The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-12-25
From the Ne,D York Tribune.
Railroad MOnopOIy In New Jerse,

The railroad accommodations and arran gements
for public travel, and Tor carrying the mails be
tween this city and Washington, and particularly
between New York and Philadelphia, i'm
position and an outrage that awaken constant re-
sentiment and calls for emphatic denunciation
the part of the travelling public, well from
everybody interested in the prompt carriage and
delivery OF mail matter Little compa int is pub
lclH expressed by the sufferers; for the victims who
throng the route, though they always spend their
time when on the road in venting the most hearty
and copious curses upon the authors Of their griev
ances; yet they seem, 30 far any public CON-
plant goes, to have settled down into a sulen
submission to the snail. paced, lazy, and vexatous
arrangements of the fat and gorged monoposts
who ride and rule tho neghboring State OF New
Jersey.
The public agents and advertise ments of the
New Jersey railroads mpudently proclaim that
passengers will be taken through from New York
to Warrington nightly by the train which leaves
this city at p m, and that the passengers which
leave here by the p. m. train, via Amboy. will
p. m.
1t has been our fortune go over the first named
line foe times within the last six or eight weeks.
On three Of these occasion. NC were planted in
PHILADELPHIA after the cars had left that city for
Baitimore. a,it2 Which they should have connectet;
and OH the 9Th instant, the last time went
through, found that the failure to connect had
taken place every day during the month; and Of
course the regular afternoon mail from this city,
for the South, bad regularly Jailed at all points
south of Philadelphia during this PERIOD and the
passengers compelled to lie over.
msreia e..s.es ous the fact is, tina. the southern
60 through to Washington that night, as it pur
ports to do and N it should. but lies at Phil
adelpha till the next day; and all in consequence
Of the inexcusable failure Of the cars 10 reach
Philadelphia in time to connect with the Baltimore
train. Why the Post Office Department does not
remedy this we do not know, for we have never
asked. The afternoon mail from New York il
almost t,iformIy day behind at Washington,
and yet nothing seems to be heard about il, ex-
cept in vague grumblings in private circles where
the cause seems often not to be understood.
There ia no excuse whatever for this delay,
and for these mail failures. The cars leave here at
81 p. m. and the cars leave Philadelphia for Bal
more at TO-. The distance is less than ninety
miles, and FIVE hours are thus left to perform the
distance. On any road not in the hands of a mo-
nopoly the managers would be ashamed TO take 80
much time Bot yet the line fails to connect at
Philadelphia with the frequency Of which we have
spoken The scene at Philadelphia nightly is often
ludicrous as well as provoking. The New York
cars manage to arrive ordinarily from five to IF
teen minutes too late. The through passengers who
from the Camden ferry boat and plunge into the
first carriage at hand with orders to the hac kman
to drive at full tilt to the Baltimore depot, tempt
to e soFs Of from
case OF their arrival in time. Almost any night
there may be seen general scramble for car.
riages, and a general scrub hack race from the
foot Of Walnut to Broad street, whittier the Rosi.
nantes Of that staid metropolis are furousy
urged, all hot and smoking, at the instance Of i'm.
patient and generally disappointed passengers
who return growing to the various hotels to re-
main till next day. That these scenes should take
place night after night, with nightly failures and
dsappointments, and not create a general burst of
indignation at the insufferabe torpidity and con.
temptuous neglect of these New Jersey railroad
nonopolists, is a wonder. But Messrs Robert F.
Stockton, Edwin r. Stevens, and John X. Thomp.
son. the chiefs Of the set, seemin gly feel assured
that they hold that State in their bTeeches pockets
and that they may trfe with and abuse the pa.
thence OF the travelling public, and defy ever body
interested in rapid mail transportation with i'm
punity.
Were these evils not the iruit Of overgrown,
powerful and defiant corporations, that hold a
whole State beneath their feet, we should not thus
allude to them, but allow the usual and efficient
remedies of free competition to work cure But
it is case calling for extraordinary courses. 1t
has been proposed to have Congress establish a
railroad post route between Philadelphia and New
York, and thus construct a rival line without
asking permission of New Jersey, who has chosen
to SHIFT not only the burdens Of her legitimate
taxation upon travellers who are compelled to
cross her territory, but to aflict and them by
needless and provoking delays The late Post
master General, Mr. Hall, examined this PROPOSE.
tiun and gave a DECIDED opinion that Con gress
possessed the constitutional power to blish such
route We trust that body may take the subject
into consideration, and relieve from he incubus
OF which we complain.