Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-08-26
aaltimore ana ohio Railroad.

We learn that the Board of Trade of this city
have appointed committee of highly respectable
merchants to confer with the Directors of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad Company, upon the sub
iect of their freight tariff in general, and of the
exiting arrangements for through freight in par.
ticular. The interests of the railroad company
and those of this city are inseparable-and any
policy, iudiciously applied, which shall best and
most fully promote the former, will act with equal
benefit on the latter. 1t is impossible, in mat
ter of this sort, 10 steer entirely clear of nciden
tat preiudices; but in case in which respective
interests are inseparably intertwined, we are dis
posed TO conf;de in the experience and vigilance
of the directors and pnncipalo of the road, assured
That any unfavorable tendencyof current ptac-
tics will be readily corrected. We understand
that is the permanent rule ofthe Company tn make
no contracts which may not be revoked or modi-
fed with promptitude, and this fact goes 10 con-
finn our confidence.
We intimated in a former article that there are
some practical difficulties in this case. Consider
ing the facilities of connection between our sister
cities and the West, created by the enterprise and
supported by the active zeal OF the former, we
feel that our position here, in competition for the
trade of the West, is not as Independent, even with
our great railroad completed, as it was before the
works OF Pennsylvania and N. YORK gave them the
artificial advantages they derive therefrom. In
deed our last great work must stretch out all its,
arms for trade and travel, to secure and support,
and re- establish the tone ofthe Baltimore market,
throughout that vast section of country. If, then
as is sufficient apparent, we are unable TO eft
feet monopoly of Western interests, we must
cultivate disposition to serve the convenience o
those we cannot at once tempt into our market,
and thus familiarize item with the local advan-
tages we possess, and finally secure their conf
dence in our abundant resources and the expand
ing enterprise ofour people.
Weunderstand that tile committee and officers
of the company promptly arrested, on discovery,
late tendency of their arrangement to carrying
goods from Philadelphia to Wheeling at a less
rate than from Baltimore; and have, by recent
measures, adopted such rates for the Philadelphia
market as will give TO that of Baltimore all the adj
vantage consistent withthe nature of the case
We are assured, too, from an authentic source,
that the great mass of goods have always paidnore
to or from Philadelphia than to from Baltimore,
even in cases Of which it las enormously been be
lieyed quite otherwise. - 4Atl ,+
These are facts which entitle the management
to that public confidence whichis essential tothe
unembarr-sed and successful direction of its at
fairs. 1t is impossible that any policy can prevail
contrary to the Just primary interests of our city,
while it can hardly be expected that coercive
and dictatorial policy can be directed, with any
hope ofsuccess, against the enterprise, indepen-
dence, and business tact of our fellow country
menin any section of the Union.-BGh. Sun.