more than two hundred and fifty miles
of our State improvements or paying three
mills per ton per mile to the Common
wealth, and the usual freight to the Penn
sylvania railroad when they prefer that im-
provemennt.
Is it not palpablc therefore Mr. Speak
er, that it is the manifest interest of both
the Commonwealth and the Central Rail
road to encourage this trade, and that the
only effect of the imposition of the propo-
sed tax will be to drive it from them and
force it to find another avenue to market
Sir, in this connection let me call the at
tention of the Senator from Delaware Mr..
Brooke to this subject. Let me ask
him, IS he introduced this bill, to inform
the Senate, by what route has the Phila-
delphia trade for the far-wcst been carried
during the last sixty days, since the close
of no,;r,t;o,, nv, tLo Donnr,-l,-,n; Canal
Does it go by the Central Rail Road
Does it 60 by any improvement leading
through Pennsylvania F! No, sir, not ton;
it all goes by the Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad, and by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad to Cumberland, and from
thence by the National Road and Monon-
gahela navigation to Pittsburg.
Mr.. Brooks, L do not represent Phila-
delphia.
Mr.. Packcr-No, sir, the Senator does
not represent Philadelphia, but he repre-
sents Delaware county, and the Railroad
from Philadelphia to Baltimore, passes
through that county, and | want to know
why that Road remains untaxed. 1t leads
to Baltimore-it carries the trade and tom
mage of Philadelphia from the State i'm
prOvements-why then does not Phila-
lelphia seek to tax the trade on it, at the
rate of 20 cents per ton per 26 miles ;? 1t is
Is much Baltimore Improvement as the
ork and Cumberland, and is calculated
70 do our State improvements far greater
injury, by its connection with the Balti-
more, and Ohio Railroad. But the city of
Baltimore, the great "a,onstruns horrsn-
lun," in the eyes of Philadelphia; becomes
t seems as harmless as lamb when Phil
profit by her trade, and in such
.ase the interests of the Commonwealth
ire entirely overlooked! Am 1 not fully |
in the assertion! Sir, l hold in
nv hand the Baltimore American" of
7csterday-let me read an article find in
is columns. 1t speaks volumes, and l
all the attention of Senators to it. Mr.
?. here read FROM the Baltimore American
IS follows
TRANSPORTATION TO THE WEST.
Messrs. Editors-You are requested to
tate that the following petition is in circu-
alton for signatures and you are authori-
ed to say that one Of our Baltimore For
yarding Lines has made application to